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This page highlights particularly well-written and complete Wikipedia articles. As there are hundreds of thousands of articles on Wikipedia, we can use your help in keeping track of the great ones. To put an article on this page, add it to the list at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates, where it will be reviewed for style, prose, and completeness. While these are some of our best articles, we are always working to improve them, so be bold in updating articles.

At present, there are 561 featured articles, out of a total of 6,804,253 articles on Wikipedia. That means roughly 1 in 900 articles is listed here. For further statistics, see Wikipedia:Featured article statistics. For the latest FAs, see the featured log.

Pages that have been featured on the main page are in bold. Articles slated to be featured soon on the main page are listed at Wikipedia:Tomorrow's featured article.

To request an article to be removed from this page, list it on Wikipedia:Featured article removal candidates. The graphic equivalent of featured articles is Wikipedia:Featured pictures.


Art and archaeology

Art competitions at the Olympic Games · Matthew Brettingham · Buddhist art · Graffiti · El Lissitzky · Henry Moore · Benjamin Mountfort · Oxyrhynchus · Palladian architecture · Parthenon · John Vanbrugh

Biology and medicine

Action potential · Asperger's syndrome · Bioinformatics · Cladistics · Coconut crab · DNA repair · Evolution · Gene · Helicobacter pylori · Homo floresiensis · Humpback Whale · Kakapo · Lesch-Nyhan syndrome · Marginated Tortoise · Menstrual cycle · Mixed-breed dog · Mitochondrial Eve · Orca · Paracetamol · Platypus · Race · Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome · Sperm Whale · Synapse · Tuberculosis

Chemistry

Alchemy · Helium · LSD · Linus Pauling · Titanium

Culture and society

Abbey Theatre · Bathing machine · Breastfeeding · Cannabis rescheduling in the United States · Exploding whale · Flag of South Africa · Freemasonry · Gender role · Greco-Buddhism · Japanese toilet · Kitsch · Kibbutz · Korean name · Mail · Octopus card · Pet skunk · Spring Heeled Jack

Education

Academia · Peer review

Economics

Bank of China (Hong Kong) · Billboard (advertising) · Celtic Tiger · Economics · Economy of Africa · Economy of the Republic of Ireland · Euro · Gold standard · London Congestion Charge · Labour economics · Strategic management · Supply and demand · Max Weber

Food and drink

Coca-Cola · Kashrut · Single malt Scotch · Tea

Geography and places

Aztalan State Park · Belgium · Bryce Canyon National Park · Buckinghamshire · Cambodia · Carlsbad Caverns National Park · Cathedral of Magdeburg · Chinatown · City status in the United Kingdom · Colditz Castle · Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve · Death Valley National Park · Flag of the Republic of China · Geography of Ireland · Great Mosque of Djenné · India · Isan · Johannesburg · Lake Burley Griffin · Marshall, Texas · Mount Pinatubo · Mount St. Helens · Mumbai · National parks of England and Wales · Newark, New Jersey · Niagara Falls · People's Republic of China · Piccadilly Circus · Provinces of Thailand · Rondane National Park · San Jose, California · Sarajevo · Seattle, Washington · Shrine of Remembrance · Sikkim · South Africa · Traditional counties of England · Yellowstone National Park · Yosemite National Park · Zion National Park

Geology, geophysics, and mineralogy

1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens · Ammolite · Geology of the Bryce Canyon area · Geology of the Zion and Kolob canyons area · Plate tectonics · Silverpit crater · Turquoise

History

Attalus I · Attila the Hun · Aryan invasion theory · Athanasius Kircher · Behistun Inscription · British East India Company · Byzantine Empire · Congo Free State · Cyclone Tracy · John Dee · Éire · England expects that every man will do his duty · Eureka Stockade · Ferdinand Magellan · First Crusade · Carl G. Fisher · Anne Frank · Franks · Galveston Hurricane of 1900 · Franklin B. Gowen · Great Lakes Storm of 1913 · Mahatma Gandhi · George Fox · History of Cape Colony from 1806 to 1870 · History of Cape Colony from 1870 to 1899 · History of Germany · History of Greenland · History of post-Soviet Russia · History of the Netherlands · History of Russia · History of Scotland · History of the Yosemite area · Julius Caesar · Stanislaw Koniecpolski · Laika · Old Swiss Confederacy · Origins of the American Civil War · William N. Page · Penda of Mercia · Witold Pilecki · Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth · Project MKULTRA · Cardinal Richelieu · Russian constitutional crisis of 1993 · Sino-Soviet split · Space Race · Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 · Treaty of Devol · Jonathan Wild · Ziad Jarrah

Language

Aramaic Language · Noam Chomsky · Laal language · Leet · Mandarin (linguistics) · Nafaanra language · Portuguese language · Russian language · Split infinitive · Taiwanese (linguistics) · Tamil language · Thou · Vowel · Vulgar Latin

Law

Common scold · Copyright · Dred Scott v. Sandford · James Bulger · Lawrence v. Texas · Paragraph 175 · Roe v. Wade

Literature

The Adventures of Tintin · Alliterative verse · Isaac Asimov · Augusta, Lady Gregory · Samuel Beckett · Book of Kells · Colley Cibber · The Country Wife · John Day (printer) · Calvin and Hobbes · Crime fiction · Du Fu · English poetry · The Foundation Series · James Joyce · Rudyard Kipling · H.D. · Hrafnkels saga · Irish poetry · Irish theatre · H. P. Lovecraft · Medieval literature · Middle-earth · Modernist poetry in English · George Moore · The Old Man and the Sea · Oroonoko · Chuck Palahniuk · Poetry · Poetry of the United States · John Millington Synge · A Tale of a Tub · The Cantos · Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius · Restoration comedy · Voynich Manuscript · The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · William Butler Yeats

Mathematics

Ackermann function · Algorithm · Fractal · Infinite monkey theorem · Margin of error · Prisoner's dilemma · Regular polytope · Trigonometric function

Media

All your base are belong to us · Batman · Blackadder · Casablanca (movie) · Coronation Street · Doctor Who · Humphrey Bogart · Felix the Cat · Have I Got News For You · Jim Henson · Ian McKellen · Nineteen Eighty-Four (TV programme) · Not the Nine O'Clock News · Quatermass and the Pit · Julia Stiles · Superman · Western movie

Music

Louis Armstrong · The Beatles · Johnny Cash · Miles Davis · "A Day in the Life" · Bob Dylan · Duran Duran · "Get Back" · Gramophone record · "A Hard Day's Night" (song) · Heavy metal music · Heavy metal umlaut · "Hey Jude" · Hip hop music · "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" · "I Want To Hold Your Hand" · Charles Ives · Jazz · "The Long and Winding Road" · Kylie Minogue · Mor lam · Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · Roy Orbison · Punk rock · Saxophone · She Loves You · Sex Pistols · Simon and Garfunkel · Dmitri Shostakovich · Smile (album) · "Something" (song) · Igor Stravinsky · The Supremes · The Temptations · Timpani · "Yesterday" (song)

Philosophy

Michel Foucault · Frankfurt School · Free will · Paradox · Ludwig Wittgenstein · Bernard Williams

Physics and astronomy

Big Bang · Black hole · Cat's Eye Nebula · Cold fusion · Comet · Comet Hale-Bopp · Comet Hyakutake · Albert Einstein · Richard Feynman · Fermi paradox · Galileo Galilei · H II region · Io (moon) · Kreutz Sungrazers · Planetary nebula · Quantum mechanics · Robert Oppenheimer · Rainbow · Roche limit · Carl Sagan · Soap bubble · Speed of light · Transit of Venus · Venus (planet) · Weather lore

Politics and government

2004 Democratic National Convention · Mark Antony · Article One of the United States Constitution · Assassin · Tony Blair · British House of Commons · George Brown, Baron George-Brown · Commonwealth of Nations · Equal Protection Clause · European Union · First Amendment to the United States Constitution · Governor-General of India · Government of Maryland · Charles Graner · House of Lords · Hutton Inquiry · Irish Houses of Parliament · Mark Latham · League of Nations · Liberal Party (Utah) · Abraham Lincoln · Lord Chancellor · John Major · Sid McMath · Reginald Maudling · Joshua A. Norton · Barack Obama · Parliament Act · Parliament of Canada · Parliament of the United Kingdom · James K. Polk · Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. · President of Ireland · Prime Minister of the United Kingdom · Privy Council · Propaganda · ROC presidential election, 2004 · Royal Assent · Separation of powers under the United States Constitution · Wladyslaw Sikorski · Margaret Thatcher · Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution · Tynwald Day · United States Constitution · U.S. Electoral College · Mordechai Vanunu · Robert Walpole · Gough Whitlam · Ralph Yarborough

Psychology

Milgram experiment · Psychosis · Schizophrenia

Religion and beliefs

Anno Domini · Bahá'í Faith · Bible code · Buddhism · Christianity · Christmas · End times · Father Damien · Greek mythology · Hinduism · History of Buddhism · Hebrew calendar · Holy Prepuce · King James Version of the Bible · Names of God in Judaism · Papal election · Presuppositional apologetics · Revised Standard Version · Shakers · Shroud of Turin · Vampire · Xenu

Royalty, nobility and chivalry

Anne of Great Britain · Charles I of England · Charles II of England · Coronation of the British monarch · Edward VI of England · Elizabeth I of England · George I of Great Britain · George II of Great Britain · George III of the United Kingdom · George IV of the United Kingdom · Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava · Henry VIII of England · Hereditary peer · History of the Peerage · James I of England · James II of England · Louis XIV of France · Mary I of England · Mary II of England · Order of the Bath · Order of the Garter · Order of the Thistle · Peerage · Prince-elector · Privilege of Peerage · Representative peer · William I of Orange · William III of England · William IV of the United Kingdom · Victoria of the United Kingdom

Sport and games

1896 Summer Olympics · Baseball · Bishojo game · Blackjack · Bodyline · Bullfighting · BZFlag · Chariot racing · Chess · Brian Close · A. E. J. Collins · Cricket · Steve Dalkowski · Lottie Dod · Doom · Go (board game) · Golden age of arcade games · History of Test cricket (to 1883) · History of Test cricket (1884 to 1889) · Anatoly Karpov · Garry Kasparov · Goomba · Fanny Blankers-Koen · LEGO · Link (Legend of Zelda) · Monopoly (game) · Montreal Canadiens · Paul Morphy · Olympic Flame · Olympic Games · Rock, Paper, Scissors · Seabiscuit · Super Mario 64 · Suzanne Lenglen · Summer Olympic Games · Jim Thorpe · Weight training

Technology

Aquarium · ASCII · Btrieve · C programming language · Caesar cipher · CPU cache · Color Graphics Adapter · Computer security · Crash test dummy · Common Unix Printing System · Data Encryption Standard · Domestic AC power plugs & sockets · Eifel Aqueduct · Electronic amplifier · Emacs · Enigma machine · Floppy disk · Fountain pen · Glass · GNU/Linux naming controversy · History of computing hardware · Hubble Space Telescope · Java programming language · Jet engine · Krag-Jørgensen · Markup language · Mozilla Firefox · Nintendo Entertainment System · Nuclear weapon · PaX · Phonograph cylinder · Quantum computer · Radar · ROT13 · Saturn V · Soda can stove · Spacecraft propulsion · Spam (electronic) · Speech synthesis · Typewriter · Telephone exchange · Windows XP · X Window System · Zuiderzee Works

Transport

Air Force One · Auto rickshaw · Bicycle · Canadian Pacific Railway · Cincinnati, Lebanon and Northern Railroad · Ford Mustang · John Bull (locomotive) · London Underground · Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9 · MTR · Pioneer Zephyr · Pulaski Skyway · Ridge Route · Ryanair · Space elevator · VW Transporter · Wigwag · Zeppelin

War

Attack on Pearl Harbor · Battle of Alesia · Battle of Aljubarrota · Battle of Inchon · Battle of Jutland · Battle of Hampton Roads · Battle of Leyte Gulf · Battle of Normandy · Battle of the Bulge · Battle of the Somme (1916) · Battle of Warsaw (1920) · Chemical warfare · Convair B-36 · Cristero War · Karl Dönitz · First Battle of the Stronghold · Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson · Iraqi insurgency · Erich von Manstein · Lord's Resistance Army · Medal of Honor · Military history of the Soviet Union · Operation Downfall · Peloponnesian War · Siege · Submarine · Tank · Trench warfare · Use of poison gas in World War I · War elephant · War of the Spanish Succession · Warsaw Uprising · World War I