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[edit] February 2008 list of featured biographical articles
This is a list of the featured single-person biographical articles as of 23 February 2008. It may be useful for selecting future articles. I obtained the list by excluding music groups and featured lists from Category:FA-Class biography articles. It may also be possible to order the list chronologically, with the list of living people at the end a good starting point. Carcharoth (talk) 04:09, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Single-person biographies (403)
- Sargon of Akkad - d. 2279 BC
- Ahmose I - d. 1525 BC
- Pericles - c. 495 - 429 BC
- Thrasybulus - c. 440 - 388 BC
- Theramenes d. 404 BC
- Aspasia - 470 - 400 BC
- Hippocrates - c. 460 - c. 370 BC
- Alcibiades - c. 450-404 BC
- Epaminondas - 418 - 362 BC
- Demosthenes - 384 - 322 BC
- Archimedes - 287 - 212 BC
- Attalus I - 269 - 197 BC
- Augustus - 63 BC - 14 AD
- Claudius - 10 BC - 54 AD
- Tiridates I of Armenia - 1st century
- Elagabalus - 203 - 222
- Gregory of Nazianzus - 329 - 389
- Basiliscus - d. 476
- Ælle of Sussex - fl. late 5th-early 6th centuries
- Áedán mac Gabráin - fl. 6th century
- Æthelberht of Kent - 560-616
- Penda of Mercia - d. 655
- Maximus the Confessor - c. 580 - 662
- Eadbald of Kent - d. 640
- Cædwalla of Wessex - c. 659 - 689
- Wulfhere of Mercia - d. 675
- Cædmon - fl. 7th century
- Aldfrith of Northumbria - d. 704 or 705
- Ine of Wessex - d. 726
- Æthelbald of Mercia - d. 757
- Du Fu - 712 - 770
- Offa of Mercia - d. 796
- Eardwulf of Northumbria d. c. 830?
- Adi Shankara - c. 788 - 820
- Coenwulf of Mercia - d. 821
- Egbert of Wessex - d. 839
- Simeon I of Bulgaria c. 864 - 927
- Asser - d. 908/909
- Constantine II of Scotland - before 879 - 952
- Gunnhild Mother of Kings - c. 900 - c. 980
- Sviatoslav I of Kiev c. 942 - 972
- Shen Kuo - 1031 - 1095
- Domenico Selvo - d. 1087
- Henry, Bishop of Uppsala - d. c. 1150
- David I of Scotland - 1083 - 1153
- Manuel I Komnenos - 1118 - 1180
- Rhys ap Gruffydd - 1155 - 1197
- Llywelyn the Great - c. 1195 - 1240
- Jocelin - d. 1199
- Clement of Dunblane - d. 1258
- Edward III of England - 1312 - 1377
- Jogaila c. 1362 - 1434
- Nostradamus - 1503 - 1566
- John Day (printer) - c. 1522 - 1584
- Giovanni Villani - 1276/1280 - 1348
- Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria - d. 1371
- Joan of Arc - c. 1412 - 1431
- Josquin des Prez - c. 1450 - 1521
- Lisa del Giocondo - 1479 - 1542
- Huldrych Zwingli - 1484 - 1531
- Suleiman the Magnificent - 1494 - 1566
- John Knox - 1510 - 1572
- John Dee - 1527 - 1608
- Elizabeth I of England - 1533 - 1603
- Edward VI of England - 1537 - 1553
- El Greco - 1541 - 1614
- Richard Hakluyt - 1552/1553 - 1616
- William Shakespeare - 1564 - 1616
- James I of England - 1566 - 1625
- Hasekura Tsunenaga - 1571 - 1622
- Johannes Kepler - 1571 - 1630
- Anne of Denmark - 1574 - 1619
- Stanisław Koniecpolski - c. 1590 - 1646
- Elias Ashmole - 1617 - 1692
- John Michael Wright - 1617 - 1694
- Adriaen van der Donck - 1618 - 1655
- Blaise Pascal - 1623 - 1662
- George Fox - 1624 - 1691
- William Bruce (architect) - 1630 - 1710
- James II of England - 1633 - 1701
- Isaac Newton - 1643 - 1727
- William III of England - 1650 - 1702
- John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough - 1650 - 1722
- George I of Great Britain - 1660 - 1727
- Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough - 1660 - 1744
- Mary II of England - 1662 - 1694
- John Vanbrugh - 1664 - 1726
- Anne of Great Britain - 1665 - 1714
- Elizabeth Needham - d. 1731
- Colley Cibber - 1671 - 1757
- Jonathan Wild - 1683 - 1725
- Stede Bonnet c. 1688 - 1718
- Edward Low c. 1690 - c. 1724
- Matthew Brettingham - 1699 - 1769
- Jack Sheppard - 1702 - 1724
- Leonhard Euler - 1707 - 1783
- Samuel Adams - 1722 - 1803
- Joseph Priestley - 1733 - 1804
- Daniel Boone - 1734 - 1820
- Joseph Johnson (publisher) - 1738 - 1809
- George III of the United Kingdom - 1738 - 1820
- Sarah Trimmer - 1741 - 1810
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld - 1743 - 1823
- Stephen Trigg - 1744 - 1782
- Georg Forster - 1754 - 1794
- Mary Wollstonecraft - 1759 - 1797
- George IV of the United Kingdom - 1762 - 1830
- William IV of the United Kingdom - 1765 - 1837
- Isaac Brock - 1769 - 1812
- Mary Martha Sherwood - 1775 - 1851
- Sophie Blanchard - 1778 - 1819
- William Cooley - 1783 - 1863
- Harriet Arbuthnot - 1793 - 1834
- Fanny Imlay - 1794 - 1816
- James K. Polk - 1795 - 1849
- James Bowie - 1796 - 1836
- Richard Hawes - 1797 - 1877
- Honoré de Balzac - 1799 - 1850
- George Washington Dixon - 1801 - 1861
- Ion Heliade Rădulescu - 1802 - 1872
- Early life of Joseph Smith, Jr. b. 1805
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel - 1806 - 1859
- Edgar Allan Poe - 1809 - 1849
- Charles Darwin - 1809 - 1882
- Paul Kane - 1810 - 1871
- Søren Kierkegaard - 1813 - 1855
- Syed Ahmed Khan - 1817 - 1898
- John W. Johnston - 1818 - 1889
- Joshua A. Norton - 1819 - 1880
- William Tecumseh Sherman - 1820 - 1891
- Harriet Tubman - 1820 - 1913
- Alfred Russel Wallace - 1823 - 1913
- Winfield Scott Hancock - 1824 - 1886
- Benjamin Mountfort - 1825 - 1898
- George B. McClellan - 1826 - 1885
- Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava - 1826 - 1902
- Ramón Emeterio Betances - 1827 - 1898
- Thomas C. Hindman - 1828 - 1868
- Pierre Rossier - 1829 - 1883?-1898?
- Emily Dickinson - 1830 - 1886
- Felice Beato - 1833 - 1907
- Franklin B. Gowen - 1836 - 1889
- W. S. Gilbert - 1836 - 1911
- Grover Cleveland - 1837 - 1908
- Lawrence Sullivan Ross - 1838 - 1898
- Adolfo Farsari - 1841 - 1898
- Edward VII of the United Kingdom - 1841 - 1910
- Henry James - 1843 - 1916
- Louis Riel - 1844 - 1885
- George I of Greece - 1845 - 1913
- Georg Cantor - 1845 - 1918
- Princess Helena of the United Kingdom - 1846 - 1923
- Francis Petre - 1847 - 1918
- Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll - 1848 - 1939
- Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery - 1851 - 1890
- Augusta, Lady Gregory - 1852 - 1932
- George Moore (novelist) - 1852 - 1933
- Prince Louis of Battenberg - 1854 - 1921
- William N. Page - 1854 - 1932
- William Goebel - 1856 - 1900
- Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell - 1857 - 1941
- Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom - 1857 - 1944
- Theodore Roosevelt - 1858 - 1919
- Anton Chekhov - 1860 - 1904
- Rabindranath Tagore - 1861 - 1941
- Frederick Russell Burnham - 1861 - 1947
- Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine - 1863 - 1950
- Max Weber - 1864 - 1920
- Jimmy McAleer - 1864 - 1931
- George V of the United Kingdom - 1865 - 1936
- Rudyard Kipling - 1865 - 1936
- Józef Piłsudski - 1867 - 1935
- Mary of Teck - 1867 - 1953
- Robert Garran - 1867 - 1957
- Emma Goldman - 1869 - 1940
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi - 1869 - 1948
- Edwin Taylor Pollock - 1870 - 1943
- John Millington Synge - 1871 - 1909
- George Washington (inventor) - 1871 - 1946
- Francis Harvey - 1873 - 1916
- Bart King - 1873 - 1965
- Ernest Shackleton - 1874 - 1922
- Harry McNish - 1874 - 1930
- Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel - 1875 - 1950
- Thomas Crisp - 1876 - 1917
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah - 1876 - 1948
- Pope Pius XII - 1876 - 1958
- Natalie Clifford Barney - 1876 - 1972
- Muhammad Iqbal - 1877 - 1938
- Clem Hill - 1877 - 1945
- Władysław Sikorski - 1881 - 1943
- James Joyce - 1882 - 1941
- Franklin D. Roosevelt - 1882 - 1945
- Sylvanus Morley - 1883 - 1948
- Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope - 1883 - 1963
- Harry S. Truman - 1884 - 1972
- A. E. J. Collins - 1885 - 1914
- Princess Alice of Battenberg - 1885 - 1969
- Ronald Niel Stuart - 1886 - 1954
- H.D. - 1886 - 1961
- Rebecca Helferich Clarke - 1886 - 1979
- Arthur Ernest Percival - 1887 - 1966
- Jim Thorpe - 1888 - 1953
- Issy Smith - c. 1890 - 1940
- El Lissitzky - 1890 - 1941
- Walter Model - 1891 - 1945
- E. Urner Goodman - 1891 - 1980
- J. R. R. Tolkien - 1892 - 1973
- Joseph Szigeti - 1892 - 1973
- Mário de Andrade - 1893 - 1945
- Leo Ornstein - 1893 - 2002
- Harold Innis - 1894 - 1952
- André Kertész - 1894 - 1985
- Edward VIII of the United Kingdom - 1894 - 1972
- Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia - 1895 - 1918
- George IV of the United Kingdom - 1895 - 1952
- Aleksandr Vasilevsky - 1895 - 1977
- Bob Meusel - 1896 - 1977
- George Jones (RAAF officer) - 1896 - 1992
- Thich Quang Duc - 1897 - 1963
- Helen Gandy - 1897 - 1988
- Roman Vishniac - 1897 - 1990
- Henry Moore - 1898 - 1986
- Kazi Nazrul Islam - 1899 - 1976
- Frank Macfarlane Burnet - 1899 - 1985
- William Hillcourt - 1990 - 1992
- Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon - 1900 - 2002
- Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia - 1901 - 1918
- Witold Pilecki - 1901 - 1948
- Moe Berg - 1902 - 1972
- Barbara McClintock - 1902 - 1992
- Salvador Dalí - 1904 - 1989
- George F. Kennan - 1904 - 2005
- Marian Rejewski - 1905 - 1980
- Bill O'Reilly (cricketer) - 1905 - 1992
- Joel Brand - 1906 - 1964
- Dmitri Shostakovich - 1906 - 1975
- Kroger Babb - 1906 - 1980
- Samuel Beckett - 1906 - 1989
- G. Ledyard Stebbins - 1906 - 2000
- Rachel Carson - 1907 - 1964
- Robert A. Heinlein - 1907 - 1988
- Roy Welensky - 1907 - 1991
- Bette Davis - 1908 - 1989
- Olivier Messiaen - 1908 - 1992
- Edward Teller - 1908 - 2003
- Archie Jackson - 1909 - 1933
- Louis Slotin - 1910 - 1946
- Barthélemy Boganda - 1910 - 1959
- Michael Woodruff - 1911 - 2001
- Ronald Reagan - 1911 - 2004
- Woody Guthrie - 1912 - 1967
- Vivien Leigh - 1913 - 1967
- Witold Lutosławski - 1913 - 1994
- Rosa Parks - 1913 - 2005
- Gerald Ford - 1913 - 2006
- George Brown, Baron George-Brown - 1914 - 1985
- Ernie Toshack - 1914 - 2003
- Norman Borlaug - 1914 - present
- Sid Barnes - 1916 - 1973
- Sydney Newman - 1917 - 1997
- James T. Aubrey, Jr. - 1918 - 1994
- Ike Altgens - 1919 - 1995
- Sheikh Mujibur Rahman - 1920 - 1975
- Satyajit Ray - 1921 - 1992
- Nancy Reagan - 1921 - present
- Pham Ngoc Thao - 1922 - 1965
- Judy Garland - 1922 - 1969
- Nigel Kneale - 1922 - 2006
- Arthur Morris - 1922 - present
- P. K. van der Byl - 1923 - 1999
- Rudolf Vrba - 1924 - 2006
- Michel Foucault - 1926 - 1984
- Don Dunstan - 1926 - 1999
- Joseph Francis Shea - 1926 - 1999
- Hilary Putnam - 1926 - present
- Joseph W. Tkach - 1927 - 1995
- John Brooke-Little - 1927 - 2006
- Bhumibol Adulyadej - 1927 - present
- Anne Frank - 1929 - 1945
- Bernard Williams - 1929 - 2003
- Yasser Arafat - 1929 - 2004
- Tōru Takemitsu - 1930 - 1996
- Brian Close - 1931 - present
- Ann Bannon - 1932 - present
- Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan - 1933 - 2003
- Bobby Robson - 1933 - present
- Bill Russell - 1934 - present
- Sandy Koufax - 1935 - present
- Duncan Edwards - 1936 - 1958
- Ziaur Rahman - 1936 - 1981
- Glynn Lunney - 1936 - present
- Thomas Pynchon - 1937 - present
- Peter Jennings - 1938 - 2005
- Abbas Kiarostami - 1940 - present
- Bob Dylan - 1941 - present
- Sharon Tate - 1943 - 1969
- Ban Ki-moon - 1944 - present
- Yoweri Museveni - c. 1944 - present
- Héctor Lavoe - 1946 - 1993
- Diane Keaton - 1946 - present
- James Robert Baker - 1946 - 1997
- Nick Drake - 1948 - 1974
- Ina Garten - 1948 - present
- William Gibson - 1948 - present
- Tom Pryce - 1949 - 1977
- D. B. Cooper - fl. c. 1972
- Bob McEwen - 1950 - present
- Phil Collins - 1951 - present
- David Helvarg - 1951 - present
- Douglas Adams - 1952 - 2001
- Mumia Abu-Jamal - 1954 - present
- Karen Dotrice - 1955 - present
- Alain Prost - 1955 - present
- Ernest Emerson - 1955 - present
- Tom Brinkman - 1957 - present
- Nellie Kim - 1957 - present
- Lee Smith (baseball) - 1957 - present
- Bobby Eaton - 1958 - present
- John Martin Scripps - 1959 - 1996
- "Weird Al" Yankovic - 1959 - present
- Damon Hill - 1960 - present
- Bruce Edward Johnson - 1960 - present
- William Monahan - 1960 - present
- Wayne Gretzky - 1961 - present
- David Lovering - 1961 - present
- Barack Obama - 1961 - present
- Aaron Sorkin - 1961 - present
- Flea (musician) - 1962 - present
- Michael Jordan - 1963 - present
- Dominik Hašek - 1965 - present
- Frank Black - 1965 - present
- Bradley Joseph - 1965 - present
- Ellis Paul - 1965 - present
- J. K. Rowling - 1965 - present
- Joey Santiago - 1965 - present
- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi - 1966 - 2005
- Miranda Otto - 1967 - present
- Eric Bana - 1968 - present
- Celine Dion - 1968 - present
- Anthony Michael Hall - 1968 - present
- Kylie Minogue - 1968 - present
- Elliott Smith - 1969 - 2003
- Bernard Fanning - 1969 - present
- Bruno Maddox - 1969 - present
- Joe Sakic - 1969 - present
- Gwen Stefani - 1969 - present
- Mariah Carey - 1970 - present
- John Frusciante - 1970 - present
- Ryan White - 1971 - 1990
- Selena - 1971 - 1995
- Adam Gilchrist - 1971 - present
- Alison Krauss - 1971 - present
- Samantha Smith - 1972 - 1985
- The Notorious B.I.G. - 1972 - 1997
- Martin Brodeur - 1972 - present
- Tyrone Wheatley - 1972 - present
- K-os - 1972 - present
- Jenna Jameson - 1974 - present
- Frank Klepacki - 1974 - present
- Shelton Benjamin - 1975 - present
- Angelina Jolie - 1975 - present
- Marcus Trescothick - 1975 - present
- Paul Collingwood - 1976 - present
- Tim Duncan - 1976 - present
- Cillian Murphy - 1976 - present
- Gilberto Silva - 1976 - present
- Reese Witherspoon - 1976 - present
- Thierry Henry - 1977 - present
- John Mayer - 1977 - present
- KaDee Strickland - 1977 - present
- Katie Holmes - 1978 - present
- CM Punk - 1978 - present
- Jake Gyllenhaal - 1980 - present
- Austin Nichols - 1980 - present
- Kevin Pietersen - 1980 - present
- Harbhajan Singh - 1980 - present
- Cynna Kydd - 1981 - present
- Ray Emery - 1982 - present
- Mandy Moore - 1984 - present
- Karmichael Hunt - 1986 - present
- Emma Watson - 1990 - present
[edit] Multi-person biography articles
- The Supremes - 1959 - 1977
- Pink Floyd - 1964 - present
- Sly & the Family Stone - 1966 - 1983
- Genesis (band) - 1967 - present
- Rush (band) - 1968 - present
- Sasha (DJ) - 1969 - present
- AC/DC - 1973 - present
- Motörhead - 1975 - present
- Sex Pistols - 1975 - present
- Joy Division - 1976 - 1980
- U2 - 1976 - present
- R.E.M. - 1980 - present
- Metallica - 1981 - present
- Slayer - 1981 - present
- Ian Thorpe - 1982 - present
- Megadeth - 1983 - present
- The Waterboys - 1983 - present
- Pixies - 1985 - 2007
- Nirvana (band) - 1987 - 1994
- Uncle Tupelo - 1987 - 1994
- The KLF - 1987 - 1997
- Alice in Chains - 1987 - 2002
- Nine Inch Nails - 1988 - present
- The Orb - 1988 - present
- The Smashing Pumpkins - 1988 - present
- Powderfinger - 1989 - present
- Opeth - 1990 - present
- Pearl Jam - 1990 - present
- Stereolab - 1990 - present
- Tool (band) - 1990 - present
- Radiohead - 1991 - present
- Silverchair - 1992 - present
- Godsmack - 1996 - present
- New Radicals - 1997 - 1999
- Audioslave - 2001 - 2007
- S.H.E. - 2001 - present
- Damageplan - 2003 - 2004
- List of Governors of Alabama
- List of Governors of California
- List of Governors of Colorado
- List of Governors of Delaware
- List of Governors of Hawaii
- List of Governors of Kentucky
- List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Battle of Iwo Jima
- List of New Jersey Devils players
- The Prodigy discography
- Red Barn Murder
- Surviving veterans of World War I
- Timeline of Jane Austen
- Timeline of Mary Wollstonecraft
- Athanasius Kircher
- Calvin Coolidge
- Ceawlin of Wessex
- Charles Atangana
- Charles Edward Magoon
- Charles II of England
- Charlie Macartney
- Charlotte Stuart, Duchess of Albany
- Che Guevara
- Chinua Achebe
- Christopher C. Kraft, Jr.
- Daniel Webster
- George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore
- George VI of the United Kingdom
- Ian Chappell
- Jackie Chan
- Jay Chou
- Kate Bush
- Melissa Harrington
- Óengus I of the Picts
- Reginald Maudling
- Robert Lawson (architect)
- Rudolph Cartier
- Simon Byrne
- W. Mark Felt
- Waisale Serevi
- Wallis, Duchess of Windsor
- Wesley Clark
- Wiglaf of Mercia
- Wihtred of Kent
- William Butler Yeats
- Yagan
- Zhou Tong (archer)
- Ziad Jarrah