Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Best biographies

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[edit] Featured biographies

[edit] Arts and entertainment (78)

Actors and related (15)

• James T. Aubrey, Jr. • Humphrey Bogart • George Washington Dixon • Karen Dotrice • Henry Fonda • Jim Henson • Katie Holmes • Diane Keaton • Vivien Leigh • Lindsay Lohan • Sydney Newman • Julia Stiles • KaDee Strickland • Sharon Tate • Uma Thurman

Art, architecture, and archaeology (13)

• Felice Beato • Matthew Brettingham • Paul Kane • Robert Lawson (architect) • El Lissitzky • Henry Moore • Sylvanus Morley • Benjamin Mountfort • Francis Petre • John Vanbrugh • Diego Velázquez • Roman Vishniac • Xanadu House

Sportspeople (17)

• Moe Berg • Fanny Blankers-Koen • Simon Byrne • Brian Close • A. E. J. Collins • Steve Dalkowski • Lottie Dod • Wayne Gretzky • Damon Hill • Nellie Kim • Sandy Koufax • Cynna Kydd • Denis Law • Suzanne Lenglen • Ted Radcliffe • Seabiscuit • Jim Thorpe

Musicians (14)

Louis Armstrong • The Beatles • Mariah Carey • Phil Collins • Rebecca Helferich Clarke • Miles Davis • Celine Dion • Bob Dylan • Charles Ives • Witold Lutosławski • Olivier Messiaen • Kylie Minogue • Dmitri Shostakovich • Igor Stravinsky

Writers (19)

Douglas Adams • Mário de Andrade • Isaac Asimov • Augusta, Lady Gregory • Cædmon • John Day (printer) • H.D. • Du Fu • W. S. Gilbert • Robert A. Heinlein • Muhammad Iqbal • Henry James • James Joyce • J. R. R. Tolkien • Rudyard Kipling • George Moore • Chuck Palahniuk • Thomas Pynchon • John Millington Synge • William Butler Yeats

[edit] Government, history and society (101)

Culture and society (2)

• David Helvarg • Max Weber

History (36)

Ike Altgens • Mark Antony • Elias Ashmole • Attalus I • Attila the Hun • Athanasius Kircher • Isaac Brock • Claudius • John Dee • Adriaen van der Donck • Elagabalus • Epaminondas • W. Mark Felt • Carl G. Fisher • George Fox • Anne Frank • Mahatma Gandhi • Helen Gandy • Franklin B. Gowen • Che Guevara • Muhammad Ali Jinnah • Joan of Arc • Stanisław Koniecpolski • Laika • Manuel I Komnenos • William N. Page • Rosa Parks • Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel • Penda of Mercia • Witold Pilecki • Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu • Samantha Smith • Jonathan Wild • Yagan • Ziad Jarrah

Law (1)

• James Bulger

Philosophy (5)

Michel Foucault • Eric A. Havelock • Søren Kierkegaard • Ludwig Wittgenstein • Bernard Williams

Politics and government (22)

• Tony Blair • Tom Brinkman • George Brown, Baron George-Brown • Gerald Ford • Bruce Johnson • George F. Kennan • Abraham Lincoln • John Major • Sid McMath • Reginald Maudling • Bob McEwen • Yoweri Museveni • Barack Obama • James K. Polk • Louis Riel • Franklin D. Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt • Władysław Sikorski • Jean Schmidt • Margaret Thatcher • Mordechai Vanunu

Religion and mysticism (3)

• Father Damien • Fred Phelps • Pope Pius XII

Royalty and nobility (24)

Anne of Great Britain • Charles I of England • Charles II of England • Edward VI of England • Elizabeth I of England • George I of Great Britain • George II of Great Britain • George III of the United Kingdom • George IV of the United Kingdom • Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava • Henry VIII of England • James I of England • James II of England • Joshua A. Norton • Louis XIV of France • Mary I of England • Mary II of England • Sverre of Norway • Victoria of the United Kingdom • William I of Orange (William the Silent) • William III of England • William IV of the United Kingdom

War (8)

• Karl Dönitz • Husein Gradaščević • Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson • Richard O'Connor • Arthur Ernest Percival • William Tecumseh Sherman • Thrasybulus

[edit] Science, mathematics and technology (13)

Biology and medicine (3)

• Norman Borlaug • Georg Forster • Barbara McClintock

Mathematics (3)

• Carl Friedrich Gauss • Blaise Pascal • Marian Rejewski John Seely-Gant


Physics and astronomy (6)

• Albert Einstein • Galileo Galilei • Isaac Newton • Robert Oppenheimer • Carl Sagan • Edward Teller

Transportation (1)

• Isambard Kingdom Brunel

[edit] Good biographies

[edit] Arts and entertainment (100)

Actors, models and celebrities

Adler, Jacob Pavlovitch — Bale, Christian — Bana, Eric — Bynes, Amanda — Clark, Robert — Cuthbert, Elisha — Fonda, Jane — Garland, Judy — Jovovich, Milla — Knightley, Keira — Oleynik, Larisa — Otto, Miranda — Page, Bettie — Portman, Natalie — Roberts, Emma — Robinson, Andrew — Schwarzenegger, Arnold — Sprouse, Dylan and Cole — (18 articles)

Artists

Canaletto — Caravaggio — Hiroh Kikai — Jacques-Louis David — Alan Moore — Piet Mondrian — Anton Alexander von Werner — (7 articles)

Athletes

Allen, Marcus — Beckham, David — Bradshaw, Terry — Brady, Tom — Cousineau, Tom — Fischer, Bobby — Foli, Tim — Konnan — Mantle, Mickey — Mayweather Jr., Floyd — Pugh, Marc — Ruth, Babe — Tatum, Jack — Webber, Mark — Young, Vince — (15 articles)

Musicians and composers

Alison Krauss — Alizée — Ashlee Simpson — Billie Holiday — Black Flag (band) — Bob Marley — Brand New — Britney Spears — Bruce Springsteen — Cat Stevens — Christina Aguilera — Death In June — Dru Hill — Elliott Smith — Garbage (band) — Grateful Dead — Henry Rollins — Howie Day — Hugo Wolf — Jack White (musician) — Johann Sebastian Bach — JoJo — Kelly Clarkson — Kurt Cobain — Louis Jordan — M.I.A. — Mandy Moore — Marvin Gaye — Neil Young — Nelly Furtado — Oasis (band) — Phish — Physical Therapy (band) — Pixies — Queen (band) — Selena — Sonic Youth — Sonny Rollins — Sparks (band) — Streetlight Manifesto — Syd Barrett — The Band — The Smashing Pumpkins — The White Stripes — Tupac Shakur — U2 — Van Halen — (47 articles)

Writers, critics and journalists

Borges, Jorge Luis — Campbell, John W. — Cummings, E. E. — Dickinson, Emily — Gilbert, W. S. — Goldfaden, Abraham — Hemingway, Ernest — Hugo, Victor — Lem, Stanisław — Pushkin, Aleksandr — Rowling, J. K. — Shakespeare, William — Seigenthaler Sr., John — Upfield, Arthur — Wilde, Oscar — (15 articles)

[edit] Society and government (101)

Businesspeople

Branson, Richard — Carnegie, Andrew — Cranston, Catherine — Flagler, Henry Morrison — Gates, Bill — Rogers, Henry H. — Sculley, John — Swift, Gustavus Franklin — Wales, Jimmy — (9 articles)

Educators

Churchill, Ward — White, Andrew Dickson — (2 articles)

Geographers and explorers

Benjamin of Tudela — Ibn Battuta — (2 articles)

Historians

Hydatius — Josephus — Tacitean studies — Thucydides — (4 articles)

Historical figures

Abdi-Heba — Akhenaten — GDRT — al-Ghamdi, Saeed — al-Hazmi, Salem — al-Mihdhar, Khalid — al-Sayed, Mohamed Atta — al-Shehhi, Marwan — Babur — Baden-Powell, Robert — Baldwin I of Jerusalem — Banihammad, Fayez — Charlemagne — Constantine II of Scotland — Eufémia, Catarina — George Washington — Godwin, Earl of Wessex — Hanjour, Hani — Hatshepsut — Julius Caesar — Labaya — Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon — Macbeth of Scotland — Malcolm II of Scotland — Malcolm III of Scotland — Malcolm X — Musashi, Miyamoto — Oleg of Novgorod — Ramesses II — Richard Francis Burton — Tiridates I of Armenia — White, Andrew Dickson — Zara Yaqob — Óengus I of the Picts — (33 articles)

Lawyers, judges and legal academics

Freeh, Louis — Harlan II, John Marshall — (2 articles)

Philosophers

Aristotle — Fodor, Jerry — Hume, David — Popper, Karl — Russell, Bertrand — (5 articles)

Politically significant people

Brown, Gordon — Carter, Jimmy — Churchill, Winston — Clinton, Bill — Hackett, Paul — Houston, Sam — Jackson, Andrew — Jefferson, Thomas — Khan, Wali Kh. — Mahone, William — Marshall, John — Nader, Ralph — Piłsudski, Józef — Reagan, John Henninger — Rice, Condoleezza — Schwarzenegger, Arnold — Seigenthaler Sr., John — Sharon, Ariel — Sumner, Charles — Truman, Harry S. — (20 articles)

Psychologists

Caperton, Idit Harel — Freud, Sigmund — Skinner, Burrhus Frederic — (3 articles)

Religious figures and leaders

Bede — Biblical Magi — Farrar, Janet — Jesus — Pope John Paul II — Race of Jesus — Rama — Ramana Maharshi — (8 articles)

Royalty and nobility

Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke — Brooke-Little, John — Hirohito — Władysław IV Vasa — (4 articles)

Military people

Butler, Smedley — Coker, George Thomas — Ellsberg, Daniel — MacArthur, Douglas — Morant, Breaker — Pershing, John — Rommel, Erwin — von Boeselager, Georg — (8 articles)

Spies

Rosenberg, Julius & Ethel —

[edit] Science, mathematics and technology (17)

Biologists and medical scientists

Darwin, Charles — Dawkins, Richard — Gage, Phineas — Jenner, Edward — Kelsey, Frances Oldham — Swedenborg, Emanuel — (6 articles)

Chemists and materials scientists

Lavoisier, Antoine

Engineers and inventors

Eilmer of Malmesbury — Leonardo da Vinci — Thomas Edison — Wernher von Braun— John Seely-Gant — (4 articles)

Mathematicians

Cantor, Georg — Hilbert, David — Turing, Alan &mdash: John Seely-Gant — (3 articles)

Physicists and astronomers

Feynman, Richard — Flamsteed, John — Hawking, Stephen — (3 articles)

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