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Total 1,995 articles.
Class | #Articles |
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FA | 173 |
GA | 228 |
A | 3 |
B | 880 |
C | 691 |
FFA | 86 |
DGA | 84 |
Start | 23 |
People
This section contains 1995 articles.
Entertainers
This section contains 88 articles.
Actors
This section contains 59 articles.
- Julie Andrews
- Lauren Bacall
- Amitabh Bachchan
- Brigitte Bardot
- Ingrid Bergman
- Sarah Bernhardt
- Humphrey Bogart
- Marlon Brando
- James Cagney
- Jackie Chan
- Claudette Colbert
- Sean Connery
- Gary Cooper
- Joan Crawford
- Bette Davis
- Doris Day
- Robert De Niro
- Alain Delon
- Marlene Dietrich
- Clint Eastwood
- Henry Fonda
- Jean Gabin
- Clark Gable
- Greta Garbo
- Judy Garland
- John Gielgud
- Lillian Gish
- Cary Grant
- Alec Guinness
- Tom Hanks
- Setsuko Hara
- Rita Hayworth
- Audrey Hepburn
- Katharine Hepburn
- Grace Kelly
- Klaus Kinski
- Vivien Leigh
- Sophia Loren
- Madhubala
- Marcello Mastroianni
- Toshiro Mifune
- Marilyn Monroe
- Jeanne Moreau
- Jack Nicholson
- Laurence Olivier
- Peter O'Toole
- Gregory Peck
- Mary Pickford
- Sidney Poitier
- Rajinikanth
- Barbara Stanwyck
- James Stewart
- Meryl Streep
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Shirley Temple
- Spencer Tracy
- Rudolph Valentino
- John Wayne
- Mae West
Dancers and choreographers
This section contains 15 articles.
Ballet
This section contains 7 articles.
- George Balanchine
- Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Margot Fonteyn
- Vaslav Nijinsky
- Rudolf Nureyev
- Anna Pavlova
- Marius Petipa
Other dance
This section contains 8 articles.
Comedians
This section contains 9 articles.
Hosts and performers
This section contains 5 articles.
Visual artists
This section contains 123 articles.
Western painters and illustrators
This section contains 71 articles.
Post-classical
This section contains 1 article.
Renaissance to early modern
This section contains 22 articles.
- Sandro Botticelli
- Hieronymus Bosch
- Pieter Bruegel the Elder
- Caravaggio
- Jacques-Louis David
- Albrecht Dürer
- Artemisia Gentileschi
- El Greco
- Francisco Goya
- William Hogarth
- Hans Holbein the Younger
- Leonardo da Vinci (Level 3)
- Masaccio
- Nicolas Poussin
- Raphael
- Rembrandt (Level 3)
- Peter Paul Rubens
- Titian
- Jan van Eyck
- Diego Velázquez
- Johannes Vermeer
- Antoine Watteau
Modern (painters)
This section contains 40 articles.
- Paul Cézanne
- Marc Chagall
- John Constable
- Gustave Courbet
- Salvador Dalí
- Edgar Degas
- Eugène Delacroix
- Max Ernst
- Caspar David Friedrich
- Paul Gauguin
- Vincent van Gogh (Level 3)
- Edward Hopper
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
- Frida Kahlo
- Wassily Kandinsky
- Paul Klee
- René Magritte
- Kazimir Malevich
- Édouard Manet
- Franz Marc
- Henri Matisse
- Joan Miró
- Piet Mondrian
- Claude Monet
- Edvard Munch
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Pablo Picasso (Level 3)
- Camille Pissarro
- Jackson Pollock
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Ilya Repin
- Gerhard Richter
- Diego Rivera
- Henri Rousseau
- John Singer Sargent
- Georges Seurat
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- J. M. W. Turner
- Andy Warhol
- James McNeill Whistler
Cartoonists, comics artists, and illustrators
This section contains 8 articles.
- Aubrey Beardsley
- M. C. Escher
- Will Eisner
- Hergé
- Jack Kirby
- Winsor McCay
- Norman Rockwell
- Osamu Tezuka
Other visual arts
This section contains 46 articles.
Sculptors
This section contains 8 articles.
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini
- Constantin Brâncuși
- Donatello
- Alberto Giacometti
- Michelangelo (Level 3)
- Henry Moore
- Phidias
- Auguste Rodin
Architects
This section contains 22 articles.
- Alvar Aalto
- Leon Battista Alberti
- Filippo Brunelleschi
- Le Corbusier
- Buckminster Fuller
- Antoni Gaudí
- Frank Gehry
- Walter Gropius
- Zaha Hadid
- Imhotep
- Philip Johnson
- Louis Kahn
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- Oscar Niemeyer
- Andrea Palladio
- I. M. Pei
- Mimar Sinan
- Albert Speer
- Louis Sullivan
- Vitruvius
- Christopher Wren
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Conceptual artists
This section contains 2 articles.
Designers
This section contains 3 articles.
Photographers
This section contains 6 articles.
Instrument makers
This section contains 1 article.
Urban planners
This section contains 4 articles.
Non-Western traditions
This section contains 6 articles.
Writers
This section contains 256 articles.
Ancient
This section contains 17 articles.
Asia
This section contains 2 articles.
Europe
This section contains 15 articles.
- Aeschylus
- Aristophanes
- Catullus
- Euripides
- Hesiod
- Homer (Level 3)
- Horace
- Lucian
- Menander
- Ovid
- Plautus
- Sappho
- Sophocles
- Terence
- Virgil (Level 3)
Post-classical
This section contains 28 articles.
Asia
This section contains 21 articles.
- Bai Juyi
- Bhavabhuti
- Du Fu
- Ferdowsi
- Hafez
- Han Yu
- Jami
- Kabir
- Omar Khayyam
- Amir Khusrau
- Li Bai (Level 3)
- Murasaki Shikibu (Level 3)
- Nizami Ganjavi
- Abu Nuwas
- Ouyang Xiu
- Rudaki
- Rumi (Level 3)
- Saadi Shirazi
- Su Shi
- Tao Yuanming
- Wang Wei (Tang dynasty)
Europe
This section contains 7 articles.
- Dante Alighieri (Level 3)
- Giovanni Boccaccio
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Chrétien de Troyes
- Christine de Pizan
- Petrarch
- François Villon
Early modern
This section contains 34 articles.
Asia
This section contains 6 articles.
Europe
This section contains 28 articles.
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca
- Robert Burns
- Luís de Camões
- Giacomo Casanova
- Miguel de Cervantes (Level 3)
- Pierre Corneille
- Daniel Defoe
- John Donne
- John Dryden
- Henry Fielding
- Samuel Johnson
- Ben Jonson
- Christopher Marlowe
- John Milton
- Michel de Montaigne
- Thomas More
- Molière
- Nostradamus
- Charles Perrault
- Alexander Pope
- François Rabelais
- Jean Racine
- Marquis de Sade
- William Shakespeare (Level 3)
- Edmund Spenser
- Jonathan Swift
- Lope de Vega
- Voltaire (Level 3)
Modern
This section contains 177 articles.
Africa
This section contains 7 articles.
Americas
This section contains 50 articles.
US and Canada
This section contains 41 articles.
- Maya Angelou
- Isaac Asimov
- Margaret Atwood
- Saul Bellow
- Ray Bradbury
- William S. Burroughs
- Raymond Chandler
- Emily Dickinson
- T. S. Eliot
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- William Faulkner
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Robert Frost
- Allen Ginsberg
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Robert A. Heinlein
- Ernest Hemingway
- Langston Hughes
- Henry James
- Jack Kerouac
- Stephen King
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- Stan Lee
- Jack London
- H. P. Lovecraft
- Herman Melville
- Arthur Miller
- Toni Morrison
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Sylvia Plath
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Ezra Pound
- Ayn Rand
- Dr. Seuss
- Upton Sinclair
- John Steinbeck
- Mark Twain
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Edith Wharton
- Walt Whitman
- Tennessee Williams
Latin America
This section contains 9 articles.
- Jorge Amado
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Alejo Carpentier
- Carlos Fuentes
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Machado de Assis
- José Martí
- Pablo Neruda
- Mario Vargas Llosa
Europe
This section contains 101 articles.
Europe: General
This section contains 1 article.
Central Europe
This section contains 7 articles.
- Adam Mickiewicz
- Ismail Kadare
- Joseph Conrad
- Sándor Petőfi
- Henryk Sienkiewicz
- Taras Shevchenko
- Elie Wiesel
Russia
This section contains 16 articles.
- Anna Akhmatova
- Joseph Brodsky
- Mikhail Bulgakov
- Ivan Bunin
- Anton Chekhov
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Maxim Gorky
- Nikolai Gogol
- Mikhail Lermontov
- Vladimir Mayakovsky
- Boris Pasternak
- Alexander Pushkin
- Mikhail Sholokhov
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Leo Tolstoy (Level 3)
- Ivan Turgenev
Western Europe
This section contains 40 articles.
- Hans Christian Andersen
- Antonin Artaud
- Honoré de Balzac
- Charles Baudelaire
- Karen Blixen
- Bertolt Brecht
- Albert Camus
- Alexandre Dumas
- Umberto Eco
- Gustave Flaubert
- Anne Frank
- Federico García Lorca
- André Gide
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Brothers Grimm
- Knut Hamsun
- Heinrich Heine
- Hermann Hesse
- Victor Hugo
- Henrik Ibsen
- Eugène Ionesco
- Franz Kafka
- Selma Lagerlöf
- Halldór Laxness
- Astrid Lindgren
- Thomas Mann
- Stéphane Mallarmé
- Guy de Maupassant
- Fernando Pessoa
- Luigi Pirandello
- Marcel Proust
- Arthur Rimbaud
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- José Saramago
- Friedrich Schiller
- Stendhal
- August Strindberg
- Tristan Tzara
- Jules Verne
- Émile Zola
UK and Ireland
This section contains 37 articles.
- Jane Austen
- Samuel Beckett
- William Blake
- Enid Blyton
- Brontë family
- Lord Byron
- Lewis Carroll
- Agatha Christie
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Roald Dahl
- Charles Dickens
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- George Eliot
- William Golding
- Thomas Hardy
- James Joyce
- John Keats
- Rudyard Kipling
- D. H. Lawrence
- C. S. Lewis
- V. S. Naipaul
- George Orwell
- Salman Rushdie
- Walter Scott
- George Bernard Shaw
- Mary Shelley
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Dylan Thomas
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- H. G. Wells
- Oscar Wilde
- William Wordsworth
- Virginia Woolf
- W. B. Yeats
Asia
This section contains 17 articles.
- Chinghiz Aitmatov
- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- Ghalib
- Kahlil Gibran
- Muhammad Iqbal
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Jin Yong
- Yasunari Kawabata
- Lao She
- Lu Xun
- Yukio Mishima
- Haruki Murakami
- Natsume Sōseki
- Kenzaburō Ōe
- Orhan Pamuk
- Premchand
- Rabindranath Tagore (Level 3)
Oceania
This section contains 2 articles.
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.
- Hildegard of Bingen
- Guillaume de Machaut
- Josquin des Prez
- Guillaume Du Fay
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Baroque
This section contains 5 articles.
- Johann Sebastian Bach (Level 3)
- George Frideric Handel
- Claudio Monteverdi
- Henry Purcell
- Antonio Vivaldi
Classical
This section contains 3 articles.
Romantic
This section contains 20 articles.
- Hector Berlioz
- Johannes Brahms
- Anton Bruckner
- Frédéric Chopin
- Antonín Dvořák
- Edward Elgar
- Gilbert and Sullivan
- Franz Liszt
- Gustav Mahler
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Modest Mussorgsky
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- Gioachino Rossini
- Franz Schubert
- Robert Schumann
- Johann Strauss II
- Richard Strauss
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Richard Wagner
20th century modern
This section contains 15 articles.
- Béla Bartók
- Benjamin Britten
- Aaron Copland
- Claude Debussy
- Gabriel Fauré
- George Gershwin
- Giacomo Puccini
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Maurice Ravel
- Arnold Schoenberg
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Jean Sibelius
- Igor Stravinsky
- Ralph Vaughan Williams
Avant-garde/postmodern
This section contains 5 articles.
Pedagogues
This section contains 1 article.
Performers
This section contains 18 articles.
Cellists
This section contains 2 articles.
Conductors
This section contains 3 articles.
Pianists
This section contains 5 articles.
Singers
This section contains 7 articles.
- Maria Callas
- Enrico Caruso
- Plácido Domingo
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
- Kirsten Flagstad
- Luciano Pavarotti
- Joan Sutherland
Violinists
This section contains 1 article.
Non-Western art music
This section contains 7 articles.
Carnatic classical
This section contains 3 articles.
Hindustani classical
This section contains 2 articles.
Qawwali
This section contains 1 article.
Persian traditional
This section contains 1 article.
Jazz
This section contains 10 articles.
- Louis Armstrong (Level 3)
- Miles Davis
- Duke Ellington
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Benny Goodman
- Billie Holiday
- Antônio Carlos Jobim
- Scott Joplin
- Charlie Parker
- Django Reinhardt
Popular music
This section contains 61 articles.
- ABBA
- Bing Crosby
- Stephen Foster
- Michael Jackson (Level 3)
- Madonna
- Miriam Makeba
- Bob Marley
- Frank Sinatra
- Taylor Swift
Non-English language singers
This section contains 7 articles.
- Charles Aznavour
- Serge Gainsbourg
- Umm Kulthum
- Lata Mangeshkar
- Édith Piaf
- Teresa Teng
- Vladimir Vysotsky
Afrobeat
This section contains 1 article.
Blues, R&B, and soul
This section contains 7 articles.
Electronic music
This section contains 2 articles.
Folk and country
This section contains 5 articles.
Funk
This section contains 2 articles.
Hip-hop and rap
This section contains 2 articles.
Latin
This section contains 4 articles.
Flamenco
This section contains 1 article.
Musical comedy and lyricists
This section contains 3 articles.
Rock
This section contains 18 articles.
Directors, producers and screenwriters
This section contains 61 articles.
Animators and puppeteers
This section contains 3 articles.
Directors
This section contains 53 articles.
- Woody Allen
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Ingmar Bergman
- Robert Bresson
- Luis Buñuel
- James Cameron
- Frank Capra
- Charlie Chaplin (Level 3)
- Jean Cocteau
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Cecil B. DeMille
- Vittorio De Sica
- Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Guru Dutt
- Sergei Eisenstein
- Federico Fellini
- John Ford
- Miloš Forman
- Jean-Luc Godard
- D. W. Griffith
- Howard Hawks
- Werner Herzog
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Raj Kapoor
- Elia Kazan
- Buster Keaton
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Akira Kurosawa
- Stanley Kubrick
- Fritz Lang
- David Lean
- Ang Lee
- George Lucas
- Auguste and Louis Lumière
- Ida Lupino
- David Lynch
- Georges Méliès
- Yasujirō Ozu
- Roman Polanski
- Satyajit Ray
- Jean Renoir
- Leni Riefenstahl
- Martin Scorsese
- Ousmane Sembène
- Steven Spielberg
- Quentin Tarantino
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- François Truffaut
- Agnès Varda
- Orson Welles
- Billy Wilder
- Wong Kar-wai
- William Wyler
Producers and executives
This section contains 4 articles.
Screenwriter
This section contains 1 article.
Businesspeople
This section contains 29 articles.
- John Jacob Astor
- P. T. Barnum
- Warren Buffett
- Al Capone
- Andrew Carnegie
- Marcus Licinius Crassus
- Pablo Escobar
- Henry Ford (Level 3)
- Jakob Fugger
- Bill Gates
- Howard Hughes
- Steve Jobs
- Estée Lauder (businesswoman)
- Li Ka-shing
- Andrew Mellon
- Shigeru Miyamoto
- J. P. Morgan
- John D. Rockefeller
- Rothschild family
- David Sarnoff
- Carlos Slim
- George Soros
- Leland Stanford
- Jamshedji Tata
- Ted Turner
- Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Sam Walton
- Josiah Wedgwood
- George Westinghouse
Explorers
This section contains 30 articles.
Ancient
This section contains 2 articles.
Post-classical
This section contains 5 articles.
Early modern
This section contains 12 articles.
- Vitus Bering
- Pedro Álvares Cabral
- Jacques Cartier
- Christopher Columbus (Level 3)
- James Cook (Level 3)
- Vasco da Gama (Level 3)
- Ferdinand Magellan (Level 3)
- Juan Ponce de León
- Hernando de Soto
- Abel Tasman
- Amerigo Vespucci
- Willem Barentsz
Modern
This section contains 11 articles.
Philosophers, historians, political and social scientists
This section contains 162 articles.
Philosophers
This section contains 68 articles.
Ancient
This section contains 21 articles.
- Aristotle (Level 3)
- Augustine of Hippo
- Cicero (Level 3)
- Confucius (Level 3)
- Democritus
- Diogenes
- Epicurus
- Han Fei
- Heraclitus
- Kaṇāda
- Laozi (Level 3)
- Li Si
- Lucretius
- Mencius
- Plato (Level 3)
- Plotinus
- Seneca the Younger
- Shang Yang
- Socrates (Level 3)
- Thales of Miletus
- Xunzi (philosopher)
Post-classical
This section contains 7 articles.
Early modern
This section contains 13 articles.
- Francis Bacon
- Jeremy Bentham
- George Berkeley
- Giordano Bruno
- René Descartes (Level 3)
- Denis Diderot
- Erasmus
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- David Hume
- Immanuel Kant (Level 3)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Baruch Spinoza
- Wang Yangming
Modern
This section contains 27 articles.
- Hannah Arendt
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Henri Bergson
- Isaiah Berlin
- Auguste Comte
- Jacques Derrida
- John Dewey
- Frantz Fanon
- Michel Foucault
- Jürgen Habermas
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Martin Heidegger
- Edmund Husserl
- William James
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Marshall McLuhan
- John Stuart Mill
- Friedrich Nietzsche (Level 3)
- Charles Sanders Peirce
- Karl Popper
- John Rawls
- Bertrand Russell
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Henry David Thoreau
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Historians
This section contains 22 articles.
Ancient
This section contains 8 articles.
Post-classical
This section contains 4 articles.
Early modern
This section contains 3 articles.
Modern
This section contains 7 articles.
Social scientists, economists and political writers
This section contains 52 articles.
Ancient
This section contains 2 articles.
Post-classical
This section contains 1 article.
Early modern
This section contains 10 articles.
- Cesare Beccaria
- Edmund Burke
- Hugo Grotius
- Thomas Hobbes
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- John Locke (Level 3)
- Montesquieu
- Thomas Paine
- Adam Smith (Level 3)
- Mary Wollstonecraft (Level 3)
Modern
This section contains 39 articles.
- Theodor W. Adorno
- Mikhail Bakunin
- Edward Bernays
- Eduard Bernstein
- Franz Boas
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Louis Braille
- Noam Chomsky
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- Émile Durkheim
- Friedrich Engels
- Milton Friedman
- John Kenneth Galbraith
- Clifford Geertz
- Antonio Gramsci
- Friedrich Hayek
- John Maynard Keynes
- Peter Kropotkin
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Friedrich List
- Karl Marx (Level 3)
- Marcel Mauss
- Bronisław Malinowski
- Thomas Robert Malthus
- Margaret Mead
- Maria Montessori
- Vilfredo Pareto
- Talcott Parsons
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
- David Ricardo
- Edward Said
- Paul Samuelson
- Ferdinand de Saussure
- Heinrich Schliemann
- Sequoyah
- Herbert Spencer
- Alexis de Tocqueville
- Max Weber
- Noah Webster
Psychologists
This section contains 20 articles.
Religious figures
This section contains 124 articles.
- For mythological figures, see: Philosophy and religion: Mythology.
Hinduism
This section contains 17 articles.
Ancient
This section contains 4 articles.
Post-classical
This section contains 6 articles.
Modern
This section contains 7 articles.
Buddhism
This section contains 15 articles.
Chinese Buddhism
This section contains 5 articles.
Indian Buddhism
This section contains 4 articles.
Japanese Buddhism
This section contains 2 articles.
Abrahamic religions
This section contains 85 articles.
Judaism
This section contains 6 articles.
Christianity
This section contains 60 articles.
New Testament figures
This section contains 8 articles.
- Jesus (Level 3)
- Mary, mother of Jesus
- Mary Magdalene
- John the Baptist
- Judas Iscariot
- Paul the Apostle (Level 3)
- Saint Peter
- John the Apostle
Pre-Schism
This section contains 18 articles.
- Ambrose
- Arius
- Athanasius of Alexandria
- Basil of Caesarea
- Benedict of Nursia
- Clement of Alexandria
- Cyril of Alexandria
- Saint George
- Gregory of Nazianzus
- Gregory of Nyssa
- Irenaeus
- Jerome
- John Chrysostom
- John of Damascus
- Cyril and Methodius
- Saint Nicholas
- Origen
- Tertullian
Catholic Church
This section contains 11 articles.
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Bonaventure
- Francis of Assisi
- Jan Hus
- Ignatius of Loyola
- John of the Cross
- Mother Teresa
- Teresa of Ávila
- Tomás de Torquemada
- John Wycliffe
- Francis Xavier
Popes
This section contains 6 articles.
Orthodox Church
This section contains 2 articles.
Protestantism
This section contains 13 articles.
- Jacobus Arminius
- Karl Barth
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- John Calvin
- Thomas Cranmer
- Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
- Billy Graham
- John Knox
- Martin Luther (Level 3)
- Philip Melanchthon
- Desmond Tutu
- John Wesley
- Huldrych Zwingli
Others
This section contains 2 articles.
Islam
This section contains 19 articles.
Shia Islam
This section contains 3 articles.
Sunni Islam
This section contains 8 articles.
- Ahmad ibn Hanbal
- Abu Hanifa
- Malik ibn Anas
- Muhammad al-Bukhari
- Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj
- Al-Shafi'i
- Ibn Taymiyya
- Al-Nawawi
Others
This section contains 4 articles.
Others
This section contains 7 articles.
Jainism
This section contains 1 article.
New religious movements
This section contains 3 articles.
Sikhism
This section contains 2 articles.
Zoroastrianism
This section contains 1 article.
Politicians and leaders
This section contains 503 articles.
Ancient
This section contains 72 articles.
Africa
This section contains 13 articles.
Egypt
This section contains 11 articles.
Asia
This section contains 28 articles.
Eastern Asia
This section contains 7 articles.
- Cao Cao
- Emperor Gaozu of Han
- Gwanggaeto the Great
- Modu Chanyu
- Qin Shi Huang (Level 3)
- Emperor Wu of Han
- Yu the Great
Southern Asia
This section contains 7 articles.
Western Asia
This section contains 11 articles.
- Ashurbanipal
- Cyrus the Great (Level 3)
- Darius the Great
- Hammurabi (Level 3)
- Mithridates VI Eupator
- Nebuchadnezzar II
- Puduḫepa
- Sargon of Akkad
- Tigranes the Great
- Xerxes I
- Zenobia
Hellenistic Kingdoms
This section contains 3 articles.
Europe
This section contains 31 articles.
Eastern Europe
This section contains 3 articles.
Greece
This section contains 7 articles.
Macedonia
This section contains 2 articles.
Western Europe
This section contains 5 articles.
Ancient Rome
This section contains 14 articles.
Post-classical
This section contains 134 articles.
Africa
This section contains 6 articles.
Americas
This section contains 2 articles.
Asia
This section contains 49 articles.
Central Asia, Iran, Caucasus
This section contains 14 articles.
- Batu Khan
- Bumin Qaghan
- Hulegu Khan
- Jochi
- Khosrow I
- Mahmud of Ghazni
- Muhammad of Ghor
- Muhammad II of Khwarazm
- Nizam al-Mulk
- Tamar of Georgia
- Timur (Level 3)
- Tokhtamysh
- Tughril I
- Ulugh Beg
Eastern Asia
This section contains 5 articles.
China
This section contains 9 articles.
- Hongwu Emperor
- Yang Guifei
- Kublai Khan
- Emperor Taizong of Tang
- Emperor Xuanzong of Tang
- Emperor Taizu of Song
- Emperor Wen of Sui
- Wu Zetian
- Yongle Emperor
Southeastern Asia
This section contains 5 articles.
Vietnam
This section contains 3 articles.
Southern Asia
This section contains 4 articles.
Western Asia
This section contains 3 articles.
Caliphates
This section contains 6 articles.
Europe
This section contains 77 articles.
Eastern Europe
This section contains 4 articles.
Bulgaria
This section contains 3 articles.
Byzantine Empire
This section contains 6 articles.
- Justinian I
- Heraclius
- Basil II
- Leo III the Isaurian
- Manuel I Komnenos
- Theodora (wife of Justinian I)
Hungary
This section contains 4 articles.
Poland and Lithuania
This section contains 6 articles.
Russia
This section contains 7 articles.
- Alexander Nevsky
- Daniel of Galicia
- Dmitry Donskoy
- Ivan III of Russia
- Vladimir the Great
- Sviatoslav I
- Yaroslav the Wise
Western Europe
This section contains 2 articles.
England and Scotland
This section contains 10 articles.
- Æthelstan
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- Robert the Bruce
- William the Conqueror
France
This section contains 9 articles.
- Clovis I
- Charlemagne (Level 3)
- Charles Martel
- Louis XI
- Louis the Pious
- Eleanor of Aquitaine
- Philip II of France
- Louis IX of France
- Philip IV of France
Germany
This section contains 2 articles.
Holy Roman Empire
This section contains 6 articles.
- Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor
- Frederick Barbarossa
- Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
- Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor
- Otto the Great
- Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor
Italy
This section contains 7 articles.
- Cesare Borgia
- Cosimo de' Medici
- Lorenzo de' Medici
- Robert Guiscard
- Roger II of Sicily
- Girolamo Savonarola
- Theodoric the Great
Papal States
This section contains 5 articles.
Spain and Portugal
This section contains 6 articles.
Early modern
This section contains 108 articles.
Africa
This section contains 5 articles.
Americas
This section contains 12 articles.
United States
This section contains 6 articles.
Asia
This section contains 40 articles.
Central Asia, Iran, Caucasus
This section contains 6 articles.
Eastern Asia
This section contains 2 articles.
China
This section contains 6 articles.
Japan
This section contains 3 articles.
Southern Asia
This section contains 10 articles.
- Akbar (Level 3)
- Aurangzeb
- Robert Clive
- Hyder Ali
- Prithvi Narayan Shah
- Shah Jahan
- Sher Shah Suri
- Tipu Sultan
- Shivaji
- Krishnadevaraya
Southeastern Asia
This section contains 5 articles.
Burma
This section contains 3 articles.
Western Asia
This section contains 5 articles.
Europe
This section contains 50 articles.
Eastern Europe
This section contains 1 article.
Poland and Lithuania
This section contains 4 articles.
Russia
This section contains 5 articles.
- Ivan the Terrible
- Alexis of Russia
- Peter the Great
- Elizabeth of Russia
- Catherine the Great (Level 3)
Western Europe
This section contains 3 articles.
England and Scotland
This section contains 13 articles.
- Charles I of England
- Elizabeth I (Level 3)
- George III
- Henry VIII
- James VI and I
- Oliver Cromwell
- Mary I of England
- Mary, Queen of Scots
- William III of England
- William Blackstone
- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
- William Pitt the Younger
- Robert Walpole
France
This section contains 11 articles.
- Catherine de' Medici
- Francis I of France
- Henry IV of France
- Louis XIV
- Louis XV
- Louis XVI
- Marie Antoinette
- Cardinal Mazarin
- Napoleon (Level 3)
- Madame de Pompadour
- Cardinal Richelieu
Holy Roman Empire, Austria
This section contains 6 articles.
- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
- Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor
- Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor
- Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor
- Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
- Maria Theresa
Northern Europe
This section contains 3 articles.
Southern Europe
This section contains 4 articles.
- Pope Julius II
- Philip II of Spain
- Philip V of Spain
- Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal
Oceania
This section contains 1 article.
Modern
This section contains 189 articles.
Africa
This section contains 31 articles.
Eastern Africa
This section contains 9 articles.
- Idi Amin
- Haile Selassie
- Kenneth Kaunda
- Jomo Kenyatta
- Julius Nyerere
- Menelik II
- Rainilaiarivony
- Tewodros II
- Yohannes IV
Northern Africa
This section contains 7 articles.
- Muammar Gaddafi
- Isma'il Pasha of Egypt
- Muhammad Ahmad
- Muhammad Ali of Egypt
- Gamal Abdel Nasser
- Emir Abdelkader
- Anwar Sadat
Southern and Central Africa
This section contains 8 articles.
- Hastings Banda
- F. W. de Klerk
- Patrice Lumumba
- Nelson Mandela (Level 3)
- Mobutu Sese Seko
- Robert Mugabe
- Cecil Rhodes
- Shaka
Western Africa
This section contains 7 articles.
Americas
This section contains 42 articles.
South America
This section contains 8 articles.
- Salvador Allende
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- José de San Martín
- Juan Perón
- Augusto Pinochet
- Antonio José de Sucre
- Alfredo Stroessner
Brazil
This section contains 3 articles.
Central America and the Caribbean
This section contains 5 articles.
Mexico
This section contains 3 articles.
United States
This section contains 21 articles.
- George W. Bush
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- Abraham Lincoln (Level 3)
- John Marshall
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- Woodrow Wilson
Canada
This section contains 2 articles.
Asia
This section contains 51 articles.
Central Asia, Iran, Caucasus
This section contains 5 articles.
Eastern Asia
China
This section contains 9 articles.
- Chiang Kai-shek
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- Puyi
- Xi Jinping
- Zhou Enlai
Japan
This section contains 5 articles.
Korea
This section contains 3 articles.
Southeastern Asia
This section contains 11 articles.
- Corazon Aquino
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- Ferdinand Marcos
- Ho Chi Minh
- Lee Kuan Yew
- Mahathir Mohamad
- Ne Win
- Pol Pot
- D. S. Senanayake
- Suharto
- Sukarno
Southern Asia
This section contains 3 articles.
India
This section contains 6 articles.
- George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
- Indira Gandhi
- Jawaharlal Nehru
- Vallabhbhai Patel
- Manmohan Singh
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Western Asia
This section contains 9 articles.
Europe
This section contains 64 articles.
Central Europe
This section contains 5 articles.
- Alexander Dubček
- Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
- Václav Havel
- Franz Joseph I of Austria
- Klemens von Metternich
Eastern Europe
This section contains 2 articles.
Southeastern Europe
This section contains 6 articles.
Russia and USSR
This section contains 12 articles.
- Alexander I of Russia
- Alexander II of Russia
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- Nikita Khrushchev
- Vladimir Lenin
- Nicholas I of Russia
- Nicholas II
- Vladimir Putin
- Joseph Stalin (Level 3)
- Leon Trotsky
- Boris Yeltsin
Scandinavia
This section contains 4 articles.
Western Europe
This section contains 1 article.
France
This section contains 6 articles.
- Georges Clemenceau
- Charles de Gaulle
- François Mitterrand
- Louis Philippe I
- Napoleon III
- Adolphe Thiers
Germany
This section contains 11 articles.
- Konrad Adenauer
- Otto von Bismarck
- Willy Brandt
- Joseph Goebbels
- Adolf Hitler (Level 3)
- Heinrich Himmler
- Erich Honecker
- Helmut Kohl
- Angela Merkel
- William I, German Emperor
- Wilhelm II
Iberia
This section contains 3 articles.
Ireland
This section contains 3 articles.
Italy
This section contains 2 articles.
United Kingdom
This section contains 9 articles.
Oceania
This section contains 1 article.
Military leaders and theorists
This section contains 52 articles.
Ancient
This section contains 9 articles.
Post-classical
This section contains 10 articles.
- Amr ibn al-As
- El Cid
- Godfrey of Bouillon
- Joan of Arc (Level 3)
- John Hunyadi
- Subutai
- Trần Hưng Đạo
- William Wallace
- Jan Žižka
- Khalid ibn al-Walid
Early modern
This section contains 12 articles.
- Afonso de Albuquerque
- Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba
- Hayreddin Barbarossa
- John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
- Hernán Cortés
- Michiel de Ruyter
- Francis Drake
- Miyamoto Musashi
- Prince Eugene of Savoy
- Francisco Pizarro
- Alexander Suvorov
- Yi Sun-sin
Modern
This section contains 21 articles.
- Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
- Carl von Clausewitz
- Enver Pasha
- Giuseppe Garibaldi
- Hermann Göring
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Paul von Hindenburg
- T. E. Lawrence
- Robert E. Lee
- Erich Ludendorff
- Douglas MacArthur
- Alfred Thayer Mahan
- George C. Marshall
- Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
- Bernard Montgomery
- Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
- Erwin Rommel
- Võ Nguyên Giáp
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
- Isoroku Yamamoto
- Georgy Zhukov
Rebels, revolutionaries and activists
This section contains 53 articles.
Ancient
This section contains 1 article.
Post-classical
This section contains 3 articles.
Early modern
This section contains 8 articles.
Early modern: General
This section contains 5 articles.
France
This section contains 3 articles.
Modern
This section contains 41 articles.
Americas
This section contains 21 articles.
United States
This section contains 15 articles.
- Jane Addams
- Susan B. Anthony
- Frederick Douglass
- Betty Friedan
- Helen Keller
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Malcolm X
- Harvey Milk
- John Muir
- Rosa Parks
- Margaret Sanger
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Sojourner Truth
- Harriet Tubman
- Booker T. Washington
Africa
This section contains 3 articles.
Asia
This section contains 12 articles.
- B. R. Ambedkar
- Aung San
- Aung San Suu Kyi
- Osama bin Laden
- Subhas Chandra Bose
- Diponegoro
- Mahatma Gandhi (Level 3)
- Hong Xiuquan
- José Rizal
- Rani of Jhansi
- Sun Yat-sen
- Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Europe
This section contains 5 articles.
Scientists, inventors and mathematicians
This section contains 255 articles.
Ancient figures
This section contains 25 articles.
Ancient history
This section contains 13 articles.
- Apollonius of Perga
- Archimedes (Level 3)
- Diophantus
- Eratosthenes
- Euclid (Level 3)
- Galen
- Hipparchus
- Hypatia
- Hippocrates (Level 3)
- Pliny the Elder
- Ptolemy
- Pythagoras
- Zhang Heng
Post-classical history
This section contains 12 articles.
Physics
This section contains 66 articles.
Early modern
This section contains 5 articles.
- William Gilbert (physicist)
- Robert Hooke
- Christiaan Huygens
- Mikhail Lomonosov
- Isaac Newton (Level 3)
Modern
This section contains 51 articles.
- Amedeo Avogadro
- André-Marie Ampère
- Henri Becquerel
- Hans Bethe
- Niels Bohr
- Ludwig Boltzmann
- Max Born
- William Henry Bragg
- Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
- Henry Cavendish
- James Chadwick
- Marie Curie (Level 3)
- Pierre Curie
- John Dalton
- Paul Dirac
- Albert Einstein (Level 3)
- Michael Faraday (Level 3)
- Enrico Fermi
- Richard Feynman
- Léon Foucault
- Augustin-Jean Fresnel
- Murray Gell-Mann
- Stephen Hawking
- Werner Heisenberg
- Hermann von Helmholtz
- Heinrich Hertz
- James Prescott Joule
- Charles K. Kao
- Gustav Kirchhoff
- Ernest Lawrence
- Tsung-Dao Lee
- Hendrik Lorentz
- Ernst Mach
- James Clerk Maxwell (Level 3)
- Lise Meitner
- Albert A. Michelson
- Robert Andrews Millikan
- Georg Ohm
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Hans Christian Ørsted
- Wolfgang Pauli
- Max Planck
- C. V. Raman
- Wilhelm Röntgen
- Andrei Sakharov
- Erwin Schrödinger
- Edward Teller
- J. J. Thomson
- Lord Kelvin
- Johannes Diderik van der Waals
- Thomas Young (scientist)
Astronomy
This section contains 10 articles.
Chemistry
This section contains 23 articles.
- Svante Arrhenius
- Jöns Jacob Berzelius
- Robert Boyle
- Humphry Davy
- Peter Debye
- Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
- Josiah Willard Gibbs
- Fritz Haber
- Otto Hahn
- Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
- Dorothy Hodgkin
- Irving Langmuir
- Antoine Lavoisier (Level 3)
- Gilbert N. Lewis
- Justus von Liebig
- Dmitri Mendeleev (Level 3)
- Linus Pauling
- Joseph Priestley
- Ernest Rutherford
- Frederick Sanger
- Harold Urey
- Friedrich Wöhler
- Robert Burns Woodward
Life sciences
This section contains 43 articles.
Biology
This section contains 29 articles.
- Louis Agassiz
- John James Audubon
- Joseph Banks
- Norman Borlaug
- Rachel Carson
- George Washington Carver
- Edward Drinker Cope
- Francis Crick
- Georges Cuvier
- Charles Darwin (Level 3)
- Rosalind Franklin
- Jane Goodall
- Stephen Jay Gould
- Ernst Haeckel
- W. D. Hamilton
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- Alfred Kinsey
- Hans Krebs (biochemist)
- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
- Carl Linnaeus (Level 3)
- Konrad Lorenz
- Barbara McClintock
- Gregor Mendel
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- Eugenius Warming
- James Watson
Medicine
This section contains 14 articles.
Physical geography
This section contains 5 articles.
Inventors and engineers
This section contains 37 articles.
- Leo Baekeland
- John Logie Baird
- John Bardeen
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Carl Benz
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel
- Emile Berliner
- Wernher von Braun
- Cai Lun
- Wallace Carothers
- Louis Daguerre
- Rudolf Diesel
- Lee de Forest
- George Eastman
- Thomas Edison (Level 3)
- Gustave Eiffel
- Philo Farnsworth
- Robert Fulton
- Robert H. Goddard
- Johannes Gutenberg (Level 3)
- Jack Kilby
- Sergei Korolev
- Guglielmo Marconi
- Cyrus McCormick
- Montgolfier brothers
- Samuel Morse
- Nicéphore Niépce
- Alfred Nobel
- Charles Algernon Parsons
- William Shockley
- George Stephenson
- Nikola Tesla (Level 3)
- Alessandro Volta
- James Watt
- Eli Whitney
- Steve Wozniak
- Wright brothers
Mathematicians
This section contains 45 articles.
Early modern
This section contains 9 articles.
- Jean le Rond d'Alembert
- Daniel Bernoulli
- Jacob Bernoulli
- Johann Bernoulli
- Gerolamo Cardano
- Leonhard Euler (Level 3)
- Pierre de Fermat
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Blaise Pascal
Modern
This section contains 36 articles.
- Niels Henrik Abel
- Stefan Banach
- George Boole
- Georg Cantor
- Augustin-Louis Cauchy
- Arthur Cayley
- Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
- Ronald Fisher
- Joseph Fourier
- Gottlob Frege
- Évariste Galois
- Francis Galton
- Carl Friedrich Gauss (Level 3)
- Kurt Gödel (Level 3)
- Alexander Grothendieck
- William Rowan Hamilton
- Charles Hermite
- David Hilbert
- Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
- Andrey Kolmogorov
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange
- Pierre-Simon Laplace
- Nikolai Lobachevsky
- Benoit Mandelbrot
- Gaspard Monge
- John von Neumann
- Emmy Noether (Level 3)
- Karl Pearson
- Henri Poincaré
- Siméon Denis Poisson
- Srinivasa Ramanujan
- Bernhard Riemann
- Claude Shannon
- Alfred Tarski
- Karl Weierstrass
- Hermann Weyl
Computer scientists
This section contains 11 articles.
Sports figures
This section contains 95 articles.
Individual sports
This section contains 55 articles.
Athletics
This section contains 14 articles.
- Fanny Blankers-Koen
- Usain Bolt
- Sergey Bubka
- Pierre de Coubertin
- Hicham El Guerrouj
- Haile Gebrselassie
- Florence Griffith Joyner
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
- Carl Lewis
- Edwin Moses
- Paavo Nurmi
- Jesse Owens
- Wilma Rudolph
- Emil Zátopek
Auto racing
This section contains 4 articles.
Biathlon
This section contains 1 article.
Boxing
This section contains 3 articles.
Chess
This section contains 2 articles.
Climbing and mountaineering
This section contains 3 articles.
Cycling
This section contains 1 article.
Figure skating
This section contains 2 articles.
Golf
This section contains 3 articles.
Gymnastics
This section contains 2 articles.
Martial arts
This section contains 2 articles.
Skiing
This section contains 2 articles.
Speed skating
This section contains 2 articles.
Swimming
This section contains 3 articles.
Tennis
This section contains 8 articles.
- Margaret Court
- Roger Federer
- Steffi Graf
- Rod Laver
- Suzanne Lenglen
- Rafael Nadal
- Martina Navratilova
- Serena Williams
Wrestling
This section contains 1 article.
Multiple sports
This section contains 2 articles.
Team sports
This section contains 40 articles.
American football
This section contains 3 articles.
Association football
This section contains 12 articles.
- Franz Beckenbauer
- Johan Cruyff
- Alfredo Di Stéfano
- Mia Hamm
- Diego Maradona
- Lionel Messi
- Pelé
- Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer)
- Cristiano Ronaldo
- Lev Yashin
- Zinedine Zidane
- Marta (footballer)
Baseball
This section contains 6 articles.
Basketball
This section contains 6 articles.
Rugby union
This section contains 2 articles.
Cricket
This section contains 6 articles.
Field hockey
This section contains 2 articles.
Ice hockey
This section contains 2 articles.
Rowing
This section contains 1 article.