Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4/People

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• 1 People
  • 1.1 Entertainers
    • 1.1.1 Actors
    • 1.1.2 Dancers and choreographers
      • 1.1.2.1 Ballet
      • 1.1.2.2 Other dance
    • 1.1.3 Comedians
    • 1.1.4 Hosts and performers
  • 1.2 Visual artists
    • 1.2.1 Western painters and illustrators
      • 1.2.1.1 Post-classical
      • 1.2.1.2 Renaissance to early modern
      • 1.2.1.3 Modern (painters)
      • 1.2.1.4 Cartoonists, comics artists, and illustrators
    • 1.2.2 Other visual arts
      • 1.2.2.1 Sculptors
      • 1.2.2.2 Architects
      • 1.2.2.3 Conceptual artists
      • 1.2.2.4 Designers
      • 1.2.2.5 Photographers
      • 1.2.2.6 Instrument makers
      • 1.2.2.7 Urban planners
    • 1.2.3 Non-Western traditions
  • 1.3 Writers
    • 1.3.1 Ancient
      • 1.3.1.1 Asia
      • 1.3.1.2 Europe
    • 1.3.2 Post-classical
      • 1.3.2.1 Asia
      • 1.3.2.2 Europe
    • 1.3.3 Early modern
      • 1.3.3.1 Asia
      • 1.3.3.2 Europe
    • 1.3.4 Modern
      • 1.3.4.1 Africa
      • 1.3.4.2 Americas
        • 1.3.4.2.1 US and Canada
        • 1.3.4.2.2 Latin America
      • 1.3.4.3 Europe
        • 1.3.4.3.1 Europe: General
        • 1.3.4.3.2 Central Europe
        • 1.3.4.3.3 Russia
        • 1.3.4.3.4 Western Europe
        • 1.3.4.3.5 UK and Ireland
      • 1.3.4.4 Asia
      • 1.3.4.5 Oceania
  • 1.4 Journalists
  • 1.5 Musicians and composers
    • 1.5.1 Western art music
      • 1.5.1.1 Composers
        • 1.5.1.1.1 Post-classical history and the Renaissance
        • 1.5.1.1.2 Baroque
        • 1.5.1.1.3 Classical
        • 1.5.1.1.4 Romantic
        • 1.5.1.1.5 20th century modern
          • 1.5.1.1.5.1 Avant-garde/postmodern
      • 1.5.1.2 Pedagogues
      • 1.5.1.3 Performers
        • 1.5.1.3.1 Cellists
        • 1.5.1.3.2 Conductors
        • 1.5.1.3.3 Pianists
        • 1.5.1.3.4 Singers
        • 1.5.1.3.5 Violinists
    • 1.5.2 Non-Western art music
      • 1.5.2.1 Carnatic classical
      • 1.5.2.2 Hindustani classical
      • 1.5.2.3 Qawwali
      • 1.5.2.4 Persian traditional
    • 1.5.3 Jazz
    • 1.5.4 Popular music
      • 1.5.4.1 Non-English language singers
      • 1.5.4.2 Afrobeat
      • 1.5.4.3 Blues, R&B, and soul
      • 1.5.4.4 Electronic music
      • 1.5.4.5 Folk and country
      • 1.5.4.6 Funk
      • 1.5.4.7 Hip-hop and rap
      • 1.5.4.8 Latin
      • 1.5.4.9 Flamenco
      • 1.5.4.10 Musical comedy and lyricists
      • 1.5.4.11 Rock
  • 1.6 Directors, producers and screenwriters
    • 1.6.1 Animators and puppeteers
    • 1.6.2 Directors
    • 1.6.3 Producers and executives
    • 1.6.4 Screenwriter
  • 1.7 Businesspeople
  • 1.8 Explorers
    • 1.8.1 Ancient
    • 1.8.2 Post-classical
    • 1.8.3 Early modern
    • 1.8.4 Modern
  • 1.9 Philosophers, historians, political and social scientists
    • 1.9.1 Philosophers
      • 1.9.1.1 Ancient
      • 1.9.1.2 Post-classical
      • 1.9.1.3 Early modern
      • 1.9.1.4 Modern
    • 1.9.2 Historians
      • 1.9.2.1 Ancient
      • 1.9.2.2 Post-classical
      • 1.9.2.3 Early modern
      • 1.9.2.4 Modern
    • 1.9.3 Social scientists, economists and political writers
      • 1.9.3.1 Ancient
      • 1.9.3.2 Post-classical
      • 1.9.3.3 Early modern
      • 1.9.3.4 Modern
    • 1.9.4 Psychologists
  • 1.10 Religious figures
    • 1.10.1 Hinduism
      • 1.10.1.1 Ancient
      • 1.10.1.2 Post-classical
      • 1.10.1.3 Modern
    • 1.10.2 Buddhism
      • 1.10.2.1 Chinese Buddhism
      • 1.10.2.2 Indian Buddhism
      • 1.10.2.3 Japanese Buddhism
    • 1.10.3 Abrahamic religions
      • 1.10.3.1 Judaism
      • 1.10.3.2 Christianity
        • 1.10.3.2.1 New Testament figures
        • 1.10.3.2.2 Pre-Schism
        • 1.10.3.2.3 Catholic Church
        • 1.10.3.2.4 Popes
        • 1.10.3.2.5 Orthodox Church
        • 1.10.3.2.6 Protestantism
        • 1.10.3.2.7 Others
      • 1.10.3.3 Islam
        • 1.10.3.3.1 Shia Islam
        • 1.10.3.3.2 Sunni Islam
        • 1.10.3.3.3 Others
    • 1.10.4 Others
      • 1.10.4.1 Jainism
      • 1.10.4.2 New religious movements
      • 1.10.4.3 Sikhism
      • 1.10.4.4 Zoroastrianism
  • 1.11 Politicians and leaders
    • 1.11.1 Ancient
      • 1.11.1.1 Africa
        • 1.11.1.1.1 Egypt
      • 1.11.1.2 Asia
        • 1.11.1.2.1 Eastern Asia
        • 1.11.1.2.2 Southern Asia
        • 1.11.1.2.3 Western Asia
        • 1.11.1.2.4 Hellenistic Kingdoms
      • 1.11.1.3 Europe
        • 1.11.1.3.1 Eastern Europe
        • 1.11.1.3.2 Greece
        • 1.11.1.3.3 Macedonia
        • 1.11.1.3.4 Western Europe
        • 1.11.1.3.5 Ancient Rome
    • 1.11.2 Post-classical
      • 1.11.2.1 Africa
      • 1.11.2.2 Americas
      • 1.11.2.3 Asia
        • 1.11.2.3.1 Central Asia, Iran, Caucasus
        • 1.11.2.3.2 Eastern Asia
        • 1.11.2.3.3 China
        • 1.11.2.3.4 Southeastern Asia
        • 1.11.2.3.5 Vietnam
        • 1.11.2.3.6 Southern Asia
        • 1.11.2.3.7 Western Asia
        • 1.11.2.3.8 Caliphates
      • 1.11.2.4 Europe
        • 1.11.2.4.1 Eastern Europe
        • 1.11.2.4.2 Bulgaria
        • 1.11.2.4.3 Byzantine Empire
        • 1.11.2.4.4 Hungary
        • 1.11.2.4.5 Poland and Lithuania
        • 1.11.2.4.6 Russia
        • 1.11.2.4.7 Western Europe
        • 1.11.2.4.8 England and Scotland
        • 1.11.2.4.9 France
        • 1.11.2.4.10 Germany
        • 1.11.2.4.11 Holy Roman Empire
        • 1.11.2.4.12 Italy
        • 1.11.2.4.13 Papal States
        • 1.11.2.4.14 Spain and Portugal
    • 1.11.3 Early modern
      • 1.11.3.1 Africa
      • 1.11.3.2 Americas
        • 1.11.3.2.1 United States
      • 1.11.3.3 Asia
        • 1.11.3.3.1 Central Asia, Iran, Caucasus
        • 1.11.3.3.2 Eastern Asia
        • 1.11.3.3.3 China
        • 1.11.3.3.4 Japan
        • 1.11.3.3.5 Southern Asia
        • 1.11.3.3.6 Southeastern Asia
        • 1.11.3.3.7 Burma
        • 1.11.3.3.8 Western Asia
      • 1.11.3.4 Europe
        • 1.11.3.4.1 Eastern Europe
        • 1.11.3.4.2 Poland and Lithuania
        • 1.11.3.4.3 Russia
        • 1.11.3.4.4 Western Europe
        • 1.11.3.4.5 England and Scotland
        • 1.11.3.4.6 France
          • 1.11.3.4.6.1 Holy Roman Empire, Austria
        • 1.11.3.4.7 Northern Europe
        • 1.11.3.4.8 Southern Europe
      • 1.11.3.5 Oceania
    • 1.11.4 Modern
      • 1.11.4.1 Africa
        • 1.11.4.1.1 Eastern Africa
        • 1.11.4.1.2 Northern Africa
        • 1.11.4.1.3 Southern and Central Africa
        • 1.11.4.1.4 Western Africa
      • 1.11.4.2 Americas
        • 1.11.4.2.1 South America
        • 1.11.4.2.2 Brazil
        • 1.11.4.2.3 Central America and the Caribbean
        • 1.11.4.2.4 Mexico
        • 1.11.4.2.5 United States
        • 1.11.4.2.6 Canada
      • 1.11.4.3 Asia
        • 1.11.4.3.1 Central Asia, Iran, Caucasus
        • 1.11.4.3.2 Eastern Asia
        • 1.11.4.3.3 China
        • 1.11.4.3.4 Japan
        • 1.11.4.3.5 Korea
        • 1.11.4.3.6 Southeastern Asia
        • 1.11.4.3.7 Southern Asia
        • 1.11.4.3.8 India
        • 1.11.4.3.9 Western Asia
      • 1.11.4.4 Europe
        • 1.11.4.4.1 Central Europe
        • 1.11.4.4.2 Eastern Europe
        • 1.11.4.4.3 Southeastern Europe
        • 1.11.4.4.4 Russia and USSR
        • 1.11.4.4.5 Scandinavia
        • 1.11.4.4.6 Western Europe
        • 1.11.4.4.7 France
        • 1.11.4.4.8 Germany
        • 1.11.4.4.9 Iberia
        • 1.11.4.4.10 Ireland
        • 1.11.4.4.11 Italy
        • 1.11.4.4.12 United Kingdom
      • 1.11.4.5 Oceania
  • 1.12 Military leaders and theorists
    • 1.12.1 Ancient
    • 1.12.2 Post-classical
    • 1.12.3 Early modern
    • 1.12.4 Modern
  • 1.13 Rebels, revolutionaries and activists
    • 1.13.1 Ancient
    • 1.13.2 Post-classical
    • 1.13.3 Early modern
      • 1.13.3.1 Early modern: General
      • 1.13.3.2 France
    • 1.13.4 Modern
      • 1.13.4.1 Americas
        • 1.13.4.1.1 United States
      • 1.13.4.2 Africa
      • 1.13.4.3 Asia
      • 1.13.4.4 Europe
  • 1.14 Scientists, inventors and mathematicians
    • 1.14.1 Ancient figures
      • 1.14.1.1 Ancient history
      • 1.14.1.2 Post-classical history
    • 1.14.2 Physics
      • 1.14.2.1 Early modern
      • 1.14.2.2 Modern
      • 1.14.2.3 Astronomy
    • 1.14.3 Chemistry
    • 1.14.4 Life sciences
      • 1.14.4.1 Biology
      • 1.14.4.2 Medicine
    • 1.14.5 Physical geography
    • 1.14.6 Inventors and engineers
    • 1.14.7 Mathematicians
      • 1.14.7.1 Early modern
      • 1.14.7.2 Modern
    • 1.14.8 Computer scientists
  • 1.15 Sports figures
    • 1.15.1 Individual sports
      • 1.15.1.1 Athletics
      • 1.15.1.2 Auto racing
      • 1.15.1.3 Biathlon
      • 1.15.1.4 Boxing
      • 1.15.1.5 Chess
      • 1.15.1.6 Climbing and mountaineering
      • 1.15.1.7 Cycling
      • 1.15.1.8 Figure skating
      • 1.15.1.9 Golf
      • 1.15.1.10 Gymnastics
      • 1.15.1.11 Martial arts
      • 1.15.1.12 Skiing
      • 1.15.1.13 Speed skating
      • 1.15.1.14 Swimming
      • 1.15.1.15 Tennis
      • 1.15.1.16 Wrestling
      • 1.15.1.17 Multiple sports
    • 1.15.2 Team sports
      • 1.15.2.1 American football
      • 1.15.2.2 Association football
      • 1.15.2.3 Baseball
      • 1.15.2.4 Basketball
      • 1.15.2.5 Rugby union
      • 1.15.2.6 Cricket
      • 1.15.2.7 Field hockey
      • 1.15.2.8 Ice hockey
      • 1.15.2.9 Rowing

Total 1,994 articles.

Class	#Articles
FA	169
GA	236
A	4
B	859
C	706
FFA	85
DGA	79
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1. Julie Andrews
2. Lauren Bacall
3. Amitabh Bachchan
4. Brigitte Bardot
5. Ingrid Bergman
6. Sarah Bernhardt
7. Humphrey Bogart
8. Marlon Brando
9. James Cagney
10. Jackie Chan
11. Claudette Colbert
12. Sean Connery
13. Gary Cooper
14. Joan Crawford
15. Bette Davis
16. Doris Day
17. Robert De Niro
18. Alain Delon
19. Marlene Dietrich
20. Clint Eastwood
21. Henry Fonda
22. Jean Gabin
23. Clark Gable
24. Greta Garbo
25. Judy Garland
26. John Gielgud
27. Lillian Gish
28. Cary Grant
29. Alec Guinness
30. Tom Hanks
31. Setsuko Hara
32. Rita Hayworth
33. Audrey Hepburn
34. Katharine Hepburn
35. Grace Kelly
36. Klaus Kinski
37. Vivien Leigh
38. Sophia Loren
39. Madhubala
40. Marcello Mastroianni
41. Toshiro Mifune
42. Marilyn Monroe
43. Jeanne Moreau
44. Jack Nicholson
45. Laurence Olivier
46. Peter O'Toole
47. Gregory Peck
48. Mary Pickford
49. Sidney Poitier
50. Rajinikanth
51. Barbara Stanwyck
52. James Stewart
53. Meryl Streep
54. Elizabeth Taylor
55. Shirley Temple
56. Spencer Tracy
57. Rudolph Valentino
58. John Wayne
59. Mae West

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1. George Balanchine
2. Mikhail Baryshnikov
3. Margot Fonteyn
4. Vaslav Nijinsky
5. Rudolf Nureyev
6. Anna Pavlova
7. Marius Petipa

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1. Fred Astaire
2. Josephine Baker
3. Isadora Duncan
4. Bob Fosse
5. Martha Graham
6. Gene Kelly
7. Izumo no Okuni
8. Ginger Rogers

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Carol Burnett

George Carlin

Bill Cosby

Louis de Funès

Laurel and Hardy

Marx Brothers

Monty Python

Richard Pryor

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Harry Houdini

Marcel Marceau

Ed Sullivan

Oprah Winfrey

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1. Giotto

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1. Sandro Botticelli
2. Hieronymus Bosch
3. Pieter Bruegel the Elder
4. Caravaggio
5. Jacques-Louis David
6. Albrecht Dürer
7. Artemisia Gentileschi
8. El Greco
9. Francisco Goya
10. William Hogarth
11. Hans Holbein the Younger
12. Leonardo da Vinci (Level 3)
13. Masaccio
14. Nicolas Poussin
15. Raphael
16. Rembrandt (Level 3)
17. Peter Paul Rubens
18. Titian
19. Jan van Eyck
20. Diego Velázquez
21. Johannes Vermeer
22. Antoine Watteau

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1. Paul Cézanne
2. Marc Chagall
3. John Constable
4. Gustave Courbet
5. Salvador Dalí
6. Edgar Degas
7. Eugène Delacroix
8. Max Ernst
9. Caspar David Friedrich
10. Paul Gauguin
11. Vincent van Gogh (Level 3)
12. Edward Hopper
13. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
14. Frida Kahlo
15. Wassily Kandinsky
16. Paul Klee
17. René Magritte
18. Kazimir Malevich
19. Édouard Manet
20. Franz Marc
21. Henri Matisse
22. Joan Miró
23. Piet Mondrian
24. Claude Monet
25. Edvard Munch
26. Georgia O'Keeffe
27. Pablo Picasso (Level 3)
28. Camille Pissarro
29. Jackson Pollock
30. Pierre-Auguste Renoir
31. Ilya Repin
32. Gerhard Richter
33. Diego Rivera
34. Henri Rousseau
35. John Singer Sargent
36. Georges Seurat
37. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
38. J. M. W. Turner
39. Andy Warhol
40. James McNeill Whistler

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1. Aubrey Beardsley
2. M. C. Escher
3. Will Eisner
4. Hergé
5. Jack Kirby
6. Winsor McCay
7. Norman Rockwell
8. Osamu Tezuka

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1. Gian Lorenzo Bernini
2. Constantin Brâncuși
3. Donatello
4. Alberto Giacometti
5. Michelangelo (Level 3)
6. Henry Moore
7. Phidias
8. Auguste Rodin

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1. Alvar Aalto
2. Leon Battista Alberti
3. Filippo Brunelleschi
4. Le Corbusier
5. Buckminster Fuller
6. Antoni Gaudí
7. Frank Gehry
8. Walter Gropius
9. Zaha Hadid
10. Imhotep
11. Philip Johnson
12. Louis Kahn
13. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
14. Oscar Niemeyer
15. Andrea Palladio
16. I. M. Pei
17. Mimar Sinan
18. Albert Speer
19. Louis Sullivan
20. Vitruvius
21. Christopher Wren
22. Frank Lloyd Wright

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1. Joseph Beuys
2. Marcel Duchamp

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1. Coco Chanel
2. Yves Saint Laurent (designer)
3. Raymond Loewy

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1. Ansel Adams
2. Henri Cartier-Bresson
3. Eadweard Muybridge
4. Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
5. Man Ray
6. Edward Weston

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1. Antonio Stradivari

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1. Georges-Eugène Haussmann
2. Jane Jacobs
3. Robert Moses
4. Frederick Law Olmsted

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1. Hokusai (Level 3)
2. Hiroshige
3. Kanō Masanobu
4. Sesshū Tōyō
5. Shitao
6. Wang Xizhi

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1. Kalidasa
2. Qu Yuan

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1. Aeschylus
2. Aristophanes
3. Catullus
4. Euripides
5. Hesiod
6. Homer (Level 3)
7. Horace
8. Lucian
9. Menander
10. Ovid
11. Plautus
12. Sappho
13. Sophocles
14. Terence
15. Virgil (Level 3)

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1. Bai Juyi
2. Bhavabhuti
3. Du Fu
4. Ferdowsi
5. Hafez
6. Han Yu
7. Jami
8. Kabir
9. Omar Khayyam
10. Amir Khusrau
11. Li Bai (Level 3)
12. Murasaki Shikibu (Level 3)
13. Nizami Ganjavi
14. Abu Nuwas
15. Ouyang Xiu
16. Rudaki
17. Rumi (Level 3)
18. Saadi Shirazi
19. Su Shi
20. Tao Yuanming
21. Wang Wei (Tang dynasty)

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1. Dante Alighieri (Level 3)
2. Giovanni Boccaccio
3. Geoffrey Chaucer
4. Chrétien de Troyes
5. Christine de Pizan
6. Petrarch
7. François Villon

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1. Fuzuli (poet)
2. Matsuo Bashō
3. Mir Taqi Mir
4. Mirabai
5. Tukaram
6. Tulsidas

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1. Pedro Calderón de la Barca
2. Robert Burns
3. Luís de Camões
4. Giacomo Casanova
5. Miguel de Cervantes (Level 3)
6. Pierre Corneille
7. Daniel Defoe
8. John Donne
9. John Dryden
10. Henry Fielding
11. Samuel Johnson
12. Ben Jonson
13. Christopher Marlowe
14. John Milton
15. Michel de Montaigne
16. Thomas More
17. Molière
18. Nostradamus
19. Charles Perrault
20. Alexander Pope
21. François Rabelais
22. Jean Racine
23. Marquis de Sade
24. William Shakespeare (Level 3)
25. Edmund Spenser
26. Jonathan Swift
27. Lope de Vega
28. Voltaire (Level 3)

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1. Chinua Achebe
2. J. M. Coetzee
3. Nadine Gordimer
4. Naguib Mahfouz
5. Ben Okri
6. Wole Soyinka
7. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

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1. Maya Angelou
2. Isaac Asimov
3. Margaret Atwood
4. Saul Bellow
5. Ray Bradbury
6. William S. Burroughs
7. Raymond Chandler
8. Emily Dickinson
9. T. S. Eliot
10. Ralph Waldo Emerson
11. William Faulkner
12. F. Scott Fitzgerald
13. Robert Frost
14. Allen Ginsberg
15. Nathaniel Hawthorne
16. Robert A. Heinlein
17. Ernest Hemingway
18. Langston Hughes
19. Henry James
20. Jack Kerouac
21. Stephen King
22. Ursula K. Le Guin
23. Stan Lee
24. Jack London
25. H. P. Lovecraft
26. Herman Melville
27. Arthur Miller
28. Toni Morrison
29. Vladimir Nabokov
30. Sylvia Plath
31. Edgar Allan Poe
32. Ezra Pound
33. Ayn Rand
34. Dr. Seuss
35. Upton Sinclair
36. John Steinbeck
37. Mark Twain
38. Kurt Vonnegut
39. Edith Wharton
40. Walt Whitman
41. Tennessee Williams

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1. Jorge Amado
2. Jorge Luis Borges
3. Alejo Carpentier
4. Carlos Fuentes
5. Gabriel García Márquez
6. Machado de Assis
7. José Martí
8. Pablo Neruda
9. Mario Vargas Llosa

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1. Constantine P. Cavafy

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1. Adam Mickiewicz
2. Ismail Kadare
3. Joseph Conrad
4. Sándor Petőfi
5. Henryk Sienkiewicz
6. Taras Shevchenko
7. Elie Wiesel

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1. Anna Akhmatova
2. Joseph Brodsky
3. Mikhail Bulgakov
4. Ivan Bunin
5. Anton Chekhov
6. Fyodor Dostoevsky
7. Maxim Gorky
8. Nikolai Gogol
9. Mikhail Lermontov
10. Vladimir Mayakovsky
11. Boris Pasternak
12. Alexander Pushkin
13. Mikhail Sholokhov
14. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
15. Leo Tolstoy (Level 3)
16. Ivan Turgenev

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1. Hans Christian Andersen
2. Antonin Artaud
3. Honoré de Balzac
4. Charles Baudelaire
5. Karen Blixen
6. Bertolt Brecht
7. Albert Camus
8. Alexandre Dumas
9. Umberto Eco
10. Gustave Flaubert
11. Anne Frank
12. Federico García Lorca
13. André Gide
14. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
15. Brothers Grimm
16. Knut Hamsun
17. Heinrich Heine
18. Hermann Hesse
19. Victor Hugo
20. Henrik Ibsen
21. Eugène Ionesco
22. Franz Kafka
23. Selma Lagerlöf
24. Halldór Laxness
25. Astrid Lindgren
26. Thomas Mann
27. Stéphane Mallarmé
28. Guy de Maupassant
29. Fernando Pessoa
30. Luigi Pirandello
31. Marcel Proust
32. Arthur Rimbaud
33. Rainer Maria Rilke
34. José Saramago
35. Friedrich Schiller
36. Stendhal
37. August Strindberg
38. Tristan Tzara
39. Jules Verne
40. Émile Zola

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1. Jane Austen
2. Samuel Beckett
3. William Blake
4. Enid Blyton
5. Brontë family
6. Lord Byron
7. Lewis Carroll
8. Agatha Christie
9. Arthur C. Clarke
10. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
11. Roald Dahl
12. Charles Dickens
13. Arthur Conan Doyle
14. George Eliot
15. William Golding
16. Thomas Hardy
17. James Joyce
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