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Total 1,991 articles.
Class | #Articles |
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B | 734 |
C | 672 |
FGAN | 162 |
FFA | 78 |
GA | 228 |
FA | 165 |
Start | 191 |
DGA | 73 |
A | 3 |
FFAC | 2 |
People (1,990 articles)
Entertainers (89 articles)
Actors (60 articles)
- Julie Andrews
- Lauren Bacall
- Amitabh Bachchan
- Brigitte Bardot
- Ingrid Bergman
- Sarah Bernhardt
- Humphrey Bogart
- Marlon Brando
- James Cagney
- Jackie Chan
- Claudette Colbert
- Sean Connery
- Gary Cooper
- Joan Crawford
- Bette Davis
- Doris Day
- Robert De Niro
- Alain Delon
- Marlene Dietrich
- Clint Eastwood
- Henry Fonda
- Jean Gabin
- Clark Gable
- Greta Garbo
- Judy Garland
- John Gielgud
- Lillian Gish
- Cary Grant
- Alec Guinness
- Tom Hanks
- Setsuko Hara
- Rita Hayworth
- Audrey Hepburn
- Katharine Hepburn
- Grace Kelly
- Klaus Kinski
- Vivien Leigh
- Sophia Loren
- Madhubala
- Marcello Mastroianni
- Toshiro Mifune
- Marilyn Monroe
- Jeanne Moreau
- Jack Nicholson
- Laurence Olivier
- Peter O'Toole
- Gregory Peck
- Mary Pickford
- Sidney Poitier
- Rajinikanth
- Barbara Stanwyck
- James Stewart
- Meryl Streep
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Shirley Temple
- Ellen Terry
- Spencer Tracy
- Rudolph Valentino
- John Wayne
- Mae West
Dancers and choreographers (15 articles)
Ballet (7 articles)
- George Balanchine
- Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Margot Fonteyn
- Vaslav Nijinsky
- Rudolf Nureyev
- Anna Pavlova
- Marius Petipa
Other dance (8 articles)
Comedians (9 articles)
Hosts and performers (5 articles)
Visual artists (124 articles)
Western painters and illustrators (72 articles)
Medieval era (1 article)
Renaissance to early modern era (22 articles)
- Sandro Botticelli
- Hieronymus Bosch
- Pieter Bruegel the Elder
- Caravaggio
- Jacques-Louis David
- Albrecht Dürer
- Artemisia Gentileschi
- El Greco
- Francisco Goya
- William Hogarth
- Hans Holbein the Younger
- Leonardo da Vinci (Level 3)
- Masaccio
- Nicolas Poussin
- Raphael
- Rembrandt (Level 3)
- Peter Paul Rubens
- Titian
- Jan van Eyck
- Diego Velázquez
- Johannes Vermeer
- Antoine Watteau
Modern era (painters) (40 articles)
- Paul Cézanne
- Marc Chagall
- John Constable
- Gustave Courbet
- Salvador Dalí
- Edgar Degas
- Eugène Delacroix
- Max Ernst
- Caspar David Friedrich
- Paul Gauguin
- Vincent van Gogh
- Edward Hopper
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
- Frida Kahlo (Level 3)
- Wassily Kandinsky
- Paul Klee
- René Magritte
- Kazimir Malevich
- Édouard Manet
- Franz Marc
- Henri Matisse
- Joan Miró
- Piet Mondrian
- Claude Monet
- Edvard Munch
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Pablo Picasso (Level 3)
- Camille Pissarro
- Jackson Pollock
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Ilya Repin
- Gerhard Richter
- Diego Rivera
- Henri Rousseau
- John Singer Sargent
- Georges Seurat
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- J. M. W. Turner
- Andy Warhol
- James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Cartoonists, comics artists, and illustrators (9 articles)
- Aubrey Beardsley
- M. C. Escher
- Will Eisner
- Hergé
- Jack Kirby
- Winsor McCay
- Norman Rockwell
- Dr. Seuss
- Osamu Tezuka
Other visual arts (46 articles)
Sculptors (8 articles)
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini
- Constantin Brâncuși
- Donatello
- Alberto Giacometti
- Michelangelo (Level 3)
- Henry Moore
- Phidias
- Auguste Rodin
Architects (22 articles)
- Alvar Aalto
- Leon Battista Alberti
- Filippo Brunelleschi
- Le Corbusier
- Buckminster Fuller
- Antoni Gaudí
- Frank Gehry
- Walter Gropius
- Zaha Hadid
- Imhotep
- Philip Johnson
- Louis Kahn
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- Oscar Niemeyer
- Andrea Palladio
- I. M. Pei
- Mimar Sinan
- Albert Speer
- Louis Sullivan
- Vitruvius
- Christopher Wren
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Conceptual artists (2 articles)
Designers (3 articles)
Photographers (6 articles)
Instrument makers (1 article)
Urban planners (4 articles)
Non-Western traditions (6 articles)
Writers (255 articles)
Ancient (17 articles)
Asia (2 articles)
Europe (15 articles)
- Aeschylus
- Aristophanes
- Catullus
- Euripides
- Hesiod
- Homer (Level 3)
- Horace
- Lucian
- Menander
- Ovid
- Plautus
- Sappho
- Sophocles
- Terence
- Virgil (Level 3)
Post-classical (29 articles)
Asia (22 articles)
- Bai Juyi
- Bhavabhuti
- Du Fu
- Ferdowsi
- Hafez
- Han Yu
- Jami
- Kabir
- Omar Khayyam
- Amir Khusrau
- Li Bai (Level 3)
- Mirabai
- Murasaki Shikibu (Level 3)
- Nizami Ganjavi
- Abu Nuwas
- Ouyang Xiu
- Rudaki
- Rumi (Level 3)
- Saadi Shirazi
- Su Shi
- Tao Yuanming
- Wang Wei (Tang dynasty)
Europe (7 articles)
- Dante Alighieri (Level 3)
- Giovanni Boccaccio
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Chrétien de Troyes
- Christine de Pizan
- Petrarch
- François Villon
Early modern (33 articles)
Asia (5 articles)
Europe (28 articles)
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca
- Robert Burns
- Luís de Camões
- Giacomo Casanova
- Miguel de Cervantes (Level 3)
- Pierre Corneille
- Daniel Defoe
- John Donne
- John Dryden
- Henry Fielding
- Samuel Johnson
- Ben Jonson
- Christopher Marlowe
- John Milton
- Michel de Montaigne
- Thomas More
- Molière
- Nostradamus
- Charles Perrault
- Alexander Pope
- François Rabelais
- Jean Racine
- Marquis de Sade
- William Shakespeare (Level 3)
- Edmund Spenser
- Jonathan Swift
- Lope de Vega
- Voltaire (Level 3)
Modern (176 articles)
Africa (7 articles)
Americas (49 articles)
US and Canada (40 articles)
- Maya Angelou
- Isaac Asimov
- Margaret Atwood
- Saul Bellow
- Ray Bradbury
- William S. Burroughs
- Raymond Chandler
- Emily Dickinson
- T. S. Eliot
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- William Faulkner
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Robert Frost
- Allen Ginsberg
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Robert A. Heinlein
- Ernest Hemingway
- Langston Hughes
- Henry James
- Jack Kerouac
- Stephen King
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- Stan Lee
- Jack London
- H. P. Lovecraft
- Herman Melville
- Arthur Miller
- Toni Morrison
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Sylvia Plath
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Ezra Pound
- Ayn Rand
- Upton Sinclair
- John Steinbeck
- Mark Twain
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Edith Wharton
- Walt Whitman
- Tennessee Williams
Latin America (9 articles)
- Jorge Amado
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Alejo Carpentier
- Carlos Fuentes
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Machado de Assis
- José Martí
- Pablo Neruda
- Mario Vargas Llosa
Europe (101 articles)
General (1 article)
Central Europe (7 articles)
- Adam Mickiewicz
- Ismail Kadare
- Joseph Conrad
- Sándor Petőfi
- Henryk Sienkiewicz
- Taras Shevchenko
- Elie Wiesel
Russia (16 articles)
- Anna Akhmatova
- Joseph Brodsky
- Mikhail Bulgakov
- Ivan Bunin
- Anton Chekhov
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Maxim Gorky
- Nikolai Gogol
- Mikhail Lermontov
- Vladimir Mayakovsky
- Boris Pasternak
- Alexander Pushkin
- Mikhail Sholokhov
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Leo Tolstoy (Level 3)
- Ivan Turgenev
Western Europe (40 articles)
- Hans Christian Andersen
- Antonin Artaud
- Honoré de Balzac
- Charles Baudelaire
- Karen Blixen
- Bertolt Brecht
- Albert Camus
- Alexandre Dumas
- Umberto Eco
- Gustave Flaubert
- Anne Frank
- Federico García Lorca
- André Gide
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Brothers Grimm
- Knut Hamsun
- Heinrich Heine
- Hermann Hesse
- Victor Hugo
- Henrik Ibsen
- Eugène Ionesco
- Franz Kafka
- Selma Lagerlöf
- Halldór Laxness
- Astrid Lindgren
- Thomas Mann
- Stéphane Mallarmé
- Guy de Maupassant
- Fernando Pessoa
- Luigi Pirandello
- Marcel Proust
- Arthur Rimbaud
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- José Saramago
- Friedrich Schiller
- Stendhal
- August Strindberg
- Tristan Tzara
- Jules Verne
- Émile Zola
UK and Ireland (37 articles)
- Jane Austen
- Samuel Beckett
- William Blake
- Enid Blyton
- Brontë family
- Lord Byron
- Lewis Carroll
- Agatha Christie
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Roald Dahl
- Charles Dickens
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- George Eliot
- William Golding
- Thomas Hardy
- James Joyce
- John Keats
- Rudyard Kipling
- D. H. Lawrence
- C. S. Lewis
- V. S. Naipaul
- George Orwell
- Salman Rushdie
- Walter Scott
- George Bernard Shaw
- Mary Shelley
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Dylan Thomas
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- H. G. Wells
- Oscar Wilde
- William Wordsworth
- Virginia Woolf
- W. B. Yeats
Asia (17 articles)
- Chinghiz Aitmatov
- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- Ghalib
- Kahlil Gibran
- Muhammad Iqbal
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Jin Yong
- Yasunari Kawabata
- Lao She
- Lu Xun
- Yukio Mishima
- Haruki Murakami
- Natsume Sōseki
- Kenzaburō Ōe
- Orhan Pamuk
- Premchand
- Rabindranath Tagore (Level 3)
Oceania (2 articles)
Journalists (14 articles)
Musicians and composers (149 articles)
Western art music (71 articles)
Composers (53 articles)
Medieval and Renaissance (5 articles)
- Hildegard of Bingen
- Guillaume de Machaut
- Josquin des Prez
- Guillaume Du Fay
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Baroque (5 articles)
- Johann Sebastian Bach (Level 3)
- George Frideric Handel
- Claudio Monteverdi
- Henry Purcell
- Antonio Vivaldi
Classical (3 articles)
Romantic (21 articles)
- Hector Berlioz
- Johannes Brahms
- Anton Bruckner
- Frédéric Chopin
- Antonín Dvořák
- Edward Elgar
- Gilbert and Sullivan
- Franz Liszt
- Gustav Mahler
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Modest Mussorgsky
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- Gioachino Rossini
- Franz Schubert
- Clara Schumann
- Robert Schumann
- Johann Strauss II
- Richard Strauss
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Richard Wagner
20th century modern (19 articles)
- Béla Bartók
- Benjamin Britten
- Aaron Copland
- Claude Debussy
- Gabriel Fauré
- Giacomo Puccini
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Maurice Ravel
- Arnold Schoenberg
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Jean Sibelius
- Igor Stravinsky
- Ralph Vaughan Williams
Avant-garde/postmodern (5 articles)
Pedagogues (1 article)
Performers (17 articles)
Cellists (2 articles)
Conductors (3 articles)
Pianists (4 articles)
Singers (7 articles)
- Maria Callas
- Enrico Caruso
- Plácido Domingo
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
- Kirsten Flagstad
- Luciano Pavarotti
- Joan Sutherland
Violinists (1 article)
Non-Western art music (7 articles)
Carnatic classical (3 articles)
Hindustani classical (2 articles)
Qawwali (1 article)
Persian traditional (1 article)
Jazz (11 articles)
- Louis Armstrong (Level 3)
- Miles Davis
- Duke Ellington
- Ella Fitzgerald
- George Gershwin
- Benny Goodman
- Billie Holiday
- Antônio Carlos Jobim
- Scott Joplin
- Charlie Parker
- Django Reinhardt
Popular music (60 articles)
- ABBA
- Bing Crosby
- Stephen Foster
- Michael Jackson (Level 3)
- Madonna
- Miriam Makeba
- Bob Marley
- Frank Sinatra
- Barbra Streisand
Non-English language singers (7 articles)
- Charles Aznavour
- Serge Gainsbourg
- Umm Kulthum
- Lata Mangeshkar
- Édith Piaf
- Teresa Teng
- Vladimir Vysotsky
Afrobeat (1 article)
Blues, R&B, and soul (6 articles)
Electronic music (2 articles)
Folk and country (6 articles)
Funk (2 articles)
Hip-hop and rap (1 article)
Latin (4 articles)
Flamenco (1 article)
Musical comedy and lyricists (3 articles)
Rock (18 articles)
Directors, producers and screenwriters (60 articles)
Animators and puppeteers (3 articles)
Directors (52 articles)
- Woody Allen
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Ingmar Bergman
- Robert Bresson
- Luis Buñuel
- James Cameron
- Frank Capra
- Charlie Chaplin (Level 3)
- Jean Cocteau
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Cecil B. DeMille
- Vittorio De Sica
- Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Guru Dutt
- Sergei Eisenstein
- Federico Fellini
- John Ford
- Miloš Forman
- Jean-Luc Godard
- D. W. Griffith
- Howard Hawks
- Werner Herzog
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Raj Kapoor
- Elia Kazan
- Buster Keaton
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Akira Kurosawa
- Stanley Kubrick
- Fritz Lang
- David Lean
- Ang Lee
- George Lucas
- Auguste and Louis Lumière
- Ida Lupino
- David Lynch
- Georges Méliès
- Yasujirō Ozu
- Roman Polanski
- Satyajit Ray
- Jean Renoir
- Leni Riefenstahl
- Martin Scorsese
- Ousmane Sembène
- Steven Spielberg
- Quentin Tarantino
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- François Truffaut
- Orson Welles
- Billy Wilder
- Wong Kar-wai
- William Wyler
Producers and executives (4 articles)
Screenwriter (1 article)
Businesspeople (28 articles)
- John Jacob Astor
- P. T. Barnum
- Warren Buffett
- Al Capone
- Andrew Carnegie
- Marcus Licinius Crassus
- Pablo Escobar
- Henry Ford (Level 3)
- Jakob Fugger
- Bill Gates
- Howard Hughes
- Steve Jobs
- Estée Lauder (businesswoman)
- Li Ka-shing
- Andrew Mellon
- Shigeru Miyamoto
- J. P. Morgan
- John D. Rockefeller
- Rothschild family
- David Sarnoff
- Carlos Slim
- Leland Stanford
- Jamsetji Tata
- Ted Turner
- Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Sam Walton
- Josiah Wedgwood
- George Westinghouse
Explorers (30 articles)
Ancient history (2 articles)
Post-classical history (5 articles)
Early modern history (12 articles)
- Vitus Bering
- Pedro Álvares Cabral
- Jacques Cartier
- Christopher Columbus (Level 3)
- James Cook (Level 3)
- Vasco da Gama (Level 3)
- Ferdinand Magellan (Level 3)
- Juan Ponce de León
- Hernando de Soto
- Abel Tasman
- Amerigo Vespucci
- Willem Barentsz
Modern history (11 articles)
Philosophers, historians, political and social scientists (162 articles)
Philosophers (69 articles)
Ancient (21 articles)
- Aristotle (Level 3)
- Augustine of Hippo
- Cicero (Level 3)
- Confucius (Level 3)
- Democritus
- Diogenes
- Epicurus
- Han Fei
- Heraclitus
- Kaṇāda (philosopher)
- Laozi (Level 3)
- Li Si
- Lucretius
- Mencius
- Plato (Level 3)
- Plotinus
- Seneca the Younger
- Shang Yang
- Socrates (Level 3)
- Thales of Miletus
- Xun Kuang
Post-classical (8 articles)
- Peter Abelard
- Averroes
- Duns Scotus
- Al-Farabi
- Thomas Aquinas (Level 3)
- Wang Yangming
- William of Ockham
- Zhu Xi
Early modern (12 articles)
- Francis Bacon
- Jeremy Bentham
- George Berkeley
- Giordano Bruno
- René Descartes (Level 3)
- Denis Diderot
- Erasmus
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- David Hume
- Immanuel Kant (Level 3)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Baruch Spinoza
Modern (28 articles)
- Hannah Arendt
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Henri Bergson
- Isaiah Berlin
- Auguste Comte
- Jacques Derrida
- John Dewey
- Frantz Fanon
- Michel Foucault
- Jürgen Habermas
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Martin Heidegger
- Edmund Husserl
- William James
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Marshall McLuhan
- John Stuart Mill
- Friedrich Nietzsche (Level 3)
- Charles Sanders Peirce
- Karl Popper
- John Rawls
- Bertrand Russell
- Edward Said
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Henry David Thoreau
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Historians (22 articles)
Ancient (8 articles)
Post-classical (4 articles)
Early modern (3 articles)
Modern (7 articles)
Social scientists, economists and political writers (51 articles)
Antiquity (2 articles)
Post-classical (1 article)
Early modern period (10 articles)
- Cesare Beccaria
- Edmund Burke
- Hugo Grotius
- Thomas Hobbes
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- John Locke (Level 3)
- Montesquieu
- Thomas Paine
- Adam Smith (Level 3)
- Mary Wollstonecraft (Level 3)
Modern (38 articles)
- Theodor W. Adorno
- Mikhail Bakunin
- Edward Bernays
- Eduard Bernstein
- Franz Boas
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Louis Braille
- Noam Chomsky
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- Émile Durkheim
- Friedrich Engels
- Milton Friedman
- John Kenneth Galbraith
- Clifford Geertz
- Antonio Gramsci
- Friedrich Hayek
- John Maynard Keynes
- Peter Kropotkin
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Karl Marx (Level 3)
- Marcel Mauss
- Bronisław Malinowski
- Thomas Robert Malthus
- Margaret Mead
- Maria Montessori
- Vilfredo Pareto
- Talcott Parsons
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
- Alfred Radcliffe-Brown
- David Ricardo
- Paul Samuelson
- Ferdinand de Saussure
- Heinrich Schliemann
- Sequoyah
- Herbert Spencer
- Alexis de Tocqueville
- Max Weber
- Noah Webster
Psychologists (20 articles)
Religious figures (124 articles)
Hinduism (17 articles)
Ancient (4 articles)
Medieval (6 articles)
Modern (7 articles)
Buddhism (15 articles)
Chinese Buddhism (5 articles)
Indian Buddhism (4 articles)
Japanese Buddhism (2 articles)
Abrahamic religions (85 articles)
Judaism (6 articles)
Christianity (60 articles)
New Testament figures (8 articles)
- Jesus (Level 3)
- Mary, mother of Jesus
- Mary Magdalene
- John the Baptist
- Judas Iscariot
- Paul the Apostle (Level 3)
- Saint Peter
- John the Apostle
Pre-Schism (18 articles)
- Ambrose
- Arius
- Athanasius of Alexandria
- Basil of Caesarea
- Benedict of Nursia
- Clement of Alexandria
- Cyril of Alexandria
- Saint George
- Gregory of Nazianzus
- Gregory of Nyssa
- Irenaeus
- Jerome
- John Chrysostom
- John of Damascus
- Cyril and Methodius
- Saint Nicholas
- Origen
- Tertullian
Catholic Church (11 articles)
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Bonaventure
- Francis of Assisi
- Jan Hus
- Ignatius of Loyola
- John of the Cross
- Mother Teresa
- Teresa of Ávila
- Tomás de Torquemada
- John Wycliffe
- Francis Xavier
Popes (6 articles)
Orthodox Church (2 articles)
Protestantism (13 articles)
- Jacobus Arminius
- Karl Barth
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- John Calvin
- Thomas Cranmer
- Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
- Billy Graham
- John Knox
- Martin Luther (Level 3)
- Philip Melanchthon
- Desmond Tutu
- John Wesley
- Huldrych Zwingli
Others (2 articles)
Islam (19 articles)
Shia Islam (3 articles)
Sunni Islam (8 articles)
- Ahmad ibn Hanbal
- Abu Hanifa
- Malik ibn Anas
- Muhammad al-Bukhari
- Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj
- Al-Shafi'i
- Ibn Taymiyyah
- Al-Nawawi
Others (4 articles)
Others (7 articles)
Jainism (1 article)
New religious movements (3 articles)
Sikhism (2 articles)
Zoroastrianism (1 article)
Politicians and leaders (500 articles)
Ancient (72 articles)
Africa (13 articles)
Egypt (11 articles)
Asia (28 articles)
Eastern Asia (7 articles)
- Cao Cao
- Emperor Gaozu of Han
- Gwanggaeto the Great
- Modu Chanyu
- Qin Shi Huang (Level 3)
- Emperor Wu of Han
- Yu the Great
Southern Asia (7 articles)
Western Asia (11 articles)
- Ashurbanipal
- Cyrus the Great (Level 3)
- Darius the Great
- Hammurabi (Level 3)
- Mithridates VI Eupator
- Nebuchadnezzar II
- Puduḫepa
- Sargon of Akkad
- Tigranes the Great
- Xerxes I
- Zenobia
Hellenistic Kingdoms (3 articles)
Europe (31 articles)
Eastern Europe (3 articles)
Greece (7 articles)
Macedonia (2 articles)
Western Europe (5 articles)
Ancient Rome (14 articles)
Post-classical (125 articles)
Africa (6 articles)
Asia (46 articles)
Central Asia, Iran, Caucasus (14 articles)
- Batu Khan
- Bumin Qaghan
- Hulagu Khan
- Jochi
- Khosrow I
- Mahmud of Ghazni
- Muhammad of Ghor
- Muhammad II of Khwarazm
- Nizam al-Mulk
- Tamar of Georgia
- Timur
- Tokhtamysh
- Tughril
- Ulugh Beg
Eastern Asia (5 articles)
China (7 articles)
- Hongwu Emperor
- Kublai Khan
- Emperor Taizong of Tang
- Emperor Taizu of Song
- Emperor Wen of Sui
- Wu Zetian
- Yongle Emperor
Southeastern Asia (5 articles)
Vietnam (3 articles)
Southern Asia (4 articles)
Western Asia (2 articles)
Caliphates (6 articles)
Europe (73 articles)
Eastern Europe (4 articles)
Bulgaria (3 articles)
Byzantine Empire (6 articles)
- Justinian I
- Heraclius
- Basil II
- Leo III the Isaurian
- Manuel I Komnenos
- Theodora (wife of Justinian I)
Hungary (4 articles)
Poland and Lithuania (6 articles)
Russia (6 articles)
Western Europe (2 articles)
England and Scotland (9 articles)
- Æthelstan
- Alfred the Great
- Edward I of England
- Edward III of England
- Henry II of England
- John, King of England
- Richard I of England
- Robert the Bruce
- William the Conqueror
France (8 articles)
- Clovis I
- Charlemagne (Level 3)
- Charles Martel
- Louis the Pious
- Eleanor of Aquitaine
- Philip II of France
- Louis IX of France
- Philip IV of France
Germany (2 articles)
Holy Roman Empire (6 articles)
- Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor
- Frederick Barbarossa
- Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
- Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor
- Otto the Great
- Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor
Italy (6 articles)
- Cosimo de' Medici
- Lorenzo de' Medici
- Robert Guiscard
- Roger II of Sicily
- Girolamo Savonarola
- Theodoric the Great
Papal States (5 articles)
Spain and Portugal (6 articles)
Early modern period (116 articles)
Africa (5 articles)
Americas (14 articles)
United States (6 articles)
Asia (42 articles)
Central Asia, Iran, Caucasus (6 articles)
Eastern Asia (2 articles)
China (7 articles)
Japan (3 articles)
Southern Asia (10 articles)
- Akbar (Level 3)
- Aurangzeb
- Robert Clive
- Hyder Ali
- Prithvi Narayan Shah
- Shah Jahan
- Sher Shah Suri
- Tipu Sultan
- Shivaji
- Krishnadevaraya
Southeastern Asia (5 articles)
Burma (3 articles)
Western Asia (6 articles)
Europe (54 articles)
Eastern Europe (1 article)
Poland and Lithuania (4 articles)
Russia (6 articles)
- Ivan III of Russia
- Ivan the Terrible
- Alexis of Russia
- Peter the Great
- Elizabeth of Russia
- Catherine the Great (Level 3)
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