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Total articles: 500/500
Hinduism (37 articles)
Ancient (11 articles)
- Agastya
- Uddālaka Āruṇi
- Jaimini
- Kapila (Level 4)
- Kashyapa
- Maitreyi
- Patanjali (Level 4)
- Valmiki (Level 4)
- Vasishtha
- Vishvamitra
- Vyasa (Level 4)
Medieval (11 articles)
- Abhinavagupta
- Basava (Level 4)
- Gaudapada (Level 4)
- Gorakhnath
- Kumārila Bhaṭṭa (Level 4)
- Madhvacharya (Level 4)
- Maṇḍana Miśra
- Morya Gosavi
- Ramanuja (Level 4)
- Adi Shankara (Level 3)
- Udayana
Modern (15 articles)
- Advaita Acharya
- Sri Aurobindo (Level 4)
- Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (Level 4)
- Dayananda Saraswati
- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (Level 4)
- Ramakrishna (Level 4)
- Ramana Maharshi (Level 4)
- Ramprasad Sen
- Ram Mohan Roy
- Rupa Goswami
- Sathya Sai Baba
- Swaminarayan
- Vallabha
- Swami Vivekananda (Level 4)
- Paramahansa Yogananda (Level 4)
Buddhism (60 articles)
General (7 articles)
- Gautama Buddha (Level 3)
- Nagarjuna (Level 4)
- Padmasambhāva (Level 4)
- Saraha
- Sokei-an
- Thích Nhất Hạnh
Chinese Buddhism (7 articles)
- Bodhidharma (Level 4)
- Dongshan Liangjie
- Huiyuan (Buddhist) (Level 4)
- Huineng (Level 4)
- Kumārajīva (Level 4)
- Yunmen Wenyan
- Zhiyi (Level 4)
Indian Buddhism (11 articles)
- Ānanda (Level 4)
- Asanga
- Atiśa
- Buddhaghosa
- Dignāga
- Khema
- Maudgalyayana (Level 4)
- Śāntarakṣita
- Śāriputra (Level 4)
- Uppalavanna
- Vasubandhu (Level 4)
Japanese Buddhism (5 articles)
Korean Buddhism (3 articles)
Thai Buddhism (2 articles)
Tibetan Buddhism (25 articles)
- Gampopa
- Garab Dorje
- Longchenpa
- Mandāravā
- Marpa Lotsawa
- Milarepa
- Naropa
- Tilopa
- Chögyam Trungpa
- Je Tsongkhapa
- Yeshe Tsogyal
Dalai Lamas (14 articles)
Judaism (29 articles)
NOTE: Abraham and other figures from Judeo-Christian scripture are listed on the philosophy and religion subpage.
- Isaac Abarbanel
- Abraham ibn Ezra
- Rabbi Akiva (Level 4)
- Rav Ashi
- Chaim Yosef David Azulai
- Baal Shem Tov (Level 4)
- Jacob Frank
- Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
- Hillel the Elder
- Samson Raphael Hirsch
- Judah ha-Nasi
- Meir Kahane
- Mordecai Kaplan
- Joseph Karo
- Abraham Isaac Kook
- Judah Loew ben Bezalel (Level 4)
- Maimonides (Level 4)
- Nachmanides
- Rashi (Level 4)
- Saadia Gaon
- Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
- Menachem Mendel Schneerson
- Joel Teitelbaum
- Vilna Gaon (Level 4)
- Yohanan ben Zakkai
- Ovadia Yosef
- Shneur Zalman of Liadi
- Sabbatai Zevi
Christianity (241 articles)
New Testament figures (32 articles)
- Jesus (Level 3)
- Apostles in the New Testament
- Barnabas
- Biblical Magi
- John the Baptist (Level 4)
- Lazarus of Bethany
- Luke the Evangelist
- Mark the Evangelist
- Martha
- Mary Magdalene (Level 4)
- Simon Magus
- Matthias the Apostle
- Paul the Apostle (Level 3)
- Pontius Pilate
- Silas
- Saint Stephen
- Saint Timothy
Pre-Schism (56 articles)
- Ambrose (Level 4)
- Anthony the Great
- Arius (Level 4)
- Athanasius of Alexandria (Level 4)
- Augustine of Canterbury
- Basil of Caesarea (Level 4)
- Benedict of Nursia (Level 4)
- Saint Christopher
- Clement of Alexandria (Level 4)
- Clotilde
- Columba
- Saints Cyril and Methodius (Level 4)
- Cyril of Alexandria (Level 4)
- Cyril of Jerusalem
- Saint Denis of Paris
- Dionysius Exiguus
- Ephrem the Syrian
- Saint George (Level 4)
- Gregory of Narek
- Gregory of Nazianzus (Level 4)
- Gregory of Nyssa (Level 4)
- Hilary of Poitiers
- Hosius of Corduba
- Ignatius of Antioch
- Irenaeus (Level 4)
- Isidore of Seville
- Jerome (Level 4)
- John Chrysostom (Level 4)
- John of Damascus (Level 4)
- Marcion of Sinope
- Martin of Tours
- Nestorius
- Saint Nicholas (Level 4)
- Origen (Level 4)
- Papias of Hierapolis
- Ramon Llull
- Saint Patrick
- Peter Chrysologus
- Peter Damian
- Polycarp
- Tertullian (Level 4)
Popes (15 articles)
- Pope Linus
- Pope Clement I (Level 4)
- Pope Alexander I
- Pope Zephyrinus
- Pope Sylvester I
- Pope Damasus I
- Pope Leo I (Level 4)
- Pope Gregory I (Level 4)
- Pope Honorius I
- Pope Agatho
- Pope Gregory II
- Pope Leo III
- Pope John X
- Pope Sylvester II
- Pope Leo IX
Catholic Church (71 articles)
- Albertus Magnus
- Anselm of Canterbury (Level 4)
- Anthony of Padua
- Thomas Becket
- Robert Bellarmine
- Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
- Bernard of Clairvaux
- Bonaventure (Level 4)
- Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
- Frances Xavier Cabrini
- Edmund Campion
- Peter Canisius
- John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore)
- Catherine of Siena
- Charles Coughlin
- Father Damien
- Dorothy Day
- Pierre-Jean De Smet
- Saint Dominic
- Johann Eck
- Meister Eckhart
- Peter Faber
- François Fénelon
- Francis of Assisi (Level 4)
- Blessed Gerard
- Aloysius Gonzaga
- Jan Hus (Level 4)
- Ignatius of Loyola (Level 4)
- Cornelius Jansen
- Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros
- John of Ávila
- John of the Cross (Level 4)
- Heinrich Kramer
- Faustina Kowalska
- Lanfranc
- Lawrence of Brindisi
- Alphonsus Liguori
- Mary MacKillop
- Jacques Maritain
- John Henry Newman
- George Pell
- Peter the Hermit
- Padre Pio
- Charles Reynolds (cleric)
- Matteo Ricci
- Óscar Romero
- Francis de Sales
- Junípero Serra
- Elizabeth Ann Seton
- Fulton J. Sheen
- Mother Teresa (Level 4)
- Teresa of Ávila (Level 4)
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- Johann Tetzel
- Thérèse of Lisieux
- Thomas à Kempis
- Tomás de Torquemada (Level 4)
- Jacobus de Voragine
- Thomas Wolsey
- John Wycliffe (Level 4)
- Francis Xavier (Level 4)
Popes (10 articles)
- Pope Pius IX (Level 4)
- Pope Leo XIII
- Pope Pius X
- Pope Benedict XV
- Pope Pius XII
- Pope John XXIII (Level 4)
- Pope Paul VI
- Pope John Paul II (Level 4)
- Pope Benedict XVI
- Pope Francis
(Note: Popes from 1054 to 1815 listed under Politicians and leaders)
Orthodox Church (18 articles)
- Alexius, Metropolitan of Kiev
- Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow
- Vladimir Bogoyavlensky
- Cyprian, Metropolitan of Kiev
- Philaret Drozdov
- Patriarch Hermogenes of Moscow
- Innocent of Alaska
- Isidore of Kiev
- Patriarch Job of Moscow
- Patriarch Joseph of Moscow
- Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow
- Michael I Cerularius
- Patriarch Nikon of Moscow (Level 4)
- Philip II, Metropolitan of Moscow
- Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow
- Grigori Rasputin (Level 4)
- Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow
- Stefan Yavorsky
Protestantism (53 articles)
- Mikael Agricola
- Richard Allen (bishop)
- Jakob Ammann
- Jacobus Arminius (Level 4)
- Francis Asbury
- Jim Bakker
- Karl Barth (Level 4)
- Henry Ward Beecher
- Antoinette Brown Blackwell
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Level 4)
- William M. Branham
- Martin Bucer
- John Calvin (Level 4)
- Thomas Cranmer (Level 4)
- Jonathan Edwards (theologian) (Level 4)
- Jerry Falwell
- Charles Grandison Finney
- John Flynn (minister)
- George Fox
- Billy Graham (Level 4)
- Franklin Graham
- Philip Henry
- John Knox (Level 4)
- John G. Lake
- Martin Luther (Level 3)
- Alexander Mack
- Cotton Mather
- Aimee Semple McPherson
- Philip Melanchthon (Level 4)
- Tammy Faye Messner
- William Miller (preacher)
- John Mott
- Joel Osteen
- Phoebe Palmer
- Charles Fox Parham
- Oral Roberts
- Pat Robertson
- William J. Seymour
- Menno Simons
- John Smyth (English theologian)
- Charles Spurgeon
- John Stott
- Desmond Tutu (Level 4)
- William Tyndale
- Rick Warren
- Charles Wesley
- John Wesley (Level 4)
- Ellen G. White
- James Springer White
- Paula White
- George Whitefield
- Roger Williams
- Huldrych Zwingli (Level 4)
Others (11 articles)
Islam (90 articles)
General (21 articles)
- Muhammad (Level 3)
- Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr
- Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf
- Abdullah ibn Masud
- Abdullah ibn Umar
- Abu Ayyub al-Ansari
- Abu Darda
- Abu Hurairah
- Abu Musa al-Ash'ari
- Abu Sufyan ibn Harb
- Bilal ibn Rabah
- Salman the Persian
- Ubayy ibn Ka'b
- Zayd ibn Thabit
Sunni Islam (29 articles)
- Muhammad Abduh
- Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi
- Abu Hanifa (Level 4)
- Abu Mansur al-Maturidi
- Ahmad ibn Hanbal (Level 4)
- Al-Ash'ari
- Al-Baghawi
- Al-Dhahabi
- Fakhr al-Din al-Razi
- Fethullah Gülen
- Hasan al-Basri
- Ibn Abidin
- Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
- Ibn Hazm
- Ibn Kathir
- Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya
- Ibn Qutaybah
- Ibn Taymiyyah (Level 4)
- Al-Juwayni
- Malik ibn Anas (Level 4)
- Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (Level 4)
- Muhammad al-Bukhari (Level 4)
- Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj (Level 4)
- Al-Nawawi (Level 4)
- Al-Qurtubi
- Tariq Ramadan
- Al-Shafi'i (Level 4)
- Al-Suyuti
- Al-Tabari
Sufism (10 articles)
- Abdul Qadir Gilani
- Ahmad Sirhindi
- Baha' al-Din Naqshband
- Al-Ghazali (Level 4)
- Ibn Arabi (Level 4)
- Junayd of Baghdad
- Al-Qushayri
- Rabia of Basra
- Muhammad ibn Ali al-Sanusi
- Osman Nuri Topbaş
Shia Islam (20 articles)
- Aga Khan III
- Ali (Level 4)
- Ali al-Hadi
- Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin
- Ali al-Rida
- Mir Damad
- Fatimah bint Musa
- Hasan ibn Ali
- Hasan al-Askari
- Husayn ibn Ali (Level 4)
- Ibn Babawayh
- Ja'far al-Sadiq (Level 4)
- Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi
- Muhammad al-Baqir
- Muhammad al-Jawad
- Muhammad al-Mahdi
- Musa al-Kadhim
- Mulla Sadra (Level 4)
- Shaykh Tusi
- Zayd ibn Ali
Others (10 articles)
Others (43 articles)
Bahá'í Faith (5 articles)
Jainism (4 articles)
Manichaeism (1 article)
New religious movements (28 articles)
- Meher Baba
- Alice Bailey
- Annie Besant
- Helena Blavatsky (Level 4)
- Edgar Cayce
- Marshall Applewhite
- Aleister Crowley (Level 4)
- Charles Fillmore (Unity Church)
- Gerald Gardner (Wiccan)
- George Gurdjieff
- Li Hongzhi
- Leonard Howell
- L. Ron Hubbard
- Jim Jones
- Joseph Kibweteere
- David Koresh
- Marie Laveau
- Anton LaVey
- Stephen McNallen
- David Miscavige
- Sun Myung Moon
- Phineas Parkhurst Quimby
- Raël
- Rajneesh
- Shoko Asahara
- Doreen Valiente
- Yahweh ben Yahweh
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Sikhism (3 articles)
Zoroastrianism (2 articles)