User:Zelkia1101/Vital people/Level/1.5

This list is part of my vital people project, which breaks down the 50, 500, and 5000 most important people in three levels: Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3. Level 1.5 is an informal level of 200 Level 2 people that, although they are not quite Level 1 material, are nevertheless exceptional and incredibly influential in their field, to the point that they are set apart from the rest of their peers on the Level 2 list. I felt as though 50 to 500 was too high a jump that left a lot of room for nuance in ranking people based on importance to human history, so I created this informal level. Note that all articles listed here are Level 2 articles, unless they are bolded, in which case they belong in Level 1. There is no such thing as a "Level 1.5" article, given that the categorization is informal.

Note: Articles are listed according to the chronology of the person's birth, not alphabetically by last name, as is the case for Level 2.

=People (200 articles)=

Entertainers, actors and directors (10 articles)

 * 1)  Harry Houdini
 * 2)  Charlie Chaplin
 * 3)   Alfred Hitchcock
 * 4)   Humphrey Bogart
 * 5)  Walt Disney
 * 6)  Akira Kurosawa
 * 7)  Orson Welles
 * 8)  Marilyn Monroe
 * 9)  Stanley Kubrick
 * 10)   Audrey Hepburn

Visual artists (15 articles)

 * 1)  Hokusai
 * 2)   Leonardo da Vinci
 * 3)   Michelangelo
 * 4)  Raphael
 * 5)   Caravaggio
 * 6)   Rembrandt
 * 7)  Johannes Vermeer
 * 8)   Claude Monet
 * 9)  Francisco Goya
 * 10)  Vincent van Gogh
 * 11)  Frank Lloyd Wright
 * 12)  Pablo Picasso
 * 13)   Salvador Dalí
 * 14)  Frida Kahlo
 * 15)   Andy Warhol

Writers (20 articles)

 * 1)  Homer
 * 2)  Virgil
 * 3)  Li Bai
 * 4)   Rumi
 * 5)  Miguel de Cervantes
 * 6)  William Shakespeare
 * 7)  John Milton
 * 8)  Voltaire
 * 9)  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 * 10)  Jane Austen
 * 11)   Victor Hugo
 * 12)  Edgar Allan Poe
 * 13)  Charles Dickens
 * 14)  Leo Tolstoy
 * 15)   Fyodor Dostoevsky
 * 16)   Mark Twain
 * 17)  Franz Kafka
 * 18)  J. R. R. Tolkien
 * 19)  Ernest Hemingway
 * 20)  George Orwell

Musicians (15 articles)

 * 1)    Johann Sebastian Bach
 * 2)  Antonio Vivaldi
 * 3)   Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 * 4)  Ludwig van Beethoven
 * 5)  Frédéric Chopin
 * 6)  Richard Wagner
 * 7)  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
 * 8)  Claude Debussy
 * 9)   Louis Armstrong
 * 10)  Édith Piaf
 * 11)  Frank Sinatra
 * 12)  Elvis Presley
 * 13)  The Beatles
 * 14)  Bob Marley
 * 15)  Michael Jackson

Sports figures (5 articles)

 * 1)  Babe Ruth
 * 2)  Bruce Lee
 * 3)  Wilt Chamberlain
 * 4)   Muhammad Ali
 * 5)   Diego Maradona

Political and military leaders (45 articles)

 * 1)   Sargon of Akkad
 * 2)  Hammurabi
 * 3)   Hatshepsut
 * 4)   Ramesses II
 * 5)   Cyrus the Great
 * 6)  Pericles
 * 7)  Alexander the Great
 * 8)  Ashoka
 * 9)  Qin Shi Huang
 * 10)  Hannibal
 * 11)   Julius Caesar
 * 12)  Cleopatra
 * 13)  Augustus
 * 14)  Constantine the Great
 * 15)  Justinian I
 * 16)   Charlemagne
 * 17)  Alfred the Great
 * 18)  William the Conqueror
 * 19)  Genghis Khan
 * 20)   Hernán Cortés
 * 21)  Joan of Arc
 * 22)  Henry VIII
 * 23)   Suleiman the Magnificent
 * 24)   Akbar
 * 25)  Elizabeth I
 * 26)   Oliver Cromwell
 * 27)  Louis XIV
 * 28)  Catherine the Great
 * 29)  George Washington
 * 30)    Thomas Jefferson
 * 31)   Napoleon
 * 32)  Simón Bolívar
 * 33)   Abraham Lincoln
 * 34)  Otto von Bismarck
 * 35)   Sun Yat-sen
 * 36)   Mahatma Gandhi
 * 37)  Vladimir Lenin
 * 38)  Winston Churchill
 * 39)  Joseph Stalin
 * 40)  Benito Mussolini
 * 41)   Franklin D. Roosevelt
 * 42)  Adolf Hitler
 * 43)  Mao Zedong
 * 44)  Nelson Mandela
 * 45)  Martin Luther King Jr.

Explorers (15 articles)

 * 1)  Leif Erikson
 * 2)   Ibn Battuta
 * 3)  Marco Polo
 * 4)  Zheng He
 * 5)  Amerigo Vespucci
 * 6)   Christopher Columbus
 * 7)  Vasco da Gama
 * 8)   Ferdinand Magellan
 * 9)  James Cook
 * 10)  David Livingstone
 * 11)  Robert Falcon Scott
 * 12)  Roald Amundsen
 * 13)   Amelia Earhart
 * 14)  Yuri Gagarin
 * 15)  Neil Armstrong

Businesspeople (5 articles)

 * 1)  Jakob Fugger
 * 2)   Andrew Carnegie
 * 3)  John D. Rockefeller
 * 4)  Henry Ford
 * 5)   Steve Jobs

Scientists, mathematicians and inventors (35 articles)

 * 1)  Hippocrates
 * 2)  Archimedes
 * 3)  Euclid
 * 4)  Ptolemy
 * 5)  Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
 * 6)  Brahmagupta
 * 7)  Johannes Gutenberg
 * 8)   Nicolaus Copernicus
 * 9)   Galileo Galilei
 * 10)  Johannes Kepler
 * 11)  Christiaan Huygens
 * 12)   Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
 * 13)   Isaac Newton
 * 14)   Benjamin Franklin
 * 15)  Leonhard Euler
 * 16)  Carl Linnaeus
 * 17)  James Watt
 * 18)   Antoine Lavoisier
 * 19)   Edward Jenner
 * 20)  Michael Faraday
 * 21)  Charles Darwin
 * 22)  Florence Nightingale
 * 23)  Louis Pasteur
 * 24)  James Clerk Maxwell
 * 25)  Dmitri Mendeleev
 * 26)   Thomas Edison
 * 27)  Nikola Tesla
 * 28)  Marie Curie
 * 29)   Albert Einstein
 * 30)  John von Neumann
 * 31)  J. Robert Oppenheimer
 * 32)  Kurt Gödel
 * 33)  Alan Turing
 * 34)  Richard Feynman
 * 35)   Stephen Hawking

Philosophers and social scientists (25 articles)

 * 1)   Confucius
 * 2)  Herodotus
 * 3)  Socrates
 * 4)   Plato
 * 5)  Aristotle
 * 6)  Augustine of Hippo
 * 7)  Avicenna
 * 8)   Thomas Aquinas
 * 9)  Niccolò Machiavelli
 * 10)  Francis Bacon
 * 11)   René Descartes
 * 12)  Thomas Hobbes
 * 13)   John Locke
 * 14)  Baruch Spinoza
 * 15)  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
 * 16)    David Hume
 * 17)   Adam Smith
 * 18)  Immanuel Kant
 * 19)  Mary Wollstonecraft
 * 20)  Karl Marx
 * 21)  John Stuart Mill
 * 22)   Sigmund Freud
 * 23)   Max Weber
 * 24)  John Maynard Keynes
 * 25)    Bertrand Russell

Religious figures (10 articles)

 * 1)  Zoroaster
 * 2)  Gautama Buddha
 * 3)  Mary, mother of Jesus
 * 4)  Jesus
 * 5)  Saint Peter
 * 6)   Paul the Apostle
 * 7)  Muhammad
 * 8)   Ali
 * 9)   Adi Shankara
 * 10)    Martin Luther