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Level 4 Sublists

Vital articles is a list of subjects for which Wikipedia should have corresponding high-quality articles. It serves as a centralized watchlist to track the status of Wikipedia's most essential articles. This is one of eleven Level 4 sub-lists of ten thousand articles and is currently under construction.

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Total 1,984 articles.

Class #Articles
FA 173
GA 228
A 2
B 904
C 666
FFA 88
DGA 83
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People

This section contains 1984 articles.

Entertainers

This section contains 86 articles.

Actors

This section contains 57 articles.

Dancers and choreographers

This section contains 15 articles.

Comedians

This section contains 9 articles.

Hosts and performers

This section contains 5 articles.

Visual artists

This section contains 122 articles.

Western painters and illustrators

This section contains 71 articles.

Other visual arts

This section contains 46 articles.

Non-Western traditions

This section contains 5 articles.

Writers

This section contains 255 articles.

Ancient

This section contains 18 articles.

Asia

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Qu Yuan
  2. Kalidasa
  3. Tao Yuanming

Europe

This section contains 15 articles.

Greece

This section contains 8 articles.

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

East Asia

This section contains 8 articles.

China

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Wang Wei
  2. Li Bai (Level 3)
  3. Du Fu
  4. Han Yu
  5. Bai Juyi
  6. Ouyang Xiu
  7. Su Shi
Japan

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Murasaki Shikibu (Level 3)
South Asia

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Bhavabhuti
  2. Amir Khusrau
  3. Kabir
West 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 37 articles.

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 31 articles.

France

This section contains 9 articles.

  1. François Rabelais
  2. Nostradamus
  3. Michel de Montaigne
  4. Pierre Corneille
  5. Molière
  6. Charles Perrault
  7. Jean Racine
  8. Voltaire (Level 3)
  9. Marquis de Sade
German lands

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Friedrich Schiller
Great Britain and Ireland

This section contains 15 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. Henry Fielding
  13. Samuel Johnson
  14. William Blake
  15. Robert Burns
Iberia

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Luís de Camões
  2. Miguel de Cervantes (Level 3)
  3. Lope de Vega
  4. Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Italy

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Giacomo Casanova

Modern

This section contains 173 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 49 articles.

US and Canada

This section contains 40 articles.

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

This section contains 9 articles.

  1. Machado de Assis
  2. José Martí
  3. Jorge Luis Borges
  4. Pablo Neruda
  5. Alejo Carpentier
  6. Jorge Amado
  7. Gabriel García Márquez
  8. Carlos Fuentes
  9. Mario Vargas Llosa

Asia

This section contains 16 articles.

  1. Ghalib
  2. Rabindranath Tagore (Level 3)
  3. Muhammad Iqbal
  4. Premchand
  5. Kahlil Gibran
  6. Chinghiz Aitmatov
  7. Orhan Pamuk
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

Europe

This section contains 99 articles.

Europe: General

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Constantine P. Cavafy
Central Europe

This section contains 8 articles.

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

This section contains 16 articles.

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

This section contains 74 articles.

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

This section contains 16 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. André Gide
  13. Marcel Proust
  14. Antonin Artaud
  15. Eugène Ionesco
  16. 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
Scandinavia

This section contains 8 articles.

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

This section contains 37 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. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  10. Charles Dickens
  11. Brontë family
  12. George Eliot
  13. Lewis Carroll
  14. Thomas Hardy
  15. Robert Louis Stevenson
  16. Oscar Wilde
  17. George Bernard Shaw
  18. Arthur Conan Doyle
  19. W. B. Yeats
  20. Rudyard Kipling
  21. H. G. Wells
  22. Virginia Woolf
  23. James Joyce
  24. D. H. Lawrence
  25. Agatha Christie
  26. J. R. R. Tolkien
  27. Enid Blyton
  28. C. S. Lewis
  29. George Orwell
  30. Samuel Beckett
  31. William Golding
  32. Dylan Thomas
  33. Roald Dahl
  34. Arthur C. Clarke
  35. V. S. Naipaul
  36. Salman Rushdie
  37. Kazuo Ishiguro

Oceania

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Banjo Paterson
  2. Patrick White

Journalists

This section contains 14 articles.

Musicians and composers

This section contains 150 articles.

Western art music

This section contains 72 articles.

Composers

This section contains 53 articles.

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 20 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
  19. Gustav Mahler
  20. Richard Strauss
20th century modern

This section contains 15 articles.

  1. Gabriel Fauré
  2. Giacomo Puccini
  3. Claude Debussy
  4. Jean Sibelius
  5. Ralph Vaughan Williams
  6. Sergei Rachmaninoff
  7. Arnold Schoenberg
  8. Maurice Ravel
  9. Béla Bartók
  10. Igor Stravinsky
  11. Sergei Prokofiev
  12. George Gershwin
  13. Aaron Copland
  14. Dmitri Shostakovich
  15. Benjamin Britten
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 18 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 7 articles.

  1. Enrico Caruso
  2. Kirsten Flagstad
  3. Maria Callas
  4. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
  5. Joan Sutherland
  6. Luciano Pavarotti
  7. 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 9 articles.

This section contains 62 articles.

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

Non-English language singers

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Umm Kulthum
  2. Édith Piaf
  3. Charles Aznavour
  4. Serge Gainsbourg
  5. Lata Mangeshkar
  6. Vladimir Vysotsky
  7. Teresa Teng

Afrobeat

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Fela Kuti

Blues, R&B, soul and funk

This section contains 9 articles.

  1. Robert Johnson
  2. B. B. King
  3. Ray Charles
  4. James Brown
  5. Marvin Gaye
  6. Aretha Franklin
  7. The Supremes
  8. Stevie Wonder
  9. 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 2 articles.

  1. Run-DMC
  2. Tupac Shakur

Latin

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Astor Piazzolla
  2. Celia Cruz
  3. Julio Iglesias
  4. Selena

Flamenco

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Paco de Lucía

Musical comedy and lyricists

This section contains 3 articles.

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

Rock

This section contains 19 articles.

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

Directors, producers and screenwriters

This section contains 60 articles.

Businesspeople

This section contains 29 articles.

Explorers

This section contains 29 articles.

Philosophers, historians, political and social scientists

This section contains 162 articles.

Philosophers

This section contains 69 articles.

Historians and archaeologists

This section contains 23 articles.

Ancient

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Herodotus (Level 3)
  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. Geoffrey of Monmouth
  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 21 articles.

Economists

This section contains 10 articles.

Social scientists

This section contains 12 articles.

Linguists

This section contains 7 articles.

Psychologists

This section contains 20 articles.

Religious figures

This section contains 124 articles.

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

Abrahamic religions

This section contains 86 articles.

Judaism

This section contains 6 articles.

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

Christianity

This section contains 60 articles.

New Testament figures

This section contains 8 articles.

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

This section contains 18 articles.

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

This section contains 17 articles.

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

This section contains 6 articles.

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

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Patriarch Nikon of Moscow
  2. Grigori Rasputin
Protestantism

This section contains 13 articles.

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

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Joseph Smith
  2. Mary Baker Eddy

Islam

This section contains 19 articles.

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

This section contains 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 7 articles.

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

This section contains 6 articles.

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

Buddhism

This section contains 15 articles.

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

This section contains 5 articles.

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

This section contains 4 articles.

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

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Kūkai
  2. Dōgen

Jainism

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Mahavira

Sikhism

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Guru Nanak
  2. Guru Gobind Singh

Others

This section contains 3 articles.

Zoroastrianism

This section contains 1 article.

New religious movements

This section contains 2 articles.

Politicians and leaders

This section contains 507 articles.

Ancient

This section contains 73 articles.

Africa

This section contains 13 articles.

Egypt

This section contains 11 articles.

  1. Narmer
  2. Thutmose I
  3. Hatshepsut
  4. Thutmose III
  5. Akhenaten
  6. Nefertiti
  7. Tutankhamun
  8. Ramesses II (Level 3)
  9. Ramesses III
Hellenistic Egypt

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Ptolemy I Soter
  2. Cleopatra (Level 3)
Ethiopia

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Ezana of Axum
Northwestern Africa

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Gaiseric

Asia

This section contains 28 articles.

Europe

This section contains 32 articles.

Eastern Europe

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Pyrrhus of Epirus
  2. Decebalus
  3. Attila
Greece

This section contains 9 articles.

  1. Lycurgus
  2. Draco (legislator)
  3. Solon
  4. Themistocles
  5. Pericles
  6. Alcibiades
  7. Demosthenes
Macedonia

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Philip II of Macedon
  2. Alexander the Great (Level 3)
Western Europe

This section contains 6 articles.

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

This section contains 14 articles.

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

Post-classical

This section contains 138 articles.

Africa

This section contains 8 articles.

Americas

This section contains 2 articles.

Asia

This section contains 49 articles.

Central Asia, Iran, Caucasus

This section contains 11 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. Muhammad II of Khwarazm
  9. Timur (Level 3)
  10. Tokhtamysh
  11. Ulugh Beg
China

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Emperor Wen of Sui
  2. Emperor Taizong of Tang
  3. Wu Zetian
  4. Emperor Xuanzong of Tang
  5. Yang Guifei
  6. Emperor Taizu of Song
  7. Hongwu Emperor
  8. 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 6 articles.

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

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Anawrahta
  2. Suryavarman II
  3. Jayavarman VII
  4. Ramkhamhaeng
  5. Gajah Mada
Vietnam

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Trần Thánh Tông
  2. Lê Lợi
  3. Lê Thánh Tông
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 79 articles.

Eastern Europe

This section contains 31 articles.

  1. Svatopluk I of Moravia
  2. Stefan Dušan
  3. Skanderbeg
  4. Vlad the Impaler
  5. 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

This section contains 7 articles.

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

This section contains 48 articles.

  1. Cnut
  2. Margaret I of Denmark
England and Scotland

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 of England
  8. Robert the Bruce
  9. Edward III of England
  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

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Charles the Fat
  2. Henry the Lion
Holy Roman Empire

This section contains 7 articles.

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

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Robert Guiscard
  2. Roger II of Sicily
  3. Cosimo de' Medici
  4. Lorenzo de' Medici
  5. Girolamo Savonarola
  6. 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
Spain and Portugal

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

Early modern

This section contains 104 articles.

Africa

This section contains 3 articles.

Americas

This section contains 13 articles.

South America

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Atahualpa
  2. Túpac Amaru
  3. Túpac Amaru II
North America

This section contains 10 articles.

  1. Moctezuma II
  2. La Malinche
  3. Toussaint Louverture
United States

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Benjamin Franklin
  2. George Washington (Level 3)
  3. John Adams
  4. Thomas Jefferson
  5. James Madison
  6. Alexander Hamilton
  7. John Marshall

Asia and Oceania

This section contains 41 articles.

Central Asia, Iran, Caucasus

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Babur
  2. Ismail I
  3. Humayun
  4. Abbas the Great
  5. Nader Shah
  6. 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 8 articles.

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

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Bayinnaung
  2. Tabinshwehti
  3. Alaungpaya
Southern Asia

This section contains 10 articles.

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

This section contains 5 articles.

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

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Kamehameha I

Europe

This section contains 47 articles.

Modern

This section contains 192 articles.

Africa

This section contains 33 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. Rainilaiarivony
  2. Jomo Kenyatta
  3. Hastings Banda
  4. Julius Nyerere
  5. Robert Mugabe
  6. Kenneth Kaunda
  7. Idi Amin
  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 4 articles.

  1. Shaka
  2. Cecil Rhodes
  3. Nelson Mandela (Level 3)
  4. F. W. de Klerk
Western Africa

This section contains 7 articles.

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

Americas

This section contains 40 articles.

Asia and Oceania

This section contains 55 articles.

Europe

This section contains 64 articles.

Central Europe

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
  2. Klemens von Metternich
  3. Franz Joseph I of Austria
  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 4 articles.

  1. Charles XIV John
  2. Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
  3. Dag Hammarskjöld
  4. Gro Harlem Brundtland
Western Europe

This section contains 36 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 11 articles.

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

This section contains 3 articles.

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

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Charles Stewart Parnell
  2. Éamon de Valera
  3. 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 51 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 9 articles.

Early modern

This section contains 12 articles.

Modern

This section contains 21 articles.

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 2 articles.

  1. Bartolomé de las Casas
  2. Blackbeard

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.

Scientists, inventors and mathematicians

This section contains 255 articles.

Ancient figures

This section contains 26 articles.

Physics

This section contains 66 articles.

Chemistry

This section contains 23 articles.

Life sciences

This section contains 43 articles.

Earth science and physical geography

This section contains 6 articles.

Inventors and engineers

This section contains 35 articles.

Mathematicians

This section contains 45 articles.

Computer scientists

This section contains 11 articles.

Sports figures

This section contains 87 articles.

Individual sports

This section contains 53 articles.

Athletics

This section contains 13 articles.

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

Auto racing

This section contains 4 articles.

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

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

Climbing and mountaineering

This section contains 3 articles.

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

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

Skiing

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Ingemar Stenmark
  2. Marit Bjørgen

Speed skating

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Eric Heiden

Swimming

This section contains 3 articles.

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

Tennis

This section contains 9 articles.

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

Wrestling

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 34 articles.

American football

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Jim Brown
  2. Tom Brady

Association football

This section contains 12 articles.

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

Baseball

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Babe Ruth
  2. Jackie Robinson
  3. Hank Aaron
  4. Sadaharu Oh

Basketball

This section contains 5 articles.

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

Cricket

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. W. G. Grace
  2. Don Bradman
  3. Garfield Sobers
  4. Viv Richards
  5. Sachin Tendulkar

Field hockey

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Dhyan Chand
  2. Luciana Aymar

Ice hockey

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Gordie Howe
  2. Wayne Gretzky

Rowing

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Steve Redgrave

Rugby union

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Jonah Lomu