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Philosophers (294 articles)
Ancient (57 articles)
- Anaxagoras
- Anaximander
- Anaximenes of Miletus
- Antisthenes
- Aristoxenus
- Aristotle (Level 3)
- Augustine of Hippo (Level 4)
- Carneades
- Cicero (Level 3)
- Confucius (Level 3)
- Demetrius of Phalerum
- Democritus (Level 4)
- Diogenes (Level 4)
- Dong Zhongshu
- Empedocles
- Epictetus
- Epicurus (Level 4)
- Gārgī Vāchaknavī
- Gongsun Long
- Gorgias
- Han Fei (Level 4)
- Heraclitus (Level 4)
- Hui Shi
- Iamblichus
- Kaṇāda (philosopher) (Level 4)
- Laozi (Level 3)
- Li Si (Level 4)
- Lucretius (Level 4)
- Mencius (Level 4)
- Mozi
- Parmenides
- Philo
- Plato (Level 3)
- Plotinus (Level 4)
- Porphyry (philosopher)
- Posidonius
- Proclus
- Protagoras
- Ptahhotep
- Pyrrho
- Seneca the Younger (Level 4)
- Shang Yang (Level 4)
- Shen Buhai
- Shen Dao
- Socrates (Level 3)
- Thales of Miletus (Level 4)
- Theodoret
- Theophrastus
- Vātsyāyana
- Xenophanes
- Xu Xing (philosopher)
- Xun Kuang (Level 4)
- Yang Zhu
- Zeno of Citium
- Zeno of Elea
- Zhuang Zhou
- Zou Yan
Post-classical (30 articles)
- Peter Abelard (Level 4)
- Albert of Saxony (philosopher)
- Alcuin
- Avempace
- Averroes (Level 4)
- Roger Bacon
- Boethius
- Jean Buridan
- Cheng Hao
- Cheng Yi (philosopher)
- Hasdai Crescas
- Duns Scotus (Level 4)
- Francesc Eiximenis
- John Scotus Eriugena
- Al-Farabi (Level 4)
- Robert Grosseteste
- Héloïse
- Ibn Tufail
- Lu Jiuyuan
- Marsilius of Inghen
- Nicole Oresme
- John Philoponus
- Prabhākara
- Thomas Aquinas (Level 3)
- Vāchaspati Misra
- Wang Yangming (Level 4)
- William of Ockham (Level 4)
- Zhang Zai
- Zhou Dunyi
- Zhu Xi (Level 4)
Early modern (36 articles)
- Judah Leon Abravanel
- Francesco Algarotti
- Francis Bacon (Level 4)
- Pierre Bayle
- Jeremy Bentham (Level 4)
- George Berkeley (Level 4)
- Jakob Böhme
- Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens
- Giordano Bruno (Level 4)
- Thomas Cajetan
- Pietru Caxaro
- Marquis de Condorcet
- Dai Zhen
- John Dee
- René Descartes (Level 3)
- Denis Diderot (Level 4)
- Erasmus (Level 4)
- Adam Ferguson
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte (Level 4)
- Marsilio Ficino
- Claude Adrien Helvétius
- Johann Gottfried Herder
- David Hume (Level 4)
- Immanuel Kant (Level 3)
- Jean de La Bruyère
- Julien Offray de La Mettrie
- Nicolas Malebranche
- Nicholas of Cusa
- Thomas Reid
- Johann Reuchlin
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Level 4)
- Baruch Spinoza (Level 4)
- Dugald Stewart
- Giambattista Vico
- Francisco de Vitoria
- Adam Weishaupt
Late modern (171 articles)
Africa (1 article)
Americas (43 articles)
- William Alston
- Mario Bunge
- Judith Butler
- Patricia Churchland
- Mary Daly
- Donald Davidson (philosopher)
- Daniel Dennett
- John Dewey (Level 4)
- Hubert Dreyfus
- Ronald Dworkin
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (Level 4)
- Frantz Fanon (Level 4)
- John Fiske (philosopher)
- Vilém Flusser
- Jerry Fodor
- David Gauthier
- Rebecca Goldstein
- Sam Harris
- Douglas Hofstadter
- William James (Level 4)
- Saul Kripke
- Thomas Kuhn
- David Lewis (philosopher)
- Bernard Lonergan
- Marshall McLuhan (Level 4)
- Thomas Nagel
- Robert Nozick
- Martha Nussbaum
- Theodore Parker
- Leonard Peikoff
- Charles Sanders Peirce (Level 4)
- Robert M. Pirsig
- Alvin Plantinga
- Hilary Putnam
- Willard Van Orman Quine
- John Rawls (Level 4)
- Richard Rorty
- Josiah Royce
- John Searle
- Charles Taylor (philosopher)
- Judith Jarvis Thomson
- Henry David Thoreau (Level 4)
- Cornel West
Asia (8 articles)
- Surendranath Dasgupta
- Feng Youlan
- Mou Zongsan
- Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
- D. T. Suzuki
- Tang Chun-i
- Xiong Shili
- Yan Fu
Europe (116 articles)
- Giorgio Agamben
- Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz
- Louis Althusser
- G. E. M. Anscombe
- Hannah Arendt (Level 4)
- Raymond Aron
- J. L. Austin
- A. J. Ayer
- Gaston Bachelard
- Alain Badiou
- Georges Bataille
- Simone de Beauvoir (Level 4)
- Henri Bergson (Level 4)
- Isaiah Berlin (Level 4)
- Simon Blackburn
- Maurice Blanchot
- Bernard Bosanquet (philosopher)
- F. H. Bradley
- Martin Buber
- Ludwig Büchner
- Georges Canguilhem
- Thomas Carlyle
- Rudolf Carnap
- Ernst Cassirer
- Pyotr Chaadayev
- Houston Stewart Chamberlain
- Nikolay Chernyshevsky
- Emil Cioran
- R. G. Collingwood
- Auguste Comte (Level 4)
- Benjamin Constant
- Victor Cousin
- Benedetto Croce
- Gilles Deleuze
- Jacques Derrida (Level 4)
- Pierre Duhem
- Rudolf Christoph Eucken
- Julius Evola
- Luc Ferry
- Ludwig Feuerbach
- Paul Feyerabend
- Antony Flew
- Pavel Florensky
- Michel Foucault (Level 4)
- Egon Friedell
- Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
- Gérard Granel
- A. C. Grayling
- T. H. Green
- Félix Guattari
- Jürgen Habermas (Level 4)
- R. M. Hare
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (Level 4)
- Martin Heidegger (Level 4)
- Johann Friedrich Herbart
- John Hick
- Jaakko Hintikka
- Friedrich Hölderlin
- Edmund Husserl (Level 4)
- Ivan Illich
- Karl Jaspers
- Eino Kaila
- Aleksey Khomyakov
- Søren Kierkegaard (Level 4)
- Julia Kristeva
- Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
- Imre Lakatos
- Dominique Lecourt
- Emmanuel Levinas
- Bernard-Henri Lévy
- Hermann Lotze
- Karl Löwith
- Jean-François Lyotard
- György Lukács
- Alasdair MacIntyre
- Gabriel Marcel
- Herbert McCabe
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Mary Midgley
- John Stuart Mill (Level 4)
- G. E. Moore
- Jean-Luc Nancy
- Otto Neurath
- Friedrich Nietzsche (Level 3)
- Michel Onfray
- José Ortega y Gasset
- Derek Parfit
- Michael Polanyi
- Karl Popper (Level 4)
- Paul Ricœur
- Alfred Rosenberg
- Bertrand Russell (Level 4)
- Gilbert Ryle
- George Santayana
- Jean-Paul Sartre (Level 4)
- Max Scheler
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
- Friedrich Schleiermacher
- Moritz Schlick
- Arthur Schopenhauer (Level 4)
- Albert Schweitzer
- Roger Scruton
- Lev Shestov
- Vladimir Solovyov (philosopher)
- Oswald Spengler
- Rudolf Steiner
- Bernard Stiegler
- Max Stirner
- Miguel de Unamuno
- Alan Watts
- William Whewell
- Alfred North Whitehead (Level 4)
- Bernard Williams
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (Level 4)
- Slavoj Žižek
Oceania (3 articles)
Historians (176 articles)
Ancient (28 articles)
- Arrian
- Ban Gu
- Ban Zhao
- Cassius Dio
- Lucius Cincius Alimentus
- Quintus Curtius Rufus
- Eusebius (Level 4)
- Quintus Fabius Pictor
- Gregory of Tours
- Herodian
- Herodotus (Level 3)
- Josephus (Level 4)
- Livy
- Manetho
- Megasthenes
- Pamphile of Epidaurus
- Plutarch (Level 4)
- Polybius
- Procopius
- Sallust
- Sima Qian (Level 4)
- Socrates of Constantinople
- Sozomen
- Suetonius
- Tacitus (Level 4)
- Thucydides (Level 4)
- Xenophon (Level 4)
- Zuo Qiuming
Post-classical (11 articles)
Early modern (14 articles)
Late modern (123 articles)
- Brooks Adams
- Henry Adams
- Stephen E. Ambrose
- Charles McLean Andrews
- Philippe Ariès
- François Victor Alphonse Aulard
- George Bancroft
- Vasily Bartold
- Jacques Barzun
- Charles Bean
- Charles A. Beard (Level 4)
- Antony Beevor
- Samuel Flagg Bemis
- Ernst Bernheim
- Geoffrey Blainey
- Marc Bloch
- Daniel J. Boorstin
- Randolph L. Braham
- Fernand Braudel (Level 4)
- David Bret
- James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce
- Lawrence Johnstone Burpee
- Robert Caro
- E. H. Carr
- Bruce Catton
- Edward Channing
- Ron Chernow
- Manning Clark
- Henry Steele Commager
- Robert Conquest
- John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
- John Charles Dent
- Bernard DeVoto
- Johann Gustav Droysen
- William Archibald Dunning
- Ariel Durant
- Will Durant
- Elizabeth Eisenstein
- Elizabeth F. Ellet
- Richard J. Evans
- Lucien Febvre
- Niall Ferguson
- Robert Fogel
- John Hope Franklin
- Douglas Southall Freeman
- James Anthony Froude
- Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
- Samuel Rawson Gardiner
- Eugene Genovese
- Pieter Geyl
- Yuval Noah Harari
- Karl von Hegel
- Christopher Hill (historian)
- Eric Hobsbawm (Level 4)
- Richard Hofstadter
- Michael Howard (historian)
- Huang Xianfan
- Johan Huizinga
- Walter Isaacson
- C. L. R. James
- Ian Kershaw
- Józef Ignacy Kraszewski
- Karl Lamprecht
- Philippa Langley
- Marcia Langton
- Jacques Le Goff
- Georges Lefebvre
- Bernard Lewis
- Elizabeth Longford
- Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Stuart Macintyre
- Frederic William Maitland
- Manning Marable
- David McCullough
- J. R. McNeill
- William H. McNeill (historian)
- Jules Michelet
- Samuel Eliot Morison
- Benny Morris
- John Lothrop Motley
- Lewis Namier
- Allan Nevins
- Douglass North
- František Palacký
- Ilan Pappé
- Francis Parkman
- Vernon Louis Parrington
- Robert Paxton
- Henri Pirenne
- William H. Prescott
- Benjamin Arthur Quarles
- Leopold von Ranke (Level 4)
- Ernest Renan
- Henry Reynolds (historian)
- James Harvey Robinson
- Simon Schama
- Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr.
- Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
- Avi Shlaim
- Quentin Skinner
- Albert Soboul
- Sergey Solovyov (historian)
- Jared Sparks
- David Starkey
- Lawrence Stone
- Lytton Strachey
- R. H. Tawney
- A. J. P. Taylor (Level 4)
- Studs Terkel
- Arnold J. Toynbee
- Trần Trọng Kim
- Heinrich von Treitschke
- G. M. Trevelyan
- Hugh Trevor-Roper
- Barbara W. Tuchman
- Frederick Jackson Turner (Level 4)
- Shoqan Walikhanov
- Richard Wolin
- Carter G. Woodson
- C. Vann Woodward
- Wu Han (historian)
- Yu Ying-shih
- Howard Zinn
Social scientists (767 articles)
Economists and business theorists (135 articles)
- George Akerlof
- Maurice Allais
- Kenneth Arrow
- Emily Greene Balch
- Abhijit Banerjee
- Frédéric Bastiat
- Gary Becker
- Ben Bernanke
- William Beveridge
- Fischer Black
- Olivier Blanchard
- John Bowring
- Lujo Brentano
- James M. Buchanan
- Arthur F. Burns
- Richard Cantillon
- Ronald Coase
- Tyler Cowen
- Angus Deaton
- Gérard Debreu
- Peter Diamond
- Esther Duflo
- Robert F. Engle
- Eugene Fama
- Irving Fisher
- Milton Friedman (Level 4)
- Ragnar Frisch
- Walther Funk
- John Kenneth Galbraith (Level 4)
- Henry George
- Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen
- Hermann Heinrich Gossen
- Clive Granger
- Alan Greenspan
- Trygve Haavelmo
- Alvin Hansen
- Lars Peter Hansen
- John Harsanyi
- Oliver Hart (economist)
- Friedrich Hayek (Level 4)
- James Heckman
- Eli Heckscher
- Walter Heller
- John Hicks
- J. A. Hobson
- Bengt Holmström
- Leonid Hurwicz
- John Maynard Keynes (Level 4)
- Lawrence Klein
- Tjalling Koopmans
- Michael Kremer
- Paul Krugman
- Simon Kuznets
- Finn E. Kydland
- Edward Lazear
- Wassily Leontief
- W. Arthur Lewis
- Friedrich List
- Robert Lucas Jr.
- Thomas Robert Malthus (Level 4)
- Harry Markowitz
- Alfred Marshall
- Karl Marx (Level 3)
- Eric Maskin
- Daniel McFadden
- James Meade
- Carl Menger
- Robert C. Merton
- Merton Miller
- James Mirrlees
- Ludwig von Mises
- Wesley Clair Mitchell
- Franco Modigliani
- Dale T. Mortensen
- Dambisa Moyo, Baroness Moyo
- Robert Mundell
- Roger Myerson
- Gunnar Myrdal
- William Nordhaus
- Bertil Ohlin
- Elinor Ostrom
- Luca Pacioli
- Vilfredo Pareto (Level 4)
- William Petty
- Edmund Phelps
- Arthur Cecil Pigou
- Thomas Piketty
- Christopher A. Pissarides
- Michael Porter
- Edward C. Prescott
- François Quesnay
- Raghuram Rajan
- David Ricardo (Level 4)
- Joan Robinson
- Paul Romer
- Alvin E. Roth
- Nouriel Roubini
- Jeffrey Sachs
- Paul Samuelson (Level 4)
- Thomas J. Sargent
- Jean-Baptiste Say
- Hjalmar Schacht
- Thomas Schelling
- Myron Scholes
- E. F. Schumacher
- Joseph Schumpeter
- Theodore Schultz
- Edwin R. A. Seligman
- Reinhard Selten
- Amartya Sen
- William F. Sharpe
- James Shikwati
- Robert J. Shiller
- Herbert A. Simon
- Christopher A. Sims
- Adam Smith (Level 3)
- Vernon L. Smith
- Robert Solow
- Werner Sombart
- Michael Spence
- George Stigler
- Joseph Stiglitz
- Richard Stone
- Lawrence Summers
- Lorie Tarshis
- F. W. Taussig
- Richard Thaler
- Jan Tinbergen
- Jean Tirole
- James Tobin
- Thorstein Veblen
- William Vickrey
- Oliver E. Williamson
- Janet Yellen
- Muhammad Yunus
Political scientists, theorists, and writers (49 articles)
- Michel Aflaq
- Benedict Anderson
- Mikhail Bakunin (Level 4)
- Murray Bookchin
- Harry Browne
- Zbigniew Brzezinski
- Ralph Bunche
- Edmund Burke (Level 4)
- Malcolm Caldwell
- Chanakya (Level 4)
- Anders Chydenius
- Anacharsis Cloots
- Joseph Déjacque
- Aleksandr Dugin
- Norman Finkelstein
- George Friedman
- Francis Fukuyama
- Ernest Gellner
- Giovanni Gentile
- William Godwin
- Antonio Gramsci (Level 4)
- Thomas Hobbes (Level 4)
- Samuel P. Huntington
- Fredric Jameson
- Kang Youwei
- Hugo Kołłątaj
- Peter Kropotkin (Level 4)
- Christian Lous Lange
- John Locke (Level 3)
- Niccolò Machiavelli (Level 3)
- Charles Maurras
- Montesquieu (Level 4)
- Hans Morgenthau
- Charles Murray (political scientist)
- Thomas Paine (Level 4)
- Frances Fox Piven
- Robert D. Putnam
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (Level 4)
- Murray Rothbard
- Karl Rove
- Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès
- Nate Silver
- Thomas Sowell
- Herbert Spencer (Level 4)
- Lysander Spooner
- Leo Strauss
- Alexis de Tocqueville (Level 4)
- Mary Wollstonecraft (Level 3)
- Francis Parker Yockey
Linguists (99 articles)
- Gabdulkhay Akhatov
- Mikhail Bakhtin
- Charles Bally
- Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
- Derek Bickerton
- Leonard Bloomfield
- Andrzej Bogusławski
- Franz Bopp
- Cyrus Byington
- Lyle Campbell
- Noam Chomsky (Level 4)
- Eve V. Clark
- Henry Thomas Colebrooke
- Matija Čop
- Sándor Kőrösi Csoma
- Vladimir Dal
- Robert M. W. Dixon
- Georges Dumézil
- Penelope Eckert
- Herbert Giles
- Joseph Greenberg
- Paul Grice
- Mary Haas
- Kenneth L. Hale
- Morris Halle
- Michael Halliday
- Zellig Harris
- Irene Heim
- James Curtis Hepburn
- Louis Hjelmslev
- Wilhelm von Humboldt
- Dell Hymes
- Ray Jackendoff
- Roman Jakobson
- Otto Jespersen
- William Jones (philologist)
- Daniel Kane (linguist)
- Richard S. Kayne
- Vuk Karadžić
- Paul Kiparsky
- Athanasius Kircher
- Samuel Kleinschmidt
- Boris Kolker
- Jernej Kopitar
- Angelika Kratzer
- Emil Krebs
- William Labov
- Peter Ladefoged
- George Lakoff
- Juri Lotman
- Fred Lukoff
- Alec Marantz
- Mesrop Mashtots
- Bedřich Hrozný
- George M. McCune
- Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti
- Marianne Mithun
- Max Müller
- David Nash (linguist)
- Johanna Nichols
- Marc Okrand
- Pāṇini (Level 4)
- Barbara Partee
- David J. Peterson
- Paul Pimsleur
- Steven Pinker
- Alan Prince
- Rasmus Rask
- Edwin O. Reischauer
- John R. Ross
- Jerzy Rubach
- Edward Sapir
- Ferdinand de Saussure (Level 4)
- August Schleicher
- Johann Martin Schleyer
- Albert Sechehaye
- Elisabeth Selkirk
- Sequoyah (Level 4)
- Michael Silverstein
- Walter William Skeat
- William A. Smalley
- Sergei Starostin
- Morris Swadesh
- Michel Thomas
- Alfredo Trombetti
- Nikolai Trubetzkoy
- Keng Vannsak
- Michael Ventris
- Thomas Francis Wade
- Noah Webster (Level 4)
- Benjamin Lee Whorf
- Anna Wierzbicka
- Xu Shen
- Shong Lue Yang
- Robert W. Young
- L. L. Zamenhof
- Zhou Youguang
- Pio Zirimu
- Ghil'ad Zuckermann
Sociologists (68 articles)
- Theodor W. Adorno (Level 4)
- Jean Baudrillard
- Ulrich Beck
- Daniel Bell
- Peter Blau
- Pierre Bourdieu (Level 4)
- Manuel Castells
- Nicholas Christakis
- Stanley Cohen (sociologist)
- James Samuel Coleman
- Charles Horton Cooley
- Vahakn Dadrian
- Ralf Dahrendorf
- Guy Debord
- W. E. B. Du Bois (Level 4)
- Émile Durkheim (Level 4)
- Norbert Elias
- Friedrich Engels (Level 4)
- George Fitzhugh
- E. Franklin Frazier
- Harold Garfinkel
- Anthony Giddens
- Erving Goffman
- Ziya Gökalp
- Paul Goodman
- Jack Halberstam
- Stuart Hall (cultural theorist)
- George C. Homans
- Max Horkheimer
- Akhtar Hameed Khan
- Alexandre Lacassagne
- Paul Lazarsfeld
- Bruno Latour
- Yuri Levada
- Seymour Martin Lipset
- Cesare Lombroso
- Niklas Luhmann
- Karl Mannheim
- James G. March
- Herbert Marcuse
- Harriet Martineau
- Marcel Mauss (Level 4)
- George Herbert Mead
- Robert K. Merton
- John W. Meyer
- C. Wright Mills
- Lewis Mumford
- Antonio Negri
- Camille Paglia
- Robert E. Park
- Talcott Parsons (Level 4)
- Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play
- Albion Woodbury Small
- Georg Simmel
- Henri de Saint-Simon
- Pitirim Sorokin
- William Graham Sumner
- Charles Tilly
- Ferdinand Tönnies
- Immanuel Wallerstein
- Lester Frank Ward
- Max Weber (Level 4)
- Edvard Westermarck
- Harrison White
- Raymond Williams
- Louis Wirth
- Marvin Wolfgang
- Florian Znaniecki
Anthropologists and archaeologists (95 articles)
- Lila Abu-Lughod
- Arjun Appadurai
- John Aubrey
- Su Bai
- Robert Ballard
- Gregory Bateson
- Giovanni Belzoni
- Ruth Benedict
- Lewis Binford
- Hiram Bingham III
- Davidson Black
- Carl Blegen
- Franz Boas (Level 4)
- Dmitri Bondarenko
- James Henry Breasted
- Howard Carter
- Alfonso Caso
- Napoleon Chagnon
- Jean-François Champollion
- V. Gordon Childe
- Grahame Clark
- O. G. S. Crawford
- Alexander Cunningham
- Regna Darnell
- Mary Douglas
- Eugène Dubois
- Ann Dunham
- Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt
- A. P. Elkin
- Arthur Evans
- E. E. Evans-Pritchard
- Paul Farmer
- George R. Fischer
- Dian Fossey
- James George Frazer
- Birutė Galdikas
- Manuel Gamio
- Clifford Geertz (Level 4)
- Francis James Gillen
- Marija Gimbutas
- David Graeber
- Marvin Harris
- Zahi Hawass
- George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon
- Ian Hodder
- Earnest Hooton
- Arthur Keith
- Kathleen Kenyon
- Anatoly Khazanov
- Mary Kingsley
- Adam František Kollár
- Andrey Korotayev
- Alfred Kroeber
- Jaap Kunst
- Adam Kuper
- Louis Leakey
- Mary Leakey
- Richard Leakey
- Richard Borshay Lee
- Claude Lévi-Strauss (Level 4)
- Ralph Linton
- Robert Lowie
- Bronisław Malinowski (Level 4)
- John Marshall (archaeologist)
- Margaret Mead (Level 4)
- Sidney Mintz
- Ashley Montagu
- Lewis H. Morgan
- Iolo Morganwg
- Margaret Murray
- Sherry Ortner
- Elsie Clews Parsons
- Flinders Petrie
- Karl Polanyi
- Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (Level 4)
- Colin Renfrew
- Audrey Richards
- Marshall Sahlins
- Nancy Scheper-Hughes
- Heinrich Schliemann (Level 4)
- George Smith (Assyriologist)
- Walter Baldwin Spencer
- Melford Spiro
- Marilyn Strathern
- William Stukeley
- Josef Szombathy
- Edward Burnett Tylor
- Sherwood Washburn
- Camilla Wedgwood
- Mortimer Wheeler
- Clark Wissler
- Johann Joachim Winckelmann
- Eric Wolf
- Nur Yalman
- Namkhai Norbu
Art historians, theorists and critics (79 articles)
- Roland Barthes
- André Bazin
- Michael Barrier
- Jerry Beck
- Giannalberto Bendazzi
- Paul Bénichou
- Walter Benjamin
- Bernard Berenson
- Mary Berenson
- John Berger
- Harold Bloom
- Anthony Blunt
- Anita Brookner
- T. Allston Brown
- Kevin Brownlow
- Jacob Burckhardt
- Joseph Campbell
- John Canaday
- John Canemaker
- Kenneth Clark
- Cyril Connolly
- William Dalrymple (historian)
- Arthur Danto
- Paul de Man
- Gaston Deschamps
- Sergei Diaghilev
- Terry Eagleton
- Roger Fry
- Northrop Frye
- Maureen Furniss
- Mary Garrard
- Henry Louis Gates Jr.
- Henry Geldzahler
- Édouard Glissant
- Edmond de Goncourt
- Clement Greenberg
- Rufus Wilmot Griswold
- Friedrich Gundolf
- Eduard Hanslick
- William Hazlitt
- T. E. Hulme
- S. T. Joshi
- Otto Kallir
- Donald Keene
- Pierre Lasserre
- Louis Leroy
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (Level 4)
- Roberto Longhi
- Michael Mallory
- D. S. Mirsky
- Linda Nochlin
- Erwin Panofsky
- Frank Popper
- Vladimir Propp
- Arlene Raven
- Pierre Restany
- Jean Ricardou
- Pierre Rosenberg
- William Michael Rossetti
- John Ruskin
- Edward Said (Level 4)
- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
- George Saintsbury
- Jerry Saltz
- Anita Sarkeesian
- Andrew Sarris
- Nicholas Serota
- Viktor Shklovsky
- Bernard Smith (art historian)
- Frederic George Stephens
- Stobaeus
- John Addington Symonds
- Hippolyte Taine
- Lionel Trilling
- Giorgio Vasari (Level 4)
- Helen Vendler
- Thomas Warton
- Edmund Wilson
- Zheng Zhenduo
Musicologists and music theorists (17 articles)
Classicists (17 articles)
- Mary Beard (classicist)
- John Beazley
- Richard Bentley
- Walter Burkert
- Isaac Casaubon
- Kenneth Dover
- Eduard Fraenkel
- Edward Gibbon (Level 4)
- Edith Hamilton
- Karl Lachmann
- Theodor Mommsen (Level 4)
- Richard Porson
- Joseph Justus Scaliger
- Ronald Syme
- Martin Litchfield West
- Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
- Friedrich August Wolf
Educators (40 articles)
- Felix Adler (professor)
- Stella Adler
- Amos Bronson Alcott
- Mary McLeod Bethune
- Louis Braille (Level 4)
- Oscar Browning
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- Émile Jaques-Dalcroze
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- Horace Mann
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- Inés Mendoza
- Maria Montessori (Level 4)
- A. S. Neill
- Alice Freeman Palmer
- Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
- William Huntington Russell
- Egerton Ryerson
- Isawa Shūji
- Lee Strasberg
- Anne Sullivan
- Konstantin Ushinsky
- Eleazar Wheelock
- Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Elihu Yale
Forensic sciences (10 articles)
Geographers and cartographers (29 articles)
- Martin Behaim
- Charles Marie de La Condamine
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- Jodocus Hondius
- Muhammad al-Idrisi
- Cosmas Indicopleustes
- Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel
- Wladimir Köppen
- James Lovelock
- Halford Mackinder
- Clements Markham
- Gerardus Mercator
- Pomponius Mela
- Abraham Ortelius
- Pausanias (geographer)
- Arno Peters
- Jacques Piccard
- Piri Reis
- Matthias Ringmann
- Carl Ritter
- Strabo
- Martin Waldseemüller
- Don Walsh
Jurists (78 articles)
- Bella Abzug
- Gloria Allred
- Garfield Barwick
- Cesare Beccaria (Level 4)
- Derrick Bell
- Melvin Belli
- Hugo Black
- Harry Blackmun
- William Blackstone (Level 4)
- Gustave Boissonade
- Robert Bork
- Paolo Borsellino
- Louis Brandeis
- William J. Brennan Jr.
- Vincent Bugliosi
- Warren E. Burger
- James Busby
- René Cassin
- Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood
- Johnnie Cochran
- Roy Cohn
- Edward Coke
- Kimberlé Crenshaw
- Clarence Darrow
- Tom Denning, Baron Denning
- Alan Dershowitz
- Owen Dixon
- William O. Douglas
- Abd El-Razzak El-Sanhuri
- Giovanni Falcone
- Ben Ferencz
- David Dudley Field II
- Hans Frank
- Roland Freisler
- Melville Fuller
- Gaius (jurist)
- Alberico Gentili
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Mike Godwin
- Hugo Grotius (Level 4)
- Learned Hand
- John Marshall Harlan
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
- Hans Kelsen
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- William Kunstler
- Geoffrey Lawrence, 1st Baron Oaksey
- Raphael Lemkin
- Lawrence Lessig
- Francis Lieber
- Robert R. Livingston
- Catharine A. MacKinnon
- John Marshall (Level 4)
- Thurgood Marshall
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- Sergio Moro
- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (Level 4)
- Sandra Day O'Connor
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- William Rehnquist
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- Ken Starr
- John Paul Stevens
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- Roger B. Taney
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- Jeremy Waldron
- Earl Warren
- Byron White
Library science and curators (11 articles)
Public relations, marketing and advertising theorists (11 articles)
Sexologists (10 articles)
Other social sciences (19 articles)
- Gloria E. Anzaldúa
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- Mike Davis (scholar)
- Jared Diamond
- Robin DiAngelo
- Cheikh Anta Diop
- Robert Ettinger
- Shulamith Firestone
- Germaine Greer
- Aubrey de Grey
- Luce Irigaray
- Isocrates
- Jane Jacobs (Level 4)
- Ibram X. Kendi
- Ray Kurzweil
- Simon Leys
- Kate Millett
- Ellen Swallow Richards
- Whitney Smith
Psychologists (113 articles)
- Alfred Adler
- Mary Ainsworth
- Gordon Allport (Level 4)
- Alois Alzheimer
- Elliot Aronson
- Solomon Asch
- David Ausubel
- Albert Bandura (Level 4)
- Frederic Bartlett
- Aaron Beck
- Martha E. Bernal
- Bruno Bettelheim
- Alfred Binet
- Amariah Brigham
- Susan Blackmore
- Eugen Bleuler
- Benjamin Bloom
- John Bowlby
- Katharine Cook Briggs
- Jerome Bruner
- Mary Whiton Calkins
- James McKeen Cattell
- Raymond Cattell (Level 4)
- Kenneth and Mamie Clark
- Simon Baron-Cohen
- Émile Coué
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Kazimierz Dąbrowski
- Park Dietz
- Hermann Ebbinghaus
- Paul Ekman
- Albert Ellis (Level 4)
- Milton H. Erickson
- Erik Erikson (Level 4)
- Hans Eysenck
- Gustav Fechner
- Leon Festinger (Level 4)
- Marie-Louise von Franz
- Anna Freud (Level 4)
- Sigmund Freud (Level 3)
- Erich Fromm
- Adrian Furnham
- Robert M. Gagné
- Howard Gardner
- Carol Gilligan
- Jonathan Haidt
- G. Stanley Hall
- Harry Harlow
- Donald O. Hebb
- Karen Horney
- Clark L. Hull
- Joseph Jastrow
- Herbert Jasper
- Carl Jung (Level 4)
- Daniel Kahneman
- Leo Kanner
- Melanie Klein
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- Lawrence Kohlberg
- Heinz Kohut
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- Jacques Lacan
- R. D. Laing
- Timothy Leary
- Aleksei N. Leontiev
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- Marsha M. Linehan
- Elizabeth Loftus
- Abraham Maslow (Level 4)
- Rollo May
- David McClelland
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- Stanley Milgram
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- Neal E. Miller
- Walter Mischel
- Lloyd Morrisett
- Hugo Münsterberg
- Isabel Briggs Myers
- Ulric Neisser
- Ivan Pavlov (Level 4)
- Fritz Perls
- Laura Perls
- Jordan Peterson
- Jean Piaget (Level 4)
- Robert Plomin
- Otto Rank
- Anatol Rapoport
- Carl Rogers (Level 4)
- J. Philippe Rushton
- Stanley Schachter
- Martin Seligman
- Muzafer Sherif
- Théodore Simon
- B. F. Skinner (Level 4)
- Charles Spearman
- Edward Charles Spitzka
- Robert Sternberg
- Harry Stack Sullivan
- Thomas Szasz
- Lewis Terman
- Edward Thorndike (Level 4)
- Edward B. Titchener
- Lev Vygotsky (Level 4)
- Margaret Floy Washburn
- John B. Watson (Level 4)
- Ernst Heinrich Weber
- David Wechsler
- Frances Cress Welsing
- Donald Winnicott
- Wilhelm Wundt (Level 4)
- Alexander Zaporozhets
- Philip Zimbardo