Entertainers, 107
editActors and Actresses, 77
editSilent movies, 6
edit- Americas
- Harold Lloyd - Harold Lloyd
- Lillian Gish - Lillian Gish
- Buster Keaton - Buster Keaton
- Mary Pickford - Mary Pickford
- Gloria Swanson - Gloria Swanson
- Europe
- Asta Nielsen - Asta Nielsen
Modern era, 71
edit- Africa, 0
- Americas, 35
- USA
- Fred Astaire - Fred Astaire
- Sarah Bernhardt - Sarah Bernhardt
- Humphrey Bogart - Humphrey Bogart
- Marlon Brando - Marlon Brando
- Marx Brothers - Marx Brothers
- James Cagney - James Cagney
- Charlie Chaplin - Charlie Chaplin
- Claudette Colbert - Claudette Colbert
- Gary Cooper - Gary Cooper
- Joan Crawford - Joan Crawford
- Bette Davis - Bette Davis
- Robert De Niro - Robert De Niro
- James Dean - James Dean
- Henry Fonda - Henry Fonda
- Jane Fonda - Jane Fonda
- Clark Gable - Clark Gable
- Judy Garland - Judy Garland
- Whoopi Goldberg - Whoopi Goldberg
- Cary Grant - Cary Grant
- Tom Hanks - Tom Hanks
- Katharine Hepburn - Katharine Hepburn
- Grace Kelly - Grace Kelly
- Gene Kelly - Gene Kelly
- Marilyn Monroe - Marilyn Monroe
- Eddie Murphy - Eddie Murphy
- Jack Nicholson - Jack Nicholson
- Gregory Peck - Gregory Peck
- Barbara Stanwyck - Barbara Stanwyck
- James Stewart - James Stewart
- Meryl Streep - Meryl Streep
- Elizabeth Taylor - Elizabeth Taylor
- Shirley Temple - Shirley Temple
- Spencer Tracy - Spencer Tracy
- John Wayne - John Wayne
- Mae West - Mae West
- Robin Williams - Robin Williams
- Asia, 4
- China
- Bruce Lee - Bruce Lee
- India
- Amitabh Bachchan - Amitabh Bachchan
- Pran (actor) - Pran
- Japan
- Toshiro Mifune - Toshiro Mifune
- Europe, 31
- France
- Brigitte Bardot - Brigitte Bardot
- Jean-Paul Belmondo - Jean-Paul Belmondo
- Louis de Funès - Louis de Funès
- Alain Delon - Alain Delon
- Fernandel - Fernandel
- Jean Gabin - Jean Gabin
- Jean Marais - Jean Marais
- Gérard Philipe - Gérard Philipe
- Great Britain
- Richard Burton - Richard Burton
- Michael Caine - Michael Caine
- Sean Connery - Sean Connery
- Daniel Day-Lewis - Daniel Day-Lewis
- Audrey Hepburn - Audrey Hepburn
- Anthony Hopkins - Anthony Hopkins
- Edmund Kean - Edmund Kean
- Vivien Leigh - Vivien Leigh
- Laurence Olivier - Laurence Olivier
- Peter O'Toole - Peter O'Toole
- Peter Sellers - Peter Sellers
- Italy
- Adriano Celentano - Adriano Celentano
- Gina Lollobrigida - Gina Lollobrigida
- Sophia Loren - Sophia Loren
- Marcello Mastroianni - Marcello Mastroianni
- Sweden
- Ingrid Bergman - Ingrid Bergman
- Greta Garbo - Greta Garbo
- USSR
- Mikhail Ulyanov - Mikhail Ulyanov
- Yevgeny Leonov - Yevgeny Leonov
- Innokenty Smoktunovsky - Innokenty Smoktunovsky
- Armen Dzhigarkhanyan - Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
- Other
- Marlene Dietrich - Marlene Dietrich
- Maximilian Schell - Maximilian Schell
Performing artists, 40
edit- Alvin Ailey - Alvin Ailey
- Marian Anderson - Marian Anderson
- Frederick Ashton - Frederick Ashton
- Mikhail Baryshnikov - Mikhail Baryshnikov*
- Maurice Béjart - Maurice Béjart
- Carlo Blasis - Carlo Blasis
- Andrea Bocelli - Andrea Bocelli
- Erik Bruhn - Erik Bruhn
- George Carlin - George Carlin
- Enrico Caruso - Enrico Caruso
- Cyd Charisse - Cyd Charisse
- Boris Christoff - Boris Christoff
- David Copperfield (illusionist) - David Copperfield
- Plácido Domingo - Plácido Domingo
- Isadora Duncan - Isadora Duncan
- Fanny Elssler - Fanny Elssler
- Michel Fokine - Michel Fokine
- Margot Fonteyn - Margot Fonteyn
- Gregory Hines - Gregory Hines
- Harry Houdini - Harry Houdini
- Avdotia Istomina - Avdotia Istomina
- Tamara Karsavina - Tamara Karsavina
- Rudolf von Laban - Rudolf von Laban
- Jenny Lind - Jenny Lind
- Natalia Makarova - Natalia Makarova
- Vaslav Nijinsky - Vaslav Nijinsky
- Birgit Nilsson - Birgit Nilsson
- Rudolf Nureyev - Rudolf Nureyev
- Luciano Pavarotti - Luciano Pavarotti
- Anna Pavlova - Anna Pavlova
- Marius Petipa - Marius Petipa*
- Leontyne Price - Leontyne Price*
- Jerome Robbins - Jerome Robbins
- Renata Scotto - Renata Scotto
- Beverly Sills - Beverly Sills
- Frederica von Stade - Frederica von Stade
- Marie Taglioni - Marie Taglioni
- Maria Tallchief - Maria Tallchief
- Twyla Tharp - Twyla Tharp
- Gaétan Vestris - Gaétan Vestris
Visual artists, 111
editWestern painters and illustrators, 77
edit- Ancient era
- Europe
- Medieval era
- Europe
- Hieronymus Bosch - Hieronymus Bosch
- Jan van Eyck - Jan van Eyck
- Giotto - Giotto
- Andrei Rublev - Andrei Rublev
- Renaissance to early modern era
- El Greco - El Greco
- France
- Jacques-Louis David - Jacques-Louis David
- Eugène Delacroix - Eugène Delacroix
- François Mansart - François Mansart
- Nicolas Poussin - Nicolas Poussin
- Germany
- Albrecht Dürer - Albrecht Dürer
- Caspar David Friedrich - Caspar David Friedrich
- Hans Holbein the Younger - Hans Holbein the Younger
- Karl Friedrich Schinkel - Karl Friedrich Schinkel
- Italy
- Francesco Borromini - Borromini
- Caravaggio - Caravaggio
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Bernini
- Giovanni Bellini - Giovanni Bellini
- Sandro Botticelli - Sandro Botticelli
- Donato Bramante - Bramante
- Canaletto - Canaletto
- Piero della Francesca - Piero della Francesca
- Andrea Mantegna - Andrea Mantegna
- Masaccio - Masaccio
- Michelangelo - Michelangelo
- Andrea Palladio - Palladio
- Raphael - Raphael
- Andrea del Sarto - Andrea del Sarto
- Tintoretto - Tintoretto
- Titian - Titian
- Paolo Veronese - Paolo Veronese
- Leonardo da Vinci - Leonardo da Vinci
- Netherlands
- Anthony van Dyck - Anthony van Dyck
- Peter Paul Rubens - Peter Paul Rubens
- Rembrandt - Rembrandt
- Johannes Vermeer - Johannes Vermeer
- Spain
- Jusepe de Ribera - Jusepe de Ribera
- Diego Velázquez - Diego Velázquez
- Modern era (painters)
- Marc Chagall - Marc Chagall
- Marcel Duchamp - Marcel Duchamp
- René Magritte - René Magritte
- Americas
- Mexico
- Frida Kahlo - Frida Kahlo
- United States
- Mary Cassatt - Mary Cassatt
- Georgia O'Keeffe - Georgia O'Keeffe
- Jackson Pollock - Jackson Pollock
- Mark Rothko - Mark Rothko
- Andy Warhol - Andy Warhol
- Grant Wood - Grant Wood
- Europe
- Paul Klee - Paul Klee
- Gustav Klimt - Gustav Klimt
- Edvard Munch - Edvard Munch
- Victor Vasarely - Victor Vasarely
- France
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
- Marie-Antoine Carême - Marie-Antoine Carême
- Paul Cézanne - Paul Cézanne
- Edgar Degas - Edgar Degas
- Paul Gauguin - Paul Gauguin
- Édouard Manet - Édouard Manet
- Henri Matisse - Henri Matisse
- Claude Monet - Claude Monet
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Henri Rousseau - Henri Rousseau
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - Toulouse-Lautrec
- Georges Seurat - Georges Seurat
- Great Britain
- Francis Bacon (artist) - Francis Bacon (artist)
- William Hogarth - William Hogarth
- J. M. W. Turner - J. M. W. Turner
- Netherlands
- Vincent van Gogh - Vincent van Gogh
- Piet Mondrian - Piet Mondrian
- Russia
- Wassily Kandinsky - Wassily Kandinsky
- Kazimir Malevich - Kazimir Malevich
- Ilya Repin - Ilya Repin
- Nicholas Roerich - Nicholas Roerich
- Spain
- Salvador Dalí - Salvador Dalí
- Francisco Goya - Francisco Goya
- Joan Miró - Joan Miró
- Pablo Picasso - Pablo Picasso
Sculptors, 2
edit- Auguste Rodin - Auguste Rodin
- Donatello - Donatello
Architects, 26
edit- Africa
- Egypt
- Imhotep - Imhotep
- Americas
- Brazil
- Oscar Niemeyer - Oscar Niemeyer
- United States
- Walter Burley Griffin - Walter Burley Griffin
- William Le Baron Jenney - William Le Baron Jenney
- Frank Gehry - Frank Gehry
- Frank Lloyd Wright - Frank Lloyd Wright
- Richard Meier - Richard Meier
- Louis Sullivan - Louis Sullivan
- Asia
- I. M. Pei - I. M. Pei
- Mimar Sinan - Mimar Sinan
- Kenzō Tange - Kenzo Tange
- Europe
- Alvar Aalto - Alvar Aalto
- Le Corbusier - Le Corbusier
- Antoni Gaudí - Gaudí
- Victor Horta - Victor Horta
- Inigo Jones - Inigo Jones
- Richard Neutra - Richard Neutra
- Renzo Piano - Renzo Piano
- Christopher Wren - Christopher Wren
- Germany
- Günter Behnisch - Günter Behnisch
- Peter Behrens - Peter Behrens
- Walter Gropius - Walter Gropius
- Erich Mendelsohn - Erich Mendelsohn
- Frei Otto - Frei Otto
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- Hans Scharoun - Hans Scharoun
Non-Western traditions, 5
edit- China
- Shitao - Shitao
- India
- Raja Ravi Varma - Raja Ravi Varma
- Japan
- Hiroshige - Hiroshige
- Hokusai - Hokusai
- Sesshū Tōyō - Sesshū Tōyō
Writers, 244
edit- Abu Nuwas - Abu Nuwas
- Adam Mickiewicz - Adam Mickiewicz
- Alexander Pushkin - Alexander Pushkin
- Alejo Carpentier - Alejo Carpentier
- Alexandre Dumas - Alexandre Dumas
- Alice Walker - Alice Walker
- Allen Ginsberg - Allen Ginsberg
- Amir Khusrow - Amir Khusrow
- Anton Chekhov - Anton Chekhov
- Arthur Rimbaud - Arthur Rimbaud
- Brothers Grimm - Brothers Grimm
- Carl Sandburg - Carl Sandburg
- Charles Dickens - Charles Dickens
- Cicero - Cicero
- Dashiell Hammett - Dashiell Hammett
- Douglas Adams - Douglas Adams
- Du Fu - Du Fu
- Edgar Allan Poe - Edgar Allan Poe
- Eino Leino - Eino Leino
- Emily Dickinson - Emily Dickinson
- Erich Maria Remarque - Erich Maria Remarque
- Ernest Hemingway - Ernest Hemingway
- F. Scott Fitzgerald - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Franz Kafka - Franz Kafka
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- John Donne - John Donne
- Gabriel García Márquez - Gabriel García Márquez
- Geoffrey Chaucer - Geoffrey Chaucer
- George Bernard Shaw - George Bernard Shaw
- George Orwell - George Orwell
- Ghalib - Ghalib
- H. G. Wells - H. G. Wells
- Hans Christian Andersen - Hans Christian Andersen
- Harold Pinter - Harold Pinter
- Heinrich Heine - Heinrich Heine
- Henrik Ibsen - Henrik Ibsen
- Henry James - Henry James
- Henry Miller - Henry Miller
- Hermann Hesse - Hermann Hesse
- Hildegard of Bingen - Hildegard of Bingen
- Ilf and Petrov - Ilf and Petrov
- Isaac Asimov - Isaac Asimov
- Ivan Vazov - Ivan Vazov
- J. R. R. Tolkien - J. R. R. Tolkien
- Jack Kerouac - Jack Kerouac
- Jack London - Jack London
- Rumi - Rumi
- James Joyce - James Joyce
- Jane Austen - Jane Austen
- Jerome K. Jerome - Jerome K. Jerome
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- John Steinbeck - John Steinbeck
- John Updike - John Updike
- Jonathan Swift - Jonathan Swift
- Jorge Luis Borges - Jorge Luis Borges
- José Martí - José Martí
- José Saramago - José Saramago
- Jules Verne - Jules Verne
- Kālidāsa - Kālidāsa
- Langston Hughes - Langston Hughes
- Leo Tolstoy - Leo Tolstoy
- Lewis Carroll - Lewis Carroll
- Li Bai - Li Bai
- Lord Byron - Lord Byron
- Marcel Proust - Marcel Proust
- Mark Twain - Mark Twain
- Mario Vargas Llosa - Mario Vargas Llosa
- Matsuo Bashō - Matsuo Bashō
- Maxim Gorky - Maxim Gorky
- Miguel de Cervantes - Miguel de Cervantes
- Mikhail Bulgakov - Mikhail Bulgakov
- Molière - Molière
- Murasaki Shikibu - Murasaki Shikibu
- Naguib Mahfouz - Naguib Mahfouz
- Nathaniel Hawthorne - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Nikolai Gogol - Nikolai Gogol
- Nikos Kazantzakis - Nikos Kazantzakis
- Olaf Stapledon - Olaf Stapledon
- Omar Khayyám - Omar Khayyám
- Pablo Neruda - Pablo Neruda
- Petrarch - Petrarch
- Philip K. Dick - Philip K. Dick
- Rabindranath Tagore - Rabindranath Tagore
- Rainer Maria Rilke - Rainer Maria Rilke
- Gabriele D'Annunzio - Gabriele D’Annunzio
- Brontë family - Brontë family
- Robert A. Heinlein - Robert A. Heinlein
- Saadi Shirazi - Saadi Shirazi
- Salman Rushdie - Salman Rushdie
- Sappho - Sappho
- Saul Bellow - Saul Bellow
- Thomas Hardy - Thomas Hardy
- Thomas Mann - Thomas Mann
- Thomas Pynchon - Thomas Pynchon
- Toni Morrison - Toni Morrison
- Truman Capote - Truman Capote
- Umberto Eco - Umberto Eco
- Victor Hugo - Victor Hugo
- Yasunari Kawabata - Yasunari Kawabata
- Yukio Mishima - Yukio Mishima
Ancient, 13
edit- Qu Yuan - Qu Yuan
- Aesop - Aesop
- Menander - Menander
- Aeschylus - Aeschylus
- Aristophanes - Aristophanes
- Euripides - Euripides
- Hafez - Hafez
- Homer - Homer
- Horace - Horace
- Ovid - Ovid
- Plutarch - Plutarch
- Sophocles - Sophocles
- Virgil - Virgil
- Pliny the Elder - Pliny the Elder
Middle Ages, 10
edit- Dante Alighieri - Dante Alighieri
- Ferdowsi - Ferdowsi
- Jami - Jami
- Kabir - Kabir
- Nizami Ganjavi - Nizami Ganjavi
- Rudaki - Rudaki
- Giovanni Boccaccio - Giovanni Boccaccio
- Ali-Shir Nava'i - Ali-Shir Nava'i
- William Shakespeare - William Shakespeare
- Chrétien de Troyes - Chrétien de Troyes
- Christine de Pizan - Christine de Pizan
- François Villon - François Villon
Renaissance, 13
edit- Fuzûlî - Fuzûlî
- Tulsidas - Tulsidas
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca - Pedro Calderón de la Barca
- Luís de Camões - Luís de Camões
- Pierre Corneille - Pierre Corneille
- Daniel Defoe - Daniel Defoe
- Gavrila Derzhavin - Gavrila Derzhavin
- John Dryden - John Dryden
- Samuel Johnson - Samuel Johnson
- John Milton - John Milton
- Michel de Montaigne - Michel de Montaigne
- Jean Racine - Jean Racine
- Lope de Vega - Lope de Vega
Modern, 83
edit- Chinua Achebe - Chinua Achebe
- Samuel Beckett - Samuel Beckett
- William Blake - William Blake
- Bertolt Brecht - Bertolt Brecht
- Ray Bradbury - Ray Bradbury
- Raymond Chandler - Raymond Chandler
- Agatha Christie - Agatha Christie
- Arthur C. Clarke - Arthur C. Clarke
- Arthur Conan Doyle - Arthur Conan Doyle
- Roald Dahl - Roald Dahl
- Robert Frost - Robert Frost
- Aldous Huxley - Aldous Huxley
- Rudyard Kipling - Rudyard Kipling
- Astrid Lindgren - Astrid Lindgren
- Arthur Miller - Arthur Miller
- Vladimir Nabokov - Vladimir Nabokov
- Mary Shelley - Mary Shelley
- Wole Soyinka - Wole Soyinka
- Robert Louis Stevenson - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Walt Whitman - Walt Whitman
- Oscar Wilde - Oscar Wilde
- Mary Wollstonecraft - Mary Wollstonecraft
- Virginia Woolf - Virginia Woolf
- W. B. Yeats - W. B. Yeats
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
- J. M. Coetzee - J. M. Coetzee
- Nadine Gordimer - Nadine Gordimer
- Margaret Atwood - Margaret Atwood
- Pearl S. Buck - Pearl S. Buck
- Washington Irving - Washington Irving
- Jaroslav Hašek - Jaroslav Hašek
- Andrzej Szczypiorski - Andrzej Szczypiorski
- T. S. Eliot - T. S. Eliot
- Mihai Eminescu - Mihai Eminescu
- William Faulkner - William Faulkner
- Ken Kesey - Ken Kesey
- Guillaume Apollinaire - Guillaume Apollinaire
- Constantine P. Cavafy - Constantine P. Cavafy
- Stendhal - Stendhal
- William Golding - William Golding
- Stephen King - Stephen King
- Ursula K. Le Guin - Ursula K. Le Guin
- Sinclair Lewis - Sinclair Lewis
- Herman Melville - Herman Melville
- Margaret Mitchell - Margaret Mitchell
- Mario Puzo - Mario Puzo
- Ezra Pound - Ezra Pound
- J. D. Salinger - J. D. Salinger
- Isaac Bashevis Singer - Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Harriet Beecher Stowe - Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Kurt Vonnegut - Kurt Vonnegut
- William Carlos Williams - William Carlos Williams
- Jorge Amado - Jorge Amado
- Chinghiz Aitmatov - Chinghiz Aitmatov
- Muhammad Iqbal - Muhammad Iqbal
- Haruki Murakami - Haruki Murakami
- Kenzaburō Ōe - Kenzaburō Ōe
- Orhan Pamuk - Orhan Pamuk
- Lu Xun - Lu Xun
- Kahlil Gibran - Kahlil Gibran
- France Prešeren - France Prešeren
- Ismail Kadare - Ismail Kadare
- Joseph Conrad - Joseph Conrad
- Sándor Petőfi - Sándor Petőfi
- Henryk Sienkiewicz - Henryk Sienkiewicz
- Taras Shevchenko - Taras Shevchenko
- Anna Akhmatova - Anna Akhmatova
- Joseph Brodsky - Joseph Brodsky
- Ivan Bunin - Ivan Bunin
- Nikolay Karamzin - Nikolay Karamzin
- Mikhail Lermontov - Mikhail Lermontov
- Vladimir Mayakovsky - Vladimir Mayakovsky
- Nikolay Nekrasov - Nikolay Nekrasov
- Boris Pasternak - Boris Pasternak
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy - Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
- Ivan Turgenev - Ivan Turgenev
- Honoré de Balzac - Honoré de Balzac
- Charles Baudelaire - Charles Baudelaire
- Karen Blixen - Karen Blixen
- Gustave Flaubert - Gustave Flaubert
- Anne Frank - Anne Frank
- Federico García Lorca - Federico García Lorca
- André Gide - André Gide
- Knut Hamsun - Knut Hamsun
- Eugène Ionesco - Eugène Ionesco
- Selma Lagerlöf - Selma Lagerlöf
- Luigi Pirandello - Luigi Pirandello
- Friedrich Schiller - Friedrich Schiller
- August Strindberg - August Strindberg
- Tristan Tzara - Tristan Tzara
- Émile Zola - Émile Zola
- Kingsley Amis - Kingsley Amis
- W. H. Auden - W. H. Auden
- Enid Blyton - Enid Blyton
- Anthony Burgess - Anthony Burgess
- Robert Graves - Robert Graves
- John Keats - John Keats
- C. S. Lewis - C. S. Lewis
- Alan Moore - Alan Moore
- Walter Scott - Walter Scott
- John Millington Synge - John Millington Synge
- William Wordsworth - William Wordsworth
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Percy Bysshe Shelley - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Musicians and composers, 150
editWestern art music
edit- Composers
- Gustav Holst - Gustav Holst
- Jon Lord - Jon Lord
- Alan Parsons - Alan Parsons
- Pancho Vladigerov - Pancho Vladigerov
- Richard Strauss - Richard Strauss
- Medieval and Renaissance
- Guillaume Dufay - Guillaume Dufay
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Giovanni da Palestrina
- Baroque period (1600–1760)
- Johann Sebastian Bach - Johann Sebastian Bach
- George Frideric Handel - George Frideric Handel
- Claudio Monteverdi - Claudio Monteverdi
- Antonio Vivaldi - Antonio Vivaldi
- Classical period (1730–1820)
- Joseph Haydn - Joseph Haydn
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Romantic period (1815–1910)
- Mily Balakirev - Mily Balakirev
- Ludwig van Beethoven - Ludwig van Beethoven
- Hector Berlioz - Hector Berlioz
- Georges Bizet - Georges Bizet
- Alexander Borodin - Alexander Borodin
- Johannes Brahms - Johannes Brahms
- Anton Bruckner - Anton Bruckner
- Frédéric Chopin - Frédéric Chopin
- César Cui - César Cui
- Antonín Dvořák - Antonín Dvořák
- Edvard Grieg - Edvard Grieg
- Franz Liszt - Franz Liszt
- Gustav Mahler - Gustav Mahler
- Felix Mendelssohn - Felix Mendelssohn
- Modest Mussorgsky - Modest Mussorgsky
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- Gioachino Rossini - Gioachino Rossini
- Franz Schubert - Franz Schubert
- Robert Schumann - Robert Schumann
- Bedřich Smetana - Bedřich Smetana
- Johann Strauss II - Johann Strauss
- Gilbert and Sullivan - Gilbert and Sullivan
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Giuseppe Verdi - Giuseppe Verdi
- Richard Wagner - Richard Wagner
- 20th century
- Harold Arlen - Harold Arlen
- Béla Bartók - Béla Bartók
- Claude Debussy - Claude Debussy
- Joe Hisaishi - Joe Hisaishi
- Sergei Prokofiev - Sergei Prokofiev
- Giacomo Puccini - Giacomo Puccini
- Maurice Ravel - Maurice Ravel
- Arnold Schoenberg - Arnold Schoenberg
- Dmitri Shostakovich - Dmitri Shostakovich
- Jean Sibelius - Jean Sibelius
- Igor Stravinsky - Igor Stravinsky
- Performers
- Conductors
- Leonard Bernstein - Leonard Bernstein
- Singers
- Umm Kulthum - Umm Kulthum
- Vladimir Vysotsky - Vladimir Vysotsky
- Violinists/celist
- Yo-Yo Ma - Yo-Yo Ma
- Niccolò Paganini - Niccolò Paganini
Non-Western art music
edit- Ravi Shankar - Ravi Shankar
Folk and popular music
edit- ABBA - ABBA
- Mariah Carey - Mariah Carey
- Cher - Cher
- David Coverdale - David Coverdale
- Doris Day - Doris Day
- Bruce Dickinson - Bruce Dickinson
- Ronnie James Dio - Ronnie James Dio
- Celine Dion - Celine Dion
- Michael Jackson - Michael Jackson
- Elton John - Elton John
- Madonna (entertainer) - Madonna
- Bob Marley - Bob Marley
- Dean Martin - Dean Martin
- Liza Minnelli - Liza Minnelli
- Joni Mitchell - Joni Mitchell
- Frank Sinatra - Frank Sinatra
- Barbra Streisand - Barbra Streisand
- Stevie Wonder - Stevie Wonder
- American folk and country
- Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash
- Bing Crosby - Bing Crosby
- Faith Hill - Faith Hill
- George Jones - George Jones
- Peter, Paul and Mary - Peter, Paul and Mary
- Reba McEntire - Reba McEntire
- Ronnie Milsap - Ronnie Milsap
- Dolly Parton - Dolly Parton
- Hank Williams - Hank Williams
- Blues and soul
- Ray Charles - Ray Charles*
- Aretha Franklin - Aretha Franklin*
- B.B. King - B.B. King
- Composers and songwriters
- Vangelis - Vangelis
- Film music
- Jerry Goldsmith - Jerry Goldsmith
- Henry Mancini - Henry Mancini
- Ennio Morricone - Ennio Morricone
- Richard Rodgers - Richard Rodgers
- Miklós Rózsa - Miklós Rózsa
- Max Steiner - Max Steiner
- John Williams - John Williams
- Funk
- James Brown - James Brown
- Guitarists
- John Lee Hooker - John Lee Hooker
- Stevie Ray Vaughan - Stevie Ray Vaughan
- Hip-hop and rap
- Eminem - Eminem
- Dr. Dre - Dr. Dre
- Tupac Shakur - Tupac Shakur
- Jazz
- Louis Armstrong - Louis Armstrong
- Miles Davis - Miles Davis
- George Gershwin - George Gershwin
- Antônio Carlos Jobim - Antônio Carlos Jobim
- Glenn Miller - Glenn Miller
- Musical comedy and lyricists
- Irving Berlin - Irving Berlin
- Jerome Kern - Jerome Kern
- Cole Porter - Cole Porter
- Andrew Lloyd Webber - Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Non-English language singers
- Édith Piaf - Édith Piaf
- Lata Mangeshkar - Lata Mangeshkar
- Alla Pugacheva - Alla Pugacheva
- Mohammed Rafi - Mohammed Rafi
- Zhou Xuan - Zhou Xuan
- Rock
- AC/DC - AC/DC
- John Barry (composer) - John Barry
- The Beatles - The Beatles
- John Lennon - John Lennon
- Paul McCartney - Paul McCartney
- Chuck Berry - Chuck Berry
- David Bowie - David Bowie
- Eric Clapton - Eric Clapton
- Joe Cocker - Joe Cocker
- Phil Collins - Phil Collins
- Alice Cooper - Alice Cooper
- Deep Purple - Deep Purple
- The Doors - The Doors
- Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan
- Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel
- Simon & Garfunkel - Simon & Garfunkel
- Jimi Hendrix - Jimi Hendrix
- Janis Joplin - Janis Joplin
- Metallica - Metallica
- Gary Moore - Gary Moore
- Nirvana (band) - Nirvana
- Ozzy Osbourne - Ozzy Osbourne
- Pink Floyd - Pink Floyd
- Roger Waters - Roger Waters
- Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley
- Queen (band) - Queen
- Freddie Mercury - Freddie Mercury
- Linda Ronstadt - Linda Ronstadt
- Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
- Bruce Springsteen - Bruce Springsteen
- The Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones
- Keith Richards - Keith Richards
- Mick Jagger - Mick Jagger
- Tina Turner - Tina Turner
- U2 - U2
- Frank Zappa - Frank Zappa
- Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
Criminals, 4
edit- Billy the Kid - Billy the Kid
- Jack the Ripper - Jack the Ripper
- Al Capone - Al Capone
- Pablo Escobar - Pablo Escobar
Directors, producers & screenwriters, 78
edit- Woody Allen - Woody Allen
- Pedro Almodóvar - Pedro Almodóvar
- Robert Altman - Robert Altman
- Jean-Jacques Annaud - Jean-Jacques Annaud
- Roberto Benigni - Roberto Benigni
- Ingmar Bergman - Ingmar Bergman
- Bernardo Bertolucci - Bernardo Bertolucci
- Danny Boyle - Danny Boyle
- Ken Burns - Ken Burns
- James Cameron - James Cameron
- Frank Capra - Frank Capra
- Jean Cocteau - Jean Cocteau
- Clint Eastwood - Clint Eastwood
- Francis Ford Coppola - Francis Ford Coppola
- George Cukor - George Cukor
- Walt Disney - Walt Disney
- Carl Theodor Dreyer - Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Sergei Eisenstein - Sergei Eisenstein
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Federico Fellini - Federico Fellini
- John Ford - John Ford
- Miloš Forman - Miloš Forman
- Bob Fosse - Bob Fosse
- Jean-Luc Godard - Jean-Luc Godard
- Samuel Goldwyn - Samuel Goldwyn
- Terry Gilliam - Terry Gilliam
- D. W. Griffith - D. W. Griffith
- Alfred Hitchcock - Alfred Hitchcock
- Ron Howard - Ron Howard
- John Huston - John Huston
- Elia Kazan - Elia Kazan
- Raj Kapoor - Raj Kapoor
- Takeshi Kitano - Takeshi Kitano
- Andrei Konchalovsky - Andrei Konchalovsky
- Stanley Kubrick - Stanley Kubrick
- Akira Kurosawa - Akira Kurosawa
- Fritz Lang - Fritz Lang
- David Lean - David Lean
- Ang Lee - Ang Lee
- Frank Lloyd - Frank Lloyd
- George Lucas - George Lucas
- Sidney Lumet - Sidney Lumet
- Auguste and Louis Lumière - Auguste and Louis Lumière
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Frances Marion - Frances Marion
- Nikita Mikhalkov - Nikita Mikhalkov
- Lewis Milestone - Lewis Milestone
- Brian De Palma - Brian De Palma
- Alan Parker - Alan Parker
- Roman Polanski - Roman Polanski
- Sydney Pollack - Sydney Pollack
- Carlo Ponti - Carlo Ponti
- Leni Riefenstahl - Leni Riefenstahl
- Satyajit Ray - Satyajit Ray
- Robert Redford - Robert Redford
- Jean Renoir - Jean Renoir
- Carlos Saura - Carlos Saura
- Martin Scorsese - Martin Scorsese
- David O. Selznick - David O. Selznick
- Mack Sennett - Mack Sennett
- Vittorio De Sica - Vittorio De Sica
- Aaron Sorkin - Aaron Sorkin
- Steven Spielberg - Steven Spielberg
- Konstantin Stanislavsky - Constantin Stanislavski
- Oliver Stone - Oliver Stone
- Quentin Tarantino - Quentin Tarantino
- Irving Thalberg - Irving Thalberg
- Giuseppe Tornatore - Giuseppe Tornatore
- Lars von Trier - Lars von Trier
- Luchino Visconti - Luchino Visconti
- Hal B. Wallis - Hal B. Wallis
- Wim Wenders - Wim Wenders
- Orson Welles - Orson Welles
- Billy Wilder - Billy Wilder
- Robert Wise - Robert Wise
- William Wyler - William Wyler
- Darryl F. Zanuck - Darryl F. Zanuck
- Robert Zemeckis - Robert Zemeckis
Businesspeople, 39
edit- Ancient, 1
- Marcus Licinius Crassus - Marcus Licinius Crassus
- Middle age, 1
- Lorenzo de' Medici - Lorenzo de' Medici
- Industrial revolution, 18
- Samuel Crompton - Samuel Crompton
- Thomas Newcomen - Thomas Newcomen
- John Jacob Astor - John Jacob Astor
- Jamsetji Tata - Jamsetji Tata
- United States
- Andrew Carnegie - Andrew Carnegie
- James Buchanan Duke - James Buchanan Duke
- Warren Buffett - Warren Buffett
- Henry Ford - Henry Ford
- Meyer Guggenheim - Meyer Guggenheim
- Howard Hughes - Howard Hughes
- J. P. Morgan - J. P. Morgan
- J. Paul Getty - J. Paul Getty
- William Randolph Hearst - William Randolph Hearst
- John D. Rockefeller - John D. Rockefeller
- Leland Stanford - Leland Stanford
- Cornelius Vanderbilt - Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Madam C. J. Walker - Madam C. J. Walker
- George Westinghouse - George Westinghouse
- Modern, 7
- Coco Chanel - Coco Chanel
- Alan Sugar - Alan Sugar
- Dhirubhai Ambani - Dhirubhai Ambani
- Muhammad Yunus - Muhammad Yunus
- Enzo Ferrari - Enzo Ferrari
- United States
- Ray Kroc - Ray Kroc
- Sam Walton - Sam Walton
- Contemporary, 12
- Mukesh Ambani - Mukesh Ambani
- Carlos Slim - Carlos Slim
- Sergey Brin - Sergey Brin
- Richard Branson - Richard Branson
- United States
- Bill Gates - Bill Gates
- Steve Jobs - Steve Jobs
- Elon Musk - Elon Musk
- Larry Page - Larry Page
- Donald Trump - Donald Trump
- Ted Turner - Ted Turner
- Oprah Winfrey - Oprah Winfrey
- Mark Zuckerberg - Mark Zuckerberg
Explorers, 30
edit- Earlier
- Ibn Battuta - Ibn Battuta
- Leif Erikson - Leif Ericson
- Age of discovery
- Willem Barentsz - Willem Barentsz
- John Cabot - John Cabot
- Pedro Álvares Cabral - Pedro Álvares Cabral
- Jacques Cartier - Jacques Cartier
- Christopher Columbus - Christopher Columbus
- Hernán Cortés - Hernán Cortés
- Francis Drake - Francis Drake
- Juan Sebastián Elcano - Juan Sebastián Elcano
- Vasco da Gama - Vasco da Gama
- Ferdinand Magellan - Ferdinand Magellan
- Juan Ponce de León - Ponce de Leon
- Francisco Pizarro - Francisco Pizarro
- Marco Polo - Marco Polo
- Hernando de Soto - Hernando de Soto
- Abel Tasman - Abel Tasman
- Amerigo Vespucci - Amerigo Vespucci
- Zheng He - Zheng He
- Early modern
- Vitus Bering - Vitus Bering
- James Cook - James Cook
- Alexander von Humboldt - Alexander von Humboldt
- David Livingstone - David Livingstone
- Henry Morton Stanley - Henry Morton Stanley
- Modern
- Roald Amundsen - Roald Amundsen
- Neil Armstrong - Neil Armstrong
- Yuri Gagarin - Yuri Gagarin
- John Glenn - John Glenn
- Edmund Hillary - Edmund Hillary
- Tenzing Norgay - Tenzing Norgay
Philosophers, historians, political and social scientists, 197
editPhilosophers, 96
edit- Ancient, 23
- Aristotle - Aristotle
- Augustine of Hippo - Augustine of Hippo
- Confucius - Confucius
- Democritus - Democritus
- Diogenes of Sinope - Diogenes of Sinope
- Epicurus - Epicurus
- Gorgias - Gorgias
- Han Fei - Han Fei
- Heraclitus - Heraclitus
- Laozi - Laozi
- Li Si - Li Si
- Mencius - Mencius
- Parmenides - Parmenides
- Plato - Plato
- Plotinus - Plotinus
- Seneca the Younger - Seneca the Younger
- Shang Yang - Shang Yang
- Socrates - Socrates
- Thales - Thales
- Xun Kuang - Xunzi
- Zeno of Citium - Zeno of Citium
- Zeno of Elea - Zeno of Elea
- Zhuang Zhou - Zhuangzi
- Middle Ages, 13
- Peter Abelard - Peter Abelard
- Averroes - Averroes
- Boethius - Boethius
- Francis Bacon - Francis Bacon
- Giordano Bruno - Giordano Bruno
- Hasdai Crescas - Hasdai Crescas
- Duns Scotus - Duns Scotus
- Maimonides - Maimonides
- Nicholas of Cusa - Nicholas of Cusa
- Thomas Aquinas - Thomas Aquinas
- Wang Yangming - Wang Yangming
- William of Ockham - William of Ockham
- Zhu Xi - Zhu Xi
- Early modern, 25
- George Berkeley - George Berkeley
- John Amos Comenius - Johan Amos Comenius
- René Descartes - René Descartes
- Friedrich Engels - Friedrich Engels
- Desiderius Erasmus - Desiderius Erasmus
- Hugo Grotius - Hugo Grotius
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Thomas Hobbes - Thomas Hobbes
- David Hume - David Hume
- William James - William James
- Immanuel Kant - Immanuel Kant
- Søren Kierkegaard - Søren Kierkegaard
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- John Locke - John Locke
- John Stuart Mill - John Stuart Mill
- Montesquieu - Montesquieu
- Friedrich Nietzsche - Friedrich Nietzsche
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Max Scheler - Max Scheler
- Friedrich Schleiermacher - Friedrich Schleiermacher
- Arthur Schopenhauer - Arthur Schopenhauer
- Herbert Spencer - Herbert Spencer
- Baruch Spinoza - Baruch Spinoza
- Emanuel Swedenborg - Emanuel Swedenborg
- Voltaire - Voltaire
- Modern, 35
- Theodor W. Adorno - Theodor W. Adorno
- Raymond Aron - Raymond Aron
- Simone de Beauvoir - Simone de Beauvoir
- Henri Bergson - Henri Bergson
- Isaiah Berlin - Isaiah Berlin
- Ernst Bloch - Ernst Bloch
- Martin Buber - Martin Buber
- Albert Camus - Albert Camus
- Ernst Cassirer - Ernst Cassirer
- Benedetto Croce - Benedetto Croce
- Gilles Deleuze - Gilles Deleuze
- Jacques Derrida - Jacques Derrida
- John Dewey - John Dewey
- Ralph Waldo Emerson - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Ludwig Feuerbach - Ludwig Feuerbach
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte - Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Gottlob Frege - Gottlob Frege
- Yan Fu - Yan Fu
- Hans-Georg Gadamer - Hans-Georg Gadamer
- Jürgen Habermas - Jürgen Habermas
- Martin Heidegger - Martin Heidegger
- Edmund Husserl - Edmund Husserl
- Thomas Kuhn - Thomas Kuhn
- Imre Lakatos - Imre Lakatos
- Marshall McLuhan - Marshall McLuhan
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty - Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Karl Popper - Karl Popper
- John Rawls - John Rawls
- Bertrand Russell - Bertrand Russell
- Jean-Paul Sartre - Jean-Paul Sartre
- Henry David Thoreau - Henry David Thoreau
- Miguel de Unamuno - Miguel de Unamuno
- Alfred North Whitehead - Alfred North Whitehead
- Ludwig Wittgenstein - Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Kang Youwei - Kang Youwei
Historians, 21
edit- Ancient, 8
- Eusebius - Eusebius
- Herodotus - Herodotus
- Livy - Livy
- Ammianus Marcellinus - Ammianus Marcellinus
- Tacitus - Tacitus
- Thucydides - Thucydides
- Sima Qian - Sima Qian
- Xenophon - Xenophon
- Middle Ages, 3
- Bede - Bede
- Ibn Khaldun - Ibn Khaldun
- Rashid-al-Din Hamadani - Rashid-al-Din Hamadani
- Early modern, 3
- Edward Gibbon - Edward Gibbon
- Leopold von Ranke - Leopold von Ranke
- Adolphe Thiers - Adolphe Thiers
- Modern, 7
- Fernand Braudel - Fernand Braudel
- Michel Foucault - Michel Foucault
- Christopher Hill (historian) - Christopher Hill
- Theodor Mommsen - Theodor Mommsen
- A. J. P. Taylor - A. J. P. Taylor
- Barbara W. Tuchman - Barbara W. Tuchman
- Frederick Jackson Turner - Frederick Jackson Turner
Economists, 14
edit- Early modern period, 4
- Thomas Robert Malthus - Thomas Robert Malthus
- François Quesnay - François Quesnay
- David Ricardo - David Ricardo
- Adam Smith - Adam Smith
- Modern, 10
- Milton Friedman - Milton Friedman
- Hermann Heinrich Gossen - Hermann Heinrich Gossen
- John Maynard Keynes - John Maynard Keynes*
- Peter Kropotkin - Peter Kropotkin
- Paul Krugman - Paul Krugman
- John Forbes Nash, Jr. - John Forbes Nash, Jr.*
- Gunnar Myrdal - Gunnar Myrdal
- Bertil Ohlin - Bertil Ohlin
- Paul Samuelson - Paul Samuelson
- Werner Sombart - Werner Sombart
- William Vickrey - William Vickrey
Linguists, 7
edit- Antiquity
- Mesrop Mashtots - Mesrop Mashtots
- Pāṇini - Pāṇini
- Modern
- Mikhail Bakhtin - Mikhail Bakhtin
- Noam Chomsky - Noam Chomsky*
- Julia Kristeva - Julia Kristeva
- Yuri Lotman - Yuri Lotman
- Ferdinand de Saussure - Ferdinand de Saussure
Sociologists, 13
edit- Ulrich Beck - Ulrich Beck
- Pierre Bourdieu - Pierre Bourdieu
- Auguste Comte - Auguste Comte
- Émile Durkheim - Émile Durkheim
- Norbert Elias - Norbert Elias
- Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens - Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens
- Erving Goffman - Erving Goffman
- Bruno Latour - Bruno Latour
- Robert K. Merton - Robert K. Merton
- Talcott Parsons - Talcott Parsons
- Pitirim Sorokin - Pitirim Sorokin
- Max Weber - Max Weber*
- C. Wright Mills - C. Wright Mills
Political writers, 9
edit- Antiquity, 1
- Chanakya - Chanakya
- Middle Ages, 1
- Niccolò Machiavelli - Niccolò Machiavelli
- Early Modern, 1
- Edmund Burke - Edmund Burke
- Modern, 6
- Judith Butler - Judith Butler
- Antonio Gramsci - Antonio Gramsci
- Thomas Paine - Thomas Paine
- Rosa Luxemburg - Rosa Luxemburg*
- Karl Marx - Karl Marx*
- Hans Morgenthau - Hans Morgenthau
Psychologists, 31
edit- Alfred Adler - Alfred Adler
- Gordon Allport - Gordon Allport
- Albert Bandura - Albert Bandura
- Raymond Cattell - Raymond Cattell
- Hans Eysenck - Hans Eysenck
- Albert Ellis - Albert Ellis
- Erik Erikson - Erik Erikson
- Gustav Fechner - Gustav Fechner*
- Leon Festinger - Leon Festinger
- Sigmund Freud - Sigmund Freud*
- Erich Fromm - Erich Fromm
- Jane Goodall - Jane Goodall
- Donald O. Hebb - Donald O. Hebb
- Hermann von Helmholtz - Hermann von Helmholtz
- Karl Jaspers - Karl Jaspers
- Carl Jung - Carl Jung
- Kurt Lewin - Kurt Lewin
- Abraham Maslow - Abraham Maslow*
- David McClelland - David McClelland
- George Armitage Miller - George Armitage Miller*
- Ivan Pavlov - Ivan Pavlov*
- Jean Piaget - Jean Piaget*
- Carl Rogers - Carl Rogers
- Otto Rank - Otto Rank
- Stanley Schachter - Stanley Schachter
- B. F. Skinner - B. F. Skinner*
- Benjamin Spock - Benjamin Spock
- Edward Thorndike - Edward Thorndike
- John B. Watson - John B. Watson
- Wilhelm Wundt - Wilhelm Wundt
- Lev Vygotsky - Lev Vygotsky
Anthropologists and cultural scientists, 2
edit- Claude Lévi-Strauss - Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Margaret Mead - Margaret Mead
Art historians and critics, 3
edit- Walter Benjamin - Walter Benjamin
- Clement Greenberg - Clement Greenberg
- Erwin Panofsky - Erwin Panofsky
Religious figures, 130
editAbrahamic religions, 88
edit- Abraham - Abraham
- Adam - Adam
- Daniel (biblical figure) - Daniel
- David - David
- Elijah - Elijah
- Ezra - Ezra
- Gabriel - Gabriel
- Isaiah - Isaiah
- Jacob - Jacob
- Joseph (patriarch) - Joseph (son of Jacob)
- Moses - Moses
- Noah - Noah
- Solomon - Solomon
- Christianity, 55
- Mary (mother of Jesus) - Mary (mother of Jesus)
- Jesus - Jesus
- John the Apostle - John the Apostle
- John the Baptist - John the Baptist
- Thomas More - Thomas More
- Paul the Apostle - Paul the Apostle
- Saint Peter - Saint Peter
- Eastern Christianity
- Arius - Arius
- Athanasius of Alexandria - Athanasius of Alexandria
- Basil of Caesarea - Basil of Caesarea
- John Chrysostom - John Chrysostom
- Clement of Alexandria - Clement of Alexandria
- Cyril of Alexandria - Cyril of Alexandria
- John of Damascus - John of Damascus
- Saints Cyril and Methodius - Saints Cyril and Methodius
- Gregory of Nazianzus - Gregory of Nazianzus
- Nestorius - Nestorius
- Saint Nicholas - Saint Nicholas
- Patriarch Nikon of Moscow - Patriarch Nikon
- Gregory of Nyssa - Gregory of Nyssa
- Origen - Origen
- Popes
- Pope Clement I - Pope Clement I
- Pope Gregory I - Pope Gregory I
- Pope Leo I - Pope Leo I
- Pope Paul VI - Pope Paul VI
- Pope Pius IX - Pope Pius IX
- Protestantism
- Jacobus Arminius - Jacobus Arminius
- Karl Barth - Karl Barth
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- John Calvin - John Calvin*
- Thomas Cranmer - Thomas Cranmer
- Mary Baker Eddy - Mary Baker Eddy
- Billy Graham - Billy Graham
- John Knox - John Knox
- Philip Melanchthon - Philipp Melanchthon*
- Menno Simons - Menno Simons
- Joseph Smith - Joseph Smith
- Charles Spurgeon - Charles Spurgeon
- John Wesley - John Wesley
- Huldrych Zwingli - Huldrych Zwingli
- Western Christianity
- Ambrose - Ambrose
- Francis of Assisi - Francis of Assisi
- Bonaventure - Bonaventure
- Columba - Columba
- John of the Cross - John of the Cross
- Saint George - Saint George
- Jan Hus - Jan Hus
- Irenaeus - Irenaeus
- Jerome - Jerome
- Ignatius of Loyola - Ignatius of Loyola
- Benedict of Nursia - Benedict of Nursia
- Tertullian - Tertullian
- Tomás de Torquemada - Tomás de Torquemada
- John Wycliffe - John Wycliffe
- Francis Xavier - Francis Xavier
- Islam, 13
- Shi'a Islam
- Ali - Ali
- Husayn ibn Ali - Hussein ibn Ali
- Ja'far al-Sadiq - Ja'far al-Sadiq
- Sunni Islam
- Muhammad al-Bukhari - Muhammad al-Bukhari
- Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj - Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj
- Al-Nawawi - Al-Nawawi
- Al-Shafi‘i - Al-Shafi‘i
- Malik ibn Anas - Malik ibn Anas
- Ahmad ibn Hanbal - Ahmad ibn Hanbal
- Abu Hanifa - Abū Ḥanīfa
- Ibn Taymiyyah - Ibn Taymiyyah
- Judaism, 8
- Judah Loew ben Bezalel - Judah Loew ben Bezalel
- Vilna Gaon - Vilna Gaon
- Akiva ben Joseph - Akiva ben Joseph
- Rashi - Rashi
- Baal Shem Tov - Baal Shem Tov
- Others, 2
- Al-Ghazali - Al-Ghazali
- Ibn Arabi - Ibn Arabi
Buddhism, 17
edit- Gautama Buddha - Gautama Buddha
- Thích Nhất Hạnh - Thich Nhat Hanh
- 14th Dalai Lama - 14th Dalai Lama
- Longchenpa - Longchenpa
- Nagarjuna - Nagarjuna
- Padmasambhava - Padmasambhava
- Chinese Buddhism
- Bodhidharma - Bodhidharma
- Huineng - Huineng
- Huiyuan (Buddhist) - Huiyuan (Buddhist)
- Kumārajīva - Kumārajīva
- Zhiyi - Zhiyi
- Indian Buddhism
- Ananda - Ananda
- Maudgalyayana - Maudgalyayana
- Sariputta - Sariputta
- Vasubandhu - Vasubandhu
- Japanese Buddhism
Hinduism, 18
edit- Ancient
- Kanada (philosopher) - Kanada
- Kapila - Kapila
- Patanjali - Patanjali
- Valmiki - Valmiki
- Vyasa - Vyasa
- Medieval
- Basava - Basava
- Kumārila Bhaṭṭa - Kumārila Bhaṭṭa
- Gaudapada - Gaudapada
- Madhvacharya - Madhvacharya
- Chaitanya Mahaprabhu - Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
- Ramanuja - Ramanuja
- Adi Shankara - Adi Shankara
- Modern
- Sri Aurobindo - Sri Aurobindo
- Ramana Maharshi - Ramana Maharshi
- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada - A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
- Ramakrishna - Ramakrishna
- Swami Vivekananda - Swami Vivekananda
- Paramahansa Yogananda - Paramahansa Yogananda
Others, 7
edit- Bahá'í
- Báb - Báb
- Bahá'u'lláh - Bahá'u'lláh
- Sikhism
- Guru Nanak - Guru Nanak
- Guru Gobind Singh - Guru Gobind Singh
- Zoroastrianism
- Zoroaster - Zoroaster
- Mystics
- Nostradamus - Nostradamus
- Grigori Rasputin - Grigori Rasputin
Politicians and leaders, 349
editAncient, 48
editAsia
edit- Central Asia
- Cyrus the Great - Cyrus the Great
- Semiramis - Semiramis
- Eastern Asia
- Qin Shi Huang - Qin Shi Huang
- Sun Tzu - Sun Tzu
- Egypt
- Akhenaten - Akhenaten
- Cleopatra - Cleopatra
- Djoser - Djoser
- Hatshepsut - Hatshepsut
- Nefertiti - Nefertiti
- Ptahhotep - Ptahhotep
- Ptolemy I Soter - Ptolemy I Soter
- Ramesses II - Ramesses II
- Thutmose III - Thutmose III
- Tutankhamun - Tutankhamun
- Seti I - Seti I
- Southern Asia
- Ashoka - Ashoka
- Chandragupta Maurya - Chandragupta Maurya
- Western Asia
- Croesus - Croesus
- Hammurabi - Hammurabi
- Mithridates VI of Pontus - Mithridates VI of Pontus
- Queen of Sheba - Queen of Sheba
- Darius I - Dareios I.
- Emperor Gaozu of Han - Emperor Gaozu of Han
Europe
edit- Ancient Rome
- Antoninus Pius - Antoninus Pius
- Augustus - Augustus
- Caligula - Caligula
- Constantine the Great - Constantine the Great
- Domitian - Domitian
- Julius Caesar - Julius Caesar
- Marcus Aurelius - Marcus Aurelius
- Nero - Nero
- Theodosius I - Theodosius I
- Tiberius - Tiberius
- Trajan - Trajan
- Eastern Europe
- Attila - Attila
- Pyrrhus of Epirus - Pyrrhus of Epirus
- Hellenistic Kingdom
- Seleucus I Nicator - Seleucus I Nicator
- Macedonia
- Alexander the Great - Alexander the Great
- Philip II of Macedon - Philip II of Macedon
- Greece
- Alcibiades - Alcibiades
- Demosthenes - Demosthenes
- Pericles - Pericles
- Solon - Solon
- Western Europe
- Alaric I - Alaric I
- Arminius - Arminius
- Boudica - Boudica
- Vercingetorix - Vercingetorix
- Hannibal - Hannibal
Middle Ages, 67
editAsia
edit- Byzantine Empire
- Basil II - Basil II
- Heraclius - Heraclius
- Justinian I - Justinian I
- Leo III the Isaurian - Leo III the Isaurian
- Manuel I Komnenos - Manuel I Komnenos
- Caliphates
- Abu Bakr - Abu Bakr
- Harun al-Rashid - Harun al-Rashid
- Muawiyah I - Muawiyah I
- Umar - Umar
- Uthman - Uthman ibn Affan
- Central Asia
- Batu Khan - Batu Khan
- Hulagu Khan - Hulagu Khan
- Timur - Timur
- Ulugh Beg - Ulugh Beg
- China
- Kublai Khan - Kublai Khan
- Eastern Asia
- Genghis Khan - Genghis Khan
- Ögedei Khan - Ögedei Khan
- Western Asia
- Mehmed the Conqueror - Mehmed the Conqueror
- Osman I - Osman I
- Saladin - Saladin
Europe
edit- Eastern Europe
- Matthias Corvinus - Matthias Corvinus
- Simeon I of Bulgaria - Simeon I of Bulgaria
- Stephen I of Hungary - Stephen I of Hungary
- Vlad the Impaler - Vlad the Impaler
- England and Scotland
- Alfred the Great - Alfred the Great
- Edward I of England - Edward I of England
- Henry II of England - Henry II of England
- John, King of England - John, King of England
- Richard I of England - Richard I of England
- William the Conqueror - William the Conqueror
- France
- Charlemagne - Charlemagne
- Chlothar I - Chlothar I
- Clovis I - Clovis I
- Louis the Pious - Louis the Pious
- Louis XI of France - Louis XI of France
- Philip II of France - Philip II of France
- Philip IV of France - Philip IV of France
- Germany
- Arnulf of Carinthia - Arnulf of Carinthia
- Charles the Fat - Charles the Fat
- Henry the Fowler - Henry the Fowler
- Holy Roman Empire
- Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor - Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor
- Charles the Bald - Charles the Bald
- Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor - Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
- Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor - Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
- Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor - Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor
- Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor - Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor
- Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor - Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor
- Italy
- Girolamo Savonarola - Girolamo Savonarola
- Lucrezia Borgia - Lucrezia Borgia
- Papal States
- Pope Alexander VI - Pope Alexander VI
- Pope Boniface VIII - Pope Boniface VIII
- Pope Gregory VII - Pope Gregory VII
- Pope Innocent III - Pope Innocent III
- Poland and Lithuania
- Bolesław I Chrobry - Bolesław I Chrobry
- Władysław II Jagiełło - Jogaila
- Mieszko I of Poland - Mieszko I of Poland
- Russia
- Alexander Nevsky - Alexander Nevsky
- Ivan III of Russia - Ivan III of Russia
- Sviatoslav I of Kiev - Sviatoslav I of Kiev
- Vladimir the Great - Vladimir the Great
- Southern Europe
- Theoderic the Great - Theoderic the Great
- Western Europe
- Afonso I of Portugal - Afonso I of Portugal
- Cnut the Great - Cnut the Great
- Ferdinand II of Aragon - Ferdinand II of Aragon
- Henry the Navigator - Henry the Navigator
- Isabella I of Castile - Isabella I of Castile
- Lothair I - Lothair I
Early modern period, 60
editAmericas
edit- Americas
- Atahualpa - Atahualpa
- Moctezuma II - Moctezuma II
- Sitting Bull - Sitting Bull
- United States
- Alexander Hamilton - Alexander Hamilton
- George Washington - George Washington
- James Madison - James Madison
- John Adams - John Adams
- Thomas Jefferson - Thomas Jefferson
Asia
edit- Central Asia
- Abbas I of Persia - Abbas I of Persia
- Babur - Babur
- Humayun - Humayun
- Japan
- Oda Nobunaga - Oda Nobunaga
- Tokugawa Ieyasu - Tokugawa Ieyasu
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi - Toyotomi Hideyoshi
- Southern Asia
- Akbar - Akbar
- Aurangzeb - Aurangzeb
- Shah Jahan - Shah Jahan
- Western Asia
- Mehmed IV - Mehmed IV
- Selim I - Selim I
- Selim III - Selim III
- Suleiman the Magnificent - Suleiman the Magnificent
Europe
edit- England and Scotland
- Charles I of England - Charles I of England
- Elizabeth I of England - Elizabeth I of England
- Henry VIII of England - Henry VIII
- James VI and I - James VI and I
- Mary I of England - Mary I of England
- Mary, Queen of Scots - Mary, Queen of Scots
- Robert Walpole - Robert Walpole
- William III of England - William III of England
- William Pitt the Younger - William Pitt the Younger
- France
- Cardinal Mazarin - Cardinal Mazarin
- Cardinal Richelieu - Cardinal Richelieu
- Catherine de' Medici - Catherine de' Medici
- Francis I of France - Francis I of France
- Henry IV of France - Henry IV of France
- Louis XIV of France - Louis XIV
- Louis XV of France - Louis XV of France
- Louis XVI of France - Louis XVI of France
- Holy Roman Empire
- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor - Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
- Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor - Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor
- Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor - Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor
- Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor - Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor
- Maria Theresa - Maria Theresa
- Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
- Italia and Papal States
- Pope Clement VII - Pope Clement VII
- Pope Julius II - Pope Julius II
- Poland and Lithuania
- John III Sobieski - John III Sobieski
- Sigismund III Vasa - Sigismund III Vasa
- Russia
- Alexis of Russia - Alexis of Russia
- Boris Godunov - Boris Godunov
- Catherine the Great - Catherine the Great
- Elizabeth of Russia - Elizabeth of Russia
- Ivan the Terrible - Ivan the Terrible
- Peter the Great - Peter the Great
- Western Europe
- Charles XII of Sweden - Charles XII of Sweden
- Christian IV of Denmark - Christian IV of Denmark
- Frederick the Great - Frederick the Great
- Philip II of Spain - Philip II of Spain
- Philip V of Spain - Philip V of Spain
- William the Silent - William the Silent
Modern, 145
editAfrica, 17
edit- Eastern Africa
- Haile Selassie - Haile Selassie I
- Idi Amin - Idi Amin
- Julius Nyerere - Julius Nyerere
- Northern Africa
- Abdelkader El Djezairi - Abdelkader El Djezairi
- Anwar Sadat - Anwar Sadat
- Gamal Abdel Nasser - Gamal Abdel Nasser
- Muammar Gaddafi - Muammar Gaddafi
- Muhammad Ali of Egypt - Muhammad Ali of Egypt
- Southern and Central Africa
- Cecil Rhodes - Cecil Rhodes
- Hastings Banda - Hastings Banda
- Mobutu Sese Seko - Mobutu Sese Seko
- Nelson Mandela - Nelson Mandela
- Robert Mugabe - Robert Mugabe
- Shaka - Shaka
- Western Africa
- Kofi Annan - Kofi Annan
- Kwame Nkrumah - Kwame Nkrumah
- Léopold Sédar Senghor - Léopold Sédar Senghor
Americas, 33
edit- Brazil
- Pedro I of Brazil - Pedro I of Brazil
- Pedro II of Brazil - Pedro II of Brazil
- Canada
- Pierre Trudeau - Pierre Trudeau
- Central America and Caribbean
- Daniel Ortega - Daniel Ortega
- Fidel Castro - Fidel Castro
- Mexico
- Benito Juárez - Benito Juárez
- Porfirio Díaz - Porfirio Díaz
- South America
- Alfredo Stroessner - Alfredo Stroessner
- Augusto Pinochet - Augusto Pinochet
- Eva Perón - Eva Perón
- Hugo Chávez - Hugo Chávez
- José de San Martín - José de San Martín
- Salvador Allende - Salvador Allende
- Simón Bolívar - Simón Bolívar
- United States
- George W. Bush - George W. Bush
- Jimmy Carter - Jimmy Carter
- Bill Clinton - Bill Clinton
- Dwight D. Eisenhower - Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Andrew Jackson - Andrew Jackson
- Lyndon B. Johnson - Lyndon B. Johnson
- John F. Kennedy - John F. Kennedy
- Henry Kissinger - Henry Kissinger
- Abraham Lincoln - Abraham Lincoln
- Douglas MacArthur - Douglas MacArthur
- James Monroe - James Monroe
- Richard Nixon - Richard Nixon
- James K. Polk - James K. Polk
- Ronald Reagan - Ronald Reagan
- Eleanor Roosevelt - Eleanor Roosevelt
- Franklin D. Roosevelt - Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Theodore Roosevelt - Theodore Roosevelt
- Harry S. Truman - Harry S. Truman
- Woodrow Wilson - Woodrow Wilson
Asia, 36
edit- China
- Empress Dowager Cixi - Empress Dowager Cixi
- Zhou Enlai - Zhou Enlai
- Hu Jintao - Hu Jintao
- Chiang Kai-shek - Chiang Kai-shek
- Puyi - Puyi
- Deng Xiaoping - Deng Xiaoping
- Sun Yat-sen - Sun Yat-sen
- Mao Zedong - Mao Zedong
- Eastern Asia
- Park Chung-hee - Park Chung-hee
- Hirohito - Hirohito
- Kim Il-sung - Kim Il-sung
- Emperor Meiji - Emperor Meiji
- Eisaku Satō - Eisaku Satō
- Central Asia
- Heydar Aliyev - Heydar Aliyev
- Nursultan Nazarbayev - Nursultan Nazarbayev
- Saparmurat Niyazov - Saparmurat Niyazov
- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi - Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
- India
- Indira Gandhi - Indira Gandhi
- Jawaharlal Nehru - Jawaharlal Nehru
- Vallabhbhai Patel - Vallabhbhai Patel
- Southeastern Asia
- Corazon Aquino - Corazon Aquino
- Ferdinand Marcos - Ferdinand Marcos
- Ho Chi Minh - Ho Chi Minh
- Mahathir Mohamad - Mahathir Mohamad
- Pol Pot - Pol Pot
- Suharto - Suharto
- Sukarno - Sukarno
- Lee Kuan Yew - Lee Kuan Yew
- Southern Asia
- Benazir Bhutto - Benazir Bhutto
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah - Muhammad Ali Jinnah
- Western Asia
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- David Ben-Gurion - David Ben-Gurion
- Abdul Hamid II - Abdul Hamid II
- Saddam Hussein - Saddam Hussein
- Mahmud II - Mahmud II
- Golda Meir - Golda Meir
Europe, 59
edit- Austria-Hungary
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria - Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
- Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor - Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
- Franz Joseph I of Austria - Franz Joseph I of Austria
- Klemens von Metternich - Klemens von Metternich
- Eastern Europe
- Alexander Dubček - Alexander Dubček
- Enver Hoxha - Enver Hoxha
- Leonid Kuchma - Leonid Kuchma
- Josip Broz Tito - Josip Broz Tito
- Józef Piłsudski - Józef Piłsudski
- Lech Wałęsa - Lech Wałęsa
- Nicolae Ceaușescu - Nicolae Ceaușescu
- Slobodan Milošević - Slobodan Milošević
- Václav Havel - Václav Havel
- France
- Charles de Gaulle - Charles de Gaulle
- François Mitterrand - François Mitterrand
- Louis Philippe I - Louis Philippe I
- Napoleon - Napoleon
- Napoleon III - Napoleon III
- Germany
- Adolf Hitler - Adolf Hitler
- Erich Honecker - Erich Honecker
- Willy Brandt - Willy Brandt
- Helmut Kohl - Helmut Kohl
- Konrad Adenauer - Konrad Adenauer
- Otto von Bismarck - Otto von Bismarck
- Joseph Goebbels - Joseph Goebbels
- Wilhelm II, German Emperor - Wilhelm II, German Emperor
- William I, German Emperor - William I, German Emperor
- Italia and Papal States
- Pope John Paul II - Pope John Paul II
- Russia and USSR
- Alexander II of Russia - Alexander II of Russia
- Boris Yeltsin - Boris Yeltsin
- Eduard Shevardnadze - Eduard Shevardnadze
- Joseph Stalin - Joseph Stalin
- Leonid Brezhnev - Leonid Brezhnev
- Mikhail Gorbachev - Mikhail Gorbachev
- Nicholas I of Russia - Nicholas I of Russia
- Nicholas II of Russia - Nicholas II of Russia
- Nikita Khrushchev - Nikita Khrushchev
- United Kingdom
- Benjamin Disraeli - Benjamin Disraeli
- Clement Attlee - Clement Attlee
- Diana, Princess of Wales - Diana, Princess of Wales
- Elizabeth II - Elizabeth II
- Margaret Thatcher - Margaret Thatcher
- Queen Victoria - Queen Victoria
- William Ewart Gladstone - William Ewart Gladstone
- Winston Churchill - Winston Churchill
- Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell - Robert Baden-Powell
- Western Europe
- António de Oliveira Salazar - António de Oliveira Salazar
- Benito Mussolini - Benito Mussolini
- Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour - Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
- Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim - Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
- Charles XIV John of Sweden - Charles XIV John of Sweden
- Dag Hammarskjöld - Dag Hammarskjöld
- Francisco Franco - Francisco Franco
- Gro Harlem Brundtland - Gro Harlem Brundtland
- Juan Carlos I of Spain - Juan Carlos I of Spain
- Leopold II of Belgium - Leopold II of Belgium
- Christian Michelsen - Christian Michelsen
- Giuseppe Garibaldi - Giuseppe Garibaldi
- Alcide De Gasperi - Alcide De Gasperi
Current political leaders, 13
editMany Wikipedias have provisions for including current heads of government in their expanded vital article list. This list suggests the heads of the G8 countries, plus Brazil, China, India, the current U.N. Secretary General and the current Pope
- Ban Ki-moon - Ban Ki-moon (U.N.)
- Pope Francis - Pope Francis (Pope)
- Dilma Rousseff - Dilma Rousseff (Brazil)
- Stephen Harper - Stephen Harper (Canada)
- Xi Jinping - Xi Jinping (China)
- François Hollande - François Hollande (France)
- Angela Merkel - Angela Merkel (Germany)
- Manmohan Singh - Manmohan Singh (India)
- Matteo Renzi - Matteo Renzi (Italy)
- Shinzō Abe - Shinzō Abe (Japan)
- Vladimir Putin - Vladimir Putin (Russia)
- David Cameron - David Cameron (U.K.)
- Barack Obama - Barack Obama (U.S.)
Military leaders and military theorists, 16
edit- Flavius Aetius - Flavius Aetius
- Pompey - Pompey
- Scipio Africanus - Scipio Africanus
- Sulla - Sulla
- Prince Eugene of Savoy - Prince Eugene of Savoy
- Alexander Suvorov - Alexander Suvorov
- Carl von Clausewitz - Carl von Clausewitz
- Ulysses S. Grant - Ulysses S. Grant
- T. E. Lawrence - T. E. Lawrence
- Robert E. Lee - Robert E. Lee
- George Marshall - George Marshall
- Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson - Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
- Erwin Rommel - Erwin Rommel
- Võ Nguyên Giáp - Vo Nguyen Giap
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington - Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
- Georgy Zhukov - Georgy Zhukov
Rebels, revolutionaries and activists, 35
edit- Africa
- Steve Biko - Steve Biko
- Thomas Sankara - Thomas Sankara
- Asia
- Yasser Arafat - Yasser Arafat
- Aung San Suu Kyi - Aung San Suu Kyi
- Mahatma Gandhi - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
- Ruhollah Khomeini - Ruhollah Khomeini
- Osama bin Laden - Osama bin Laden
- Europe
- Joan of Arc - Joan of Arc
- Oliver Cromwell - Oliver Cromwell
- Georges Danton - Georges Danton
- Vladimir Lenin - Vladimir Lenin
- Vasil Levski - Vasil Levski
- Martin Luther - Martin Luther
- Florence Nightingale - Florence Nightingale
- Emilia Plater - Emilia Plater
- Gavrilo Princip - Gavrilo Princip
- Maximilien Robespierre - Maximilien de Robespierre
- Spartacus - Spartacus
- Mother Teresa - Mother Teresa
- Leon Trotsky - Leon Trotsky
- William Wallace - William Wallace
- Simon Wiesenthal - Simon Wiesenthal
- Americas
- Che Guevara - Che Guevara
- Pancho Villa - Pancho Villa
- USA
- Susan B. Anthony - Susan B. Anthony
- Emma Goldman - Emma Goldman
- Al Gore - Al Gore
- Mary Harris Jones - Mother Jones
- Helen Keller - Helen Keller
- Martin Luther King, Jr. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Rosa Parks - Rosa Parks
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Sojourner Truth - Sojourner Truth
- Harriet Tubman - Harriet Tubman
- Malcolm X - Malcolm X
Scientists, inventors and mathematicians, 282
editPre-modern, 26
edit- Ancient
- Al-Biruni - Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī
- Archimedes - Archimedes
- Apollonius of Perga - Apollonius of Perga
- Archytas - Archytas
- Aryabhata - Aryabhata
- Diophantus - Diophantus
- Eratosthenes - Eratosthenes
- Euclid - Euclid
- Eudoxus of Cnidus - Eudoxus of Cnidus
- Hipparchus - Hipparchus
- Hippocrates - Hippocrates
- Hypatia - Hypatia
- Pappus of Alexandria - Pappus of Alexandria
- Ptolemy - Ptolemy
- Pythagoras - Pythagoras
- Su Song - Su Song
- Middle Ages
- Alhazen - Alhacen
- Bhāskara II - Bhāskara II
- Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī - Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī
- Nasir al-Din al-Tusi - Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
- Avicenna - Avicenna
- Brahmagupta - Brahmagupta
- Fibonacci - Fibonacci
- Jabir ibn Hayyan - Geber
- William Gilbert (astronomer) - William Gilbert
- Seki Takakazu - Seki Takakazu
Physics and astronomy, 79
edit- Astronomy
- Tycho Brahe - Tycho Brahe
- Nicolaus Copernicus - Nicolaus Copernicus
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- Galileo Galilei - Galileo Galilei
- Edmond Halley - Edmond Halley
- Edwin Hubble - Edwin Hubble
- Johannes Kepler - Johannes Kepler
- Ole Rømer - Ole Rømer
- Carl Sagan - Carl Sagan
- Early modern
- Robert Hooke - Robert Hooke
- Christiaan Huygens - Christiaan Huygens
- Mikhail Lomonosov - Mikhail Lomonosov
- Isaac Newton - Isaac Newton
- Modern
- André-Marie Ampère - André-Marie Ampère
- Amedeo Avogadro - Amedeo Avogadro
- Johann Jakob Balmer - Johann Jakob Balmer
- William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin - William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
- Henri Becquerel - Henri Becquerel
- Hans Bethe - Hans Bethe
- Niels Bohr - Niels Bohr
- Ludwig Boltzmann - Ludwig Boltzmann
- Max Born - Max Born
- William Henry Bragg - William Henry Bragg
- Henry Cavendish - Henry Cavendish
- James Chadwick - James Chadwick
- Steven Chu - Steven Chu
- Marie Curie - Marie Curie
- Pierre Curie - Pierre Curie
- John Dalton - John Dalton
- James Dewar - James Dewar
- Johannes Diderik van der Waals - Johannes Diderik van der Waals
- Paul Dirac - Paul Dirac
- Albert Einstein - Albert Einstein
- Michael Faraday - Michael Faraday
- Enrico Fermi - Enrico Fermi
- Richard Feynman - Richard Feynman
- Léon Foucault - Léon Foucault
- Augustin-Jean Fresnel - Augustin-Jean Fresnel
- Stephen Hawking - Stephen Hawking
- Werner Heisenberg - Werner Heisenberg
- James Prescott Joule - James Prescott Joule
- Gustav Kirchhoff - Gustav Kirchhoff
- Lev Landau - Lev Landau
- Ernest Lawrence - Ernest Lawrence
- Hendrik Lorentz - Hendrik Lorentz
- Ernst Mach - Ernst Mach
- James Clerk Maxwell - James Clerk Maxwell
- Lise Meitner - Lise Meitner
- Albert A. Michelson - Albert A. Michelson
- Robert Andrews Millikan - Robert Andrews Millikan
- Pieter van Musschenbroek - Pieter van Musschenbroek
- Georg Ohm - Georg Ohm
- J. Robert Oppenheimer - J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Wolfgang Pauli - Wolfgang Pauli
- Max Planck - Max Planck
- Wilhelm Röntgen - Wilhelm Röntgen
- Andrei Sakharov - Andrei Sakharov
- Erwin Schrödinger - Erwin Schrödinger
- Arnold Sommerfeld - Arnold Sommerfeld
- G. I. Taylor - G. I. Taylor
- Edward Teller - Edward Teller
- J. J. Thomson - J. J. Thomson
- Thomas Young (scientist) - Thomas Young
- Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich - Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich
- Hans Christian Ørsted - Hans Christian Ørsted
- Murray Gell-Mann - Murray Gell-Mann
- Wallace Carothers - Wallace Carothers
- George Francis FitzGerald - George FitzGerald
- Victor Francis Hess - Victor Francis Hess
- Gerard 't Hooft - Gerard 't Hooft
- Alfred Kastler - Alfred Kastler
- Philipp Lenard - Philipp Lenard
- Osborne Reynolds - Osborne Reynolds
- Johannes Rydberg - Johannes Rydberg
- Michael Servetus - Michael Servetus
- Joseph Stefan - Joseph Stefan
- John Hasbrouck Van Vleck - John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
- Eugene Wigner - Eugene Wigner
- Robert Woodrow Wilson - Robert Wilson
Chemistry, 25
edit- Svante Arrhenius - Svante Arrhenius
- Jöns Jacob Berzelius - Jöns Jacob Berzelius
- Humphry Davy - Humphry Davy
- Robert Boyle - Robert Boyle
- Peter Debye - Peter Debye
- Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
- Josiah Willard Gibbs - Josiah Willard Gibbs
- Otto Hahn - Otto Hahn
- Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff - Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
- Dorothy Hodgkin - Dorothy Hodgkin
- Antoine Lavoisier - Antoine Lavoisier
- Justus von Liebig - Justus von Liebig
- Dmitri Mendeleev - Dmitri Mendeleev
- Joseph Priestley - Joseph Priestley
- Tadeusz Reichstein - Tadeus Reichstein
- Ernest Rutherford - Ernest Rutherford
- Willis R. Whitney - Willis R. Whitney
- Frederick Soddy - Frederick Soddy
- Linus Pauling - Linus Pauling
- Gilbert N. Lewis - Gilbert Lewis
- Fritz Haber - Fritz Haber
- Frederick Sanger - Frederick Sanger
- Vladimir Vernadsky - Vladimir Vernadsky
- Robert Burns Woodward - Robert Burns Woodward
- Carl Bosch - Carl Bosch
Natural sciences, 28
edit- Biology
- Norman Borlaug - Norman Borlaug
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal - Santiago Ramón y Cajal
- Francis Crick - Francis Crick
- Thomas Henry Huxley - Thomas Henry Huxley
- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek - Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
- Carl Linnaeus - Carl Linnaeus
- Konrad Lorenz - Konrad Lorenz
- Gregor Mendel - Gregor Mendel
- James Watson - James Watson
- Medicine
- Casimir Funk - Casimir Funk
- William Harvey - William Harvey
- Paracelsus - Paracelsus
- Louis Pasteur - Louis Pasteur
- Jonas Salk - Jonas Salk
- Ignaz Semmelweis - Ignaz Semmelweis
- Andreas Vesalius - Andreas Vesalius
- Natural sciences
- John James Audubon - John James Audubon
- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
- Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot - Sadi Carnot
- Rachel Carson - Rachel Carson
- Jacques Cousteau - Jacques Cousteau
- Charles Darwin - Charles Darwin
- Alexander Fleming - Alexander Fleming
- Galen - Galen
- Ernst Haeckel - Ernst Haeckel
- Edward Jenner - Edward Jenner
- Richard Leakey - Richard Leakey
Inventors, 56
edit- John Logie Baird - John Logie Baird
- John Bardeen - John Bardeen
- Georg Bednorz - Georg Bednorz
- Alexander Graham Bell - Alexander Graham Bell
- Karl Benz - Karl Benz
- Emile Berliner - Emile Berliner
- Gerd Binnig - Gerd Binnig
- Clarence Birdseye - Clarence Birdseye
- Wernher von Braun - Wernher von Braun
- David Brewster - David Brewster
- Wright brothers - Wright brothers
- Nolan Bushnell - Nolan Bushnell
- Josephine Cochrane - Josephine Cochrane
- Christopher Cockerell - Christopher Cockerell
- Louis Daguerre - Louis Daguerre
- Raymond Vahan Damadian - Raymond Vahan Damadian
- Robert H. Dennard - Robert H. Dennard
- Rudolf Diesel - Rudolf Diesel
- George Eastman - George Eastman
- Thomas Edison - Thomas Edison
- Leo Fender - Leo Fender
- Lee de Forest - Lee De Forest
- Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin
- Arthur Fry - Arthur Fry
- Buckminster Fuller - Buckminster Fuller
- Robert Fulton - Robert Fulton
- Gordon Gould - Gordon Gould
- Wilson Greatbatch - Wilson Greatbatch
- Johannes Gutenberg - Johannes Gutenberg
- Elias Howe - Elias Howe
- Joseph Marie Jacquard - Joseph Marie Jacquard
- Robert Jarvik - Robert Jarvik
- Philippe Kahn - Philippe Kahn
- John G. Kemeny - John George Kemeny
- Jack Kilby - Jack Kilby
- Stephanie Kwolek - Stephanie Kwolek
- Jaron Lanier - Jaron Lanier
- Ignacy Łukasiewicz - Ignacy Łukasiewicz
- Guglielmo Marconi - Guglielmo Marconi
- Cyrus McCormick - Cyrus McCormick
- Robert Metcalfe - Robert Metcalfe
- Samuel Morse - Samuel Morse
- Alfred Nobel - Alfred Nobel
- Robert Noyce - Robert Noyce
- Charles Algernon Parsons - Charles Algernon Parsons
- Roy J. Plunkett - Roy J. Plunkett
- William Shockley - William Shockley
- Alan Shugart - Alan Shugart
- Isaac Singer - Isaac Singer
- Nikola Tesla - Nikola Tesla
- Alessandro Volta - Alessandro Volta
- Ernest Walton - Ernest Walton
- James Watt - James Watt
- Wilhelm Eduard Weber - Wilhelm E. Weber
- Eli Whitney - Eli Whitney
- Charles Thomson Rees Wilson - Charles Wilson
Mathematicians, 49
edit- Early modern
- Daniel Bernoulli - Daniel Bernoulli
- Jacob Bernoulli - Jacob Bernoulli
- Bonaventura Cavalieri - Bonaventura Cavalieri
- Jean le Rond d'Alembert - Jean le Rond d'Alembert
- Leonhard Euler - Leonhard Euler
- Pierre de Fermat - Pierre de Fermat
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Blaise Pascal - Blaise Pascal
- Modern
- Niels Henrik Abel - Niels Henrik Abel
- Vladimir Arnold - Vladimir Arnold
- Stefan Banach - Stefan Banach
- Isaac Barrow - Isaac Barrow
- George Boole - George Boole
- Georg Cantor - Georg Cantor
- Élie Cartan - Élie Cartan
- Augustin-Louis Cauchy - Augustin-Louis Cauchy
- Richard Dedekind - Richard Dedekind
- Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet - Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
- Gotthold Eisenstein - Gotthold Eisenstein
- Ronald Fisher - Ronald Fisher
- Joseph Fourier - Joseph Fourier
- Évariste Galois - Évariste Galois
- Carl Friedrich Gauss - Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Alexander Grothendieck - Alexander Grothendieck
- Kurt Gödel - Kurt Gödel
- Jacques Hadamard - Jacques Hadamard
- William Rowan Hamilton - William Hamilton
- G. H. Hardy - G. H. Hardy
- Charles Hermite - Charles Hermite
- David Hilbert - David Hilbert
- Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi - Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
- Felix Klein - Felix Klein
- Andrey Kolmogorov - Andrey Kolmogorov
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange - Joseph Louis Lagrange
- Pierre-Simon Laplace - Pierre-Simon Laplace
- Nikolai Lobachevsky - Nikolai Lobachevsky
- Benoit Mandelbrot - Benoit Mandelbrot
- Pierre Louis Maupertuis - Pierre Louis Maupertuis
- Gaspard Monge - Gaspard Monge
- John von Neumann - John von Neumann
- Emmy Noether - Emmy Noether
- Grigori Perelman - Grigori Perelman
- Henri Poincaré - Henri Poincaré
- Jean-Victor Poncelet - Jean-Victor Poncelet
- Srinivasa Ramanujan - Srinivasa Ramanujan
- Bernhard Riemann - Bernhard Riemann
- James Harris Simons - James Harris Simons
- Karl Weierstrass - Karl Weierstrass
- Hermann Weyl - Hermann Weyl
Computer scientists, 19
edit- John Vincent Atanasoff - John Vincent Atanasoff
- Charles Babbage - Charles Babbage
- Tim Berners-Lee - Tim Berners-Lee
- Dan Bricklin - Dan Bricklin
- Seymour Cray - Seymour Cray
- Ward Cunningham - Ward Cunningham
- Edsger W. Dijkstra - Edsger W. Dijkstra
- Douglas Engelbart - Douglas Engelbart
- Herman Hollerith - Herman Hollerith
- Gary Kildall - Gary Kildall
- Donald Knuth - Donald Knuth
- Ada Lovelace - Ada Lovelace
- Dennis Ritchie - Dennis Ritchie
- Richard Stallman - Richard Stallman
- Linus Torvalds - Linus Torvalds
- Alan Turing - Alan Turing
- Niklaus Wirth - Niklaus Wirth
- Steve Wozniak - Steve Wozniak
- Konrad Zuse - Konrad Zuse
Journalists, 19
edit- Christiane Amanpour - Christiane Amanpour
- Robert Fisk - Robert Fisk*
- John Pilger - John Pilger
- Arun Shourie - Arun Shourie
- United States
- Ed Bradley - Ed Bradley
- Tom Brokaw - Tom Brokaw
- Walter Cronkite - Walter Cronkite
- Hedda Hopper - Hedda Hopper
- David McCullough - David McCullough*
- Edward R. Murrow - Edward R. Murrow*
- Joseph Pulitzer - Joseph Pulitzer
- Dan Rather - Dan Rather
- Geraldo Rivera - Geraldo Rivera
- John Stossel - John Stossel
- Ed Sullivan - Ed Sullivan
- Mike Wallace - Mike Wallace
- Barbara Walters - Barbara Walters
- Walter Winchell - Walter Winchell
- Bob Woodward - Bob Woodward*
Sports figures, 171
edit- Athletics, 24
- Roger Bannister - Roger Bannister*
- Usain Bolt - Usain Bolt*
- Bob Beamon - Bob Beamon
- Sergey Bubka - Sergey Bubka
- Sebastian Coe - Sebastian Coe
- Dick Fosbury - Dick Fosbury
- Haile Gebrselassie - Haile Gebrselassie
- Eric Heiden - Eric Heiden (US)
- Stefka Kostadinova - Stefka Kostadinova
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee - Jackie Joyner-Kersee*
- Rafer Johnson - Rafer Johnson (US)
- Yelena Isinbayeva - Yelena Isinbayeva
- Sawao Kato - Sawao Kato
- Carl Lewis - Carl Lewis* (US)
- Kipchoge Keino - Kipchoge Keino
- Bobby Morrow - Bobby Morrow (US)
- Edwin Moses - Edwin Moses (US)
- Paavo Nurmi - Paavo Nurmi*
- Jesse Owens - Jesse Owens* (US)
- Lilia Podkopayeva - Lilia Podkopayeva
- Wilma Rudolph - Wilma Rudolph (US)
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias - Babe Didrikson Zaharias (US)
- Elena Zamolodchikova - Elena Zamolodchikova
- Emil Zátopek - Emil Zátopek*
- Alpine skiing, 5
- Jean-Claude Killy - Jean-Claude Killy
- Hermann Maier - Hermann Maier
- Annemarie Moser-Pröll - Annemarie Moser-Pröll
- Ingemar Stenmark - Ingemar Stenmark
- Lindsey Vonn - Lindsey Vonn (US)
- American/Irish/Australian Football, 4
- Jim Brown - Jim Brown* (US)
- O. J. Simpson - O. J. Simpson* (US)
- Jerry Rice - Jerry Rice* (US)
- Johnny Unitas - Johnny Unitas* (US)
- Badminton, 2
- Lin Dan - Lin Dan
- Peter Gade - Peter Gade
- Basketball, 11
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - K. Abdul-Jabbar (US)
- Sergei Belov - Sergei Belov
- Larry Bird - Larry Bird (US)
- Wilt Chamberlain - Wilt Chamberlain (US)
- Tim Duncan - Tim Duncan (US)
- Magic Johnson - Magic Johnson* (US)
- Michael Jordan - Michael Jordan* (US)
- Dražen Petrović - Dražen Petrović
- Bill Russell - Bill Russell* (US)
- Arvydas Sabonis - Arvydas Sabonis
- Pat Summitt - Pat Summitt (US)
- Baseball, 7
- Hank Aaron - Hank Aaron (US)
- Ty Cobb - Ty Cobb (US)
- Lou Gehrig - Lou Gehrig (US)
- Willie Mays - Willie Mays (US)
- Sadaharu Oh - Sadaharu Oh
- Jackie Robinson - Jackie Robinson (US)
- Babe Ruth - Babe Ruth* (US)
- Biathlon, 1
- Ole Einar Bjørndalen - Ole Einar Bjørndalen
- Bicycle, 6
- Jacques Anquetil - Jacques Anquetil
- Gino Bartali - Gino Bartali
- Fausto Coppi - Fausto Coppi
- Bernard Hinault - Bernard Hinault
- Miguel Indurain - Miguel Indurain
- Eddy Merckx - Eddy Merckx*
- Boxing, 8
- Muhammad Ali - Muhammad Ali* (US)
- Henry Armstrong - Henry Armstrong (US)
- Jack Dempsey - Jack Dempsey (US)
- Rocky Marciano - Rocky Marciano (US)
- Joe Louis - Joe Louis (US)
- Ingemar Johansson - Ingemar Johansson
- Sugar Ray Robinson - Sugar Ray Robinson (US)
- Sugar Ray Leonard - Sugar Ray Leonard (US)
- Chess, 2
- Bobby Fischer - Bobby Fischer* (US)
- Garry Kasparov - Garry Kasparov*
- Cricket, 3
- Don Bradman - Don Bradman
- W. G. Grace - W.G. Grace
- Sachin Tendulkar - Sachin Tendulkar*
- Equestrian, 1
- Reiner Klimke - Reiner Klimke
- Field hockey, 2
- Luciana Aymar - Luciana Aymar
- Dhyan Chand - Dhyan Chand
- Figureskating, 7
- Robin Cousins - Robin Cousins
- Scott Hamilton (figure skater) - Scott Hamilton (US)
- Sonja Henie - Sonja Henie
- Michelle Kwan - Michelle Kwan (US)
- Tara Lipinski - Tara Lipinski (US)
- Axel Paulsen - Axel Paulsen
- Irina Rodnina - Irina Rodnina
- Golf, 9
- Ben Hogan - Ben Hogan (US)
- Bobby Jones (golfer) - Bobby Jones (US)
- Jack Nicklaus - Jack Nicklaus (US)
- Arnold Palmer - Arnold Palmer (US)
- Gary Player - Gary Player
- Sam Snead - Sam Snead (US)
- Annika Sörenstam - Annika Sörenstam
- Lee Trevino - Lee Trevino (US)
- Tiger Woods - Tiger Woods* (US)
- Gymnastics, 6
- Nadia Comăneci - Nadia Comăneci
- Olga Korbut - Olga Korbut
- Larisa Latynina - Larisa Latynina
- Li Ning - Li Ning
- Vitaly Scherbo - Vitaly Scherbo
- Ludmilla Tourischeva - Ludmilla Tourischeva
- Icehockey, 11
- Viacheslav Fetisov - Viacheslav Fetisov
- Wayne Gretzky - Wayne Gretzky*
- Valeri Kharlamov - Valeri Kharlamov
- Gordie Howe - Gordie Howe
- Bobby Hull - Bobby Hull
- Mario Lemieux - Mario Lemieux
- Sergei Makarov (ice hockey) - Sergei Makarov
- Bobby Orr - Bobby Orr
- Maurice Richard - Maurice Richard
- Börje Salming - Börje Salming
- Vladislav Tretiak - Vladislav Tretiak
- Motorsports, 6
- Mario Andretti - Mario Andretti
- Juan Manuel Fangio - Juan Manuel Fangio
- Alain Prost - Alain Prost
- Michael Schumacher - Michael Schumacher*
- Ayrton Senna - Ayrton Senna
- Jackie Stewart - Jackie Stewart
- Nordic skiing, 2
- Bjørn Dæhlie - Bjørn Dæhlie
- Matti Nykänen - Matti Nykänen
- Sailing, 2
- Ben Ainslie - Ben Ainslie
- Paul Elvstrøm - Paul Elvstrøm
- Soccer, 23
- Franz Beckenbauer - Franz Beckenbauer
- David Beckham - David Beckham*
- Gianluigi Buffon - Gianluigi Buffon
- Iker Casillas - Iker Casillas
- Bobby Charlton - Bobby Charlton*
- Johan Cruyff - Johan Cruyff*
- Alfredo Di Stéfano - Alfredo Di Stéfano
- Eusébio - Eusébio
- Alex Ferguson - Sir Alex Ferguson
- Garrincha - Garrincha
- Mia Hamm - Mia Hamm
- Diego Maradona - Diego Maradona*
- Lionel Messi - Lionel Messi*
- Gerd Müller - Gerd Müller*
- Michel Platini - Michel Platini
- Ferenc Puskás - Ferenc Puskas*
- Ronaldinho - Ronaldinho
- Ronaldo - Ronaldo*
- Cristiano Ronaldo - Cristiano Ronaldo
- Pelé - Pelé*
- Marco van Basten - Marco van Basten
- Lev Yashin - Lev Yashin
- Zinedine Zidane - Zinedine Zidane*
- Speedskating, 2
- Bonnie Blair - Bonnie Blair
- Johann Olav Koss - Johann Olav Koss
- Swimming, 4
- Jim Thorpe - Jim Thorpe*
- Mark Spitz - Mark Spitz*
- Michael Phelps - Michael Phelps* (US)
- Greg Louganis - Greg Louganis (US)
- Table tennis, 1
- Jan-Ove Waldner - Jan-Ove Waldner
- Team handball, 2
- Ivano Balić - Ivano Balić
- Anja Andersen - Anja Andersen
- Tennis, 16
- Andre Agassi - Andre Agassi* (US)
- Björn Borg - Björn Borg
- Margaret Court - Margaret Court
- Chris Evert - Chris Evert (US)
- Roger Federer - Roger Federer*
- Pancho Gonzales - Pancho Gonzales (US)
- Steffi Graf - Steffi Graf*
- Billie Jean King - Billie Jean King (US)
- Rod Laver - Rod Laver
- Suzanne Lenglen - Suzanne Lenglen
- John McEnroe - John McEnroe (US)
- Rafael Nadal - Rafael Nadal
- Martina Navratilova - Martina Navratilova*
- Pete Sampras - Pete Sampras* (US)
- Bill Tilden - Bill Tilden (US)
- Serena Williams - Serena Williams (US)
- Volleyball, 1
- Karch Kiraly - Karch Kiraly (US)
Sports executives and administrators
edit- Sepp Blatter - Sepp Blatter
- Pierre de Coubertin - Pierre de Coubertin
- Juan Antonio Samaranch - Juan Antonio Samaranch
Mythical and legendary people, 29
edit- Achilles - Achilles
- Aeneas - Aeneas
- Agamemnon - Agamemnon
- Andromeda (mythology) - Andromeda
- Argonauts - Argonauts
- King Arthur - King Arthur
- Atlas (mythology) - Atlas (mythology)
- Beowulf - Beowulf
- Castor and Pollux - Castor and Pollux
- Cyclops - Cyclops
- Cerberus - Cerberus
- Grendel - Grendel
- Hansel and Gretel - Hansel and Gretel
- Heracles - Heracles
- Jason - Jason
- Electra - Electra
- Europa (mythology) - Europa
- Ganymede (mythology) - Ganymede
- Helen of Troy - Helen of Troy
- Medea - Medea
- Medusa - Medusa
- Odysseus - Odysseus
- Oedipus - Oedipus
- Orion (mythology) - Orion
- Perseus - Perseus
- Peter Pan - Peter Pan
- Roland - Roland
- Sphinx - Sphinx
- Siren (mythology) - Sirens
Fictional characters, 15
edit- Batman - Batman
- Mickey Mouse - Mickey Mouse
- Snow White - Snow White
- Superman - Superman
- The Adventures of Tintin - Tintin
- Baba Yaga - Baba Yaga
- Santa Claus - Santa Claus
- Aladdin - Aladdin
- James Bond - James Bond
- The Cat in the Hat - The Cat in the Hat
- Count Dracula - Count Dracula
- Sherlock Holmes - Sherlock Holmes
- Tarzan - Tarzan
- The Three Musketeers - The Three Musketeers
- Superhero - Superhero