User:Maurreen/Core topics/Bios

This is intended as a list of biographies of historically important people, as a possible guide for priorities for readers and editors.

Only dead people should be listed here. Their articles will generally be more stable, both because they aren't doing anything to update and time gives more perspective on them.

The initial list was based on Vital articles. Also see Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Core topics, another take on the minimal article list.

The numbers in parentheses indicate the quantity of articles in each section.

Hart's Top 15 (from the 1992 edition)
From [The 100|The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History]], 1992 edition, by Michael H. Hart.

Explorers (9)

 * 1) Roald Amundsen
 * 2) Christopher Columbus
 * 3) Hernán Cortés
 * 4) Francis Drake
 * 5) Vasco da Gama
 * 6) Edmund Hillary
 * 7) Ferdinand Magellan
 * 8) Marco Polo

Scientists, inventors and mathematicians (9)

 * 1) Charles Darwin
 * 2) Leonardo Da Vinci
 * 3) Thomas Alva Edison
 * 4) Albert Einstein
 * 5) Henry Ford
 * 6) Galileo Galilei
 * 7) Johann Gutenberg
 * 8) Hippocrates
 * 9) Isaac Newton
 * 10) Pythagoras
 * 11) Wright Brothers

Philosophers (7)

 * 1) Aristotle
 * 2) Confucius
 * 3) Immanuel Kant
 * 4) Karl Marx
 * 5) Plato
 * 6) Socrates
 * 7) Lao Zi

Writers of stories and poetry (5)

 * 1) William Shakespeare
 * 2) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 * 3) Mary Wollstonecraft
 * 4) George Orwell
 * 5) J. R. R. Tolkien
 * 6) Dante Alighieri
 * 7) Homer

Politicians and rulers (31)

 * 1) Timur (Tamerlane)
 * 2) Genghis Khan
 * 3) Gandhi
 * 4) Sitting Bull
 * 5) Kwame Nkrumah
 * 6) Simón Bolívar
 * 7) Saladin
 * 8) Franklin Delano Roosevelt
 * 9) Harry Truman
 * 10) Mao Tse-tung
 * 11) Shaka Zulu
 * 12) Pol Pot
 * 13) Hirohito
 * 14) Charlemange
 * 15) Cleopatra
 * 16) Santa Ana

Political people in Europe (15)

 * 1) Leon Trotsky
 * 2) Julius Caesar
 * 3) Caesar Augustus
 * 4) Victoria of the United Kingdom
 * 5) Wilhelm II (Germany)
 * 6) Josef Stalin
 * 7) Adolf Hitler
 * 8) Benito Mussolini
 * 9) Winston Churchill
 * 10) Napoléon Bonaparte
 * 11) Alexander the Great
 * 12) Vladimir Lenin
 * 13) Charles de Gaulle
 * 14) Otto von Bismarck
 * 15) Peter the Great (of Russia)

Miscellaneous (9)

 * 1) Martin Luther King
 * 2) Virgil
 * 3) Akbar the Great
 * 4) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 * 5) Johann Sebastian Bach
 * 6) Martin Luther
 * 7) Adam Smith
 * 8) Herodotus

Artists (15)

 * 1) Paul Cézanne
 * 2) Salvador Dalí
 * 3) Albrecht Dürer
 * 4) Vincent van Gogh
 * 5) Francisco Goya
 * 6) Hokusai
 * 7) Henri Matisse
 * 8) Michelangelo
 * 9) Claude Monet
 * 10) Pablo Picasso
 * 11) Jackson Pollock
 * 12) Raphael
 * 13) Rembrandt
 * 14)  Diego Velázquez
 * 15) Andy Warhol

Authors (19)

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

Composers and musicians (7)

 * 1) Johann Sebastian Bach
 * 2)  The Beatles
 * 3) Ludwig van Beethoven
 * 4) Frédéric Chopin
 * 5) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 * 6) Elvis Presley
 * 7) Richard Wagner

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

Inventors and scientists (14)

 * 1) Nicolaus Copernicus
 * 2) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|14px|Good articles]] Charles Darwin
 * 3) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|14px|Good articles]] Thomas Edison
 * 4)  Albert Einstein
 * 5) Henry Ford
 * 6)  Galileo Galilei
 * 7) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|14px|Good articles]] Bill Gates
 * 8) Johann Gutenberg
 * 9) Carolus Linnaeus
 * 10)  Isaac Newton
 * 11) Louis Pasteur
 * 12) Nikola Tesla
 * 13) Leonardo da Vinci
 * 14) Wright brothers

Mathematicians (4)

 * 1) Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
 * 2) Archimedes
 * 3) Gottfried Leibniz
 * 4) Pythagoras

Philosophers and social scientists (24)

 * 1) Thomas Aquinas
 * 2) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|14px|Good articles]] Aristotle
 * 3) Augustine of Hippo
 * 4) Averroes
 * 5) René Descartes
 * 6) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|14px|Good articles]] Sigmund Freud
 * 7) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 * 8) Herodotus
 * 9) Hippocrates
 * 10) Immanuel Kant
 * 11) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|14px|Good articles]] 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)  Max Weber

Politicians and leaders (42)

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

Revolutionaries and activists (6)

 * 1)  Mahatma Gandhi
 * 2)  Che Guevara
 * 3)  Joan of Arc
 * 4) Martin Luther King, Jr.
 * 5)  Rosa Parks
 * 6) Mother Teresa

Other lists

 * World's Great Leaders
 * 100 Greatest Britons
 * 100 Worst Britons
 * Unsere Besten
 * The Greatest American
 * Le Plus Grand Français
 * The Greatest Canadian
 * De Grootste Nederlander
 * List of South Africans, SABC3's Great South Africans
 * Suuret Suomalaiset
 * Belg der Belgen