Citation Guide

Citations and Licenses

Here you will find information on how to cite the materials made available on this website and the permissions associated with the various data and resources.

Character Lists

All of our character lists and gender data (available here) are licensed under Creative Commons CC BY-NC 4.0. They may be used and adapted, provided attribution is given. Only non-commercial use is permitted.

The Character Lists were compiled by, and attribution should be given to, J. Hillner, M. MacCarron, U. Vihervalli , and R. Heffron.

An individual license, containing the author names and Creative Commons link to the relevant license, can also be found on each 'Data' page.

Data Model, Graphs, Charts, Tables & Spreadsheets

Our data model, graphs, charts, and spreadsheets (available here and here) and tables of 'Top 10 women' (available here) are licensed under Creative Commons CC BY-NC ND 4.0. They may be used but not adapted, provided attribution is given. Only non-commercial use is permitted.


The data model was devised by, and attribution should be given to M. MacCarron and J. Hillner.

The graphs and charts were compiled by, and attribution should be given to A. Bazzan, S. Dahmen, and S. Prado.

The data for 'Top 10 Women' was compiled by, and attribution should be given to A. Bazzan, S. Dahmen, M. MacCarron, S. Prado, and U. Vihervalli.

The spreadsheet of Venantius Fortunatus was compiled by, and attribution should be given to M. MacCarron.


Individual licenses, containing the author names and Creative Commons link to the relevant license, can also be found on each relevant page.