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Total 2,001 articles.

Class Articles
B 731
FGAN 163
FFA 72
C 667
GA 226
FA 165
Start 212
DGA 69
A 4
FFAC 2

People (2,001 articles)

Entertainers (90 articles)

Visual artists (123 articles)

Western painters and illustrators (73 articles)

Medieval era (3 articles)

  1. Giotto
  2. Hieronymus Bosch
  3. Jan van Eyck

Renaissance to early modern era (19 articles)

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

Modern era (painters) (41 articles)

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

Cartoonists, comics artists, and illustrators (10 articles)

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

Other visual arts (44 articles)

Sculptors (9 articles)

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

Architects (21 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. Louis Sullivan
  19. Vitruvius
  20. Christopher Wren
  21. Frank Lloyd Wright

Designers (3 articles)

  1. Coco Chanel
  2. Yves Saint Laurent
  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 (258 articles)

Modern (177 articles)

Journalists (13 articles)

Musicians and composers (154 articles)

Western art music (73 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 (Level 3)
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 (19 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 (9 articles)
  1. Marian Anderson
  2. Maria Callas
  3. Enrico Caruso
  4. Plácido Domingo
  5. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
  6. Kirsten Flagstad
  7. Luciano Pavarotti
  8. Leontyne Price
  9. 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 (63 articles)

  1. ABBA
  2. Bing Crosby
  3. Stephen Foster
  4. Michael Jackson
  5. Madonna
  6. Miriam Makeba
  7. Bob Marley
  8. Joni Mitchell
  9. Frank Sinatra
  10. 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 (7 articles)

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

Electronic music (2 articles)

  1. Brian Eno
  2. Kraftwerk

Folk and country (6 articles)

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

Funk (2 articles)

  1. James Brown
  2. Prince

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 (4 articles)

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

Rock (18 articles)

  1. The Beatles
    1. John Lennon
  2. The Beach Boys
  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 (Level 3)
  15. Queen
  16. The Rolling Stones
  17. The Velvet Underground

Directors, producers and screenwriters (60 articles)

Businesspeople (29 articles)

Explorers (30 articles)

Philosophers, historians, political and social scientists (157 articles)

Philosophers (70 articles)

Historians (20 articles)

Social scientists, economists and political writers (47 articles)

Psychologists (20 articles)

Religious figures (125 articles)

Hinduism (18 articles)

Buddhism (15 articles)

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

Chinese Buddhism (5 articles)

  1. Bodhidharma
  2. Kumārajīva
  3. Huiyuan
  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. Saints Cyril and Methodius
  16. Saint Nicholas
  17. Origen
  18. Tertullian
Popes (3 articles)
  1. Pope Clement I
  2. Pope Gregory I
  3. Pope Leo I
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 (3 articles)
  1. Pope John XXIII
  2. Pope John Paul II
  3. 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
  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. Fatimah
  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-Shafiʽi
  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 (504 articles)

Ancient (73 articles)

Africa (11 articles)

Asia (30 articles)

Europe (32 articles)

Post-classical (130 articles)

Africa (7 articles)

Asia (47 articles)

Europe (76 articles)

Eastern Europe (4 articles)
  1. Stefan Dušan
  2. Stephen the Great
  3. Svatopluk I of Moravia
  4. Vlad the Impaler
Bulgaria (3 articles)
  1. Krum
  2. Boris I of Bulgaria
  3. Ivan Asen II
Byzantine Empire (6 articles)
  1. Justinian I
  2. Heraclius
  3. Basil II
  4. Leo III the Isaurian
  5. Manuel I Komnenos
  6. Theodora
Hungary (4 articles)
  1. Stephen I of Hungary
  2. Béla IV of Hungary
  3. Louis I of Hungary
  4. Matthias Corvinus
Poland and Lithuania (6 articles)
  1. Bolesław I the Brave
  2. Casimir III the Great
  3. Gediminas
  4. Władysław II Jagiełło
  5. Mieszko I
  6. Vytautas
Russia (7 articles)
  1. Alexander Nevsky
  2. Daniel of Galicia
  3. Dmitry Donskoy
  4. Ivan III of Russia
  5. Vladimir the Great
  6. Sviatoslav I
  7. Yaroslav the Wise
Western Europe (2 articles)
  1. Cnut the Great
  2. Margaret I of Denmark
England and Scotland (9 articles)
  1. Æthelstan
  2. Alfred the Great
  3. Edward I of England
  4. Edward III of England
  5. Henry II of England
  6. John, King of England
  7. Richard I of England
  8. Robert the Bruce
  9. William the Conqueror
France (9 articles)
  1. Charlemagne (Level 3)
  2. Charles Martel
  3. Clovis I
  4. Eleanor of Aquitaine
  5. Louis the Pious
  6. Louis IX of France
  7. Louis XI of France
  8. Philip II of France
  9. Philip IV of France
Germany (2 articles)
  1. Charles the Fat
  2. Henry the Lion
Holy Roman Empire (6 articles)
  1. Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor
  2. Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
  3. Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
  4. Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor
  5. Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor
  6. Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor
Italy (7 articles)
  1. Cosimo de' Medici
  2. Lorenzo de' Medici
  3. Robert Guiscard
  4. Roger II of Sicily
  5. Girolamo Savonarola
  6. Theodoric the Great
  7. Totila
Papal States (5 articles)
  1. Pope Alexander VI
  2. Pope Boniface VIII
  3. Pope Gregory VII
  4. Pope Innocent III
  5. Pope Urban II
Spain and Portugal (6 articles)
  1. Abd al-Rahman I
  2. Abd al-Rahman III
  3. Afonso I of Portugal
  4. Ferdinand II of Aragon
  5. Prince Henry the Navigator
  6. Isabella I of Castile

Early modern period (114 articles)

Africa (4 articles)

Americas (14 articles)

Asia (41 articles)

Europe (54 articles)

Modern (187 articles)

Africa (29 articles)

Americas (42 articles)

Asia (49 articles)

Europe (66 articles)

Central Europe (5 articles)
  1. Alexander Dubček
  2. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
  3. Václav Havel
  4. Franz Joseph I of Austria
  5. Klemens von Metternich
Eastern Europe (3 articles)
  1. Symon Petliura
  2. Józef Piłsudski
  3. Lech Wałęsa
Southeastern Europe (6 articles)
  1. Ion Antonescu
  2. Nicolae Ceaușescu
  3. Enver Hoxha
  4. Slobodan Milošević
  5. Ante Pavelić
  6. Josip Broz Tito
Russia and USSR (12 articles)
  1. Alexander I of Russia
  2. Alexander II of Russia
  3. Leonid Brezhnev
  4. Mikhail Gorbachev
  5. Nikita Khrushchev
  6. Vladimir Lenin (Level 3)
  7. Nicholas I of Russia
  8. Nicholas II of Russia
  9. Vladimir Putin
  10. Joseph Stalin (Level 3)
  11. Leon Trotsky
  12. Boris Yeltsin
Scandinavia (4 articles)
  1. Gro Harlem Brundtland
  2. Charles XIV John
  3. Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (Level 3)
  4. Dag Hammarskjöld
Western Europe (1 article)
  1. Leopold II of Belgium
France (6 articles)
  1. Georges Clemenceau
  2. Charles de Gaulle
  3. François Mitterrand
  4. Louis Philippe I
  5. Napoleon III
  6. Adolphe Thiers
Germany (12 articles)
  1. Konrad Adenauer
  2. Otto von Bismarck
  3. Willy Brandt
  4. Joseph Goebbels
  5. Adolf Hitler (Level 3)
  6. Heinrich Himmler
  7. Erich Honecker
  8. Helmut Kohl
  9. Angela Merkel
  10. Albert Speer
  11. William I, German Emperor
  12. Wilhelm II, German Emperor
Iberia (3 articles)
  1. Francisco Franco
  2. Juan Carlos I (Level 5)
  3. António de Oliveira Salazar
Ireland (3 articles)
  1. Michael Collins
  2. Charles Stewart Parnell
  3. Éamon de Valera
Italy (2 articles)
  1. Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
  2. Benito Mussolini
United Kingdom (9 articles)
  1. Robert Peel
  2. Queen Victoria
  3. William Ewart Gladstone
  4. Benjamin Disraeli
  5. David Lloyd George
  6. Winston Churchill (Level 3)
  7. Clement Attlee
  8. Elizabeth II
  9. Margaret Thatcher

Oceania (1 article)

  1. John Curtin

Military leaders and theorists (52 articles)

Rebels, revolutionaries and activists (54 articles)

Scientists, inventors and mathematicians (254 articles)

Ancient figures (25 articles)

Physics and astronomy (66 articles)

Chemistry (24 articles)

Life sciences (45 articles)

Inventors and engineers (36 articles)

Mathematicians (45 articles)

Computer scientists (13 articles)

Sports figures (98 articles)

Individual sports (53 articles)

Team sports (45 articles)