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white people

racial classification and skin color specifier
Intangible race Q235155
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Summary

white people is a race[1]. It draws 13,909 Wikipedia views per month (race category, ranking #29 of 42).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: group of humans[3]
  • Commons category: White (human racial classification)[4]
  • Opposite of: person of color[5]
  • Has part(s): white men[6], white women[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:White (human racial classification)[8]
  • Commons gallery: White people[9]
  • Facet of: human skin color[10], ethnic groups in Europe[11], race[12]
  • Has characteristic: light skin[13]
  • Hashtag: whitepeople[14]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Anthropology[15], WikiProject Ethnic groups[16], WikiProject Europe[17]

Why It Matters

white people has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] It is known by 74 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

Related Entities

Aletta Ocean Benoît Magimel Ed Speleers Hamish Leahy H. Robert Horvitz John Dillinger John Sturges Lily Aldridge Roger Williams Tarra White Zbigniew Brzezinski

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4w ago · Dronebogus · 2026-09-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Anthropology, WikiProject Ethnic groups, WikiProject Europe
    Image → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Image: Human Race Example (White).jpg"
  2. 7w ago · Treisijs · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Anthropology, WikiProject Ethnic groups, WikiProject Europe
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Maintained by wikiproject: WikiProject Anthropology"
  3. 8w ago · Sumek101 · 2026-08-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Image: Human Race Example (White).jpg"
  4. 10w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has characteristic → light skin
    Image → —
    Significant event → —
    Instance of → race
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: whites, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289971398|whites (#289971398)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'mat"
  5. 13w ago · Souto Varela · 2026-07-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Creator → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Creator: Yakub"
  6. 13w ago · Souto Varela · 2026-07-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Image: Friedrich Overbeck 008.jpg"
  7. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0267534-belosi
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0267534-belosi, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259662|batch #259662]]"
  8. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → group of humans
    Opposite of → person of color
    Has characteristic → light skin
    Used by → —
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987012439376905171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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