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People (115 articles)

Artists

1. Leonardo da Vinci
2. Michelangelo
3. Rembrandt
4. Diego Velázquez
5. Hokusai
6. Claude Monet
7. Vincent van Gogh
8. Pablo Picasso
9. Salvador Dalí

Authors

1. Homer
2. Sophocles
3. Virgil
4. Li Bai
5. Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi-Rumi
6. Dante Alighieri
7. William Shakespeare
8. Miguel de Cervantes
9. Molière
10. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
11. Edgar Allan Poe
12. Fyodor Dostoevsky
13. Leo Tolstoy
14. James Joyce
15. Franz Kafka
16. Pablo Neruda

Composers and musicians

1. Johann Sebastian Bach
2. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
3. Ludwig van Beethoven
4. Frédéric Chopin
5. Richard Wagner
6. Louis Armstrong
7. Igor Stravinsky
8. Elvis Presley
9. The Beatles

Explorers

1. Roald Amundsen
2. Jacques Cartier
3. Christopher Columbus
4. James Cook
5. Ferdinand Magellan
6. Marco Polo
7. Ibn Battuta
8. Zheng He

Inventors and scientists

1. Nicolaus Copernicus
2. Charles Darwin
3. Thomas Edison
4. Albert Einstein
5. Galileo Galilei
6. Geber
7. Carl Linnaeus
8. Isaac Newton
9. Nikola Tesla
10. Sigmund Freud
11. Niels Bohr
12. Marie Curie
13. Dmitri Mendeleev

Mathematicians

1. Archimedes
2. Euclid
3. Leonhard Euler
4. Carl Friedrich Gauss
5. Kurt Gödel
6. David Hilbert
7. Gottfried Leibniz
8. Blaise Pascal
9. Henri Poincaré
10. Pythagoras
11. Alan Turing
12. Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī

Philosophers and social scientists

1. Confucius
2. Socrates
3. Plato
4. Aristotle
5. Template:Start-icon Nagarjuna
6. Avicenna
7. Thomas Aquinas
8. Ibn Khaldun
9. René Descartes
10. John Locke
11. Immanuel Kant
12. Karl Marx
13. Friedrich Nietzsche
14. Max Weber

Religious figures

1. Abraham
2. Gautama Buddha
3. Guru Nanak Dev
4. Jesus
5. Laozi
6. Moses
7. Muhammad
8. Paul the Apostle
9. Zoroaster

Politicians and leaders

1. Hammurabi
2. Cyrus the Great
3. Alexander the Great
4. Qin Shi Huang
5. Julius Caesar
6. Cleopatra VII
7. Augustus
8. Attila the Hun
9. Charlemagne
10. Genghis Khan
11. Joan of Arc
12. Suleiman the Magnificent
13. Elizabeth I of England
14. George Washington
15. Napoleon I of France
16. Simón Bolívar
17. Abraham Lincoln
18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
19. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
20. Vladimir Lenin
21. Winston Churchill
22. Joseph Stalin
23. Adolf Hitler
24. Mao Zedong
25. Nelson Mandela

History (60 articles)

1. History
2. Civilization
3. History of the world
4. History of Africa
5. History of the Americas
6. History of China
7. History of Europe
8. History of India
9. History of Japan
10. History of the Middle East

Prehistory to Middle Ages

1. Prehistory
2. Stone Age
   1. Mesopotamia
   2. Neolithic Revolution
   3. Sumer
3. Bronze Age
   1. Ancient Egypt
   2. Assyria
   3. Indus Valley Civilization
4. Iron Age
   1. Ancient Greece
   2. Ancient Rome
   3. Macedon
   4. Persian Empire
5. Middle Ages
   1. Black Death
   2. Byzantine Empire
   3. Crusades
   4. East-West Schism
   5. Holy Roman Empire
   6. Islamic Golden Age
   7. Mongol Empire
   8. Ottoman Empire
   9. Pre-Columbian
   10. Spanish Inquisition
   11. Viking Age

Renaissance to present

1. Abolitionism
2. Age of Discovery
3. Age of Enlightenment
4. British Empire
5. Civil rights movement
6. Cold War
7. Congress of Vienna
8. Cultural Revolution
9. European colonization of the Americas
10. History of the European Union
11. French Revolution
12. Great Depression
13. The Holocaust
14. Industrial Revolution
15. Iranian Revolution
16. Korean War
17. Napoleonic Wars
18. Protestant Reformation
19. Renaissance
20. Russian Empire
21. Scientific Revolution
22. Scramble for Africa
23. Soviet Union
24. Space exploration
25. Taiping Rebellion
26. History of the United States
27. Women's suffrage
28. World War I
29. World War II

Geography (106 articles)

1. Geography
2. City
3. Continent
4. Country
5. Desert
6. Forest
7. Glacier
8. Mountain
9. Ocean
10. River

Bodies of water

1. Amazon River
2. Atlantic Ocean
3. Black Sea
4. Caspian Sea
5. Danube
6. Great Barrier Reef
7. Indian Ocean
8. Mediterranean Sea
9. Niagara Falls
10. Nile
11. Pacific Ocean
12. Panama Canal
13. Suez Canal

Cities

1. Athens
2. Beijing
3. Berlin
4. Delhi
5. Hong Kong
6. Istanbul
7. Jerusalem
8. London
9. Los Angeles
10. Mecca
11. Mexico City
12. Moscow
13. New York City
14. Paris
15. Rome
16. São Paulo
17. Seoul
18. Tokyo

Continents and regions

1. Africa
2. Antarctica
3. Arctic
4. Asia
5. Europe
6. Latin America
7. Middle East
8. North America
9. Oceania
10. South America

Countries

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1. Argentina
2. Australia
3. Austria
4. Bangladesh
5. Belgium
6. Brazil
7. Burma
8. Canada
9. People's Republic of China
10. Colombia
11. Democratic Republic of the Congo
12. Denmark
13. Egypt
14. Ethiopia
15. Finland
16. France
17. Germany
18. Greece
19. India
20. Indonesia
21. Iran
22. Iraq
23. Republic of Ireland
24. Israel
25. Italy
26. Japan
27. Mexico
28. Netherlands
29. Nigeria
30. Norway
31. Pakistan
32. Philippines
33. Poland
34. Russia
35. Saudi Arabia
36. Singapore
37. South Africa
38. South Korea
39. Spain
40. Sweden
41. Switzerland
42. Republic of China (Taiwan)
43. Thailand
44. Turkey
45. Ukraine
46. United Kingdom
47. United States
48. Vietnam

Mountains, valleys and deserts

1. Alps
2. Andes
3. Gobi Desert
4. Grand Canyon
5. Himalayas
   1. Mount Everest
6. Sahara

Arts and culture (56 articles)

1. Art
2. History of art
3. Aesthetics

Artistic movements

1. Gothic
2. Baroque
3. Romanticism
4. Modernism
5. Postmodernism
6. Pop culture

Literature

1. Literature
2. History of literature
3. Prose
   1. Book
   2. Fiction
      1. Novel
      2. Short story
4. Poetry
   1. Rhyme
   2. Forms
      1. Epic poetry
      2. Haiku
      3. Sonnet

Music

1. Music
2. History of music
3. Musical instrument
4. Singing
5. Genres
   1. Classical music
   2. Folk music
   3. Hip hop music
   4. Jazz
   5. Pop music
   6. Rock music

Performing arts

1. Performing arts
2. Dance
   1. Ballet
3. Film
   1. Documentary
4. Opera
   1. Orchestra
5. Theatre
   1. Comedy
   2. Tragedy

Visual arts

1. Visual arts
2. Architecture
   1. Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
   2. Great Wall of China
3. Comics
4. Drawing
5. Painting
   1. Illustration
   2. Portrait
6. Photography
7. Sculpture
   1. Pottery
   2. Statue

Philosophy and religion (77 articles)

Philosophy

1. Philosophy
2. Philosophical branches
   1. Ethics
   2. Epistemology
      1. Belief
      2. Knowledge
      3. Truth
   3. Logic
   4. Metaphysics
      1. Existence
      2. Ontology
      3. Free will
3. Philosophy by region and period
   1. Western philosophy
      1. Greek philosophy
      2. Medieval philosophy
      3. Contemporary philosophy
   2. Eastern philosophy
      1. Chinese philosophy
      2. Indian philosophy
      3. Islamic philosophy
4. Philosophical movements
   1. Confucianism
   2. Existentialism
   3. Idealism
   4. Hedonism
   5. Humanism
   6. Marxism
   7. Nihilism
   8. Rationalism
   9. Realism
   10. Skepticism

Religion

1. Religion
2. Deity
   1. God
   2. Goddess
3. Mythology
4. Mysticism
5. Soul
6. Spirituality
7. Meditation
8. Prayer
9. Worship
10. Yoga
11. Theistic philosophies
    1. Theism
    2. Agnosticism
    3. Atheism
    4. Deism
    5. Gnosticism
    6. Pantheism

Specific religions

1. Bahá'í Faith
2. Buddhism
   1. Mahayana
   2. Theravada
   3. Vajrayana
3. Christianity
   1. Bible
   2. Christian Church
   3. Roman Catholic Church
   4. Eastern Orthodox Church
   5. Protestantism
   6. Pope
4. Hinduism
   1. Bhagavad Gita
   2. Krishna
   3. Upanishads
   4. Vedas
5. Islam
   1. Mosque
   2. Five pillars of Islam
   3. Divisions of Islam
   4. Qur'an
6. Jainism
7. Judaism
   1. Tanakh
8. Shinto
9. Sikhism
   1. Guru Granth Sahib
10. Taoism
11. Voodoo
12. Zoroastrianism

Everyday life (82 articles)

1. Clothing
2. Cooking
3. Color
   1. Black
   2. White
4. Emotion
   1. Anger
   2. Fear
   3. Love
   4. Happiness
5. Family
   1. Adult
   2. Child
   3. Infant
   4. Marriage
6. Gender
   1. Man
   2. Woman
7. Mind
   1. Consciousness
   2. Thought
8. Sleep
   1. Dream

Food and drink

1. Food
2. Bread
3. Cheese
4. Fruit
5. Grain
6. Maize
7. Meat
8. Oat
9. Potato
10. Rice
11. Soybean
12. Vegetable
13. Wheat
14. Beer
15. Coffee
16. Drinking water
17. Milk
18. Tea
19. Wine

Language

1. Language
2. Alphabet
   1. Letter
3. Grammar
4. Word
5. Writing
6. Specific languages
   1. Arabic language
   2. Bengali language
   3. Chinese language
   4. English language
   5. French language
   6. German language
   7. Greek language
   8. Hindi
   9. Japanese language
   10. Latin
   11. Portuguese language
   12. Punjabi language
   13. Russian language
   14. Sanskrit
   15. Spanish language
   16. Swahili language

Recreation and entertainment

1. Recreation
2. Game
   1. Board game
   2. Chess
   3. Draughts
   4. Go
   5. Mancala
   6. Video game
3. Gambling
4. Sport
   1. Association football (soccer)
   2. Athletics (track and field)
5. Toy

Society and social sciences (88 articles)

1. Society
2. Culture

Social issues

1. Abortion
2. Euthanasia
3. Suicide
4. Discrimination
   1. Racism
   2. Template:Start-icon Sexism
5. Education
6. Freedom
   1. Slavery
7. Globalization
8. Law
   1. Capital punishment
   2. Civil rights
   3. Constitution
   4. Crime
   5. Justice
   6. Police
9. Peace
   1. War
10. Pollution
11. Poverty
12. Social movement
    1. Environmentalism
    2. Feminism

Business and economics

1. Business
2. Economics
   1. Good
   2. Service (economics)
   3. Supply and demand
3. Company
4. Corporation
5. Finance
6. Industry
   1. Agriculture
   2. Manufacturing
   3. Mining
7. Market
8. Marketing
9. Money
   1. Euro
   2. Japanese yen
   3. Pound sterling
   4. Renminbi
   5. United States dollar
10. Tax
11. Trade

Media

1. Advertising
2. Broadcasting
3. Journalism
4. Magazine
5. Mass media
6. News
7. Newspaper
8. Publishing

Politics and government

1. Politics
2. Government
3. Capitalism
4. Socialism
5. Civics
   1. Anarchism
   2. Communism
   3. Democracy
   4. Dictatorship
   5. Fascism
   6. Monarchy
   7. Theocracy
6. Conservatism
7. Liberalism
8. Diplomacy
9. Imperialism
10. Military
11. Nationalism
12. State
13. Specific political and governmental institutions
    1. European Union
    2. International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
    3. NATO
    4. Nobel Prize
    5. OPEC
    6. United Nations
       1. World Health Organization
       2. World Trade Organization

Social sciences

1. Social sciences
2. Anthropology
3. Political science
4. Psychology
5. Sociology

Health and medicine (48 articles)

Disease

1. Disease
2. Alzheimer's disease
3. Cancer
4. Cholera
5. Common cold
6. Diabetes mellitus
7. Dysentery
8. Influenza
9. Malaria
10. Parkinson's disease
11. Sexually transmitted disease
    1. AIDS
    2. Syphilis
12. Smallpox
13. Tuberculosis

Health and fitness

1. Health
2. Physical fitness
   1. Exercise
   2. Hygiene
   3. Obesity
   4. Stress
3. Addiction
4. Drug
5. Nutrition

Medicine

1. Medicine
2. Birth control
3. Coma
4. Disability
   1. Autism
   2. Blindness
   3. Hearing impairment
   4. Mental illness
5. Physical trauma
   1. Aneurysm
   2. Bone fracture
   3. Brain damage
   4. Burn
   5. Cardiac arrest
   6. Frostbite
   7. Bleeding
   8. Inflammation
   9. Respiratory failure
   10. Shock
   11. Stroke
6. Medication
   1. Antibiotic
   2. Vaccine
7. Physician

Science (177 articles)

1. Science
2. History of science
3. Nature
4. Philosophy of science
5. Scientific method

Astronomy

1. Astronomy
2. Asteroid
3. Big Bang
4. Comet
5. Eclipse
6. Galaxy
   1. Milky Way
7. Natural satellite
8. Orbit
9. Outer space
10. Physical cosmology
11. Planet
12. Solar System
    1. Sun
    2. Mercury
    3. Venus
    4. Earth
       1. Moon
    5. Mars
    6. Asteroid belt
    7. Jupiter
    8. Saturn
    9. Uranus
    10. Neptune
13. Star
14. Supernova
15. Universe

Biology

1. Biology
2. Life
3. Abiogenesis
4. Anatomy
   1. Brain
   2. Gastrointestinal tract
   3. Heart
   4. Immune system
   5. Lung
   6. Skeleton
5. Reproduction
   1. Pregnancy
   2. Sex
6. Botany
7. Cell (biology)
8. Ecology
   1. Ecosystem
9. Evolution
   1. Natural selection
10. Genetics
    1. DNA
    2. Gene
    3. Heredity
11. Organism
    1. Animal
       1. Amphibian
       2. Bird
       3. Dinosaur
       4. Fish
       5. Insect
       6. Mammal
          1. Cattle
          2. Cat
          3. Dog
          4. Horse
          5. Human
       7. Reptile
    2. Archaea
    3. Bacteria
    4. Fungus
    5. Plant
       1. Flower
       2. Tree
    6. Protist
12. Species
13. Zoology

Chemistry

1. Chemistry
2. Biochemistry
3. Organic chemistry
4. Inorganic chemistry
5. Acid
6. Alloy
   1. Bronze
   2. Steel
7. Atom
8. Base
9. Catalysis
10. Chemical bond
11. Chemical compound
    1. Alcohol
    2. Carbon dioxide
    3. Oil
    4. Salt
    5. Water
12. Chemical element
    1. Aluminium
    2. Carbon
    3. Copper
    4. Gold
    5. Helium
    6. Hydrogen
    7. Iron
    8. Nitrogen
    9. Oxygen
    10. Silicon
    11. Silver
    12. Sulfur
    13. Uranium
13. Chemical reaction
14. Crystal
15. Electrolysis
16. Glass
17. Ion
18. Metal
19. Mineral
20. Molecule
21. Periodic table

Earth science

1. Earth science
2. History of Earth
3. Geology
   1. Avalanche
   2. Crust
   3. Earthquake
   4. Erosion
   5. Geologic fault
   6. Magma
   7. Mantle
   8. Plate tectonics
   9. Volcano
4. Earth's atmosphere
   1. Climate
   2. Cloud
   3. Flood
   4. Global warming
   5. Meteorology
   6. Rain
   7. Tornado
   8. Tropical cyclone
   9. Weather
5. Oceanography

Physics

1. Physics
2. Particle physics
   1. Standard Model
   2. Subatomic particle
      1. Electron
      2. Neutrino
      3. Neutron
      4. Photon
      5. Proton
3. Classical mechanics
   1. Kinematics
   2. Kinetics
4. Energy
   1. Kinetic energy
   2. Potential energy
5. Force
   1. Electromagnetism
   2. Gravitation
   3. Strong interaction
   4. Weak interaction
6. Heat
   1. Temperature
7. Light
   1. Electromagnetic radiation
   2. Speed of light
   3. Visible spectrum
8. Mass
   1. Weight
9. Matter
10. Motion
11. Quantum mechanics
12. Sound
13. Space
14. Thermodynamics
15. Theory of relativity
16. Time

Technology (121 articles)

1. Technology
2. History of technology
3. Engineering
4. Artificial intelligence
5. Biotechnology
6. Genetic engineering
7. Nuclear technology
8. Tool

Energy

1. Electricity
2. Geothermal power
3. Hydropower
4. Nuclear power
5. Petroleum
6. Solar energy
7. Wind power

Electronics

1. Electronics
2. Battery
3. Capacitor
4. Diode
5. Incandescent light bulb
6. Integrated circuit
7. Semiconductor
8. Transistor

Mechanical and structural engineering

1. Mechanical engineering
2. Engine
   1. Electric motor
   2. Internal combustion engine
   3. Jet engine
   4. Steam engine
3. Inclined plane
4. Lever
5. Pulley
6. Robot
7. Wheel
8. Arch
9. Bridge
10. Canal
11. Dam
12. Dome
13. House
14. Pyramid
15. Tower

Transportation

1. Transport
2. Vehicle
3. Aircraft
4. Automobile
5. Bicycle
6. Elevator
7. Helicopter
8. Motorcycle
9. Train

Information technology

1. Information technology
2. Abacus
3. Calculator
4. Computer
5. Cryptography

Optical

1. Camera
2. Glasses
3. Laser
4. Lens
5. Microscope
6. Prism
7. Telescope

Media and communication

1. Telecommunication
2. E-mail
3. Internet
4. Microphone
5. Mobile phone
6. Printing press
7. Printing
8. Radio
9. Telephone
10. Television
11. Typewriter
12. Video
13. World Wide Web

Navigation and timekeeping

1. Calendar
2. Clock
3. Compass
4. Global Positioning System
5. Gyroscope
6. Pendulum
7. Radar
8. Sonar
9. Sundial

Weapons

1. Weapon
2. Artillery
3. Bow
4. Firearm
5. Handgun
6. Knife
7. Machine gun
8. Nuclear weapon
9. Rifle
10. Sword
11. Submarine
12. Tank

Material and chemical

1. Candle
2. Fire
3. Explosive material
   1. Dynamite
   2. Gasoline
   3. Gunpowder
4. Metallurgy
5. Plastic
6. Rubber

Food and health

1. Electrocardiogram
2. Magnetic resonance imaging
3. Pasteurization
4. Refrigerator
5. Stove
6. X-ray

Space

1. Hubble Space Telescope
2. International Space Station
3. Moon landing
4. Rocket
5. Satellite
6. Space Shuttle
7. Space station

Mathematics (59 articles)

1. Mathematics
2. Constant
   1. Pi
   2. e
3. Number
   1. Complex number
   2. Integer
   3. Natural number
   4. Number theory
   5. Prime number
   6. Rational number
   7. Real number
4. Arithmetic
   1. Addition
   2. Subtraction
   3. Multiplication
   4. Division
   5. Fraction
   6. Percentage
   7. Exponentiation
   8. Square root
5. Combinatorics
6. Digit
7. Equation
8. Function
9. Logarithm
10. Variable
11. Algebra
12. Linear algebra
    1. Matrix

1. Mathematical analysis
   1. Calculus
   2. Differential equation
   3. Infinity
   4. Limit
   5. Probability
   6. Statistics
2. Chaos theory
3. Game theory
4. Geometry
   1. Angle
   2. Area
   3. Coordinates
   4. Dimension
   5. Line
   6. Plane
   7. Point
   8. Shape
      1. Circle
      2. Cube
      3. Sphere
      4. Square
      5. Triangle
   9. Volume
5. Mathematical proof
6. Series
7. Set
8. Topology
9. Trigonometry

Measurement (26 articles)

1. Measurement
2. Metric system
3. International System of Units
4. Imperial unit
5. Time
   1. Second
   2. Day
   3. Year
6. Length
   1. Foot
   2. Kilometer
   3. Metre
   4. Mile
7. Angle
   1. Degree
   2. Radian

1. Volume
   1. Litre
2. Mass
   1. Weight
   2. Kilogram
   3. Pound
   4. Ton
3. Temperature
   1. Celsius
   2. Fahrenheit
4. Force
   1. Newton
5. Power
   1. Watt
6. Electromagnetism
   1. Ampere
   2. Volt
   3. Ohm

See also

• Top 1000 vital articles sorted by number of views
• Wikipedia:Vital 100
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Haystack, aiming to highlight the vitals of vital articles
• Category:Vital articles
• Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Core topics, another take on the minimal article list.
• Wikipedia:Core topics - 1,000, a similar list
• Wikipedia:Core biographies
• Wikipedia:Core culture and society topics
• Wikipedia:Core math, science and technology topics