Directory 7,622 records
Figures
Founders, prophets, saints, teachers and the people around them.
People on the record,
and people in the telling.
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All figures
Across 17 traditions, and 2,289 in none yet.
1–120 of 7,622
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Ordered by how many Wikipedias have an article on each — a measure of how widely a subject is written about, not of its importance to any tradition.
2,289 of these sit in no collection yet, so they appear under All and under no tradition.
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Deity · Christianity · Judaism · Islam Jesus Christ Central figure of Christianity (c. 6 or 4 BC – AD 30 or 33) -
Christianity William Shakespeare English playwright and poet (1564–1616) -
Greek and Roman Aristotle Greek philosopher -
East Asian traditions Confucius 5th-century BCE Chinese philosopher and politician -
Christianity Isaac Newton English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727) -
Plato 4th-century BCE Greek philosopher -
Christianity Vladimir Lenin Founding leader of the Soviet Union (1870–1924) -
Islam Muhammad Arabian political leader and the founder of Islam (c. 570–632) -
South Asian traditions Mahatma Gandhi Indian independence activist (1869–1948) -
Christianity Napoleon French military leader, French Emperor 1804–1814 and again in 1815 (1769–1821) -
Christianity Leo Tolstoy Russian author (1828–1910) -
Christianity Charles Darwin English naturalist and biologist (1809–1882) -
Christianity Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832) -
Socrates 5th-century BCE Greek philosopher -
Buddhist traditions The Buddha Indian philosopher and the founder of Buddhism (623 or 563 BCE – 543 or 483 BCE) -
Christianity Ludwig van Beethoven German composer (1770-1827) -
Christianity Dante Alighieri Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321) -
Greek and Roman Homer Reputed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey -
Greek and Roman Alexander the Great King of Macedonia and conqueror of Achaemenid Persia (356–323 BC) -
Christianity Martin Luther German priest and theologian (1483–1546) -
Christianity Fyodor Dostoyevsky Russian novelist (1821–1881) -
Christianity René Descartes French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650) -
Sigmund Freud Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939) -
Christianity Martin Luther King Jr. American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1929–1968) -
Virgil Roman poet (1st century BC) -
Anton Chekhov Russian dramatist and author (1860–1904) -
Christianity Pope Francis 266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025) -
Mao Zedong 1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China (1893–1976) -
Christianity · Iranian traditions Augustine of Hippo Christian theologian, philosopher, and saint (354–430) -
Oscar Wilde Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900) -
Christianity Carl Linnaeus Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707–1778) -
East Asian traditions Laozi 6th-century BC semi-legendary Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism -
Sophocles Ancient Greek playwright -
Pythagoras Greek philosopher and mathematician (c. 570 – c. 495 BC) -
Steppe, Siberia and the Arctic Genghis Khan Founder and first khan of the Mongol Empire (1162–1227) -
Christianity Thomas Aquinas Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church (1225–1274) -
Christianity John Paul II Pope, cardinal, bishop, priest, author -
Christianity Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716) -
Christianity J. R. R. Tolkien English writer and philologist (1892–1973) -
Judaism · Christianity · Islam Moses Abrahamic prophet said to have led the Israelites out of Egypt -
Greek and Roman Cicero Roman statesman, lawyer, orator, and philosopher (106–43 BC) -
Matsuo Bashō Japanese poet (1644–1694) -
Christianity Jane Austen Author, novelist, writer (1775–1817) -
Ovid Roman poet (43 BC – 17/18 AD) -
Christianity Benedict XVI 265 th pope of the Catholic Church (2005–2013) -
Christianity Mother Teresa Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and missionary (1910–1997) -
Judaism · Islam · Christianity Abraham Foundational legendary figure among adherents of the eponymous Abrahamic religions -
Judaism · Christianity Paul the Apostle Early Christian apostle and missionary (c. AD 5 – c. 64/65) -
Christianity Blaise Pascal French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
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Islam Avicenna Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037) -
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel German philosopher and theologian (1770–1831) -
Christianity Joan of Arc French folk heroine (1412–1431), military leader who crowned Charles VII and Roman Catholic saint, canonized 500 years after her death -
Christianity Francis Bacon English philosopher and statesman (1561–1626) -
Christianity Elizabeth I of England Queen of England and Ireland from 1558 to 1603 (1533-1603) -
Christianity Charlemagne King of Franks, regarded as the first Holy Roman Emperor (747–814) (742-814) -
Judaism · Christianity Mary Mother of Jesus Christ -
Bertrand Russell British philosopher and logician (1872–1970) -
Christianity Friedrich Schiller German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian (1759–1805) -
Christianity Peter the Great Tsar/Emperor of Russia from 1682 to 1725 -
Henri Matisse French artist (1869–1954) -
Christianity Geoffrey Chaucer 14th century English poet and author (1343–1400) -
Buddhist traditions Ashoka Mauryan emperor from 268 to 232 BCE -
Benedictus de Spinoza Dutch philosopher (1632-1677) -
Christianity Charles III King of the United Kingdom since 2022 (born 1948) -
Arthur Schopenhauer German philosopher (1788-1860) -
Hippocrates Greek physician (c. 460 – c. 370 BC) -
Christianity Victoria Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901 (1819-1901) -
Franz Schubert Austrian composer (1797–1828) -
Cleopatra Queen of Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BCE -
Christianity Søren Kierkegaard Danish theologian, philosopher, poet and social critic (1813–1855) -
H. G. Wells English writer (1866–1946) -
Horace Roman lyric poet (65 BC – 8 BC) -
Buddhist traditions Tenzin Gyatso 14th Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibetans -
Islam Akbar The third and greatest Mughal emperor from 1556 to 1605 -
Christianity Antonio Vivaldi Italian composer and violinist (1678–1741) -
Islam Ibn Khaldun Historiographer and historian -
Islam Hafez Persian poet and mystic (1325–1389) -
Christianity Jonathan Swift Anglo-Irish satirist and essayist (1667–1745) -
William Blake English poet and artist (1757–1827) -
Islam Ali Khamenei Supreme Leader of Iran from 1989 to 2026 -
Plutarch Greek philosopher and historian (c. AD 46 – after AD 119) -
Thomas Hobbes English philosopher (1588–1679) -
Islam Timur The founder of the Timurid Empire (1370–1405) -
David Hume Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian (1711-1776) -
Islam Rumi Iranian poet -
Christianity Kwame Nkrumah Ghanaian politician (1909–1972) -
Christianity · Greek and Roman Constantine the Great Roman emperor from 306 to 337 and first to convert to Christianity (272–337) -
East Asian traditions Hirohito Emperor of Japan from 1926 to 1989 -
Christianity Erasmus Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, and theologian (1466-1536) -
Christianity John Milton English poet and civil servant (1608–1674) -
Christianity Saint Peter Apostle of Jesus Christ -
William Butler Yeats Irish poet and playwright (1865–1939) -
Islam Suleiman the Magnificent The tenth and greatest Sultan of Ottoman Empire (1520–1566) -
Islam Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib 4th Rashidun Caliph (r. 656–661) and first Shia Imam -
Christianity Carl Jung Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist (1875–1961) -
Democritus Greek philosopher (c. 460–c. 370 BC) -
Islam Umar ibn Al-Khattāb 2nd Rashidun Caliph from 634 to 644 -
Christianity Giordano Bruno Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician (1548–1600) -
John Stuart Mill British philosopher and political economist (1806–1873) -
Iranian traditions Cyrus the Great Founder of the Achaemenid Empire (559–529 BC) -
Greek and Roman Epicurus Ancient Greek philosopher -
John Steinbeck American writer (1902–1968) -
Christianity William Faulkner American writer (1897-1962) -
Heraclitus Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC) -
Christianity Henry David Thoreau American essayist, poet, and philosopher (1817–1862) -
Islam Al-Ghazali Persian Sunni Muslim scholar and mystic (c.1058–1111) -
Percy Bysshe Shelley British Romantic poet (1792–1822) -
Christianity Pearl S. Buck Chinese women Nobel Prize winner, author, teacher, missionary (1892–1973) -
Iranian traditions Zoroaster Founder of Zoroastrianism -
Islam · Judaism · Christianity Adam First man according to the Abrahamic creation and religions such as Judaism, Christianity and Islam -
Christianity Michel de Montaigne French author, philosopher, and statesman (1533–1592) -
Christianity Francis of Assisi Italian Catholic saint, friar, deacon and preacher and founder of the Franciscan Order (1181/2–1226) -
Christianity Rutherford B. Hayes President of the United States from 1877 to 1881 (1822-1893) -
Judaism · Islam · Christianity Solomon King of Israel and son of David -
Buddhist traditions · Christianity Chiang Kai-shek Chinese politician, military leader, and President of the ROC (1887–1975) -
Judaism Henri Bergson French philosopher (1859–1941) -
Ptolemy 2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer -
Christianity John XXIII Priest, bishop, cardinal, pope -
Christianity Nicholas II of Russia 14th and last Emperor of Russia (1894–1917) -
South Asian traditions Swami Vivekananda Indian Hindu monk and philosopher (1863–1902)