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Hinduism

This section contains 36 articles.

Ancient

This section contains 10 articles.

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

Post-classical

This section contains 12 articles.

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

Modern

This section contains 14 articles.

1. Sri Aurobindo (Level 4)
2. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
3. Dayananda Saraswati
4. A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
5. Ramakrishna
6. Ramana Maharshi (Level 4)
7. 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

Buddhism

This section contains 59 articles.

Buddhism: General

This section contains 8 articles.

1. The Buddha
   1. Śuddhodana
2. Nagarjuna
3. Padmasambhava
4. Saraha
5. Sokei-an
6. Thích Nhất Hạnh
7. Mahapajapati Gotami

Chinese Buddhism

This section contains 8 articles.

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

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

Japanese Buddhism

This section contains 6 articles.

1. Dōgen
2. Eisai
3. Hakuin Ekaku
4. Kūkai
5. D. T. Suzuki
6. Shunryū Suzuki

Korean Buddhism

This section contains 3 articles.

1. Ch'oe Ch'i-wŏn
2. Jinul
3. 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

Judaism

This section contains 29 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
4. Rav Ashi
5. Chaim Yosef David Azulai
6. Baal Shem Tov
7. Jacob Frank
8. Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog
9. Abraham Joshua Heschel
10. Hillel the Elder
11. Samson Raphael Hirsch
12. Judah ha-Nasi
13. Meir Kahane
14. Mordecai Kaplan
15. Joseph Karo
16. Abraham Isaac Kook
17. Judah Loew ben Bezalel
18. Maimonides
19. Nachmanides
20. Rashi
21. Saadia Gaon
22. Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
23. Menachem Mendel Schneerson
24. Joel Teitelbaum
25. Vilna Gaon
26. Yohanan ben Zakkai
27. Ovadia Yosef
28. Shneur Zalman of Liadi
29. 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 32 articles.

1. Jesus (Level 3)
   1. Saint Joseph
   2. Mary, mother of Jesus
   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
   6. Judas Iscariot
   7. Jude the Apostle
   8. Matthew the Apostle
   9. Saint Peter
   10. Philip the Apostle
   11. Simon the Zealot
   12. Thomas the Apostle
3. Barnabas
4. Biblical Magi
5. John the Baptist
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
14. Pontius Pilate
15. Silas
16. Saint Stephen
17. Saint Timothy

Pre-Schism

This section contains 57 articles.

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

Popes

This section contains 15 articles.

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

Catholic Church

This section contains 69 articles.

Pre-modern, -1800

This section contains 40 articles.

1. Albertus Magnus
2. Anselm of Canterbury
3. Anthony of Padua
4. Thomas Becket
5. Robert Bellarmine
6. Bernard of Clairvaux
7. Bonaventure
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
17. Blessed Gerard
18. Aloysius Gonzaga
19. Jan Hus
20. Ignatius of Loyola
21. Cornelius Jansen
22. Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros
23. John of Ávila
24. John of the Cross
25. Heinrich Kramer
26. Lanfranc
27. Alphonsus Liguori
28. Peter the Hermit
29. Charles Reynolds (cleric)
30. Matteo Ricci
31. Francis de Sales
32. Junípero Serra
33. Teresa of Ávila
34. Johann Tetzel
35. Thomas à Kempis
36. Tomás de Torquemada
37. Jacobus de Voragine
38. Thomas Wolsey
39. John Wycliffe
40. Francis Xavier

Modern, 1800-present

This section contains 19 articles.

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

Popes

This section contains 10 articles.

1. Pope Pius IX
2. Pope Leo XIII
3. Pope Pius X
4. Pope Benedict XV
5. Pope Pius XII
6. Pope John XXIII
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. Vladimir Bogoyavlensky
4. Cyprian, Metropolitan of Kiev
5. Philaret Drozdov
6. Patriarch Hermogenes of Moscow
7. Innocent of Alaska
8. Isidore of Kiev
9. Patriarch Job of Moscow
10. Patriarch Joseph of Moscow
11. Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow
12. Michael I Cerularius
13. Patriarch Nikon of Moscow
14. Philip II, Metropolitan of Moscow
15. Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow
16. Grigori Rasputin
17. Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow
18. Stefan Yavorsky

Protestantism

This section contains 49 articles.

Early modern, 1519-1800

This section contains 22 articles.

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

Modern, 1800-present

This section contains 27 articles.

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

Mormonism

This section contains 4 articles.

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

Others

This section contains 6 articles.

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

Islam

This section contains 94 articles.

Islam: General

This section contains 21 articles.

1. Muhammad (Level 3)
   1. Wives of Muhammad
      1. Khadija bint Khuwaylid
      2. Aisha
   2. Zayd ibn Haritha al-Kalbi
   3. Fatima
   4. Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib
   5. Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib
   6. Ibn Abbas
   7. Companions of the Prophet
2. Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud
3. Abd Allah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab
4. Abu Ayyub al-Ansari
5. Abu al-Darda
6. Abu Hurayra
7. Abu Musa al-Ash'ari
8. Abu Sufyan ibn Harb
9. Bilal ibn Rabah
10. Salman the Persian
11. Ubayy ibn Ka'b
12. 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
5. Abu Hasan al-Ash'ari
6. Abu Mansur al-Maturidi
7. Ahmad ibn Hanbal
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
17. Al-Juwayni
18. Malik ibn Anas
19. Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab
20. Muhammad al-Bukhari
21. Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj
22. Al-Nawawi
23. Al-Qurtubi
24. Tariq Ramadan
25. Al-Shafi'i
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 11 articles.

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

Shia Islam

This section contains 20 articles.

1. Aga Khan III
2. Ahl al-Bayt
   1. Ali
   2. Hasan ibn Ali
   3. Husayn ibn Ali
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
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

New religious movements

This section contains 28 articles.

Scientology

This section contains 2 articles.

1. L. Ron Hubbard
2. David Miscavige

Theosophy

This section contains 3 articles.

1. Alice Bailey
2. Annie Besant
3. Helena Blavatsky

Modern paganism

This section contains 3 articles.

1. Gerald Gardner
2. Stephen McNallen
3. Doreen Valiente

New Thought

This section contains 2 articles.

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

Other

This section contains 18 articles.

1. Marshall Applewhite
2. Meher Baba
3. Edgar Cayce
4. Aleister Crowley (Level 4)
5. George Gurdjieff
6. Leonard Howell
7. Jim Jones
8. David Koresh
9. Joseph Kibweteere
10. Marie Laveau
11. Anton LaVey
12. Li Hongzhi
13. Sun Myung Moon
14. Raël
15. Rajneesh
16. Shoko Asahara
17. Yahweh ben Yahweh
18. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Other religions

This section contains 13 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

Jainism

This section contains 2 articles.

1. Mahavira (Level 4)
2. Parshvanatha

Manichaeism

This section contains 1 article.

1. Mani (prophet)

Sikhism

This section contains 3 articles.

1. Guru Arjan
2. Guru Gobind Singh
3. Guru Nanak

Zoroastrianism

This section contains 2 articles.

1. Kartir
2. Zoroaster (Level 4)