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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 1,991 articles.

Class #Articles
B 734
C 672
FGAN 162
FFA 78
GA 228
FA 165
Start 191
DGA 73
A 3
FFAC 2

People (1,991 articles)

Entertainers (89 articles)

Actors (60 articles)

  1. Julie Andrews
  2. Lauren Bacall
  3. Amitabh Bachchan
  4. Brigitte Bardot
  5. Ingrid Bergman
  6. Sarah Bernhardt
  7. Humphrey Bogart
  8. Marlon Brando
  9. James Cagney
  10. Jackie Chan
  11. Claudette Colbert
  12. Sean Connery
  13. Gary Cooper
  14. Joan Crawford
  15. Bette Davis
  16. Doris Day
  17. Robert De Niro
  18. Alain Delon
  19. Marlene Dietrich
  20. Clint Eastwood
  21. Henry Fonda
  22. Jean Gabin
  23. Clark Gable
  24. Greta Garbo
  25. Judy Garland
  26. John Gielgud
  27. Lillian Gish
  28. Cary Grant
  29. Alec Guinness
  30. Tom Hanks
  31. Setsuko Hara
  32. Rita Hayworth
  33. Audrey Hepburn
  34. Katharine Hepburn
  35. Grace Kelly
  36. Klaus Kinski
  37. Vivien Leigh
  38. Sophia Loren
  39. Madhubala
  40. Marcello Mastroianni
  41. Toshiro Mifune
  42. Marilyn Monroe
  43. Jeanne Moreau
  44. Jack Nicholson
  45. Laurence Olivier
  46. Peter O'Toole
  47. Gregory Peck
  48. Mary Pickford
  49. Sidney Poitier
  50. Rajinikanth
  51. Barbara Stanwyck
  52. James Stewart
  53. Meryl Streep
  54. Elizabeth Taylor
  55. Shirley Temple
  56. Ellen Terry
  57. Spencer Tracy
  58. Rudolph Valentino
  59. John Wayne
  60. Mae West

Dancers and choreographers (15 articles)

Ballet (7 articles)

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

Other dance (8 articles)

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

Comedians (9 articles)

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

Hosts and performers (5 articles)

  1. Johnny Carson
  2. Harry Houdini
  3. Marcel Marceau
  4. Ed Sullivan
  5. Oprah Winfrey

Visual artists (124 articles)

Western painters and illustrators (72 articles)

Medieval era (1 article)

  1. Giotto

Renaissance to early modern era (22 articles)

  1. Sandro Botticelli
  2. Hieronymus Bosch
  3. Pieter Bruegel the Elder
  4. Caravaggio
  5. Jacques-Louis David
  6. Albrecht Dürer
  7. Artemisia Gentileschi
  8. El Greco
  9. Francisco Goya
  10. William Hogarth
  11. Hans Holbein the Younger
  12. Leonardo da Vinci (Level 3)
  13. Masaccio
  14. Nicolas Poussin
  15. Raphael
  16. Rembrandt (Level 3)
  17. Peter Paul Rubens
  18. Titian
  19. Jan van Eyck
  20. Diego Velázquez
  21. Johannes Vermeer
  22. Antoine Watteau

Late modern era (painters) (40 articles)

  1. Paul Cézanne
  2. Marc Chagall
  3. John Constable
  4. Gustave Courbet
  5. Salvador Dalí
  6. Edgar Degas
  7. Eugène Delacroix
  8. Max Ernst
  9. Caspar David Friedrich
  10. Paul Gauguin
  11. Vincent van Gogh
  12. Edward Hopper
  13. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
  14. Frida Kahlo (Level 3)
  15. Wassily Kandinsky
  16. Paul Klee
  17. René Magritte
  18. Kazimir Malevich
  19. Édouard Manet
  20. Franz Marc
  21. Henri Matisse
  22. Joan Miró
  23. Piet Mondrian
  24. Claude Monet
  25. Edvard Munch
  26. Georgia O'Keeffe
  27. Pablo Picasso (Level 3)
  28. Camille Pissarro
  29. Jackson Pollock
  30. Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  31. Ilya Repin
  32. Gerhard Richter
  33. Diego Rivera
  34. Henri Rousseau
  35. John Singer Sargent
  36. Georges Seurat
  37. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
  38. J. M. W. Turner
  39. Andy Warhol
  40. James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Cartoonists, comics artists, and illustrators (9 articles)

  1. Aubrey Beardsley
  2. M. C. Escher
  3. Will Eisner
  4. Hergé
  5. Jack Kirby
  6. Winsor McCay
  7. Norman Rockwell
  8. Dr. Seuss
  9. Osamu Tezuka

Other visual arts (46 articles)

Sculptors (8 articles)

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

Architects (22 articles)

  1. Alvar Aalto
  2. Leon Battista Alberti
  3. Filippo Brunelleschi
  4. Le Corbusier
  5. Buckminster Fuller
  6. Antoni Gaudí
  7. Frank Gehry
  8. Walter Gropius
  9. Zaha Hadid
  10. Imhotep
  11. Philip Johnson
  12. Louis Kahn
  13. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  14. Oscar Niemeyer
  15. Andrea Palladio
  16. I. M. Pei
  17. Mimar Sinan
  18. Albert Speer
  19. Louis Sullivan
  20. Vitruvius
  21. Christopher Wren
  22. Frank Lloyd Wright

Conceptual artists (2 articles)

  1. Joseph Beuys
  2. Marcel Duchamp

Designers (3 articles)

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

Photographers (6 articles)

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

Instrument makers (1 article)

  1. Antonio Stradivari

Urban planners (4 articles)

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

Non-Western traditions (6 articles)

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

Writers (255 articles)

Ancient (17 articles)

Asia (2 articles)

  1. Kalidasa
  2. Qu Yuan

Europe (15 articles)

  1. Aeschylus
  2. Aristophanes
  3. Catullus
  4. Euripides
  5. Hesiod
  6. Homer (Level 3)
  7. Horace
  8. Lucian
  9. Menander
  10. Ovid
  11. Plautus
  12. Sappho
  13. Sophocles
  14. Terence
  15. Virgil (Level 3)

Post-classical (29 articles)

Asia (22 articles)

  1. Bai Juyi
  2. Bhavabhuti
  3. Du Fu
  4. Ferdowsi
  5. Hafez
  6. Han Yu
  7. Jami
  8. Kabir
  9. Omar Khayyam
  10. Amir Khusrau
  11. Li Bai (Level 3)
  12. Mirabai
  13. Murasaki Shikibu (Level 3)
  14. Nizami Ganjavi
  15. Abu Nuwas
  16. Ouyang Xiu
  17. Rudaki
  18. Rumi (Level 3)
  19. Saadi Shirazi
  20. Su Shi
  21. Tao Yuanming
  22. Wang Wei (Tang dynasty)

Europe (7 articles)

  1. Dante Alighieri (Level 3)
  2. Giovanni Boccaccio
  3. Geoffrey Chaucer
  4. Chrétien de Troyes
  5. Christine de Pizan
  6. Petrarch
  7. François Villon

Early modern (33 articles)

Asia (5 articles)

  1. Fuzuli (writer)
  2. Matsuo Bashō
  3. Mir Taqi Mir
  4. Tukaram
  5. Tulsidas

Europe (28 articles)

  1. Pedro Calderón de la Barca
  2. Robert Burns
  3. Luís de Camões
  4. Giacomo Casanova
  5. Miguel de Cervantes (Level 3)
  6. Pierre Corneille
  7. Daniel Defoe
  8. John Donne
  9. John Dryden
  10. Henry Fielding
  11. Samuel Johnson
  12. Ben Jonson
  13. Christopher Marlowe
  14. John Milton
  15. Michel de Montaigne
  16. Thomas More
  17. Molière
  18. Nostradamus
  19. Charles Perrault
  20. Alexander Pope
  21. François Rabelais
  22. Jean Racine
  23. Marquis de Sade
  24. William Shakespeare (Level 3)
  25. Edmund Spenser
  26. Jonathan Swift
  27. Lope de Vega
  28. Voltaire (Level 3)

Late modern (176 articles)

Africa (7 articles)

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

Americas (49 articles)

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

Europe (101 articles)

General (1 article)
  1. Constantine P. Cavafy
Central Europe (7 articles)
  1. Adam Mickiewicz
  2. Ismail Kadare
  3. Joseph Conrad
  4. Sándor Petőfi
  5. Henryk Sienkiewicz
  6. Taras Shevchenko
  7. Elie Wiesel
Russia (16 articles)
  1. Anna Akhmatova
  2. Joseph Brodsky
  3. Mikhail Bulgakov
  4. Ivan Bunin
  5. Anton Chekhov
  6. Fyodor Dostoevsky
  7. Maxim Gorky
  8. Nikolai Gogol
  9. Mikhail Lermontov
  10. Vladimir Mayakovsky
  11. Boris Pasternak
  12. Alexander Pushkin
  13. Mikhail Sholokhov
  14. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  15. Leo Tolstoy (Level 3)
  16. Ivan Turgenev
Western Europe (40 articles)
  1. Hans Christian Andersen
  2. Antonin Artaud
  3. Honoré de Balzac
  4. Charles Baudelaire
  5. Karen Blixen
  6. Bertolt Brecht
  7. Albert Camus
  8. Alexandre Dumas
  9. Umberto Eco
  10. Gustave Flaubert
  11. Anne Frank
  12. Federico García Lorca
  13. André Gide
  14. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  15. Brothers Grimm
  16. Knut Hamsun
  17. Heinrich Heine
  18. Hermann Hesse
  19. Victor Hugo
  20. Henrik Ibsen
  21. Eugène Ionesco
  22. Franz Kafka
  23. Selma Lagerlöf
  24. Halldór Laxness
  25. Astrid Lindgren
  26. Thomas Mann
  27. Stéphane Mallarmé
  28. Guy de Maupassant
  29. Fernando Pessoa
  30. Luigi Pirandello
  31. Marcel Proust
  32. Arthur Rimbaud
  33. Rainer Maria Rilke
  34. José Saramago
  35. Friedrich Schiller
  36. Stendhal
  37. August Strindberg
  38. Tristan Tzara
  39. Jules Verne
  40. Émile Zola
UK and Ireland (37 articles)
  1. Jane Austen
  2. Samuel Beckett
  3. William Blake
  4. Enid Blyton
  5. Brontë family
  6. Lord Byron
  7. Lewis Carroll
  8. Agatha Christie
  9. Arthur C. Clarke
  10. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  11. Roald Dahl
  12. Charles Dickens
  13. Arthur Conan Doyle
  14. George Eliot
  15. William Golding
  16. Thomas Hardy
  17. James Joyce
  18. John Keats
  19. Rudyard Kipling
  20. D. H. Lawrence
  21. C. S. Lewis
  22. V. S. Naipaul
  23. George Orwell
  24. Salman Rushdie
  25. Walter Scott
  26. George Bernard Shaw
  27. Mary Shelley
  28. Percy Bysshe Shelley
  29. Robert Louis Stevenson
  30. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  31. Dylan Thomas
  32. J. R. R. Tolkien
  33. H. G. Wells
  34. Oscar Wilde
  35. William Wordsworth
  36. Virginia Woolf
  37. W. B. Yeats

Asia (17 articles)

  1. Chinghiz Aitmatov
  2. Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
  3. Ghalib
  4. Kahlil Gibran
  5. Muhammad Iqbal
  6. Kazuo Ishiguro
  7. Jin Yong
  8. Yasunari Kawabata
  9. Lao She
  10. Lu Xun
  11. Yukio Mishima
  12. Haruki Murakami
  13. Natsume Sōseki
  14. Kenzaburō Ōe
  15. Orhan Pamuk
  16. Premchand
  17. Rabindranath Tagore (Level 3)

Oceania (2 articles)

  1. Banjo Paterson
  2. Patrick White

Journalists (14 articles)

  1. Svetlana Alexievich
  2. David Attenborough
  3. Nellie Bly
  4. Walter Cronkite
  5. Horace Greeley
  6. William Randolph Hearst
  7. Walter Lippmann
  8. Rupert Murdoch
  9. Edward R. Murrow
  10. Joseph Pulitzer
  11. Ida Tarbell
  12. Hunter S. Thompson
  13. Anna Wintour
  14. Bob Woodward

Musicians and composers (149 articles)

Western art music (71 articles)

Composers (53 articles)

Medieval and Renaissance (5 articles)
  1. Hildegard of Bingen
  2. Guillaume de Machaut
  3. Josquin des Prez
  4. Guillaume Du Fay
  5. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Baroque (5 articles)
  1. Johann Sebastian Bach (Level 3)
  2. George Frideric Handel
  3. Claudio Monteverdi
  4. Henry Purcell
  5. Antonio Vivaldi
Classical (3 articles)
  1. Ludwig van Beethoven (Level 3)
  2. Joseph Haydn
  3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Level 3)
Romantic (21 articles)
  1. Hector Berlioz
  2. Johannes Brahms
  3. Anton Bruckner
  4. Frédéric Chopin
  5. Antonín Dvořák
  6. Edward Elgar
  7. Gilbert and Sullivan
  8. Franz Liszt
  9. Gustav Mahler
  10. Felix Mendelssohn
  11. Modest Mussorgsky
  12. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  13. Gioachino Rossini
  14. Franz Schubert
  15. Clara Schumann
  16. Robert Schumann
  17. Johann Strauss II
  18. Richard Strauss
  19. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  20. Giuseppe Verdi
  21. Richard Wagner
20th century modern (19 articles)
  1. Béla Bartók
  2. Benjamin Britten
  3. Aaron Copland
  4. Claude Debussy
  5. Gabriel Fauré
  6. Giacomo Puccini
  7. Sergei Prokofiev
  8. Sergei Rachmaninoff
  9. Maurice Ravel
  10. Arnold Schoenberg
  11. Dmitri Shostakovich
  12. Jean Sibelius
  13. Igor Stravinsky
  14. Ralph Vaughan Williams
Avant-garde/postmodern (5 articles)
  1. Pierre Boulez
  2. John Cage
  3. Philip Glass
  4. György Ligeti
  5. Karlheinz Stockhausen

Pedagogues (1 article)

  1. Nadia Boulanger

Performers (17 articles)

Cellists (2 articles)
  1. Pablo Casals
  2. Mstislav Rostropovich
Conductors (3 articles)
  1. Leonard Bernstein
  2. Herbert von Karajan
  3. Arturo Toscanini
Pianists (4 articles)
  1. Glenn Gould
  2. Vladimir Horowitz
  3. Sviatoslav Richter
  4. Arthur Rubinstein
Singers (7 articles)
  1. Maria Callas
  2. Enrico Caruso
  3. Plácido Domingo
  4. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
  5. Kirsten Flagstad
  6. Luciano Pavarotti
  7. Joan Sutherland
Violinists (1 article)
  1. Niccolò Paganini

Non-Western art music (7 articles)

Carnatic classical (3 articles)

  1. Muthuswami Dikshitar
  2. Shyama Shastri
  3. Tyagaraja

Hindustani classical (2 articles)

  1. Ali Akbar Khan
  2. Ravi Shankar

Qawwali (1 article)

  1. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Persian traditional (1 article)

  1. Mohammad-Reza Shajarian

Jazz (11 articles)

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

Popular music (60 articles)

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

Non-English language singers (7 articles)

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

Afrobeat (1 article)

  1. Fela Kuti

Blues, R&B, and soul (6 articles)

  1. Ray Charles
  2. Aretha Franklin
  3. Marvin Gaye
  4. Robert Johnson
  5. B.B. King
  6. The Supremes

Electronic music (2 articles)

  1. Brian Eno
  2. Kraftwerk

Folk and country (6 articles)

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

Funk (2 articles)

  1. James Brown
  2. Prince (musician)

Hip-hop and rap (1 article)

  1. Tupac Shakur

Latin (4 articles)

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

Flamenco (1 article)

  1. Paco de Lucía

Musical comedy and lyricists (3 articles)

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

Rock (18 articles)

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

Directors, producers and screenwriters (60 articles)

Animators and puppeteers (3 articles)

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

Directors (52 articles)

  1. Woody Allen
  2. Michelangelo Antonioni
  3. Ingmar Bergman
  4. Robert Bresson
  5. Luis Buñuel
  6. James Cameron
  7. Frank Capra
  8. Charlie Chaplin (Level 3)
  9. Jean Cocteau
  10. Francis Ford Coppola
  11. Cecil B. DeMille
  12. Vittorio De Sica
  13. Carl Theodor Dreyer
  14. Guru Dutt
  15. Sergei Eisenstein
  16. Federico Fellini
  17. John Ford
  18. Miloš Forman
  19. Jean-Luc Godard
  20. D. W. Griffith
  21. Howard Hawks
  22. Werner Herzog
  23. Alfred Hitchcock
  24. Raj Kapoor
  25. Elia Kazan
  26. Buster Keaton
  27. Abbas Kiarostami
  28. Akira Kurosawa
  29. Stanley Kubrick
  30. Fritz Lang
  31. David Lean
  32. Ang Lee
  33. George Lucas
  34. Auguste and Louis Lumière
  35. Ida Lupino
  36. David Lynch
  37. Georges Méliès
  38. Yasujirō Ozu
  39. Roman Polanski
  40. Satyajit Ray
  41. Jean Renoir
  42. Leni Riefenstahl
  43. Martin Scorsese
  44. Ousmane Sembène
  45. Steven Spielberg
  46. Quentin Tarantino
  47. Andrei Tarkovsky
  48. François Truffaut
  49. Orson Welles
  50. Billy Wilder
  51. Wong Kar-wai
  52. William Wyler

Producers and executives (4 articles)

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

Screenwriter (1 article)

  1. Frances Marion

Businesspeople (28 articles)

  1. John Jacob Astor
  2. P. T. Barnum
  3. Warren Buffett
  4. Al Capone
  5. Andrew Carnegie
  6. Marcus Licinius Crassus
  7. Pablo Escobar
  8. Henry Ford (Level 3)
  9. Jakob Fugger
  10. Bill Gates
  11. Howard Hughes
  12. Steve Jobs
  13. Estée Lauder (businesswoman)
  14. Li Ka-shing
  15. Andrew Mellon
  16. Shigeru Miyamoto
  17. J. P. Morgan
  18. John D. Rockefeller
  19. Rothschild family
  20. David Sarnoff
  21. Carlos Slim
  22. Leland Stanford
  23. Jamsetji Tata
  24. Ted Turner
  25. Cornelius Vanderbilt
  26. Sam Walton
  27. Josiah Wedgwood
  28. George Westinghouse

Explorers (30 articles)

Ancient history (2 articles)

  1. Hanno the Navigator
  2. Zhang Qian

Post-classical history (5 articles)

  1. Ibn Battuta
  2. Leif Erikson
  3. Marco Polo (Level 3)
  4. Xuanzang
  5. Zheng He (Level 3)

Early modern history (12 articles)

  1. Vitus Bering
  2. Pedro Álvares Cabral
  3. Jacques Cartier
  4. Christopher Columbus (Level 3)
  5. James Cook (Level 3)
  6. Vasco da Gama (Level 3)
  7. Ferdinand Magellan (Level 3)
  8. Juan Ponce de León
  9. Hernando de Soto
  10. Abel Tasman
  11. Amerigo Vespucci
  12. Willem Barentsz

Late modern history (11 articles)

  1. Roald Amundsen (Level 3)
  2. Neil Armstrong
  3. Amelia Earhart
  4. Yuri Gagarin
  5. Alexander von Humboldt
  6. Charles Lindbergh
  7. David Livingstone
  8. Fridtjof Nansen
  9. Ernest Shackleton
  10. Valentina Tereshkova
  11. David Thompson (explorer)

Philosophers, historians, political and social scientists (162 articles)

Philosophers (69 articles)

Ancient (21 articles)

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

Post-classical (8 articles)

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

Early modern (12 articles)

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

Late modern (28 articles)

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

Historians (22 articles)

Ancient (8 articles)

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

Post-classical (4 articles)

  1. Bede
  2. Jean Froissart
  3. Geoffrey of Monmouth
  4. Ibn Khaldun (Level 3)

Early modern (3 articles)

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

Late modern (7 articles)

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

Social scientists, economists and political writers (51 articles)

Antiquity (2 articles)

  1. Chanakya
  2. Pāṇini

Post-classical (1 article)

  1. Niccolò Machiavelli (Level 3)

Early modern period (10 articles)

  1. Cesare Beccaria
  2. Edmund Burke
  3. Hugo Grotius
  4. Thomas Hobbes
  5. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
  6. John Locke (Level 3)
  7. Montesquieu
  8. Thomas Paine
  9. Adam Smith (Level 3)
  10. Mary Wollstonecraft (Level 3)

Late modern period (38 articles)

  1. Theodor W. Adorno
  2. Mikhail Bakunin
  3. Edward Bernays
  4. Eduard Bernstein
  5. Franz Boas
  6. Pierre Bourdieu
  7. Louis Braille
  8. Noam Chomsky
  9. W. E. B. Du Bois
  10. Émile Durkheim
  11. Friedrich Engels
  12. Milton Friedman
  13. John Kenneth Galbraith
  14. Clifford Geertz
  15. Antonio Gramsci
  16. Friedrich Hayek
  17. John Maynard Keynes
  18. Peter Kropotkin
  19. Claude Lévi-Strauss
  20. Karl Marx (Level 3)
  21. Marcel Mauss
  22. Bronisław Malinowski
  23. Thomas Robert Malthus
  24. Margaret Mead
  25. Maria Montessori
  26. Vilfredo Pareto
  27. Talcott Parsons
  28. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
  29. Alfred Radcliffe-Brown
  30. David Ricardo
  31. Paul Samuelson
  32. Ferdinand de Saussure
  33. Heinrich Schliemann
  34. Sequoyah
  35. Herbert Spencer
  36. Alexis de Tocqueville
  37. Max Weber
  38. Noah Webster

Psychologists (20 articles)

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

Religious figures (124 articles)

Hinduism (17 articles)

Ancient (4 articles)

  1. Kapila
  2. Patanjali
  3. Valmiki
  4. Vyasa

Medieval (6 articles)

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

Modern (7 articles)

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

Buddhism (15 articles)

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

Chinese Buddhism (5 articles)

  1. Bodhidharma
  2. Kumārajīva
  3. Huiyuan (Buddhist)
  4. Zhiyi
  5. Huineng

Indian Buddhism (4 articles)

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

Japanese Buddhism (2 articles)

  1. Dōgen
  2. Kūkai

Abrahamic religions (85 articles)

Judaism (6 articles)

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

Christianity (60 articles)

New Testament figures (8 articles)
  1. Jesus (Level 3)
  2. Mary, mother of Jesus
  3. Mary Magdalene
  4. John the Baptist
  5. Judas Iscariot
  6. Paul the Apostle (Level 3)
  7. Saint Peter
  8. John the Apostle
Pre-Schism (18 articles)
  1. Ambrose
  2. Arius
  3. Athanasius of Alexandria
  4. Basil of Caesarea
  5. Benedict of Nursia
  6. Clement of Alexandria
  7. Cyril of Alexandria
  8. Saint George
  9. Gregory of Nazianzus
  10. Gregory of Nyssa
  11. Irenaeus
  12. Jerome
  13. John Chrysostom
  14. John of Damascus
  15. Cyril and Methodius
  16. Saint Nicholas
  17. Origen
  18. Tertullian
Catholic Church (11 articles)
  1. Anselm of Canterbury
  2. Bonaventure
  3. Francis of Assisi
  4. Jan Hus
  5. Ignatius of Loyola
  6. John of the Cross
  7. Mother Teresa
  8. Teresa of Ávila
  9. Tomás de Torquemada
  10. John Wycliffe
  11. Francis Xavier
Popes (6 articles)
  1. Clement of Rome
  2. Pope Gregory I
  3. Pope Leo I
  4. Pope John XXIII
  5. Pope John Paul II
  6. Pope Pius IX
Orthodox Church (2 articles)
  1. Patriarch Nikon of Moscow
  2. Grigori Rasputin
Protestantism (13 articles)
  1. Jacobus Arminius
  2. Karl Barth
  3. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  4. John Calvin
  5. Thomas Cranmer
  6. Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
  7. Billy Graham
  8. John Knox
  9. Martin Luther (Level 3)
  10. Philip Melanchthon
  11. Desmond Tutu
  12. John Wesley
  13. Huldrych Zwingli
Others (2 articles)
  1. Mary Baker Eddy
  2. Joseph Smith

Islam (19 articles)

  1. Muhammad (Level 3)
  2. Aisha
  3. Fatima
  4. Khadija bint Khuwaylid
Shia Islam (3 articles)
  1. Ali
  2. Husayn ibn Ali
  3. Ja'far al-Sadiq
Sunni Islam (8 articles)
  1. Ahmad ibn Hanbal
  2. Abu Hanifa
  3. Malik ibn Anas
  4. Muhammad al-Bukhari
  5. Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj
  6. Al-Shafi'i
  7. Ibn Taymiyyah
  8. Al-Nawawi
Others (4 articles)
  1. Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab
  2. Al-Ghazali
  3. Ibn Arabi
  4. Mulla Sadra

Others (7 articles)

Jainism (1 article)

  1. Mahavira

New religious movements (3 articles)

  1. Baháʼu'lláh
  2. Helena Blavatsky
  3. Aleister Crowley

Sikhism (2 articles)

  1. Guru Gobind Singh
  2. Guru Nanak

Zoroastrianism (1 article)

  1. Zoroaster

Politicians and leaders (500 articles)

Ancient (72 articles)

Africa (13 articles)

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

Asia (28 articles)

Eastern Asia (7 articles)
  1. Cao Cao
  2. Emperor Gaozu of Han
  3. Gwanggaeto the Great
  4. Modu Chanyu
  5. Qin Shi Huang (Level 3)
  6. Emperor Wu of Han
  7. Yu the Great
Southern Asia (7 articles)
  1. Ajatashatru
  2. Ashoka (Level 3)
  3. Chandragupta II
  4. Chandragupta Maurya
  5. Kanishka
  6. Menander I
  7. Samudragupta
Western Asia (11 articles)
  1. Ashurbanipal
  2. Cyrus the Great (Level 3)
  3. Darius the Great
  4. Hammurabi (Level 3)
  5. Mithridates VI Eupator
  6. Nebuchadnezzar II
  7. Puduḫepa
  8. Sargon of Akkad
  9. Tigranes the Great
  10. Xerxes I
  11. Zenobia
Hellenistic Kingdoms (3 articles)
  1. Antigonus I Monophthalmus
  2. Antiochus III the Great
  3. Seleucus I Nicator

Europe (31 articles)

Eastern Europe (3 articles)
  1. Attila
  2. Decebalus
  3. Pyrrhus of Epirus
Greece (7 articles)
  1. Alcibiades
  2. Demosthenes
  3. Draco (lawgiver)
  4. Lycurgus (lawgiver)
  5. Pericles
  6. Solon
  7. Themistocles
Macedonia (2 articles)
  1. Philip II of Macedon
  2. Alexander the Great (Level 3)
Western Europe (5 articles)
  1. Alaric I
  2. Arminius