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Religious figures

This section contains 500 articles.

Abrahamic religions

This section contains 375 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 238 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 56 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 (pre-schism)

This section contains 14 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 Leo III
  12. Pope John X
  13. Pope Sylvester II
  14. Pope Leo IX

Catholic Church

This section contains 67 articles.

Catholic Church: Pre-1800

This section contains 38 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. Dominic de Guzmán
  13. Johann Eck
  14. Meister Eckhart
  15. Peter Faber
  16. Francis of Assisi (Level 4)
  17. Gerard Sasso
  18. Aloysius Gonzaga
  19. Jan Hus (Level 4)
  20. Ignatius of Loyola (Level 4)
  21. Cornelius Jansen
  22. Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros
  23. John of Ávila
  24. John of the Cross (Level 4)
  25. Heinrich Kramer
  26. Lanfranc
  27. Alphonsus Liguori
  28. Peter the Hermit
  29. Matteo Ricci
  30. Francis de Sales
  31. Junípero Serra
  32. Teresa of Ávila (Level 4)
  33. Johann Tetzel
  34. Thomas à Kempis
  35. Tomás de Torquemada (Level 4)
  36. Thomas Wolsey
  37. John Wycliffe (Level 4)
  38. 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. Pierre-Jean De Smet
  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 18 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. 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

This section contains 53 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 30 articles.

  1. Jim Bakker
  2. Karl Barth (Level 4)
  3. Henry Ward Beecher
  4. Antoinette Brown Blackwell
  5. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  6. William M. Branham
  7. James Dobson
  8. Jerry Falwell
  9. Charles Grandison Finney
  10. John Flynn (minister)
  11. Billy Graham (Level 4)
  12. John G. Lake
  13. Aimee Semple McPherson
  14. William Miller (preacher)
  15. John Mott
  16. Martin Niemöller
  17. Joel Osteen
  18. Phoebe Palmer
  19. Charles Fox Parham
  20. Oral Roberts
  21. Pat Robertson
  22. William J. Seymour
  23. Charles Spurgeon
  24. John Stott
  25. Paul Tillich
  26. Desmond Tutu (Level 4)
  27. Justin Welby
  28. Ellen G. White
  29. James S. White
  30. Rowan Williams

Mormonism

This section contains 5 articles.

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

Christianity: Others

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Ahn Sahng-hong
  2. William Ellery Channing
  3. Mary Baker Eddy (Level 4)
  4. Kimpa Vita
  5. Charles Taze Russell
  6. Joseph Franklin Rutherford
  7. 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 ibn Harb
  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 108 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 14 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 5 articles.

  1. Shoko Asahara
  2. Meher Baba
  3. Li Hongzhi
  4. Osho
  5. 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

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