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List of people convicted of treason
List of people convicted of treason, covering US federal convictions (Whiskey Rebellion, Haupt, Kawakita), acquittals (Burr, Lilburne, 1794 trials), Confederate non-prosecution, and Russian, South African, and Ugandan treason cases.
List of people executed by electrocution
List of people executed by electrocution: United States electric chair executions from William Kemmler's first in 1890 to Nicholas Todd Sutton in 2020; 4,484 recorded historically, 163 since 1977, now authorized in nine states.
List of people executed for witchcraft
People executed for witchcraft, mainly 15th–18th century Europe and colonial America; about 45,000 European executions, regional rates from 16% to 54%, named victims from Agnes Waterhouse to Alse Young and the 20 Salem dead.
List of people from Bihar
The list of people from Bihar covers notable people from the eastern Indian state, from ancient figures like Aryabhata and Ashoka to independence leaders, writers, and athletes.
List of people from Birmingham
List of people from Birmingham covering both Birmingham, England (Ozzy Osbourne, Neville Chamberlain, Matthew Boulton) and Birmingham, Alabama (Gallery of Distinguished Citizens, Leroy Stover, Salaam Green), with notable natives and civic honorees.
List of people from Compton, California
List of people from Compton, California: notable natives and residents of the Los Angeles County city, including rappers Kendrick Lamar, Dr. Dre, and Eazy-E, athletes Venus and Serena Williams and James Harden, and mayors Douglas Dollarhide and Aja Brown.
List of people from Connecticut
List of people from Connecticut: notable people born, raised, or resident in the Constitution State, including Roger Sherman, Noah Webster, Ella Grasso, George W. Bush, Sue Bird, and Michael Bolton.
List of people from Goa
Notable people from Goa, India, including Dayanand Bandodkar, Shashikala Kakodkar, Jack de Sequeira, Francisco Luis Gomes, Shenoi Goembab, and Anil Kakodkar, spanning politics, liberation, medicine, Konkani literature, and the diaspora.
List of people from Haryana
List of people from Haryana: notable individuals from the Indian state, including first chief minister Bhagwat Dayal Sharma, astronaut Kalpana Chawla of Karnal, 1857 leader Rao Tula Ram, and cricketer Kapil Dev, the 'Haryana Hurricane'.
List of people from Hawaii
List of people from Hawaii: notable people born in or long resident in Hawaii, including monarchs Kamehameha I and Liliʻuokalani, Senator Daniel Inouye, President Barack Obama, Duke Kahanamoku, and Israel Kamakawiwoʻole.
List of people from Maine
List of people from Maine: notable Mainers born in or connected to Maine, including Stephen King, Anna Kendrick, Hannibal Hamlin, Margaret Chase Smith, Joshua Chamberlain, L.L. Bean, and the Wyeth painters.
List of people from New York City
The list of people from New York City covers notable Americans born there or drawn to it, including Eleanor Roosevelt, Bernie Sanders, and Robert Moses.
List of people from Ohio
Notable people from Ohio: eight U.S. presidents (seven born in-state), nine Supreme Court justices, Neil Armstrong, 24 astronauts, LeBron James, Halle Berry, Thomas Edison, and nine Heisman winners.
List of people from Pennsylvania
List of people from Pennsylvania: notable Pennsylvanians born, achieving fame, or dying in the state, from founders like Benjamin Rush and Richard Allen to Margaret Mead, Fred Waring, and Christian Pulisic.
List of people from Philadelphia
List of people from Philadelphia covers notable people born in or associated with Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Key figures include Mayor Cherelle Parker (first woman, 100th mayor), Quinta Brunson, Pearl Bailey, and Marian Anderson.
List of people from Texas
List of people from Texas: notable native and adopted Texans, from La Salle, Austin, Houston, and Tejano signers Ruiz and Navarro to Barbara Jordan, Bessie Coleman, Eisenhower, Nimitz, Selena, and Beyoncé, with the standard reference lists.
List of people from Virginia
People from Virginia include eight U.S. presidents (Washington through Wilson), colonial and Revolutionary leaders, first Black officeholders like Douglas Wilder and Maggie Walker, and entertainers such as Missy Elliott, Ella Fitzgerald, Pharrell, and Arthur Ashe.
List of people granted executive clemency by Barack Obama
Barack Obama's executive clemency record (2009-2017): 212 pardons and 1,715 commutations, 1,927 total, mostly drug sentences under the 2014 Clemency Initiative, granted at a 5% petition rate.
List of people granted executive clemency by Donald Trump
The list of people granted executive clemency by Donald Trump covers more than 1,500 pardons and commutations across his two presidential terms, including January 6 defendants.
List of people granted executive clemency in the second Trump presidency
Executive clemency granted by Donald Trump in his second US presidency (2025 onward): the January 6 blanket clemency of about 1,500 defendants with 14 named commutations, plus individual pardons such as Ross Ulbricht, Rod Blagojevich, and Juan Orlando Hernández.
List of people indicted in the International Criminal Court
People indicted by the International Criminal Court, formally charged via the 'document containing the charges' rather than an indictment; 65 public warrants as of October 2025, including Putin, Netanyahu, Kony, al-Bashir, Duterte, and four Taliban leaders.
List of people killed for being transgender
Lists of people killed for being transgender: memorial and tracking projects (Remembering Our Dead, TGEU's Trans Murder Monitoring, HRC tallies) documenting victims such as Rita Hester and Chanelle Pickett, their counts, and the data gaps that make all such lists undercounts.
List of people named in the Epstein files
People named in the Epstein files appear in the January 2024 unsealing of Giuffre v. Maxwell court documents and DOJ releases under the 2025 Epstein Files Transparency Act; a name in the records is not an accusation.
List of people named in the Panama Papers
List of people named in the Panama Papers: the politicians, world leaders, celebrities, and Putin associates identified in ICIJ's 2016 leak of 11.5 million Mossack Fonseca files, with key figures like Poroshenko, Nawaz Sharif, and Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson.
List of people named in the Pandora Papers
The List of people named in the Pandora Papers is an ICIJ investigation that revealed offshore dealings of over 330 politicians and public figures across 90 countries.
List of people of the Salem witch trials
People of the Salem witch trials: the 144 to 185 accused of 1692 to 1693, including Tituba, Bridget Bishop, Giles Corey, and George Burroughs, plus magistrates Hathorne and Corwin, accusers like Ann Putnam Jr., and outcomes: 19 hanged, 1 pressed, 5 died in jail.
List of people pardoned or granted clemency by the president of the United States
Public DOJ-maintained record of everyone pardoned or granted clemency by U.S. presidents under Article II, Section 2; covers federal offenses only, excludes impeachment, and lists per-administration grant counts and notable recipients.
List of people who died by hanging
List of people who died by hanging: documented judicial executions by hanging, from ~9,320 US cases since 1622 and 10,935 in England and Wales 1735–1964 to Nuremberg 1946 and the last US hangings (1993–1996).
List of people who died climbing Mount Everest
Everest fatality record: over 340 deaths since the 1920s, tracked in the Himalayan Database; most deaths above 8,000 m during descent; deadliest episodes 1996 storm, 2014 icefall, 2015 avalanche.
List of people who died in traffic collisions
List of people who died in traffic collisions: notable individuals whose cause of death was a road traffic crash, including Grace Kelly, Jackson Pollock, T. E. Lawrence, George S. Patton, Jim Clark, Cliff Burton, and Anne Heche, against the 30-day statistical definition and a global toll of about 1.19 million road deaths a year.