Level 4 Sublists

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Total 1,975 articles.

Class #Articles
FA 174
GA 222
A 2
B 914
C 658
FFA 88
DGA 88
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People

This section contains 1975 articles.

Entertainers

This section contains 87 articles.

Actors

This section contains 56 articles.

Dancers and choreographers

This section contains 15 articles.

Comedians

This section contains 10 articles.

Hosts and performers

This section contains 6 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 art

This section contains 5 articles.

Writers

This section contains 252 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 26 articles.

Asia

This section contains 19 articles.

Eastern Asia

This section contains 8 articles.

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

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Amir Khusrau
  2. Kabir
Western 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.

Modern

This section contains 171 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 47 articles.

Caribbean

This section contains 1 article.

  1. V. S. Naipaul
US and Canada

This section contains 37 articles.

  1. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  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. Ernest Hemingway
  19. Langston Hughes
  20. John Steinbeck
  21. Dr. Seuss
  22. Robert A. Heinlein
  23. Tennessee Williams
  24. Saul Bellow
  25. Arthur Miller
  26. Isaac Asimov
  27. Ray Bradbury
  28. Jack Kerouac
  29. Kurt Vonnegut
  30. Stan Lee
  31. Allen Ginsberg
  32. Maya Angelou
  33. Ursula K. Le Guin
  34. Toni Morrison
  35. Sylvia Plath
  36. Margaret Atwood
  37. 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.

Central Asia

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Chinghiz Aitmatov
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
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 99 articles.

Eastern Europe

This section contains 26 articles.

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

This section contains 17 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. Vladimir Nabokov
  15. Mikhail Sholokhov
  16. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  17. Joseph Brodsky
Western Europe

This section contains 73 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
Nordic countries

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 36 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. Salman Rushdie
  36. Kazuo Ishiguro

Oceania

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Banjo Paterson
  2. Patrick White

Journalists

This section contains 13 articles.

Musicians and composers

This section contains 151 articles.

Western art music

This section contains 71 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 18 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
Post-romantic/early modern

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Gabriel Fauré
  2. Giacomo Puccini
  3. Gustav Mahler
  4. Claude Debussy
  5. Richard Strauss
  6. Jean Sibelius
  7. Sergei Rachmaninoff
  8. Maurice Ravel
20th century modern

This section contains 9 articles.

  1. Ralph Vaughan Williams
  2. Arnold Schoenberg
  3. Béla Bartók
  4. Igor Stravinsky
  5. Sergei Prokofiev
  6. George Gershwin
  7. Aaron Copland
  8. Dmitri Shostakovich
  9. 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 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

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Clara Schumann
  2. Arthur Rubinstein
  3. Vladimir Horowitz
  4. Sviatoslav Richter
  5. Glenn Gould
Singers

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Enrico Caruso
  2. Maria Callas
  3. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
  4. Joan Sutherland
  5. Luciano Pavarotti
  6. 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 10 articles.

This section contains 63 articles.

Directors, producers and screenwriters

This section contains 60 articles.

Businesspeople

This section contains 28 articles.

Explorers

This section contains 29 articles.

Philosophers, historians, political and social scientists

This section contains 162 articles.

Philosophers

This section contains 71 articles.

Historians and archaeologists

This section contains 22 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 3 articles.

  1. Bede
  2. Ibn Khaldun (Level 3)
  3. 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 19 articles.

Economists

This section contains 11 articles.

Social scientists

This section contains 13 articles.

Linguists

This section contains 6 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 21 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
Popes

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Clement of Rome
  2. Pope Leo I
  3. Pope Gregory I
Catholic Church

This section contains 14 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 3 articles.

  1. Pope Pius IX
  2. Pope John XXIII
  3. 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.

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

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 36 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 6 articles.

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

This section contains 7 articles.

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

Theosophy

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Helena Blavatsky

Others

This section contains 2 articles.

Politicians and leaders

This section contains 506 articles.

Ancient

This section contains 74 articles.

Africa

This section contains 13 articles.

Asia

This section contains 29 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

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Yu the Great
  2. Qin Shi Huang (Level 3)
  3. Emperor Gaozu of Han
  4. Emperor Wu of Han
  5. Cao Cao
Southern Asia

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Ajatashatru
  2. Chandragupta Maurya
  3. Ashoka (Level 3)
  4. Menander I
  5. Kanishka
  6. Samudragupta
  7. Chandragupta II
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

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Antigonus I Monophthalmus
  2. Seleucus I Nicator
  3. Antiochus III the Great

Europe

This section contains 32 articles.

Post-classical

This section contains 136 articles.

Africa

This section contains 8 articles.

Americas

This section contains 2 articles.

Asia

This section contains 48 articles.

Central Asia, Iran, Caucasus

This section contains 10 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. Ulugh Beg
East Asia

This section contains 17 articles.

China

This section contains 7 articles.

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

  1. Genghis Khan (Level 3)
  2. Jochi
  3. Ögedei Khan
  4. Batu Khan
  5. Kublai Khan
  6. Hulegu Khan
  7. Tokhtamysh
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 78 articles.

Eastern Europe

This section contains 30 articles.

  1. Svatopluk I of Moravia
  2. Stefan Dušan
  3. Vlad the Impaler
  4. 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 and Ukraine

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.

British Isles

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
Iberia

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
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
Scandinavia

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Cnut
  2. Margaret I of Denmark

Early modern

This section contains 105 articles.

Africa

This section contains 3 articles.

Americas

This section contains 13 articles.

  1. Toussaint Louverture
Aztec

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Moctezuma II
  2. La Malinche
Inca

This section contains 3 articles.

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

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Central Asia, Iran, Caucasus

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China

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Japan

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Korea

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Southeastern Asia

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Burma

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Southern Asia

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Oceania

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Europe

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Eastern Europe

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Poland and Lithuania

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France

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Great Britain and United Kingdom

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Scandinavia

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Modern

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Africa

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Central Africa

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Eastern Africa

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Ethiopia

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Northern Africa

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Egypt

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Southern Africa

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Western Africa

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Asia and Oceania

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Central Asia, Iran, Caucasus

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China

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Japan

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Korea

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Southeastern Asia

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Southern Asia

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India

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Western Asia

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Ottoman Empire and Turkey

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Oceania

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  1. John Curtin

Europe

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Central Europe

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Southeastern Europe

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Russia and USSR

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Scandinavia

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Western Europe

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France

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Germany

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Iberia

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Ireland

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Italy

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United Kingdom

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Military leaders and theorists

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Ancient

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Africa

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  1. Hannibal

Asia

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Europe

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Ancient

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Early modern: General

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  1. Bartolomé de las Casas
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Europe

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  1. Thomas Müntzer
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France

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  1. Jean-Paul Marat
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Modern

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Scientists, inventors and mathematicians

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Ancient figures

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Physics

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Chemistry

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Inventors and engineers

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Mathematicians

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Computer scientists

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Sports figures

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Individual sports

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Athletics

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  1. Pierre de Coubertin
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  3. Jesse Owens
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  5. Wilma Rudolph
  6. Florence Griffith Joyner
  7. Carl Lewis
  8. Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  9. Sergey Bubka
  10. Haile Gebrselassie
  11. Hicham El Guerrouj
  12. Usain Bolt

Auto racing

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  1. Enzo Ferrari
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  3. Ayrton Senna
  4. Michael Schumacher

Boxing

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  1. Joe Louis
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  3. Muhammad Ali

Chess

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  1. Bobby Fischer
  2. Garry Kasparov

Climbing and mountaineering

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  1. Tenzing Norgay
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  3. Junko Tabei

Cycling

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  1. Eddy Merckx

Figure skating

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  1. Sonja Henie
  2. Yuzuru Hanyu

Golf

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  1. Jack Nicklaus
  2. Tiger Woods

Gymnastics

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  1. Larisa Latynina
  2. Nadia Comăneci
  3. Simone Biles

Martial arts

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  1. Kanō Jigorō
  2. Bruce Lee

Skiing

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  1. Ingemar Stenmark
  2. Marit Bjørgen

Speed skating

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  1. Eric Heiden

Swimming

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

Tennis

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  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

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  1. Aleksandr Karelin

Multiple sports

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  1. Jim Thorpe
  2. Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Team sports

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American football

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  1. Jim Brown
  2. Tom Brady

Association football

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  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

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  1. Babe Ruth
  2. Jackie Robinson

Basketball

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

Cricket

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  1. W. G. Grace
  2. Don Bradman
  3. Garfield Sobers
  4. 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

Rowing

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  1. Steve Redgrave

Rugby union

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  1. Jonah Lomu