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People Listed as Wikipedia Level 3 Vital Articles (HARD)

Separated by category per Wikipedia. Names alphabetized by last name where appropriate; Chinese naming conventions used (ie, alphabetized by "first" name).

NOTE: Eras are per Wikipedia. Early Modern includes Renaissance era figures. Late Modern era begins roughly 200 years ago. No discipline provided for Ancient/Post-Classical scientists because of the tendency for these figures to be polymaths.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vital_articles

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Continent, Era (Discipline)
Names
Leaders and politicians (28 articles)
Asia, Post-Classical
Akbar
Europe, Ancient
Alexander the Great
Asia, Ancient
Ashoka
Europe, Ancient
Augustus
South America, Late Modern
Simón Bolívar
Europe, Ancient
Julius Caesar
Europe, Early Modern
Catherine the Great
Europe, Post-Classical
Charlemagne
Africa, Ancient
Cleopatra
Near East, Ancient
Cyrus the Great
Europe, Early Modern
Elizabeth I
Asia, Late Modern
Mahatma Gandhi
Asia, Post-Classical
Genghis Khan
Near East, Ancient
Hammurabi
Africa, Ancient
Hatshepsut
Europe, Late Modern
Adolf Hitler
Europe, Post-Classical
Joan of Arc
North America, Late Modern
Abraham Lincoln
Africa, Late Modern
Nelson Mandela
Asia, Late Modern
Mao Zedong
Africa, Post-Classical
Mansa Musa
Europe, Early Modern
Napoleon
Asia, Ancient
Qin Shi Huang
Africa, Ancient
Ramesses II
Europe, Late Modern
Joseph Stalin
Near East, Early Modern
Suleiman the Magnificent
Asia, Post-Classical
Timur
North America, Early Modern
George Washington
Religious figures (8 articles)
Near East, Ancient
Abraham
Asia, Ancient
The Buddha
Near East, Ancient
Jesus
Europe, Early Modern
Martin Luther
Near East, Ancient
Moses
Near East, Post-Classical
Muhammad
Near East, Ancient
Paul the Apostle
Asia, Post-Classical
Adi Shankara
Philosophers and social scientists (18 articles)
Europe, Post-Classical
Thomas Aquinas
Europe, Ancient
Aristotle
Europe, Ancient
Cicero
Asia, Ancient
Confucius
Europe, Early Modern
René Descartes
Continent, Era (Discipline)
Names
Europe, Late Modern
Sigmund Freud
Europe, Ancient
Herodotus
Europe, Early Modern
Immanuel Kant
Near East, Post-Classical
Ibn Khaldun
Asia, Ancient
Laozi
Europe, Early Modern
John Locke
Europe, Early Modern
Niccolò Machiavelli
Europe, Late Modern
Karl Marx
Europe, Late Modern
Friedrich Nietzsche
Europe, Ancient
Plato
Europe, Early Modern
Adam Smith
Europe, Ancient
Socrates
Europe, Late Modern
Mary Wollstonecraft
Explorers (7 articles)
Europe, Late Modern
Roald Amundsen
Europe, Early Modern
Christopher Columbus
Europe, Early Modern
James Cook
Europe, Early Modern
Vasco da Gama
Europe, Early Modern
Ferdinand Magellan
Europe, Post-Classical
Marco Polo
Asia, Post-Classical
Zheng He
Scientists and inventors (19 articles)
Near East, Post-Classical
Avicenna
Europe, Early Modern (Astronomy)
Nicolaus Copernicus
Europe, Late Modern (Physics)
Marie Curie
Europe, Late Modern (Biology)
Charles Darwin
North America, Late Modern (Inventor)
Thomas Edison
Europe, Late Modern (Physics)
Albert Einstein
Europe, Late Modern (Physics)
Michael Faraday
Europe, Early Modern (Astronomy)
Galileo Galilei
Europe, Early Modern (Inventor)
Johannes Gutenberg
Europe, Ancient
Hippocrates
Europe, Late Modern (Chemistry)
Antoine Lavoisier
Europe, Early Modern (Biology)
Carl Linnaeus
Europe, Late Modern (Physics)
James Clerk Maxwell
Europe, Late Modern (Chemistry)
Dmitri Mendeleev
Europe, Early Modern (Physics)
Isaac Newton
Europe, Late Modern (Medicine)
Florence Nightingale
Europe, Late Modern (Medicine)
Louis Pasteur
Continent, Era (Discipline)
Names
Asia, Post-Classical
Shen Kuo
Europe, Late Modern (Inventor)
Nikola Tesla
Musicians and composers (6 articles) [NOTE: includes one group]
North America, Late Modern
Louis Armstrong
Europe, Early Modern
Johann Sebastian Bach
Europe, Late Modern
The Beatles
Europe, Early Modern
Ludwig van Beethoven
North America, Late Modern
Michael Jackson
Europe, Early Modern
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mathematicians (8 articles)
Europe, Ancient
Archimedes
Europe, Ancient
Euclid
Europe, Early Modern
Leonhard Euler
Europe, Late Modern
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Europe, Late Modern
Kurt Gödel
Near East, Post-Classical
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
Europe, Late Modern
Emmy Noether
Europe, Late Modern
Alan Turing
Artists (6 articles)
Asia, Post-Classical
Hokusai
North America, Late Modern
Frida Kahlo
Europe, Early Modern
Michelangelo
Europe, Late Modern
Pablo Picasso
Europe, Early Modern
Rembrandt
Europe, Early Modern
Leonardo da Vinci
Writers (11 articles)
Europe, Post-Classical
Dante Alighieri
Europe, Early Modern
Miguel de Cervantes
Europe, Ancient
Homer
Asia, Post-Classical
Li Bai
Near East, Post-Classical
Rumi
Europe, Early Modern
William Shakespeare
Asia, Post-Classical
Murasaki Shikibu
Asia, Late Modern
Rabindranath Tagore
Europe, Late Modern
Leo Tolstoy
Europe, Ancient
Virgil
Europe, Early Modern
Voltaire
Filmmakers (2 articles)
North America, Late Modern
Charlie Chaplin
North America, Late Modern
Walt Disney
Businesspeople (1 article)
North America, Late Modern
Henry Ford
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Level 84
Feb 3, 2024
I know that this has more than 100 questions, but it absolutely deserves to be featured. Very challenging.

One quibble: I think "Suleiman" should be sufficeint.

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Level 76
Feb 3, 2024
Thank you!
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Level 71
Feb 3, 2024
Damn, just discovered I've been misspelling Murasaki Shikibu's name for years (always thought it was Shibiku).
+2
Level 60
Feb 3, 2024
I missed a few that I definitely thought I answers. Wish I could nominate!
+1
Level 76
Feb 4, 2024
I didn't even know about the 100 question limit. Stupid rule