Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level 4/People

Level 4 Sublists

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Total 1,929 articles.

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People

This section contains 1929 articles.

Entertainers

This section contains 73 articles.

Actors

This section contains 46 articles.

Dancers and choreographers

This section contains 14 articles.

Comedians

Hosts and performers

This section contains 4 articles.

Visual artists

This section contains 122 articles.

Western painters and illustrators

This section contains 72 articles.

Other visual arts

This section contains 45 articles.

Non-Western art

This section contains 5 articles.

Writers

This section contains 246 articles.

Ancient

This section contains 18 articles.

Asia

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Enheduanna
  2. Qu Yuan
  3. Kalidasa
  4. Tao Yuanming

Europe

This section contains 14 articles.

Greece

This section contains 7 articles.

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

Asia

This section contains 19 articles.

Eastern Asia
Southern Asia

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Amir Khusrau
  2. Kabir
Western Asia

Europe

Early modern

Modern

This section contains 167 articles.

Africa

Americas

This section contains 46 articles.

Caribbean

This section contains 1 article.

  1. V. S. Naipaul
US and Canada
Latin America

Asia

This section contains 16 articles.

Central Asia

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Chinghiz Aitmatov
Eastern Asia
Southern Asia

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Ghalib
  2. Rabindranath Tagore (Level 3)
  3. Muhammad Iqbal
  4. Premchand
Western Asia

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Kahlil Gibran
  2. Orhan Pamuk

Europe

This section contains 96 articles.

Eastern Europe
Western Europe

This section contains 70 articles.

  1. Luigi Pirandello
  2. Fernando Pessoa
  3. Federico García Lorca
  4. José Saramago
  5. Anne Frank
  6. Umberto Eco
France
Germany and Austria
Nordic countries
UK and Ireland

Oceania

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Banjo Paterson
  2. Patrick White

Journalists

Musicians and composers

This section contains 152 articles.

Western art music

This section contains 72 articles.

Composers

This section contains 54 articles.

Medieval and Renaissance
Baroque
Classical
Romantic
Post-romantic/early modern
20th century modern
Avant-garde/postmodern

Pedagogues

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Nadia Boulanger

Performers

This section contains 17 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
Singers
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 62 articles.

Blues, R&B, soul and funk

Electronic music

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Kraftwerk
  2. Brian Eno

Folk and country

Hip-hop and rap

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Run-DMC
  2. Tupac Shakur
  3. Eminem

Musical theatre and film

This section contains 3 articles.

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

Rock

Directors, producers and screenwriters

This section contains 60 articles.

Animators and puppeteers

This section contains 3 articles.

Directors

This section contains 53 articles.

Producers and executives

This section contains 4 articles.

Businesspeople

Explorers

Philosophers, historians, political and social scientists

This section contains 162 articles.

Philosophers

This section contains 72 articles.

Historians and archaeologists

This section contains 23 articles.

Ancient

Post-classical

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Bede
  2. Snorri Sturluson
  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

Political writers

Economists

Social scientists

Linguists

Psychologists

Religious figures

This section contains 122 articles.

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

Abrahamic religions

This section contains 85 articles.

Judaism

Christianity

This section contains 59 articles.

New Testament figures
Pre-Schism
Catholic Church
Orthodox Church

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Patriarch Nikon of Moscow
  2. Grigori Rasputin
Protestantism
Others

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Joseph Smith
  2. Mary Baker Eddy

Islam

This section contains 19 articles.

Early Islam

This section contains 4 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

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
Modern

Buddhism

This section contains 14 articles.

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

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Kumārajīva
  2. Bodhidharma
  3. Zhiyi
  4. 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

Theosophy

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Helena Blavatsky

Others

This section contains 2 articles.

Politicians and leaders

This section contains 490 articles.

Ancient

This section contains 73 articles.

Africa

This section contains 11 articles.

Asia

This section contains 30 articles.

Central Asia, Iran, Caucasus

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Cyrus the Great (Level 3)
  2. Darius the Great
  3. Xerxes I
Eastern Asia

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Modu Chanyu
  2. Gwanggaeto the Great
China
Southern Asia
Western Asia

This section contains 12 articles.

  1. Sargon of Akkad
  2. Puduḫepa
  3. Ashurbanipal
  4. Tigranes the Great
  5. Mithridates VI Eupator
  6. Herod the Great
  7. Zenobia
Babylon

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Hammurabi (Level 3)
  2. Nebuchadnezzar II
Hellenistic Kingdoms

Europe

This section contains 32 articles.

Post-classical

This section contains 130 articles.

Africa

Americas

This section contains 2 articles.

Asia

This section contains 45 articles.

Central Asia, Iran, Caucasus
East Asia

This section contains 17 articles.

China
Korea

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Taejo of Goryeo
  2. Taejo of Joseon
  3. Sejong the Great
Mongol Empire
Southeastern Asia

This section contains 6 articles.

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

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Lê Lợi
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

Europe

This section contains 75 articles.

Eastern Europe
Western Europe

This section contains 46 articles.

British Isles
France
Germany, Holy Roman Empire
Iberia
Italy
Papal States
Scandinavia

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Cnut
  2. Margaret I of Denmark

Early modern

This section contains 99 articles.

Africa

Americas

This section contains 9 articles.

Aztec

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Moctezuma II
  2. La Malinche
Haiti

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Toussaint Louverture
Inca

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Atahualpa
  2. Túpac Amaru
  3. Túpac Amaru II
United States

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Benjamin Franklin
  2. George Washington (Level 3)
  3. Thomas Jefferson

Asia and Oceania

This section contains 40 articles.

Central Asia, Iran, Caucasus

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Ismail I
  2. Abbas the Great
  3. Nader Shah
  4. Ahmad Shah Durrani
China
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 7 articles.

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

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Bayinnaung
  2. Tabinshwehti
  3. Alaungpaya
Southern Asia
Western Asia
Oceania

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Kamehameha I

Europe

This section contains 47 articles.

Modern

This section contains 188 articles.

Africa

This section contains 32 articles.

Central Africa

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Patrice Lumumba
  2. Mobutu Sese Seko
  3. Paul Biya
Eastern Africa

This section contains 11 articles.

  1. Ranavalona I
  2. Jomo Kenyatta
  3. Hastings Banda
  4. Julius Nyerere
  5. Kenneth Kaunda
  6. Idi Amin
  7. 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
Southern Africa

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Shaka
  2. Cecil Rhodes
  3. Nelson Mandela (Level 3)
  4. Robert Mugabe
Western Africa

Americas

This section contains 38 articles.

Asia and Oceania

This section contains 57 articles.

Europe

This section contains 61 articles.

Central Europe
Southeastern Europe
Russia and USSR
Scandinavia
Western Europe

This section contains 34 articles.

  1. Leopold II of Belgium
France
Germany
Iberia

This section contains 3 articles.

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

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Éamon de Valera
  2. Michael Collins (Irish leader)
Italy

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
  2. Benito Mussolini
United Kingdom

Military leaders and theorists

This section contains 52 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

Post-classical

Early modern

Modern

Rebels, revolutionaries and activists

This section contains 54 articles.

Ancient

This section contains 2 articles.

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. Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla

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 263 articles.

Pre-modern figures

Physics

This section contains 59 articles.

Astronomy

Chemistry

Biology

Medicine

This section contains 14 articles.

Earth science and physical geography

Inventors and engineers

Mathematicians

This section contains 48 articles.

Computer scientists

Sports figures

This section contains 62 articles.

Individual sports

This section contains 40 articles.

Athletics

Auto racing

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Enzo Ferrari
  2. Juan Manuel Fangio
  3. 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

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

Swimming

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Johnny Weissmuller
  2. Michael Phelps

Tennis

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 22 articles.

American football

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Tom Brady

Association football

Baseball

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Babe Ruth
  2. Jackie Robinson

Basketball

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  2. Michael Jordan
  3. LeBron James

Cricket

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. W. G. Grace
  2. Don Bradman
  3. Sachin Tendulkar

Field hockey

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Dhyan Chand

Ice hockey

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Gordie Howe
  2. Wayne Gretzky

Rugby union

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Jonah Lomu

Criminals

This section contains 4 articles.