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List of African-American journalists

African-American journalists, from Freedom's Journal editors Cornish and Russwurm (1827) through Douglass, Mitchell, Thompson, the Bateses, Hunter-Gault, and Capital B's founders, built the Black Press and later mainstream careers.

List of Afrikaners

List of Afrikaners: notable members of the Afrikaans-speaking white South African ethnic group, descendants of 17th-century Dutch, German, and French Cape settlers, from political leaders to rugby, art, and literature figures.

List of American Muslims

List of American Muslims: roster of notable Muslim Americans including Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Ibtihaj Muhammad, Mehmet Oz, Abdul El-Sayed, and Zohran Mamdani, with early African Muslims and Nation of Islam history.

List of Ashkenazi Jewish surnames

The List of Ashkenazi Jewish surnames refers to hereditary family names used by Jews of Central and Eastern European descent, adopted under government decree starting in 1787.

List of Bohemian Club members

List of Bohemian Club members: rosters of the San Francisco Bohemian Club, also known through Bohemian Grove camp lists. Early printed booklets are public-domain archives; a 2023 list of about 2,200 names was leaked in 2026.

List of Brahmins

List of Brahmins: roster of the principal Brahmin (Brahman, brāhmaṇa) communities of India and Nepal, the priestly first varna, with the Pancha Gauda and Pancha Dravida divisions, demographics, and named individuals such as Nehru and Indira Gandhi.

List of British Jews

List of British Jews: compiled registers of notable Jewish people in Britain, within the Anglo-Jewish tradition of collective biography, from the 1656 readmission, the Jewish Year Book (1896), the Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History (2011), and a community of roughly 291,000.

List of Canadian Jews

List of Canadian Jews: overview of the Canadian Jewish community, 335,295 by religion and 282,015 by ethnic origin in the 2021 census, fourth largest worldwide; history from 1768 Montreal, immigration waves, census methodology, and named figures.

List of charitable foundations

Charitable foundations: endowed nonprofit grantmakers, from ancient waqf trusts to modern institutions like the Gates, Rockefeller, and Mastercard foundations; covers US private foundation versus public charity classification, the 5% payout rule, and development funding.

List of Chitpavan Brahmins

List of notable Chitpavan (Konkanastha) Brahmins of Maharashtra, from Peshwa Balaji Vishwanath to Tilak, Gokhale, Ranade, Savarkar, Vinoba Bhave, Athavale, and Karmarkar.

List of contemporary ethnic groups of Africa

Contemporary ethnic groups of Africa: continent-wide communities defined by language, ancestry, or culture. Major groups include Oromo (40–50 million), Hausa, Igbo, Akan, Fulani, Shona, and Zulu; about 40 percent of the average country's population belongs to groups partitioned by colonial borders.

List of contemporary ethnic groups of Asia

Contemporary ethnic groups of Asia: Han Chinese (world's largest group), Malay, Dravidian, Persian, Turkic, and Siberian peoples; classified differently by census, with no international definition of ethnicity.

List of contemporary ethnic groups of Europe

The list of contemporary ethnic groups of Europe catalogs more than 100 European ethnic and national groups, from majorities like Germans and French to minorities like the Basques and Roma.

List of contemporary ethnic groups of North America

Contemporary ethnic groups of North America: Indigenous peoples (First Nations, Métis, Inuit, American Indian), European-descended, African-descended, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, MENA, and Pacific populations, as defined and counted by US and Canadian censuses.

List of countries by alcohol consumption per capita

Country ranking of alcohol consumption per capita in litres of pure alcohol per person aged 15+ per year (WHO SDG 3.5.2), combining recorded and unrecorded consumption; 2019 leaders Estonia 11.65 and France 11.44 versus a 5.8-litre global average.

List of country codes: L–Z

List of country codes: L–Z covers ISO 3166 alpha-2/alpha-3 and UN M49 numeric codes for countries from L to Z, such as Libya (434, LY/LBY), Sudan (729, SD/SDN), and Tunisia (788, TN/TUN), with notes on how the standards differ.

List of Dalits

The list of Dalits covers the Dalit communities of South Asia, historically treated as untouchable, officially called Scheduled Castes in India and numbering over 200 million there.

List of Dialog event participants

Dialog is a private society founded in 2006 by Peter Thiel and Auren Hoffman. It convenes high-profile leaders, and its membership is graded on a scale of wealth and fame.

List of environmental organizations

List of environmental organizations: nonprofit, nongovernmental groups protecting nature, from the Sierra Club (1892) and The Nature Conservancy to Greenpeace, WWF, and Climate Action Network, with founding dates, activities, funding, and oversight.

List of ethnic groups in China

List of ethnic groups in China: the 56 officially recognized minzu (民族), the Han plus 55 minorities, identified through the minzu shibie classification project and confirmed after the 1990 census; 2020 shares 91.11% Han, 8.89% minorities.

List of ethnic slurs

Ethnic slurs (ethnophaulisms, after Roback 1944) are derogatory terms targeting groups by ethnicity, race, or nationality; this entry covers their analysis, reclamation debates, dictionary labeling, and hate-speech law rather than listing words.

List of Filipino Americans

Filipino Americans (Fil-Ams), people in the U.S. of Philippine ancestry, about 4.1-4.4 million strong, one of the largest Asian origin groups; sources also name figures such as Pablo Manlapit, Carlos Bulosan, Kevin Nadal, and Maniya Barredo.

List of Freemasons (A–D)

List of Freemasons (A–D): the A-to-D portion of notable Freemason rosters. Documented members include Johnson Beharry, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Christopher Wren; Davy Crockett's membership is disputed for lack of lodge records.

List of Freemasons (E–Z)

List of Freemasons (E–Z): alphabetical roster of surnames E through Z documenting verified members of Freemasonry, including Truman, Edward VII, Goethe, Mozart, Kipling, and Fleming, with lodge affiliations and proof standards.

List of French people

The list of French people covers people holding French nationality, a legal status held by about 68.6 million residents in 2025 and around 2.5 million French people abroad.

List of German Americans

German Americans, people in the United States reporting German ancestry, are among the largest self-reported US ancestry groups: 45 million in the 2020 census, 58 million in 1990, with a history dating to 1683 Germantown.

List of idioms considered racist

English idioms considered racist, including long time no see, no can do, peanut gallery, sold down the river, and grandfathered in, their documented origins, and how style guides advise avoiding them.

List of Indian Americans

List of Indian Americans: notable US citizens and residents of Indian descent. Also called Indian-origin Americans, Asian Indians. Covers politicians (Harris, Haley, Saund), CEOs (Pichai, Nadella), Nobel laureates, and demographic facts.

List of intersex people

List of intersex people: notable individuals born with variations of sex characteristics, including ISNA founder Cheryl Chase, advocates River Gallo and Sean Saifa Wall, and athletes Caster Semenya, Imane Khelif, and Lin Yu-ting.

List of Japanese supercentenarians

List of Japanese supercentenarians: validated Japanese people aged 110+, curated by the GRG with MHLW records. Covers early cases like Yoshigiku Ito, record-holders Kane Tanaka and Tomiko Itooka, and current oldest Fuyo Kishimoto.