In 1897 the Pender Laboratory was founding at University College, London and Fleming took up the Pender Chair after the £ 5000 was endowed as a memorial to John Pender, the founder of Cable and Wireless.

An early motoring enthusiast, he joined the Self-Propelled Traffic Association which campaigned against the restrictions imposed on motor vehicles by the Locomotive Act, and became a founder member of the Automobile Club of Great Britain with which it merged 1897.

* Robert Simpson ( merchant ) ( 1834 – 1897 ), Canadian founder of Simpson's Department Store

* J. J. McAlester ( 1842 – 1920 ), U. S. Marshal for Indian Territory ( 1893 – 1897 ), Confederate Army captain, merchant in and founder of McAlester, Oklahoma as well as the developer of the coal mining industry in eastern Oklahoma, one of three members of the first Oklahoma Corporation Commission ( 1907 – 1911 ) and the second Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma ( 1911 – 1915 ).

Benn's mother, Margaret Wedgwood Benn ( née Holmes ) ( 1897 – 1991 ), was a dedicated theologian, feminist and the founder President of the Congregational Federation.

* Matthew Laflin, ( 1803 – 1897 ) an American Businessmen, Philanthropist, and a founder of Chicago, Illinois.

In the 1950s, Gerald Fitzgerald, " the founder of a religious order that treats Roman Catholic priests who molest children concluded "( such ) offenders were unlikely to change and should not be returned to ministry ," and this was discussed with Pope Paul VI ( 1897 – 1978 ) and " in correspondence with several bishops.

* George Pullman ( 1831 – 1897 ), founder of the Pullman Company

* Simon Pullman ( 1897 – 1942 ), violinist and founder of the Warsaw Ghetto Symphony Orchestra

The Church of God in Christ was formed in 1897 by a group of disfellowshiped Baptists, most notably Charles Price Jones ( 1865 – 1949 ) and the founder Charles Harrison Mason ( 1866 – 1961 ).

She was the founder and president of the Association of American Women, a group which advocated for women's education, from 1876 to 1897.

Langston University is named for John Mercer Langston ( 1829 – 1897 ), civil rights pioneer, first African American member of Congress from Virginia, founder of the Howard University Law School, and American consul-general to Haiti.

Notable Vassar alumni include first black graduate Anita Florence Hemmings ( 1897 ), poet Edna St. Vincent Millay ( 1917 ), computer pioneer Grace Hopper ( 1928 ), poet Elizabeth Bishop ( 1934 ), physician Beatrix Hamburg ( 1944 ), politician and activist Frances Farenthold, psychiatrist Bernadine P. Healy ( 1965 ), actress Meryl Streep ( 1971 ), CBS News Chief White House Correspondent Chip Reid ( 1977 ), television personality Andrew Zimmern ( 1984 ), actress Lisa Kudrow ( 1985 ), actress Hope Davis ( 1986 ), musician Mark Ronson, journalist Evan Wright ( 1988 ), writer-director Noah Baumbach ( 1991 ), Flickr founder Caterina Fake ( 1991 ), What Not to Wear host Stacy London ( 1991 ), Survivor: Africa winner Ethan Zohn ( 1996 ), actress Lecy Goranson.

* Walter Kidde, B. E., 1897, founder of Walter Kidde Constructors ; oversaw the construction of Port Newark and Kearny, New Jersey's first traffic circle and the world's first cloverleaf interchange, the Pulaski Skyway ; served as New Jersey State Highway Commissioner ; founder of the Walter Kidde Company, maker of WWII safety equipment

* Cheka founder Felix Dzerzhinsky, imprisoned ( and escaped ) twice, in 1897 and 1900, for revolutionary activity.

* September 16-Robert Simpson, businessman and founder of Simpsons ( died 1897 )

* Howard Deering Johnson ( 1897 – 1972 ), founder of Howard Johnson's restaurants

His running successes brought him to the attention of Harold Hardwick, founder of Salford Harriers in 1884, and in 1897 Tysoe was persuaded to join the Salford team.

* TSANKOV, Aleksandar ( 1897 – 1959 ) Prime Minister and founder of the National Social Movement.

* Otfried Hans Freiherr von Meusebach alias John O. Meusebach ( 1812 – 1897 ), founder of Fredericksburg, Texas and Texas Senator

Juanita Garcia Peraza, also known as " Mita " ( June 24, 1897 – February 21, 1970 ) was the founder of the " Mita congregation ", the only Protestant religion of Puerto Rican origin.

Giuseppe " Joe " Profaci ( October 2, 1897 – June 7, 1962 ) was a New York La Cosa Nostra boss who was the founder of what is today known as the Colombo crime family.

The club was founder members of the Leinster Junior League in 1896 and reached the semi-finals of the Leinster Senior Cup in 1897.

In 1897 Post introduced his first dry cereal, a crunchy blend of wheat and barley, which he called Grape Nuts.

Blissymbols were invented by Charles K. Bliss ( 1897 – 1985 ), born Karl Kasiel Blitz in the Austro-Hungarian city of Czernowitz ( at present the Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi ), which had a mixture of different nationalities that “ hated each other, mainly because they spoke and thought in different languages .”

* 1897 Charles Bulkley Hubbell

* 1897 – Charles Kingsford Smith, Australian pilot ( d. 1935 )

* 1897 – Charles Kuentz, German-born French WW1 veteran and centenarian ( d. 2005 )

The US philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce praised Cantor's set theory, and, following public lectures delivered by Cantor at the first International Congress of Mathematicians, held in Zurich in 1897, Hurwitz and Hadamard also both expressed their admiration.

* 1897 – British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.

Process theology or process thought is a school of thought influenced by the metaphysical process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead ( 1861 – 1947 ) and further developed by Charles Hartshorne ( 1897 – 2000 ).

Various theological and philosophical aspects have been expanded and developed by Charles Hartshorne ( 1897 – 2000 ), John B. Cobb, Jr., and David Ray Griffin.

* Oeuvres de Descartes edited by Charles Adam and Paul Tannery, Paris: Léopold Cerf, 1897 – 1913, 13 volumes ; new revised edition, Paris: Vrin-CNRS, 1964 – 1974, 11 vol.

* April 27 – Major Charles Bendire, U. S. Army captain and ornithologist ( d. 1897 )

* April 22 – Charles Denis Bourbaki, French general ( d. 1897 )

* August 16 – Charles John Vaughan, English scholar ( d. 1897 )

* 12 November 1897: The Moulin Rouge closed its doors for the first time for the funeral of its Manager and co-founder Charles Zidler.

Heston was born John Charles Carter, the son of Lilla ( née Charlton ; 1899 – 1994 ) and Russell Whitford Carter ( 1897 – 1966 ), a sawmill operator.

Process theology or process thought is a school of thought influenced by the metaphysical process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead ( 1861 – 1947 ) and further developed by Charles Hartshorne ( 1897 – 2000 ).

* Orr, Charles ed., History of the Pequot War: The Contemporary Accounts of Mason, Underhill, Vincent, and Gardiner ( Cleveland, 1897 ).

* 1897 – Charles Parsons ' Turbinia, the first vessel to be powered by a steam turbine, makes her debut.

The Daughters of Zelophehad ( illustration from the 1897 Bible Pictures and What They Teach Us by Charles Foster )

Charles Taze Russell was born to Scottish-Irish parents, immigrant Joseph Lytel () Russell ( d. December 17, 1897 ) and Ann Eliza Birney ( d. January 25, 1861 ), on February 16, 1852 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA.

* Charles Hartley ( 1825 – 1897 ) Founder of Palmerston North, New Zealand

* Charles W. Jones ( 1834 – 1897 ), U. S. Senator from Florida

* Kerry, Charles ( Editor ) ( 1897 ).

Charles Warren Fairbanks ( May 11, 1852 – June 4, 1918 ) was an American politician who served as a Senator from Indiana from 1897 to 1905 and the 26th Vice President of the United States from 1905 to 1909.

* Charles Denis Bourbaki ( 1816 – 1897 ), French general of Greek descent