Level 5 Sublists
Writers and journalists
Artists, musicians, and composers
Entertainers, directors, producers, and screenwriters
Philosophers, historians, political and social scientists
Religious figures
Politicians and leaders
Military personnel, revolutionaries, and activists
Scientists, inventors, and mathematicians
Sports figures
Miscellaneous
Vital articles is a list of subjects for which Wikipedia should have corresponding high-quality articles. It serves as a centralized watchlist to track the status of Wikipedia's most essential articles. This is one of the sub-lists of the fifty thousand article Vital articles/Level 5 and is currently under construction.
Quota 900 articles.
Total 876 articles.
Military leaders, personnel, and theorists[ edit ]
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Diego de Almagro
Pedro de Alvarado
Hernán Cortés (Level 4 )
Bernal Díaz del Castillo
Bernardo de Gálvez
Lautaro
Francisco Pizarro (Level 4 )
Pontiac (Odawa leader)
Tecun Uman
This section contains 6 articles.
Ethan Allen
Benedict Arnold
John Barry (naval officer)
Nathanael Greene
John Paul Jones
Francis Marion
This section contains 13 articles.
Kanhoji Angre
Bairam Khan
Kwŏn Yul (general)
Hemu
Honda Tadakatsu
Miyamoto Musashi (Level 4 )
Mochizuki Chiyome
Mōri Motonari
Sanada Yukimura
Shi Lang
Yermak Timofeyevich
Yi Sun-sin (Level 4 )
Yuan Chonghuan
This section contains 63 articles.
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Michael Kovats de Fabriczy
This section contains 17 articles.
Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst
William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (Level 4 )
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
Francis Drake (Level 4 )
John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland
Thomas Fairfax
George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville
James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose
John Hawkins (naval commander)
Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe
Samuel Pepys
Prince Rupert of the Rhine
Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset
Prince William, Duke of Cumberland
James Wolfe
This section contains 13 articles.
Jean-Étienne Championnet
Thomas-Alexandre Dumas
James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick
Henri I, Duke of Guise
Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay
Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne
Sébastien Le Prestre, Marquis of Vauban
Louis, Grand Condé
Maurice de Saxe
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard
Jean Parisot de Valette
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau
German states, HRE, Prussia, Austria[ edit ]
This section contains 6 articles.
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen
Prince Eugene of Savoy (Level 4 )
Ernst Gideon von Laudon
Raimondo Montecuccoli
Albrecht von Wallenstein
This section contains 5 articles.
Bartolomeo Colleoni
Andrea Doria
Federico da Montefeltro
Francesco Morosini
Ambrogio Spinola
This section contains 3 articles.
Maurice, Prince of Orange
Michiel de Ruyter (Level 4 )
Maarten Tromp
Poland and Lithuania[ edit ]
This section contains 5 articles.
Jan Karol Chodkiewicz
Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny
Stanisław Koniecpolski
Tadeusz Kościuszko
Casimir Pulaski
This section contains 5 articles.
Pyotr Bagration
Mikhail Kutuzov
Alexander Suvorov (Level 4 )
Pavel Tsitsianov
Aleksey Yermolov
This section contains 8 articles.
Afonso de Albuquerque (Level 4 )
Francisco de Almeida
Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba (Level 4 )
Álvaro de Bazán, Marquis of Santa Cruz
Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba
John of Austria
Alonso de Guzmán y Sotomayor, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia
Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar
This section contains 4 articles.
Hayreddin Barbarossa (Level 4 )
Kara Mustafa Pasha
Kemal Reis
Murat Reis the Elder
This section contains 263 articles.
This section contains 15 articles.
Mohamed Farrah Aidid
Bob Denard
Khalifa Haftar
Prince Johnson
Khalid bin Barghash of Zanzibar
Johnny Paul Koroma
Mikael of Wollo
Chief Mkwawa
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu
Rabih az-Zubayr
Koos de la Rey
Foday Sankoh
Jonas Savimbi
Hendrik Witbooi (Nama chief)
Yaa Asantewaa
This section contains 67 articles.
This section contains 12 articles.
Manuel Baquedano
Francisco Caamaño
Andrés Avelino Cáceres
Deodoro da Fonseca
Manuel Luís Osório, Marquis of Erval
Juan Santamaría
Vicente Guerrero
Antonio Imbert Barrera
Cornelio Saavedra
Elías Wessin y Wessin
Ignacio Zaragoza
José Víctor Zavala
This section contains 55 articles.
Henry H. Arnold
P. G. T. Beauregard
Black Hawk (Sauk leader)
James Bowie
Omar Bradley
Smedley Butler
Claire Lee Chennault
Cochise
Crazy Horse
George Armstrong Custer
Benjamin O. Davis Jr.
Stephen Decatur
George Dewey
David Farragut
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Ulysses S. Grant (Level 4 )
William Halsey Jr.
Stonewall Jackson
Joseph E. Johnston
Ernest J. King
William D. Leahy
Robert E. Lee (Level 4 )
James Longstreet
Douglas MacArthur (Level 4 )
Alfred Thayer Mahan (Level 4 )
George C. Marshall (Level 4 )
George B. McClellan
George Meade
Nelson A. Miles
Billy Mitchell
Audie Murphy
Chester W. Nimitz
Oliver North
George S. Patton
Matthew C. Perry
Oliver Hazard Perry
John J. Pershing
David Petraeus
Colin Powell
William Quantrill
Red Cloud
Eddie Rickenbacker
Matthew Ridgway
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.
Winfield Scott
Philip Sheridan
William Tecumseh Sherman
Carl Spaatz
Raymond A. Spruance
Joseph Stilwell
J. E. B. Stuart
William B. Travis
William Westmoreland
Leonard Wood
Alvin York
This section contains 54 articles.
Ali Hassan al-Majid
Jagjit Singh Aurora
Zorawar Chand Bakhshi
Moshe Dayan
Enver Pasha (Level 4 )
Sabiha Gökçen
Mohammad Ali Jafari
Ahmad Shah Massoud
Monte Melkonian
Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme
A. A. K. Niazi
M. A. G. Osmani
Bipin Rawat
Vazgen Sargsyan
Qasem Soleimani
Sudirman
Võ Nguyên Giáp (Level 4 )
Wiranto
This section contains 16 articles.
Bai Chongxi
Cao Futian
Chen Jiongming
Chen Yi (marshal)
He Long
Lei Feng
Lin Biao
Liu Bocheng
Luo Ronghuan
Ma Bufang
Nie Rongzhen
Peng Dehuai
Su Yu
Sun Li-jen
Xu Xiangqian
Zhu De
This section contains 17 articles.
Akashi Motojiro
Mitsuo Fuchida
Hijikata Toshizō
Hideo Iwakuro
Hirose Takeo
Katsu Kaishū
Tadamichi Kuribayashi
Chūichi Nagumo
Nogi Maresuke
Hiroo Onoda
Hiroshi Ōshima
Ōyama Iwao
Tachibana Shūta
Tōgō Heihachirō
Uehara Yūsaku
Isoroku Yamamoto (Level 4 )
Tomoyuki Yamashita
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Choe Yong-gon (official)
Chung Il-kwon
Paik Sun-yup
This section contains 123 articles.
This section contains 13 articles.
Humberto Delgado
Henri Guisan
Simo Häyhä
Giuseppe Garibaldi (Level 4 )
Liam Lynch (Irish republican)
Seán MacBride
Emilio Mola
Naser Orić
Alexandros Papagos
Radomir Putnik
Léon Rom
José Sanjurjo
Valerii Zaluzhnyi
This section contains 3 articles.
Svetozar Boroević
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf
Joseph Radetzky von Radetz
This section contains 29 articles.
Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis
Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (Level 4 )
William Birdwood
Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
J. F. C. Fuller
Charles George Gordon
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
Arthur Harris
Mike Jackson (British Army officer)
John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
T. E. Lawrence (Level 4 )
B. H. Liddell Hart
Giffard Le Quesne Martel
Bernard Montgomery (Level 4 )
Lord Mountbatten
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (Level 4 )
Arthur Percival
Sidney Reilly
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim
Edward Smith (sea captain)
David Stirling
James Stirling (Royal Navy officer)
Alfred Taylor (British Army officer)
Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder
Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard
Frederic John Walker
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (Level 4 )
This section contains 14 articles.
Louis-Nicolas Davout
Alfred Dreyfus
Ferdinand Foch
Joseph Gallieni
Roland Garros (aviator)
Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque
Étienne Macdonald
André Masséna
Joachim Murat
Michel Ney
Adolphe Pégoud
Georges Picquart
Raoul Salan
Jean-de-Dieu Soult
This section contains 41 articles.
Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière
Ludwig Beck
Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal
Fedor von Bock
Otto Carius
Dietrich von Choltitz
Carl von Clausewitz (Level 4 )
Sepp Dietrich
Karl Dönitz
Adolf Galland
Hermann Göring (Level 4 )
Robert Ritter von Greim
Heinz Guderian
Erich Hartmann
Paul von Hindenburg (Level 4 )
Theodor von Hippel
Alfred Jodl
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Wilhelm Keitel
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck
Erich Ludendorff (Level 4 )
Erich von Manstein
Walter Model
Werner Mölders
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder (Level 4 )
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger
Erich Raeder
Walter von Reichenau
Manfred von Richthofen
Erwin Rommel (Level 4 )
Albrecht von Roon
Alfred von Schlieffen
Hans von Seeckt
Otto Skorzeny
Felix Steiner
Kurt Student
Alfred von Tirpitz
Lothar von Trotha
Ernst Udet
Michael Wittmann
Soviet Union/Russia[ edit ]
This section contains 23 articles.
Vasily Arkhipov
Vasily Blyukher
Semyon Budyonny
Valery Chkalov
Vasily Chuikov
Mikhail Frunze
Ivan Konev
Vasily Margelov
Pavel Nakhimov
Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856–1929)
Nikolai Ogarkov
Lyudmila Pavlichenko
Stanislav Petrov
Issa Pliyev
Konstantin Rokossovsky
Mikhail Skobelev
Semyon Timoshenko
Mikhail Tukhachevsky
Aleksandr Vasilevsky
Kliment Voroshilov
Pyotr Wrangel
Alexander Yegorov (soldier)
Georgy Zhukov (Level 4 )
This section contains 4 articles.
Thomas Blamey
Harry Chauvel
John Monash
Breaker Morant
Rebels, revolutionaries and activists[ edit ]
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