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Religious figures

This section contains 492 articles.

Abrahamic religions

This section contains 368 articles.

Judaism

This section contains 28 articles.

Note: Abraham, Moses, and other figures from the Hebrew Bible are listed on the philosophy and religion subpage.

1. Isaac Abarbanel
2. Abraham ibn Ezra
3. Rabbi Akiva (Level 4)
4. Rav Ashi
5. Chaim Yosef David Azulai
6. Baal Shem Tov (Level 4)
7. Jacob Frank
8. Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog
9. Abraham Joshua Heschel
10. Hillel the Elder
11. Samson Raphael Hirsch
12. Judah ha-Nasi
13. Mordecai Kaplan
14. Joseph Karo
15. Abraham Isaac Kook
16. Judah Loew ben Bezalel (Level 4)
17. Maimonides (Level 4)
18. Nachmanides
19. Rashi (Level 4)
20. Saadia Gaon
21. Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
22. Menachem Mendel Schneerson
23. Joel Teitelbaum
24. Vilna Gaon (Level 4)
25. Yohanan ben Zakkai
26. Ovadia Yosef
27. Shneur Zalman of Liadi
28. Sabbatai Zevi

Christianity

This section contains 231 articles.

Note: Popes from 1054 to 1815 are listed under Politicians and leaders.

New Testament figures

This section contains 32 articles.

1. Jesus (Level 3)
   1. Saint Joseph
   2. Mary, mother of Jesus (Level 4)
      1. Our Lady of Guadalupe
   3. James, brother of Jesus
2. Apostles in the New Testament
   1. Andrew the Apostle
   2. Bartholomew the Apostle
   3. James, son of Alphaeus
   4. James the Great
   5. John the Apostle (Level 4)
   6. Judas Iscariot (Level 4)
   7. Jude the Apostle
   8. Matthew the Apostle
   9. Saint Peter (Level 4)
   10. Philip the Apostle
   11. Simon the Zealot
   12. Thomas the Apostle
3. Barnabas
4. Biblical Magi
5. John the Baptist (Level 4)
6. Lazarus of Bethany
7. Luke the Evangelist
8. Mark the Evangelist
9. Martha
10. Mary Magdalene (Level 4)
11. Simon Magus
12. Matthias the Apostle
13. Paul the Apostle (Level 4)
14. Silas
15. Saint Stephen
16. Saint Timothy

Christianity: Pre-Schism

This section contains 61 articles.

1. Ambrose (Level 4)
2. Anthony the Great
3. Arius (Level 4)
4. Athanasius of Alexandria (Level 4)
5. Augustine of Canterbury
6. Basil of Caesarea (Level 4)
7. Benedict of Nursia (Level 4)
8. Saint Christopher
9. Clement of Alexandria (Level 4)
10. Clotilde
11. Columba
12. Cyprian
13. Cyril and Methodius (Level 4)
14. Cyril of Alexandria (Level 4)
15. Cyril of Jerusalem
16. Denis of Paris
17. Dionysius Exiguus
18. Ephrem the Syrian
19. Frumentius
20. Saint George (Level 4)
21. Gregory of Narek
22. Gregory of Nazianzus (Level 4)
23. Gregory of Nyssa (Level 4)
24. Hilary of Poitiers
25. Hosius of Corduba
26. Ignatius of Antioch
27. Irenaeus (Level 4)
28. Isidore of Seville
29. Jerome (Level 4)
30. John Chrysostom (Level 4)
31. John of Damascus (Level 4)
32. Justin Martyr
33. Marcion of Sinope
34. Saint Marinus
35. Martin of Tours
36. Nestorius
37. Saint Nicholas (Level 4)
38. Origen (Level 4)
39. Pachomius the Great
40. Papias of Hierapolis
41. Saint Patrick
42. Peter Chrysologus
43. Peter Damian
44. Polycarp
45. Tertullian (Level 4)
46. Theodoret

Popes (pre-schism)

This section contains 15 articles.

1. Pope Linus
2. Clement of Rome (Level 4)
3. Pope Alexander I
4. Pope Zephyrinus
5. Pope Sylvester I
6. Pope Damasus I
7. Pope Leo I (Level 4)
8. Pope Gregory I (Level 4)
9. Pope Honorius I
10. Pope Gregory II
11. Pope Adrian I
12. Pope Leo III
13. Pope John X
14. Pope Sylvester II
15. Pope Leo IX

Catholic Church

This section contains 68 articles.

Catholic Church: Pre-1800

This section contains 39 articles.

1. Albertus Magnus
2. Anselm of Canterbury (Level 4)
3. Anthony of Padua
4. Thomas Becket
5. Robert Bellarmine
6. Bernard of Clairvaux
7. Bonaventure (Level 4)
8. Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
9. Edmund Campion
10. Peter Canisius
11. Catherine of Siena
12. Clare of Assisi
13. Dominic de Guzmán
14. Johann Eck
15. Meister Eckhart
16. Peter Faber
17. Francis of Assisi (Level 4)
18. Gerard Sasso
19. Aloysius Gonzaga
20. Jan Hus (Level 4)
21. Ignatius of Loyola (Level 4)
22. Cornelius Jansen
23. Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros
24. John of Ávila
25. John of the Cross (Level 4)
26. Heinrich Kramer
27. Lanfranc
28. Alphonsus Liguori
29. Peter the Hermit
30. Matteo Ricci
31. Francis de Sales
32. Junípero Serra
33. Teresa of Ávila (Level 4)
34. Johann Tetzel
35. Thomas à Kempis
36. Tomás de Torquemada (Level 4)
37. Thomas Wolsey
38. John Wycliffe (Level 4)
39. Francis Xavier (Level 4)

Catholic Church: Modern

This section contains 19 articles.

1. Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
2. Frances Xavier Cabrini
3. John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore)
4. Charles Coughlin
5. Father Damien
6. Dorothy Day
7. Gustavo Gutiérrez
8. Maximilian Kolbe
9. Faustina Kowalska
10. Mary MacKillop
11. Thomas Merton
12. John Henry Newman
13. Padre Pio
14. Óscar Romero
15. Elizabeth Ann Seton
16. Fulton J. Sheen
17. Mother Teresa (Level 4)
18. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
19. Thérèse of Lisieux

Popes (post-schism)

This section contains 10 articles.

1. Pope Pius IX (Level 4)
2. Pope Leo XIII
3. Pope Pius X
4. Pope Benedict XV
5. Pope Pius XII
6. Pope John XXIII (Level 4)
7. Pope Paul VI
8. Pope John Paul II (Level 4)
9. Pope Benedict XVI
10. Pope Francis

Orthodox Church

This section contains 19 articles.

1. Alexius, Metropolitan of Kiev
2. Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow
3. Bartholomew I of Constantinople
4. Vladimir Bogoyavlensky
5. Cyprian, Metropolitan of Kiev
6. Philaret Drozdov
7. Patriarch Hermogenes of Moscow
8. Innocent of Alaska
9. Isidore of Kiev
10. Patriarch Job of Moscow
11. Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow
12. Michael I Cerularius
13. Patriarch Nikon of Moscow (Level 4)
14. Gregory Palamas
15. Philip II, Metropolitan of Moscow
16. Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow
17. Grigori Rasputin (Level 4)
18. Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow
19. Stefan Yavorsky

Protestantism

This section contains 44 articles.

Protestantism: Early modern

This section contains 23 articles.

1. Richard Allen (bishop)
2. Jakob Ammann
3. Jacobus Arminius (Level 4)
4. Francis Asbury
5. Martin Bucer
6. John Calvin (Level 4)
7. Thomas Cranmer (Level 4)
8. Jonathan Edwards (theologian) (Level 4)
9. George Fox
10. John Knox (Level 4)
11. Martin Luther (Level 3)
12. Alexander Mack
13. Cotton Mather
14. Philipp Melanchthon (Level 4)
15. Menno Simons
16. John Smyth (English theologian)
17. Philipp Spener
18. William Tyndale
19. Charles Wesley
20. John Wesley (Level 4)
21. George Whitefield
22. Roger Williams
23. Huldrych Zwingli (Level 4)

Protestantism: Modern

This section contains 21 articles.

1. Karl Barth (Level 4)
2. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
3. William M. Branham
4. Jerry Falwell
5. Charles Grandison Finney
6. John Flynn (minister)
7. Billy Graham (Level 4)
8. Aimee Semple McPherson
9. William Miller (preacher)
10. John Mott
11. Martin Niemöller
12. Phoebe Palmer
13. Charles Fox Parham
14. Pat Robertson
15. William J. Seymour
16. Charles Spurgeon
17. John Stott
18. Paul Tillich
19. Desmond Tutu (Level 4)
20. Ellen G. White
21. James S. White

Mormonism

This section contains 2 articles.

1. Joseph Smith (Level 4)
2. Brigham Young

Christianity: Others

This section contains 5 articles.

1. Mary Baker Eddy (Level 4)
2. Kimpa Vita
3. Charles Taze Russell
4. Joseph Franklin Rutherford
5. Emanuel Swedenborg

Islam

This section contains 98 articles.

Early Islam

This section contains 23 articles.

Muhammad's family

This section contains 10 articles.

1. Muhammad (Level 3)
2. Wives of Muhammad
   1. Khadija bint Khuwaylid (Level 4)
   2. Aisha (Level 4)
3. Zayd ibn Haritha al-Kalbi
4. Fatima (Level 4)
   1. Zaynab bint Ali
5. Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib
6. Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib
7. Ibn Abbas

Companions of the Prophet

This section contains 13 articles.

1. Companions of the Prophet
2. Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud
3. Abd Allah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab
4. Abu Ayyub al-Ansari
5. Abu al-Darda
6. Abu Hurayra
7. Abu Musa al-Ash'ari
8. Abu Dharr al-Ghifari
9. Abu Sufyan
10. Bilal ibn Rabah
11. Salman the Persian
12. Ubayy ibn Ka'b
13. Zayd ibn Thabit

Sunni Islam

This section contains 31 articles.

1. Abdallah ibn Yasin
2. Muhammad Abduh
3. Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi
4. Abu Hanifa (Level 4)
5. Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari
6. Abu Mansur al-Maturidi
7. Ahmad ibn Hanbal (Level 4)
8. Al-Dhahabi
9. Fakhr al-Din al-Razi
10. Fethullah Gülen
11. Ibn Abidin
12. Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
13. Ibn Hazm
14. Ibn Kathir
15. Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya
16. Ibn Taymiyya (Level 4)
17. Al-Juwayni
18. Malik ibn Anas (Level 4)
19. Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (Level 4)
20. Muhammad al-Bukhari (Level 4)
21. Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj (Level 4)
22. Al-Nawawi (Level 4)
23. Al-Qurtubi
24. Tariq Ramadan
25. Al-Shafi'i (Level 4)
26. Al-Suyuti
27. Al-Tabari
28. The ten to whom Paradise was promised
    1. Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf
    2. Sa'id ibn Zayd
    3. Talha ibn Ubayd Allah

Sufism

This section contains 12 articles.

1. Abdul Qadir Gilani
2. Ahmad Sirhindi
3. Baba Farid
4. Baha' al-Din Naqshband
5. Al-Ghazali (Level 4)
6. Hasan al-Basri
7. Ibn Arabi (Level 4)
8. Junayd of Baghdad
9. Al-Qushayri
10. Rabia Basri
11. Mulla Sadra (Level 4)
12. Muhammad ibn Ali al-Sanusi

Shia Islam

This section contains 21 articles.

1. Aga Khan III
2. Ahl al-Bayt
   1. Ali (Level 3)
   2. Hasan ibn Ali
   3. Husayn ibn Ali (Level 4)
3. Ali al-Hadi
4. Ali al-Sajjad
5. Ali al-Rida
6. Ali al-Sistani
7. Mir Damad
8. Fatima bint Musa
9. Hasan al-Askari
10. Ibn Babawayh
11. Ja'far al-Sadiq (Level 4)
12. Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi
13. Muhammad al-Baqir
14. Muhammad al-Jawad
15. Muhammad al-Mahdi
16. Musa al-Kazim
17. Shaykh Tusi
18. Zayd ibn Ali

Nation of Islam

This section contains 3 articles.

1. Louis Farrakhan
2. Wallace Fard Muhammad
3. Elijah Muhammad

Islam: Others

This section contains 8 articles.

1. Clarence 13X
2. Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad
3. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
4. Ibn Tumart
5. Jabir ibn Zayd
6. Jahm bin Safwan
7. Jamal al-Din al-Afghani
8. Al-Zamakhshari

Other Abrahamic

This section contains 11 articles.

Bahá'í Faith

This section contains 5 articles.

1. ʻAbdu'l-Bahá
2. Báb
3. Baháʼu'lláh (Level 4)
4. Shoghi Effendi
5. Subh-i-Azal

Other Abrahamic

This section contains 6 articles.

1. Marshall Applewhite
2. Leonard Howell
3. Jim Jones
4. David Koresh
5. Anton LaVey
6. Sun Myung Moon

Dharmic religions

This section contains 107 articles.

Hinduism

This section contains 36 articles.

Hinduism: Ancient

This section contains 10 articles.

1. Agastya
2. Uddālaka Āruṇi
3. Jaimini
4. Kapila (Level 4)
5. Kashyapa
6. Patanjali (Level 4)
7. Valmiki (Level 4)
8. Vasishtha
9. Vishvamitra
10. Vyasa (Level 4)

Hinduism: Post-classical

This section contains 12 articles.

1. Abhinavagupta
2. Advaita Acharya
3. Basava (Level 4)
4. Gaudapada (Level 4)
5. Gorakhnath
6. Kumārila Bhaṭṭa (Level 4)
7. Madhvacharya (Level 4)
8. Maṇḍana Miśra
9. Morya Gosavi
10. Ramanuja (Level 4)
11. Adi Shankara (Level 3)
12. Udayana

Hinduism: Modern

This section contains 14 articles.

1. Sri Aurobindo (Level 4)
2. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (Level 4)
3. Dayananda Saraswati
4. A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (Level 4)
5. Ramakrishna (Level 4)
6. Ramana Maharshi (Level 4)
7. Raja Ram Mohan Roy
8. Rupa Goswami
9. Sathya Sai Baba
10. Sai Baba of Shirdi
11. Swaminarayan
12. Vallabha
13. Swami Vivekananda (Level 4)
14. Paramahansa Yogananda (Level 4)

Buddhism

This section contains 58 articles.

Buddhism: General

This section contains 7 articles.

1. The Buddha (Level 3)
   1. Śuddhodana
2. Nagarjuna (Level 4)
3. Padmasambhava (Level 4)
4. Saraha
5. Thích Nhất Hạnh
6. Mahāprajāpatī Gautamī

Chinese Buddhism

This section contains 8 articles.

1. Bodhidharma (Level 4)
2. Budai
3. Dongshan Liangjie
4. Lushan Huiyuan
5. Huineng (Level 4)
6. Kumārajīva (Level 4)
7. Yunmen Wenyan
8. Zhiyi (Level 4)

Indian Buddhism

This section contains 11 articles.

1. Ānanda (Level 4)
2. Asanga
3. Atiśa
4. Buddhaghosa
5. Dignāga
6. Khema
7. Maudgalyayana (Level 4)
8. Śāntarakṣita
9. Śāriputra (Level 4)
10. Uppalavanna
11. Vasubandhu (Level 4)

Japanese Buddhism

This section contains 9 articles.

1. Dōgen (Level 4)
2. Eisai
3. Nichiren
4. Hakuin Ekaku
5. Daisaku Ikeda
6. Kūkai (Level 4)
7. Sokei-an
8. D. T. Suzuki
9. Shunryū Suzuki

Korean Buddhism

This section contains 2 articles.

1. Jinul
2. Wonhyo

Thai Buddhism

This section contains 2 articles.

1. Ajahn Buddhadasa
2. Somdet To Brahmaramsi

Tibetan Buddhism

This section contains 19 articles.

1. Gampopa
2. Garab Dorje
3. Longchenpa
4. Marpa Lotsawa
5. Milarepa
6. Naropa
7. Drogön Chögyal Phagpa
8. Tilopa
9. Chögyam Trungpa
10. Je Tsongkhapa

Dalai Lamas

This section contains 9 articles.

1. 1st Dalai Lama
2. 2nd Dalai Lama
3. 3rd Dalai Lama
4. 5th Dalai Lama
5. 6th Dalai Lama
6. 7th Dalai Lama
7. 8th Dalai Lama
8. 13th Dalai Lama
9. 14th Dalai Lama (Level 4)

Other Dharmic

This section contains 13 articles.

Jainism

This section contains 3 articles.

1. Mahavira (Level 4)
2. Pārśvanātha
3. Kundakunda

Sikhism

This section contains 3 articles.

1. Guru Arjan
2. Guru Gobind Singh (Level 4)
3. Guru Nanak (Level 4)

Theosophy

This section contains 3 articles.

1. Alice Bailey
2. Annie Besant
3. Helena Blavatsky (Level 4)

Other Dharmic

This section contains 4 articles.

1. Meher Baba
2. Li Hongzhi
3. Osho
4. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Other religions

This section contains 17 articles.

Modern paganism

This section contains 2 articles.

1. Gerald Gardner
2. Doreen Valiente

New Age

This section contains 2 articles.

1. Carlos Castaneda
2. Eckhart Tolle

New Thought

This section contains 3 articles.

1. Charles Fillmore (Unity Church)
2. Louise Hay
3. Phineas Parkhurst Quimby

Scientology

This section contains 2 articles.

1. L. Ron Hubbard
2. David Miscavige

Zoroastrianism

This section contains 2 articles.

1. Kartir
2. Zoroaster (Level 4)

Other

This section contains 6 articles.

1. Aleister Crowley (Level 4)
2. George Gurdjieff
3. Marie Laveau
4. Mani (prophet)
5. Raël
6. Rudolf Steiner