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List of statues

This is a list of the most famous statues worldwide, past and present that already have articles about them in Wikipedia or are referred to or pictured in other articles.

Australia

Dog on the Tuckerbox, five miles (8km) from Gundagai
Burke and Wills statue, Melbourne
South African War Memorial, Adelaide
Map the Miner, Kapunda, South Australia
Austria
Statues in facades of the Kunsthistorisches Museum - the Art History Museum and Naturhistorisches Museum - Museum of Natural History of Vienna, Maria-Theresien-Platz,Vienna.
Statue of Nicholas, Count of Salm, Vienna.
Statue of Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun.
Statues of Schönbrunn Palace, Gloriette Garden, Vienna.
Gerard van Swieten statue on the memorial to Maria Theresa, Vienna.
Field marshal von Laudon, Field marshal von Daun, Field marshal von Traun, and Field marshal von Khevenhüller as a parts of the Maria Theresa memorial at the Maria-Theresien-Platz between the Kunsthistorisches Museum and the Naturhistorisches Museum. Sculpted by Kaspar von Zumbusch and unveiled in 1888.
Archduke Karl by Anton Dominik Fernkorn at the Heldenplatz, 1859. The equestrian sculpture is insofar a miracle which stands for Fernkorn's craftsmanship as a sculptor, as only the two back legs of the horse have a connection with the pedestal, it is only the second oldest in the world of this kind, after the Monument to Nicholas I in Saint Petersburg, outdoing the achievement of Tacca's equestrian sculpture of Philip IV in Madrid.
Prince Eugen by Anton Dominik Fernkorn at the Heldenplatz, 1865.
Archduke Albrecht by Kaspar von Zumbusch in front of the Albertina, 1899.
General Radetzky by Kaspar von Zumbusch in the Ringstraße, 1891.
Belgium
Ambiorix, in Tongres
Manneken Pis, in Brussels
Butte du Lion ("Hillock of the Lion", "Lion's Mound") in Waterloo
Godfrey of Bouillon, Royal Square, in Brussels.
Baldwin I of Constantinople, Flanders Square, in Brussels.
Léopold II, in Brussels.
Albert I at Kunstberg.
Charlemagne, in Liège.
Bolivia
Cristo de la Concordia in Cochabamba
Brazil
Christ the Redeemer
Cambodia
Norodom Sihanouk Memorial
Canada
Manitoba
Louis-Riel by Miguel Joyal
Newfoundland and Labrador
The Dead Christ
The Veiled Virgin
Ontario
Timothy Eaton statue - Royal Ontario Museum
Henry Moore sculptures in front of Toronto City Hall and Art Gallery of Ontario
Statue of Winston Churchill near Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto
Statue of Sir Adam Beck on University Avenue in Toronto
Queen's Park, Toronto
George Brown, one of the Fathers of Confederation
King George V moved from Delhi, India in 1969
Sir John A. Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada
William Lyon Mackenzie, leader of the Upper Canada Rebellion
Sir Oliver Mowat, third Premier of Ontario
John Graves Simcoe, first Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario
Queen Victoria
Sir James Pliny Whitney, sixth Premier of Ontario
Ontario Veterans Memorial
Queen Elizabeth II Rose Gardens in honour of Her Majesty's Silver Jubilee in 1977 and Golden Jubilee in 2002
Parliament Hill, Ottawa
Queen Victoria - located north of the West Block; sculpted by Louis-Philippe Hébert (1900)
Alexander Mackenzie - located west of the Centre Block; sculpted by Louis-Philippe Hébert (1901)
Henry Albert Harper / Galahad - located outside the Queen's Gates, facing Centre Block; sculpted by Ernest Wise Keyser (1905)
George Brown - located west of the Centre Block; sculpted by George William Hill (1913)
Robert Baldwin and Sir Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine - located east of the Centre Block; sculpted by Walter Seymour Allward (1914)
Sir Wilfrid Laurier - located south of the East Block; sculpted by Joseph-Émile Brunet (1922)
Sir Robert Laird Borden - located west of the West Block; sculpted by Frances Loring (1957)
Queen Elizabeth II - located east of the Centre Block; sculpted by Jack Harman (1977)
John George Diefenbaker - located north of the West Block; sculpted by Leo Mol (1985)
Lester Bowles Pearson - located north of the West Block; sculpted by Danek Mozdzenski (1989)
Sir George-Étienne Cartier - located west of the Centre Block; sculpted by Louis-Philippe Hébert
The Famous Five - depicts the women's suffrage movement (Nellie McClung, Irene Parlby, Emily Murphy, Louise McKinney and Henrietta Muir Edwards); sculpted by Barbara Paterson; the monument is featured on the reverse of the current $50 banknote by various sculptors
Sir John A. Macdonald - located east of the Centre Block; sculpted by Louis-Philippe Hébert
William Lyon Mackenzie King - located north of the East Block; sculpted by Raoul Hunter
Thomas D'Arcy McGee - located north of the Centre Block; sculpted by George William Hill
Saskatchewan
Sir John A. Macdonald statue
China
Spring Temple Buddha in Henan (world's tallest)
 Terracotta army in Xi'an
Colombia
Vargas Swamp Lancers
India Catalina
Monument to Effort
Denmark
Frederik V on Horseback by Jacques Saly
The Little Mermaid by Edvard Eriksen
Christus at Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen by Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ecuador
The Madonna of El Panecillo, Quito
Egypt
Great Sphinx of Giza
Abu Simbel
France
The Vimy Memorial, honouring Canada's role there in the First World War
The Burghers of Calais by Auguste Rodin in Calais
The Thinker by Auguste Rodin in Paris
The Lion of Belfort by Frédéric Bartholdi in Belfort
Venus de Milo, ancient Greek statue in the Louvre
Winged Victory of Samothrace, ancient Greek statue also in the Louvre
Statue of Liberty (Jardin du Luxembourg) by Frédéric Bartholdi on the Île aux Cygnes in Paris
Jeanne d'Arc in the Rue de Rivoli by Emmanuel Frémiet.
Jeanne d'Arc in front of the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur by Hippolyte Lefèbvre, 1927.
King Louis IX in front of the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur by Hippolyte Lefèbvre, 1927.
Ferdinand Foch near the Trocadéro.
Joseph Joffre in front of École Militaire.
Charlemagne (Charlemagne et ses Leudes) by Charles and Louis Rochet in front of the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, 1882.
Albert I of Belgium near the Place de la Concorde.
King Henri IV by François-Frédéric Lemot on the Pont Neuf.
Étienne Marcel by Antonin Idrac near the Hôtel de Ville.
Marble equestrian statue of King Louis XIII at Place des Vosges. Begun in 1816 by Louis Dupaty, completed in 1821 by Jean-Pierre Cortot.
General Lafayette at Cours la Reine by Paul Wayland Bartlett.
King Louis XIV in front of Louvre Pyramid.
King Louis XIV by François Joseph Bosio at the Place des Victoires, 1822.
José de San Martín in the Parc Montsouris.
King Edward VII by Paul Landowski at Place Edouard VII.
Napoléon Bonaparte at Champs-Élysées.
Simón Bolívar at Pont Alexandre-III.
Georgia
Kartlis Deda by Elguja Amashukeli
Germany
Bavaria, a statue as symbol of the South German kingdom of Bavaria in Munich
Victory Column, a statue of Victoria, the goddess of victory, in Berlin
Bismarck Monument, a statue of Otto von Bismarck, in Hamburg
Hermannsdenkmal, a statue of Arminius, victor of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
Niederwalddenkmal, a statue of Germania, as symbol of Germany, close to Rüdesheim
King Friedrich II by Christian Daniel Rauch in the Unter den Linden.
King Friedrich Wilhelm IV by Alexander Calandrelli in front of the Alte Nationalgalerie.
National Monument (Emperor Wilhelm I Monument) by Reinhold Begas in front of the Berlin City Palace, 1897, destroyed.
Emperor Wilhelm I by Albert Moritz Wolff at the Hohenzollernplatz in Rixdorf, 1902, destroyed in 1944.
Emperor Wilhelm I by Franz Dorrenbach in the Neuendorfer Straße in Spandau.
Emperor Friedrich III by Rudolf Maison, in front of Bode Museum, 1904, destroyed in 1950s.
Saint George defeats the Dragon
Statue of Sleeping Beauty in Wuppertal, Germany
Greece
Statue of Zeus at Olympia, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World sculpted by Pheidias. (Relocated to Constantinople in 393, later destroyed by fire in 462)
Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. (destroyed by earthquake in 224 BC, and the remains sold for scrap in 656)
Athena Promachos, was a colossal bronze statue of the Greek goddess Athena which stood between the Propylaea and the Parthenon on the Acropolis of Athens, sculpted by Pheidias.
Athena Parthenos, was a massive chryselephantine sculpture of the Greek goddess Athena which stood inside the Parthenon on the Acropolis of Athens, sculpted by Pheidias.
Poseidon of Cape Artemision
Antikythera Ephebe
Marathon Boy
Charioteer of Delphi
Hermes of Praxiteles
Kroisos Kouros
Kleobis and Biton
Moscophoros
Peplos Kore
Statue of King Leonidas - Thermopylae
Statue of Liberty (Mytilene)
Hong Kong
Statue of Queen Victoria at the entrance of Victoria Park
Statue of Sir Thomas Jackson at Statue Square
Statue of King George VI at Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Lost statues in Hong Kong include:
Statue of Edward VII - formerly at Statue Square
Statue of Prince Albert - formerly at Statue Square
Hungary
Heroes' Square, Heroes' Square (Hősök tere in Hungarian) is one of the major squares of Budapest, Hungary.
Anonymus, The statue of Anonymus, created by Miklós Ligeti in 1903, sits in front of Vajdahunyad Castle in Budapest's Városliget (City Park)
Statue Park, Szoborpark or Statue Park is a park in Budapest's XXII. district, with a gathering of monumental Soviet-era statues.
Liberty Statue, The Szabadság Szobor or Liberty Statue (sometimes Freedom Statue) in Budapest, Hungary, was first erected in 1947 in remembrance of the Soviet liberation of Hungary from Nazi forces during World War II.
India
Thiruvalluvar Statue, Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu
Shiva, Murudeshwara
Gommateshwara statue, Shravanabelagola, Karnataka
Statue of Ahimsa, Maharashtra
Shri Bhaktha Anjaneyar, Vedasandur, Dindigul, Tamil Nadu
Buddha Statue of Hyderabad, Husain Sagar, Hyderabad, Telangana
Abhaya Buddha Statue in Eluru, Andhra Pradesh
Dhyana Buddha Statue in Amaravathi
Statue of Equality (Ramanuja) , Hyderabad, Telangana
Statue of Unity, (world's tallest)
Italy
Colossus of Barletta, statue of a Byzantine emperor
Colossus of Nero
Apollo Belvedere
Laocoön and His Sons
David (Donatello
Bacchus (Michelangelo)
David (Michelangelo)
The Deposition (Michelangelo)
Cristo della Minerva
Moses (Michelangelo)
Pietà (Michelangelo)
Rondanini Pietà
David (Bernini)
Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius
Ecstasy of St Theresa
Leonardo's horse, statue of a Horse in Milan based upon a design by Leonardo da Vinci from 500 years before.
Statue  of Cola di Rienzi by Girolamo Masini, erected in 1877 near the Campidoglio in Rome
Lebanon
Statue of Notre Dame du Liban File:Ladylebanon.JPG at Harissa
Mexico
El Ángel de la Independencia, Mexico City
Julio Cesar Chavez Gonzalez, Culiacan
Mongolia
Genghis Khan Equestrian Statue, Tuv aimag
Nicaragua
Alexis Arguello, Managua
Jesús de la Misericordia, San Juan del Sur
Norway
Frogner Park including the Vigeland installation, Oslo
Puerto Rico
Sixto Escobar in Barceloneta, thought to be the first made for a professional boxer.
Russia
Mother Motherland Is Calling
Bronze Horseman and other equestrian monuments to Russian tsars
Monument to Minin and Pozharsky on Red Square in Moscow
Worker and Kolkhoz Woman in Moscow
List of statues of Lenin
List of Mother Motherland statues
Serbia

Pobednik in Kalemegdan
St. Sava by the Church of St. Sava
Emperor Dušan outside Palata pravde
Prince Mihailo Monument on the Republic Square
Sri Lanka
Statue of Bhuddha in Kurunegala - 88-foot (27m) high.
Singapore
The Merlion statues at the Singapore River mouth and on Sentosa
The Sir Stamford Raffles statue, based on the original by Thomas Woolner, located at the Victoria Concert Hall and at the Raffles Landing Site along Singapore River
South Africa
Horse Memorial, Port Elizabeth
Sweden
The Branting Monument in Stockholm.
Turkey
Aphrodite of Cnidus, famous Hellenistic statue.
Aviation Martyrs' Monument in Istanbul
Monument of the Republic is located in Taksim Square, İstanbul
Statue of Humanity unfinished as of 2010[1]
United Kingdom
England


Angel of the North
Aspire
B of the Bang
Dream
Duke of York Column
Maiwand Lion
Nelson's Column
Statue of St Christopher (Norton Priory)
Statue of Horatio Nelson, Birmingham
Wellington Statue
The Lincoln Imp
United States, including territories
Madonna of the Trail
National Monument to the U.S. Constitution
History of fountains in the United States
Alabama
Vulcan statue, Birmingham, Alabama World's tallest cast iron statue
Arkansas
Christ of the Ozarks statue, Eureka Springs
California

Partners Statue, Disneyland
Florida
Partners Statue, Magic Kingdom
Illinois
Black Hawk Statue, Oregon
The Bowman and The Spearman, Chicago
Chicago Picasso, Chicago
Cloud Gate, Chicago
Flamingo, Chicago
Abraham Lincoln: The Head of State, Chicago
Miró's Chicago, Chicago
Nuclear Energy, Chicago
Standing Lincoln, Chicago
Forever Marilyn, Chicago
Indiana
Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, Indianapolis
George Rogers Clark Memorial and statues of George Rogers Clark and Francis Vigo, Vincennes, Indiana
Massachusetts
The Hiker, Fall River
National Monument to the Forefathers, Plymouth
Prince Harry the Navigator, Fall River
Maryland
Washington Monument, Baltimore
Washington Monument, Boonsboro
Michigan
Cross in the Woods, Indian River
Fist of Joe Louis,  Detroit
General George Armstrong Custer, Monroe
George Washington, Detroit
Sparty, East Lansing
The Spirit of Detroit, Detroit
Minnesota
Iron Man is 81ft (25m) tall including the 36-foot-tall (11m) figure, out of iron ore. Chisholm
Peanuts statues (Charlie Brown and Snoopy, Linus and Sally, Lucy and Schroeder, Peppermint Patty, and Marcy), St. Paul
Vision of Peace (Indian God of Peace), Saint Paul City Hall and Ramsey County Courthouse
Missouri
Liberty Memorial, Kansas City, several sculptors, including Robert Aitken and Edmond Amateis were involved.
Missouri State Capitol, Jefferson City, includes sculpture by Robert Aitken, James Earle Fraser, Karl Bitter, A.A. Weinman, Hermon Atkins MacNeil,  Alexander Stirling Calder and Sherry Fry.
Montana
James J. Hill statue, Havre, Montana
Our Lady of the Rockies statue, Butte, Montana
Nevada
Burning Man effigy
New Mexico
New York
Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World), New York City

North Dakota
Enchanted Highway, a collection of the world's largest scrap metal sculptures
Tommy Turtle in Bottineau, North Dakota, the world's largest depicted turtle
Ohio
Statues at Great American Ball Park by Tom Tsuchiya, Cincinnati
King of Kings (destroyed by lightning strike and fire in 2010), near Monroe, Ohio
Tyler Davidson Fountain, Cincinnati
Oklahoma
Pioneer Woman, Ponca City
Oregon
Oregon Pioneer, Salem
Portlandia, Portland
Pennsylvania
Joe Paterno statue, Beaver Stadium, State College (2001-2011)
Rocky statue, Philadelphia
Swann Memorial Fountain, Philadelphia, Alexander Stirling Calder
Puerto Rico
Columbus statue, Mayagüez
Monument to the Puerto Rican Countryman, Salinas
South Carolina
Statue of Strom Thurmond on the City Square, of his hometown, Edgefield, South Carolina
South Dakota
Crazy Horse Memorial - massive stone sculpture in the Black Hills, depicting the Lakota warrior
Dignity - 50 foot statue of a Lakota woman in a star quilt, on a bluff above Chamberlain
Mount Rushmore - faces of several US presidents carved into the granite face of the mountain
Texas
Statue of Sam Houston in Huntsville, Texas - At 66 feet (20m) tall, it is the tallest statue of any American political figure.
Big Tex - 52 feet (16m) tall temporary statue erected annually for the Texas State Fair.
Dallas Zoo's giraffe statue
Statue of Don Juan de Oñate called The Equestrian in El Paso, Texas - At 36 feet (11m) tall, it is purported by the sculptor to be the largest bronze equestrian statue in the world.
Utah
This is the Place Monument at Heritage Park in Salt Lake City
Brigham Young Monument
Virginia
Marine Corps War Memorial, Rosslyn, Virginia
Washington
Fremont Troll, Seattle
Hammering Man, Seattle
The Lone Sailor, Bremerton
Statue of Lenin, Seattle
Waiting for the Interurban, Seattle
The Burghers of Calais and The Thinker by Rodin, at Maryhill Museum of Art near Goldendale, Washington
Washington, D.C.

Statue of Abraham Lincoln, inside the Lincoln Memorial
Statue of Thomas Jefferson, inside the Jefferson Memorial
Vietnam
Christ of Vung Tau, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu
Notre-Dame de Tà Pao (Our Lady Tapao statue), Bình Thuận
Buddha on Nirvana of Ta Cu, Bình Thuận
By distinction
Oldest
Löwenmensch figurine
Tallest
Statue of Unity (depicts Vallabhbhai Patel); near Kevadiya, Gujarat, India. 182m (597ft).  Completed 2018.
Lushan Dafo (depicts Vairocana Buddha); Lushan, Henan, China. 108m (354ft) Buddha statue standing on a 20m (66ft) lotus throne placed on a 25m (82ft) pedestal/building. Completed 2002.
Ushiku Daibutsu (depicts Amitabha Buddha); Ushiku, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. 100m (330ft) Buddha statue standing on a 10m (33ft) lotus throne placed on a 10m (33ft) pedestal/building. Completed 1995.[2]
Guanyin statue of Hainan (depicts Avalokitesvara); Sanya, Hainan, China. 108m (354ft). Completed in 2005.
Emperors Yan and Huang; Zhengzhou, China. 106m (348ft). Completed 2007.[3]
Daikannon of Sendai (depicts Avalokitesvara); Sendai, Japan. 100m (330ft).
Tallest and largest equestrian statue
Statue of Genghis Khan on a horse back near Ulan Bator, Mongolia, completed in 2006 has a height of 40 metres (130 feet) on a 10 metres (33 feet) high base.
Monument To Gral. José Gervasio Artigas In Minas, Uruguay - 18 meters tall, 9 meters long, weight 150,000 kilos 1974
Largest stone sculptures
Great Sphinx of Giza
Metal sculptures
At 54 m wide, the Angel of the North has the largest single dimension.
The Statue of Liberty is the tallest at 46 m, atop a 47 m pedestal.
The Enchanted Highway is a collection of the world's largest scrap metal sculptures.
Vulcan statue, (17m) in Birmingham, Alabama, US, is the largest cast iron statue.
Other organizational lists
List of equestrian statues
List of statues by height
List of the tallest statues in the United States
List of Roman domes
New Seven Wonders of the World
List of archaeological sites by country
List of colossal sculpture in situ
List of megalithic sites
List of archaeoastronomical sites by country
List of Egyptian pyramids
List of Mesoamerican pyramids
List of equestrian statues in Italy