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People
[edit]This section contains 1982 articles.
Entertainers
[edit]This section contains 87 articles.
Actors
[edit]This section contains 56 articles.
Asia
[edit]This section contains 6 articles.
Europe
[edit]This section contains 20 articles.
Rudolph Valentino
Marlene Dietrich
Greta Garbo
Ingrid Bergman
Marcello Mastroianni
Klaus Kinski
Sophia Loren
France
[edit]This section contains 5 articles.
United Kingdom
[edit]This section contains 8 articles.
John Gielgud
Laurence Olivier
Vivien Leigh
Alec Guinness
Audrey Hepburn
Sean Connery
Peter O'Toole
Julie Andrews
United States
[edit]This section contains 30 articles.
Mary Pickford
Lillian Gish
Humphrey Bogart
Spencer Tracy
Clark Gable
Gary Cooper
Cary Grant
Joan Crawford
Henry Fonda
Katharine Hepburn
John Wayne
Barbara Stanwyck
Bette Davis
James Stewart
Gregory Peck
Rita Hayworth
Doris Day
Judy Garland
Marlon Brando
Lauren Bacall
Marilyn Monroe
Sidney Poitier
Shirley Temple
Grace Kelly
Clint Eastwood
Elizabeth Taylor
Jack Nicholson
Robert De Niro
Meryl Streep
Tom Hanks
Dancers and choreographers
[edit]This section contains 15 articles.
Ballet
[edit]This section contains 7 articles.
Marius Petipa
Anna Pavlova
Vaslav Nijinsky
George Balanchine
Margot Fonteyn
Rudolf Nureyev
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Other dance
[edit]This section contains 8 articles.
Comedians
[edit]This section contains 10 articles.
Hosts and performers
[edit]This section contains 6 articles.
Visual artists
[edit]This section contains 123 articles.
Western painters and illustrators
[edit]This section contains 71 articles.
Pre-Renaissance
[edit]This section contains 1 article.
Renaissance to early modern era
[edit]This section contains 22 articles.
Jan van Eyck
Masaccio
Sandro Botticelli
Hieronymus Bosch
Leonardo da Vinci (Level 3)
Albrecht Dürer
Titian
Raphael
Hans Holbein the Younger
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
El Greco
Caravaggio
Peter Paul Rubens
Artemisia Gentileschi
Nicolas Poussin
Diego Velázquez
Rembrandt (Level 3)
Johannes Vermeer
Antoine Watteau
William Hogarth
Francisco Goya
Jacques-Louis David
Modern era
[edit]This section contains 40 articles.
Caspar David Friedrich
J. M. W. Turner
John Constable
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Eugène Delacroix
Gustave Courbet
Camille Pissarro
Édouard Manet
James McNeill Whistler
Edgar Degas
Paul Cézanne
Claude Monet
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Henri Rousseau
Ilya Repin
Paul Gauguin
Vincent van Gogh (Level 3)
John Singer Sargent
Georges Seurat
Edvard Munch
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Wassily Kandinsky
Henri Matisse
Piet Mondrian
Kazimir Malevich
Paul Klee
Franz Marc
Pablo Picasso (Level 3)
Edward Hopper
Diego Rivera
Marc Chagall
Georgia O'Keeffe
Max Ernst
Joan Miró
René Magritte
Salvador Dalí
Frida Kahlo
Jackson Pollock
Andy Warhol
Gerhard Richter
Comics and manga artists, print cartoonists and illustrators
[edit]This section contains 8 articles.
Other visual arts
[edit]This section contains 47 articles.
Sculptors
[edit]This section contains 10 articles.
Phidias
Donatello
Michelangelo (Level 3)
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Auguste Rodin
Constantin Brâncuși
Marcel Duchamp
Henry Moore
Alberto Giacometti
Joseph Beuys
Architects
[edit]This section contains 22 articles.
Imhotep
Vitruvius
Filippo Brunelleschi
Leon Battista Alberti
Mimar Sinan
Andrea Palladio
Christopher Wren
Antoni Gaudí
Louis Sullivan
Frank Lloyd Wright
Walter Gropius
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Le Corbusier
Buckminster Fuller
Alvar Aalto
Louis Kahn
Albert Speer
Philip Johnson
Oscar Niemeyer
I. M. Pei
Frank Gehry
Zaha Hadid
Designers
[edit]This section contains 4 articles.
Photographers
[edit]This section contains 6 articles.
Instrument makers
[edit]This section contains 1 article.
Urban planners and landscape architects
[edit]This section contains 4 articles.
Non-Western art
[edit]This section contains 5 articles.
Writers
[edit]This section contains 252 articles.
Ancient
[edit]This section contains 18 articles.
Asia
[edit]This section contains 3 articles.
Europe
[edit]This section contains 15 articles.
Greece
[edit]This section contains 8 articles.
Ancient Rome
[edit]This section contains 7 articles.
Post-classical
[edit]This section contains 27 articles.
Asia
[edit]This section contains 20 articles.
Eastern Asia
[edit]This section contains 8 articles.
Southern Asia
[edit]This section contains 3 articles.
Western Asia
[edit]This section contains 9 articles.
Europe
[edit]This section contains 7 articles.
Early modern
[edit]This section contains 37 articles.
Asia
[edit]This section contains 6 articles.
Europe
[edit]This section contains 31 articles.
Luís de Camões
Miguel de Cervantes (Level 3)
Lope de Vega
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Giacomo Casanova
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Friedrich Schiller
France
[edit]This section contains 9 articles.
François Rabelais
Nostradamus
Michel de Montaigne
Pierre Corneille
Molière
Charles Perrault
Jean Racine
Voltaire (Level 3)
Marquis de Sade
Great Britain and Ireland
[edit]This section contains 15 articles.
Modern
[edit]This section contains 170 articles.
Africa
[edit]This section contains 7 articles.
Americas
[edit]This section contains 46 articles.
Caribbean
[edit]This section contains 1 article.
US and Canada
[edit]This section contains 36 articles.
Edgar Allan Poe
Walt Whitman
Herman Melville
Emily Dickinson
Mark Twain
Henry James
Edith Wharton
Robert Frost
Upton Sinclair
Jack London
Ezra Pound
Raymond Chandler
T. S. Eliot
H. P. Lovecraft
F. Scott Fitzgerald
William Faulkner
Ernest Hemingway
Langston Hughes
John Steinbeck
Dr. Seuss
Robert A. Heinlein
Tennessee Williams
Saul Bellow
Arthur Miller
Isaac Asimov
Ray Bradbury
Jack Kerouac
Kurt Vonnegut
Stan Lee
Allen Ginsberg
Maya Angelou
Ursula K. Le Guin
Toni Morrison
Sylvia Plath
Margaret Atwood
Stephen King
Latin America
[edit]This section contains 9 articles.
Machado de Assis
José Martí
Jorge Luis Borges
Pablo Neruda
Alejo Carpentier
Jorge Amado
Gabriel García Márquez
Carlos Fuentes
Mario Vargas Llosa
Asia
[edit]This section contains 16 articles.
Central Asia
[edit]This section contains 1 article.
Eastern Asia
[edit]This section contains 9 articles.
Natsume Sōseki
Lu Xun
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Lao She
Yasunari Kawabata
Jin Yong
Yukio Mishima
Kenzaburō Ōe
Haruki Murakami
Southern Asia
[edit]This section contains 4 articles.
Western Asia
[edit]This section contains 2 articles.
Europe
[edit]This section contains 99 articles.
Eastern Europe
[edit]This section contains 26 articles.
Adam Mickiewicz
Taras Shevchenko
Sándor Petőfi
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Joseph Conrad
Constantine P. Cavafy
Tristan Tzara
Elie Wiesel
Ismail Kadare
Russia
[edit]This section contains 17 articles.
Alexander Pushkin
Nikolai Gogol
Mikhail Lermontov
Ivan Turgenev
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Leo Tolstoy (Level 3)
Anton Chekhov
Maxim Gorky
Ivan Bunin
Anna Akhmatova
Boris Pasternak
Mikhail Bulgakov
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Vladimir Nabokov
Mikhail Sholokhov
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Joseph Brodsky
Western Europe
[edit]This section contains 73 articles.
France
[edit]This section contains 16 articles.
Stendhal
Honoré de Balzac
Victor Hugo
Alexandre Dumas
Charles Baudelaire
Gustave Flaubert
Jules Verne
Émile Zola
Stéphane Mallarmé
Guy de Maupassant
Arthur Rimbaud
André Gide
Marcel Proust
Antonin Artaud
Eugène Ionesco
Albert Camus
Germany and Austria
[edit]This section contains 7 articles.
Brothers Grimm
Heinrich Heine
Thomas Mann
Rainer Maria Rilke
Hermann Hesse
Franz Kafka
Bertolt Brecht
Nordic countries
[edit]This section contains 8 articles.
Hans Christian Andersen
Henrik Ibsen
August Strindberg
Selma Lagerlöf
Knut Hamsun
Karen Blixen
Halldór Laxness
Astrid Lindgren
UK and Ireland
[edit]This section contains 36 articles.
William Wordsworth
Walter Scott
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Jane Austen
Lord Byron
Percy Bysshe Shelley
John Keats
Mary Shelley
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Charles Dickens
Brontë family
George Eliot
Lewis Carroll
Thomas Hardy
Robert Louis Stevenson
Oscar Wilde
George Bernard Shaw
Arthur Conan Doyle
W. B. Yeats
Rudyard Kipling
H. G. Wells
Virginia Woolf
James Joyce
D. H. Lawrence
Agatha Christie
J. R. R. Tolkien
Enid Blyton
C. S. Lewis
George Orwell
Samuel Beckett
William Golding
Dylan Thomas
Roald Dahl
Arthur C. Clarke
Salman Rushdie
Kazuo Ishiguro
Oceania
[edit]This section contains 2 articles.
Journalists
[edit]This section contains 13 articles.
Musicians and composers
[edit]This section contains 150 articles.
Western art music
[edit]This section contains 71 articles.
Composers
[edit]This section contains 53 articles.
Medieval and Renaissance
[edit]This section contains 5 articles.
Hildegard of Bingen
Guillaume de Machaut
Guillaume Du Fay
Josquin des Prez
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Baroque
[edit]This section contains 5 articles.
Claudio Monteverdi
Henry Purcell
Antonio Vivaldi
George Frideric Handel
Johann Sebastian Bach (Level 3)
Classical
[edit]This section contains 3 articles.
Romantic
[edit]This section contains 18 articles.
Gioachino Rossini
Franz Schubert
Hector Berlioz
Felix Mendelssohn
Frédéric Chopin
Robert Schumann
Franz Liszt
Richard Wagner
Giuseppe Verdi
Anton Bruckner
Johann Strauss II
Johannes Brahms
Modest Mussorgsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Antonín Dvořák
Gilbert and Sullivan
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Edward Elgar
Post-romantic/early modern
[edit]This section contains 8 articles.
Gabriel Fauré
Giacomo Puccini
Gustav Mahler
Claude Debussy
Richard Strauss
Jean Sibelius
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Maurice Ravel
20th century modern
[edit]This section contains 9 articles.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Arnold Schoenberg
Béla Bartók
Igor Stravinsky
Sergei Prokofiev
George Gershwin
Aaron Copland
Dmitri Shostakovich
Benjamin Britten
Avant-garde/postmodern
[edit]This section contains 5 articles.
Pedagogues
[edit]This section contains 1 article.
Performers
[edit]This section contains 17 articles.
Cellists
[edit]This section contains 2 articles.
Conductors
[edit]This section contains 3 articles.
Pianists
[edit]This section contains 5 articles.
Singers
[edit]This section contains 6 articles.
Enrico Caruso
Maria Callas
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Joan Sutherland
Luciano Pavarotti
Plácido Domingo
Violinists
[edit]This section contains 1 article.
Non-Western art music
[edit]This section contains 7 articles.
Carnatic classical
[edit]This section contains 3 articles.
Hindustani classical
[edit]This section contains 2 articles.
Qawwali
[edit]This section contains 1 article.
Persian traditional
[edit]This section contains 1 article.
Jazz
[edit]This section contains 10 articles.
Popular music
[edit]This section contains 62 articles.
Popular music: general
[edit]This section contains 9 articles.
Stephen Foster
Bing Crosby
Frank Sinatra
Miriam Makeba
Bob Marley
ABBA
Madonna
Michael Jackson (Level 3)
Taylor Swift
Non-English language popular music
[edit]This section contains 11 articles.
Umm Kulthum
Édith Piaf
Astor Piazzolla
Charles Aznavour
Serge Gainsbourg
Lata Mangeshkar
Vladimir Vysotsky
Julio Iglesias
Paco de Lucía
Teresa Teng
Selena
Blues, R&B, soul and funk
[edit]This section contains 10 articles.
Robert Johnson
B. B. King
Ray Charles
James Brown
Fela Kuti
Marvin Gaye
Aretha Franklin
The Supremes
Stevie Wonder
Prince (musician)
Electronic music
[edit]This section contains 2 articles.
Folk and country
[edit]This section contains 5 articles.
Hip-hop and rap
[edit]This section contains 3 articles.
Musical theatre and film
[edit]This section contains 3 articles.
Rock
[edit]This section contains 19 articles.
Directors, producers and screenwriters
[edit]This section contains 60 articles.
Animators and puppeteers
[edit]This section contains 3 articles.
Directors
[edit]This section contains 53 articles.
Africa
[edit]This section contains 1 article.
Asia
[edit]This section contains 8 articles.
Europe
[edit]This section contains 24 articles.
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Fritz Lang
Sergei Eisenstein
Charlie Chaplin (Level 3)
Alfred Hitchcock
Luis Buñuel
Vittorio De Sica
Leni Riefenstahl
David Lean
Michelangelo Antonioni
Ingmar Bergman
Federico Fellini
Miloš Forman
Andrei Tarkovsky
Roman Polanski
Werner Herzog
France
[edit]This section contains 8 articles.
Georges Méliès
Auguste and Louis Lumière
Jean Cocteau
Jean Renoir
Robert Bresson
Agnès Varda
Jean-Luc Godard
François Truffaut
United States/Canada
[edit]This section contains 20 articles.
D. W. Griffith
Cecil B. DeMille
John Ford
Buster Keaton
Howard Hawks
Frank Capra
William Wyler
Billy Wilder
Elia Kazan
Orson Welles
Ida Lupino
Stanley Kubrick
Woody Allen
Francis Ford Coppola
Martin Scorsese
George Lucas
David Lynch
Steven Spielberg
James Cameron
Quentin Tarantino
Producers and executives
[edit]This section contains 4 articles.
Businesspeople
[edit]This section contains 28 articles.
Marcus Licinius Crassus
Jakob Fugger
Josiah Wedgwood
Rothschild family
John Jacob Astor
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Leland Stanford
Andrew Carnegie
J. P. Morgan
Jamsetji Tata
John D. Rockefeller
George Westinghouse
Andrew Mellon
Henry Ford (Level 3)
Al Capone
Howard Hughes
Estée Lauder (businesswoman)
Sam Walton
Li Ka-shing
George Soros
Warren Buffett
Rupert Murdoch
Ted Turner
Carlos Slim
Pablo Escobar
Steve Jobs
Bill Gates
Elon Musk
Explorers
[edit]This section contains 29 articles.
Ancient
[edit]This section contains 2 articles.
Post-classical
[edit]This section contains 5 articles.
Early modern
[edit]This section contains 12 articles.
Christopher Columbus (Level 3)
Amerigo Vespucci
Vasco da Gama (Level 3)
Pedro Álvares Cabral
Juan Ponce de León
Ferdinand Magellan (Level 3)
Jacques Cartier
Hernando de Soto
Willem Barentsz
Abel Tasman
Vitus Bering
James Cook (Level 3)
Modern
[edit]This section contains 10 articles.
Philosophers, historians, political and social scientists
[edit]This section contains 162 articles.
Philosophers
[edit]This section contains 70 articles.
Ancient
[edit]This section contains 21 articles.
Thales of Miletus
Kaṇāda
Laozi (Level 3)
Heraclitus
Confucius (Level 3)
Socrates (Level 3)
Democritus
Plato (Level 3)
Diogenes
Shang Yang
Aristotle (Level 3)
Mencius
Epicurus
Xunzi (philosopher)
Han Fei
Li Si
Cicero (Level 3)
Lucretius
Seneca the Younger
Plotinus
Augustine of Hippo
Post-classical
[edit]This section contains 7 articles.
Early modern
[edit]This section contains 14 articles.
Erasmus
Wang Yangming
Giordano Bruno
Francis Bacon
René Descartes (Level 3)
Baruch Spinoza
George Berkeley
David Hume
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Denis Diderot
Immanuel Kant (Level 3)
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Jeremy Bentham
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Modern
[edit]This section contains 28 articles.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Arthur Schopenhauer
Auguste Comte
Ralph Waldo Emerson
John Stuart Mill
Søren Kierkegaard
Henry David Thoreau
Charles Sanders Peirce
William James
Friedrich Nietzsche (Level 3)
Edmund Husserl
Henri Bergson
John Dewey
Alfred North Whitehead
Bertrand Russell
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Martin Heidegger
Karl Popper
Jean-Paul Sartre
Hannah Arendt
Simone de Beauvoir
Isaiah Berlin
Marshall McLuhan
John Rawls
Frantz Fanon
Michel Foucault
Jürgen Habermas
Jacques Derrida
Historians and archaeologists
[edit]This section contains 23 articles.
Ancient
[edit]This section contains 8 articles.
Post-classical
[edit]This section contains 4 articles.
Early modern
[edit]This section contains 3 articles.
Modern
[edit]This section contains 8 articles.
Political writers
[edit]This section contains 19 articles.
Chanakya
Niccolò Machiavelli (Level 3)
Hugo Grotius
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke (Level 3)
Montesquieu
Edmund Burke
Thomas Paine
Cesare Beccaria
Mary Wollstonecraft (Level 3)
Alexis de Tocqueville
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Mikhail Bakunin
Herbert Spencer
Friedrich Engels
Peter Kropotkin
Eduard Bernstein
Antonio Gramsci
Edward Said
Economists
[edit]This section contains 11 articles.
Social scientists
[edit]This section contains 13 articles.
Linguists
[edit]This section contains 6 articles.
Psychologists
[edit]This section contains 20 articles.
Religious figures
[edit]This section contains 124 articles.
- For mythological figures, see: Philosophy and religion: Mythology.
Abrahamic religions
[edit]This section contains 86 articles.
Judaism
[edit]This section contains 6 articles.
Christianity
[edit]This section contains 60 articles.
New Testament figures
[edit]This section contains 8 articles.
Mary, mother of Jesus
John the Baptist
Jesus (Level 3)
Saint Peter
Judas Iscariot
Paul the Apostle (Level 3)
John the Apostle
Mary Magdalene
Pre-Schism
[edit]This section contains 18 articles.
Irenaeus
Clement of Alexandria
Tertullian
Origen
Arius
Saint Nicholas
Saint George
Athanasius of Alexandria
Gregory of Nazianzus
Basil of Caesarea
Gregory of Nyssa
Ambrose
Jerome
John Chrysostom
Cyril of Alexandria
Benedict of Nursia
John of Damascus
Cyril and Methodius
Catholic Church
[edit]This section contains 17 articles.
Anselm of Canterbury
Francis of Assisi
Bonaventure
John Wycliffe
Jan Hus
Tomás de Torquemada
Ignatius of Loyola
Francis Xavier
Teresa of Ávila
John of the Cross
Mother Teresa
Popes
[edit]This section contains 6 articles.
Orthodox Church
[edit]This section contains 2 articles.
Protestantism
[edit]This section contains 13 articles.
Martin Luther (Level 3)
Huldrych Zwingli
Thomas Cranmer
Philip Melanchthon
John Calvin
John Knox
Jacobus Arminius
John Wesley
Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
Karl Barth
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Billy Graham
Desmond Tutu
Others
[edit]This section contains 2 articles.
Islam
[edit]This section contains 19 articles.
Shia Islam
[edit]This section contains 4 articles.
Sunni Islam
[edit]This section contains 11 articles.
Abu Hanifa
Malik ibn Anas
Al-Shafi'i
Ahmad ibn Hanbal
Muhammad al-Bukhari
Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj
Al-Ghazali
Ibn Arabi
Al-Nawawi
Ibn Taymiyya
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab
Baháʼí Faith
[edit]This section contains 1 article.
Dharmic religions
[edit]This section contains 35 articles.
Hinduism
[edit]This section contains 17 articles.
Ancient
[edit]This section contains 4 articles.
Post-classical
[edit]This section contains 6 articles.
Modern
[edit]This section contains 7 articles.
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
Ramakrishna
Swami Vivekananda
Sri Aurobindo
Ramana Maharshi
Paramahansa Yogananda
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Buddhism
[edit]This section contains 15 articles.
Chinese Buddhism
[edit]This section contains 5 articles.
Indian Buddhism
[edit]This section contains 4 articles.
Japanese Buddhism
[edit]This section contains 2 articles.
Jainism
[edit]This section contains 1 article.
Sikhism
[edit]This section contains 2 articles.
Others
[edit]This section contains 3 articles.
Zoroastrianism
[edit]This section contains 1 article.
New religious movements
[edit]This section contains 2 articles.
Politicians and leaders
[edit]This section contains 508 articles.
Ancient
[edit]This section contains 74 articles.
Africa
[edit]This section contains 13 articles.
Egypt
[edit]This section contains 11 articles.
Narmer
Thutmose I
Hatshepsut
Thutmose III
Akhenaten
Nefertiti
Tutankhamun
Ramesses II (Level 3)
Ramesses III
Hellenistic Egypt
[edit]This section contains 2 articles.
Ethiopia
[edit]This section contains 1 article.
Northwestern Africa
[edit]This section contains 1 article.
Asia
[edit]This section contains 29 articles.
Eastern Asia
[edit]This section contains 7 articles.
China
[edit]This section contains 5 articles.
Southern Asia
[edit]This section contains 7 articles.
Western Asia
[edit]This section contains 15 articles.
Sargon of Akkad
Hammurabi (Level 3)
Puduḫepa
Ashurbanipal
Nebuchadnezzar II
Cyrus the Great (Level 3)
Darius the Great
Xerxes I
Tigranes the Great
Mithridates VI Eupator
Herod the Great
Zenobia
Hellenistic Kingdoms
[edit]This section contains 3 articles.
Europe
[edit]This section contains 32 articles.
Eastern Europe
[edit]This section contains 3 articles.
Greece
[edit]This section contains 9 articles.
Macedonia
[edit]This section contains 2 articles.
Western Europe
[edit]This section contains 6 articles.
Ancient Rome
[edit]This section contains 14 articles.
Post-classical
[edit]This section contains 138 articles.
Africa
[edit]This section contains 8 articles.
Americas
[edit]This section contains 2 articles.
Asia
[edit]This section contains 49 articles.
Central Asia, Iran, Caucasus
[edit]This section contains 11 articles.
Bumin Qaghan
Khosrow I
Mahmud of Ghazni
Tughril I
Nizam al-Mulk
Muhammad of Ghor
Tamar of Georgia
Muhammad II of Khwarazm
Timur (Level 3)
Tokhtamysh
Ulugh Beg
China
[edit]This section contains 8 articles.
Emperor Wen of Sui
Emperor Taizong of Tang
Wu Zetian
Emperor Xuanzong of Tang
Yang Guifei
Emperor Taizu of Song
Hongwu Emperor
Yongle Emperor
Korea
[edit]This section contains 3 articles.
Mongol Empire
[edit]This section contains 6 articles.
Southeastern Asia
[edit]This section contains 8 articles.
Vietnam
[edit]This section contains 3 articles.
Southern Asia
[edit]This section contains 4 articles.
Western Asia
[edit]This section contains 9 articles.
Caliphates
[edit]This section contains 6 articles.
Europe
[edit]This section contains 79 articles.
Eastern Europe
[edit]This section contains 31 articles.
Bulgaria
[edit]This section contains 3 articles.
Byzantine Empire
[edit]This section contains 6 articles.
Justinian I
Theodora (wife of Justinian I)
Heraclius
Leo III the Isaurian
Basil II
Manuel I Komnenos
Hungary
[edit]This section contains 4 articles.
Poland and Lithuania
[edit]This section contains 6 articles.
Mieszko I
Bolesław I the Brave
Gediminas
Casimir III the Great
Vytautas the Great
Władysław II Jagiełło
Russia
[edit]This section contains 7 articles.
Sviatoslav I
Vladimir the Great
Yaroslav the Wise
Daniel of Galicia
Alexander Nevsky
Dmitry Donskoy
Ivan III of Russia
Western Europe
[edit]This section contains 48 articles.
England and Scotland
[edit]This section contains 10 articles.
Alfred the Great
Æthelstan
William the Conqueror
Henry II of England
Richard I of England
John, King of England
Edward I of England
Robert the Bruce
Edward III of England
Henry V of England
France
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France
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Ancient
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India
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Europe
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Hypatia
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[edit]This section contains 12 articles.
Physics
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Early modern
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Henry Cavendish
Astronomy
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Nicolaus Copernicus (Level 3)
Tycho Brahe
Galileo Galilei (Level 3)
Johannes Kepler
Edmond Halley
William Herschel
Caroline Herschel
Modern
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Thomas Young (scientist)
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Georg Ohm
Michael Faraday (Level 3)
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
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Léon Foucault
Hermann von Helmholtz
Gustav Kirchhoff
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Ernst Mach
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Henri Becquerel
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J. J. Thomson
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Pierre Curie
William Henry Bragg
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Robert Andrews Millikan
C. V. Raman
Tsung-Dao Lee
Charles K. Kao
Astronomy
[edit]This section contains 3 articles.
Nuclear physics
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Ernest Rutherford
Lise Meitner
James Chadwick
Ernest Lawrence
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Hans Bethe
Andrei Sakharov
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Chemistry
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Robert Boyle
Joseph Priestley
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John Dalton
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Humphry Davy
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Friedrich Wöhler
Justus von Liebig
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Svante Arrhenius
Fritz Haber
Gilbert N. Lewis
Otto Hahn
Irving Langmuir
Peter Debye
Harold Urey
Linus Pauling
Dorothy Hodgkin
Robert Burns Woodward
Frederick Sanger
Life sciences
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Biology
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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Joseph Banks
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Georges Cuvier
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Louis Agassiz
Charles Darwin (Level 3)
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Gregor Mendel
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Thomas Henry Huxley
Ernst Haeckel
Edward Drinker Cope
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Santiago Ramón y Cajal
George Washington Carver
Alfred Kinsey
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Barbara McClintock
Konrad Lorenz
Rachel Carson
Norman Borlaug
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James Watson
Jane Goodall
W. D. Hamilton
Stephen Jay Gould
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Earth science and physical geography
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Inventors and engineers
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Johannes Gutenberg (Level 3)
James Watt
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Eli Whitney
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John Logie Baird
Philo Farnsworth
Sergei Korolev
John Bardeen
William Shockley
Wernher von Braun
Jack Kilby
Steve Wozniak
Mathematicians
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Early modern
[edit]This section contains 9 articles.
Gerolamo Cardano
Pierre de Fermat
Blaise Pascal
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Jacob Bernoulli
Johann Bernoulli
Daniel Bernoulli
Leonhard Euler (Level 3)
Jean le Rond d'Alembert
Modern
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Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Gaspard Monge
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Joseph Fourier
Carl Friedrich Gauss (Level 3)
Siméon Denis Poisson
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
Nikolai Lobachevsky
Niels Henrik Abel
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
William Rowan Hamilton
Évariste Galois
Karl Weierstrass
George Boole
Arthur Cayley
Francis Galton
Charles Hermite
Bernhard Riemann
Georg Cantor
Gottlob Frege
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Karl Pearson
David Hilbert
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Hermann Weyl
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Ronald Fisher
Stefan Banach
Alfred Tarski
Andrey Kolmogorov
John von Neumann
Kurt Gödel (Level 3)
Claude Shannon
Benoit Mandelbrot
Alexander Grothendieck
Computer scientists
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Sports figures
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Individual sports
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Athletics
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Pierre de Coubertin
Paavo Nurmi
Jesse Owens
Fanny Blankers-Koen
Wilma Rudolph
Edwin Moses
Florence Griffith Joyner
Carl Lewis
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Sergey Bubka
Haile Gebrselassie
Hicham El Guerrouj
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Boxing
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Chess
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Climbing and mountaineering
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Cycling
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Golf
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Gymnastics
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Martial arts
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Skiing
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Swimming
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Tennis
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Suzanne Lenglen
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Novak Djokovic
Wrestling
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Multiple sports
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Team sports
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American football
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Association football
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Alfredo Di Stéfano
Lev Yashin
Pelé
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Johan Cruyff
Diego Maradona
Mia Hamm
Zinedine Zidane
Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer)
Cristiano Ronaldo
Marta (footballer)
Lionel Messi
Baseball
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Basketball
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Cricket
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Field hockey
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Ice hockey
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Rowing
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