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Hinduism[edit]

This section contains 36 articles.

Ancient[edit]

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)

Medieval[edit]

This section contains 11 articles.

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

Modern[edit]

This section contains 15 articles.

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

Buddhism[edit]

This section contains 57 articles.

Buddhism: General[edit]

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. The Buddha (Level 3)
    1. Śuddhodana
  2. Nagarjuna (Level 4)
  3. Padmasambhava (Level 4)
  4. Saraha
  5. Sokei-an
  6. Thích Nhất Hạnh
  7. Mahapajapati Gotami

Chinese Buddhism[edit]

This section contains 7 articles.

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

Indian Buddhism[edit]

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[edit]

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Dōgen (Level 4)
  2. Eisai
  3. Hakuin Ekaku
  4. Kūkai (Level 4)
  5. Shunryū Suzuki

Korean Buddhism[edit]

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Ch'oe Ch'i-wŏn
  2. Jinul
  3. Wonhyo

Thai Buddhism[edit]

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Buddhadasa
  2. Somdej Toh

Tibetan Buddhism[edit]

This section contains 21 articles.

  1. Gampopa
  2. Garab Dorje
  3. Longchenpa
  4. Mandāravā
  5. Marpa Lotsawa
  6. Milarepa
  7. Naropa
  8. Tilopa
  9. Chögyam Trungpa
  10. Je Tsongkhapa
  11. Yeshe Tsogyal

Dalai Lamas[edit]

This section contains 10 articles.

  1. 1st Dalai Lama
  2. 2nd Dalai Lama
  3. 3rd Dalai Lama
  4. 4th Dalai Lama
  5. 5th Dalai Lama
  6. 6th Dalai Lama
  7. 7th Dalai Lama
  8. 8th Dalai Lama
  9. 13th Dalai Lama
  10. 14th Dalai Lama (Level 4)

Judaism[edit]

This section contains 29 articles.

Note: Abraham, Moses, and other figures from Abrahamic mythology 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. Meir Kahane
  14. Mordecai Kaplan
  15. Joseph Karo
  16. Abraham Isaac Kook
  17. Judah Loew ben Bezalel (Level 4)
  18. Maimonides (Level 4)
  19. Nachmanides
  20. Rashi (Level 4)
  21. Saadia Gaon
  22. Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
  23. Menachem Mendel Schneerson
  24. Joel Teitelbaum
  25. Vilna Gaon (Level 4)
  26. Yohanan ben Zakkai
  27. Ovadia Yosef
  28. Shneur Zalman of Liadi
  29. Sabbatai Zevi

Christianity[edit]

This section contains 239 articles.

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

New Testament figures[edit]

This section contains 32 articles.

  1. Jesus (Level 3)
    1. Saint Joseph
    2. Mary, mother of Jesus (Level 4)
    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 3)
  14. Pontius Pilate
  15. Silas
  16. Saint Stephen
  17. Saint Timothy

Pre-Schism[edit]

This section contains 57 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. Cyril and Methodius (Level 4)
  13. Cyril of Alexandria (Level 4)
  14. Cyril of Jerusalem
  15. Denis of Paris
  16. Dionysius Exiguus
  17. Ephrem the Syrian
  18. Saint George (Level 4)
  19. Gregory of Narek
  20. Gregory of Nazianzus (Level 4)
  21. Gregory of Nyssa (Level 4)
  22. Hilary of Poitiers
  23. Hosius of Corduba
  24. Ignatius of Antioch
  25. Irenaeus (Level 4)
  26. Isidore of Seville
  27. Jerome (Level 4)
  28. John Chrysostom (Level 4)
  29. John of Damascus (Level 4)
  30. Marcion of Sinope
  31. Saint Marinus
  32. Martin of Tours
  33. Nestorius
  34. Saint Nicholas (Level 4)
  35. Origen (Level 4)
  36. Papias of Hierapolis
  37. Saint Patrick
  38. Peter Chrysologus
  39. Peter Damian
  40. Polycarp
  41. Tertullian (Level 4)
  42. Theodoret

Popes[edit]

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 Agatho
  11. Pope Gregory II
  12. Pope Leo III
  13. Pope John X
  14. Pope Sylvester II
  15. Pope Leo IX

Catholic Church[edit]

This section contains 68 articles.

  1. Albertus Magnus
  2. Anselm of Canterbury (Level 4)
  3. Anthony of Padua
  4. Thomas Becket
  5. Robert Bellarmine
  6. Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
  7. Bernard of Clairvaux
  8. Bonaventure (Level 4)
  9. Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
  10. Frances Xavier Cabrini
  11. Edmund Campion
  12. Peter Canisius
  13. John Carroll (archbishop)
  14. Catherine of Siena
  15. Charles Coughlin
  16. Father Damien
  17. Dorothy Day
  18. Pierre-Jean De Smet
  19. Saint Dominic
  20. Johann Eck
  21. Meister Eckhart
  22. Peter Faber
  23. Francis of Assisi (Level 4)
  24. Blessed Gerard
  25. Aloysius Gonzaga
  26. Jan Hus (Level 4)
  27. Ignatius of Loyola (Level 4)
  28. Cornelius Jansen
  29. Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros
  30. John of Ávila
  31. John of the Cross (Level 4)
  32. Heinrich Kramer
  33. Faustina Kowalska
  34. Lanfranc
  35. Alphonsus Liguori
  36. Mary MacKillop
  37. John Henry Newman
  38. George Pell
  39. Peter the Hermit
  40. Padre Pio
  41. Charles Reynolds (cleric)
  42. Matteo Ricci
  43. Óscar Romero
  44. Francis de Sales
  45. Junípero Serra
  46. Elizabeth Ann Seton
  47. Fulton J. Sheen
  48. Mother Teresa (Level 4)
  49. Teresa of Ávila (Level 4)
  50. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
  51. Johann Tetzel
  52. Thérèse of Lisieux
  53. Thomas à Kempis
  54. Tomás de Torquemada (Level 4)
  55. Jacobus de Voragine
  56. Thomas Wolsey
  57. John Wycliffe (Level 4)
  58. Francis Xavier (Level 4)

Popes[edit]

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[edit]

This section contains 18 articles.

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

Protestantism[edit]

This section contains 54 articles.

  1. Mikael Agricola
  2. Richard Allen (bishop)
  3. Jakob Ammann
  4. Jacobus Arminius (Level 4)
  5. Francis Asbury
  6. Jim Bakker
  7. Karl Barth (Level 4)
  8. Henry Ward Beecher
  9. Antoinette Brown Blackwell
  10. Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Level 4)
  11. William M. Branham
  12. Martin Bucer
  13. John Calvin (Level 4)
  14. Thomas Cranmer (Level 4)
  15. Jonathan Edwards (theologian) (Level 4)
  16. Jerry Falwell
  17. Charles Grandison Finney
  18. John Flynn (minister)
  19. George Fox
  20. Billy Graham (Level 4)
  21. Franklin Graham
  22. Philip Henry
  23. John Knox (Level 4)
  24. John G. Lake
  25. Martin Luther (Level 3)
  26. Alexander Mack
  27. Cotton Mather
  28. Aimee Semple McPherson
  29. Philip Melanchthon (Level 4)
  30. Tammy Faye Messner
  31. William Miller (preacher)
  32. John Mott
  33. Martin Niemöller
  34. Joel Osteen
  35. Phoebe Palmer
  36. Charles Fox Parham
  37. Oral Roberts
  38. Pat Robertson
  39. William J. Seymour
  40. Menno Simons
  41. John Smyth (English theologian)
  42. Charles Spurgeon
  43. John Stott
  44. Desmond Tutu (Level 4)
  45. William Tyndale
  46. Rick Warren
  47. Charles Wesley
  48. John Wesley (Level 4)
  49. Ellen G. White
  50. James S. White
  51. Paula White
  52. George Whitefield
  53. Roger Williams
  54. Huldrych Zwingli (Level 4)

Mormonism[edit]

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Sidney Rigdon
  2. Joseph Smith (Level 4)
  3. Hyrum Smith
  4. Brigham Young

Others[edit]

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Ahn Sahng-hong
  2. William Ellery Channing
  3. Mary Baker Eddy (Level 4)
  4. Charles Taze Russell
  5. Joseph Franklin Rutherford
  6. Emanuel Swedenborg

Islam[edit]

This section contains 91 articles.

Islam: General[edit]

This section contains 21 articles.

  1. Muhammad (Level 3)
    1. Khadija bint Khuwaylid (Level 4)
    2. Zayd ibn Haritha al-Kalbi
    3. Fatima (Level 4)
    4. Aisha (Level 4)
    5. Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib
    6. Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib
    7. Ibn Abbas
  2. Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr
  3. Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf
  4. Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud
  5. Abd Allah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab
  6. Abu Ayyub al-Ansari
  7. Abu al-Darda
  8. Abu Hurayra
  9. Abu Musa al-Ash'ari
  10. Abu Sufyan ibn Harb
  11. Bilal ibn Rabah
  12. Salman the Persian
  13. Ubayy ibn Ka'b
  14. Zayd ibn Thabit

Sunni Islam[edit]

This section contains 30 articles.

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

Sufism[edit]

This section contains 10 articles.

  1. Abdul Qadir Gilani
  2. Ahmad Sirhindi
  3. Baha' al-Din Naqshband
  4. Al-Ghazali (Level 4)
  5. Ibn Arabi (Level 4)
  6. Junayd of Baghdad
  7. Al-Qushayri
  8. Rabia of Basra
  9. Muhammad ibn Ali al-Sanusi
  10. Osman Nuri Topbaş

Shia Islam[edit]

This section contains 20 articles.

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

Nation of Islam[edit]

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Elijah Muhammad
  2. Louis Farrakhan

Others[edit]

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

New religious movements[edit]

This section contains 28 articles.

Scientology[edit]

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. L. Ron Hubbard
  2. David Miscavige

Theosophy[edit]

This section contains 3 articles.

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

Satanism[edit]

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Anton LaVey

Voodoo[edit]

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Marie Laveau

Modern paganism[edit]

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Gerald Gardner
  2. Stephen McNallen
  3. Doreen Valiente

Occultism[edit]

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Aleister Crowley (Level 4)

Rastafarianism[edit]

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Leonard Howell

Cult leaders[edit]

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Marshall Applewhite
  2. Jim Jones
  3. David Koresh
  4. Joseph Kibweteere
  5. Raël
  6. Shoko Asahara

New Age[edit]

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Edgar Cayce

New Thought[edit]

This section contains 2 articles.

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

Falun Gong[edit]

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Li Hongzhi

Other[edit]

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Meher Baba
  2. George Gurdjieff
  3. Sun Myung Moon
  4. Rajneesh
  5. Yahweh ben Yahweh
  6. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Other religions[edit]

This section contains 15 articles.

Bahá'í Faith[edit]

This section contains 5 articles.

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

Jainism[edit]

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Bahubali
  2. Mahavira (Level 4)
  3. Parshvanatha
  4. Rishabhanatha

Manichaeism[edit]

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Mani (prophet)

Sikhism[edit]

This section contains 3 articles.

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

Zoroastrianism[edit]

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Kartir
  2. Zoroaster (Level 4)


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