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People

This section contains 1916 articles.

Entertainers

This section contains 71 articles.

Actors

This section contains 44 articles.

Asia

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Toshiro Mifune
  2. Setsuko Hara
  3. Madhubala
  4. Amitabh Bachchan
  5. Rajinikanth
  6. Jackie Chan

Europe

This section contains 17 articles.

  1. Rudolph Valentino
  2. Marlene Dietrich
  3. Greta Garbo
  4. Ingrid Bergman
  5. Marcello Mastroianni
  6. Sophia Loren
France

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Sarah Bernhardt
  2. Jeanne Moreau
  3. Brigitte Bardot
  4. Alain Delon
United Kingdom

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. John Gielgud
  2. Laurence Olivier
  3. Vivien Leigh
  4. Audrey Hepburn
  5. Sean Connery
  6. Peter O'Toole
  7. Julie Andrews

United States

This section contains 21 articles.

  1. Mary Pickford
  2. Lillian Gish
  3. Humphrey Bogart
  4. Clark Gable
  5. Cary Grant
  6. Katharine Hepburn
  7. John Wayne
  8. Bette Davis
  9. James Stewart
  10. Gregory Peck
  11. Judy Garland
  12. Marlon Brando
  13. Marilyn Monroe
  14. Sidney Poitier
  15. Clint Eastwood
  16. Elizabeth Taylor
  17. Jack Nicholson
  18. Al Pacino
  19. Robert De Niro
  20. Meryl Streep
  21. Tom Hanks

Dancers and choreographers

This section contains 14 articles.

Ballet

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Marius Petipa
  2. Anna Pavlova
  3. Vaslav Nijinsky
  4. George Balanchine
  5. Rudolf Nureyev
  6. Mikhail Baryshnikov

Other dance

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Izumo no Okuni
  2. Isadora Duncan
  3. Martha Graham
  4. Fred Astaire
  5. Josephine Baker
  6. Ginger Rogers
  7. Gene Kelly
  8. Bob Fosse

Comedians

This section contains 9 articles.

  1. Marx Brothers
  2. Laurel and Hardy
  3. Mae West
  4. Lucille Ball
  5. Louis de Funès
  6. George Carlin
  7. Bill Cosby
  8. Richard Pryor
  9. Monty Python

Hosts and performers

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Harry Houdini
  2. Marcel Marceau
  3. Fred Rogers
  4. Oprah Winfrey

Visual artists

This section contains 119 articles.

Western painters and illustrators

This section contains 71 articles.

Pre-Renaissance

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Giotto

Renaissance to early modern era

This section contains 22 articles.

  1. Jan van Eyck
  2. Masaccio
  3. Sandro Botticelli
  4. Hieronymus Bosch
  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 era

This section contains 41 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. Gustav Klimt
  21. Edvard Munch
  22. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
  23. Wassily Kandinsky
  24. Henri Matisse
  25. Piet Mondrian
  26. Kazimir Malevich
  27. Paul Klee
  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. Mark Rothko
  37. Salvador Dalí
  38. Frida Kahlo
  39. Jackson Pollock
  40. Andy Warhol
  41. Gerhard Richter

Comics and manga artists, print cartoonists and illustrators

This section contains 7 articles.

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

Other visual arts

This section contains 43 articles.

Sculptors

This section contains 9 articles.

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

Architects

This section contains 21 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. Philip Johnson
  18. Oscar Niemeyer
  19. I. M. Pei
  20. Frank Gehry
  21. Zaha Hadid

Designers

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Coco Chanel
  2. Raymond Loewy
  3. Yves Saint Laurent (designer)
  4. Shigeru Miyamoto

Photographers

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Eadweard Muybridge
  2. Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
  3. Man Ray
  4. Ansel Adams
  5. Henri Cartier-Bresson

Instrument makers

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Antonio Stradivari

Urban planners and landscape architects

This section contains 3 articles.

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

Non-Western art

This section contains 5 articles.

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

Writers

This section contains 243 articles.

Ancient

This section contains 18 articles.

Asia

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Enheduanna
  2. Qu Yuan
  3. Kalidasa
  4. Tao Yuanming

Europe

This section contains 14 articles.

Greece

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Homer (Level 3)
  2. Hesiod
  3. Sappho
  4. Aeschylus
  5. Sophocles
  6. Euripides
  7. Aristophanes
Ancient Rome

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Plautus
  2. Terence
  3. Catullus
  4. Virgil (Level 3)
  5. Horace
  6. Ovid
  7. Lucian

Post-classical

This section contains 27 articles.

Asia

This section contains 20 articles.

Eastern Asia

This section contains 9 articles.

  1. Wang Wei
  2. Li Bai (Level 3)
  3. Du Fu
  4. Han Yu
  5. Bai Juyi
  6. Murasaki Shikibu (Level 3)
  7. Ouyang Xiu
  8. Su Shi
  9. Zeami Motokiyo
Southern Asia

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Amir Khusrau
  2. Kabir
Western Asia

This section contains 9 articles.

  1. Abu Nuwas
  2. Rudaki
  3. Ferdowsi
  4. Omar Khayyam
  5. Nizami Ganjavi
  6. Rumi (Level 3)
  7. Saadi Shirazi
  8. Hafez
  9. 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 36 articles.

Americas

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Juana Inés de la Cruz

Asia

This section contains 6 articles.

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

Europe

This section contains 29 articles.

  1. Luís de Camões
  2. Miguel de Cervantes (Level 3)
  3. Lope de Vega
  4. Pedro Calderón de la Barca
  5. Giacomo Casanova
  6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  7. Friedrich Schiller
France

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. François Rabelais
  2. Nostradamus
  3. Michel de Montaigne
  4. Molière
  5. Charles Perrault
  6. Jean Racine
  7. Voltaire
  8. Marquis de Sade
Great Britain and Ireland

This section contains 14 articles.

  1. Thomas More
  2. Edmund Spenser
  3. Christopher Marlowe
  4. William Shakespeare (Level 3)
  5. John Donne
  6. Ben Jonson
  7. John Milton
  8. John Dryden
  9. Daniel Defoe
  10. Jonathan Swift
  11. Alexander Pope
  12. Samuel Johnson
  13. William Blake
  14. Robert Burns

Modern

This section contains 162 articles.

Africa

This section contains 7 articles.

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

Americas

This section contains 45 articles.

Caribbean

This section contains 1 article.

  1. V. S. Naipaul
US and Canada

This section contains 35 articles.

  1. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  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. Jack London
  11. Ezra Pound
  12. Raymond Chandler
  13. T. S. Eliot
  14. H. P. Lovecraft
  15. F. Scott Fitzgerald
  16. William Faulkner
  17. Ernest Hemingway
  18. Langston Hughes
  19. John Steinbeck
  20. Dr. Seuss
  21. Robert A. Heinlein
  22. Tennessee Williams
  23. Saul Bellow
  24. Arthur Miller
  25. Isaac Asimov
  26. Ray Bradbury
  27. Jack Kerouac
  28. Kurt Vonnegut
  29. Stan Lee
  30. Maya Angelou
  31. Ursula K. Le Guin
  32. Toni Morrison
  33. Sylvia Plath
  34. Margaret Atwood
  35. 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. Octavio Paz
  8. Gabriel García Márquez
  9. Mario Vargas Llosa

Asia

This section contains 16 articles.

Central Asia

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Chinghiz Aitmatov
Eastern Asia

This section contains 9 articles.

  1. Natsume Sōseki
  2. Lu Xun
  3. Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
  4. Lao She
  5. Yasunari Kawabata
  6. Jin Yong
  7. Yukio Mishima
  8. Kenzaburō Ōe
  9. Haruki Murakami
Southern Asia

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Ghalib
  2. Rabindranath Tagore (Level 3)
  3. Muhammad Iqbal
  4. Premchand
Western Asia

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Kahlil Gibran
  2. Orhan Pamuk

Europe

This section contains 93 articles.

Eastern Europe

This section contains 26 articles.

  1. Adam Mickiewicz
  2. Taras Shevchenko
  3. Sándor Petőfi
  4. Henryk Sienkiewicz
  5. Joseph Conrad
  6. Constantine P. Cavafy
  7. Tristan Tzara
  8. Elie Wiesel
  9. Ismail Kadare
Russia

This section contains 17 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. Vladimir Nabokov
  15. Mikhail Sholokhov
  16. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  17. Joseph Brodsky
Western Europe

This section contains 67 articles.

  1. Luigi Pirandello
  2. Fernando Pessoa
  3. Federico García Lorca
  4. José Saramago
  5. Anne Frank
  6. Umberto Eco
France

This section contains 13 articles.

  1. Stendhal
  2. Honoré de Balzac
  3. Victor Hugo
  4. Alexandre Dumas
  5. Charles Baudelaire
  6. Gustave Flaubert
  7. Jules Verne
  8. Émile Zola
  9. Stéphane Mallarmé
  10. Guy de Maupassant
  11. Arthur Rimbaud
  12. Marcel Proust
  13. Albert Camus
Germany and Austria

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Brothers Grimm
  2. Heinrich Heine
  3. Thomas Mann
  4. Rainer Maria Rilke
  5. Hermann Hesse
  6. Franz Kafka
  7. Bertolt Brecht
Nordic countries

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Hans Christian Andersen
  2. Henrik Ibsen
  3. August Strindberg
  4. Selma Lagerlöf
  5. Knut Hamsun
  6. Karen Blixen
  7. Astrid Lindgren
UK and Ireland

This section contains 34 articles.

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

Oceania

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Banjo Paterson

Journalists

This section contains 10 articles.

  1. Horace Greeley
  2. Joseph Pulitzer
  3. William Randolph Hearst
  4. Nellie Bly
  5. Walter Lippmann
  6. Edward R. Murrow
  7. Walter Cronkite
  8. David Attenborough
  9. Hunter S. Thompson
  10. Svetlana Alexievich

Musicians and composers

This section contains 152 articles.

Western art music

This section contains 72 articles.

Composers

This section contains 54 articles.

Medieval and Renaissance

This section contains 5 articles.

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

This section contains 5 articles.

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

This section contains 3 articles.

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

This section contains 18 articles.

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

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Gabriel Fauré
  2. Giacomo Puccini
  3. Gustav Mahler
  4. Claude Debussy
  5. Richard Strauss
  6. Jean Sibelius
  7. Sergei Rachmaninoff
  8. Maurice Ravel
20th century modern

This section contains 10 articles.

  1. Ralph Vaughan Williams
  2. Arnold Schoenberg
  3. Béla Bartók
  4. Igor Stravinsky
  5. Sergei Prokofiev
  6. George Gershwin
  7. Aaron Copland
  8. Dmitri Shostakovich
  9. Benjamin Britten
  10. John Williams
Avant-garde/postmodern

This section contains 5 articles.

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

Pedagogues

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Nadia Boulanger

Performers

This section contains 17 articles.

Cellists

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Pablo Casals
  2. Mstislav Rostropovich
Conductors

This section contains 3 articles.

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

This section contains 5 articles.

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

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Enrico Caruso
  2. Maria Callas
  3. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
  4. Joan Sutherland
  5. Luciano Pavarotti
  6. Plácido Domingo
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. Syama Sastri
  2. Tyagaraja
  3. Muthuswami Dikshitar

Hindustani classical

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Ravi Shankar
  2. Ali Akbar Khan

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 11 articles.

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

This section contains 62 articles.

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Bing Crosby
  2. Frank Sinatra
  3. Miriam Makeba
  4. Bob Marley
  5. ABBA
  6. Madonna
  7. Michael Jackson (Level 3)
  8. Taylor Swift

This section contains 12 articles.

  1. Umm Kulthum
  2. Édith Piaf
  3. Astor Piazzolla
  4. Charles Aznavour
  5. Serge Gainsbourg
  6. Lata Mangeshkar
  7. Fairuz
  8. Vladimir Vysotsky
  9. Julio Iglesias
  10. Paco de Lucía
  11. Teresa Teng
  12. Shakira

Blues, R&B, soul and funk

This section contains 10 articles.

  1. Robert Johnson
  2. B. B. King
  3. Ray Charles
  4. James Brown
  5. Fela Kuti
  6. Marvin Gaye
  7. Aretha Franklin
  8. The Supremes
  9. Stevie Wonder
  10. Prince (musician)

Electronic music

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Kraftwerk
  2. Brian Eno

Folk and country

This section contains 5 articles.

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

Hip-hop and rap

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. N.W.A
  2. Run-DMC
  3. Tupac Shakur

Musical theatre and film

This section contains 3 articles.

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

Rock

This section contains 19 articles.

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

Directors, producers and screenwriters

This section contains 61 articles.

Animators and puppeteers

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Walt Disney (Level 3)
  2. Jim Henson
  3. Hayao Miyazaki

Film directors

This section contains 53 articles.

Africa

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Ousmane Sembène

Asia

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Yasujirō Ozu
  2. Akira Kurosawa
  3. Abbas Kiarostami
  4. Ang Lee
  5. Wong Kar-wai
India

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Satyajit Ray
  2. Raj Kapoor
  3. Guru Dutt

Europe

This section contains 24 articles.

  1. F. W. Murnau
  2. Carl Theodor Dreyer
  3. Fritz Lang
  4. Sergei Eisenstein
  5. Luis Buñuel
  6. Leni Riefenstahl
  7. Ingmar Bergman
  8. Andrei Tarkovsky
  9. Roman Polanski
  10. Werner Herzog
France

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Georges Méliès
  2. Lumière brothers
  3. Jean Cocteau
  4. Jean Renoir
  5. Robert Bresson
  6. Agnès Varda
  7. Jean-Luc Godard
  8. François Truffaut
Italy

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Vittorio De Sica
  2. Michelangelo Antonioni
  3. Federico Fellini
United Kingdom

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Charlie Chaplin (Level 3)
  2. Alfred Hitchcock
  3. David Lean

US and Canada

This section contains 20 articles.

  1. D. W. Griffith
  2. Cecil B. DeMille
  3. John Ford
  4. Buster Keaton
  5. Howard Hawks
  6. Frank Capra
  7. William Wyler
  8. Billy Wilder
  9. Elia Kazan
  10. Orson Welles
  11. Ida Lupino
  12. Stanley Kubrick
  13. Woody Allen
  14. Francis Ford Coppola
  15. Martin Scorsese
  16. George Lucas
  17. David Lynch
  18. Steven Spielberg
  19. James Cameron
  20. Quentin Tarantino

Producers and executives

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Samuel Goldwyn
  2. Louis B. Mayer
  3. Jack L. Warner
  4. Irving Thalberg

Theatre directors

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Konstantin Stanislavski

Businesspeople

This section contains 23 articles.

  1. Marcus Licinius Crassus
  2. Jakob Fugger
  3. Josiah Wedgwood
  4. Rothschild family
  5. Cornelius Vanderbilt
  6. Andrew Carnegie
  7. J. P. Morgan
  8. Jamsetji Tata
  9. John D. Rockefeller
  10. George Westinghouse
  11. Henry Ford (Level 3)
  12. Howard Hughes
  13. Estée Lauder (businesswoman)
  14. Sam Walton
  15. Li Ka-shing
  16. George Soros
  17. Warren Buffett
  18. Rupert Murdoch
  19. Ted Turner
  20. Carlos Slim
  21. Steve Jobs
  22. Bill Gates
  23. Elon Musk

Explorers

This section contains 31 articles.

Ancient

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Hanno the Navigator
  2. Zhang Qian

Post-classical

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Xuanzang
  2. Leif Erikson
  3. Marco Polo
  4. Ibn Battuta
  5. Zheng He
  6. Christopher Columbus (Level 3)
  7. Amerigo Vespucci
  8. Vasco da Gama

Early modern

This section contains 9 articles.

  1. Pedro Álvares Cabral
  2. Juan Ponce de León
  3. Ferdinand Magellan
  4. Jacques Cartier
  5. Hernando de Soto
  6. Willem Barentsz
  7. Abel Tasman
  8. Vitus Bering
  9. James Cook

Modern

This section contains 12 articles.

  1. David Livingstone
  2. Fridtjof Nansen
  3. Robert Falcon Scott
  4. Ernest Shackleton
  5. Roald Amundsen
  6. Amelia Earhart
  7. Charles Lindbergh
  8. Tenzing Norgay
  9. Edmund Hillary
  10. Neil Armstrong
  11. Yuri Gagarin
  12. Valentina Tereshkova

Philosophers, historians, political and social scientists

This section contains 161 articles.

Philosophers

This section contains 72 articles.

Ancient

This section contains 21 articles.

  1. Thales of Miletus
  2. Kaṇāda
  3. Laozi (Level 3)
  4. Heraclitus
  5. Confucius (Level 3)
  6. Socrates (Level 3)
  7. Democritus
  8. Plato (Level 3)
  9. Diogenes
  10. Shang Yang
  11. Aristotle (Level 3)
  12. Mencius
  13. Epicurus
  14. Xunzi (philosopher)
  15. Han Fei
  16. Li Si
  17. Cicero (Level 3)
  18. Lucretius
  19. Seneca the Younger
  20. Plotinus
  21. Augustine of Hippo

Post-classical

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Al-Kindi
  2. Al-Farabi
  3. Peter Abelard
  4. Averroes
  5. Zhu Xi
  6. Thomas Aquinas
  7. Duns Scotus
  8. William of Ockham

Early modern

This section contains 14 articles.

  1. Erasmus
  2. Wang Yangming
  3. Giordano Bruno
  4. Francis Bacon
  5. René Descartes (Level 3)
  6. Baruch Spinoza
  7. George Berkeley
  8. David Hume
  9. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  10. Denis Diderot
  11. Immanuel Kant (Level 3)
  12. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
  13. Jeremy Bentham
  14. Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Modern

This section contains 29 articles.

  1. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  2. Arthur Schopenhauer
  3. Auguste Comte
  4. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  5. John Stuart Mill
  6. Søren Kierkegaard
  7. Henry David Thoreau
  8. Charles Sanders Peirce
  9. William James
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche
  11. Edmund Husserl
  12. Henri Bergson
  13. John Dewey
  14. Alfred North Whitehead
  15. Bertrand Russell
  16. Ludwig Wittgenstein
  17. Martin Heidegger
  18. Karl Popper
  19. Jean-Paul Sartre
  20. Hannah Arendt
  21. Simone de Beauvoir
  22. Isaiah Berlin
  23. Marshall McLuhan
  24. John Rawls
  25. Frantz Fanon
  26. Michel Foucault
  27. Jürgen Habermas
  28. Jacques Derrida
  29. Edward Said

Historians and archaeologists

This section contains 23 articles.

Ancient

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Herodotus
  2. Thucydides
  3. Xenophon
  4. Sima Qian
  5. Josephus
  6. Plutarch
  7. Tacitus
  8. Eusebius

Post-classical

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Bede
  2. Snorri Sturluson
  3. Ibn Khaldun (Level 3)
  4. Jean Froissart

Early modern

This section contains 3 articles.

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

Modern

This section contains 8 articles.

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

Political writers

This section contains 17 articles.

Early modern

This section contains 9 articles.

  1. Niccolò Machiavelli (Level 3)
  2. Hugo Grotius
  3. Thomas Hobbes
  4. John Locke (Level 3)
  5. Montesquieu
  6. Edmund Burke
  7. Thomas Paine
  8. Cesare Beccaria
  9. Mary Wollstonecraft (Level 3)

Modern

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Alexis de Tocqueville
  2. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
  3. Mikhail Bakunin
  4. Herbert Spencer
  5. Friedrich Engels
  6. Peter Kropotkin
  7. Eduard Bernstein
  8. Antonio Gramsci

Economists

This section contains 11 articles.

  1. Adam Smith (Level 3)
  2. Thomas Robert Malthus
  3. David Ricardo
  4. Friedrich List
  5. Karl Marx (Level 3)
  6. Vilfredo Pareto
  7. John Maynard Keynes
  8. Friedrich Hayek
  9. John Kenneth Galbraith
  10. Milton Friedman
  11. Paul Samuelson

Social scientists

This section contains 13 articles.

  1. Émile Durkheim
  2. Franz Boas
  3. Max Weber
  4. Maria Montessori
  5. Marcel Mauss
  6. Bronisław Malinowski
  7. Edward Bernays
  8. Margaret Mead
  9. Talcott Parsons
  10. Theodor W. Adorno
  11. Claude Lévi-Strauss
  12. Clifford Geertz
  13. Pierre Bourdieu

Linguists

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Pāṇini
  2. Noah Webster
  3. Sequoyah
  4. Louis Braille
  5. Ferdinand de Saussure
  6. Noam Chomsky

Psychologists

This section contains 19 articles.

  1. Francis Galton
  2. Wilhelm Wundt
  3. Ivan Pavlov
  4. Sigmund Freud (Level 3)
  5. Edward Thorndike
  6. Carl Jung
  7. John B. Watson
  8. Kurt Lewin
  9. Anna Freud
  10. Jean Piaget
  11. Lev Vygotsky
  12. Gordon Allport
  13. Carl Rogers
  14. Erik Erikson
  15. B. F. Skinner
  16. Abraham Maslow
  17. Albert Ellis
  18. Leon Festinger
  19. Albert Bandura

Religious figures

This section contains 122 articles.

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

Abrahamic religions

This section contains 85 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 59 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
  7. John the Apostle
  8. Mary Magdalene
Pre-Schism

This section contains 21 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
Popes

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Clement of Rome
  2. Pope Leo I
  3. Pope Gregory I
Catholic Church

This section contains 14 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 3 articles.

  1. Pope Pius IX
  2. Pope John XXIII
  3. Pope John Paul II
Orthodox Church

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Patriarch Nikon of Moscow
  2. Grigori Rasputin
Protestantism

This section contains 12 articles.

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

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Joseph Smith
  2. Mary Baker Eddy

Islam

This section contains 19 articles.

Early Islam

This section contains 4 articles.

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

This section contains 4 articles.

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

This section contains 11 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-Ghazali
  8. Ibn Arabi
  9. Al-Nawawi
  10. Ibn Taymiyya
  11. 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 6 articles.

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

This section contains 7 articles.

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

Buddhism

This section contains 14 articles.

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

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Kumārajīva
  2. Bodhidharma
  3. Zhiyi
  4. 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

Theosophy

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Helena Blavatsky

Others

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Zoroaster
  2. Aleister Crowley

Politicians and leaders

This section contains 490 articles.

Ancient

This section contains 72 articles.

Africa

This section contains 12 articles.

  1. Gaiseric
Egypt

This section contains 11 articles.

  1. Narmer
  2. Ahmose I
  3. Hatshepsut
  4. Thutmose III
  5. Akhenaten
  6. Nefertiti
  7. Tutankhamun
  8. Ramesses II (Level 3)
  9. Ramesses III
  10. Ptolemy I Soter
  11. Cleopatra (Level 3)

Asia

This section contains 29 articles.

Central Asia, Iran, Caucasus

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Cyrus the Great (Level 3)
  2. Darius the Great
  3. Xerxes I
Eastern Asia

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Modu Chanyu
  2. Gwanggaeto the Great
China

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Qin Shi Huang (Level 3)
  2. Emperor Gaozu of Han
  3. Emperor Wu of Han
  4. Cao Cao
Southern Asia

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Ajatashatru
  2. Chandragupta Maurya
    1. Chanakya
  3. Ashoka (Level 3)
  4. Menander I
  5. Kanishka
  6. Samudragupta
  7. Chandragupta II
Western Asia

This section contains 12 articles.

  1. Sargon of Akkad
  2. Šuppiluliuma I
  3. Ashurbanipal
  4. Tigranes the Great
  5. Mithridates VI Eupator
  6. Herod the Great
  7. Zenobia
Babylon

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Hammurabi (Level 3)
  2. Nebuchadnezzar II
Hellenistic Kingdoms

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Antigonus I Monophthalmus
  2. Seleucus I Nicator
  3. Antiochus III the Great

Europe

This section contains 31 articles.

Eastern Europe

This section contains 12 articles.

  1. Decebalus
  2. Attila
Greece

This section contains 10 articles.

  1. Lycurgus
  2. Draco (legislator)
  3. Solon
  4. Themistocles
  5. Pericles
  6. Alcibiades
  7. Demosthenes
  8. Philip II of Macedon
  9. Alexander the Great (Level 3)
  10. Pyrrhus of Epirus
Western Europe

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Vercingetorix
  2. Arminius
  3. Boudica
  4. Alaric I
  5. Theodoric I
  6. Theodoric the Great
Rome

This section contains 13 articles.

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

Post-classical

This section contains 130 articles.

Africa

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Abd Allah al-Mahdi Billah
  2. Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah
  3. Baybars
  4. Mansa Musa (Level 3)
  5. Al-Nasir Muhammad
  6. Amda Seyon I
  7. Zara Yaqob
  8. Askia Muhammad I

Americas

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Moctezuma I
  2. Pachacuti

Asia

This section contains 45 articles.

Central Asia, Iran, Caucasus

This section contains 9 articles.

  1. Bumin Qaghan
  2. Khosrow I
  3. Mahmud of Ghazni
  4. Tughril I
  5. Nizam al-Mulk
  6. Muhammad of Ghor
  7. Tamar of Georgia
  8. Timur (Level 3)
  9. Ulugh Beg
East Asia

This section contains 17 articles.

China

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Emperor Wen of Sui
  2. Emperor Taizong of Tang
  3. Wu Zetian
  4. Emperor Xuanzong of Tang
  5. Emperor Taizu of Song
  6. Hongwu Emperor
  7. Yongle Emperor
Korea

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Taejo of Goryeo
  2. Taejo of Joseon
  3. Sejong the Great
Mongol Empire

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Genghis Khan (Level 3)
  2. Jochi
  3. Ögedei Khan
  4. Batu Khan
  5. Kublai Khan
  6. Hulegu Khan
  7. Tokhtamysh
Southeastern Asia

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Anawrahta
  2. Suryavarman II
  3. Jayavarman VII
  4. Ramkhamhaeng
  5. Gajah Mada
  6. Lê Lợi
Southern Asia

This section contains 4 articles.

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

This section contains 9 articles.

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

This section contains 6 articles.

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

Europe

This section contains 75 articles.

Eastern Europe

This section contains 29 articles.

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

This section contains 3 articles.

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

This section contains 6 articles.

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

This section contains 4 articles.

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

This section contains 6 articles.

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

This section contains 6 articles.

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

This section contains 46 articles.

British Isles

This section contains 10 articles.

  1. Alfred the Great
  2. Æthelstan
  3. William the Conqueror
  4. Henry II of England
  5. Richard I of England
  6. John, King of England
  7. Edward I
  8. Robert the Bruce
  9. Edward III
  10. Henry V of England
France

This section contains 9 articles.

  1. Clovis I
  2. Charles Martel
  3. Charlemagne (Level 3)
  4. Louis the Pious
  5. Eleanor of Aquitaine
  6. Philip II of France
  7. Louis IX of France
  8. Philip IV of France
  9. Louis XI
Germany, Holy Roman Empire

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Charles the Fat
  2. Otto the Great
  3. Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor
  4. Frederick Barbarossa
  5. Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
  6. Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor
  7. Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor
  8. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
Iberia

This section contains 6 articles.

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

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Robert Guiscard
  2. Roger II of Sicily
  3. Cosimo de' Medici
  4. Lorenzo de' Medici
  5. Cesare Borgia
Papal States

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Pope Gregory VII
  2. Pope Urban II
  3. Pope Innocent III
  4. Pope Boniface VIII
  5. Pope Alexander VI
  6. Pope Julius II
Scandinavia

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Cnut
  2. Margaret I of Denmark

Early modern

This section contains 98 articles.

Africa

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi
  2. Ahmad al-Mansur
  3. Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba
  4. Andrianampoinimerina

Americas

This section contains 9 articles.

Aztec

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Moctezuma II
  2. La Malinche
Haiti

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Toussaint Louverture
Inca

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Atahualpa
  2. Túpac Amaru
  3. Túpac Amaru II
United States

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Benjamin Franklin
  2. George Washington (Level 3)
  3. Thomas Jefferson

Asia and Oceania

This section contains 40 articles.

Central Asia, Iran, Caucasus

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Ismail I
  2. Abbas the Great
  3. Nader Shah
  4. Ahmad Shah Durrani
China

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Jiajing Emperor
  2. Nurhaci
  3. Wanli Emperor
  4. Hong Taiji
  5. Kangxi Emperor
  6. Qianlong Emperor
Japan

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Oda Nobunaga
  2. Toyotomi Hideyoshi
  3. Tokugawa Ieyasu
Korea

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Seonjo of Joseon
  2. Jeongjo of Joseon
Southeastern Asia

This section contains 7 articles.

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

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Bayinnaung
  2. Tabinshwehti
  3. Alaungpaya
Southern Asia

This section contains 12 articles.

  1. Krishnadevaraya
  2. Sher Shah Suri
  3. Babur
  4. Humayun
  5. Akbar (Level 3)
  6. Shah Jahan
  7. Aurangzeb
  8. Shivaji
  9. Hyder Ali
  10. Prithvi Narayan Shah
  11. Robert Clive
  12. Tipu Sultan
Western Asia

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Selim I
  2. Suleiman the Magnificent (Level 3)
  3. Hürrem Sultan
  4. Mehmed IV
  5. Selim III
Oceania

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Kamehameha I

Europe

This section contains 45 articles.

Eastern Europe

This section contains 10 articles.

  1. Bohdan Khmelnytsky
Poland and Lithuania

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Stephen Báthory
  2. Sigismund III Vasa
  3. John III Sobieski
  4. Augustus II the Strong
Russia

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Ivan the Terrible
  2. Alexis of Russia
  3. Peter the Great
  4. Elizabeth of Russia
  5. Catherine the Great (Level 3)
Western Europe

This section contains 35 articles.

  1. William the Silent
France

This section contains 9 articles.

  1. Francis I of France
  2. Catherine de' Medici
  3. Henry IV of France
  4. Cardinal Richelieu
  5. Cardinal Mazarin
  6. Louis XIV
  7. Louis XV
  8. Louis XVI
  9. Marie Antoinette
Great Britain and United Kingdom

This section contains 12 articles.

  1. Henry VIII
  2. Mary I
  3. Elizabeth I (Level 3)
  4. Mary, Queen of Scots
  5. James VI and I
  6. Oliver Cromwell
  7. Charles I of England
  8. William III of England
  9. Robert Walpole
  10. William Blackstone
  11. George III
  12. William Pitt the Younger
Holy Roman Empire, Austria

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
  2. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor
  3. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor
  4. Maria Theresa
  5. Joseph II
Prussia, Germany

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Frederick William I of Prussia
  2. Frederick the Great
Scandinavia

This section contains 3 articles.

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

This section contains 3 articles.

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

Modern

This section contains 190 articles.

Africa

This section contains 35 articles.

Central Africa

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Patrice Lumumba
  2. Mobutu Sese Seko
  3. Paul Biya
Eastern Africa

This section contains 12 articles.

  1. Ranavalona I
  2. Jomo Kenyatta
  3. Hastings Banda
  4. Julius Nyerere
  5. Kenneth Kaunda
  6. Idi Amin
  7. Samora Machel
  8. Paul Kagame
Ethiopia

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Tewodros II
  2. Yohannes IV
  3. Menelik II
  4. Haile Selassie
Northern Africa

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Emir Abdelkader
  2. Muhammad Ahmad
  3. Muammar Gaddafi
Egypt

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Muhammad Ali of Egypt
  2. Isma'il Pasha of Egypt
  3. Gamal Abdel Nasser
  4. Anwar Sadat
Southern Africa

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Shaka
  2. Cecil Rhodes
  3. Nelson Mandela (Level 3)
  4. Agostinho Neto
  5. Robert Mugabe
Western Africa

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Léopold Sédar Senghor
  2. Nnamdi Azikiwe
  3. Félix Houphouët-Boigny
  4. Kwame Nkrumah
  5. Olusegun Obasanjo
  6. Kofi Annan
  7. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  8. Thomas Sankara

Americas

This section contains 37 articles.

South America

This section contains 11 articles.

  1. José de San Martín
  2. Simón Bolívar (Level 3)
  3. Antonio José de Sucre
  4. Juan Perón
  5. Salvador Allende
  6. Alfredo Stroessner
  7. Augusto Pinochet
  8. Hugo Chávez
Brazil

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Pedro I of Brazil
  2. Pedro II of Brazil
  3. Getúlio Vargas
Central America and the Caribbean

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Francisco Morazán
  2. Rafael Trujillo
  3. François Duvalier
  4. Fidel Castro
Mexico

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Antonio López de Santa Anna
  2. Benito Juárez
  3. Porfirio Díaz
United States

This section contains 17 articles.

  1. Andrew Jackson
  2. Tecumseh
  3. Abraham Lincoln (Level 3)
  4. Sitting Bull
  5. Woodrow Wilson
  6. Theodore Roosevelt
  7. Franklin D. Roosevelt
  8. Harry S. Truman
  9. Eleanor Roosevelt
  10. Dwight D. Eisenhower
  11. Lyndon B. Johnson
  12. Ronald Reagan
  13. Richard Nixon
  14. John F. Kennedy
  15. Donald Trump
  16. George W. Bush
  17. Barack Obama
Canada

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. John A. Macdonald
  2. Pierre Trudeau

Asia and Oceania

This section contains 58 articles.

Central Asia, Iran, Caucasus

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Mohammad Mosaddegh
  2. Ruhollah Khomeini
  3. Mohammad Zahir Shah
  4. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
  5. Eduard Shevardnadze
China

This section contains 10 articles.

  1. Empress Dowager Cixi
  2. Chiang Kai-shek
  3. Soong Ching-ling
  4. Mao Zedong (Level 3)
  5. Zhou Enlai
  6. Deng Xiaoping
  7. Puyi
  8. Jiang Qing
  9. Jiang Zemin
  10. Xi Jinping
Japan

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Itō Hirobumi
  2. Emperor Meiji
  3. Hideki Tojo
  4. Eisaku Satō
  5. Hirohito
  6. Shinzo Abe
Korea

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Syngman Rhee
  2. Kim Il Sung
  3. Park Chung Hee
Southeastern Asia

This section contains 12 articles.

  1. Chulalongkorn
  2. Ho Chi Minh
  3. Sukarno
  4. Tunku Abdul Rahman
  5. Ne Win
  6. Ferdinand Marcos
  7. Suharto
  8. Lee Kuan Yew
  9. Pol Pot
  10. Mahathir Mohamad
  11. Bhumibol Adulyadej
  12. Corazon Aquino
Southern Asia

This section contains 11 articles.

  1. Muhammad Ali Jinnah
  2. D. S. Senanayake
  3. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
  4. Benazir Bhutto
India

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
  2. Vallabhbhai Patel
  3. Jawaharlal Nehru
  4. Indira Gandhi
  5. Atal Bihari Vajpayee
  6. Manmohan Singh
  7. Narendra Modi
Western Asia

This section contains 11 articles.

  1. Ibn Saud
  2. David Ben-Gurion
  3. Yasser Arafat
  4. Saddam Hussein
  5. Benjamin Netanyahu
  6. Ali Abdullah Saleh
Ottoman Empire and Turkey

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Mahmud II
  2. Abdul Hamid II
  3. Talaat Pasha
  4. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  5. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Europe

This section contains 60 articles.

Central Europe

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
  2. Klemens von Metternich
  3. Franz Joseph I
  4. Józef Piłsudski
  5. Alexander Dubček
  6. Václav Havel
  7. Lech Wałęsa
Southeastern Europe

This section contains 5 articles.

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

This section contains 12 articles.

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

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
  2. Dag Hammarskjöld
Western Europe

This section contains 34 articles.

  1. Leopold II of Belgium
France

This section contains 7 articles.

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

This section contains 10 articles.

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

This section contains 3 articles.

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

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Éamon de Valera
  2. Michael Collins (Irish leader)
Italy

This section contains 2 articles.

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

This section contains 9 articles.

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

Military leaders and theorists

This section contains 53 articles.

Ancient

This section contains 9 articles.

Africa

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Hannibal

Asia

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Sun Tzu
  2. Zhuge Liang

Europe

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Leonidas I
  2. Scipio Africanus
  3. Sulla
  4. Pompey
  5. Mark Antony
  6. Flavius Aetius

Post-classical

This section contains 11 articles.

  1. Khalid ibn al-Walid
  2. Amr ibn al-As
  3. El Cid
  4. Godfrey of Bouillon
  5. Subutai
  6. Trần Hưng Đạo
  7. Jan Žižka
  8. Skanderbeg
  9. John Hunyadi
  10. Joan of Arc
  11. Afonso de Albuquerque

Early modern

This section contains 12 articles.

Asia

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Yi Sun-sin
  2. Miyamoto Musashi

Europe

This section contains 10 articles.

  1. Hayreddin Barbarossa
  2. Francisco Pizarro
  3. Hernán Cortés
  4. Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba
  5. Francis Drake
  6. Michiel de Ruyter
  7. John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
  8. Prince Eugene of Savoy
  9. Alexander Suvorov
  10. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson

Modern

This section contains 21 articles.

Americas

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Ulysses S. Grant
  2. John J. Pershing
  3. Douglas MacArthur
  4. George C. Marshall

Asia

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Enver Pasha
  2. Isoroku Yamamoto
  3. Võ Nguyên Giáp

Europe

This section contains 14 articles.

  1. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
  2. Carl von Clausewitz
  3. Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
  4. Giuseppe Garibaldi
  5. Paul von Hindenburg
  6. Ferdinand Foch
  7. Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
  8. Erich Ludendorff
  9. Bernard Montgomery
  10. T. E. Lawrence
  11. Erwin Rommel
  12. Hermann Göring
  13. Georgy Zhukov
  14. Heinrich Himmler

Rebels, revolutionaries and activists

This section contains 54 articles.

Ancient

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Spartacus
  2. Trưng sisters

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 2 articles.

  1. Bartolomé de las Casas
  2. Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla

Europe

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Thomas Müntzer
  2. Yemelyan Pugachev
  3. William Wilberforce
France

This section contains 3 articles.

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

Modern

This section contains 41 articles.

Americas

This section contains 21 articles.

  1. Louis Riel
  2. Marcus Garvey
  3. Che Guevara
Mexico

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Pancho Villa
  2. Emiliano Zapata
United States

This section contains 16 articles.

  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. W. E. B. Du Bois
  10. Margaret Sanger
  11. Helen Keller
  12. Rosa Parks
  13. Betty Friedan
  14. Malcolm X
  15. Martin Luther King Jr.
  16. Harvey Milk

Africa

This section contains 3 articles.

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

Asia

This section contains 12 articles.

  1. Diponegoro
  2. Hong Xiuquan
  3. José Rizal
  4. Sun Yat-sen
  5. Aung San
  6. Aung San Suu Kyi
  7. Osama bin Laden
India

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi
  2. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
  3. Mahatma Gandhi (Level 3)
  4. B. R. Ambedkar
  5. Subhas Chandra Bose

Europe

This section contains 5 articles.

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

Scientists, inventors and mathematicians

This section contains 260 articles.

Pre-modern figures

This section contains 30 articles.

Ancient history

This section contains 15 articles.

  1. Pythagoras
  2. Hippocrates (Level 3)
  3. Euclid (Level 3)
  4. Archimedes (Level 3)
  5. Eratosthenes
  6. Apollonius of Perga
  7. Hipparchus
  8. Pliny the Elder
  9. Cai Lun
  10. Hero of Alexandria
  11. Zhang Heng
  12. Ptolemy
  13. Galen
  14. Diophantus
  15. Hypatia

Post-classical history

This section contains 15 articles.

  1. Aryabhata
  2. Brahmagupta
  3. Jabir ibn Hayyan
  4. Al-Khwarizmi (Level 3)
  5. Abu Bakr al-Razi
  6. Ibn al-Haytham
  7. Al-Zahrawi
  8. Al-Biruni
  9. Avicenna (Level 3)
  10. Su Song
  11. Shen Kuo (Level 3)
  12. Bhāskara II
  13. Fibonacci
  14. Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
  15. Johannes Gutenberg (Level 3)

Physics

This section contains 58 articles.

Early modern

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. William Gilbert (physicist)
  2. Christiaan Huygens
  3. Robert Hooke
  4. Isaac Newton (Level 3)
  5. Mikhail Lomonosov
  6. Henry Cavendish

Modern

This section contains 46 articles.

  1. Thomas Young (scientist)
  2. André-Marie Ampère
  3. Amedeo Avogadro
  4. Hans Christian Ørsted
  5. Augustin-Jean Fresnel
  6. Georg Ohm
  7. Michael Faraday (Level 3)
  8. Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
  9. James Prescott Joule
  10. Léon Foucault
  11. Hermann von Helmholtz
  12. Gustav Kirchhoff
  13. Lord Kelvin
  14. James Clerk Maxwell (Level 3)
  15. Johannes Diderik van der Waals
  16. Ernst Mach
  17. Ludwig Boltzmann
  18. Wilhelm Röntgen
  19. Henri Becquerel
  20. Albert A. Michelson
  21. Hendrik Lorentz
  22. J. J. Thomson
  23. Heinrich Hertz
  24. Max Planck
  25. Pierre Curie
  26. William Henry Bragg
  27. Marie Curie (Level 3)
  28. Robert Millikan
  29. Ernest Rutherford
  30. Lise Meitner
  31. Albert Einstein (Level 3)
  32. Max Born
  33. Niels Bohr
  34. Erwin Schrödinger
  35. C. V. Raman
  36. James Chadwick
  37. Louis de Broglie
  38. Satyendra Nath Bose
  39. Wolfgang Pauli
  40. Ernest Lawrence
  41. Enrico Fermi
  42. Werner Heisenberg
  43. Paul Dirac
  44. J. Robert Oppenheimer
  45. Hans Bethe
  46. Edward Teller

Contemporary

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Chien-Shiung Wu
  2. Richard Feynman
  3. Andrei Sakharov
  4. Yang Chen-Ning
  5. Murray Gell-Mann
  6. Stephen Hawking

Astronomy

This section contains 10 articles.

  1. Nicolaus Copernicus (Level 3)
  2. Tycho Brahe
  3. Galileo Galilei (Level 3)
  4. Johannes Kepler
  5. Edmond Halley
  6. William Herschel
  7. Caroline Herschel
  8. Edwin Hubble
  9. Georges Lemaître
  10. Carl Sagan

Chemistry

This section contains 23 articles.

Early modern

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Robert Boyle
  2. Joseph Priestley
  3. Antoine Lavoisier (Level 3)
  4. John Dalton

Modern

This section contains 19 articles.

  1. Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
  2. Humphry Davy
  3. Jöns Jacob Berzelius
  4. Friedrich Wöhler
  5. Justus von Liebig
  6. Dmitri Mendeleev (Level 3)
  7. Josiah Willard Gibbs
  8. Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
  9. Svante Arrhenius
  10. Fritz Haber
  11. Gilbert N. Lewis
  12. Otto Hahn
  13. Irving Langmuir
  14. Peter Debye
  15. Harold Urey
  16. Linus Pauling
  17. Dorothy Hodgkin
  18. Robert Burns Woodward
  19. Frederick Sanger

Biology

This section contains 27 articles.

Early modern

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
  2. Carl Linnaeus
  3. Joseph Banks
  4. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Modern

This section contains 23 articles.

  1. Georges Cuvier
  2. John James Audubon
  3. Louis Agassiz
  4. Charles Darwin (Level 3)
  5. Joseph Dalton Hooker
  6. Gregor Mendel
  7. Alfred Russel Wallace
  8. Thomas Henry Huxley
  9. Ernst Haeckel
  10. Santiago Ramón y Cajal
  11. George Washington Carver
  12. Alfred Kinsey
  13. Hans Krebs (biochemist)
  14. Barbara McClintock
  15. Konrad Lorenz
  16. Rachel Carson
  17. Norman Borlaug
  18. Francis Crick
  19. Rosalind Franklin
  20. James Watson
  21. Jane Goodall
  22. W. D. Hamilton
  23. Stephen Jay Gould

Medicine

This section contains 15 articles.

Early modern

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Paracelsus
  2. Andreas Vesalius
  3. William Harvey
  4. Luigi Galvani
  5. Edward Jenner

Modern

This section contains 10 articles.

  1. Claude Bernard
  2. John Snow
  3. Ignaz Semmelweis
  4. Florence Nightingale (Level 3)
  5. Rudolf Virchow
  6. Louis Pasteur (Level 3)
  7. Joseph Lister
  8. Robert Koch
  9. Alexander Fleming
  10. Jonas Salk

Earth science and physical geography

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. James Hutton
  2. Alexander von Humboldt
  3. Charles Lyell
  4. Alfred Wegener
  5. Jacques Cousteau

Inventors and engineers

This section contains 32 articles.

Early modern

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. James Watt
  2. Montgolfier brothers
  3. Alessandro Volta
  4. Nicéphore Niépce
  5. Robert Fulton

Modern

This section contains 27 articles.

  1. George Stephenson
  2. Louis Daguerre
  3. Samuel Morse
  4. Isambard Kingdom Brunel
  5. Nicolaus Otto
  6. Gustave Eiffel
  7. Alfred Nobel
  8. Carl Benz
  9. Thomas Edison (Level 3)
  10. Alexander Graham Bell
  11. Emile Berliner
  12. George Eastman
  13. Nikola Tesla
  14. Rudolf Diesel
  15. Leo Baekeland
  16. Wright brothers
  17. Lee de Forest
  18. Guglielmo Marconi
  19. Robert H. Goddard
  20. John Logie Baird
  21. Philo Farnsworth
  22. Sergei Korolev
  23. John Bardeen
  24. William Shockley
  25. Wernher von Braun
  26. Jack Kilby
  27. Charles K. Kao

Mathematicians

This section contains 48 articles.

Early modern

This section contains 13 articles.

  1. Gerolamo Cardano
  2. Pierre de Fermat
  3. Blaise Pascal
  4. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  5. Jacob Bernoulli
  6. Johann Bernoulli
  7. Daniel Bernoulli
  8. Leonhard Euler (Level 3)
  9. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
  10. Joseph-Louis Lagrange
  11. Gaspard Monge
  12. Adrien-Marie Legendre
  13. Pierre-Simon Laplace

Modern

This section contains 35 articles.

  1. Joseph Fourier
  2. Carl Friedrich Gauss (Level 3)
  3. Siméon Denis Poisson
  4. Augustin-Louis Cauchy
  5. Nikolai Lobachevsky
  6. Niels Henrik Abel
  7. Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
  8. Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
  9. William Rowan Hamilton
  10. Évariste Galois
  11. Karl Weierstrass
  12. George Boole
  13. Arthur Cayley
  14. Charles Hermite
  15. Bernhard Riemann
  16. Richard Dedekind
  17. Georg Cantor
  18. Gottlob Frege
  19. Sofya Kovalevskaya
  20. Henri Poincaré
  21. Karl Pearson
  22. David Hilbert
  23. G. H. Hardy
  24. Emmy Noether
  25. Hermann Weyl
  26. Srinivasa Ramanujan
  27. Ronald Fisher
  28. Stefan Banach
  29. Alfred Tarski
  30. Andrey Kolmogorov
  31. John von Neumann
  32. Kurt Gödel
  33. Claude Shannon
  34. Benoit Mandelbrot
  35. Alexander Grothendieck

Computer scientists

This section contains 12 articles.

  1. Charles Babbage
  2. Ada Lovelace
  3. Grace Hopper
  4. Konrad Zuse
  5. Alan Turing (Level 3)
  6. Douglas Engelbart
  7. Edsger W. Dijkstra
  8. Donald Knuth
  9. Dennis Ritchie
  10. Steve Wozniak
  11. Tim Berners-Lee
  12. Linus Torvalds

Sports figures

This section contains 62 articles.

Individual sports

This section contains 40 articles.

Athletics

This section contains 9 articles.

  1. Pierre de Coubertin
  2. Paavo Nurmi
  3. Jesse Owens
  4. Fanny Blankers-Koen
  5. Wilma Rudolph
  6. Florence Griffith Joyner
  7. Carl Lewis
  8. Haile Gebrselassie
  9. Usain Bolt

Auto racing

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Enzo Ferrari
  2. Juan Manuel Fangio
  3. Michael Schumacher

Body-building

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Arnold Schwarzenegger

Boxing

This section contains 3 articles.

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

Chess

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Bobby Fischer
  2. Garry Kasparov

Cycling

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Eddy Merckx

Figure skating

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Sonja Henie
  2. Yuzuru Hanyu

Golf

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Jack Nicklaus
  2. Tiger Woods

Gymnastics

This section contains 3 articles.

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

Martial arts

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Kanō Jigorō
  2. Bruce Lee

Swimming

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Johnny Weissmuller
  2. Michael Phelps

Tennis

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Rod Laver
  2. Margaret Court
  3. Martina Navratilova
  4. Steffi Graf
  5. Roger Federer
  6. Serena Williams
  7. Novak Djokovic

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 22 articles.

American football

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Tom Brady

Association football

This section contains 9 articles.

  1. Alfredo Di Stéfano
  2. Pelé
  3. Franz Beckenbauer
  4. Johan Cruyff
  5. Diego Maradona
  6. Zinedine Zidane
  7. Cristiano Ronaldo
  8. Marta (footballer)
  9. Lionel Messi

Baseball

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Babe Ruth
  2. Jackie Robinson

Basketball

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  2. Michael Jordan
  3. LeBron James

Cricket

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. W. G. Grace
  2. Don Bradman
  3. Sachin Tendulkar

Field hockey

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Dhyan Chand

Ice hockey

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Gordie Howe
  2. Wayne Gretzky

Rugby union

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Jonah Lomu

Criminals

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Blackbeard
  2. Jack the Ripper
  3. Al Capone
  4. Pablo Escobar