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This is a list of previously controversial issues among Wikipedia editors. A controversial issue is one where its related articles are constantly being re-edited in a circular manner, or is otherwise the focus of edit warring. This page is conceived as a location for articles that regularly become biased and need to be fixed, or articles that were once the subject of an NPOV dispute and are likely to suffer future disputes. Other articles not yet classified as "controversial" have some edit conflict issues. The divisive nature of disputed subjects have triggered arguments, since opinions on a given issue differ as they are debated. These subjects are responsible for a great deal of tension among Wikipedia editors, reflecting the debates of society as a whole. Perspectives on these subjects are particularly subject to time, place, and culture of the editor.

• Articles listed here may need more work to approach a neutral point of view than is usual. For articles that are currently unbalanced, see NPOV dispute instead.
• Articles on this list should be checked from time to time to monitor developments in the presentation of the issues. Use the "related changes" link to quickly review changes to these articles.
• Discussions about those controversies should be limited to the relevant Talk pages. For more information, see Wikipedia:Controversial articles.

Major themes

Some of the biggest editing disputes at Wikipedia naturally mirror the intensity of the controversy in the outside world. The clash between what people in the U.S. call a "culture war" of sociopolitical mores characterized as either "liberal" or "conservative", and globally on the moralistic nature of "right" and "wrong" or even sin or taboo for civil discussion and comedy, affects many of these disputes.

Categories of past controversial issues

Many of these articles could be classified into multiple categories.

Politics/ economics

• 2003 invasion of Iraq
• Abortion
• ACLU The American Civil Liberties Union
• Affirmative action
• African American
• Alberta secessionism.
• American Hunters and Shooters Association
• History of Jews in the United States- historical review of American Jews.
• Anarchism
• Anarcho-capitalism
• Anti-Americanism
• Anti-clericalism
• Anti-Irish racism
• Antisemitism
• Asian American
• Atheism
• Austrian School
• Osama bin Laden
• Black supremacy
• British National Party
• Capitalism
• Capital Punishment
• Catalonia
• Cherokee Americans - who have Cherokee ancestry.
• People's Republic of China - economy, military, human rights issues.
• Chinese spies
• CIA leak scandal, aka Plame affair (controversies include naming of articles)
• CIA leak scandal timeline, aka Plame affair timeline (controversies include naming of articles)
• Communism
• Communist government
• Communist state
• Conservatism in the USA
• Controversy
• Copyright, Free software, viral license, Copyright infringement of software, DMCA, copyright term extension, Inducement/Child Exploitation
• Crime in the USA
• Criticism of Wal-Mart
• Cuba
• Culture war in American politics
• Cyprus
• Cyprus dispute
• Deaf American (rising self-identify among the hearing impaired as an "ethnic group").
• Demographics of Europe
• Demographics of the United States
• Domestic violence
• Detroit
• Economy of Japan
• European Union (EU)
• Fascism
• Federal Marriage Amendment
• Feminism
• FDIC
• Fox News
• Free trade
• Freedom fighter
• Gay rights, LGBT rights
• Genocide denial
• Gun politics
• Hamas
• Harry's Place
• Hate crimes
• Health care reform in the United States
• Hezbollah
• Hitler - in regards to his biography, political career and personal issues (i.e. possible homosexuality or mental illness disorder).
• Holocaust
• Holodomor
• Homosexual agenda
• Human rights in Cuba
• Human Rights in the United States
• Hyphenated American
• Illegal drugs and drug abuse
• Illegal Immigration into the USA
• India- economy and politics
• Politics of Iran
• Ireland and Irish america-people - alledged anti-British sentiment and alleged British Bias.
• Isa Gambar
• History of Israel
• Israel-Palestine conflict and all related issues.
• Italian American (anti-Italianism)
• Japan - history of being a world power.
• Jewish Americans as a lobbying interest group.
• Joe Biden
• John Kerry
• John McCain
• Kashmir
• Korean War
• Kosovo
• Louisiana politics, as well alleged corruption (also the adage of "Chicago-way or New Jersey-style politics").
• Lebanon - ethnic/religious conflicts.
• Liberalism in the USA
• Libertarianism
• Los Macheteros
• Macedonia, Republic of Macedonia, Macedonian Slavs
• Moldavia,Moldovans
• Masculism
• Mexico - economic and political systems.
• Morality and ethics
• Movement to impeach George W. Bush
• Multiculturalism
• Muslim Brotherhood
• NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization).
• National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) - (rel. bombing of Dresden)
• Native American name controversy
• National Anarchism
• Nazi Germany
• Neo-conservative
• Neo-liberalism
• New World Order (conspiracy theory)
• Politics of North Korea
• Northern Ireland
• Nullum crimen, nulla poena sine praevia lege poenali
• Pakkoruotsi
• Palestine
• Palestine Liberation Organization
• Park51, a proposed (as of September 2010) Islamic community center and mosque to be built near the World Trade Center site
• Patriotism in the USA
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
• Pioneer Fund - US racial research group.
• Polish people (Anti-Polish sentiment)
• Political correctness
• Political parties and partisan politics.
• Poverty in USA and worldwide
• Price-Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act
• Public education in the USA
• Puerto Ricans in the United States
• Quebec, Canada
• Race relations in the USA
• Racial quota
• Race/ethnicity issues in many countries, such as in Demographics of Chile.
• Racism - definition of
• Recession
• Salvador Allende
• Same-sex marriage
• Sarah Palin
• Saskatchewan Party
• Laura Schlessinger
• School violence
• Republika Srpska, Republic of Serbian Krajina
• Sedition
• Sexual harassment
• Separatism
• September 11 attacks also known as 9/11.
• Ariel Sharon
• Shirley vs Coram
• Sinkiang
• Silesia
• Socialism
• Spain - autonomous movements in each province of the country.
• Banking in Switzerland
• Synarchism
• Syrian Social Nationalist Party
• Tea Party movement and Tea Party protests
• Taliban
• Terrorism
• Terrorist groups
• Tibet
• Tobin tax
• Torture (see also Medical torture) .
• Universal Health care proposals in the USA.
• United Nations (UN)
• USA PATRIOT Act
• The United States's War on Terror
• Valencianism Valencian people vs. Catalan people (Catalan nationalism) over what to classify the Valencian language a "dialect" of Catalan language.
• Vector Marketing
• Western civilization
• White Americans - non-racist white identity.
• Wiretapping
• Paul Wolfowitz
• Womyn - alternative spelling of women.
• Xinjiang
• Yugoslavia - breakup of the country.
• Zaire now the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• Zimbabwe

History

• 2011 Sendai earthquake and tsunami
• 1953 Iranian coup d'état.
• 1973 coup in Chile.
• 1992 Los Angeles riots.
• 9/11 or September 11 terrorist attacks.
• American Airlines Flight 77
• American Revolution
• Apartheid
• Apollo moon landing hoax accusations
• Armenian Genocide
• Aryan invasion theory
• Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• Battle of Cuito Cuanavale
• Berlin wall
• Black Power
• Bloody Sunday (1972)
• Bosnia and Herzegovina - 1992-1995 war.
• Bromberg Bloody Sunday
• Centre Party Germany
• Chicano nationalism - also see Mexican American.
• Coandă-1910
• Cold war era - i.e. Cuban missile crisis
• Communism - histories of communist regimes.
• Confederate States of America
• Jim Crow laws or racial segregation
• Constitutional law
• Crusades into the holy land
• Cyprus dispute
• D-Day 1944 allied invasion of France.
• East Germany (the German Democratic Republic 1949-90).
• Ethnicity
• Falkland Islands
• French Revolution
• Genocide
• Great Depression
• Green Revolution
• Heimatvertriebene
• Holocaust
• Holocaust denial
• Ireland - history, including 1850s Irish Potato Famine.
• Israel
• Irredentism in Italy, China, Mexico and elsewhere.
• Japanese American internment during WWII.
• Jesus Christ - historical/ biographical studies (the Bible and other sources).
• Jews in Ukraine and Poland, "Ukrainian and Polish antisemitism".
• Kennedy assassinations of 1963 and 1968.
• Kosovo War
• Kuril Islands
• Libyan Civil War
• Louisiana Purchase of 1803
• Majestic 12
• Maoism
• Marijuana - illegalization of the drug.
• Mexican-American War (see also History of Mexican-Americans).
• Middle Ages
• Native Americans in the United States
• Nazism
• Nordic race theories of global domination (see also Aryan race and white race)
• Okinawa - U.S. rule 1945-1972.
• Operation Wetback - mass deportation program of Mexicans (either illegal aliens, naturalized citizens and Mexican-Americans) from the US in the 1950s.
• Other Losses
• Panama canal, US rule in Canal Zone 1903-1979.
• Philippines under US rule 1898-1946.
• Prohibition in the US 1919-33.
• Prussia
• Puerto Rico - annexation of the island by the U.S.
• Quebec separatism
• Radicalism
• Roswell UFO Incident
• Numerous episodes of Russian-Polish relations
• Sanhedrin
• Scientology
• Silesia
• Slavery
• Soviet Union or the USSR.
• Spanish-American war
• Spanish civil war
• Spanish Inquisition
• Stem cell research
• Texas Revolution of 1836, known by the battle of the Alamo.
• The Rape of Nanking (book).
• Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
• Trail of Tears
• TWA Flight 800
• U.S. Civil War
• U.S. Latinos or Hispanics.
• U.S. War of 1812
• United States presidential election, 2000
• Unidentified flying objects or UFOs
• Numerous episodes of Ukrainian-Polish relations
• Numerous episodes of Ukrainian-Russian relations.
• Ustaše
• Vietnam war
• Watergate scandal
• White supremacy
• Women's rights and feminism.
• causes and effects of World War I.
• causes and effects of World War II.

Religion

• 2012, 2012 phenomenon, and the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar
• Adventist
• Agnosticism
• American Family Association
• Anti-clericalism
• Anti-Judaism
• Apollo Quiboloy
• Atheism
• Biblical literalism
• Catholicism
• Christian Coalition
• Christian science
• Christianity
• Christophobia
• Conservative Judaism and Criticism of Conservative Judaism
• Creationism
• Cult
• Deism
• Dhimmi
• Dorje Shugden controversy
• Druze
• Eastern Orthodoxy
• Evangelical
• Falun Gong
• Feminism and religion.
• Fundamentalism
• Gay Marriage - opposition of.
• Gnosticism and the New Testament
• God
• Guru (structure and criticism)
• Hare Krishna
• Hate group (new religious movements)
• Historicity of Jesus
• Homosexuality and religion.
• Iglesia ni Cristo
• Imperium (Warhammer 40,000)
• Islamophobia
• Islam - certain radical and politicized groups, and not entirely understood in the western world.
• Jainism
• Jehovah's witnesses
• Judas Iscariot
• Kabbala
• Kashrut and Kosher
• Ku Klux Klan - radical hate group.
• Last Supper of Jesus
• Liturgy
• Lutheranism
• Makkah/Mecca ('Offensive' spelling).
• Menachem Mendel Schneerson
• Mennonites - most notably the old order Amish.
• Mormonism - to a certain extent (subset of the Latter Day Saint movement).
• Neocatechumenal Way
• New Age
• New Kadampa Tradition
• Ole Nydahl and Diamond Way Buddhism
• Opus Dei
• Pacifism
• Paganism - various sects
• Paul and Gnosticism
• Pentecostalism
• Politics and religion.
• Prem Rawat and Divine Light Mission
• Project Chanology
• Protestant Reformation
• U.S. Republican Party connection with the religious right.
• Religion and sexuality and various related topics.
• Role of women in religion, Religious feminism, and related topics
• Separation of Church and State
• Satanism
• Sathya Sai Baba enduring dispute about the amount of space devoted to describing the views of proponents and critics as published on their homepages
• Scientology
• Sharia
• Sin
• Sufism
• Syncretism
• Taboo
• Temple Mount and related topics
• United Submitters International, Qur'an alone, Rashad Khalifa peacock words, critical sources removed, lack of RS, failure to describe size and importance and relation to older Islamic groups, linkfarming
• Universal Life Church
• Universalism
• Westboro Baptist Church

Science/ Biology/ Health

• Abortion
• ADD/ADHD
• AIDS
• AIDS denialism
• Alcoholism
• Allergy - causes of.
• Allopathic medicine
• Alzheimer's disease
• Alternative medicine and closely related issues
• Anencephaly
• Assisted suicide
• Aspartame
• Aspartame controversy
• Asperger's syndrome and Autism
• Astrology as a "science"
• Bates method
• Bioethics
• Biology and sexual orientation
• Birth defect
• Black hole information paradox
• Blood transfusions
• Cancer cures
• Cesarean section
• Chakra
• Chiropractic
• Chromosome
• Circumcision
• Cloning
• Cochlear Implant
• Cold fusion
• Conjoined twins
• Creationism
• Cryonics
• Depleted uranium
• Depression
• Disability
• Drugs
• Dyslexia
• Ebola virus
• Electrical sensitivity
• Eugenics
• Euthanasia
• Evolution
• Family Planning
• Female genital cutting
• Flat Earth Society
• Genetic Engineering
• Genetically modified foods (or GM food(s))
• Gender differences.
• Gypsies as a race.
• Heredity
• Heritability of IQ
• HIV - virus that causes AIDS.
• HMO - US health care coverage.
• Hodgkin's Disease
• Homeopathy
• Human cloning
• Human evolution debate
• Human longevity
• Huntington's disease
• Influenza strains like the H5N1 virus or bird flu
• Intelligent design
• Jewish people as a "race".
• Kegels
• Lactose intolerance as a genetic inherited trait
• Life extension
• Lupus
• Master race
• Medical torture
• Mental illness
• Mental retardation
• Mind control
• Mucoid plaque
• Nutrition
• Obesity
• Organ donor and transplants
• Overpopulation
• Paternity testing
• Pharmaceutical industry in the USA
• Pluto demoted as a planet
• Poppers ­- the use of alkyl nitrites as a drug)
• Premature birth
• Prenatal care
• Psychiatry
• Race and science.
• Race and intelligence
• Recapitulation theory
• Schizophrenia
• Self-mutilation
• Sexually transmitted diseases
• Smoking and tobacco
• Sperm donor and Egg donor
• Stem cell research
• Subluxation
• Surrogate mother - child custody battles
• Tay-Sachs disease
• Test-tube babies
• Thiomersal
• Transgendered, Transsexual, and BIID persons
• Twin paradox
• Universe - such as the Big Bang theory
• Vaccination
• Veganism and Vegetarianism
• Woman and female health issues (see pregnancy, menopause, breast cancer and ovarian cancer).

Sexuality

• 69ing
• Sexuality of Abraham Lincoln
• Adultery ("consensual sex without wedlock")
• Age of consent
• Anal sex
• Abasiophilia
• Adult grooming and child grooming, where sexual abuse and murder victims first meet their perpretators online and in some cases, actually set up to meet IRL (In Real Life).
• Asian fetish
• Attraction to disability
• BDSM
• Beastiality
• Bisexuality
• Child sexuality
• Conversion therapy (also called "reparative therapy")
• Ejaculation
• Fetishism
• Fingering and fisting
• Fornication
• G-Spot
• Genetic sexual attraction
• Genital modification and mutilation
• Gerontophilia
• Hentai ("anime porn")
• Homosexuality
• Incest
• Lolicon
• Love-shyness
• Masturbation
• Necrophilia
• North American Man/Boy Love Association
• Oral sex
• Orgasm
• Pederasty
• Pedophilia
• Polyamory
• Polygamy
• Pornography
• Pregnancy fetishism
• Rape
• Sadomasochism
• Semen
• Sex offender
• Sexual abuse
• Stalking
• Swinging ("bisexuals" and "singles")
• Transsexual
• Women (see Women and Sexuality)
• Zoophilia

Sports

• Barry Bonds' credibility on his career home run record during the BALCO drug doping scandal.
• Tour de France - such as American champions Floyd Landis and Lance Armstrong over alleged drug use.
• UEFA Cup
• UEFA Cup records and statistics
• UEFA Cup finals
• Liverpool FC
• World Cup of association football (soccer).
• Ted Williams - frozen corpse scandal in a cryogenic lab.
• Mike Phelps
• 2008 World Series - Game 5
• WNBA and Women's sports (professional or amateur levels).

Entertainment

• Bullfighting
• Bumfights
• Entertainment Software Rating Board
• Duke Nukem Forever and other development hell games
• Gambling
• Girls Gone Wild
• Hip hop culture, hip hop music, and rapping
• Entertainment restriction
• MPAA film rating system
• Playboy Magazine
• Pop punk
• Smooth jazz
• Video game controversy
• Disc jockeys
• List of best-selling albums worldwide
• Psytrance

Environment

• Deforestation vs Logging
• Dust bowl vs intensive farming
• Eco-fascism
• Eco-terrorism
• Energy consumption
• Environmental vegetarianism
• Fossil fuels vs air pollution and greenhouse gases
  • Natural Gas vs Natural_gas#Environmental_effects
  • Coal vs Coal Mining
  • Petrol vs oil spills, oil shale industry,
• Global warming and Global cooling theories.
• Hydrogen Bomb and Atomic Bomb testing effects.
• An Inconvenient Truth - 2006 documentary movie on humanity's involvement in climate change.
• Mercury poisoning and cause of Minamata Syndrome in a Japanese fishing village during the 1960s.
• Mining and Deep sea mining
• Nuclear power vs Windfarms (and other largescale power generation)
• Oil drilling and ANWR petroleum reserves in Alaska's North Slope.
• Overpopulation (see global human Population explosion)
• Ozone depletion leading to Ozone hole
• Recycling
• Three Gorges Dam and other (Hydroelectric) dams, vs Water shortages and droughts/floods.
• Toxic waste and its disposal at Love Canal
• Weather modification

Law and Order

• Crime in America
• Illegal drugs
• Judicial system
• Jury duty
• Law enforcement
• Legal status of Minors and Juveniles (see Teenagers).
• Public education (also mandatory school attendance laws).
• Prisons
• Selective Service and Military draft
• Tax (see also the IRS/ U.S. Internal Revenue Service).

Linguistics

• Ancient Macedonian language
• Balto-Slavic languages
• Basque language - unrelated to any Indo-European or any other language in the world.
• Bilingualism in Canada
• Celtic revival - the restoration of Celtic languages in Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Cornwall, England as well in Brittany in France.
• Chinese language policies.
• Creole languages.
• Dene-Caucasian languages
• Ebonics
• French language in Canada
• Graeco-Armenian
• Hate crimes and discrimination against different language speakers.
• Indo-European (languages and the "Aryan" race theory).
• Japanese language and Korean language, theorized similarities and self-isolates from any other language.
• Ladino
• Language revival
• Linguistics
• Macedonian language
• Norwegian language controversies.
• Occitan Language, Occitania and vergonha (linguicide in France).
• Pidgin English
• Quebec (French as the official language of the province over English).
• Riksmål
• Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
• Sami language spoken by the Sami people indigenous to Scandinavia.
• Spanish in the United States
• Turanism of Turkic languages
• Welsh Language
• Yiddish language

Philosophy

• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Meaning of life
• Plato
• Scientific Method
• Socrates
• Truth

Psychiatry

• Carl Jung
• Sigmund Freud

Technology

• Bit Torrent
• BitTorrent (protocol)
• Blu-ray Disc
• Criticism of Microsoft
• Criticism of Windows Vista
• Criticism of Apple
• Console wars
• Digital rights management esp re opening -- see talk and archive
• Electric car
• Electronic voting
• Facebook
• Factory farming
• File sharing
• GNU/Linux naming controversy – discussed extensively at Talk:Linux
• HD DVD
• MySpace.com - online privacy and security issues
• Napster
• Net neutrality
• Norton AntiVirus
• Nuclear power
• Object-oriented programming
• P2P
• Removal of Internet Explorer
• Solar Power
• Standardization of Office Open XML
• The Pirate Bay
• Windows Vista

Media/culture

• Anime shows for mature audiences such as Death Note and Ghost in the Shell.
• Beavis and Butthead.
• Black Entertainment Television.
• Cable News: CNN, MSNBC and Fox News Channel, as well the BBC and Al-Jazeera.
• Censorship laws.
• Chinese television (CCTV).
• Digimon per clashes among fans and critics over this and Pokémon.
• Digital television conversion in US.
• Diversity on prime-time TV.
• Disco music.
• Drawn Together.
• Emos.
• European culture.
• Family Guy.
• Federal Communications Commission or US FCC.
• Gay culture.
• Google and facebook (privacy issues).
• Gothic subculture.
• Harry Potter.
• Heavy metal, black metal and death metal.
• Hippies.
• Internet forum/message board.
• Liberal media.
• Mad TV.
• Media bias.
• Netiquette.
• Pentagon Papers of the New York Times 1971.
• Rap and hip-hop.
• Rave and Rave culture.
• Sasha Baron Cohen, for his controversial live-action characters Ali G, Borat and Brüno.
• The Simpsons.
• Smooth jazz
• South Park.
• Telemundo and Univision - Spanish language Television in the US.
• Talk radio- limits on free speech.
• Time-Warner and Viacom as multi-corporate monopolies.
• Trinity Broadcasting Network and televangelists.
• Twitter as a social trend.
• Virgin Records.
• World Wide Web or the internet.
• Youtube (content issues).
• Yuppies.

People/ public figures/ infamous persons

• Melissa Marques, Baddest Bitch/Queen
• Nero and Caligula, Roman emperors.
• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran.
• Syed Ahmed
• Muhammed Ali - formerly Cassius Clay, conversion to Islam and anti-Vietnam war comments.
• Kirstie Alley
• Idi Amin, Ugandan dictator.
• Criss Angel
• Yasir Arafat
• Hans Asperger
• Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
• Gilad Atzmon
• Michelle Bachelet
• Brigitte Bardot
• Glenn Beck
• David Beckham
• Joy Behar
• Art Bell - radio program discussions on conspiracy theories.
• Bruno Bettelheim
• Tony Blair
• Robert Blake - 2002 homicide defendant case.
• Hans Blix
• Barry Bonds and the BALCO drug scandal (includes other major league baseball athletes José Canseco, Mark McGwire and Alex Rodriguez).
• Bonnie and Clyde
• Ruđer Bošković - ethnicity.
• Lorena Bobbitt - In 1994, mutilated her husband's penis in self-defense from marital rape.
• Leonid Brezhnev
• Anita Bryant
• Kobe Bryant
• Pat Buchanan
• George W. Bush and his father George H.W. Bush, U.S. Presidents.
• Jeb Bush
• Richard Butler - founder of the Aryan Nations group.
• George Carlin
• Jimmy Carter, U.S. President and peace negotiator.
• Fidel Castro and brother Raul Castro, leaders of Cuba.
• Cesar Chavez
• Hugo Chávez
• Dave Chappelle - satirist and comedian.
• Dick Cheney, U.S. Vice President and CEO of Halliburton.
• Cher and her ex-husband Sonny Bono and his widow Mary Bono Mack in politics.
• Jacques Chirac
• Margaret Cho
• Seung-Hui Cho - Virginia Tech University gunman killed himself and 32 others in 2007 massacre.
• Chris Christie, governor of the state of New Jersey.
• Ward Churchill - Colorado State professor known for comments about 9-11 survivors, and involved in radical left and American Indian political movements.
• Bill Clinton and wife Hillary Rodham Clinton, U.S. President and U.S. Secretary of State, respectively. Hillary Clinton was also among the board of executives of Wal-Mart while she was wife of then-governor Bill in 1980's.
• Kurt Cobain - 1994 suicide (or murder) controversy.
• Christopher Columbus
• Sean "Puffy" Combs - aka "Puff Daddy".
• Nicolaus Copernicus - (Copernicus' nationality either Polish or German).
• Stephen Colbert
• John Corzine, governor of the state of New Jersey.
• Ann Coulter
• Tom Cruise - recent actions and Scientology controversy.
• Salvador Dalí
• Jeffrey Dahmer
• Angela Davis - former black panther member in 1973 federal homicide case.
• Hassan Diab - alleged role in the 1980 Paris synagogue bombing.
• Andrew Dice Clay - satirist and comedian known for vulgar performances in the 1980's and early 1990's.
• The Dixie Chicks - politically charged anti-Bush comments in 2003.
• Walt Disney - alleged antisemitism and alcoholism.
• Phil Donahue
• David Duke
• Andrea Dworkin
• Marc Emery
• Eminem real name Marshall Mathers, rapper.
• Pablo Escobar
• Jerry Falwell
• Melissa Farley
• Gerald Ford - 1975 Watergate pardons; U.S. President.
• Henry Ford
• Michael J. Fox and late Christopher Reeve - stem cell research advocates.
• Al Franken
• Kenny G - dispute over genre.
• William Gaillard
• Janeane Garofalo
• Charles de Gaulle
• Mel Gibson- for verbal anti-Semitic and homophobic comments in DUI arrest.
• Kathie Lee Gifford - 1995 children's sweatshop scandal involved her clothing brand, her ex-husband Frank Gifford's affairs and her political/religious views spoofed in comedy.
• Newt Gingrich, U.S. Speaker of the House.
• Girls Aloud - numerous controversies.
• Rudy Giuliani, Mayor of New York City and U.S. Presidential candidate.
• Nancy Grace
• Wayne Gretzky and wife Janet Jones in sports gambling scandal.
• Joseph Goebbels
• Whoopi Goldberg - political comments as co-host on the show The View.
• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Al Gore, U.S. Vice President.
• Temple Grandin, Livestock handling architect diagonsed with autism involved in the redesign of the cattle/livestock industry and leading figure of the Autism community.
• Woody Guthrie - His song lyrics endorsed leftism/socialism and portrayed farm workers as victims of the Great Depression.
• Guns and Roses rock band - Axl Rose
• Ferenc Gyurcsány
• Ted Haggard
• Tarja Halonen
• Sean Hannity
• Phil Hendrie - radio comedian.
• Patty Hearst - 1974 kidnapping/conversion by the Symbionese Liberation Army, bank robbery suspect with the group and arrested, convicted and released from prison.
• Hideki Tojo - Militarist leader of WWII Imperial Japan, executed by International Court tribunal for war crimes and crimes against humanity in 1948.
• Paris Hilton
• Anita Hill in the 1991 Clarence Thomas sexual harassment case.
• Heinrich Himmler
• Emperor Hirohito- involvement in WWII Imperial Japan policy.
• Adolf Hitler, German Fuehrer and responsible for the Holocaust to exterminate nearly all of European Jews and other victims (i.e. Roma people, Slavs, homosexuals and communists), remains an infamous emotionally charged figure when it comes to associated issues of racism and antisemitism.
• Erich Honecker - Communist leader of the last years of East Germany (1971-89).
• Jimmy Hoffa - 1975 kidnapping/disappearance.
• J. Edgar Hoover
• Katie Hopkins
• John Howard
• L. Ron Hubbard
• Mike Huckabee
• Rock Hudson
• Saddam Hussein, Iraqi dictator and was a secular leader against the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in the Middle East.
• Yusuf Islam (Catt Stevens)
• Andrew Jackson, U.S. President and designer of federal government policy on American Indians and the Trail of Tears.
• George Jackson.
• Jesse Jackson
• Michael Jackson - People v. Jackson case in 2005, and several other controversies.
• Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President and drafter of the US constitution.
• Sheila Jeffreys
• Elton John
• Magic Johnson - HIV diagnosis.
• Michael Jordan
• Jenny Jones
• John F. Kennedy, with brothers Robert F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy - U.S. President, U.S. Presidential candidate, and U.S. Senator, respectively.
• Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis - widow of John F. Kennedy, remarried to Greek billionaire.
• Kim Kardashian
• Andy Kaufman
• Khomeini
• Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet leader.
• Kid Rock
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Rodney King
• Philip J. Klass
• Shosei Koda
• Junichiro Koizumi, Japanese leader.
• K.D. Lang - homosexuality and animal rights activism.
• Ricki Lake
• Lyndon LaRouche
• Carlos Latuff - controversial cartoonist.
• Norman Lear - producer of groundbreaking 1970's TV comedies on social satire.
• Jean-Marie Le Pen
• Heath Ledger
• Vladimir I. Lenin, Soviet leader.
• John Lennon - US CIA investigations in the early 1970s.
• Lewis Libby
• Rush Limbaugh
• Abraham Lincoln, U.S. President during the American Civil War and suspended civil liberties such as habeas corpus as a wartime measure.
• Jennifer Lopez
• Trent Lott
• Courtney Love
• Martin Luther
• Catherine MacKinnon
• Madonna
• John Major
• Nelson Mandela South African civil rights activist and leader released from prison, and his wife Winnie Mandela, whose jail sentence is from criminal offenses.
• Charles Manson
• Marilyn Manson
• Ferdinand Marcos and wife Imelda Marcos, Philippine leaders.
• Rachel Marsden
• Karl Marx
• Jackie Mason
• Paul McCartney - alleged domestic abuse of ex-wife Heather.
• Jenny McCarthy - TV show hostess turned activist for autism research and mother of a son diagnosed with autism.
• Steve McNair - his murder-suicide by girlfriend.
• Timothy McVeigh
• Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev
• Carlos Mencia - satirist/comedian.
• Angela Merkel, German prime minister.
• Freddie Mercury - rumors of homosexuality proven after death from AIDS.
• Harvey Milk
• Demi Moore
• Michael Moore
• Jim Morrison- his mysterious death in 1971 at Paris.
• Mother Teresa
• Benito Mussolini, Italian dictator, founder of fascism.
• Napoleon, French leader.
• Nicole Polizzi - "Snooki" of MTV reality show Jersey Shore and the show's portrayal of Italian Americans condemned as ethnic stereotypes (she's of Chilean descent).
• Olivia Newton-John - environmental activism.
• Richard Nixon, U.S. President.
• Notorious B.I.G.
• Rosie O'Donnell
• Opie & Anthony
• Bill O'Reilly.
• Barack Obama, U.S. President.
• Keith Olberman
• Ozzy Osbourne
• Donny Osmond and sister Marie Osmond, due to child stardom as part of the Osmond family in the 1970s, their clinical depression (Marie's son committed suicide) and their Mormon religion.
• Terrell Owens - recent near-death, suicide attempt claims.
• Sarah Palin, U.S. Vice Presidential candidate.
• Nancy Pelosi, U.S. Speaker of the House 2007-10.
• Juan Peron and wife Eva Peron, Argentine leaders.
• Scott Peterson convicted of murder of his missing pregnant wife Laci.
• Augusto Pinochet, Chilean general became presidential dictator.
• Valerie Plame
• Pope Benedict XIV
• Pope John Paul II
• Pope Pius XII
• Elvis Presley and his highly publicized death in 1977.
• Prince Charles, ex-wife Princess Diana and new wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, British royals.
• Prince Harry and Prince William, heirs of the British crown.
• Pol Pot, Cambodian leader.
• Vladimir Putin, Russian leader.
• Muammar Gaddafi, Libyan leader.
• JonBenet Ramsey - unsolved homicide case.
• Ronald Reagan, U.S. President.
• Janet Reno, U.S. Attorney General.
• Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Secretary of State.
• Michael Richards - Due to the Laugh Factory incident.
• Yvonne Ridley
• Alberto Rivera
• Geraldo Rivera
• Geshe Michael Roach
• Oral Roberts
• Pat Robertson
• John Rocker, baseball pitcher renowned for comments about New York City, racial minorities and homosexuals in a 1999 Sports Illustrated interview.
• Kid Rock
• Romário
• Mitt Romney, U.S. Presidential candidate.
• Linda Ronstadt - Political activism and lesbianism.
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his cousin Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. Presidents.
• Ben Rothlisberger
• Pete Rose
• Karl Rove
• Babe Ruth
• Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense.
• Bobby Sands
• Nicolas Sarkozy
• Michael Savage
• Terri Schiavo
• Laura Schlesinger (Dr. Laura).
• Gerhard Schroder
• Arnold Schwarzenegger as California state governor, rather than as actor.
• Teofilo Vargas Sein
• Selena - disputed theories over her 1995 murder.
• William Shakespeare - regarding deletions of references to authorship question.
• Tupac Shakur and his shooting death in 1996.
• Al Sharpton, African American activist.
• Charlie Sheen
• Matthew Shepard - media-publicized 1999 hate crime murder.
• Sifl and Olly
• O.J. Simpson, accused of notorious crimes (double murder of his ex-wife and boyfriend in 1994).
• Anna Nicole Smith
• Sonia Sotomayor
• Snoop Doggy Dogg- real name Calvin Broadus.
• Britney Spears and ex husband Kevin Federline.
• Spice Girls - numerous controversies.
• Jerry Springer
• Jon Stossel
• Barbra Streisand
• Joseph Stalin, Soviet dictator lead the USSR during the Depression and WWII, and thought to be the most murderous man of all time (estimated 20 to 40 million).
• Gloria Steinem
• Erika Steinbach
• Howard Stern, radio "shock jock" and liberal activist.
• Jon Stewart
• Jimmy Swaggart
• Nikola Tesla (his nationality being Serb vs. Croat).
• Margaret Thatcher, U.K. Prime Minister.
• Pierre Trudeau
• Harry Truman - U.S. President; also, decision while in that office to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan to end WWII.
• Donald Trump
• Ted Turner
• U2 - Irish rock band involved in political activist causes.
• Joran Van der Sloot
• Michael Vick due to his involvement in illegal dogfighting.
• Varg Vikernes
• Andy Warhol
• John Walsh - Anti-crime activist/ child safety advocate after his son Adam Walsh was kidnapped, later found dead in 1981.
• Ruth Westheimer
• Joseph C. Wilson
• Woodrow Wilson, U.S. President.
• Oprah Winfrey
• Tiger Woods
• Malcolm X
• Andrea Yates - Mass murderer of her 6 children in her home, claimed to suffer from mental illness and post-natal depression.
• Boris Yeltsin, Russian leader.
• Zinedine Zidane

See also

• Wikipedia:Describing points of view
• meta:2010 Wikimedia Study of Controversial Content