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This is a personal project that runs concurrent with the Wikipedia:Vital articles project. That project selects what its members consider to be the most important Wikipedia articles and sorts them into different rankings.

My project focuses solely on articles of people or groups of people. In order to feature on this list, the Wikipedia article in question must be about a specific real individual (no mythological figures). Level 1 is the listing of 50 people whose contributions to world history are so substantial that everyone alive should at least have some general knowledge about who they are. Level 2 contains 500 biographies of individuals whose contributions to world history are essential that they feature most often on Wikipedia pages. Level 3 contains 5,000 biographies.

Decisions as to where a biography goes are made based on a determination of historical vitality, which involves judging a person's influence, the prominence of their thought or ideas, and the pervasiveness of their name or beliefs in popular culture. Other factors, such as historical rankings or pageviews, are sometimes taken into account.

If you have any suggestions on how this list could be changed, feel free to leave them on the talk page.

I have finished Level 1 and Level 2. Level 3 is in the works. This is the page for Level 2.

Please visit this page's talk page to view the change log.


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People (500 articles)

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Entertainers and directors (25 articles)

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Actors, comedians, and performers (15 articles)

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  1.   Julie Andrews
  2.     Lucille Ball
  3.   Sarah Bernhardt
  4.     Humphrey Bogart
  5.   Marlon Brando
  6.   Clint Eastwood
  7.     Judy Garland
  8.     Audrey Hepburn
  9.   Katharine Hepburn
  10.   Harry Houdini
  11.   Madhubala
  12.   Marilyn Monroe
  13.     Monty Python
  14.   Laurence Olivier
  15.   John Wayne

Directors and screenwriters (10 articles)

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  1.   Charlie Chaplin
  2.   Walt Disney
  3.   D. W. Griffith
  4.     Alfred Hitchcock
  5.   Stanley Kubrick
  6.   Akira Kurosawa
  7.   Leni Riefenstahl
  8.   Martin Scorsese
  9.     Andrei Tarkovsky
  10.   Orson Welles

Visual artists (35 articles)

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Painters (22 articles)

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  1.   Hieronymus Bosch
  2.   Pieter Bruegel the Elder
  3.     Caravaggio
  4.     Salvador Dalí
  5.     Jacques-Louis David
  6.   Albrecht Dürer
  7.   Vincent van Gogh
  8.   Francisco Goya
  9.   El Greco
  10.   Hokusai
  11.   Frida Kahlo
  12.   René Magritte
  13.   Henri Matisse
  14.     Claude Monet
  15.   Georgia O'Keeffe
  16.   Pablo Picasso
  17.   Raphael
  18.     Rembrandt
  19.   Peter Paul Rubens
  20.     Leonardo da Vinci (Level 1)
  21.   Johannes Vermeer
  22.     Andy Warhol

Cartoonists and illustrators (3 articles)

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  1.   Hergé
  2.   Norman Rockwell
  3.   Dr. Seuss

Sculptors (3 articles)

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  1.   Gian Lorenzo Bernini
  2.     Michelangelo (Level 1)
  3.   Auguste Rodin

Architects (6 articles)

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  1.   Filippo Brunelleschi
  2.   Le Corbusier
  3.   Antoni Gaudí
  4.   Imhotep
  5.   Vitruvius
  6.   Frank Lloyd Wright

Photographers (1 article)

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  1.   Ansel Adams

Writers (50 articles)

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Ancient (8 articles)

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  1.     Aeschylus
  2.   Aesop
  3.   Euripides
  4.   Homer (Level 1)
  5.   Ovid
  6.   Sappho
  7.   Sophocles
  8.   Virgil

Post-classical (8 articles)

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  1.   Dante Alighieri (Level 1)
  2.   Geoffrey Chaucer
  3.   Du Fu
  4.   Omar Khayyam
  5.   Li Bai
  6.   Petrarch
  7.     Rumi
  8.   Murasaki Shikibu

Early modern (8 articles)

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  1.     William Blake
  2.   Miguel de Cervantes
  3.   Matsuo Bashō
  4.   John Milton
  5.   Molière
  6.   William Shakespeare (Level 1)
  7.   Jonathan Swift
  8.   Voltaire

Modern (26 articles)

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  1.   Chinua Achebe
  2.   Hans Christian Andersen
  3.   Jane Austen
  4.     Lord Byron
  5.   Albert Camus
  6.   Agatha Christie
  7.   Charles Dickens
  8.   Emily Dickinson
  9.     Fyodor Dostoevsky
  10.   Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  11.   Ernest Hemingway
  12.     Victor Hugo
  13.   Henrik Ibsen
  14.   James Joyce
  15.   Franz Kafka
  16.   Gabriel García Márquez
  17.   Yukio Mishima
  18.   Toni Morrison
  19.   George Orwell
  20.   Edgar Allan Poe
  21.     Rabindranath Tagore
  22.   J. R. R. Tolkien
  23.   Leo Tolstoy (Level 1)
  24.     Mark Twain
  25.   Walt Whitman
  26.   Virginia Woolf

Musicians (35 articles)

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Art music (18 articles)

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  1.       Johann Sebastian Bach
  2.   Ludwig van Beethoven (Level 1)
  3.   Johannes Brahms
  4.   Frédéric Chopin
  5.   Claude Debussy
  6.     George Frideric Handel
  7.   Joseph Haydn
  8.   Edward Elgar
  9.   Hildegard of Bingen
  10.   Franz Liszt
  11.   Gustav Mahler
  12.     Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Level 1)
  13.   Niccolò Paganini
  14.   Ravi Shankar
  15.     Igor Stravinsky
  16.   Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  17.   Antonio Vivaldi
  18.   Richard Wagner
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  1.     Louis Armstrong
  2.   The Beatles
  3.   Chuck Berry
  4.     Johnny Cash
  5.     Miles Davis
  6.   Bob Dylan
  7.     Marvin Gaye
  8.     Billie Holiday
  9.   Michael Jackson
  10.   Aretha Franklin
  11.   Umm Kulthum
  12.   Fela Kuti
  13.   Bob Marley
  14.   Édith Piaf
  15.   Elvis Presley
  16.   Frank Sinatra
  17.     Selena


Businesspeople (10 articles)

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  1.     Al Capone
  2.     Andrew Carnegie
  3.   Marcus Licinius Crassus
  4.   Henry Ford
  5.   Jakob Fugger
  6.   Bill Gates
  7.     Steve Jobs
  8.     J. P. Morgan
  9.   John D. Rockefeller
  10.   Cornelius Vanderbilt

Explorers (25 articles)

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Land exploration (8 articles)

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  1.   Roald Amundsen
  2.     Ibn Battuta
  3.   Samuel de Champlain
  4.   David Livingstone
  5.   Marco Polo (Level 1)
  6.   Robert Falcon Scott
  7.   Ernest Shackleton
  8.   Henry Morton Stanley

Sea exploration (10 articles)

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  1.   Jacques Cartier
  2.   Leif Erikson
  3.     Christopher Columbus (Level 1)
  4.   James Cook
  5.   Vasco da Gama (Level 1)
  6.     Ferdinand Magellan
  7.   Juan Ponce de León
  8.   Hernando de Soto
  9.   Amerigo Vespucci
  10.   Zheng He

Air and space exploration (7 articles)

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  1.   Buzz Aldrin
  2.   Neil Armstrong
  3.     Amelia Earhart
  4.   Yuri Gagarin
  5.   John Glenn
  6.     Charles Lindbergh
  7.   Valentina Tereshkova

Philosophers and social scientists (55 articles)

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Ancient (14 articles)

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  1.   Aristotle (Level 1)
  2.   Augustine of Hippo
  3.   Cicero
  4.     Confucius (Level 1)
  5.   Diogenes
  6.   Epicurus
  7.   Herodotus
  8.     Laozi
  9.     Plato (Level 1)
  10.   Pāṇini
  11.   Pythagoras
  12.   Socrates
  13.   Sun Tzu
  14.     Thucydides

Post-classical (5 articles)

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  1.   Avicenna
  2.     Thomas Aquinas
  3.   Erasmus
  4.   Ibn Khaldun
  5.   Niccolò Machiavelli

Early modern (18 articles)

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  1.   Francis Bacon
  2.   Jeremy Bentham
  3.     Edmund Burke
  4.     René Descartes (Level 1)
  5.   Denis Diderot
  6.   Thomas Hobbes
  7.       David Hume
  8.   William Jones
  9.   Immanuel Kant
  10.     John Locke (Level 1)
  11.   Thomas Robert Malthus
  12.   Michel de Montaigne
  13.   Montesquieu
  14.   David Ricardo
  15.   Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  16.     Adam Smith (Level 1)
  17.   Baruch Spinoza
  18.   Mary Wollstonecraft

Modern (18 articles)

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  1.   Simone de Beauvoir
  2.   Franz Boas
  3.   John Dewey
  4.   Friedrich Engels
  5.     Sigmund Freud (Level 1)
  6.   William James
  7.   Carl Jung
  8.   John Maynard Keynes
  9.     Søren Kierkegaard
  10.   Karl Marx (Level 1)
  11.   John Stuart Mill
  12.   Friedrich Nietzche
  13.   Ivan Pavlov
  14.       Bertrand Russell
  15.   Arthur Schopenhauer
  16.   Alexis de Tocqueville
  17.     Max Weber
  18.     Ludwig Wittgenstein

Religious figures (30 articles)

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Abrahamic religions (22 articles)

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Christianity (16 articles)

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  1.   John Calvin
  2.   Francis of Assisi
  3.     Saint George
  4.   Ignatius of Loyola
  5.   Jesus (Level 1)
  6.   John the Apostle
  7.   John the Baptist
  8.   Judas Iscariot
  9.     Pope John Paul II
  10.   John Knox
  11.       Martin Luther (Level 1)
  12.   Mary, mother of Jesus
  13.   Saints Cyril and Methodius
  14.     Paul the Apostle (Level 1)
  15.   Saint Peter
  16.   Grigori Rasputin

Islam (5 articles)

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  1.   Aisha
  2.     Ali
  3.   Abu Bakr
  4.   Muhammad (Level 1)
  5.   Omar

Judaism (1 article)

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  1.   Maimonides

Eastern religions (8 articles)

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Buddhism (3 articles)

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  1.   Gautama Buddha (Level 1)
  2.   Nagarjuna
  3.   Kūkai

Hinduism (3 articles)

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  1.     Adi Shankara
  2.   Swami Vivekananda
  3.   Vyasa

Other (2 articles)

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  1.     Mahavira
  2.   Zoroaster

Political and military leaders (115 articles)

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Ancient (20 articles)

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  1.   Alexander the Great (Level 1)
  2.   Ashoka
  3.     Attila
  4.   Augustus (Level 1)
  5.   Marcus Aurelius
  6.     Julius Caesar (Level 1)
  7.     Chandragupta Maurya
  8.   Cleopatra
  9.   Constantine the Great
  10.     Cyrus the Great (Level 1)
  11.   Hammurabi
  12.   Hannibal
  13.     Hatshepsut
  14.   Leonidas I
  15.   Nebuchadnezzar II
  16.   Pericles
  17.   Qin Shi Huang (Level 1)
  18.     Ramesses II
  19.     Sargon of Akkad
  20.   Trajan

Post-classical (20 articles)

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  1.   Pope Alexander VI
  2.   Alfred the Great
  3.     Charlemagne (Level 1)
  4.   Edward I of England
  5.   Edward III of England
  6.   Ferdinand II of Aragon
  7.   Genghis Khan (Level 1)
  8.   Isabella I of Castile
  9.   Joan of Arc
  10.   John, King of England
  11.   Justinian I
  12.   Kublai Khan
  13.   Mansa Musa
  14.   Saladin
  15.   Timur
  16.   Pope Urban II
  17.   Vlad the Impaler
  18.   William Wallace
  19.   William the Conqueror
  20.     Wu Zetian

Early modern (25 articles)

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  1.     Akbar
  2.     Babur
  3.   Catherine the Great
  4.   Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
  5.   Charles I of England
  6.   Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
  7.     Hernán Cortés
  8.     Oliver Cromwell
  9.   Elizabeth I (Level 1)
  10.   Francis I of France
  11.   Frederick the Great
  12.   Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden
  13.   Alexander Hamilton
  14.   Henry V of England
  15.   Henry VIII
  16.   Tokugawa Ieyasu
  17.   James VI and I
  18.       Thomas Jefferson
  19.   Louis XIV
  20.   Marie Antoinette
  21.       Napoleon (Level 1)
  22.   Peter the Great
  23.     Cardinal Richelieu
  24.     Suleiman the Magnificent
  25.   George Washington (Level 1)

Modern (50 articles)

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Africa (6 articles)

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  1.     Idi Amin
  2.   Haile Selassie
  3.   Nelson Mandela (Level 1)
  4.   Gamal Abdel Nasser
  5.   Cecil Rhodes
  6.   Shaka

Asia (11 articles)

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  1.   Corazon Aquino
  2.   Deng Xiaoping
  3.   Indira Gandhi
  4.     Hirohito
  5.     Ho Chi Minh
  6.   Muhammad Ali Jinnah
  7.     Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  8.   Mao Zedong (Level 1)
  9.   Jawaharlal Nehru
  10.   Pol Pot
  11.     Sun Yat-sen

Western Europe (10 articles)

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  1.   Otto von Bismarck
  2.   Winston Churchill
  3.   Charles de Gaulle
  4.   Heinrich Himmler
  5.   Adolf Hitler (Level 1)
  6.   Leopold II of Belgium
  7.   David Lloyd George
  8.     Margaret Thatcher
  9.   Queen Victoria
  10.   Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Southern and Eastern Europe (9 articles)

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  1.   Francisco Franco
  2.   Giuseppe Garibaldi
  3.     Mikhail Gorbachev
  4.   Nikita Khrushchev
  5.   Vladimir Lenin (Level 1)
  6.   Benito Mussolini
  7.   Nicholas II of Russia
  8.   Joseph Stalin
  9.     Josip Broz Tito

Latin America (5 articles)

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  1.   Simón Bolívar
  2.   Fidel Castro
  3.     Toussaint Louverture
  4.   Antonio López de Santa Anna
  5.   José de San Martín

United States (9 articles)

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  1.     Dwight D. Eisenhower
  2.   Andrew Jackson
  3.     John F. Kennedy
  4.     Robert E. Lee
  5.     Abraham Lincoln
  6.   Douglas MacArthur
  7.   Ronald Reagan
  8.     Franklin D. Roosevelt
  9.     Theodore Roosevelt

Rebels, activists, and social workers (20 articles)

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  1.   B. R. Ambedkar
  2.   Susan B. Anthony
  3.   Steve Biko
  4.   Blackbeard
  5.   John Brown
  6.   Bartolomé de las Casas
  7.   Frederick Douglass
  8.     Mahatma Gandhi (Level 1)
  9.     Che Guevara
  10.     Theodor Herzl
  11.     Helen Keller
  12.   Martin Luther King Jr.
  13.     Osama bin Laden
  14.   Maximilien Robespierre
  15.     Rosa Parks
  16.     Margaret Sanger
  17.   Spartacus
  18.   William Wilberforce
  19.     Mother Teresa
  20.   Harriet Tubman

Scientists, mathematicians, and inventors (90 articles)

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Ancient figures (8 articles)

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  1.   Archimedes (Level 1)
  2.   Brahmagupta
  3.   Fibonacci
  4.   Jabir ibn Hayyan
  5.   Hypatia
  6.   Hippocrates
  7.   Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
  8.   Ptolemy

Physics (16 articles)

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  1.   Niels Bohr
  2.   John Dalton
  3.     Albert Einstein (Level 1)
  4.   Michael Faraday
  5.   Enrico Fermi
  6.   Richard Feynman
  7.     Stephen Hawking
  8.     Werner Heisenberg
  9.   Christiaan Huygens
  10.   James Clerk Maxwell
  11.     Isaac Newton (Level 1)
  12.   J. Robert Oppenheimer
  13.   Max Planck
  14.   Ernest Rutherford
  15.   Erwin Schrödinger
  16.   J. J. Thomson

Astronomy (6 articles)

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  1.     Nicolaus Copernicus (Level 1)
  2.     Galileo Galilei (Level 1)
  3.   William Herschel
  4.   Edwin Hubble
  5.   Johannes Kepler
  6.     Carl Sagan

Chemistry (12 articles)

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  1.   Svante Arrhenius
  2.     Robert Boyle
  3.   Marie Curie (Level 1)
  4.   Humphry Davy
  5.   Rosalind Franklin
  6.   Fritz Haber
  7.     Otto Hahn
  8.   Dorothy Hodgkin
  9.     Antoine Lavoisier
  10.   Dmitri Mendeleev
  11.     Linus Pauling
  12.   Joseph Priestley

Life sciences (14 articles)

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  1.     Norman Borlaug
  2.   Rachel Carson
  3.   George Washington Carver
  4.   Charles Darwin (Level 1)
  5.   Alexander Fleming
  6.   William Harvey
  7.     Edward Jenner
  8.     Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
  9.   Carl Linnaeus
  10.   Joseph Lister
  11.   Gregor Mendel
  12.   Florence Nightingale
  13.   Louis Pasteur (Level 1)
  14.   Jonas Salk

Inventors and engineers (16 articles)

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  1.   Alexander Graham Bell
  2.     Isambard Kingdom Brunel
  3.     Wernher von Braun
  4.   Cai Lun
  5.     Thomas Edison (Level 1)
  6.   Gustave Eiffel
  7.     Benjamin Franklin
  8.   Johannes Gutenberg (Level 1)
  9.   Guglielmo Marconi
  10.   Samuel Morse
  11.   Alfred Nobel
  12.   Wilhelm Röntgen
  13.   Nikola Tesla
  14.   James Watt
  15.   Eli Whitney
  16.   Wright brothers

Mathematicians (18 articles)

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  1.   Jacob Bernoulli
  2.   Georg Cantor
  3.   Leonhard Euler (Level 1)
  4.   Fibonacci
  5.     Ronald Fisher
  6.     Carl Friedrich Gauss
  7.   Kurt Gödel
  8.     David Hilbert
  9.   Pierre-Simon Laplace
  10.     Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  11.   Ada Lovelace
  12.   John von Neumann
  13.   Emmy Noether
  14.     Blaise Pascal
  15.   Henri Poincaré
  16.   Srinivasa Ramanujan
  17.   Bernhard Riemann
  18.   Alan Turing

Sports figures (10 articles)

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  1.     Muhammad Ali
  2.   Wilt Chamberlain
  3.   Bobby Fischer
  4.   Edmund Hillary
  5.   Bruce Lee
  6.     Diego Maradona
  7.   Jesse Owens
  8.   Pelé
  9.   Jackie Robinson
  10.   Babe Ruth
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