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This is intended as a list of biographies of historically important people, as a possible guide for priorities for readers and editors.

Only dead people should be listed here. Their articles will generally be more stable, both because they aren't doing anything to update and time gives more perspective on them.

The initial list was based on Wikipedia:Vital articles. Also see Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Core topics, another take on the minimal article list.

The numbers in parentheses indicate the quantity of articles in each section.


Hart's Top 15 (from the 1992 edition)

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From [The 100|The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History]], 1992 edition, by Michael H. Hart.

Rank
 Name
 Influence
1 Muhammad Prophet of Islam
2 Isaac Newton physicist, theory of universal gravitation, laws of motion, major developments in mathematics, optics, thermodynamics
3 Jesus Christ central figure of Christianity
4 Buddha founder of Buddhism
5 Confucius founder of Confucianism
6 St. Paul proselytizer of Christianity
7 Ts'ai Lun inventor of paper
8 Johann Gutenberg developed movable type and made great advances in printing
9 Christopher Columbus explorer, led Europe to Americas via southern passage
10 Albert Einstein physicist, relativity, Einsteinian physics
11 Louis Pasteur scientist, pasteurization, Germ Theory
12 Galileo Galilei astronomer, accurately described heliocentric solar system, led way to Newton's work
13 Aristotle Greek philosopher
14 Euclid Greek mathematician, Euclidean geometry, author of various influential theories
15 Moses major prophet of Judaism and leader


Approximately top 75

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Explorers (9)

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  1. Roald Amundsen
  2. Christopher Columbus
  3. Hernán Cortés
  4. Francis Drake
  5. Vasco da Gama
  6. Edmund Hillary
  7. Ferdinand Magellan
  8. Marco Polo

Scientists, inventors and mathematicians (9)

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  1. Charles Darwin
  2. Leonardo Da Vinci
  3. Thomas Alva Edison
  4. Albert Einstein
  5. Henry Ford
  6. Galileo Galilei
  7. Johann Gutenberg
  8. Hippocrates
  9. Isaac Newton
  10. Pythagoras
  11. Wright Brothers

Philosophers (7)

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  1. Aristotle
  2. Confucius
  3. Immanuel Kant
  4. Karl Marx
  5. Plato
  6. Socrates
  7. Lao Zi

Writers of stories and poetry (5)

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  1. William Shakespeare
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Mary Wollstonecraft
  4. George Orwell
  5. J. R. R. Tolkien
  6. Dante Alighieri
  7. Homer

Politicians and rulers (31)

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  1. Timur (Tamerlane)
  2. Genghis Khan
  3. Gandhi
  4. Sitting Bull
  5. Kwame Nkrumah
  6. Simón Bolívar
  7. Saladin
  8. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  9. Harry Truman
  10. Mao Tse-tung
  11. Shaka Zulu
  12. Pol Pot
  13. Hirohito
  14. Charlemange
  15. Cleopatra
  16. Santa Ana

Political people in Europe (15)

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  1. Leon Trotsky
  2. Julius Caesar
  3. Caesar Augustus
  4. Victoria of the United Kingdom
  5. Wilhelm II (Germany)
  6. Josef Stalin
  7. Adolf Hitler
  8. Benito Mussolini
  9. Winston Churchill
  10. Napoléon Bonaparte
  11. Alexander the Great
  12. Vladimir Lenin
  13. Charles de Gaulle
  14. Otto von Bismarck
  15. Peter the Great (of Russia)

Miscellaneous (9)

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  1. Martin Luther King
  2. Virgil
  3. Akbar the Great
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  5. Johann Sebastian Bach
  6. Martin Luther
  7. Adam Smith
  8. Herodotus

Approximately top 150

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Artists (15)

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  1. Paul Cézanne
  2. Salvador Dalí
  3. Albrecht Dürer
  4. Vincent van Gogh
  5. Francisco Goya
  6. Hokusai
  7. Henri Matisse
  8. Michelangelo
  9. Claude Monet
  10. Pablo Picasso
  11. Jackson Pollock
  12. Raphael
  13. Rembrandt
  14. Diego Velázquez
  15. Andy Warhol

Authors (19)

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  1. Dante Alighieri
  2. William Blake
  3. Miguel de Cervantes
  4. Fyodor Dostoevsky
  5. Brothers Grimm
  6. Homer
  7. Good articles Victor Hugo
  8. James Joyce
  9. Franz Kafka
  10. Li Bai
  11. Molière
  12. Pablo Neruda
  13. Edgar Allan Poe
  14. Jean-Paul Sartre
  15. Good articles William Shakespeare
  16. George Bernard Shaw
  17. Sophocles
  18. Mark Twain
  19. Virgil

Composers and musicians (7)

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  1. Johann Sebastian Bach
  2. The Beatles
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven
  4. Frédéric Chopin
  5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  6. Elvis Presley
  7. Richard Wagner

Explorers (10)

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  1. Roald Amundsen
  2. Jacques Cartier
  3. Christopher Columbus
  4. Hernán Cortés
  5. Francis Drake
  6. Vasco da Gama
  7. Edmund Hillary
  8. Ferdinand Magellan
  9. Marco Polo
  10. Zheng He

Inventors and scientists (14)

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  1. Nicolaus Copernicus
  2. Good articles Charles Darwin
  3. Good articles Thomas Edison
  4. Albert Einstein
  5. Henry Ford
  6. Galileo Galilei
  7. Good articles Bill Gates
  8. Johann Gutenberg
  9. Carolus Linnaeus
  10. Isaac Newton
  11. Louis Pasteur
  12. Nikola Tesla
  13. Leonardo da Vinci
  14. Wright brothers

Mathematicians (4)

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  1. Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
  2. Archimedes
  3. Gottfried Leibniz
  4. Pythagoras

Philosophers and social scientists (24)

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  1. Thomas Aquinas
  2. Good articles Aristotle
  3. Augustine of Hippo
  4. Averroes
  5. René Descartes
  6. Good articles Sigmund Freud
  7. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  8. Herodotus
  9. Hippocrates
  10. Immanuel Kant
  11. Good articles Søren Kierkegaard
  12. Martin Luther
  13. Rosa Luxemburg
  14. Niccolò Machiavelli
  15. Karl Marx
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche
  17. Plato
  18. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  19. Adam Smith
  20. Socrates
  21. Sun Tzu
  22. Thales
  23. Voltaire
  24. Max Weber

Politicians and leaders (42)

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  1. Akbar
  2. Alexander the Great
  3. Kofi Annan
  4. Attila the Hun
  5. Augustus
  6. Pope Benedict XVI
  7. Otto von Bismarck
  8. Tony Blair
  9. Simón Bolívar
  10. George W. Bush
  11. Julius Caesar
  12. Good articles Charlemagne
  13. Good articles Winston Churchill
  14. Cleopatra VII of Egypt
  15. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
  16. Charles de Gaulle
  17. Hammurabi
  18. Hannibal
  19. Good articles Hirohito
  20. Good articles Adolf Hitler
  21. Good articles Pope John Paul II
  22. Genghis Khan
  23. Vladimir Lenin
  24. Nelson Mandela
  25. Mao Zedong
  26. Benito Mussolini
  27. Napoleon I of France
  28. Kwame Nkrumah
  29. Peter I of Russia
  30. Qin Shi Huang
  31. Good articles Franklin D. Roosevelt
  32. Saladin
  33. Shaka
  34. Sitting Bull
  35. Joseph Stalin
  36. Timur
  37. Leon Trotsky
  38. Good articles Harry S. Truman
  39. Victoria of the United Kingdom
  40. George Washington
  41. Wilhelm II of Germany

Revolutionaries and activists (6)

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  1. Mahatma Gandhi
  2. Che Guevara
  3. Joan of Arc
  4. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  5. Rosa Parks
  6. Mother Teresa

Other lists

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