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| Section | Current Number | | People | 201 | | History | 47 | | Geography | 314 | | Arts | 54 | | Philosophy and religion | 49 | | Everyday life | (included in others) | | Society and social sciences | 173 | | Health and medicine | 15 | | Science | 251 | | Technology | 20 | | Mathematics | 9 | | Measurement | 0 | | Total | 1133 | Count checked: 21:24, 9 June 2008 (UTC) [edit] Legend Icons refer to the assessment; indicates start class status. indicates C-Class status. indicates B-Class status. indicates A-Class status. indicates Good Article status. indicates a Featured article. [edit] See also See also: [edit] Biographies, 201 [edit] Arts and entertainment, 58 [edit] Athletes and related, 7 Muhammad Ali Michael Jordan Bruce Lee Pelé Jackie Robinson Babe Ruth Jesse Owens [edit] Artists and architects, 11 Giotto di Bondone Vincent van Gogh Michelangelo Claude Monet Pablo Picasso Raphael Rembrandt Auguste Rodin Leonardo da Vinci Andy Warhol Frank Lloyd Wright [edit] Music, 8 Johann Sebastian Bach The Beatles Ludwig van Beethoven Cher Madonna Michael Jackson Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Elvis Presley [edit] Performing arts misc., 5 Charlie Chaplin Walt Disney Alfred Hitchcock Akira Kurosawa Mikhail Baryshnikov [edit] Writers, 29 - Non-Western, 0
[edit] Ancient world, 3 Aeschylus Homer Virgil [edit] English language, 14 Jane Austen Lord Byron Charles Dickens T. S. Eliot Ernest Hemingway James Joyce John Milton Edgar Allan Poe Ezra Pound William Shakespeare Walter Scott Mark Twain Walt Whitman William Butler Yeats [edit] Continental European languages, 13 Dante Alighieri Jorge Luis Borges Miguel de Cervantes Fyodor Dostoevsky Johann Wolfgang Goethe Brothers Grimm Victor Hugo Henrik Ibsen Franz Kafka Marcel Proust Jose Rizal Leo Tolstoy Voltaire
| [edit] Leaders and public figures, 70 [edit] Politicians and leaders, 53 [edit] Americas, 7 Simón Bolívar Hernán Cortés Benjamin Franklin Thomas Jefferson Abraham Lincoln Franklin D. Roosevelt George Washington [edit] Asia and Africa, 17 - Africa, 4
Cleopatra VII Hannibal Barca Nelson Mandela Shaka - Asia, to 1000 AD, 4
Cyrus the Great Hammurabi Qin Shi Huang Emperor Taizong of Tang - Asia, 1000 to 1899 AD, 5
Akbar Genghis Khan Saladin Suleiman the Magnificent Timur - Asia, 20th century, 5
Indira Gandhi Hirohito Ho Chi Minh Mao Zedong Imelda Marcos [edit] Europe, 29 - Ancient world to 500 AD, 5
Alexander the Great Attila the Hun Augustus Constantine the Great Julius Caesar - 500 AD to 1600 AD, 6
Charlemagne Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor Heraclius Ivan IV of Russia Philip II of Spain - British Isles, 6
Winston Churchill Edmund Burke Queen Elizabeth I Henry II of England Henry VIII of England William I of England - France, 3
Joan of Arc Louis XIV of France Napoleon I of France - Germany, 3
Otto von Bismarck Frederick the Great Adolf Hitler - Russia, 5
Catherine the Great Mikhail Gorbachev Vladimir Lenin Peter I of Russia Joseph Stalin - Elsewhere, 1
Benito Mussolini [edit] Religious figures, 10 Augustine of Hippo Gautama Buddha John Calvin Columba Francis of Assisi Jesus Martin Luther Muhammad Paul of Tarsus Zoroaster [edit] Revolutionaries and activists, 7 Frederick Douglass Mahatma Gandhi Che Guevara Martin Luther King, Jr. Margaret Sanger Mother Teresa Mary Wollstonecraft | [edit] Thinkers and explorers, 73 [edit] Explorers, 5 Neil Armstrong Christopher Columbus Ferdinand Magellan Marco Polo Zheng He [edit] Inventors and scientists, 32 [edit] Biologists and doctors, 6 Hippocrates Charles Darwin Carolus Linnaeus Joseph Lister Gregor Mendel Louis Pasteur [edit] Inventors, 9 Charles Babbage Alexander Graham Bell Louis Daguerre Thomas Edison Johannes Gutenberg Henry Ford Guglielmo Marconi Cai Lun Wright brothers [edit] Physical scientists, 17 Nicolaus Copernicus Albert Einstein Michael Faraday Galileo Galilei Stephen Hawking Johannes Kepler Antoine Lavoisier James Clerk Maxwell Isaac Newton Alfred Nobel Robert Oppenheimer Linus Pauling Max Planck Ptolemy Ernest Rutherford Nikola Tesla James Watt [edit] Mathematicians, 9 Archimedes Euclid Leonhard Euler Pierre de Fermat Carl Friedrich Gauss Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī Gottfried Leibniz Blaise Pascal Pythagoras [edit] Philosophers, 18 [edit] Ancient China, 3 Confucius Laozi Sun Tzu [edit] Ancient Greece, 3 Aristotle Plato Socrates [edit] Middle Ages and modern, 12 Thomas Aquinas Francis Bacon René Descartes Thomas Hobbes David Hume Immanuel Kant Søren Kierkegaard John Locke Niccolò Machiavelli Friedrich Nietzsche Jean-Jacques Rousseau Henry David Thoreau [edit] Social scientists, 9 Sigmund Freud Edward Gibbon Herodotus John Maynard Keynes Karl Marx Thomas Malthus Adam Smith Thucydides Max Weber | [edit] Culture and social sciences, 173 Culture [edit] Miscellaneous, 14 Clothing Furniture Society [edit] Family, 6 Family Child Infant Man Marriage Woman [edit] Law, 5 Law Constitution Crime Police Military [edit] Business and economics, 20 [edit] Miscellaneous, 13 Agriculture Advertising Business Economics Finance Market Management Manufacturing Marketing Supply and demand Trade Trade union [edit] Currency, 7 Currency Euro Japanese yen Pound sterling Renminbi Indian Rupee United States dollar [edit] Communication, 26 [edit] Language, 18 Alphabet Grammar Language Writing Arabic language Chinese language English language Esperanto French language German language Hindi Japanese language Latin Portuguese language Russian language Sanskrit Sign language Spanish language [edit] Mass media, 8 Mass media Book Comics Film Magazine Newspaper Radio Television | [edit] Cuisine, 29 [edit] Cuisine, 29 Cuisine Cooking Spice - Beverages, 9
Drink Alcohol Beer Coffee Milk Soft drink Tea Water Wine - Food, 17
Food Bread Cheese Chocolate Seafood Fruit Cereal Legume Maize Meat Oat Black pepper Poultry Rice Soybean Vegetable Wheat [edit] International organizations, 11 Arab League European Union International Monetary Fund International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement NATO Nobel Prize OPEC United Nations World Bank Group World Health Organization World Trade Organization [edit] Leisure, 23 Leisure Gambling Hobby Recreation Toy [edit] Games, 9 Game Backgammon Chess Board game Card game Dice Draughts Go (board game) Mancala [edit] Sports, 9 Sport American football Athletics (track and field) Baseball Cricket Football (soccer) Olympic Games Rugby football Tennis | [edit] Politics, 17 Politics Anarchism Capitalism Communism Democracy Dictatorship Diplomacy Fascism Globalization Government Imperialism Liberalism Monarchy Nationalism Socialism State Theocracy [edit] Social sciences, 18 Social sciences Anthropology Archaeology Education Personal life Political science Sociology [edit] Psychology, 11 Psychology Anger Consciousness Dream Emotion Fear Happiness Love Mind Sleep Thought [edit] Social issues, 15 Abortion Addiction Birth control Capital punishment Civil liberties Civil rights Freedom (philosophy) Human rights Peace Pornography Privacy Racism Sexism Slavery War | [edit] Geography, 65 [edit] Countries, 249 - A
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Haiti – Republic of Haiti Honduras – Republic of Honduras Hong Kong – Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (Area of special sovereignty)[14] Hungary – Republic of Hungary - I
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Yemen – Republic of Yemen - Z
| [edit] Humanities, 162 Humanities [edit] Arts, 17 [edit] The arts, 8 Art The arts Design Painting Photography Sculpture Dance Theatre [edit] Literature, 9 Literature Novel Poetry - Specific works, 6
The Book of One Thousand and One Nights Republic (Plato) Epic of Gilgamesh Iliad Mahabharata Odyssey [edit] Architecture, 12 Architecture Arch Bridge Church (building) Dome House Nail (engineering) Pyramid Tower - Specific structures, 3
Great Wall of China Taj Mahal Leaning Tower of Pisa [edit] History, 47 History History of the world [edit] Prehistory to Middle Ages, 22 Ancient Egypt Ancient Greece Ancient Rome Archaeology Aztec Black Death Bronze Age Byzantine Empire Crusades East-West Schism Holy Roman Empire Indus Valley Civilization Iron Age Maya civilization Macedon Middle Ages Ottoman Empire Prehistory Spanish Inquisition Stone Age Sumer Viking | [edit] Renaissance to Industrial Age, 23 Age of Enlightenment American Civil War American Revolutionary War British Empire Cold War English Civil War European colonization of the Americas French Revolution Great Depression History of South Africa in the apartheid era The Holocaust Industrial Revolution Napoleonic Wars Protestant Reformation Renaissance Russian Civil War Russian Revolution of 1917 Scramble for Africa Space exploration Spanish Civil War Vietnam War World War I World War II [edit] Music, 37 Music - Harmony
- Melody
- Music theory
- Musical notation
- Orchestra
- Rhythm
- Singing
[edit] Genres, 11 - Baroque music
- Classical music
- Country music
Folk music - Hip hop music
- Jazz
- Opera
- Pop music
- Rhythm and blues
- Rock and roll
- Hip hop music
[edit] Musical instrument, 18 - Musical instrument
- Brass
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- Drum or Percussion
- Flute
- French horn
Guitar - Harp
- Strings
- Organ (music)
- Piano
- Trombone
- Trumpet
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- Viola
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- Woodwind
| [edit] Philosophy, 11 Philosophy Aesthetics - Ethics
- Existence
- Feminism
Humanism - Knowledge
Logic - Morality
- Reality
- Truth
[edit] Religion, 38 Religion Agnosticism Atheism Deity - Fundamentalism
God Jainism Mythology - Soul
- Spirituality
[edit] Specific religions, 28 Ayyavazhi Animism Bahá'í Faith Buddhism Confucianism Shinto Sikhism Taoism Voodoo Zoroastrianism - Christianity, 7
Christianity Bible Catholicism - Church
Pope Protestantism Trinity - Hinduism, 6
Hinduism Bhagavad Gita Krishna - Upanishad
- Vedas
Yoga - Islam, 3
Islam Mosque Qur'an - Judaism, 2
Judaism - Talmud
| [edit] Science, math and technology, 161 [edit] Miscellaneous, 5 Science Ecology Natural science Pollution Scientific method [edit] Astronomy, 18 Astronomy Big Bang Galaxy Milky Way Planet Star Universe [edit] Solar System, 11 Solar System Sun Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune [edit] Biology, 60 Biology Genetics or DNA Life Nature Photosynthesis Sex Taxonomy [edit] Anatomy, 10 Anatomy Brain - Circulatory system
Gastrointestinal tract Heart - Liver
Lung Nervous system - Skin
Skeleton [edit] Medicine, 15 Medicine AIDS - Blindness
Cancer Cholera - Dysentery
- Gerontology
- Hearing impairment
Malaria Mental illness Nutrition - Polio
- Pregnancy
Smallpox - Surgery
| [edit] Organisms, 28 Organism Archaea Bacteria Eukaryote Animal Fungus Plant Protist Virus Extraterrestrial life - Specific organisms, 20
Cotton Flower Tobacco Tree Bird Dinosaur Fish Insect Reptile Shark - Snake
Mammal - Bear
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Cat Dog Dolphin - Horse
Human Whale [edit] Chemistry, 5 Chemistry Chemical element Molecule - Periodic table
- Salt
[edit] Earth sciences, 18 Geology Plate tectonics Mineral Diamond - Oil
[edit] Meteorology, 13 Meteorology - Avalanche
Climate Cloud - Earthquake
El Niño-Southern Oscillation Flood Global warming Rain Tornado Tropical cyclone Volcano Weather | [edit] Mathematics, 9 Mathematics Algebra Calculus - Calendar
Game theory Geometry Number Set Trigonometry [edit] Physics, 24 Physics Atom Atomic nucleus - Elementary particle
Force Gravitation Mass Matter Optics Phase (matter) Quantum mechanics Sound Speed Time - Weight
Energy - Radiation
Electromagnetic radiation Visible spectrum Special relativity General relativity Electromagnetism - Standard Model
Classical mechanics [edit] Technology, 20 Technology Axe Fire Metallurgy Tool Electricity and Electronics - Artificial intelligence
Computer Internet - Semiconductor
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Transport Automobile Bicycle Ship Train Weapon - Explosive material
Firearm Gunpowder | | [edit] Chemical elements, 118 - ^ Argentina is also named Argentine Nation for purposes of legislation.
- ^ See also Nagorno-Karabakh.
- ^ Canada is officially also (but infrequently) referred to as Dominion of Canada.
- ^ The Central African Republic is also infrequently rendered as Central Africa.
- ^ The People's Republic of China is occasionally rendered as mainland China in the relationship with its special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau as well as its relations with the Republic of China on Taiwan.
- ^ The Republic of China (ROC) is commonly referred to as Taiwan by the international community. It is also diplomatically sometimes known as Chinese Taipei or other names and regarded by UN as Taiwan, Province of China (see One-China policy). The ROC is not a UN member since late 1971. It is currently recognized by the Holy See and 24 UN member states and with de facto international relations with most others. The political status of the ROC and the legal status of Taiwan (alongside the territories currently under the ROC jurisdiction) are in dispute. The ROC should not be confused with the so-called "Republic of Taiwan" proposed by supporters of Taiwan independence.
- ^ The Democratic Republic of the Congo is formerly and popularly known as Zaire. It is referred to as Congo-Kinshasa to distinguish it from the Republic of the Congo.
- ^ The Republic of the Congo is referred to as Congo-Brazzaville to distinguish it from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- ^ See also Northern Cyprus.
- ^ The Czech Republic is also infrequently rendered as Czechia. See Name of the Czech Republic.
- ^ Falkland Islands is also claimed by Argentina as Islas Malvinas.
- ^ See also Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
- ^ The Bailiwick of Guernsey includes its self-governing dependencies Alderney, Herm and Sark.
- ^ Hong Kong is a Special administrative region of the People's Republic of China. It is diplomatically known as Hong Kong, China.
- ^ Ireland is commonly referred to as the Republic of Ireland as the official "description" of the state in order to distinguish it from the island of Ireland as a whole.
- ^ The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is popularly known as North Korea.
- ^ The Republic of Korea is popularly known as South Korea.
- ^ Kosovo is an autonomous province of Serbia currently administered by the Provisional Institution of Self-Government under the supervision of the UN Interim Administration Mission.
- ^ Kyrgyzstan is also sometimes rendered as Kirghizia.
- ^ Macao is a Special administrative region of the People's Republic of China. It is diplomatically known as Macao, China.
- ^ Macedonia is referred to by UN and a number of countries and international organizations as the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
- ^ See also Pridnestrovie.
- ^ See also Western Sahara.
- ^ Legally the Netherlands refers to the mainland European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, with the latter consisting of the Netherlands and two overseas countries, namely Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles.
- ^ The State of Palestine in the Palestinian territories is currently recognized by the Holy See and 93 UN member states. It has never been admitted as a full UN member (only granted with a permanent observer status) but is a member of the Arab League and the Organization of the Islamic Conference. The State claims the whole Palestinian territories but only exercises de facto control over part of the territories administered through its shadow organ, the Palestinian National Authority (PNA). It is further supported by other countries according the PNA a pivotal role in the process that may involve their eventually recognizing the State as sovereign.
- ^ See also Kosovo.
- ^ Somalia is presently fragmented with its Transitional National Government in exile. See also Somaliland.
- ^ Svalbard is an overseas territory of Norway recognized by international treaty.
- ^ Vatican City is administered by a Governor appointed by the Pope, with the latter being the head of the Holy See and that of the Vatican City concurrently.
- ^ The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic in Western Sahara is currently recognized by 46 UN member states. It has never been admitted to the UN but is a member of the African Union. It claims the whole territory of Western Sahara but only exercises effective control over the territory east of Moroccan Wall, while a large portion of the territory is occupied by and integrated into Morocco.
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