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This is a list of approximately 1,000 basic subjects that the English Wikipedia should have a corresponding featured article for. It is a duplicate of the list of articles every Wikipedia should have but, due to English Wikipedia having them all, now serves as a guide for featured articles.

The original version of this list is from Simple English Wikipedia. See also the version on Meta: m:List of articles all languages should have, which is somewhat extended. The supposedly canonical list is the one at meta — changes should be made there if possible.

All these articles exist on en:. But ideally, Wikipedia 1.0 should have all these articles up to featured quality. Many of these have a long way to go. Please work on improving as needed. Articles that are already on Wikipedia:Featured articles are marked with a star (Template:FA). Articles that are currently stubs or have cleanup tags on them and thus need to be improved as soon as possible are marked in bold.

See also Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Core topics, another take on the minimal article list.

Contents

Biography

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Artists

  1. Paul Cézanne
  2. Salvador Dalí
  3. Albrecht Dürer
  4. Vincent van Gogh
  5. Francisco Goya
  6. Hokusai
  7. Henri Matisse
  8. Michelangelo
  9. Claude Monet
  10. Pablo Picasso
  11. Jackson Pollock
  12. Raphael
  13. Rembrandt
  14. Template:FA Diego Velázquez
  15. Andy Warhol

Authors

  1. Dante Alighieri
  2. William Blake
  3. Miguel de Cervantes
  4. Fyodor Dostoevsky
  5. Brothers Grimm
  6. Homer
  7. Image:Symbol support vote.svg Victor Hugo
  8. Template:FA James Joyce
  9. Franz Kafka
  10. Li Bai
  11. Molière
  12. Pablo Neruda
  13. Edgar Allan Poe
  14. Jean-Paul Sartre
  15. Image:Symbol support vote.svg William Shakespeare
  16. George Bernard Shaw
  17. Sophocles
  18. Mark Twain
  19. Virgil

Composers and musicians

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach
  2. Template:FA The Beatles
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven
  4. Frédéric Chopin
  5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  6. Elvis Presley
  7. Richard Wagner

Explorers

  1. Roald Amundsen
  2. Jacques Cartier
  3. Christopher Columbus
  4. Hernán Cortés
  5. Francis Drake
  6. Vasco da Gama
  7. Edmund Hillary
  8. Ferdinand Magellan
  9. Marco Polo
  10. Zheng He

Inventors and scientists

  1. Nicolaus Copernicus
  2. Image:Symbol support vote.svg Charles Darwin
  3. Image:Symbol support vote.svg Thomas Edison
  4. Template:FA Albert Einstein
  5. Henry Ford
  6. Template:FA Galileo Galilei
  7. Image:Symbol support vote.svg Bill Gates
  8. Johann Gutenberg
  9. Carolus Linnaeus
  10. Template:FA Isaac Newton
  11. Louis Pasteur
  12. Nikola Tesla
  13. Leonardo da Vinci
  14. Wright brothers

Mathematicians

  1. Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
  2. Archimedes
  3. Gottfried Leibniz
  4. Pythagoras

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Philosophers and social scientists

  1. Thomas Aquinas
  2. Image:Symbol support vote.svg Aristotle
  3. Augustine of Hippo
  4. Averroes
  5. René Descartes
  6. Image:Symbol support vote.svg Sigmund Freud
  7. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  8. Herodotus
  9. Hippocrates
  10. Immanuel Kant
  11. Image:Symbol support vote.svg Søren Kierkegaard
  12. Martin Luther
  13. Rosa Luxemburg
  14. Niccolò Machiavelli
  15. Karl Marx
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche
  17. Plato
  18. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  19. Adam Smith
  20. Socrates
  21. Sun Tzu
  22. Thales
  23. Voltaire
  24. Template:FA Max Weber

Politicians and leaders

  1. Akbar
  2. Alexander the Great
  3. Kofi Annan
  4. Template:FA Attila the Hun
  5. Augustus
  6. Pope Benedict XVI
  7. Otto von Bismarck
  8. Template:FA Tony Blair
  9. Simón Bolívar
  10. George W. Bush
  11. Julius Caesar
  12. Image:Symbol support vote.svg Charlemagne
  13. Image:Symbol support vote.svg Winston Churchill
  14. Cleopatra VII of Egypt
  15. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
  16. Charles de Gaulle
  17. Hammurabi
  18. Hannibal
  19. Image:Symbol support vote.svg Hirohito
  20. Image:Symbol support vote.svg Adolf Hitler
  21. Image:Symbol support vote.svg Pope John Paul II
  22. Genghis Khan
  23. Vladimir Lenin
  24. Nelson Mandela
  25. Mao Zedong
  26. Benito Mussolini
  27. Napoleon I of France
  28. Kwame Nkrumah
  29. Peter I of Russia
  30. Vladimir Putin
  31. Qin Shi Huang
  32. Image:Symbol support vote.svg Franklin D. Roosevelt
  33. Saladin
  34. Shaka
  35. Sitting Bull
  36. Joseph Stalin
  37. Timur
  38. Leon Trotsky
  39. Image:Symbol support vote.svg Harry S. Truman
  40. Template:FA Victoria of the United Kingdom
  41. George Washington
  42. Wilhelm II of Germany

Revolutionaries and activists

  1. Template:FA Mahatma Gandhi
  2. Template:FA Che Guevara
  3. Template:FA Joan of Arc
  4. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  5. Osama bin Laden
  6. Template:FA Rosa Parks
  7. Mother Teresa

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History

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  1. History
  2. Image:Symbol support vote.svg History of the world

Prehistory to Middle Ages

  1. Ancient Egypt
  2. Ancient Greece
  3. Ancient Rome
  4. Image:Symbol support vote.svg Archaeology
  5. Aztec
  6. Image:Symbol support vote.svg Black Death
  7. Bronze Age
  8. Template:FA Byzantine Empire
  9. Image:Symbol support vote.svg Crusade
  10. East-West Schism
  11. Holy Roman Empire
  12. Indus Valley Civilization
  13. Iron Age
  14. Maya civilization
  15. Macedon
  16. Middle Ages
  17. Ottoman Empire
  18. Prehistory
  19. Spanish Inquisition
  20. Stone Age
  21. Sumer
  22. Image:Symbol support vote.svg Viking

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Renaissance to Industrial Age

  1. Age of Enlightenment
  2. American Civil War
  3. Image:Symbol support vote.svg American Revolutionary War
  4. Image:Symbol support vote.svg British Empire
  5. Cold War
  6. English Civil War
  7. European colonization of the Americas
  8. French Revolution
  9. Great Depression
  10. Image:Symbol support vote.svg History of South Africa in the apartheid era
  11. Image:Symbol support vote.svg The Holocaust
  12. Image:Symbol support vote.svg Industrial Revolution
  13. Image:Symbol support vote.svg Napoleonic Wars
  14. Protestant Reformation
  15. Renaissance
  16. Russian Civil War
  17. Russian Revolution of 1917
  18. Scramble for Africa
  19. Space exploration
  20. Image:Symbol support vote.svg Spanish Civil War
  21. Vietnam War
  22. Template:FA World War I
  23. Image:Symbol support vote.svg World War II

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Geography

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  1. Geography
  2. City
  3. Continent
  4. Country
  5. Desert
  6. Ocean
  7. River

Continents and regions

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

Countries

  1. Image:Symbol support vote.svg Afghanistan
  2. Austria
  3. Template:FA Australia
  4. Image:Symbol support vote.svg Bangladesh
  5. Image:Symbol support vote.svg Brazil
  6. Image:Symbol support vote.svg Canada
  7. Cuba
  8. Democratic Republic of the Congo
  9. Egypt
  10. Image:Symbol support vote.svg Ethiopia
  11. Image:Symbol support vote.svg France
  12. Germany
  13. Greece
  14. Template:FA India
  15. Indonesia
  16. Image:Symbol support vote.svg Iran
  17. Iraq
  18. Image:Symbol support vote.svg Israel
  19. Image:Symbol support vote.svg Japan
  20. Libya
  21. Mexico
  22. Monaco
  23. Niger
  24. North Korea
  25. Template:FA People's Republic of China
  26. Poland
  27. Russia
  28. Rwanda
  29. Saudi Arabia
  30. Template:FA South Africa
  31. Image:Symbol support vote.svg South Korea
  32. Spain
  33. Turkey
  34. United Kingdom
  35. Image:Symbol support vote.svg United States
  36. Vatican City
  37. Vietnam

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Cities

  1. Athens
  2. Beijing
  3. Image:Symbol support vote.svg Berlin
  4. Jerusalem
  5. London
  6. Mecca
  7. Moscow
  8. Template:FA Mumbai
  9. New Delhi
  10. Image:Symbol support vote.svg New York
  11. Paris
  12. Rome
  13. Saint Petersburg
  14. Shanghai
  15. Tokyo
  16. Image:Symbol support vote.svg Washington, D.C.

Bodies of water

  1. Arctic Ocean
  2. Amazon River
  3. Atlantic Ocean
  4. Baltic Sea
  5. Black Sea
  6. Great Barrier Reef
  7. Great Lakes
  8. Indian Ocean
  9. Lake Baikal
  10. Lake Tanganyika
  11. Lake Titicaca
  12. Mediterranean Sea
  13. Mississippi River
  14. Template:FA Niagara Falls
  15. Nile
  16. North Sea
  17. Pacific Ocean
  18. Southern Ocean

Mountains, valleys and deserts

  1. Andes
  2. Himalaya
  3. Sahara

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Society and social sciences

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  1. Society
  2. Family
    1. Adult
    2. Child
    3. Infant
    4. Marriage
  3. Law
    1. Constitution
    2. Image:Symbol support vote.svg Crime
  4. Military
  5. Social sciences
    1. Anthropology
    2. Image:Symbol support vote.svg Archaeology
    3. Education
    4. Political science
    5. Psychology
    6. Image:Symbol support vote.svg Sociology

Behavior

  1. Emotion
    1. Anger
    2. Fear
    3. Love
    4. Happiness
  2. Mind
    1. Consciousness
    2. Thought
  3. Sleep
    1. Dream

Politics

  1. Politics
  2. Anarchism
  3. Capitalism
  4. Communism
  5. Democracy
  6. Dictatorship
  7. Image:Symbol support vote.svg Diplomacy
  8. Fascism
  9. Image:Symbol support vote.svg Globalization
  10. Government
  11. Imperialism
  12. Liberalism
  13. Monarchy
  14. Nationalism
  15. Socialism
  16. State
  17. Theocracy

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International organizations

  1. Arab League
  2. Template:FA European Union
  3. Image:Symbol support vote.svg International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
  4. Image:Symbol support vote.svg NATO
  5. Nobel Prize
  6. Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
  7. United Nations
    1. World Bank Group
    2. World Health Organization
    3. World Trade Organization

Business and economics

  1. Business
  2. Template:FA Economics
  3. Image:Symbol support vote.svg Agriculture
  4. Currency
    1. Image:Symbol support vote.svg Euro
    2. Japanese yen
    3. Pound sterling
    4. Renminbi
    5. Rupee
    6. United States dollar
  5. Market
  6. Money
  7. Template:FA Supply and demand

Social issues

  1. Abortion
  2. Birth control
  3. Capital punishment
  4. Freedom
  5. Human rights
  6. Peace
  7. Racism
  8. Sexism
  9. Slavery
  10. War

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Culture

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  1. Culture
  2. Art
    1. Comics
    2. Painting
    3. Sculpture
  3. Dance
  4. Film
  5. Radio
  6. Television
  7. Theatre

Language and literature

  1. Language
  2. Alphabet
    1. Letter
  3. Book
  4. Grammar
  5. Literature
  6. Novel
    1. The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
    2. Don Quixote
    3. Republic (Plato)
  7. Poetry
    1. Epic of Gilgamesh
    2. Iliad
    3. Mahabharata
    4. Odyssey
  8. Specific languages
    1. Arabic language
    2. Chinese language
    3. English language
    4. Esperanto
    5. French language
    6. German language
    7. Hindi
    8. Japanese language
    9. Latin
    10. Template:FA Russian language
    11. Sanskrit
    12. Spanish language
  9. Word
  10. Writing

Architecture

  1. Architecture
  2. Arch
  3. Bridge
  4. Dome
  5. House
  6. Nail (engineering)
  7. Pyramid
  8. Specific structures
    1. Great Wall of China
    2. Taj Mahal
  9. Tower

Music

  1. Music
  2. Baroque music
  3. Classical music
  4. Folk music
  5. Jazz
  6. Pop music
  7. Rhythm and blues
  8. Rock and roll

Recreation

  1. Recreation
  2. Athletics
  3. Game
    1. Backgammon
    2. Template:FA Chess
    3. Dice
    4. Draughts
    5. Template:FA Go (board game)
    6. Mancala
  4. Gambling
  5. Sport
    1. American football
    2. Template:FA Baseball
    3. Template:FA Cricket
    4. Football (soccer)
    5. Template:FA Olympic Games
    6. Rugby football
    7. Tennis
  6. Toy

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Religion

  1. Religion
  2. Deity
    1. God
  3. Mythology
  4. Religious philosophies
    1. Agnosticism
    2. Atheism
    3. Fundamentalism
  5. Soul
  6. Specific religions
    1. Template:FA Bahá'í Faith
      1. Báb
      2. Bahá'u'lláh
    2. Buddhism
      1. Gautama Buddha
    3. Christianity
      1. Bible
      2. Church
      3. Jesus
      4. Pope
      5. Trinity
    4. Confucianism
      1. Confucius
    5. Template:FA Hinduism
      1. Bhagavad Gita
      2. Krishna
      3. Upanishad
      4. Veda
      5. Yoga
    6. Islam
      1. Mosque
      2. Muhammad
      3. Qur'an
    7. Jainism
    8. Judaism
    9. Shinto
    10. Sikhism
    11. Taoism
      1. Laozi
    12. Voodoo
    13. Zoroastrianism
      1. Zoroaster
  7. Spirituality

Philosophy

  1. Philosophy
  2. Beauty
  3. Ethics
  4. Existence
  5. Feminism
  6. Humanism
  7. Knowledge
  8. Logic
  9. Morality
  10. Reality
  11. Truth

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Science

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  1. Science
  2. Chemistry
    1. Salt
  3. Ecology
  4. Geology
  5. Mineral
    1. Copper
    2. Template:FA Diamond
    3. Gold
    4. Iron
    5. Silver
  6. Oil

Astronomy

  1. Astronomy
  2. Template:FA Big Bang
  3. Galaxy
    1. Milky Way
  4. Moon
  5. Planet
    1. Earth
    2. Jupiter
    3. Mars
    4. Mercury (planet)
    5. Saturn
    6. Uranus
    7. Neptune
    8. Pluto
    9. Template:FA Venus
  6. Star
    1. Template:FA Sun
  7. Universe

Physics

  1. Physics
  2. Atom
  3. Energy
    1. Electromagnetic radiation
      1. Visible spectrum
        1. Black
        2. Color
          1. Blue
          2. Green
          3. Red
          4. Yellow
        3. White
  4. Force
    1. Gravitation
  5. Mass
  6. Template:FA Quantum mechanics
  7. Sound
  8. Speed
  9. Time
  10. Weight

Weather and climate

  1. Avalanche
  2. Climate
  3. Cloud
  4. Earthquake
  5. ENSO
  6. Flood
  7. Global warming
  8. Meteorology
  9. Rain
  10. Tornado
  11. Tropical cyclone
  12. Volcano
  13. Weather

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Biology

  1. Biology
  2. Anatomy
    1. Brain
    2. Gastrointestinal tract
    3. Heart
    4. Lung
    5. Skeleton
  3. Specific organisms
    1. Animal
      1. Bird
        1. Eagle
      2. Fish
      3. Insect
      4. Mammal
        1. Bear
        2. Camel
        3. Cattle
        4. Template:FA Cat
        5. Dog
        6. Elephant
        7. Horse
        8. Human
        9. Lion
        10. Sheep
      5. Reptile
        1. Template:FA Dinosaur
        2. Snake
    2. Archaea
    3. Bacteria
    4. Fungus
    5. Plant
      1. Tree
      2. Flower
    6. Protist
  4. Medicine
    1. Template:FA AIDS
    2. Blindness
    3. Cholera
    4. Dysentery
    5. Hearing impairment
    6. Malaria
    7. Mental illness
    8. Pregnancy
    9. Smallpox

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Technology

  1. Technology
  2. Electricity
  3. Electronics
    1. Computer
    2. Internet
  4. Explosive material
    1. Gunpowder
  5. Fire
  6. Metallurgy
  7. Transport
    1. Automobile
    2. Template:FA Bicycle
    3. Train
  8. Weapon
    1. Axe
    2. Firearm

Mathematics

  1. Mathematics
  2. Algebra
  3. Calendar
  4. Calculus
  5. Geometry
  6. Number
  7. Trigonometry

Foodstuffs

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  1. Barley
  2. Bread
  3. Template:FA Cheese
  4. Cotton
  5. Fruit
  6. Maize
  7. Oat
  8. Rice
  9. Sorghum
  10. Soybean
  11. Tobacco
  12. Vegetable
  13. Wheat

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Beverages

  1. Alcohol
  2. Template:FA Beer
  3. Coffee
  4. Template:FA Tea
  5. Water
  6. Wine

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