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Biography articles		Importance
Biography articles		Top	None	Total
Quality
	FA	19	253	272
	A	8	103	111
	GA	21	341	362
	B	138	6664	6802
	Start	14	30130	30144
	Stub		87077	87077
	Assessed	200	124568	124768
	Unassessed	0	147743	147743
	Total	200	272311	272511

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CORE BIOGRAPHIES

This page has been developed by the Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography to be a list of the 200 most important biographies in WP as a way to have a work list of articles to improve. Any such list will be subjective and unlikely to find universal agreement.

Biography (core) articles		Importance
Biography (core) articles		Top	Total
Quality
	FA	19	19
	A	8	8
	GA	21	21
	B	138	138
	Start	14	14
	Stub
	Assessed	200	200
	Unassessed	0	0
	Total	200	200

For the time being, we are no longer accepting any suggestions to change the list.

Currently, this is being used as a worklist for the Version 1.0 Editorial Team. The live worklist can be found at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Biographies. It is essentially a work list for anyone who chooses to use it.

Biographies followed by (R) are on Wikipedia's Most Referenced Articles

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1 See also and external links
2 Criteria
3 The list

[edit] See also and external links

"A list of "The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History" [1], chosen by Michael H. Hart.
1,000 Years, 1,000 People: Ranking the Men and Women Who Shaped the Millennium (Book published in 1998)
Life magazine's list of the Top 100 people who made the Millennium, ranked in order of importance.
Lists by Charles Murray, from the book "Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 BC to 1950", compiled mathematically
100 Most Influential Books Ever Written, from book by Martin Seymour-Smith
Time magazine's 100 people of the century

[edit] Criteria

For placement on this list, consider the following criteria.

Top - Must have had a large impact outside of their main discipline, across several generations, and in the majority of the world. For instance, Einstein, brilliant physicist, but his theories have affected people outside of physics and in many other countries besides his nation of origin and several generations. His ideas have changed the way people think. No member should give this rating to any biography without first getting Project approval from the other members.

For an understanding of how "Top" relates to potential lower-importance categories, keep this in mind, as it might help decide if a biography is really "Top" or "High," etc.:

High - Must have had a large impact in their main discipline, across a couple of generations. Had some impact outside their country of origin.

Mid - Important in their discipline

Low - A contributor to their discipline and is included in Wikipedia to expand depth of knowledge of other articles.

[edit] The list

[edit] Arts and entertainment, 59

[edit] Athletes and related, 7

[edit] Artists and architects, 11

[edit] Music, 6

[edit] Performing arts misc., 5

[edit] Writers, 30

Non-Western, 0

[edit] Ancient world, 3

[edit] English language, 15

[edit] Continental European languages, 12

[edit] Leaders and public figures, 68

[edit] Politicians and leaders, 51

[edit] Americas, 7

[edit] Asia and Africa, 15

Africa, 4

Asia, to 1000 AD, 4

Cyrus the Great, 500s, Persia
Hammurabi, 1700s BC, Babylon
Qin Shi Huang, 200s BC, China
Emperor Taizong of Tang, 600s, China

Asia, 1000 to 1899 AD, 5

Akbar, 1500s, Central Asia, Mughal Empire
Genghis Khan, 1200s, Mongol Empire, SE Asia
Saladin, 1100s, Egypt
Suleiman the Magnificent, 1500s. Ottoman Empire
Timur, 1300s, Central Asia

Asia, 20th century, 2

Ho Chi Minh, 1900s, Vietnam
Mao Zedong, 1900s, China

[edit] Europe, 29

Ancient world to 500 AD, 5

500 AD to 1600 AD, 6

British Isles, 6

Winston Churchill
Edmund Burke
Elizabeth I of England
Henry II of England
Henry VIII of England
William I of England (William the Conqueror)

France, 3

Germany, 3

Russia, 5

Elsewhere, 1

Benito Mussolini

[edit] Religious figures, 10

[edit] Revolutionaries and activists, 7

[edit] Thinkers and explorers, 73

[edit] Explorers, 5

[edit] Inventors and scientists, 32

[edit] Biologists and doctors, 6

[edit] Inventors, 9

[edit] Physical scientists, 17

[edit] Mathematicians, 9

[edit] Philosophers, 18

[edit] Ancient China, 3

[edit] Ancient Greece, 3

[edit] Middle Ages and modern, 12

[edit] Social scientists, 9

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