Some favourite stuff (mostly alphabetical by first word) ...
Wiki articles edit
For it's comprehensive brilliance, it's well worth visiting Charles Darwin. 2009 commemorated the 200th aniversary of his birth. I'm also fond of the former featured article 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake—a graphical tour de force, if ever there was one.
Another article to check out is Woody Allen. Whether you love or hate the man and his movies, his quotes and philosophical musings are nothing short of pure genius. Just click the Wikiquote link in Woody's 'External links' section.
For a more varied list of humorous wiki articles, simply follow the recommendations of User:TheMadBaron.
50 Chess Players edit
Akiba Rubinstein | Alexander Alekhine | Alexander Morozevich | Alexei Shirov | Amos Burn | Aron Nimzowitsch | Baadur Jobava | Bent Larsen | Bobby Fischer | Carl Schlechter | David Bronstein | David Howell | David Janowski | Efim Geller | Frank Marshall | Garry Kasparov | Gawain Jones | Harry Golombek | Johannes Zukertort | John Nunn | Jonathan Penrose | Jose Raoul Capablanca | Joseph Blackburne | Julian Hodgson | Laszlo Szabo | Leonid Stein | Levon Aronian | Matthew Sadler | Magnus Carlsen | Max Euwe | Miguel Najdorf | Mikhail Botvinnik | Mikhail Chigorin | Mikhail Tal | Nigel Short | Oleg Romanishin | Paul Keres | Paul Morphy | Peter Svidler | Rafael Vaganian | Rashid Nezhmetdinov | Richard Reti | Svetozar Gligoric | Tigran Petrosian | Tony Miles | Vasily Smyslov | Vera Menchik | Viktor Korchnoi | Wei Yi | Yuri Averbakh
50 Actors edit
Anthony Hopkins | Brad Pitt | Bruce Willis | Christopher Walken | Clint Eastwood | Clive Owen | Daniel Mays | Dennis Hopper | Denzel Washington | Ewan McGregor | George Clooney | Gerard Butler | Gérard Depardieu | Gregory Peck | Harrison Ford | Idris Elba | Jack Nicholson | James Spader | Jean Reno | Jeff Bridges | Jim Carrey | Jim Caviezel | John Cusack | John Wayne | Kevin Costner | Kevin Spacey | Kirk Douglas | Kurt Russell | Liam Neeson | Matt Damon | Matt Dillon | Mel Gibson | Michael Emerson | Michael Fassbender | Mickey Rourke | Morgan Freeman | Nick Nolte | Paul Newman | Peter Dinklage | Ray Liotta | Robert De Niro | Russell Crowe | Samuel L Jackson | Sean Bean | Sean Penn | Steve Buscemi | Steve McQueen | Tom Hardy | Vincent Cassel | Will Smith
50 Actresses edit
Anna Friel | Audrey Hepburn | Audrey Tautou | Billie Piper | Brigitte Bardot | Cameron Diaz | Carey Mulligan | Cate Blanchett | Charlize Theron | Charlotte Rampling | Christina Ricci | Daryl Hannah | Debra Winger | Diane Kruger | Elisabeth Moss | Emmanuelle Béart | Eva Green | Faye Dunaway | Gina McKee | Helen Mirren | Isabelle Adjani | Jane Fonda | Jennifer Aniston | Jennifer Connelly | Jennifer Ehle | Jennifer Lawrence | Jessica Brown Findlay | Jodie Comer | Jodie Foster | Juliette Lewis | Keeley Hawes | Keira Knightley | Kirsten Dunst | Lena Headey | Lesley Sharp | Louise Bourgoin | Marion Cotillard | Milla Jovovich | Natalie Portman | Nicole Kidman | Olivia Colman | Rachel Weisz | Ruth Wilson | Saoirse Ronan | Scarlett Johansson | Shirley MacLaine | Sigourney Weaver | Sofia Helin | Suranne Jones | Uma Thurman
50 TV Dramas edit
Ashes to Ashes | Bad Banks | Black Mirror | Blake's 7 | Black Lake | Columbo | Cracker | Das Boot | Deutschland 83 | Doctor Foster | Game of Thrones | Garrison's Gorillas | Gentleman Jack | Happy Valley | Humans | Killing Eve | Les Revenants | Life on Mars | Line of Duty | Lost | Lost in Space | Luther | M*A*S*H* | Moonlighting | Ordinary Lies | Our Friends in the North | Peaky Blinders | Person of Interest | Pride and Prejudice | Resistance | Scott & Bailey | Sharpe | Space: 1999 | Star Trek | Taboo | The Bridge | The Handmaid's Tale | The Killing | The Last Kingdom | The Man from Uncle | The Missing | The Time Tunnel | Thicker Than Water | Top of the Lake | Traitors | UFO | Under the Dome | Valkyrien | Vikings | Witnesses
30 Movie Directors edit
Alan Parker | Ang Lee | Brian De Palma | Christopher Nolan | David Lean | David Lynch | Edward Zwick | George Miller | James Cameron | Joe Wright | Joel Schumacher | John Hughes | John McTiernan | Kathryn Bigelow | Luc Besson | M. Night Shyamalan | Martin Campbell | Martin McDonagh | Martin Scorsese | Michael Bay | Paul Verhoeven | Quentin Tarantino | Ridley Scott | Robert Rodriguez | Robert Zemeckis | Ron Howard | Stanley Kubrick | Steven Soderbergh | Steven Spielberg | Tony Scott
15 (French speaking) Movies edit
À Bout de Souffle | Amelie | Angel-A | Betty Blue | Delicatessen | Jean de Florette | La Femme Nikita | L'été meurtrier | Le Serpent | Manon des Sources | Ne le dis á personne | Rust and Bone | Sur mes levres | The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec | Wasabi
150 (English speaking) Movies edit
2 Days in the Valley | 300 | 1917 | A Fistful of Dollars | A League Of Their Own | A Time to Kill | Ace Ventura: Pet Detective | After Hours | Alien: Covenant | Aliens | Alita: Battle Angel | Angel Heart | Annie Hall | Armageddon | Avatar | Basic Instinct | Ben-Hur | Betrayed | Blade Runner | Blade Runner 2049 | Braveheart | Bring It On | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Cape Fear | Chinatown | Contact | Cool Hand Luke | Crazy/Beautiful | Dances With Wolves | Dangerous Liaisons | Death Proof | Derailed | Desperado | Die Hard | Die Hard With A Vengeance | Dirty Harry | Django Unchained | Dumb and Dumber | Dunkirk | Elysium | Eye in the Sky | Far and Away | Far from the Madding Crowd | Fargo | Fatal Attraction | Fearless | Ferris Bueller’s Day Off | Field Of Dreams | For A Few Dollars More | Four Rooms | From Dusk Till Dawn | Fury | Gladiator | Good Will Hunting | Gravity | Grosse Pointe Blank | Hostage | I Am Legend | I, Robot | In Bruges | Inception | Independence Day | Inglourious Basterds | Jackie Brown | K-PAX | Kelly's Heroes | Kill Bill | Kill Bill 2 | Kindergarten Cop | Léon | Lethal Weapon | Lucy | Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome | Mad Max: Fury Road | Man on Fire | Midnight Run | Minority Report | Mr. And Mrs. Smith | Mrs. Doubtfire | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Once Upon a Time in the West | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Payback | Pearl Harbor | Pirates of the Caribbean | Pretty In Pink | Pride and Prejudice | Prometheus | Pulp Fiction | Racing with the Moon | Raiders of the Lost Ark | Rain Man | Rio Bravo | Roxanne | Rumble Fish | Sense and Sensibility | Seven | Silent Running | Sin City | Smokin Aces | Some Like It Hot | Source Code | Speed | Spider-Man | St. Elmo's Fire | Stakeout | Taken | Taken 2 | Taxi Driver | Terminator 2: Judgement Day | Terms of Endearment | The Abyss | The Big Blue | The Book of Eli | The Bourne Identity | The Brave One | The Breakfast Club | The Bridge on the River Kwai | The Count of Monte Cristo | The Fifth Element | The Gift | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | The Guard | The Guns of Navarone | The Hot Spot | The Last Samurai | The Mask | The Mask of Zorro | The Omen | The Postman | The Remains of the Day | The Revenant | The Shape of Water | The Shawshank Redemption | The Sixth Sense | The Sons of Katie Elder | The Thomas Crown Affair | There’s Something About Mary | Titanic | Trapeze | Troy | True Lies | True Romance | U-Turn | Unknown | War of the Worlds | Waterworld | Weird Science | Wild at Heart | Zulu
250 Music Artists edit
1970s and beyond edit
Abba | Aphrodite's Child | Bill Nelson | Carmen | Cream | Curved Air | Deep Purple | Devo | Emerson, Lake & Palmer | Fleetwood Mac | Focus | Free | Genesis | Heart | Jethro Tull | Kate Bush | King Crimson | Led Zeppelin | Mike Oldfield | Pink Floyd | Premiata Forneria Marconi | Roxy Music | Santana | Sex Pistols | Simon and Garfunkel | Talking Heads | Tangerine Dream | The Clash | The Doors | The Moody Blues | The Who | Uriah Heep | Wishbone Ash | Yes
1980s and beyond edit
A Flock Of Seagulls | Act | Adrian Borland | B-52’s | Bauhaus | Belinda Carlisle | Blancmange | Blondie | Blow Monkeys | B-Movie | C Cat Trance | Cabaret Voltaire | Care | China Crisis | Clan Of Xymox | Claudia Brücken | Clock DVA | Cocteau Twins | Colourbox | Comsat Angels | Crowded House | Dead Can Dance | Depeche Mode | Echo & The Bunnymen | Enya | Fatal Charm | Fields of the Nephilim | Garbage | Gene Loves Jezebel | Gipsy Kings | Grace Jones | Heaven 17 | Hurrah! | Inspiral Carpets | Into Paradise | James | Joy Division | Julian Cope | Kitchens of Distinction | Lloyd Cole | Lowlife | Lush | Madonna | Magazine | Moby | Modern English | New Order | Paris Angels | Peter Gabriel | Pixies | Prefab Sprout | Propaganda | R.E.M.| Red Lorry Yellow Lorry | River City People | Sad Lovers & Giants | Silent Running | Simple Minds | Siouxsie and the Banshees | Skin Games | Sophie & Peter Johnston | Spear of Destiny | Split Enz | Talk Talk | Talking Heads | Tears for Fears | Television | The Adventures | The Blue Aeroplanes | The Chameleons | The Chills | The Cult | The Cure | The Damned | The Danse Society | The Darling Buds | The Dream Academy | The Go-Betweens | The Heart Throbs | The House Of Love | The Human League | The Hummingbirds | The Icicle Works | The Jazz Butcher | The Jesus and Mary Chain | The Lilac Time | The Lotus Eaters | The Lover Speaks | The Lucy Show | The Mission | The Mock Turtles | The Primitives | The Psychedelic Furs | The Room | The Sisters Of Mercy | The Smiths | The Snake Corps | The Snapdragons | The Sound | The Stranglers | The Stone Roses | The Sundays | The Sun and the Moon | The Teardrop Explodes | The The | The Undertones | The Waterboys | The Wild Swans | Then Jerico | This Mortal Coil | U2 | Ultravox
1990s and beyond edit
Arcana | Bjork | Curve | Deep Forest | Delerium | Electronic | Emiliana Torrini | Enigma | Evanescence | Grant McLennan | Ian McCulloch | Ian McNabb | Interpol | Keane | Kent | Kula Shaker | Kylie Minogue | Muse | Myslovitz | Nightwish | Oasis | Ofra Haza | Placebo | Porcupine Tree | Radiohead | Ride | Sarah Brightman | Shed Seven | Sigur Rós | Spirea X | State of Grace | The Bluetones | The Cardigans | The Charlatans | The Cranberries | The Gathering | The Lightning Seeds | The Lost Patrol | The Soundtrack of Our Lives | Travis | Vas
2000s and beyond edit
A Camp | Achillea | After Forever | Agua de Annique | Alpinestars | Amethystium | Angtoria | Arven | Autumn | Azam Ali | Balligomingo | Blackfield | Brendan Perry | Coldplay | Conjure One | Delain | Doves | Dragons | Editors | Edenbridge | Howling Bells | Idlewild | Lacuna Coil | Lisa Gerrard | Liv Kristine | Madredeus | Metric | Mew | Nemesea | Octavia Sperati | Onetwo | Sirenia | Sleepthief | Stream of Passion | Tarja Turunen | Teresa Salgueiro | The Storm | Within Temptation | Xandria | Yann Tiersen
2010s and beyond edit
Anette Olzon | Anneke van Giersbergen | Beyond the Black | Birdy | Blondfire | Charlotte Church | Chvrches | Dark Sarah | Elysion | Lana Del Ray | Leaves' Eyes | Lost Girls | Lunatica | Midnattsol | Oskar’s Drum | Pythia | Roseland | Steven Wilson | The Eden House | The Gentle Storm | Tom Chaplin | Tuomas Holopainen