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Religious figures

This section contains 493 articles.

Abrahamic religions

This section contains 369 articles.

Judaism

This section contains 28 articles.

Note: Abraham, Moses, and other figures from Abrahamic mythology are listed on the philosophy and religion subpage.

1.   Isaac Abarbanel
2.   Abraham ibn Ezra
3.   Rabbi Akiva (Level 4)
4.   Rav Ashi
5.   Chaim Yosef David Azulai
6.   Baal Shem Tov (Level 4)
7.   Jacob Frank
8.   Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog
9.   Abraham Joshua Heschel
10.   Hillel the Elder
11.   Samson Raphael Hirsch
12.   Judah ha-Nasi
13.   Mordecai Kaplan
14.   Joseph Karo
15.   Abraham Isaac Kook
16.   Judah Loew ben Bezalel (Level 4)
17.   Maimonides (Level 4)
18.   Nachmanides
19.   Rashi (Level 4)
20.   Saadia Gaon
21.   Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
22.   Menachem Mendel Schneerson
23.   Joel Teitelbaum
24.   Vilna Gaon (Level 4)
25.   Yohanan ben Zakkai
26.   Ovadia Yosef
27.   Shneur Zalman of Liadi
28.   Sabbatai Zevi

Christianity

This section contains 235 articles.

Note: Popes from 1054 to 1815 are listed under Politicians and leaders.

New Testament figures

This section contains 31 articles.

1.   Jesus (Level 3)
   1.   Saint Joseph
   2.   Mary, mother of Jesus (Level 4)
   3.   James, brother of Jesus
2.   Apostles in the New Testament
   1.   Andrew the Apostle
   2.   Bartholomew the Apostle
   3.   James, son of Alphaeus
   4.   James the Great
   5.   John the Apostle (Level 4)
   6.   Judas Iscariot (Level 4)
   7.   Jude the Apostle
   8.   Matthew the Apostle
   9.   Saint Peter (Level 4)
   10.   Philip the Apostle
   11.   Simon the Zealot
   12.   Thomas the Apostle
3.   Barnabas
4.     Biblical Magi
5.   John the Baptist (Level 4)
6.   Lazarus of Bethany
7.   Luke the Evangelist
8.   Mark the Evangelist
9.   Martha
10.   Mary Magdalene (Level 4)
11.   Simon Magus
12.   Matthias the Apostle
13.   Paul the Apostle (Level 3)
14.   Silas
15.   Saint Stephen
16.   Saint Timothy

Pre-Schism

This section contains 56 articles.

1.   Ambrose (Level 4)
2.   Anthony the Great
3.   Arius (Level 4)
4.   Athanasius of Alexandria (Level 4)
5.   Augustine of Canterbury
6.   Basil of Caesarea (Level 4)
7.   Benedict of Nursia (Level 4)
8.   Saint Christopher
9.   Clement of Alexandria (Level 4)
10.   Clotilde
11.   Columba
12.   Cyril and Methodius (Level 4)
13.   Cyril of Alexandria (Level 4)
14.   Cyril of Jerusalem
15.   Denis of Paris
16.   Dionysius Exiguus
17.   Ephrem the Syrian
18.   Saint George (Level 4)
19.   Gregory of Narek
20.     Gregory of Nazianzus (Level 4)
21.   Gregory of Nyssa (Level 4)
22.   Hilary of Poitiers
23.   Hosius of Corduba
24.   Ignatius of Antioch
25.   Irenaeus (Level 4)
26.   Isidore of Seville
27.   Jerome (Level 4)
28.     John Chrysostom (Level 4)
29.   John of Damascus (Level 4)
30.   Marcion of Sinope
31.   Saint Marinus
32.   Martin of Tours
33.   Nestorius
34.   Saint Nicholas (Level 4)
35.   Origen (Level 4)
36.   Papias of Hierapolis
37.     Saint Patrick
38.   Peter Chrysologus
39.   Peter Damian
40.   Polycarp
41.   Tertullian (Level 4)
42.   Theodoret

Popes

This section contains 14 articles.

1.   Pope Linus
2.   Clement of Rome (Level 4)
3.   Pope Alexander I
4.   Pope Zephyrinus
5.   Pope Sylvester I
6.   Pope Damasus I
7.   Pope Leo I (Level 4)
8.   Pope Gregory I (Level 4)
9.   Pope Honorius I
10.   Pope Gregory II
11.   Pope Leo III
12.   Pope John X
13.   Pope Sylvester II
14.   Pope Leo IX

Catholic Church

This section contains 68 articles.

Pre-1800

This section contains 38 articles.

1.   Albertus Magnus
2.   Anselm of Canterbury (Level 4)
3.   Anthony of Padua
4.   Thomas Becket
5.   Robert Bellarmine
6.   Bernard of Clairvaux
7.   Bonaventure (Level 4)
8.   Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
9.   Edmund Campion
10.   Peter Canisius
11.   Catherine of Siena
12.   Saint Dominic
13.   Johann Eck
14.   Meister Eckhart
15.   Peter Faber
16.   Francis of Assisi (Level 4)
17.   Blessed Gerard
18.   Aloysius Gonzaga
19.   Jan Hus (Level 4)
20.   Ignatius of Loyola (Level 4)
21.   Cornelius Jansen
22.   Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros
23.   John of Ávila
24.   John of the Cross (Level 4)
25.   Heinrich Kramer
26.   Lanfranc
27.   Alphonsus Liguori
28.   Peter the Hermit
29.   Matteo Ricci
30.   Francis de Sales
31.   Junípero Serra
32.   Teresa of Ávila (Level 4)
33.   Johann Tetzel
34.   Thomas à Kempis
35.   Tomás de Torquemada (Level 4)
36.   Thomas Wolsey
37.   John Wycliffe (Level 4)
38.   Francis Xavier (Level 4)

Modern

This section contains 20 articles.

1.   Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
2.   Frances Xavier Cabrini
3.   John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore)
4.   Charles Coughlin
5.     Father Damien
6.   Dorothy Day
7.   Pierre-Jean De Smet
8.     Maximilian Kolbe
9.   Faustina Kowalska
10.   Mary MacKillop
11.   Thomas Merton
12.   John Henry Newman
13.   George Pell
14.   Padre Pio
15.   Óscar Romero
16.   Elizabeth Ann Seton
17.   Fulton J. Sheen
18.     Mother Teresa (Level 4)
19.   Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
20.   Thérèse of Lisieux

Popes

This section contains 10 articles.

1.   Pope Pius IX (Level 4)
2.   Pope Leo XIII
3.   Pope Pius X
4.   Pope Benedict XV
5.     Pope Pius XII
6.   Pope John XXIII (Level 4)
7.   Pope Paul VI
8.     Pope John Paul II (Level 4)
9.     Pope Benedict XVI
10.   Pope Francis

Orthodox Church

This section contains 18 articles.

1.   Alexius, Metropolitan of Kiev
2.   Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow
3.   Bartholomew I of Constantinople
4.   Vladimir Bogoyavlensky
5.   Cyprian, Metropolitan of Kiev
6.   Philaret Drozdov
7.   Patriarch Hermogenes of Moscow
8.   Innocent of Alaska
9.   Isidore of Kiev
10.   Patriarch Job of Moscow
11.   Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow
12.   Michael I Cerularius
13.   Patriarch Nikon of Moscow (Level 4)
14.   Philip II, Metropolitan of Moscow
15.   Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow
16.   Grigori Rasputin (Level 4)
17.   Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow
18.   Stefan Yavorsky

Protestantism

This section contains 51 articles.

Early modern

This section contains 22 articles.

1.   Richard Allen (bishop)
2.   Jakob Ammann
3.   Jacobus Arminius (Level 4)
4.   Francis Asbury
5.   Martin Bucer
6.   John Calvin (Level 4)
7.   Thomas Cranmer (Level 4)
8.   Jonathan Edwards (theologian) (Level 4)
9.     George Fox
10.   John Knox (Level 4)
11.     Martin Luther (Level 3)
12.   Alexander Mack
13.   Cotton Mather
14.   Philip Melanchthon (Level 4)
15.   Menno Simons
16.   John Smyth (English theologian)
17.   William Tyndale
18.   Charles Wesley
19.   John Wesley (Level 4)
20.   George Whitefield
21.   Roger Williams
22.   Huldrych Zwingli (Level 4)

Modern

This section contains 29 articles.

1.   Jim Bakker
2.   Karl Barth (Level 4)
3.   Henry Ward Beecher
4.   Antoinette Brown Blackwell
5.   Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Level 4)
6.   William M. Branham
7.   Jerry Falwell
8.   Charles Grandison Finney
9.   John Flynn (minister)
10.   Billy Graham (Level 4)
11.   John G. Lake
12.   Aimee Semple McPherson
13.   William Miller (preacher)
14.   John Mott
15.   Martin Niemöller
16.   Joel Osteen
17.   Phoebe Palmer
18.   Charles Fox Parham
19.   Oral Roberts
20.   Pat Robertson
21.   William J. Seymour
22.   Charles Spurgeon
23.   John Stott
24.   Paul Tillich
25.   Desmond Tutu (Level 4)
26.   Justin Welby
27.   Ellen G. White
28.   James S. White
29.   Rowan Williams

Mormonism

This section contains 5 articles.

1.   Sidney Rigdon
2.   Hyrum Smith
3.   Joseph Smith (Level 4)
4.   Lucy Mack Smith
5.   Brigham Young

Others

This section contains 6 articles.

1.   Ahn Sahng-hong
2.   William Ellery Channing
3.   Mary Baker Eddy (Level 4)
4.   Charles Taze Russell
5.     Joseph Franklin Rutherford
6.     Emanuel Swedenborg

Islam

This section contains 95 articles.

Early Islam

This section contains 21 articles.

1.     Muhammad (Level 3)
   1.   Wives of Muhammad
      1.   Khadija bint Khuwaylid (Level 4)
      2.   Aisha (Level 4)
   2.   Zayd ibn Haritha al-Kalbi
   3.   Fatima (Level 4)
   4.   Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib
   5.   Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib
   6.   Ibn Abbas
2.   Companions of the Prophet
   1.   Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud
   2.   Abd Allah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab
   3.   Abu Ayyub al-Ansari
   4.   Abu al-Darda
   5.   Abu Hurayra
   6.   Abu Musa al-Ash'ari
   7.   Abu Sufyan ibn Harb
   8.   Bilal ibn Rabah
   9.   Salman the Persian
   10.   Ubayy ibn Ka'b
   11.   Zayd ibn Thabit

Sunni Islam

This section contains 31 articles.

1.   Abdallah ibn Yasin
2.   Muhammad Abduh
3.   Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi
4.   Abu Hanifa (Level 4)
5.   Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari
6.   Abu Mansur al-Maturidi
7.   Ahmad ibn Hanbal (Level 4)
8.   Al-Dhahabi
9.   Fakhr al-Din al-Razi
10.   Fethullah Gülen
11.   Ibn Abidin
12.   Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
13.   Ibn Hazm
14.   Ibn Kathir
15.   Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya
16.   Ibn Taymiyya (Level 4)
17.   Al-Juwayni
18.   Malik ibn Anas (Level 4)
19.   Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (Level 4)
20.   Muhammad al-Bukhari (Level 4)
21.   Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj (Level 4)
22.   Al-Nawawi (Level 4)
23.   Al-Qurtubi
24.   Tariq Ramadan
25.   Al-Shafi'i (Level 4)
26.   Al-Suyuti
27.   Al-Tabari
28.   The ten to whom Paradise was promised
    1.   Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf
    2.   Sa'id ibn Zayd
    3.   Talha ibn Ubayd Allah

Sufism

This section contains 12 articles.

1.   Abdul Qadir Gilani
2.   Ahmad Sirhindi
3.   Baba Farid
4.   Baha' al-Din Naqshband
5.   Al-Ghazali (Level 4)
6.   Hasan al-Basri
7.   Ibn Arabi (Level 4)
8.   Junayd of Baghdad
9.   Al-Qushayri
10.   Rabia Basri
11.   Mulla Sadra (Level 4)
12.   Muhammad ibn Ali al-Sanusi

Shia Islam

This section contains 20 articles.

1.   Aga Khan III
2.   Ahl al-Bayt
   1.   Ali (Level 3)
   2.   Hasan ibn Ali
   3.   Husayn ibn Ali (Level 4)
3.   Ali al-Hadi
4.   Ali al-Sajjad
5.   Ali al-Rida
6.   Mir Damad
7.   Fatima bint Musa
8.   Hasan al-Askari
9.   Ibn Babawayh
10.   Ja'far al-Sadiq (Level 4)
11.   Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi
12.   Muhammad al-Baqir
13.   Muhammad al-Jawad
14.   Muhammad al-Mahdi
15.   Musa al-Kazim
16.   Shaykh Tusi
17.   Zayd ibn Ali

Nation of Islam

This section contains 3 articles.

1.   Louis Farrakhan
2.   Wallace Fard Muhammad
3.   Elijah Muhammad

Others

This section contains 8 articles.

1.   Clarence 13X
2.   Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad
3.   Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
4.   Ibn Tumart
5.   Jabir ibn Zayd
6.   Jahm bin Safwan
7.   Jamal al-Din al-Afghani
8.   Al-Zamakhshari

Other Abrahamic

This section contains 11 articles.

Bahá'í Faith

This section contains 5 articles.

1.   ʻAbdu'l-Bahá
2.   Báb
3.     Baháʼu'lláh (Level 4)
4.   Shoghi Effendi
5.   Subh-i-Azal

Other

This section contains 6 articles.

1.   Marshall Applewhite
2.   Leonard Howell
3.   Jim Jones
4.   David Koresh
5.   Anton LaVey
6.   Sun Myung Moon

Dharmic religions

This section contains 108 articles.

Hinduism

This section contains 36 articles.

Ancient

This section contains 10 articles.

1.   Agastya
2.   Uddālaka Āruṇi
3.   Jaimini
4.   Kapila (Level 4)
5.   Kashyapa
6.   Patanjali (Level 4)
7.   Valmiki (Level 4)
8.   Vasishtha
9.   Vishvamitra
10.   Vyasa (Level 4)

Post-classical

This section contains 12 articles.

1.   Abhinavagupta
2.   Advaita Acharya
3.   Basava (Level 4)
4.   Gaudapada (Level 4)
5.   Gorakhnath
6.   Kumārila Bhaṭṭa (Level 4)
7.   Madhvacharya (Level 4)
8.   Maṇḍana Miśra
9.   Morya Gosavi
10.   Ramanuja (Level 4)
11.     Adi Shankara (Level 3)
12.   Udayana

Modern

This section contains 14 articles.

1.   Sri Aurobindo (Level 4)
2.   Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (Level 4)
3.   Dayananda Saraswati
4.   A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (Level 4)
5.   Ramakrishna (Level 4)
6.     Ramana Maharshi (Level 4)
7.   Raja Ram Mohan Roy
8.   Rupa Goswami
9.   Sathya Sai Baba
10.     Sai Baba of Shirdi
11.   Swaminarayan
12.   Vallabha
13.   Swami Vivekananda (Level 4)
14.   Paramahansa Yogananda (Level 4)

Buddhism

This section contains 59 articles.

Buddhism: General

This section contains 7 articles.

1.   The Buddha (Level 3)
   1.   Śuddhodana
2.   Nagarjuna (Level 4)
3.   Padmasambhava (Level 4)
4.   Saraha
5.   Thích Nhất Hạnh
6.   Mahāprajāpatī Gautamī

Chinese Buddhism

This section contains 8 articles.

1.   Bodhidharma (Level 4)
2.   Budai
3.   Dongshan Liangjie
4.   Lushan Huiyuan (Level 4)
5.   Huineng (Level 4)
6.   Kumārajīva (Level 4)
7.   Yunmen Wenyan
8.   Zhiyi (Level 4)

Indian Buddhism

This section contains 11 articles.

1.   Ānanda (Level 4)
2.   Asanga
3.   Atiśa
4.   Buddhaghosa
5.   Dignāga
6.   Khema
7.   Maudgalyayana (Level 4)
8.   Śāntarakṣita
9.   Śāriputra (Level 4)
10.   Uppalavanna
11.   Vasubandhu (Level 4)

Japanese Buddhism

This section contains 8 articles.

1.   Dōgen (Level 4)
2.   Eisai
3.   Hakuin Ekaku
4.   Daisaku Ikeda
5.   Kūkai (Level 4)
6.   Sokei-an
7.   D. T. Suzuki
8.   Shunryū Suzuki

Korean Buddhism

This section contains 2 articles.

1.   Jinul
2.   Wonhyo

Thai Buddhism

This section contains 2 articles.

1.   Buddhadasa
2.   Somdej Toh

Tibetan Buddhism

This section contains 21 articles.

1.   Gampopa
2.   Garab Dorje
3.   Longchenpa
4.   Mandāravā
5.   Marpa Lotsawa
6.   Milarepa
7.   Naropa
8.   Tilopa
9.   Chögyam Trungpa
10.   Je Tsongkhapa
11.   Yeshe Tsogyal

Dalai Lamas

This section contains 10 articles.

1.   1st Dalai Lama
2.   2nd Dalai Lama
3.   3rd Dalai Lama
4.   4th Dalai Lama
5.   5th Dalai Lama
6.   6th Dalai Lama
7.   7th Dalai Lama
8.   8th Dalai Lama
9.   13th Dalai Lama
10.   14th Dalai Lama (Level 4)

Other Dharmic

This section contains 13 articles.

Jainism

This section contains 2 articles.

1.     Mahavira (Level 4)
2.   Pārśvanātha

Sikhism

This section contains 3 articles.

1.   Guru Arjan
2.   Guru Gobind Singh (Level 4)
3.   Guru Nanak (Level 4)

Theosophy

This section contains 3 articles.

1.   Alice Bailey
2.   Annie Besant
3.   Helena Blavatsky (Level 4)

Other

This section contains 5 articles.

1.   Shoko Asahara
2.     Meher Baba
3.   Li Hongzhi
4.   Rajneesh
5.   Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Other religions

This section contains 16 articles.

Modern paganism

This section contains 2 articles.

1.   Gerald Gardner
2.   Doreen Valiente

New Thought

This section contains 3 articles.

1.   Charles Fillmore (Unity Church)
2.   Louise Hay
3.   Phineas Parkhurst Quimby

Scientology

This section contains 2 articles.

1.     L. Ron Hubbard
2.   David Miscavige

Zoroastrianism

This section contains 2 articles.

1.   Kartir
2.   Zoroaster (Level 4)

Other

This section contains 7 articles.

1.   Aleister Crowley (Level 4)
2.   George Gurdjieff
3.   Marie Laveau
4.   Mani (prophet)
5.     Raël
6.   Rudolf Steiner
7.   Eckhart Tolle

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