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Featured pictures are images from highly skilled creators that the Wikimedia Commons community has chosen as some of the highest quality on the site.

Simply click on the name of a category on this page to see all the featured images for that subject. To reuse any images from Wikimedia Commons please see this guide.

There are currently 16,370 of such images in the Commons repository which is roughly 0.018% of the available images (89,398,490). All featured images are entered into our annual Picture of the Year competition. You may wish to browse the profiles of individual photographers, illustrators, and restorationists within the Commons community who have contributed a substantial portion of our featured pictures.

Images may be considered for featured status by being listed at Commons:Featured picture candidates, where the community will reach a consensus. You can find all featured pictures in Category:Featured pictures on Wikimedia Commons.

Old candidates for Featured pictures are listed here. There are also chronological lists of featured pictures: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and current month.

The Gallery Slideshow will allow you to explore Featured pictures from all Wikimedia projects by subject or by country.

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Different views of the skull of a Red howler monkey (Alouatta seniculus) from French Guiana
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Galleries

Contents: Animals · Astronomy · Food and drink · Historical · Natural phenomena · Objects · People · Places · Plants · Fungi · Space exploration · Sports · Static non-photographic media · Animated

Animals

  • Hyla japonica sep01.jpg
  • Yellow Bittern at Hyoko crop.jpg
  • White-cheeked Honeyeater - Maddens Plains.jpg
  • Vexilla vexillum 01.jpg
  • Tiburón azul (Prionace glauca), canal Fayal-Pico, islas Azores, Portugal, 2020-07-27, DD 14.jpg

Astronomy

  • Pillars of Creation (NIRCam Image).jpg
  • Tarantula Nebula by JWST.jpg
  • Webb’s Jupiter Images Showcase Auroras, Hazes.jpg
  • Ganymede - Perijove 34 Composite.jpg

Food and drink

  • Rambutans with seed.jpg
  • Spicy Anda Curry.jpg
  • From coffee bean to instant coffee 01.jpg
  • Fig (Ficus carica) fruit halved.jpg

Historical

  • Battle of Scheveningen (Slag bij Ter Heijde)(Jan Abrahamsz. Beerstraten).jpg
  • Edward Duncan - The Explosion of the United States Steam Frigate Missouri.jpg
  • The Burning of the USS Missouri in Gibraltar.jpg
  • Thure de Thulstrup - Battle of Shiloh.jpg

Natural phenomena

  • Paulushofdamm - Überfallwehr 04.jpg
  • Aerial image of Grand Prismatic Spring (view from the south).jpg
  • Shear Flow Vortices.jpg
  • Yellowstone National Park (WY, USA), Old Faithful Geyser -- 2022 -- 2599.jpg

Objects

  • SBB Re 4-4 II and Re 6-6 above Erstfeld.jpg
  • RAI 40-012 Sepid Dasht - Dorud.jpg
  • Notre-Dame de Montréal Basilica 12.jpg
  • Bad Homburg - Erlöserkirche - Decke (3106).jpg

Other lifeforms

  • Ascaris male 200x section.jpg
  • Динофитовая микроводоросль, выделенная из осадков Амурского залива в 2020 году.jpg
  • Marine algae in Gullmarsfjorden at Sämstad 4.jpg
  • Bladder wrack in Sämstad harbor 1.jpg

People

  • Pauline Kirby (5493900611).jpg
  • The owner of a old book selling store at Golpark, South Kolkata.jpg
  • Mary Jackson in a wind tunnel with a model at NASA Langley.jpg
  • Jeremiah Gurney - Photograph of Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa.jpg
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Places

  • Basílica de San Pedro, Ciudad del Vaticano, 2022-09-17, DD 15-17 HDR.jpg
  • Casa Danzante, Praga, República Checa, 2022-07-01, DD 01.jpg
  • Misty Icefield and Stave Glacier.jpg
  • Fassade ZDF-Hochhaus Mainz-Lerchenberg 20211105 HOF07810 20221208000188.jpg

Plants

  • Getekend blad van Cyclamen hederifolium. 30-11-2022. (d.j.b) 02.jpg
  • Muscari botryoides seeds-20220703-RM-155930.jpg
  • Althaea cannabina. 04-08-2022 (actm.).jpg
  • Schors van een berk (Betula) 23-10-2022 (d.j.b.).jpg

Fungi

  • Strophariaceae 13-11-2022. (d.j.b).jpg
  • Jelly Ear, Auricularia auricula-judae, UK 2.jpg
  • Coprinopsis lagopus-2-20220513-RM-100643.jpg
  • Ockerbraune Trichterlinge (Infundibulicybe gibba)-20191017-RM-155028.jpg

Space exploration

  • CRS-20 Dragon–Enhanced.jpg
  • Launch of Shenzhou 13.jpg
  • Starship SN16.jpeg
  • Bruce McCandless II during EVA in 1984.jpg

Sports

  • 2017-02-26 Natalie Geisenberger (Siegerehrung) by Sandro Halank–3.jpg
  • 2022-01-22 Men's World Cup at 2021-22 St. Moritz–Celerina Luge World Cup and European Championships by Sandro Halank–257.jpg
  • 20190227 FIS NWSC Seefeld Men CC 15km Janosch Brugger 850 5030.jpg
  • 2022-07-03 Basketball, Männer, European Qualifiers, Deutschland - Polen 1DX 1386 by Stepro.jpg

Static non-photographic media

  • Lilly Walther. Mehe portree. 1909.TKMB0822.jpg
  • 1581 Bunting clover leaf map.jpg
  • Zhou Fang. Court Ladies Playing Double-sixes. Freer Gallery of Art.jpg
  • Templo de Ramsés II, Abu Simbel, Egipto, 2022-04-02, DD 92-94 HDR.jpg

Animated

  • Animated phenakistiscope disc - Running rats Fantascope by Thomas Mann Baynes 1833.gif
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