Alfred Gabriel Nathorst was born on November 7, 1850, in Väderbrunn, Södermanland County, Sweden.

He was a Swedish Arctic explorer, geologist, and paleobotanist. He was educated at Malmö and entered the University of Lund in 1868. In 1871, he enrolled at the University of Uppsala but returned to Lund, where he got his doctorate in 1874. From 1873 to 1884, he worked at the Geological Survey of Sweden. In 1884, he was appointed professor at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, remaining at this position until his retirement in 1917. He participated in several expeditions (Spitsbergen, 1871; Bear Island and Svalbard, 1898, and Greenland, 1899). Nathorst investigated postglacial development in flora and vegetation. He also researched the plant remains from older geological eras, such as Paleozoic and Mesozoic from the Arctic and tertiary from Japan. These investigations made him an internationally acknowledged authority on paleobotany. In 1885, he was elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. A number of plant, animal, and fungal species have been named in his honour, e.g., Saxifraga nathorstii (Dusén) Hayek, Williamsonia nathorstii Carruthers (a fossil dragonfly), and Laestadites nathorstii Mesch. He published numerous books and articles related to his research in Swedish, English, German, and French.

In 1878, he married Amelie Rafaela (Ella) Windahl (1858–1936). He died on January 20, 1921, in Stockholm, Sweden.

Wood engraver and painter John Northcote Nash was born in London. After serving in the British army in World War I, he was commissioned to produce paintings for the Imperial War Museum and was also an official war artist during World War II. From 1934 to 1957 he taught design at the Royal College of Art.

Samuel Hawkins Napier was born in 1837 in Scotland.

He was a prospector and political figure in New Brunswick. He immigrated to Bonaventure, Quebec, at an early age, and shortly afterward, to Bathurst, New Brunswick, where he grew up and attended public school. In 1857, he worked his way to the goldfields of Australia aboard the New Brunswick clipper Marco Polo. With his brother Charles, they discovered the largest recorded gold nugget, weighing 54 kilograms. In England, the nugget was named Blanche Barkley in honour of the daughter of Governor Barkley of Victoria, and the two New Brunswick brothers, now rich and famous, were granted an audience with Queen Victoria. The nugget was purchased by the Bank of England for $60,000 and it was broken up. Before it was demolished, a replica was made and is still on display in the Memorial Branch of the British Museum, London, England. Napier returned to Bathurst and was elected Member of the Legislative Assembly, representing the County of Gloucester from 1870 to 1874. In 1896, after losing his fortune in speculations, he moved to Ottawa and worked with a timber company operating on the Gatineau River.

About 1859, he married Margaret Anne Brown (1836–). He died in June 1902, in Ottawa Valley, Ontario.