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Total articles: 2,313/2,175
Visual artists (808/750 articles)
Painters (232/200 articles)
Ancient era (5/5 articles)
Medieval era (7/10 articles)
- Cimabue
- Duccio
- Gentile da Fabriano
- Giotto (Level 4)
- Ambrogio Lorenzetti
- Simone Martini
- Andrei Rublev
Renaissance to early modern era (79/75 articles)
- Andrea del Sarto
- Fra Angelico
- Sofonisba Anguissola
- Antonello da Messina
- Antonio da Correggio
- Giuseppe Arcimboldo
- Gentile Bellini
- Giovanni Bellini
- Hieronymus Bosch (Level 4)
- Sandro Botticelli (Level 4)
- François Boucher
- Bronzino
- Jan Brueghel the Elder
- Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Level 4)
- Pieter Brueghel the Younger
- Robert Campin
- Canaletto
- Caravaggio (Level 4)
- Annibale Carracci
- Jean Siméon Chardin
- John Singleton Copley
- Lucas Cranach the Elder
- Jacques-Louis David (Level 4)
- Albrecht Dürer (Level 4)
- Anthony van Dyck
- Jan van Eyck (Level 4)
- Filippo Lippi
- Lavinia Fontana
- Jean Fouquet
- Jean-Honoré Fragonard
- Thomas Gainsborough
- Artemisia Gentileschi (Level 4)
- Domenico Ghirlandaio
- Giorgione
- El Greco (Level 4)
- Matthias Grünewald
- Francisco Goya (Level 4)
- Frans Hals
- William Hogarth (Level 4)
- Hans Holbein the Younger (Level 4)
- Gerard van Honthorst
- Angelica Kauffman
- Georges de La Tour
- Charles Le Brun
- Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
- Leonardo da Vinci (Level 3)
- Lucas van Leyden
- Judith Leyster
- Claude Lorrain
- Andrea Mantegna
- Masaccio (Level 4)
- Quentin Matsys
- Hans Memling
- Anton Raphael Mengs
- Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
- Plautilla Nelli
- Paolo Uccello
- Parmigianino
- Piero della Francesca
- Pietro Perugino
- Nicolas Poussin (Level 4)
- Raphael (Level 4)
- Rembrandt (Level 3)
- Guido Reni
- Joshua Reynolds
- Jusepe de Ribera
- Peter Paul Rubens (Level 4)
- Jacob van Ruisdael
- Luca Signorelli
- Gilbert Stuart
- Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
- Tintoretto
- Titian (Level 4)
- Diego Velázquez (Level 4)
- Johannes Vermeer (Level 4)
- Paolo Veronese
- Antoine Watteau (Level 4)
- Rogier van der Weyden
- Francisco de Zurbarán
Late modern era (139/110 articles)
- Ivan Aivazovsky
- Josef Albers
- David Alfaro Siqueiros
- Lawrence Alma-Tadema
- Tarsila do Amaral
- Francis Bacon (artist)
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Thomas Hart Benton (painter)
- Umberto Boccioni
- Arnold Böcklin
- Rosa Bonheur
- Eugène Boudin
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau
- Georges Braque
- Karl Bryullov
- Alexandre Cabanel
- Gustave Caillebotte
- Mary Cassatt
- Paul Cézanne (Level 4)
- Marc Chagall (Level 4)
- Giorgio de Chirico
- Chuck Close
- Thomas Cole
- John Constable (Level 4)
- Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
- Gustave Courbet (Level 4)
- John Steuart Curry
- Salvador Dalí (Level 4)
- Edgar Degas (Level 4)
- Eugène Delacroix (Level 4)
- Robert Delaunay
- Charles Demuth
- André Derain
- Otto Dix
- Theo van Doesburg
- Russell Drysdale
- Thomas Eakins
- Max Ernst (Level 4)
- William Etty
- Helen Frankenthaler
- Caspar David Friedrich (Level 4)
- Akseli Gallen-Kallela
- Paul Gauguin (Level 4)
- Théodore Géricault
- Jean-Léon Gérôme
- H. R. Giger
- Vincent van Gogh (Level 4)
- Arshile Gorky
- Juan Gris
- Antoine-Jean Gros
- George Grosz
- Francesco Hayez
- Jan van Huysum
- David Hockney
- Winslow Homer
- Edward Hopper (Level 4)
- William Holman Hunt
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (Level 4)
- Jasper Johns
- Lois Mailou Jones
- Frida Kahlo (Level 3)
- Wassily Kandinsky (Level 4)
- Thomas Kinkade
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
- Paul Klee (Level 4)
- Gustav Klimt
- Hilma af Klint
- Willem de Kooning
- Ivan Kramskoi
- Lee Krasner
- Edwin Landseer
- Carl Larsson
- Jacob Lawrence
- Frederic Leighton
- Tamara de Lempicka
- Roy Lichtenstein
- El Lissitzky
- August Macke
- René Magritte (Level 4)
- Hans Makart
- Kazimir Malevich (Level 4)
- Édouard Manet (Level 4)
- Franz Marc (Level 4)
- Henri Matisse (Level 4)
- Jan Matejko
- John Everett Millais
- Jean-François Millet
- Joan Miró (Level 4)
- Paula Modersohn-Becker
- Amedeo Modigliani
- László Moholy-Nagy
- Piet Mondrian (Level 4)
- Claude Monet (Level 4)
- Gustave Moreau
- Berthe Morisot
- Grandma Moses
- Alphonse Mucha
- Edvard Munch (Level 4)
- Sidney Nolan
- Emil Nolde
- Georgia O'Keeffe (Level 4)
- Pablo Picasso (Level 3)
- Niko Pirosmani
- Camille Pissarro (Level 4)
- Jackson Pollock (Level 4)
- Rufus Porter (painter)
- Odilon Redon
- Frederic Remington
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Level 4)
- Ilya Repin (Level 4)
- Gerhard Richter (Level 4)
- Bridget Riley
- Diego Rivera (Level 4)
- Tom Roberts
- Nicholas Roerich
- Mark Rothko
- Henri Rousseau (Level 4)
- John Singer Sargent (Level 4)
- Jenny Saville
- Egon Schiele
- Valentin Serov
- Georges Seurat (Level 4)
- Ivan Shishkin
- Paul Signac
- Alfred Sisley
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (Level 4)
- J. M. W. Turner (Level 4)
- Cy Twombly
- William Utermohlen
- Suzanne Valadon
- Victor Vasarely
- Viktor Vasnetsov
- Vasily Vereshchagin
- Maurice de Vlaminck
- Andy Warhol (Level 4)
- John William Waterhouse
- James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Level 4)
- Brett Whiteley
- Grant Wood
21st century contemporary (2/5 articles)
Cartoonists, comics artists, illustrators, manga artists and animators (71/65 articles)
- Charles Addams
- Hideaki Anno
- Tex Avery
- Ralph Bakshi
- Joseph Barbera
- Carl Barks
- Aubrey Beardsley (Level 4)
- Mary Blair
- Don Bluth
- Wilhelm Busch
- Charb
- Robert Crumb
- Honoré Daumier
- Jim Davis (cartoonist)
- Steve Ditko
- Gustave Doré
- Will Eisner (Level 4)
- M. C. Escher (Level 4)
- James Montgomery Flagg
- Charles Dana Gibson
- Jean Giraud
- Matt Groening
- William Hanna
- Hergé (Level 4)
- George Herriman
- Stephen Hillenburg
- Ub Iwerks
- Chuck Jones
- Mike Judge
- Bob Kane
- Jack Kirby (Level 4)
- Masashi Kishimoto
- Tite Kubo
- Harvey Kurtzman
- John Lasseter
- Rob Liefeld
- Norman Lindsay
- Seth MacFarlane
- Toshio Maeda
- Winsor McCay (Level 4)
- Aaron McGruder
- Morris (cartoonist)
- Go Nagai
- Thomas Nast
- Willis H. O'Brien
- Eiichiro Oda
- Richard F. Outcault
- Nick Park
- Trey Parker
- H. G. Peter
- Peyo
- Hugo Pratt
- Lotte Reiniger
- Robert Ripley
- Norman Rockwell (Level 4)
- Don Rosa
- Charles M. Schulz
- E. C. Segar
- Joe Shuster
- Mauricio de Sousa
- Matt Stone
- Rumiko Takahashi
- Naoko Takeuchi
- John Tenniel
- Osamu Tezuka (Level 4)
- Tom of Finland
- Rodolphe Töpffer
- Akira Toriyama
- Albert Uderzo
- Bill Watterson
- Zhang Leping
Sculptors (70/65 articles)
- Alcamenes
- Alessandro Algardi
- Carl Andre
- Alexander Archipenko
- Jean Arp
- Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Level 4)
- Louise Bourgeois
- Gutzon Borglum
- Fernando Botero
- Antoine Bourdelle
- Constantin Brâncuși (Level 4)
- Arno Breker
- Alexander Calder
- Antonio Canova
- Benvenuto Cellini
- Eduardo Chillida
- Camille Claudel
- David d'Angers
- Donatello (Level 4)
- Jean Dubuffet
- Marcel Duchamp (Level 4)
- Marisol Escobar
- Naum Gabo
- Lorenzo Ghiberti
- Alberto Giacometti (Level 4)
- Giambologna
- Józef Gosławski (sculptor)
- Duane Hanson
- Barbara Hepworth
- Eva Hesse
- Jean-Antoine Houdon
- Jacopo della Quercia
- Anish Kapoor
- Georg Kolbe
- Jeff Koons
- Paul Landowski
- Leochares
- Edmonia Lewis
- Lysippos
- Aristide Maillol
- Ivan Meštrović
- Michelangelo (Level 3)
- Henry Moore (Level 4)
- Vera Mukhina
- Myron
- Isamu Noguchi
- Claes Oldenburg
- Phidias (Level 4)
- Andrea Pisano
- Giovanni Pisano
- Nicola Pisano
- Polykleitos
- Praxiteles
- Andrea della Robbia
- Luca della Robbia
- Auguste Rodin (Level 4)
- François Rude
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens
- Niki de Saint Phalle
- Jacopo Sansovino
- Augusta Savage
- Scopas
- Claus Sluter
- Bertel Thorvaldsen
- Marie Tussaud
- Andrea del Verrocchio
- Gustav Vigeland
- Thomas Woolner
- Ossip Zadkine
Architects (121/110 articles)
- Alvar Aalto (Level 4)
- Robert Adam
- William Adam (architect)
- David Adjaye
- Leon Battista Alberti (Level 4)
- Tadao Ando
- Apollodorus of Damascus
- Arnolfo di Cambio
- Shigeru Ban
- Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola
- Luis Barragán
- Peter Behrens
- Francesco Borromini
- Donato Bramante
- Daniel Burnham
- Santiago Calatrava
- Callicrates
- Le Corbusier (Level 4)
- Lluís Domènech i Montaner
- B. V. Doshi
- Sverre Fehn
- Filippo Brunelleschi (Level 4)
- Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
- Domenico Fontana
- Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank
- Buckminster Fuller (Level 4)
- Charles Garnier (architect)
- Antoni Gaudí (Level 4)
- Frank Gehry (Level 4)
- Giuliano da Sangallo
- Eileen Gray
- Francis Greenway
- Walter Gropius (Level 4)
- Hector Guimard
- Zaha Hadid (Level 4)
- Jules Hardouin-Mansart
- Hemiunu
- Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt
- Josef Hoffmann
- Hans Hollein
- Victor Horta
- Friedensreich Hundertwasser
- Ictinus
- Imhotep (Level 4)
- Isidore of Miletus
- Arata Isozaki
- Toyo Ito
- Arne Jacobsen
- William Le Baron Jenney
- Philip Johnson (Level 4)
- Inigo Jones
- Louis Kahn (Level 4)
- Rem Koolhaas
- Benjamin Henry Latrobe
- Louis Le Vau
- Claude Nicolas Ledoux
- Daniel Libeskind
- Adolf Loos
- Charles Rennie Mackintosh
- Carlo Maderno
- François Mansart
- Richard Meier
- Erich Mendelsohn
- Michelozzo
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Level 4)
- Balthasar Neumann
- Richard Neutra
- Oscar Niemeyer (Level 4)
- Jean Nouvel
- Frei Otto
- Andrea Palladio (Level 4)
- Peter Parler
- I. M. Pei (Level 4)
- César Pelli
- Renzo Piano
- Jože Plečnik
- Giacomo della Porta
- Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli
- Henry Hobson Richardson
- Robert of Luzarches
- Kevin Roche
- Richard Rogers
- Aldo Rossi
- Eero Saarinen
- Vincenzo Scamozzi
- Karl Friedrich Schinkel
- Kazuyo Sejima
- Gottfried Semper
- Senenmut
- Sebastiano Serlio
- Alexey Shchusev
- Mimar Sinan (Level 4)
- Álvaro Siza Vieira
- Albert Speer (Level 4)
- James Stirling (architect)
- Suger
- Louis Sullivan (Level 4)
- Kenzō Tange
- Vladimir Tatlin
- Bruno Taut
- Jørn Utzon
- Henry van de Velde
- Robert Venturi
- Carlos Raúl Villanueva
- Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
- Vitruvius (Level 4)
- Otto Wagner
- Wang Shu
- Christopher Wren (Level 4)
- Frank Lloyd Wright (Level 4)
- Peter Zumthor
Urban planners and landscape architects (10/10 articles)
Designers (101/100 articles)
General (11 articles)
- Thomas Andrews
- George Balabushka
- Dorothy Draper
- Joanne Gair
- Norman Bel Geddes
- Jony Ive
- Raymond Loewy (Level 4)
- Bob Loveless
- Louis Comfort Tiffany
- Thomas Tompion
- Elsie de Wolfe
Automobile (2 articles)
Board game and toy designers (9 articles)
- Alfred Mosher Butts
- Ole Kirk Christiansen
- Charles Darrow
- Richard Garfield
- Gary Gygax
- Lonnie Johnson (inventor)
- Lizzie Magie
- Steve Ritchie (pinball designer)
- Ernő Rubik
Fashion (36 articles)
- Iris Apfel
- Giorgio Armani
- Cristóbal Balenciaga
- Pierre Balmain
- Rose Bertin
- Hugo Boss (businessman)
- Pierre Cardin
- Coco Chanel (Level 4)
- Christian Dior
- Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon
- Tom Ford
- Diane von Fürstenberg
- Hubert de Givenchy
- Guccio Gucci
- Edith Head
- Marc Jacobs
- Calvin Klein
- Karl Lagerfeld
- Ralph Lauren
- Yves Saint Laurent (designer) (Level 4)
- Christian Louboutin
- Alexander McQueen
- Orry-Kelly
- Miuccia Prada
- Mary Quant
- Oscar de la Renta
- Elsa Schiaparelli
- Kate Spade
- Valentino (fashion designer)
- Donatella Versace
- Gianni Versace
- Madeleine Vionnet
- Louis Vuitton (designer)
- Vivienne Westwood
- Charles Frederick Worth
- Yohji Yamamoto
Furniture designers (7 articles)
- André-Charles Boulle
- Marcel Breuer
- Thomas Chippendale
- Charles and Ray Eames
- Verner Panton
- Gerrit Rietveld
- Michael Thonet
Graphic designers (4 articles)
Jewellery designers (4 articles)
Textile designers (4 articles)
Typeface designers (4 articles)
Video game designers (20 articles)
- Ralph H. Baer
- Nolan Bushnell
- John Carmack
- Trip Hawkins
- Toru Iwatani
- Hideo Kojima
- Ken Kutaragi
- Sid Meier
- Shigeru Miyamoto (Level 4)
- Yuji Naka
- Tomohiro Nishikado
- Gabe Newell
- Alexey Pajitnov
- Markus Persson
- Hironobu Sakaguchi
- Tim Schafer
- Satoshi Tajiri
- Roberta Williams
- Will Wright (game designer)
- Gunpei Yokoi
Photographers (60/65 articles)
- Ansel Adams (Level 4)
- Manuel Álvarez Bravo
- Diane Arbus
- Eugène Atget
- Anna Atkins
- Richard Avedon
- Cecil Beaton
- Margaret Bourke-White
- Mathew Brady
- Julia Margaret Cameron
- Robert Capa
- Henri Cartier-Bresson (Level 4)
- Alvin Langdon Coburn
- Edward S. Curtis
- Lala Deen Dayal
- Robert Doisneau
- William Eggleston
- Alfred Eisenstaedt
- Walker Evans
- Robert Frank
- Ron Galella
- Nan Goldin
- Andreas Gursky
- Lewis Hine
- Hannah Höch
- Yousuf Karsh
- André Kertész
- Dorothea Lange
- Gustave Le Gray
- Annie Leibovitz
- Li Zhensheng (photojournalist)
- Sally Mann
- Robert Mapplethorpe
- Lee Miller
- Tina Modotti
- Eadweard Muybridge (Level 4)
- Nadar
- Helmut Newton
- Nobuyoshi Araki
- Gordon Parks
- Irving Penn
- Richard Prince
- Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (Level 4)
- Man Ray (Level 4)
- Jacob Riis
- Alexander Rodchenko
- Sebastião Salgado
- Cindy Sherman
- Malick Sidibé
- Lorna Simpson
- W. Eugene Smith
- Edward Steichen
- Alfred Stieglitz
- Paul Strand
- John Thomson (photographer)
- Carleton Watkins
- Weegee
- Edward Weston (Level 4)
- Clarence Hudson White
- Bunny Yeager
Contemporary art (31/25 articles)
General (17 articles)
- Ai Weiwei
- Joseph Beuys (Level 4)
- Judy Chicago
- Olafur Eliasson
- Tracey Emin
- Félix González-Torres
- Damien Hirst
- Jenny Holzer
- Ray Johnson
- Donald Judd
- Yves Klein
- Joseph Kosuth
- Sol LeWitt
- Piero Manzoni
- Takashi Murakami
- Yoko Ono
- Yayoi Kusama
Outsider art (1 article)
Performance art (7 articles)
- Marina Abramović
- Vito Acconci
- Vanessa Beecroft
- Chris Burden
- Hedwig Gorski
- Allan Kaprow
- Gil Scott-Heron
Street art (6 articles)
Other arts (20/20 articles)
Pottery (5 articles)
Instrument makers (10 articles)
- Nicola Amati
- Bartolomeo Cristofori
- Orville Gibson
- Giovanni Battista Guadagnini
- Leo Fender
- Giuseppe Guarneri
- Les Paul
- Adolphe Sax
- Henry E. Steinway
- Antonio Stradivari (Level 4)
Tattooists (5 articles)
Non-Western art (102/100 articles)
African (10 articles)
- El Anatsui
- Ben Enwonwu
- George Lilanga
- Gonçalo Mabunda
- Esther Mahlangu
- Uche Okeke
- Bruce Onobrakpeya
- Chéri Samba
- Gerard Sekoto
- Osman Waqialla
Azerbaijani (1 article)
Bengali (2 articles)
Cambodian (1 article)
Chinese (25 articles)
- Chu Suiliang
- Dong Qichang
- Dong Xiwen
- Fan Kuan
- Gu Kaizhi
- Guan Daosheng
- Guo Xi
- Li Tang (painter)
- Ma Yuan (painter)
- Ouyang Xun
- Qi Baishi
- Qiu Ying
- Qiu Zhu
- Shen Zhou
- Shitao (Level 4)
- Tang Yin
- Wang Xizhi (Level 4)
- Wen Zhengming
- Wu Daozi
- Xue Ji
- Yan Zhenqing
- Yu Shinan
- Zhang Zhi (calligrapher)
- Zhao Mengfu
- Zhu Yunming
Filipino (4 artists)
Indian (9 articles)
- Ramkinkar Baij
- Nandalal Bose
- M. F. Husain
- Tyeb Mehta
- Anjolie Ela Menon
- Abd al-Samad
- Amrita Sher-Gil
- Abanindranath Tagore
- Raja Ravi Varma
Indigenous Australian (4 articles)
Japanese (20 articles)
- Akira Yoshizawa
- Hasegawa Tōhaku
- Hokusai (Level 3)
- Hon'ami Kōetsu
- Hiroshige (Level 4)
- Shinsui Itō
- Kanō Eitoku
- Kanō Masanobu (Level 4)
- Kawanabe Kyōsai
- John Naka
- Natori Shunsen
- Ogata Kōrin
- Sesshū Tōyō (Level 4)
- Sharaku
- Shibata Zeshin
- Tawaraya Sōtatsu
- Toyohara Chikanobu
- Uemura Shōen
- Utagawa Toyokuni
- Utamaro
Korean (6 articles)
Lebanese (1 article)
Native American (4 articles)
Oceania (1 article)
Ottoman/Turkish (4 articles)
Persian (7 articles)
- Reza Abbasi
- Mir Sayyid Ali
- Hossein Behzad
- Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād
- Mir Emad Hassani
- Aliquli Jabbadar
- Kamal-ol-molk
Thai (2 articles)
Vietnamese (1 article)
Musicians and composers (1,488/1,425 articles)
Western art music (372/355 articles)
Composers (217/210 articles)
Medieval and Renaissance (20 articles)
- Gilles Binchois
- William Byrd
- John Dowland
- John Dunstaple
- Carlo Gesualdo
- Hildegard of Bingen (Level 4)
- Francesco Landini
- Orlande de Lassus
- Léonin
- Guillaume de Machaut (Level 4)
- Thomas Morley
- Johannes Ockeghem
- Jacopo Peri
- Pérotin
- Josquin des Prez (Level 4)
- Guillaume Du Fay (Level 4)
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (Level 4)
- Thomas Tallis
- Tomás Luis de Victoria
- Adrian Willaert
Baroque (21 articles)
- Tomaso Albinoni
- Johann Sebastian Bach (Level 3)
- Dieterich Buxtehude
- Arcangelo Corelli
- François Couperin
- Girolamo Frescobaldi
- Johann Jakob Froberger
- Giovanni Gabrieli
- Orlando Gibbons
- George Frideric Handel (Level 4)
- Jean-Baptiste Lully
- Claudio Monteverdi (Level 4)
- Johann Pachelbel
- Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
- Henry Purcell (Level 4)
- Heinrich Schütz
- Barbara Strozzi
- Georg Philipp Telemann
- Antonio Vivaldi (Level 4)
- Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
- Johann Stamitz
Classical (14 articles)
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- Ludwig van Beethoven (Level 3)
- Luigi Boccherini
- Luigi Cherubini
- Muzio Clementi
- Christoph Willibald Gluck
- Joseph Haydn (Level 4)
- Giacomo Meyerbeer
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Level 3)
- Jean-Philippe Rameau
- Chevalier de Saint-Georges
- Antonio Salieri
- Gaspar Sanz
- Domenico Scarlatti
Romantic (46 articles)
- Isaac Albéniz
- Mily Balakirev
- Amy Beach
- Vincenzo Bellini
- Hector Berlioz (Level 4)
- Georges Bizet
- Alexander Borodin
- Johannes Brahms (Level 4)
- Anton Bruckner (Level 4)
- Frédéric Chopin (Level 4)
- César Cui
- Léo Delibes
- Gaetano Donizetti
- Antonín Dvořák (Level 4)
- Edward Elgar (Level 4)
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel
- Gilbert and Sullivan (Level 4)
- Alexander Glazunov
- Mikhail Glinka
- Charles Gounod
- Enrique Granados
- Edvard Grieg
- César Franck
- Franz Lehár
- Ruggero Leoncavallo
- Franz Liszt (Level 4)
- Jules Massenet
- Felix Mendelssohn (Level 4)
- Modest Mussorgsky (Level 4)
- Jacques Offenbach
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Level 4)
- Gioachino Rossini (Level 4)
- Camille Saint-Saëns
- Franz Schubert (Level 4)
- Clara Schumann (Level 4)
- Robert Schumann (Level 4)
- Bedřich Smetana
- John Philip Sousa
- Johann Strauss I
- Johann Strauss II (Level 4)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Level 4)
- Giuseppe Verdi (Level 4)
- Richard Wagner (Level 4)
- Carl Maria von Weber
- Hugo Wolf
Post-romantic/early modern (12 articles)
- Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
- Manuel de Falla
- Gabriel Fauré (Level 4)
- Gustav Holst
- Gustav Mahler (Level 4)
- Carl Nielsen
- Carl Orff
- Giacomo Puccini (Level 4)
- Sergei Rachmaninoff (Level 4)
- Jean Sibelius (Level 4)
- Ethel Smyth
- Richard Strauss (Level 4)
20th century modern (39 articles)
- Samuel Barber
- Béla Bartók (Level 4)
- Alban Berg
- Benjamin Britten (Level 4)
- Elliott Carter
- Aaron Copland (Level 4)
- Peter Maxwell Davies
- Claude Debussy (Level 4)
- George Gershwin (Level 4)
- Chiquinha Gonzaga
- Paul Hindemith
- Charles Ives
- Leoš Janáček
- Oliver Knussen
- Bohuslav Martinů
- Aram Khachaturian
- Witold Lutosławski
- Gian Carlo Menotti
- Olivier Messiaen
- Darius Milhaud
- Francis Poulenc
- Sergei Prokofiev (Level 4)
- Maurice Ravel (Level 4)
- Ottorino Respighi
- Erik Satie
- Arnold Schoenberg (Level 4)
- Alfred Schnittke
- Alexander Scriabin
- Peter Sculthorpe
- Dmitri Shostakovich (Level 4)
- Igor Stravinsky (Level 4)
- Karol Szymanowski
- Virgil Thomson
- Heitor Villa-Lobos
- William Walton
- Anton Webern
- Kurt Weill
- Ralph Vaughan Williams (Level 4)
- Pancho Vladigerov
Avant-garde/postmodern (21 articles)
- John Adams (composer)
- Milton Babbitt
- Luciano Berio
- Harrison Birtwistle
- Pierre Boulez (Level 4)
- John Cage (Level 4)
- Morton Feldman
- Brian Ferneyhough
- Philip Glass (Level 4)
- Henryk Górecki
- György Ligeti (Level 4)
- Arvo Pärt
- Harry Partch
- Krzysztof Penderecki
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Film, television, video games and other entertainment (31 articles)
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Light music (3 articles)
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Pedagogues (5/5 articles)
Performers (150/140 articles)
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Cellists (5 articles)
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Conductors (20 articles)
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- Karl Böhm
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- Otto Klemperer
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Double bassists (2 articles)
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Pianists (30 articles)
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Singers (50 articles)
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Violinists (15 articles)
- Mischa Elman
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Non-Western art music (51/50 articles)
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Chinese opera (2 articles)
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Indigenous Australian music (2 articles)
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Religious music (21/20 articles)
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Popular music (923/880 articles)
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Caribbean (15/15 articles)
Latin (66/60 articles)
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- Bad Bunny
- J Balvin
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- Cartola
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- Violeta Parra
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- Pixinguinha
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- Tito Puente
- Ivy Queen
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- Alejandro Sanz
- Selena (Level 4)
- Shakira
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Flamenco (5/5 articles)
Musical comedy and lyricists (22/20 articles)
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- Stephen Schwartz (composer)
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Comedy, novelty, children's and outsider music (5/5 articles)
Folk and Country (60/60 articles)
Country (35/35 articles)
- Roy Acuff
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Folk (25/25 articles)
- Joan Baez (Level 4)
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- Joni Mitchell (Level 4)
- Phil Ochs
- Odetta
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- Townes Van Zandt
Non-English language popular music (274/260 articles)
Albanian (1 article)
Arabic (11 articles)
- Nancy Ajram
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- Sayed Darwish
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- Umm Kulthum (Level 4)
- Rachid Taha
- Mohammed Abdel Wahab
Armenian (1 article)
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Chinese languages (Mandarin, Cantonese and Taiwanese) (25 articles)
- A-Mei
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- Leon Lai
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- Alan Tam
- Teresa Teng (Level 4)
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- Zhou Xuan
Czechoslovak (2 articles)
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French (20 articles)
- Alizée
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- Jacques Brel
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- Claude François
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- France Gall
- Johnny Hallyday
- Françoise Hardy
- IAM (band)
- Indochine (band)
- Mireille Mathieu
- Noir Désir
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- Stromae
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Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Nepali languages (22 articles)
- Asha Bhosle
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- Aruna Lama
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- Daler Mehndi
- Mukesh (singer)
- Nazia and Zoheb
- Sonu Nigam
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Indonesian (9 articles)
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- Fabrizio De André
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Japanese (29 articles)
- AKB48
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- Fishmans
- Ichirō Fujiyama
- Gackt
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- Happy End (band)
- L'Arc-en-Ciel
- Michiya Mihashi
- Hibari Misora
- Momoiro Clover Z
- Morning Musume
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- Perfume (Japanese band)
- Pink Lady (duo)
- Kyu Sakamoto
- SMAP
- Southern All Stars
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- Hikaru Utada
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- X Japan
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Kazakh (2 articles)
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Korean (27 articles)
- 2NE1
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- Blackpink
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- Crying Nut
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- Exo
- F(x) (musical group)
- Girls' Generation
- Kim Gun-mo
- Kim Kwang-seok
- H.O.T.
- IU (singer)
- Lee Mi-ja
- Moranbong Band
- Psy
- Rain (entertainer)
- Red Velvet (group)
- S.E.S. (group)
- Seo Taiji and Boys
- Shin Jung-hyeon
- Shinee
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- TVXQ
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Russian (18 articles)
- Aquarium (band)
- Bad Balance
- Dima Bilan
- Yanka Dyagileva
- Gorky Park (band)
- Philipp Kirkorov
- Eduard Khil
- Kino (band)
- Valery Leontiev
- Muslim Magomayev (musician)
- Bulat Okudzhava
- Alla Pugacheva
- Lidia Ruslanova
- t.A.T.u.
- Leonid Utyosov
- Alexander Vertinsky
- Vitas
- Vladimir Vysotsky (Level 4)
Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian languages (5 articles)
Sinhala (2 articles)
Spanish (5 articles)
Swedish (2 articles)
Tagalog and other Filipino languages (6 articles)
Thai (9 articles)
- Christina Aguilar
- Carabao (band)
- Pumpuang Duangjan
- D2B (band)
- Faye Fang Kaew
- Loso
- Thongchai McIntyre
- Jintara Poonlarp
- Suraphol Sombatcharoen
Tuareg (1 article)
Turkish (7 articles)
Ukrainian (2 articles)
Uzbek (1 article)
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African popular music (40/40 articles)
- King Sunny Adé
- Tony Allen (musician)
- Ayinde Barrister
- Jua Cali
- DJ Arafat
- Cesária Évora
- Brenda Fassie
- Tilahun Gessesse
- Mahmoud Guinia
- Eusèbe Jaojoby
- Angélique Kidjo
- Tunde King
- Fela Kuti (Level 4)
- Mahlathini
- Mahotella Queens
- Lady Jaydee
- Le Grand Kallé
- Abdel Karim Karouma
- Mamady Keïta
- Salif Keita
- Franco Luambo
- Miriam Makeba (Level 4)
- Thomas Mapfumo
- Ladysmith Black Mambazo
- E. T. Mensah
- Daniel Owino Misiani
- Morogoro Jazz Band
- Oliver Mtukudzi
- Youssou N'Dour
- Ayub Ogada
- Diamond Platnumz
- Tabu Ley Rochereau
- S. E. Rogie
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- Oumou Sangaré
- Ali Farka Touré
- Lourdes Van-Dúnem
- Wazimbo
- Wizkid
- X Plastaz
Blues, R&B, Gospel, Funk, Zydeco and Soul (76/75 articles)
- Aaliyah
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- James Brown (Level 4)
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- Sam Cooke
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- Earth, Wind & Fire
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- Al Green
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- James Jamerson
- Etta James
- Rick James
- Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Robert Johnson (Level 4)
- R. Kelly
- Alicia Keys
- Chaka Khan
- B.B. King (Level 4)
- Labelle
- Curtis Mayfield
- Clyde McPhatter
- The Miracles
- Frank Ocean
- Parliament-Funkadelic
- Charley Patton
- Gladys Knight & the Pips
- Billy Preston
- Prince (musician) (Level 4)
- Ma Rainey
- Otis Redding
- Lionel Richie
- The Ronettes
- Sade (band)
- Sam & Dave
- The Shirelles
- Nina Simone
- Bessie Smith
- Sly and the Family Stone
- The Supremes (Level 4)
- The Teenagers
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- Sister Rosetta Tharpe
- TLC (group)
- Ike & Tina Turner
- Usher (musician)
- Luther Vandross
- Stevie Ray Vaughan
- Tom Waits
- Dionne Warwick
- Dinah Washington
- Muddy Waters
- The Weeknd
- Barry White
- Jackie Wilson
- Howlin' Wolf
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- Buckwheat Zydeco
Rock (188/175 articles)
General (108/100 articles)
- AC/DC
- Bryan Adams
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- The Allman Brothers Band
- The Band
- The Beach Boys (Level 4)
- The Beatles (Level 3)
- Jeff Beck
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- Blondie (band)
- Blue Öyster Cult
- Blur (band)
- Bon Jovi
- Boston (band)
- David Bowie (Level 4)
- The Byrds
- Chicago (band)
- Alice Cooper
- Joe Cocker
- Coldplay
- Cream (band)
- Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Elvis Costello
- King Crimson
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- The Cure
- Deep Purple
- Def Leppard
- Dire Straits
- Bob Dylan (Level 4)
- The Doors (Level 4)
- Eagles (band)
- Electric Light Orchestra
- Fleetwood Mac
- Foo Fighters
- Foreigner (band)
- Genesis (band)
- Grateful Dead
- The Go-Go's
- Guns N' Roses
- Jimi Hendrix (Level 4)
- INXS
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- Jefferson Airplane
- Joan Jett
- Billy Joel
- Journey (band)
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- The Kinks
- Kiss (band)
- Lenny Kravitz
- Led Zeppelin (Level 4)
- Linkin Park
- Meat Loaf
- Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Midnight Oil
- The Monkees
- Van Morrison
- New Order (band)
- Oasis (band)
- Roy Orbison
- Pearl Jam
- Tom Petty
- Pink Floyd (Level 4)
- The Police
- The Pretenders
- Queen (band) (Level 4)
- Bonnie Raitt
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Linda Ronstadt
- Rod Stewart
- The Rolling Stones (Level 4)
- Roxy Music
- Demis Roussos
- Rush (band)
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- Bruce Springsteen
- Steely Dan
- Steppenwolf (band)
- The Strokes
- Talking Heads
- T. Rex (band)
- Thin Lizzy
- U2
- Van Halen
- The White Stripes
- The Who
- Yes (band)
- Frank Zappa
Rock and roll (15/15 articles)
Alternative music (28/25 articles)
- Alice in Chains
- Arcade Fire
- Arctic Monkeys
- Jeff Buckley
- Björk
- Kate Bush
- PJ Harvey
- Hole (band)
- Grace Jones
- Alanis Morissette
- My Bloody Valentine (band)
- Neutral Milk Hotel
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
- Nine Inch Nails
- Nirvana (band)
- Pavement (band)
- Pixies (band)
- Radiohead
- R.E.M.
- Siouxsie and the Banshees
- The Smashing Pumpkins
- Elliott Smith
- The Smiths
- Sonic Youth
- The Velvet Underground (Level 4)
Heavy Metal (17/15 articles)
Post-Hardcore and emo (5/5 articles)
Punk music (15/15 articles)
Electronic music (25/25 articles)
- Avicii
- Armin van Buuren
- Daft Punk
- Deadmau5
- Depeche Mode
- Brian Eno (Level 4)
- Goldie
- Gorillaz
- David Guetta
- Calvin Harris
- Imogen Heap
- Frankie Knuckles
- Kraftwerk (Level 4)
- Massive Attack
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- Moby
- Giorgio Moroder
- Paul Oakenfold
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Hip-hop and rap (50/50 articles)
British/Australian hip-hop (4 articles)
American and Canadian hip-hop (46 articles)
- 50 Cent
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- Missy Elliott
- Eminem
- Eric B. & Rakim
- Doug E. Fresh
- Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
- MC Hammer
- DJ Kool Herc
- Lauryn Hill
- Vanilla Ice
- Ice-T
- Jay-Z
- Lil' Kim
- Kendrick Lamar
- Queen Latifah
- LL Cool J
- MC Lyte
- Nicki Minaj
- Nas
- Nelly
- N.W.A
- Outkast
- Public Enemy
- Slick Rick
- Run-DMC
- Salt-N-Pepa
- Tupac Shakur (Level 4)
- The Sugarhill Gang
- Three 6 Mafia
- Lil Wayne
- Kanye West
- Wu-Tang Clan
- XXXTentacion
Music producers, songwriters and businesspeople (41/40 articles)
- Harold Arlen
- Burt Bacharach
- Carl Michael Bellman
- Sean Combs
- Simon Cowell
- Clive Davis
- Daniel Ek
- Brian Epstein
- Ahmet Ertegun
- Christy Essien-Igbokwe
- David Foster
- Stephen Foster (Level 4)
- Berry Gordy
- Quincy Jones
- Johnny Kitagawa
- Suge Knight
- KondZilla
- Gulshan Kumar
- Lee Soo-man
- Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
- Li Jinhui
- Malcolm McLaren
- George Martin
- Max Martin
- Ismail Marzuki
- Park Jin-young
- Colonel Tom Parker
- Alan Parsons
- Ralph Peer
- Alan Lomax
- Sam Phillips
- Bill Putnam
- A. R. Rahman
- Sylvia Robinson
- Rick Rubin
- Phil Spector
- Timbaland
- King Tubby
- Diane Warren
- Yang Hyun-suk
- Yasushi Akimoto