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Biography
articles		 Importance
Top None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 21 480 501
A 2 19 21
Good article GA 24 966 990
B 151 14396 14547
Start 2 110533 110535
Stub 336778 336778
List 111 111
Assessed 200 463283 463483
Unassessed 56189 56189
Total 200 519472 519672
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This page has been developed by the Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography to be a list of the most important biographies in WP as a way to have a work list of articles to improve. Any such list will be subjective and unlikely to find universal agreement.
Biography (core)
articles		 Importance
Top Total
Quality
Featured article FA 21 21
A 2 2
Good article GA 24 24
B 149 149
Start 2 2
Assessed 198 198
Unassessed 2 2
Total 200 200

Currently, this is being used as a worklist for the Version 1.0 Editorial Team. The live worklist can be found at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Biographies. It is essentially a work list for anyone who chooses to use it. The main idea is to pick an article towards the bottom of the list and bring it to as close to featured status as possible. Criteria for inclusion is below and must meet the definition for Top.

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[edit] Criteria

For placement on this list, consider the following criteria.

Top - Must have had a large impact outside of their main discipline, across several generations, and in the majority of the world. For instance, Einstein, brilliant physicist, but his theories have affected people outside of physics and in many other countries besides his nation of origin and several generations. His ideas have changed the way people think. No member should give this rating to any biography without first getting Project approval from the other members.

For an understanding of how "Top" relates to potential lower-importance categories, keep this in mind, as it might help decide if a biography is really "Top" or "High," etc.:

High - Must have had a large impact in their main discipline, across a couple of generations. Had some impact outside their country of origin.
Mid - Important in their discipline
Low - A contributor to their discipline and is included in Wikipedia to expand depth of knowledge of other articles.

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Article Import Date Assess Ver Comments
Archimedes [1] Top October 24, 2007 Featured article FA
Augustus [2] Top August 31, 2007 Featured article FA
Blaise Pascal [3] Top August 21, 2006 Featured article FA
Charles Darwin [4] Top December 21, 2006 Featured article FA
Edgar Allan Poe [5] Top January 21, 2008 Featured article FA
Elizabeth I of England [6] Top August 20, 2006 Featured article FA 0.5
Franklin D. Roosevelt [7] Top August 20, 2006 Featured article FA
Hippocrates [8] Top January 11, 2007 Featured article FA
Isaac Newton [9] Top August 20, 2006 Featured article FA
James Joyce [10] Top August 20, 2006 Featured article FA
Joan of Arc [11] Top August 20, 2006 Featured article FA
Johannes Kepler [12] Top March 22, 2007 Featured article FA
Leonhard Euler [13] Top October 8, 2006 Featured article FA
Mary Wollstonecraft [14] Top January 21, 2007 Featured article FA
Max Weber [15] Top August 26, 2006 Featured article FA
Michael Jordan [16] Top March 22, 2007 Featured article FA 0.5
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi [17] Top August 20, 2006 Featured article FA
Suleiman the Magnificent [18] Top January 22, 2008 Featured article FA 0.5
Søren Kierkegaard [19] Top August 20, 2006 Featured article FA
William Butler Yeats [20] Top September 15, 2007 Featured article FA 0.5
William Shakespeare [21] Top August 16, 2007 Featured article FA
Auguste Rodin [22] Top April 30, 2007 A
Jesus [23] Top August 22, 2007 A
Aeschylus [24] Top February 19, 2007 Good article GA
Albert Einstein [25] Top December 6, 2007 Good article GA
David Hume [26] Top May 8, 2007 Good article GA
Ernest Hemingway [27] Top April 14, 2007 Good article GA 0.5
Galileo Galilei [28] Top March 6, 2008 Good article GA
George Washington [29] Top September 13, 2006 Good article GA
Hammurabi [30] Top February 18, 2007 Good article GA
John Calvin [31] Top March 30, 2007 Good article GA
Jorge Luis Borges [32] Top August 20, 2006 Good article GA 0.5
Laozi [33] Top January 21, 2008 Good article GA
Leonardo da Vinci [34] Top March 24, 2007 Good article GA
Mother Teresa [35] Top June 1, 2007 Good article GA
Nikola Tesla [36] Top September 4, 2006 Good article GA
Rembrandt [37] Top October 6, 2007 Good article GA
The Beatles [38] Top August 29, 2006 Good article GA
Thomas Aquinas [39] Top December 9, 2007 Good article GA
Thomas Edison [40] Top August 20, 2006 Good article GA
Thomas Jefferson [41] Top August 20, 2006 Good article GA 0.5
Thucydides [42] Top August 21, 2006 Good article GA 0.5
Vincent van Gogh [43] Top May 30, 2007 Good article GA
W. H. Auden [44] Top November 8, 2007 Good article GA
Walt Whitman [45] Top February 15, 2008 Good article GA 0.5
Winston Churchill [46] Top January 2, 2008 Good article GA
Wright brothers [47] Top February 17, 2007 Good article GA
Abraham Lincoln [48] Top March 22, 2007 B
Adam Smith [49] Top November 4, 2006 B
Adolf Hitler [50] Top November 17, 2006 B
Akbar [51] Top August 20, 2006 B
Akira Kurosawa [52] Top August 20, 2006 B 0.5
Alexander Graham Bell [53] Top August 26, 2006 B 0.5
Alexander the Great [54] Top September 12, 2006 B
Alfred Hitchcock [55] Top August 20, 2006 B 0.5
Andy Warhol [56] Top September 26, 2006 B
Antoine Lavoisier [57] Top April 27, 2007 B 0.5
Aristotle [58] Top March 22, 2007 B
Attila the Hun [59] Top October 23, 2006 B
Augustine of Hippo [60] Top August 20, 2006 B
Babe Ruth [61] Top October 25, 2006 B 0.5
Benito Mussolini [62] Top February 16, 2007 B
Benjamin Franklin [63] Top August 31, 2006 B 0.5
Brothers Grimm [64] Top October 3, 2006 B
Bruce Lee [65] Top October 3, 2006 B 0.5
Carl Friedrich Gauss [66] Top January 12, 2008 B
Carl Linnaeus [67] Top August 30, 2006 B
Catherine II of Russia [68] Top October 4, 2006 B 0.5
Charles Babbage [69] Top September 25, 2006 B 0.5
Charles Dickens [70] Top September 13, 2006 B
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor [71] Top September 13, 2006 B 0.5
Charlie Chaplin [72] Top February 16, 2007 B
Che Guevara [73] Top May 6, 2008 B
Christopher Columbus [74] Top September 13, 2006 B
Claude Monet [75] Top November 18, 2007 B
Cleopatra VII [76] Top November 24, 2006 B
Columba [77] Top December 9, 2007 B
Confucius [78] Top August 20, 2006 B
Constantine I [79] Top August 20, 2006 B
Dante Alighieri [80] Top August 20, 2006 B
Edmund Burke [81] Top October 24, 2007 B 0.5
Edward Gibbon [82] Top March 12, 2007 B 0.5
Elvis Presley [83] Top November 30, 2007 B
Emperor Taizong of Tang [84] Top November 24, 2007 B
Ernest Rutherford [85] Top December 9, 2007 B
Euclid [86] Top August 20, 2006 B
Ezra Pound [87] Top August 21, 2006 B 0.5
Ferdinand Magellan [88] Top October 14, 2006 B
Francis Bacon [89] Top October 17, 2006 B
Francis of Assisi [90] Top October 2, 2006 B
Frank Lloyd Wright [91] Top October 17, 2006 B 0.5
Franz Kafka [92] Top August 20, 2006 B
Frederick Douglass [93] Top October 3, 2006 B 0.5
Frederick II of Prussia [94] Top September 11, 2006 B 0.5
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor [95] Top March 20, 2007 B 0.5
Friedrich Nietzsche [96] Top October 23, 2006 B
Fyodor Dostoevsky [97] Top August 20, 2006 B
Gautama Buddha [98] Top August 20, 2006 B
Genghis Khan [99] Top August 20, 2006 B
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron [100] Top September 28, 2006 B 0.5
Giotto di Bondone [101] Top November 18, 2007 B
Giuseppe Verdi [102] Top September 28, 2006 B 0.5
Gottfried Leibniz [103] Top August 20, 2006 B
Gregor Mendel [104] Top October 16, 2006 B 0.5
Guglielmo Marconi [105] Top October 16, 2006 B 0.5
Hannibal [106] Top September 7, 2006 B
Henrik Ibsen [107] Top October 17, 2006 B 0.5
Henry David Thoreau [108] Top October 20, 2006 B 0.5
Henry Ford [109] Top March 2, 2007 B
Henry II of England [110] Top October 8, 2006 B 0.5
Henry VIII of England [111] Top February 8, 2007 B 0.5
Heraclius [112] Top September 13, 2006 B 0.5
Hernán Cortés [113] Top August 21, 2006 B
Herodotus [114] Top December 9, 2007 B
Ho Chi Minh [115] Top August 21, 2006 B 0.5
Homer [116] Top August 20, 2006 B
Immanuel Kant [117] Top January 21, 2008 B
Ivan IV of Russia [118] Top August 24, 2006 B 0.5
Jackie Robinson [119] Top August 20, 2006 B 0.5
James Clerk Maxwell [120] Top September 11, 2006 B 0.5
James Watt [121] Top September 5, 2006 B 0.5
Jane Austen [122] Top August 24, 2006 B 0.5
Jean-Jacques Rousseau [123] Top August 20, 2006 B
Jesse Owens [124] Top August 20, 2006 B 0.5
Johann Sebastian Bach [125] Top January 25, 2007 B
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [126] Top March 2, 2007 B
Johannes Gutenberg [127] Top September 11, 2006 B
John Locke [128] Top October 17, 2006 B
John Maynard Keynes [129] Top September 22, 2006 B
John Milton [130] Top October 4, 2006 B 0.5
Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister [131] Top December 9, 2007 B
Joseph Stalin [132] Top November 17, 2006 B
Julius Caesar [133] Top June 10, 2007 B
Karl Marx [134] Top August 20, 2006 B
Leo Tolstoy [135] Top September 27, 2006 B 0.5
Linus Pauling [136] Top April 24, 2007 B 0.5
Louis Daguerre [137] Top April 16, 2008 B
Louis Pasteur [138] Top August 20, 2006 B
Louis XIV of France [139] Top October 24, 2006 B 0.5
Ludwig van Beethoven [140] Top August 23, 2006 B
Mao Zedong [141] Top August 20, 2006 B
Marcel Proust [142] Top August 26, 2006 B 0.5
Marco Polo [143] Top August 20, 2006 B
Margaret Sanger [144] Top October 3, 2006 B 0.5
Marie Curie [145] Top October 8, 2006 B
Mark Twain [146] Top January 25, 2007 B
Martin Luther [147] Top May 16, 2007 B
Martin Luther King, Jr. [148] Top August 20, 2006 B
Max Planck [149] Top October 10, 2006 B 0.5
Michael Faraday [150] Top October 10, 2006 B 0.5
Michelangelo [151] Top September 27, 2006 B
Miguel de Cervantes [152] Top August 21, 2006 B
Mikhail Baryshnikov [153] Top December 9, 2007 B
Mikhail Gorbachev [154] Top October 14, 2006 B 0.5
Muhammad [155] Top September 13, 2006 B
Muhammad Ali [156] Top September 9, 2006 B 0.5
Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī [157] Top August 20, 2006 B
Napoleon I of France [158] Top August 20, 2006 B
Nelson Mandela [159] Top August 20, 2006 B
Niccolò Machiavelli [160] Top August 20, 2006 B
Nicolaus Copernicus [161] Top August 21, 2006 B
Otto von Bismarck [162] Top August 20, 2006 B
Pablo Picasso [163] Top September 28, 2006 B
Paul the Apostle [164] Top August 24, 2006 B
Pelé [165] Top May 29, 2008 B 0.5
Peter I of Russia [166] Top August 20, 2006 B
Philip II of Spain [167] Top October 2, 2006 B 0.5
Pierre de Fermat [168] Top January 21, 2008 B
Plato [169] Top November 21, 2007 B
Ptolemy [170] Top October 10, 2006 B
Pythagoras [171] Top August 20, 2006 B
Qin Shi Huang [172] Top August 20, 2006 B
Raphael [173] Top December 9, 2007 B
René Descartes [174] Top August 20, 2006 B
Robert Oppenheimer [175] Top April 6, 2007 B
Saladin [176] Top August 20, 2006 B
Shaka [177] Top August 20, 2006 B
Sigmund Freud [178] Top August 23, 2006 B
Simón Bolívar [179] Top December 9, 2007 B
Socrates [180] Top August 21, 2006 B
Stephen Hawking [181] Top October 10, 2006 B 0.5
T. S. Eliot [182] Top August 21, 2006 B 0.5
Thomas Hobbes [183] Top October 18, 2006 B 0.5
Thomas Malthus [184] Top October 16, 2006 B 0.5
Timur [185] Top August 20, 2006 B
Victor Hugo [186] Top November 9, 2006 B
Virgil [187] Top August 20, 2006 B
Vladimir Lenin [188] Top November 17, 2006 B
Voltaire [189] Top August 21, 2006 B
Walt Disney [190] Top October 16, 2006 B 0.5
Walter Scott [191] Top September 5, 2006 B 0.5
William I of England [192] Top August 21, 2006 B 0.5
William Wordsworth [193] Top October 8, 2006 B
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [194] Top September 13, 2006 B
Zheng He [195] Top August 20, 2006 B
Zoroaster [196] Top August 20, 2006 B
Cai Lun [197] Top August 29, 2006 Start 0.5
Sun Tzu [198] Top August 20, 2006 Start
Charlemagne [199] Top June 9, 2008 Unassessed
Cyrus the Great [200] Top June 9, 2008 Unassessed
See also: assessed article categories. Last update: June 9, 2008
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