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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 1,985 articles.

Class #Articles
FA 173
GA 225
A 2
B 895
C 676
FFA 88
DGA 82
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People

This section contains 1985 articles.

Entertainers

This section contains 86 articles.

Actors

This section contains 57 articles.

Dancers and choreographers

This section contains 15 articles.

Comedians

This section contains 9 articles.

Hosts and performers

This section contains 5 articles.

Visual artists

This section contains 122 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. Jan van Eyck
  2. Masaccio
  3. Hieronymus Bosch
  4. Sandro Botticelli
  5. Leonardo da Vinci (Level 3)
  6. Albrecht Dürer
  7. Titian
  8. Raphael
  9. Hans Holbein the Younger
  10. Pieter Bruegel the Elder
  11. El Greco
  12. Caravaggio
  13. Peter Paul Rubens
  14. Artemisia Gentileschi
  15. Nicolas Poussin
  16. Diego Velázquez
  17. Rembrandt (Level 3)
  18. Johannes Vermeer
  19. Antoine Watteau
  20. William Hogarth
  21. Francisco Goya
  22. Jacques-Louis David
Modern (painters)

This section contains 40 articles.

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

This section contains 8 articles.

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

Other visual arts

This section contains 46 articles.

Sculptors

This section contains 8 articles.

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

This section contains 22 articles.

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

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Marcel Duchamp
  2. Joseph Beuys
Designers

This section contains 3 articles.

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

This section contains 6 articles.

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

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Antonio Stradivari
Urban planners

This section contains 4 articles.

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

Non-Western traditions

This section contains 5 articles.

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

Writers

This section contains 255 articles.

Ancient

This section contains 17 articles.

Asia

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Qu Yuan
  2. Kalidasa
Europe

This section contains 15 articles.

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

Post-classical

This section contains 28 articles.

Asia

This section contains 21 articles.

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

This section contains 7 articles.

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

Early modern

This section contains 34 articles.

Asia

This section contains 6 articles.

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

This section contains 28 articles.

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

Modern

This section contains 176 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 49 articles.

US and Canada

This section contains 40 articles.

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

This section contains 9 articles.

  1. Machado de Assis
  2. José Martí
  3. Jorge Luis Borges
  4. Pablo Neruda
  5. Alejo Carpentier
  6. Jorge Amado
  7. Gabriel García Márquez
  8. Carlos Fuentes
  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. Taras Shevchenko
  3. Sándor Petőfi
  4. Henryk Sienkiewicz
  5. Joseph Conrad
  6. Elie Wiesel
  7. Ismail Kadare
Russia

This section contains 16 articles.

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

This section contains 40 articles.

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

This section contains 37 articles.

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

This section contains 17 articles.

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

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

This section contains 62 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 19 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. Metallica
  14. Nirvana (band)
  15. Pink Floyd
  16. Elvis Presley
  17. Queen (band)
  18. The Rolling Stones

Directors, producers and screenwriters

This section contains 60 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.

Abrahamic religions

This section contains 86 articles.

Judaism

This section contains 6 articles.

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

This section contains 60 articles.

New Testament figures

This section contains 8 articles.

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

This section contains 18 articles.

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

This section contains 11 articles.

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

This section contains 6 articles.

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

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Patriarch Nikon of Moscow
  2. Grigori Rasputin
Protestantism

This section contains 13 articles.

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

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Joseph Smith
  2. Mary Baker Eddy
Islam

This section contains 19 articles.

  1. Khadija bint Khuwaylid
  2. Muhammad (Level 3)
  3. Fatima
  4. Aisha
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. Abu Hanifa
  2. Malik ibn Anas
  3. Al-Shafi'i
  4. Ahmad ibn Hanbal
  5. Muhammad al-Bukhari
  6. Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj
  7. Al-Nawawi
  8. Ibn Taymiyya
Others

This section contains 4 articles.

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

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Baháʼu'lláh

Dharmic religions

This section contains 35 articles.

Hinduism

This section contains 17 articles.

Ancient

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Valmiki
  2. Vyasa
  3. Kapila
  4. Patanjali
Post-classical

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Gaudapada
  2. Kumārila Bhaṭṭa
  3. Adi Shankara (Level 3)
  4. Ramanuja
  5. Basava
  6. Madhvacharya
  7. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
Modern

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Ramakrishna
  2. Swami Vivekananda
  3. Sri Aurobindo
  4. Ramana Maharshi
  5. Paramahansa Yogananda
  6. A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Buddhism

This section contains 15 articles.

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

This section contains 5 articles.

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

This section contains 4 articles.

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

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Kūkai
  2. Dōgen
Jainism

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Mahavira
Sikhism

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Guru Nanak
  2. Guru Gobind Singh

Others

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Zoroastrianism

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Ancient

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Africa

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Asia

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Europe

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Macedonia

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Western Europe

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Ancient Rome

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Post-classical

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Africa

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Americas

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Asia

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Central Asia, Iran, Caucasus

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China

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Korea

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Mongol Empire

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Southeastern Asia

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Vietnam

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Western Asia

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Caliphates

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Europe

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Eastern Europe

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Byzantine Empire

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Hungary

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Russia

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France

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Germany

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Holy Roman Empire

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Papal States

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Spain and Portugal

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Early modern

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Africa

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Americas

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South America

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United States

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Asia and Oceania

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Central Asia, Iran, Caucasus

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China

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Japan

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Korea

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Southern Asia

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Southeastern Asia

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Burma

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Western Asia

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Oceania

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Europe

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Eastern Europe

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Poland and Lithuania

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Russia

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Western Europe

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England and Scotland

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France

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Holy Roman Empire, Austria

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  1. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
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Northern Europe

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Southern Europe

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  1. Pope Julius II
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Modern

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Africa

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Central Africa

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  1. Patrice Lumumba
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Eastern Africa

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  6. Kenneth Kaunda
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  8. Paul Kagame
Ethiopia

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  1. Tewodros II
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Northern Africa

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  1. Emir Abdelkader
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Egypt

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Southern Africa

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Western Africa

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  1. Léopold Sédar Senghor
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  6. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
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Americas

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Asia

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Europe

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Central Europe

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  1. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
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Eastern Europe

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  1. Józef Piłsudski
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Southeastern Europe

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  1. Ion Antonescu
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  5. Slobodan Milošević
Russia and USSR

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  1. Alexander I of Russia
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  8. Nikita Khrushchev
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  10. Mikhail Gorbachev
  11. Boris Yeltsin
  12. Vladimir Putin
Scandinavia

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  1. Charles XIV John
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Western Europe

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  1. Leopold II of Belgium
France

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Germany

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  1. Wilhelm I
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  8. Erich Honecker
  9. Willy Brandt
  10. Helmut Kohl
  11. Angela Merkel
Iberia

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  1. António de Oliveira Salazar
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Ireland

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  1. Charles Stewart Parnell
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Italy

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

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  1. Robert Peel
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  4. Queen Victoria
  5. David Lloyd George
  6. Winston Churchill
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  8. Margaret Thatcher
  9. Elizabeth II
Oceania

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  1. John Curtin

Military leaders and theorists

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Rebels, revolutionaries and activists

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Ancient

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  1. Spartacus

Post-classical

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  1. Abu Muslim
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  3. Huang Chao

Early modern

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Early modern: General

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

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

Modern

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Americas

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

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

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  1. Sayyid Qutb
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  3. Steve Biko
Asia

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

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

Scientists, inventors and mathematicians

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Ancient figures

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Physics

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Chemistry

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Life sciences

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Physical geography

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Inventors and engineers

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Mathematicians

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Computer scientists

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Sports figures

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Individual sports

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Athletics

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

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

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

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  1. Bobby Fischer
  2. Garry Kasparov
Climbing and mountaineering

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

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  1. Eddy Merckx
Figure skating

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  1. Sonja Henie
  2. Yuzuru Hanyu
Golf

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  1. Jack Nicklaus
  2. Tiger Woods
Gymnastics

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  1. Larisa Latynina
  2. Nadia Comăneci
  3. Simone Biles
Martial arts

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  1. Kanō Jigorō
  2. Bruce Lee
Skiing

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  1. Ingemar Stenmark
  2. Marit Bjørgen
Speed skating

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  1. Eric Heiden
Swimming

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

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

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  1. Aleksandr Karelin
Multiple sports

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  1. Jim Thorpe
  2. Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Team sports

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American football

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  1. Jim Brown
  2. Tom Brady
Association football

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

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  1. Babe Ruth
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  3. Hank Aaron
  4. Sadaharu Oh
Basketball

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

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  1. Jonah Lomu
Cricket

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

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  1. Dhyan Chand
  2. Luciana Aymar
Ice hockey

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  1. Gordie Howe
  2. Wayne Gretzky
Rowing

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  1. Steve Redgrave