Portal:Biography/Featured articles

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[edit] Architecture

• 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

[edit] Biology and medicine

• Norman Borlaug • Barbara McClintock • Michael Woodruff

[edit] Culture and society

• David Helvarg

[edit] History

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 • Manuel I Comnenus • William N. Page • Rosa Parks • Penda of Mercia • Witold Pilecki • Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu • Samantha Smith • Jonathan Wild • Yagan • Ziad Jarrah

[edit] Law

• James Bulger

[edit] Literature

Douglas Adams • Mário de Andrade • Isaac Asimov • Augusta, Lady Gregory • Samuel Beckett • Cædmon • Colley Cibber • The Country Wife • John Day (printer) • H.D. • Du Fu • Robert A. Heinlein • Henry James • James Joyce • J. R. R. Tolkien • Rudyard Kipling • H. P. Lovecraft • George Moore • Chuck Palahniuk • Thomas Pynchon • John Millington Synge • Rabindranath Tagore • "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" • William Butler Yeats

[edit] Mathematics

• Carl Friedrich Gauss • Blaise Pascal • Marian Rejewski

[edit] Media

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

[edit] Music

• Louis Armstrong • Mariah Carey • Phil Collins • Rebecca Helferich Clarke • Miles Davis • Céline Dion • Bob Dylan • Charles Ives • Witold Lutosławski • Marilyn Manson (band) • Olivier Messiaen • Kylie Minogue • Dmitri Shostakovich • Igor Stravinsky

[edit] Philosophy

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

[edit] Physics and astronomy

• Albert Einstein • Richard Feynman • Galileo Galilei • Isaac Newton • Carl Sagan • Edward Teller

[edit] Politics and government

• Tony Blair • Tom Brinkman • Hugo Chávez • Gerald Ford • Bruce Johnson • George F. Kennan • Abraham Lincoln • Lord Chancellor • John Major • Sid McMath • Reginald Maudling • Bob McEwen • Yoweri Museveni • Barack Obama • James K. Polk • Louis Riel • Theodore Roosevelt • Władysław Sikorski • Jean Schmidt • Margaret Thatcher • Tynwald Day • Mordechai Vanunu • Robert Walpole • Max Weber

[edit] Religion and beliefs

• Father Damien • Nostradamus

[edit] Royalty, nobility, and heraldry

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 • William I of Orange (William the Silent) • William III of England • William IV of the United Kingdom • Victoria of the United Kingdom

[edit] Sport and games

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

[edit] Transport

• Isambard Kingdom Brunel

[edit] War

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