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Top 15

1. Albert Einstein
2. Aristotle
3. Buddha
4. Christopher Columbus
5. Confucius
6. Euclid
7. Johann Gutenberg
8. Galileo Galilei
9. Isaac Newton
10. Jesus Christ
11. Louis Pasteur
12. Moses
13. Muhammad
14. St. Paul
15. Ts'ai Lun

Level 2 (55 articles)

This level should be cut to the range of 30 to 50 articles.

Politicians and leaders (40)

1. Alexander the Great
2. Attila the Hun
3. Otto von Bismarck
4. Simón Bolívar
5. George W. Bush
6. Julius Caesar
7. Charlemagne
8. Winston Churchill
9. Cleopatra VII of Egypt
10. Elizabeth I of England
11. Benjamin Franklin
12. Charles de Gaulle
13. Hammurabi
14. Hannibal
15. Indira Gandhi
16. Hirohito
17. Adolf Hitler
18. Thomas Jefferson
19. Genghis Khan
20. Vladimir Lenin
21. Abraham Lincoln
22. Nelson Mandela
23. Mao Zedong
24. Benito Mussolini
25. Napoleon I of France
26. Joseph Stalin
27. Victoria of the United Kingdom
28. George Washington

Miscellaneous (15)

1. Albert Einstein
2. Aristotle
3. Buddha
4. Christopher Columbus
5. Confucius
6. Euclid
7. Johann Gutenberg
8. Galileo Galilei
9. Isaac Newton
10. Jesus Christ
11. Louis Pasteur
12. Moses
13. Muhammad
14. St. Paul
15. Ts'ai Lun

Top 270

This section should stay in the range of 250 to 1,000 articles.

Arts and entertainment (148)

Actors and directors (20)

1. Amitabh Bachan
2. Lucille Ball
3. Marlon Brando
4. Charlie Chaplin
5. Marlene Dietrich
6. Henry Fonda
7. Clark Gable
8. Judy Garland
9. Tom Hanks
10. Katharine Hepburn
11. Alfred Hitchcock
12. Akira Kurosawa
13. Fritz Lang
14. Bruce Lee
15. Vivien Leigh
16. Marilyn Monroe
17. Satyajit Ray
18. James Stewart
19. Elizabeth Taylor
20. John Wayne

Artists and architects (27)

1. Paul Cézanne
2. Le Corbusier
3. Salvador Dalí
4. Albrecht Dürer
5. Vincent van Gogh
6. Francisco Goya
7. William Hogarth
8. Hokusai
9. Frida Kahlo
10. Édouard Manet
11. Henri Matisse
12. Michelangelo
13. Claude Monet
14. Georgia O'Keeffe
15. Pablo Picasso
16. Jackson Pollock
17. Nicolas Poussin
18. Raphael
19. Rembrandt
20. Auguste Rodin
21. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
22. Diego Velázquez
23. Johannes Vermeer
24. Vitruvius
25. Andy Warhol
26. Christopher Wren
27. Frank Lloyd Wright

Dancers and choreographers {12}

1. Alvin Ailey
2. Fred Astaire
3. George Balanchine
4. Mikhail Baryshnikov
5. Isadora Duncan
6. Martha Graham
7. Gene Kelly
8. Agnes de Mille
9. Rudolf Nureyev
10. Bill Robinson
11. Ginger Rogers
12. Ruth St. Denis

Musicians and composers (42)

Classical music

1. Johann Sebastian Bach
2. Ludwig van Beethoven
3. Enrico Caruso
4. Frédéric Chopin
5. Aaron Copland
6. Antonín Dvořák
7. Edvard Grieg
8. Gustav Mahler
9. Claudio Monteverdi
10. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Popular music

1. The Beach Boys
2. The Beatles
3. James Brown
4. Johnny Cash
5. Nat King Cole
6. Miles Davis
7. Bob Dylan
8. Ella Fitzgerald
9. Aretha Franklin
10. Jimi Hendrix
11. Billie Holliday
12. Michael Jackson
13. Janis Joplin
14. Dean Martin
15. Nirvana
16. Dolly Parton
17. Elvis Presley
18. The Rolling Stones

Unclassified

1. Louis Armstrong
2. Celia Cruz
3. Tito Puente
4. Jean Sibelius
5. Frank Sinatra
6. Richard Wagner
7. The Who

Sportspeople (41)

Baseball

1. Hank Aaron
2. Ty Cobb
3. Lou Gehrig
4. Mickey Mantle
5. Sadaharu Oh
6. Jackie Robinson
7. Nolan Ryan
8. Babe Ruth
9. Ted Williams

Other team sports

1. David Beckham
2. Larry Bird
3. Ian Botham
4. Donald Bradman
5. Terry Bradshaw
6. Wayne Gretzky
7. Mia Hamm
8. Bobby Hull
9. Michael Jordan
10. Dan Marino
11. Diego Maradona
12. Joe Montana
13. Walter Payton
14. Pelé
15. Bill Russell

Individual sports

1. Muhammad Ali
2. Lance Armstrong
3. Roger Bannister
4. Fanny Blankers-Koen
5. Nadia Comaneci
6. Dale Earnhardt
7. Olga Korbut
8. Carl Lewis
9. Paavo Nurmi
10. Al Oerter
11. Jesse Owens
12. Ayrton Senna
13. Mark Spitz
14. Jim Thorpe
15. Babe Didrikson Zaharias
16. Willie Shoemaker
17. Bill Tilden

Writers (19)

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

Miscellaneous (112)

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. Thomas Edison
3. Albert Einstein
4. Charles Darwin
5. Henry Ford
6. Galileo Galilei
7. 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. Euclid
4. Gottfried Leibniz
5. Pythagoras

Philosophers and social scientists (24)

1. Thomas Aquinas
2. Aristotle
3. Augustine of Hippo
4. Averroes
5. René Descartes
6. Sigmund Freud
7. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
8. Herodotus
9. Hippocrates
10. Immanuel Kant
11. 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 (47)

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

Religious figures (8)

1. Báb
2. Bahá'u'lláh
3. Gautama Buddha
4. Jesus
5. Confucius
6. Muhammad
7. Laozi
8. Zoroaster

Revolutionaries and activists (16)

1. Mahatma Gandhi
2. Emma Goldman
3. Che Guevara
4. Joan of Arc
5. Mother Jones
6. Helen Keller
7. Martin Luther King, Jr.
8. Osama bin Laden
9. Ho Chi Minh
10. Florence Nightingale
11. Rosa Parks
12. Emilia Plater
13. Gavrilo Princip
14. Mother Teresa
15. Sojourner Truth
16. Harriet Tubman