Horatio Alger
1832 – 1899
American

Novelist and Unitarian clergyman. His books about young men who prosper became a by-word for hope, optimism, hard work, persistence, and the importance of good moral character in earning and winning success.

Contemporaries
1801–1877Brigham Young
1896–1986Wallis Windsor
1895–1951William Wilson
1856–1924Woodrow Wilson
1856–1923Kate Wiggin
1878–1958John Watson
1856–1915Booker T. Washington
1891–1974Earl Warren
1877–1936William Walling
1888–1953Jim Thorpe
1894–1961James Thurber
1899–1979Allen Tate
1811–1896Harriet Beecher Stowe
1818–1893Lucy Stone
1852–1916Charles Russell
1879–1935Will Rogers
1885–1954Ruth Rohde
1898–1976Paul Robeson
1874–1960John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
1839–1937John D. Rockefeller
1880–1973Jeannette Rankin
1889–1979A. Philip Randolph
1872–1960Emily Post
1892–1964Cole Porter
1839–1914Charles Peirce
1898–1993Norman Vincent Peale
1885–1945George Patton
1871–1955Maud Park
1846–1911Carry Nation
1793–1880Lucretia Mott
1837–1913J. P. Morgan
1891–1980Henry Miller
1781–1849William Miller
1880–1956H. L. Mencken
1855–1942Clinton Merriam
1890–1944Aimee McPherson
1895–1989John McCloy
1885–1957Louis Mayer
1895–1977Groucho Marx
1893–1961Harpo Marx
1891–1961Chico Marx
1755–1835John Marshall
1880–1959George Marshall
1880–1964Douglas MacArthur
1889–1974Walter Lippmann
1887–1948Aldo Leopold
1807–1870Robert E. Lee
1894–1956Alfred Kinsey
1859–1932Florence Kelley
1880–1968Helen Keller
1848–1908Joel Harris
1805–1879Angelina Grimke
1792–1873Sarah Grimke
1869–1940Emma Goldman
1839–1897Henry George
1805–1879William Garrison
1886–1953Douglas Southall Freeman
1897–1962William Faulkner
1837–1899Dwight Moody
1817–1895Frederick Douglass
1886–1961Ty Cobb
1864–1943George Washington Carver
1888–1955Dale Carnegie
1860–1925William Jennings Bryan
1800–1891George Bancroft
1771–1852Hosea Ballou
1876–1965George Baker
1838–1918Henry Adams