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Level 4 Sublists

Vital articles is a list of subjects for which Wikipedia should have corresponding high-quality articles. It serves as a centralized watchlist to track the status of Wikipedia's most essential articles. This is one of eleven Level 4 sub-lists of ten thousand articles and is currently under construction.

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Total 1,996 articles.

Class #Articles
FA 173
GA 229
A 3
B 884
C 687
FFA 86
DGA 85
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People

This section contains 1996 articles.

Entertainers

This section contains 89 articles.

Dancers and choreographers

This section contains 15 articles.

Comedians

This section contains 9 articles.

Hosts and performers

This section contains 6 articles.

Visual artists

This section contains 123 articles.

Western painters and illustrators

This section contains 71 articles.

Post-classical

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Giotto
Renaissance to early modern

This section contains 22 articles.

  1. Sandro Botticelli
  2. Hieronymus Bosch
  3. Pieter Bruegel the Elder
  4. Caravaggio
  5. Jacques-Louis David
  6. Albrecht Dürer
  7. Artemisia Gentileschi
  8. El Greco
  9. Francisco Goya
  10. William Hogarth
  11. Hans Holbein the Younger
  12. Leonardo da Vinci (Level 3)
  13. Masaccio
  14. Nicolas Poussin
  15. Raphael
  16. Rembrandt (Level 3)
  17. Peter Paul Rubens
  18. Titian
  19. Jan van Eyck
  20. Diego Velázquez
  21. Johannes Vermeer
  22. Antoine Watteau
Modern (painters)

This section contains 40 articles.

  1. Paul Cézanne
  2. Marc Chagall
  3. John Constable
  4. Gustave Courbet
  5. Salvador Dalí
  6. Edgar Degas
  7. Eugène Delacroix
  8. Max Ernst
  9. Caspar David Friedrich
  10. Paul Gauguin
  11. Vincent van Gogh (Level 3)
  12. Edward Hopper
  13. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
  14. Frida Kahlo
  15. Wassily Kandinsky
  16. Paul Klee
  17. René Magritte
  18. Kazimir Malevich
  19. Édouard Manet
  20. Franz Marc
  21. Henri Matisse
  22. Joan Miró
  23. Piet Mondrian
  24. Claude Monet
  25. Edvard Munch
  26. Georgia O'Keeffe
  27. Pablo Picasso (Level 3)
  28. Camille Pissarro
  29. Jackson Pollock
  30. Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  31. Ilya Repin
  32. Gerhard Richter
  33. Diego Rivera
  34. Henri Rousseau
  35. John Singer Sargent
  36. Georges Seurat
  37. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
  38. J. M. W. Turner
  39. Andy Warhol
  40. James McNeill Whistler
Cartoonists, comics artists, and illustrators

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Aubrey Beardsley
  2. M. C. Escher
  3. Will Eisner
  4. Hergé
  5. Jack Kirby
  6. Winsor McCay
  7. Norman Rockwell
  8. Osamu Tezuka

Other visual arts

This section contains 46 articles.

Sculptors

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Gian Lorenzo Bernini
  2. Constantin Brâncuși
  3. Donatello
  4. Alberto Giacometti
  5. Michelangelo (Level 3)
  6. Henry Moore
  7. Phidias
  8. Auguste Rodin
Architects

This section contains 22 articles.

  1. Alvar Aalto
  2. Leon Battista Alberti
  3. Filippo Brunelleschi
  4. Le Corbusier
  5. Buckminster Fuller
  6. Antoni Gaudí
  7. Frank Gehry
  8. Walter Gropius
  9. Zaha Hadid
  10. Imhotep
  11. Philip Johnson
  12. Louis Kahn
  13. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  14. Oscar Niemeyer
  15. Andrea Palladio
  16. I. M. Pei
  17. Mimar Sinan
  18. Albert Speer
  19. Louis Sullivan
  20. Vitruvius
  21. Christopher Wren
  22. Frank Lloyd Wright
Conceptual artists

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Joseph Beuys
  2. Marcel Duchamp
Designers

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Coco Chanel
  2. Yves Saint Laurent (designer)
  3. Raymond Loewy
Photographers

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Ansel Adams
  2. Henri Cartier-Bresson
  3. Eadweard Muybridge
  4. Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
  5. Man Ray
  6. Edward Weston
Instrument makers

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Antonio Stradivari
Urban planners

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Georges-Eugène Haussmann
  2. Jane Jacobs
  3. Robert Moses
  4. Frederick Law Olmsted

Non-Western traditions

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Hokusai (Level 3)
  2. Hiroshige
  3. Kanō Masanobu
  4. Sesshū Tōyō
  5. Shitao
  6. Wang Xizhi

Writers

This section contains 256 articles.

Ancient

This section contains 17 articles.

Asia

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Kalidasa
  2. Qu Yuan
Europe

This section contains 15 articles.

  1. Aeschylus
  2. Aristophanes
  3. Catullus
  4. Euripides
  5. Hesiod
  6. Homer (Level 3)
  7. Horace
  8. Lucian
  9. Menander
  10. Ovid
  11. Plautus
  12. Sappho
  13. Sophocles
  14. Terence
  15. Virgil (Level 3)

Post-classical

This section contains 28 articles.

Asia

This section contains 21 articles.

  1. Bai Juyi
  2. Bhavabhuti
  3. Du Fu
  4. Ferdowsi
  5. Hafez
  6. Han Yu
  7. Jami
  8. Kabir
  9. Omar Khayyam
  10. Amir Khusrau
  11. Li Bai (Level 3)
  12. Murasaki Shikibu (Level 3)
  13. Nizami Ganjavi
  14. Abu Nuwas
  15. Ouyang Xiu
  16. Rudaki
  17. Rumi (Level 3)
  18. Saadi Shirazi
  19. Su Shi
  20. Tao Yuanming
  21. Wang Wei (Tang dynasty)
Europe

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Dante Alighieri (Level 3)
  2. Giovanni Boccaccio
  3. Geoffrey Chaucer
  4. Chrétien de Troyes
  5. Christine de Pizan
  6. Petrarch
  7. François Villon

Early modern

This section contains 34 articles.

Asia

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Fuzuli (poet)
  2. Matsuo Bashō
  3. Mir Taqi Mir
  4. Mirabai
  5. Tukaram
  6. Tulsidas
Europe

This section contains 28 articles.

  1. Pedro Calderón de la Barca
  2. Robert Burns
  3. Luís de Camões
  4. Giacomo Casanova
  5. Miguel de Cervantes (Level 3)
  6. Pierre Corneille
  7. Daniel Defoe
  8. John Donne
  9. John Dryden
  10. Henry Fielding
  11. Samuel Johnson
  12. Ben Jonson
  13. Christopher Marlowe
  14. John Milton
  15. Michel de Montaigne
  16. Thomas More
  17. Molière
  18. Nostradamus
  19. Charles Perrault
  20. Alexander Pope
  21. François Rabelais
  22. Jean Racine
  23. Marquis de Sade
  24. William Shakespeare (Level 3)
  25. Edmund Spenser
  26. Jonathan Swift
  27. Lope de Vega
  28. Voltaire (Level 3)

Modern

This section contains 177 articles.

Africa

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Chinua Achebe
  2. J. M. Coetzee
  3. Nadine Gordimer
  4. Naguib Mahfouz
  5. Ben Okri
  6. Wole Soyinka
  7. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Americas

This section contains 50 articles.

US and Canada

This section contains 41 articles.

  1. Maya Angelou
  2. Isaac Asimov
  3. Margaret Atwood
  4. Saul Bellow
  5. Ray Bradbury
  6. William S. Burroughs
  7. Raymond Chandler
  8. Emily Dickinson
  9. T. S. Eliot
  10. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  11. William Faulkner
  12. F. Scott Fitzgerald
  13. Robert Frost
  14. Allen Ginsberg
  15. Nathaniel Hawthorne
  16. Robert A. Heinlein
  17. Ernest Hemingway
  18. Langston Hughes
  19. Henry James
  20. Jack Kerouac
  21. Stephen King
  22. Ursula K. Le Guin
  23. Stan Lee
  24. Jack London
  25. H. P. Lovecraft
  26. Herman Melville
  27. Arthur Miller
  28. Toni Morrison
  29. Vladimir Nabokov
  30. Sylvia Plath
  31. Edgar Allan Poe
  32. Ezra Pound
  33. Ayn Rand
  34. Dr. Seuss
  35. Upton Sinclair
  36. John Steinbeck
  37. Mark Twain
  38. Kurt Vonnegut
  39. Edith Wharton
  40. Walt Whitman
  41. Tennessee Williams
Latin America

This section contains 9 articles.

  1. Jorge Amado
  2. Jorge Luis Borges
  3. Alejo Carpentier
  4. Carlos Fuentes
  5. Gabriel García Márquez
  6. Machado de Assis
  7. José Martí
  8. Pablo Neruda
  9. Mario Vargas Llosa
Europe

This section contains 101 articles.

Europe: General

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Constantine P. Cavafy
Central Europe

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Adam Mickiewicz
  2. Ismail Kadare
  3. Joseph Conrad
  4. Sándor Petőfi
  5. Henryk Sienkiewicz
  6. Taras Shevchenko
  7. Elie Wiesel
Russia

This section contains 16 articles.

  1. Anna Akhmatova
  2. Joseph Brodsky
  3. Mikhail Bulgakov
  4. Ivan Bunin
  5. Anton Chekhov
  6. Fyodor Dostoevsky
  7. Maxim Gorky
  8. Nikolai Gogol
  9. Mikhail Lermontov
  10. Vladimir Mayakovsky
  11. Boris Pasternak
  12. Alexander Pushkin
  13. Mikhail Sholokhov
  14. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  15. Leo Tolstoy (Level 3)
  16. Ivan Turgenev
Western Europe

This section contains 40 articles.

  1. Hans Christian Andersen
  2. Antonin Artaud
  3. Honoré de Balzac
  4. Charles Baudelaire
  5. Karen Blixen
  6. Bertolt Brecht
  7. Albert Camus
  8. Alexandre Dumas
  9. Umberto Eco
  10. Gustave Flaubert
  11. Anne Frank
  12. Federico García Lorca
  13. André Gide
  14. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  15. Brothers Grimm
  16. Knut Hamsun
  17. Heinrich Heine
  18. Hermann Hesse
  19. Victor Hugo
  20. Henrik Ibsen
  21. Eugène Ionesco
  22. Franz Kafka
  23. Selma Lagerlöf
  24. Halldór Laxness
  25. Astrid Lindgren
  26. Thomas Mann
  27. Stéphane Mallarmé
  28. Guy de Maupassant
  29. Fernando Pessoa
  30. Luigi Pirandello
  31. Marcel Proust
  32. Arthur Rimbaud
  33. Rainer Maria Rilke
  34. José Saramago
  35. Friedrich Schiller
  36. Stendhal
  37. August Strindberg
  38. Tristan Tzara
  39. Jules Verne
  40. Émile Zola
UK and Ireland

This section contains 37 articles.

  1. Jane Austen
  2. Samuel Beckett
  3. William Blake
  4. Enid Blyton
  5. Brontë family
  6. Lord Byron
  7. Lewis Carroll
  8. Agatha Christie
  9. Arthur C. Clarke
  10. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  11. Roald Dahl
  12. Charles Dickens
  13. Arthur Conan Doyle
  14. George Eliot
  15. William Golding
  16. Thomas Hardy
  17. James Joyce
  18. John Keats
  19. Rudyard Kipling
  20. D. H. Lawrence
  21. C. S. Lewis
  22. V. S. Naipaul
  23. George Orwell
  24. Salman Rushdie
  25. Walter Scott
  26. George Bernard Shaw
  27. Mary Shelley
  28. Percy Bysshe Shelley
  29. Robert Louis Stevenson
  30. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  31. Dylan Thomas
  32. J. R. R. Tolkien
  33. H. G. Wells
  34. Oscar Wilde
  35. William Wordsworth
  36. Virginia Woolf
  37. W. B. Yeats
Asia

This section contains 17 articles.

  1. Chinghiz Aitmatov
  2. Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
  3. Ghalib
  4. Kahlil Gibran
  5. Muhammad Iqbal
  6. Kazuo Ishiguro
  7. Jin Yong
  8. Yasunari Kawabata
  9. Lao She
  10. Lu Xun
  11. Yukio Mishima
  12. Haruki Murakami
  13. Natsume Sōseki
  14. Kenzaburō Ōe
  15. Orhan Pamuk
  16. Premchand
  17. Rabindranath Tagore (Level 3)
Oceania

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Banjo Paterson
  2. Patrick White

Journalists

This section contains 14 articles.

Musicians and composers

This section contains 150 articles.

Western art music

This section contains 72 articles.

Composers

This section contains 53 articles.

Post-classical history and the Renaissance

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Hildegard of Bingen
  2. Guillaume de Machaut
  3. Josquin des Prez
  4. Guillaume Du Fay
  5. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Baroque

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach (Level 3)
  2. George Frideric Handel
  3. Claudio Monteverdi
  4. Henry Purcell
  5. Antonio Vivaldi
Classical

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Ludwig van Beethoven (Level 3)
  2. Joseph Haydn
  3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Level 3)
Romantic

This section contains 20 articles.

  1. Hector Berlioz
  2. Johannes Brahms
  3. Anton Bruckner
  4. Frédéric Chopin
  5. Antonín Dvořák
  6. Edward Elgar
  7. Gilbert and Sullivan
  8. Franz Liszt
  9. Gustav Mahler
  10. Felix Mendelssohn
  11. Modest Mussorgsky
  12. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  13. Gioachino Rossini
  14. Franz Schubert
  15. Robert Schumann
  16. Johann Strauss II
  17. Richard Strauss
  18. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  19. Giuseppe Verdi
  20. Richard Wagner
20th century modern

This section contains 15 articles.

  1. Béla Bartók
  2. Benjamin Britten
  3. Aaron Copland
  4. Claude Debussy
  5. Gabriel Fauré
  6. George Gershwin
  7. Giacomo Puccini
  8. Sergei Prokofiev
  9. Sergei Rachmaninoff
  10. Maurice Ravel
  11. Arnold Schoenberg
  12. Dmitri Shostakovich
  13. Jean Sibelius
  14. Igor Stravinsky
  15. Ralph Vaughan Williams
Avant-garde/postmodern

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Pierre Boulez
  2. John Cage
  3. Philip Glass
  4. György Ligeti
  5. Karlheinz Stockhausen
Pedagogues

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Nadia Boulanger
Performers

This section contains 18 articles.

Cellists

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Pablo Casals
  2. Mstislav Rostropovich
Conductors

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Leonard Bernstein
  2. Herbert von Karajan
  3. Arturo Toscanini
Pianists

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Glenn Gould
  2. Vladimir Horowitz
  3. Sviatoslav Richter
  4. Arthur Rubinstein
  5. Clara Schumann
Singers

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Maria Callas
  2. Enrico Caruso
  3. Plácido Domingo
  4. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
  5. Kirsten Flagstad
  6. Luciano Pavarotti
  7. Joan Sutherland
Violinists

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Niccolò Paganini

Non-Western art music

This section contains 7 articles.

Carnatic classical

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Muthuswami Dikshitar
  2. Syama Sastri
  3. Tyagaraja
Hindustani classical

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Ali Akbar Khan
  2. Ravi Shankar
Qawwali

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Persian traditional

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Mohammad-Reza Shajarian

Jazz

This section contains 10 articles.

  1. Louis Armstrong (Level 3)
  2. Miles Davis
  3. Duke Ellington
  4. Ella Fitzgerald
  5. Benny Goodman
  6. Billie Holiday
  7. Antônio Carlos Jobim
  8. Scott Joplin
  9. Charlie Parker
  10. Django Reinhardt

This section contains 61 articles.

  1. ABBA
  2. Bing Crosby
  3. Stephen Foster
  4. Michael Jackson (Level 3)
  5. Madonna
  6. Miriam Makeba
  7. Bob Marley
  8. Frank Sinatra
  9. Taylor Swift
Non-English language singers

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Charles Aznavour
  2. Serge Gainsbourg
  3. Umm Kulthum
  4. Lata Mangeshkar
  5. Édith Piaf
  6. Teresa Teng
  7. Vladimir Vysotsky
Afrobeat

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Fela Kuti
Blues, R&B, and soul

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Ray Charles
  2. Aretha Franklin
  3. Marvin Gaye
  4. Robert Johnson
  5. B. B. King
  6. The Supremes
  7. Stevie Wonder
Electronic music

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Brian Eno
  2. Kraftwerk
Folk and country

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Johnny Cash
  2. Woody Guthrie
  3. Joni Mitchell
  4. Dolly Parton
  5. Hank Williams
Funk

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. James Brown
  2. Prince (musician)
Hip-hop and rap

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Run-DMC
  2. Tupac Shakur
Latin

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Celia Cruz
  2. Julio Iglesias
  3. Astor Piazzolla
  4. Selena
Flamenco

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Paco de Lucía
Musical comedy and lyricists

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Irving Berlin
  2. Rodgers and Hammerstein
  3. Andrew Lloyd Webber
Rock

This section contains 18 articles.

  1. The Beach Boys
  2. The Beatles (Level 3)
    1. John Lennon
  3. Black Sabbath
  4. Chuck Berry
  5. David Bowie
  6. The Doors
  7. Bob Dylan
  8. Jimi Hendrix
  9. Buddy Holly
  10. Janis Joplin
  11. Led Zeppelin
  12. Little Richard
  13. Nirvana (band)
  14. Pink Floyd
  15. Elvis Presley
  16. Queen (band)
  17. The Rolling Stones

Directors, producers and screenwriters

This section contains 61 articles.

Businesspeople

This section contains 29 articles.

Explorers

This section contains 30 articles.

Philosophers, historians, political and social scientists

This section contains 162 articles.

Philosophers

This section contains 68 articles.

Historians

This section contains 22 articles.

Ancient

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Eusebius
  2. Herodotus (Level 3)
  3. Josephus
  4. Plutarch
  5. Sima Qian
  6. Tacitus
  7. Thucydides
  8. Xenophon
Post-classical

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Bede
  2. Jean Froissart
  3. Geoffrey of Monmouth
  4. Ibn Khaldun (Level 3)
Early modern

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Edward Gibbon
  2. Nikolay Karamzin
  3. Giorgio Vasari
Modern

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Charles A. Beard
  2. Fernand Braudel
  3. Eric Hobsbawm
  4. Theodor Mommsen
  5. Leopold von Ranke
  6. A. J. P. Taylor
  7. Frederick Jackson Turner

Social scientists, economists and political writers

This section contains 52 articles.

Psychologists

This section contains 20 articles.

Religious figures

This section contains 124 articles.

For mythological figures, see: Philosophy and religion: Mythology.

Hinduism

This section contains 17 articles.

Buddhism

This section contains 15 articles.

  1. The Buddha (Level 3)
  2. 14th Dalai Lama
  3. Nagarjuna
  4. Padmasambhava
Chinese Buddhism

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Bodhidharma
  2. Kumārajīva
  3. Lushan Huiyuan
  4. Zhiyi
  5. Huineng
Indian Buddhism

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Ānanda
  2. Maudgalyayana
  3. Śāriputra
  4. Vasubandhu
Japanese Buddhism

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Dōgen
  2. Kūkai

Abrahamic religions

This section contains 85 articles.

Judaism

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Baal Shem Tov
  2. Rabbi Akiva
  3. Judah Loew ben Bezalel
  4. Maimonides
  5. Rashi
  6. Vilna Gaon
Christianity

This section contains 60 articles.

New Testament figures

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Jesus (Level 3)
  2. Mary, mother of Jesus
  3. Mary Magdalene
  4. John the Baptist
  5. Judas Iscariot
  6. Paul the Apostle (Level 3)
  7. Saint Peter
  8. John the Apostle
Pre-Schism

This section contains 18 articles.

  1. Ambrose
  2. Arius
  3. Athanasius of Alexandria
  4. Basil of Caesarea
  5. Benedict of Nursia
  6. Clement of Alexandria
  7. Cyril of Alexandria
  8. Saint George
  9. Gregory of Nazianzus
  10. Gregory of Nyssa
  11. Irenaeus
  12. Jerome
  13. John Chrysostom
  14. John of Damascus
  15. Cyril and Methodius
  16. Saint Nicholas
  17. Origen
  18. Tertullian
Catholic Church

This section contains 11 articles.

  1. Anselm of Canterbury
  2. Bonaventure
  3. Francis of Assisi
  4. Jan Hus
  5. Ignatius of Loyola
  6. John of the Cross
  7. Mother Teresa
  8. Teresa of Ávila
  9. Tomás de Torquemada
  10. John Wycliffe
  11. Francis Xavier
Popes

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Clement of Rome
  2. Pope Gregory I
  3. Pope Leo I
  4. Pope John XXIII
  5. Pope John Paul II
  6. Pope Pius IX
Orthodox Church

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Patriarch Nikon of Moscow
  2. Grigori Rasputin
Protestantism

This section contains 13 articles.

  1. Jacobus Arminius
  2. Karl Barth
  3. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  4. John Calvin
  5. Thomas Cranmer
  6. Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
  7. Billy Graham
  8. John Knox
  9. Martin Luther (Level 3)
  10. Philip Melanchthon
  11. Desmond Tutu
  12. John Wesley
  13. Huldrych Zwingli
Others

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Mary Baker Eddy
  2. Joseph Smith
Islam

This section contains 19 articles.

  1. Muhammad (Level 3)
  2. Aisha
  3. Fatima
  4. Khadija bint Khuwaylid
Shia Islam

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Ali (Level 3)
  2. Husayn ibn Ali
  3. Ja'far al-Sadiq
Sunni Islam

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Ahmad ibn Hanbal
  2. Abu Hanifa
  3. Malik ibn Anas
  4. Muhammad al-Bukhari
  5. Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj
  6. Al-Shafi'i
  7. Ibn Taymiyya
  8. Al-Nawawi
Others

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab
  2. Al-Ghazali
  3. Ibn Arabi
  4. Mulla Sadra

Others

This section contains 7 articles.

Jainism

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Mahavira
New religious movements

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Baháʼu'lláh
  2. Helena Blavatsky
  3. Aleister Crowley
Sikhism

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Guru Gobind Singh
  2. Guru Nanak
Zoroastrianism

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Zoroaster

Politicians and leaders

This section contains 503 articles.

Ancient

This section contains 72 articles.

Africa

This section contains 13 articles.

Asia

This section contains 28 articles.

Europe

This section contains 31 articles.

Eastern Europe

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Attila
  2. Decebalus
  3. Pyrrhus of Epirus
Greece

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Alcibiades
  2. Demosthenes
  3. Draco (lawgiver)
  4. Lycurgus
  5. Pericles
  6. Solon
  7. Themistocles
Macedonia

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Philip II of Macedon
  2. Alexander the Great (Level 3)
Western Europe

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  1. Alaric I
  2. Arminius
  3. Boudica
  4. Theodoric I
  5. Vercingetorix
Ancient Rome

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  1. Augustus (Level 3)
  2. Julius Caesar (Level 3)
  3. Caligula
  4. Cato the Elder
  5. Constantine the Great
  6. Diocletian
  7. Domitian
  8. Gracchi brothers
  9. Hadrian
  10. Marcus Aurelius
  11. Nero
  12. Theodosius I
  13. Tiberius
  14. Trajan

Post-classical

This section contains 134 articles.

Africa

This section contains 6 articles.

Americas

This section contains 2 articles.

Asia

This section contains 49 articles.

Central Asia, Iran, Caucasus

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  1. Batu Khan
  2. Bumin Qaghan
  3. Hulegu Khan
  4. Jochi
  5. Khosrow I
  6. Mahmud of Ghazni
  7. Muhammad of Ghor
  8. Muhammad II of Khwarazm
  9. Nizam al-Mulk
  10. Tamar of Georgia
  11. Timur (Level 3)
  12. Tokhtamysh
  13. Tughril I
  14. Ulugh Beg
Eastern Asia

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Genghis Khan (Level 3)
  2. Ögedei Khan
  3. Sejong the Great
  4. Taejo of Goryeo
  5. Taejo of Joseon
China

This section contains 9 articles.

  1. Hongwu Emperor
  2. Yang Guifei
  3. Kublai Khan
  4. Emperor Taizong of Tang
  5. Emperor Xuanzong of Tang
  6. Emperor Taizu of Song
  7. Emperor Wen of Sui
  8. Wu Zetian
  9. Yongle Emperor
Southeastern Asia

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Anawrahta
  2. Ramkhamhaeng
  3. Gajah Mada
  4. Jayavarman VII
  5. Suryavarman II
Vietnam

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  1. Lê Lợi
  2. Lê Thánh Tông
  3. Trần Thánh Tông
Southern Asia

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  1. Prithviraj Chauhan
  2. Harsha
  3. Alauddin Khalji
  4. Rajaraja I
Western Asia

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  1. Saladin
  2. Osman I
  3. Mehmed II
Caliphates

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  1. Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan
  2. Abu Bakr
  3. Harun al-Rashid
  4. Mu'awiya I
  5. Umar
  6. Uthman
Europe

This section contains 77 articles.

Eastern Europe

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  1. Stefan Dušan
  2. Stephen the Great
  3. Svatopluk I of Moravia
  4. Vlad the Impaler
Bulgaria

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  1. Krum
  2. Boris I of Bulgaria
  3. Ivan Asen II
Byzantine Empire

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  1. Justinian I
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  3. Basil II
  4. Leo III the Isaurian
  5. Manuel I Komnenos
  6. Theodora (wife of Justinian I)
Hungary

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  1. Stephen I of Hungary
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  3. Louis I of Hungary
  4. Matthias Corvinus
Poland and Lithuania

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  1. Bolesław I the Brave
  2. Casimir III the Great
  3. Gediminas
  4. Władysław II Jagiełło
  5. Mieszko I
  6. Vytautas
Russia

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Alexander Nevsky
  2. Daniel of Galicia
  3. Dmitry Donskoy
  4. Ivan III of Russia
  5. Vladimir the Great
  6. Sviatoslav I
  7. Yaroslav the Wise
Western Europe

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Cnut
  2. Margaret I of Denmark
England and Scotland

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  1. Æthelstan
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  9. Robert the Bruce
  10. William the Conqueror
France

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  1. Clovis I
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  4. Louis XI
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  6. Eleanor of Aquitaine
  7. Philip II of France
  8. Louis IX of France
  9. Philip IV of France
Germany

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Charles the Fat
  2. Henry the Lion
Holy Roman Empire

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  1. Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor
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  4. Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor
  5. Otto the Great
  6. Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor
Italy

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  1. Cesare Borgia
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  3. Lorenzo de' Medici
  4. Robert Guiscard
  5. Roger II of Sicily
  6. Girolamo Savonarola
  7. Theodoric the Great
Papal States

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  1. Pope Alexander VI
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  5. Pope Urban II
Spain and Portugal

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  1. Abd al-Rahman I
  2. Abd al-Rahman III
  3. Afonso I of Portugal
  4. Ferdinand II of Aragon
  5. Prince Henry the Navigator
  6. Isabella I of Castile

Early modern

This section contains 108 articles.

Africa

This section contains 5 articles.

Americas

This section contains 12 articles.

Asia

This section contains 40 articles.

Central Asia, Iran, Caucasus

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  1. Abbas the Great
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  3. Babur
  4. Humayun
  5. Ismail I
  6. Nader Shah
Eastern Asia

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Jeongjo of Joseon
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China

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  1. Hong Taiji
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  5. Qianlong Emperor
  6. Wanli Emperor
Japan

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  1. Toyotomi Hideyoshi
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  3. Oda Nobunaga
Southern Asia

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  1. Akbar (Level 3)
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  8. Tipu Sultan
  9. Shivaji
  10. Krishnadevaraya
Southeastern Asia

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  1. Sultan Agung of Mataram
  2. Rama I
  3. Iskandar Muda
  4. Naresuan
  5. Quang Trung
Burma

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  1. Alaungpaya
  2. Bayinnaung
  3. Tabinshwehti
Western Asia

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Mehmed IV
  2. Roxelana
  3. Selim I
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Europe

This section contains 50 articles.

Eastern Europe

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Bohdan Khmelnytsky
Poland and Lithuania

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  1. Augustus II the Strong
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Russia

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  1. Ivan the Terrible
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Western Europe

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  1. Frederick the Great
  2. Frederick William I of Prussia
  3. William the Silent
England and Scotland

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  1. Charles I of England
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  5. James VI and I
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  8. Mary, Queen of Scots
  9. William III of England
  10. William Blackstone
  11. William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
  12. William Pitt the Younger
  13. Robert Walpole
France

This section contains 11 articles.

  1. Catherine de' Medici
  2. Francis I of France
  3. Henry IV of France
  4. Louis XIV
  5. Louis XV
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  7. Marie Antoinette
  8. Cardinal Mazarin
  9. Napoleon (Level 3)
  10. Madame de Pompadour
  11. Cardinal Richelieu
Holy Roman Empire, Austria

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
  2. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor
  3. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor
  4. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor
  5. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
  6. Maria Theresa
Northern Europe

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Charles XII of Sweden
  2. Christina, Queen of Sweden
  3. Gustavus Adolphus
Southern Europe

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Pope Julius II
  2. Philip II of Spain
  3. Philip V of Spain
  4. Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal
Oceania

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Kamehameha I

Modern

This section contains 189 articles.

Africa

This section contains 31 articles.

Americas

This section contains 42 articles.

Asia

This section contains 51 articles.

Europe

This section contains 64 articles.

Central Europe

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Alexander Dubček
  2. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
  3. Václav Havel
  4. Franz Joseph I of Austria
  5. Klemens von Metternich
Eastern Europe

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Józef Piłsudski
  2. Lech Wałęsa
Southeastern Europe

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  1. Ion Antonescu
  2. Nicolae Ceaușescu
  3. Enver Hoxha
  4. Slobodan Milošević
  5. Ante Pavelić
  6. Josip Broz Tito
Russia and USSR

This section contains 12 articles.

  1. Alexander I of Russia
  2. Alexander II of Russia
  3. Leonid Brezhnev
  4. Mikhail Gorbachev
  5. Nikita Khrushchev
  6. Vladimir Lenin
  7. Nicholas I of Russia
  8. Nicholas II
  9. Vladimir Putin
  10. Joseph Stalin (Level 3)
  11. Leon Trotsky
  12. Boris Yeltsin
Scandinavia

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Gro Harlem Brundtland
  2. Charles XIV John
  3. Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
  4. Dag Hammarskjöld
Western Europe

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Leopold II of Belgium
France

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Georges Clemenceau
  2. Charles de Gaulle
  3. François Mitterrand
  4. Louis Philippe I
  5. Napoleon III
  6. Adolphe Thiers
Germany

This section contains 11 articles.

  1. Konrad Adenauer
  2. Otto von Bismarck
  3. Willy Brandt
  4. Joseph Goebbels
  5. Adolf Hitler (Level 3)
  6. Heinrich Himmler
  7. Erich Honecker
  8. Helmut Kohl
  9. Angela Merkel
  10. William I, German Emperor
  11. Wilhelm II
Iberia

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Francisco Franco
  2. Juan Carlos I
  3. António de Oliveira Salazar
Ireland

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Michael Collins (Irish leader)
  2. Charles Stewart Parnell
  3. Éamon de Valera
Italy

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
  2. Benito Mussolini
United Kingdom

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  1. Robert Peel
  2. Queen Victoria
  3. William Ewart Gladstone
  4. Benjamin Disraeli
  5. David Lloyd George
  6. Winston Churchill
  7. Clement Attlee
  8. Elizabeth II
  9. Margaret Thatcher
Oceania

This section contains 1 article.

  1. John Curtin

Military leaders and theorists

This section contains 52 articles.

Rebels, revolutionaries and activists

This section contains 53 articles.

Ancient

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Spartacus

Post-classical

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Abu Muslim
  2. Babak Khorramdin
  3. Huang Chao

Early modern

This section contains 8 articles.

Early modern: General

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Blackbeard
  2. Bartolomé de las Casas
  3. Thomas Müntzer
  4. Yemelyan Pugachev
  5. William Wilberforce
France

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Georges Danton
  2. Jean-Paul Marat
  3. Maximilien Robespierre

Modern

This section contains 41 articles.

Americas

This section contains 21 articles.

  1. Marcus Garvey
  2. Che Guevara
  3. Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
  4. Louis Riel
  5. Pancho Villa
  6. Emiliano Zapata
United States

This section contains 15 articles.

  1. Jane Addams
  2. Susan B. Anthony
  3. Frederick Douglass
  4. Betty Friedan
  5. Helen Keller
  6. Martin Luther King Jr.
  7. Malcolm X
  8. Harvey Milk
  9. John Muir
  10. Rosa Parks
  11. Margaret Sanger
  12. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  13. Sojourner Truth
  14. Harriet Tubman
  15. Booker T. Washington
Africa

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Steve Biko
  2. Sayyid Qutb
  3. Ken Saro-Wiwa
Asia

This section contains 12 articles.

  1. B. R. Ambedkar
  2. Aung San
  3. Aung San Suu Kyi
  4. Osama bin Laden
  5. Subhas Chandra Bose
  6. Diponegoro
  7. Mahatma Gandhi (Level 3)
  8. Hong Xiuquan
  9. José Rizal
  10. Rani of Jhansi
  11. Sun Yat-sen
  12. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Europe

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Henry Dunant
  2. Emma Goldman
  3. Theodor Herzl
  4. Rosa Luxemburg
  5. Emmeline Pankhurst

Scientists, inventors and mathematicians

This section contains 255 articles.

Ancient figures

This section contains 25 articles.

Physics

This section contains 66 articles.

Chemistry

This section contains 23 articles.

Life sciences

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Physical geography

This section contains 5 articles.

Inventors and engineers

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Mathematicians

This section contains 45 articles.

Computer scientists

This section contains 11 articles.

Sports figures

This section contains 95 articles.

Individual sports

This section contains 55 articles.

Athletics

This section contains 14 articles.

  1. Fanny Blankers-Koen
  2. Usain Bolt
  3. Sergey Bubka
  4. Pierre de Coubertin
  5. Hicham El Guerrouj
  6. Haile Gebrselassie
  7. Florence Griffith Joyner
  8. Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  9. Carl Lewis
  10. Edwin Moses
  11. Paavo Nurmi
  12. Jesse Owens
  13. Wilma Rudolph
  14. Emil Zátopek
Auto racing

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Juan Manuel Fangio
  2. Enzo Ferrari
  3. Michael Schumacher
  4. Ayrton Senna
Biathlon

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Ole Einar Bjørndalen
Boxing

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Joe Louis
  3. Sugar Ray Robinson
Chess

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Bobby Fischer
  2. Garry Kasparov
Climbing and mountaineering

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Edmund Hillary
  2. Junko Tabei
  3. Tenzing Norgay
Cycling

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Eddy Merckx
Figure skating

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Yuzuru Hanyu
  2. Sonja Henie
Golf

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Jack Nicklaus
  2. Annika Sörenstam
  3. Tiger Woods
Gymnastics

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Nadia Comăneci
  2. Larisa Latynina
Martial arts

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Kanō Jigorō
  2. Bruce Lee
Skiing

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Marit Bjørgen
  2. Ingemar Stenmark
Speed skating

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Bonnie Blair
  2. Eric Heiden
Swimming

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Michael Phelps
  2. Mark Spitz
  3. Johnny Weissmuller
Tennis

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Margaret Court
  2. Roger Federer
  3. Steffi Graf
  4. Rod Laver
  5. Suzanne Lenglen
  6. Rafael Nadal
  7. Martina Navratilova
  8. Serena Williams
Wrestling

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Aleksandr Karelin
Multiple sports

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Jim Thorpe
  2. Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Team sports

This section contains 40 articles.

American football

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Tom Brady
  2. Jim Brown
  3. Jerry Rice
Association football

This section contains 12 articles.

  1. Franz Beckenbauer
  2. Johan Cruyff
  3. Alfredo Di Stéfano
  4. Mia Hamm
  5. Diego Maradona
  6. Lionel Messi
  7. Pelé
  8. Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer)
  9. Cristiano Ronaldo
  10. Lev Yashin
  11. Zinedine Zidane
  12. Marta (footballer)
Baseball

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Hank Aaron
  2. Ty Cobb
  3. Willie Mays
  4. Sadaharu Oh
  5. Jackie Robinson
  6. Babe Ruth
Basketball

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  2. Wilt Chamberlain
  3. LeBron James
  4. Magic Johnson
  5. Michael Jordan
  6. James Naismith
Rugby union

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Gareth Edwards
  2. Jonah Lomu
Cricket

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Don Bradman
  2. W. G. Grace
  3. Viv Richards
  4. Garfield Sobers
  5. Sachin Tendulkar
  6. Shane Warne
Field hockey

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Luciana Aymar
  2. Dhyan Chand
Ice hockey

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Wayne Gretzky
  2. Gordie Howe
Rowing

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Steve Redgrave