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[edit] Top 15

  1. Albert Einstein
  2. Aristotle
  3. Buddha
  4. Christopher Columbus
  5. Confucius
  6. Euclid
  7. Johann Gutenberg
  8. Galileo Galilei
  9. Isaac Newton
  10. Jesus Christ
  11. Louis Pasteur
  12. Moses
  13. Muhammad
  14. St. Paul
  15. Ts'ai Lun

[edit] Level 2 (55 articles)

This level should be cut to the range of 30 to 50 articles.

[edit] Politicians and leaders (40)

  1. Alexander the Great
  2. Featured article Attila the Hun
  3. Otto von Bismarck
  4. Simón Bolívar
  5. George W. Bush
  6. Julius Caesar
  7. Good articles Charlemagne
  8. Good articles Winston Churchill
  9. Cleopatra VII of Egypt
  10. Elizabeth I of England
  11. Benjamin Franklin
  12. Charles de Gaulle
  13. Hammurabi
  14. Hannibal
  15. Indira Gandhi
  16. Good articles Hirohito
  17. Adolf Hitler
  18. Thomas Jefferson
  19. Genghis Khan
  20. Vladimir Lenin
  21. Abraham Lincoln
  22. Nelson Mandela
  23. Mao Zedong
  24. Benito Mussolini
  25. Napoleon I of France
  26. Joseph Stalin
  27. Featured article Victoria of the United Kingdom
  28. George Washington

[edit] Miscellaneous (15)

  1. Albert Einstein
  2. Aristotle
  3. Buddha
  4. Christopher Columbus
  5. Confucius
  6. Euclid
  7. Johann Gutenberg
  8. Galileo Galilei
  9. Isaac Newton
  10. Jesus Christ
  11. Louis Pasteur
  12. Moses
  13. Muhammad
  14. St. Paul
  15. Ts'ai Lun


[edit] Top 270

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[edit] Arts and entertainment (148)

[edit] Actors and directors (20)

  1. Amitabh Bachan
  2. Lucille Ball
  3. Marlon Brando
  4. Charlie Chaplin
  5. Marlene Dietrich
  6. Henry Fonda
  7. Clark Gable
  8. Judy Garland
  9. Tom Hanks
  10. Katharine Hepburn
  11. Alfred Hitchcock
  12. Akira Kurosawa
  13. Fritz Lang
  14. Bruce Lee
  15. Vivien Leigh
  16. Marilyn Monroe
  17. Satyajit Ray
  18. James Stewart
  19. Elizabeth Taylor
  20. John Wayne

[edit] Artists and architects (27)

  1. Paul Cézanne
  2. Le Corbusier
  3. Salvador Dalí
  4. Albrecht Dürer
  5. Vincent van Gogh
  6. Francisco Goya
  7. William Hogarth
  8. Hokusai
  9. Frida Kahlo
  10. Édouard Manet
  11. Henri Matisse
  12. Michelangelo
  13. Claude Monet
  14. Georgia O'Keeffe
  15. Pablo Picasso
  16. Jackson Pollock
  17. Nicolas Poussin
  18. Raphael
  19. Rembrandt
  20. Auguste Rodin
  21. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  22. Featured article Diego Velázquez
  23. Johannes Vermeer
  24. Vitruvius
  25. Andy Warhol
  26. Christopher Wren
  27. Frank Lloyd Wright

[edit] Dancers and choreographers {12}

  1. Alvin Ailey
  2. Fred Astaire
  3. George Balanchine
  4. Mikhail Baryshnikov
  5. Isadora Duncan
  6. Martha Graham
  7. Gene Kelly
  8. Agnes de Mille
  9. Rudolf Nureyev
  10. Bill Robinson
  11. Ginger Rogers
  12. Ruth St. Denis

[edit] Musicians and composers (42)

Classical music
  1. Johann Sebastian Bach
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven
  3. Enrico Caruso
  4. Frédéric Chopin
  5. Aaron Copland
  6. Antonín Dvořák
  7. Edvard Grieg
  8. Gustav Mahler
  9. Claudio Monteverdi
  10. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Popular music
  1. The Beach Boys
  2. Featured article The Beatles
  3. James Brown
  4. Johnny Cash
  5. Nat King Cole
  6. Miles Davis
  7. Bob Dylan
  8. Ella Fitzgerald
  9. Aretha Franklin
  10. Jimi Hendrix
  11. Billie Holliday
  12. Michael Jackson
  13. Janis Joplin
  14. Dean Martin
  15. Nirvana
  16. Dolly Parton
  17. Elvis Presley
  18. The Rolling Stones
Unclassified
  1. Louis Armstrong
  2. Celia Cruz
  3. Tito Puente
  4. Jean Sibelius
  5. Frank Sinatra
  6. Richard Wagner
  7. The Who

[edit] Sportspeople (41)

Baseball
  1. Hank Aaron
  2. Ty Cobb
  3. Lou Gehrig
  4. Mickey Mantle
  5. Sadaharu Oh
  6. Jackie Robinson
  7. Nolan Ryan
  8. Babe Ruth
  9. Ted Williams
Other team sports
  1. David Beckham
  2. Larry Bird
  3. Ian Botham
  4. Donald Bradman
  5. Terry Bradshaw
  6. Featured article Wayne Gretzky
  7. Mia Hamm
  8. Bobby Hull
  9. Michael Jordan
  10. Dan Marino
  11. Diego Maradona
  12. Joe Montana
  13. Walter Payton
  14. Pelé
  15. Bill Russell
Individual sports
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Lance Armstrong
  3. Roger Bannister
  4. Featured article Fanny Blankers-Koen
  5. Nadia Comaneci
  6. Dale Earnhardt
  7. Olga Korbut
  8. Carl Lewis
  9. Paavo Nurmi
  10. Al Oerter
  11. Jesse Owens
  12. Ayrton Senna
  13. Mark Spitz
  14. Jim Thorpe
  15. Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  16. Willie Shoemaker
  17. Bill Tilden

[edit] Writers (19)

  1. Dante Alighieri
  2. William Blake
  3. Miguel de Cervantes
  4. Fyodor Dostoevsky
  5. Brothers Grimm
  6. Homer
  7. Good articles Victor Hugo
  8. Featured article James Joyce
  9. Franz Kafka
  10. Li Bai
  11. Molière
  12. Pablo Neruda
  13. Edgar Allan Poe
  14. Good articles William Shakespeare
  15. Jean-Paul Sartre
  16. George Bernard Shaw
  17. Sophocles
  18. Mark Twain
  19. Virgil

[edit] Miscellaneous (112)

[edit] Explorers (10)

  1. Roald Amundsen
  2. Jacques Cartier
  3. Christopher Columbus
  4. Hernán Cortés
  5. Francis Drake
  6. Vasco da Gama
  7. Edmund Hillary
  8. Ferdinand Magellan
  9. Marco Polo
  10. Zheng He

[edit] Inventors and scientists (14)

  1. Nicolaus Copernicus
  2. Good articles Thomas Edison
  3. Featured article Albert Einstein
  4. Good articles Charles Darwin
  5. Henry Ford
  6. Featured article Galileo Galilei
  7. Good articles Bill Gates
  8. Johann Gutenberg
  9. Carolus Linnaeus
  10. Featured article Isaac Newton
  11. Louis Pasteur
  12. Nikola Tesla
  13. Good articles Leonardo da Vinci
  14. Wright brothers

[edit] Mathematicians (4)

  1. Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
  2. Archimedes
  3. Euclid
  4. Gottfried Leibniz
  5. Pythagoras


[edit] Philosophers and social scientists (24)

  1. Thomas Aquinas
  2. Good articles Aristotle
  3. Augustine of Hippo
  4. Averroes
  5. René Descartes
  6. Good articles Sigmund Freud
  7. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  8. Herodotus
  9. Hippocrates
  10. Immanuel Kant
  11. Featured article Søren Kierkegaard
  12. Martin Luther
  13. Rosa Luxemburg
  14. Niccolò Machiavelli
  15. Karl Marx
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche
  17. Plato
  18. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  19. Adam Smith
  20. Socrates
  21. Sun Tzu
  22. Thales
  23. Voltaire
  24. Featured article Max Weber


[edit] Politicians and leaders (47)

  1. Akbar
  2. Alexander the Great
  3. Kofi Annan
  4. Featured article Attila the Hun
  5. Augustus
  6. Pope Benedict XVI
  7. Featured article Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
  8. Otto von Bismarck
  9. Featured article Tony Blair
  10. Simón Bolívar
  11. George W. Bush
  12. Julius Caesar
  13. Good articles Charlemagne
  14. Good articles Winston Churchill
  15. Cleopatra VII of Egypt
  16. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
  17. Benjamin Franklin
  18. Charles de Gaulle
  19. Hammurabi
  20. Hannibal
  21. Indira Gandhi
  22. Good articles Hirohito
  23. Adolf Hitler
  24. Thomas Jefferson
  25. Good articles Pope John Paul II
  26. Genghis Khan
  27. Vladimir Lenin
  28. Abraham Lincoln
  29. Nelson Mandela
  30. Mao Zedong
  31. Benito Mussolini
  32. Napoleon I of France
  33. Kwame Nkrumah
  34. Peter I of Russia
  35. Vladimir Putin
  36. Qin Shi Huang
  37. Featured article Franklin D. Roosevelt
  38. Saladin
  39. Shaka
  40. Sitting Bull
  41. Joseph Stalin
  42. Timur
  43. Leon Trotsky
  44. Good articles Harry S. Truman
  45. Featured article Victoria of the United Kingdom
  46. George Washington
  47. Wilhelm II of Germany

[edit] Religious figures (8)

  1. Báb
  2. Bahá'u'lláh
  3. Gautama Buddha
  4. Good articles Jesus
  5. Confucius
  6. Muhammad
  7. Laozi
  8. Zoroaster


[edit] Revolutionaries and activists (16)

  1. Featured article Mahatma Gandhi
  2. Emma Goldman
  3. Featured article Che Guevara
  4. Featured article Joan of Arc
  5. Mother Jones
  6. Helen Keller
  7. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  8. Osama bin Laden
  9. Ho Chi Minh
  10. Florence Nightingale
  11. Featured article Rosa Parks
  12. Emilia Plater
  13. Gavrilo Princip
  14. Mother Teresa
  15. Sojourner Truth
  16. Harriet Tubman