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This is a worksheet and not an encyclopedia article. Overall quality varies widely for the 200 biographies that have been selected for Wikipedia's core biographies. One element that may be relatively easy to standardize is cultural references to these important people. Cultural depictions of Joan of Arc is the first list of its type to achieve featured list recognition, so I have proposed it as a model for other cultural biography lists. It covers both high culture and popular culture in topical table formatted sections.

Some of the people named below may prove problematic. For widely differing reasons, I have misgivings about applying this approach to Michael Jackson, Jesus, Adolf Hitler, and Muhammad. Nonetheless, with the exception of Joan of Arc and Alexander the Great (whose cultural lists I created) I have posted notices at relevant talk pages for all core biography figures except as noted below. Existing cultural sections and pages are noted on this worksheet.

The following core biography figures have cultural references lists:

• Bruce Lee and popular culture
• Cultural depictions of Joan of Arc
• Cultural depictions of Alexander the Great
• Cultural depictions of Leonardo da Vinci
• The Beatles' influence on popular culture
• Cultural impact of Michael Jackson
• Cultural depictions of Ludwig van Beethoven
• Shakespeare on screen - sort of, straight adaptations mixed with referential material - positive initial response at Talk:Shakespeare.
• Dante and his Divine Comedy in popular culture
• Napoleon in popular culture - active page editor has considered two separate pages for literature and popular culture
• Jesus in popular culture, Dramatic portrayals of Jesus, Images of Jesus
• Depictions of Muhammad and List of films about Muhammad
• Mark Twain in popular culture - editors on this page use Cultural depictions of Mark Twain as a redirect.
• Cultural depictions of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart created from Trivia section at the main article per invitation on Talk:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
• Cultural depictions of Vincent van Gogh created by the editors at Vincent van Gogh.
• Cultural depictions of Abraham Lincoln includes only the article's trivia section, probably deserves expansion.
• Cultural depictions of Julius Caesar

The following core biography figures have trivia or in popular culture sections:

• Andy Warhol
• Frank Lloyd Wright
• Jesse Owens
• Marilyn Monroe
• Michael Jackson
• Pablo Picasso
• Rembrandt
• Giuseppe Verdi
• Charlie Chaplin
• Akira Kurosawa
• Jane Austen

  Mixed response: one positive, one would rather wait.

• Lord Byron
• Charles Dickens
• T.S. Eliot
• James Joyce (sort of - highlights in paragraph form in FA)
• Ernest Hemingway
• John Milton
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Walt Whitman
• William Butler Yeats
• Miguel de Cervantes
• Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Victor Hugo - as Memorials
• Henrik Ibsen
• Franz Kafka
• ( Voltaire) - Previously had a small trivia section, from Sep. 20: [1]
• Benjamin Franklin
• Thomas Jefferson
• Cleopatra VII of Egypt
• George Washington - some material covered under Monuments and memorials
• Hannibal

  Positive response with invitation to create new page and move material.

• Nelson Mandela
• Qin Shi Huang
• Emperor Taizong of Tang
• Akbar
• Saladin

  Response preferred to keep material in the main article while the section is small.

• Timur
• Attila the Hun
• Augustus
• Charlemagne
• Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
• Philip II of Spain
• Edmund Burke
• Elizabeth I of England
• Henry II of England
• Henry VIII of England
• Louis XIV of France
• Frederick II of Prussia
• Adolf Hitler
• Catherine II of Russia
• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Joseph Stalin

  Positive response.

• Benito Mussolini
• Augustine of Hippo
• John Calvin
• Frederick Douglass
• Mahatma Gandhi
• Che Guevara
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Mother Teresa
• Neil Armstrong
• Christopher Columbus - sort of, in Legacy
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Charles Darwin - sort of, in Legacy
• Gregor Mendel
• Louis Pasteur
• Charles Babbage
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Thomas Edison

  Response prefers ...in popular culture naming.

• Henry Ford
• Guglielmo Marconi
• Wright Brothers
• Marie Curie
• Albert Einstein
• Michael Faraday
• Galileo Galilei
• Stephen Hawking
• Johannes Kepler
• Isaac Newton
• Linus Pauling
• Ernest Rutherford
• Carl Friedrich Gauss
• Thomas Hobbes
• Niccolò Machiavelli
• Henry David Thoreau

• Cultural depictions of Rasputin - renamed by an editor from the Stalin page.

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Core biographies
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Popular Culture