Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/5/People/Religious figures

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Total 494 articles.

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{{Icon|FA}} FA10
{{Icon|GA}} GA29
{{Icon|A}} A1
{{Icon|B}} B175
{{Icon|C}} C195
{{Icon|FFA}} FFA6
{{Icon|DGA}} DGA15
{{Icon|Start}} Start82
{{Icon|Stub}} Stub2

=Religious figures=

{{Vital article count|494}}

Hinduism

{{Vital article count|36}}

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=Ancient =

{{Vital article count|10}}

  1. {{Icon|B}} Agastya
  2. {{Icon|Start}} Uddālaka Āruṇi
  3. {{Icon|Start}} Jaimini
  4. {{Icon|C}} Kapila (Level 4)
  5. {{Icon|Start}} Kashyapa
  6. {{Icon|C}} Patanjali (Level 4)
  7. {{Icon|C}} Valmiki (Level 4)
  8. {{Icon|C}} Vasishtha
  9. {{Icon|Start}} Vishvamitra
  10. {{Icon|C}} Vyasa (Level 4)

=Post-classical=

{{Vital article count|12}}

  1. {{Icon|B}} Abhinavagupta
  2. {{Icon|C}} Advaita Acharya
  3. {{Icon|B}} Basava (Level 4)
  4. {{Icon|C}} Gaudapada (Level 4)
  5. {{Icon|C}} Gorakhnath
  6. {{Icon|C}} Kumārila Bhaṭṭa (Level 4)
  7. {{Icon|B}} Madhvacharya (Level 4)
  8. {{Icon|Start}} Maṇḍana Miśra
  9. {{Icon|GA}} Morya Gosavi
  10. {{Icon|B}} Ramanuja (Level 4)
  11. {{Icon|GA}} {{Icon|FFA}} Adi Shankara (Level 3)
  12. {{Icon|C}} Udayana

=Modern =

{{Vital article count|14}}

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

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Buddhism

{{Vital article count|59}}

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=Buddhism: General=

{{Vital article count|8}}

  1. {{Icon|B}} The Buddha (Level 3)
  2. {{Icon|C}} Śuddhodana
  3. {{Icon|C}} Nagarjuna (Level 4)
  4. {{Icon|B}} Padmasambhava (Level 4)
  5. {{Icon|C}} Saraha
  6. {{Icon|Start}} Sokei-an
  7. {{Icon|A}} Thích Nhất Hạnh
  8. {{Icon|C}} Mahāprajāpatī Gautamī

=Chinese Buddhism =

{{Vital article count|8}}

  1. {{Icon|B}} Bodhidharma (Level 4)
  2. {{Icon|C}} Budai
  3. {{Icon|Start}} Dongshan Liangjie
  4. {{Icon|Start}} Lushan Huiyuan (Level 4)
  5. {{Icon|C}} Huineng (Level 4)
  6. {{Icon|C}} Kumārajīva (Level 4)
  7. {{Icon|B}} Yunmen Wenyan
  8. {{Icon|C}} Zhiyi (Level 4)

=Indian Buddhism =

{{Vital article count|11}}

  1. {{Icon|GA}} Ānanda (Level 4)
  2. {{Icon|C}} Asanga
  3. {{Icon|B}} Atiśa
  4. {{Icon|GA}} Buddhaghosa
  5. {{Icon|C}} Dignāga
  6. {{Icon|B}} Khema
  7. {{Icon|GA}} Maudgalyayana (Level 4)
  8. {{Icon|Start}} Śāntarakṣita
  9. {{Icon|GA}} Śāriputra (Level 4)
  10. {{Icon|B}} Uppalavanna
  11. {{Icon|C}} Vasubandhu (Level 4)

=Japanese Buddhism =

{{Vital article count|6}}

  1. {{Icon|C}} Dōgen (Level 4)
  2. {{Icon|Start}} Eisai
  3. {{Icon|C}} Hakuin Ekaku
  4. {{Icon|C}} Kūkai (Level 4)
  5. {{Icon|C}} D. T. Suzuki
  6. {{Icon|B}} Shunryū Suzuki

=Korean Buddhism =

{{Vital article count|3}}

  1. {{Icon|Start}} Ch'oe Ch'iwŏn
  2. {{Icon|Start}} Jinul
  3. {{Icon|C}} Wonhyo

=Thai Buddhism =

{{Vital article count|2}}

  1. {{Icon|C}} Buddhadasa
  2. {{Icon|Start}} Somdej Toh

=Tibetan Buddhism =

{{Vital article count|21}}

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

==Dalai Lamas ==

{{Vital article count|10}}

  1. {{Icon|C}} 1st Dalai Lama
  2. {{Icon|C}} 2nd Dalai Lama
  3. {{Icon|C}} 3rd Dalai Lama
  4. {{Icon|B}} 4th Dalai Lama
  5. {{Icon|B}} 5th Dalai Lama
  6. {{Icon|C}} 6th Dalai Lama
  7. {{Icon|C}} 7th Dalai Lama
  8. {{Icon|Start}} 8th Dalai Lama
  9. {{Icon|Start}} 13th Dalai Lama
  10. {{Icon|B}} 14th Dalai Lama (Level 4)

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Judaism

{{Vital article count|29}}

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

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

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Christianity

{{Vital article count|236}}

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

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=New Testament figures =

{{Vital article count|31}}

  1. {{Icon|FA}} Jesus (Level 3)
  2. {{Icon|B}} Saint Joseph
  3. {{Icon|B}} Mary, mother of Jesus (Level 4)
  4. {{Icon|B}} James, brother of Jesus
  5. {{Icon|C}} Apostles in the New Testament
  6. {{Icon|C}} Andrew the Apostle
  7. {{Icon|C}} Bartholomew the Apostle
  8. {{Icon|C}} James, son of Alphaeus
  9. {{Icon|C}} James the Great
  10. {{Icon|B}} John the Apostle (Level 4)
  11. {{Icon|B}} Judas Iscariot (Level 4)
  12. {{Icon|C}} Jude the Apostle
  13. {{Icon|C}} Matthew the Apostle
  14. {{Icon|B}} Saint Peter (Level 4)
  15. {{Icon|B}} Philip the Apostle
  16. {{Icon|C}} Simon the Zealot
  17. {{Icon|B}} Thomas the Apostle
  18. {{Icon|B}} Barnabas
  19. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Biblical Magi
  20. {{Icon|B}} John the Baptist (Level 4)
  21. {{Icon|C}} Lazarus of Bethany
  22. {{Icon|C}} Luke the Evangelist
  23. {{Icon|C}} Mark the Evangelist
  24. {{Icon|B}} Martha
  25. {{Icon|GA}} Mary Magdalene (Level 4)
  26. {{Icon|C}} Simon Magus
  27. {{Icon|C}} Matthias the Apostle
  28. {{Icon|B}} Paul the Apostle (Level 3)
  29. {{Icon|Start}} Silas
  30. {{Icon|C}} Saint Stephen
  31. {{Icon|C}} Saint Timothy

=Pre-Schism =

{{Vital article count|57}}

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

==Popes ==

{{Vital article count|15}}

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

=Catholic Church =

{{Vital article count|69}}

==Pre-modern, -1800==

{{Vital article count|40}}

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

==Modern, 1800-present==

{{Vital article count|19}}

  1. {{Icon|Start}} Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
  2. {{Icon|B}} Frances Xavier Cabrini
  3. {{Icon|B}} John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore)
  4. {{Icon|C}} Charles Coughlin
  5. {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|FFA}} Father Damien
  6. {{Icon|C}} Dorothy Day
  7. {{Icon|C}} Pierre-Jean De Smet
  8. {{Icon|B}} Faustina Kowalska
  9. {{Icon|B}} Mary MacKillop
  10. {{Icon|B}} Thomas Merton
  11. {{Icon|B}} John Henry Newman
  12. {{Icon|B}} George Pell
  13. {{Icon|B}} Padre Pio
  14. {{Icon|B}} Óscar Romero
  15. {{Icon|B}} Elizabeth Ann Seton
  16. {{Icon|B}} Fulton J. Sheen
  17. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Mother Teresa (Level 4)
  18. {{Icon|B}} Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
  19. {{Icon|B}} Thérèse of Lisieux

==Popes ==

{{Vital article count|10}}

  1. {{Icon|B}} Pope Pius IX (Level 4)
  2. {{Icon|C}} Pope Leo XIII
  3. {{Icon|B}} Pope Pius X
  4. {{Icon|B}} Pope Benedict XV
  5. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Pope Pius XII
  6. {{Icon|C}} Pope John XXIII (Level 4)
  7. {{Icon|B}} Pope Paul VI
  8. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Pope John Paul II (Level 4)
  9. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Pope Benedict XVI
  10. {{Icon|B}} Pope Francis

=Orthodox Church =

{{Vital article count|18}}

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

=Protestantism =

{{Vital article count|51}}

==Early modern, 1519-1800==

{{Vital article count|22}}

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

==Modern, 1800-present==

{{Vital article count|29}}

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

=Mormonism =

{{Vital article count|4}}

  1. {{Icon|B}} Sidney Rigdon
  2. {{Icon|GA}} Joseph Smith (Level 4)
  3. {{Icon|C}} Hyrum Smith
  4. {{Icon|C}} Brigham Young

=Others =

{{Vital article count|6}}

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

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Islam

{{Vital article count|95}}

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=Islam: General=

{{Vital article count|21}}

  1. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Muhammad (Level 3)
  2. {{Icon|B}} Wives of Muhammad
  3. {{Icon|C}} Khadija bint Khuwaylid (Level 4)
  4. {{Icon|C}} Aisha (Level 4)
  5. {{Icon|B}} Zayd ibn Haritha al-Kalbi
  6. {{Icon|B}} Fatima (Level 4)
  7. {{Icon|C}} Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib
  8. {{Icon|C}} Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib
  9. {{Icon|C}} Ibn Abbas
  10. {{Icon|C}} Companions of the Prophet
  11. {{Icon|C}} Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud
  12. {{Icon|C}} Abd Allah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab
  13. {{Icon|C}} Abu Ayyub al-Ansari
  14. {{Icon|Start}} Abu al-Darda
  15. {{Icon|C}} Abu Hurayra
  16. {{Icon|Start}} Abu Musa al-Ash'ari
  17. {{Icon|Start}} Abu Sufyan ibn Harb
  18. {{Icon|Start}} Bilal ibn Rabah
  19. {{Icon|C}} Salman the Persian
  20. {{Icon|Start}} Ubayy ibn Ka'b
  21. {{Icon|Start}} Zayd ibn Thabit

=Sunni Islam =

{{Vital article count|31}}

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

= Sufism =

{{Vital article count|12}}

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

=Shia Islam =

{{Vital article count|20}}

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

=Nation of Islam =

{{Vital article count|3}}

  1. {{Icon|B}} Louis Farrakhan
  2. {{Icon|B}} Wallace Fard Muhammad
  3. {{Icon|C}} Elijah Muhammad

=Others =

{{Vital article count|8}}

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

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New religious movements

{{Vital article count|26}}

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=Scientology =

{{Vital article count|2}}

  1. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} L. Ron Hubbard
  2. {{Icon|B}} David Miscavige

=Theosophy =

{{Vital article count|3}}

  1. {{Icon|B}} Alice Bailey
  2. {{Icon|B}} Annie Besant
  3. {{Icon|B}} Helena Blavatsky (Level 4)

=Modern paganism =

{{Vital article count|2}}

  1. {{Icon|B}} Gerald Gardner
  2. {{Icon|GA}} Doreen Valiente

=New Thought =

{{Vital article count|2}}

  1. {{Icon|C}} Charles Fillmore (Unity Church)
  2. {{Icon|Start}} Phineas Parkhurst Quimby

=Other =

{{Vital article count|17}}

  1. {{Icon|FA}} Marshall Applewhite
  2. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Meher Baba
  3. {{Icon|B}} Edgar Cayce
  4. {{Icon|GA}} Aleister Crowley (Level 4)
  5. {{Icon|C}} George Gurdjieff
  6. {{Icon|C}} Leonard Howell
  7. {{Icon|GA}} Jim Jones
  8. {{Icon|C}} David Koresh
  9. {{Icon|C}} Marie Laveau
  10. {{Icon|B}} Anton LaVey
  11. {{Icon|C}} Li Hongzhi
  12. {{Icon|C}} Sun Myung Moon
  13. {{Icon|GA}} Raël
  14. {{Icon|B}} Rajneesh
  15. {{Icon|C}} Shoko Asahara
  16. {{Icon|GA}} Eckhart Tolle
  17. {{Icon|B}} Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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Other religions

{{Vital article count|13}}

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=Bahá'í Faith =

{{Vital article count|5}}

  1. {{Icon|B}} ʻAbdu'l-Bahá
  2. {{Icon|B}} Báb
  3. {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|DGA}} Baháʼu'lláh (Level 4)
  4. {{Icon|B}} Shoghi Effendi
  5. {{Icon|C}} Subh-i-Azal

=Jainism =

{{Vital article count|2}}

  1. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Mahavira (Level 4)
  2. {{Icon|B}} Pārśvanātha

=Manichaeism =

{{Vital article count|1}}

  1. {{Icon|C}} Mani (prophet)

=Sikhism =

{{Vital article count|3}}

  1. {{Icon|C}} Guru Arjan
  2. {{Icon|B}} Guru Gobind Singh (Level 4)
  3. {{Icon|C}} Guru Nanak (Level 4)

=Zoroastrianism =

{{Vital article count|2}}

  1. {{Icon|C}} Kartir
  2. {{Icon|C}} Zoroaster (Level 4)

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