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A. K. Fazlul Huq
Bengali statesman and jurist (1873–1962)
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
President of India from 2002 to 2007
Abdalá Bucaram
President of Ecuador (1996-1998)
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
President of Egypt since 2014
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
Algerian politician, former President of Algeria
Abdou Diouf
Senegalese politician
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi
President of Yemen from 2012 to 2022
Abdul Ghani Baradar
Co-founder and political leader of the Afghan Taliban
Abdul Halim of Kedah
Sultan of Kedah
Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani
Bangladeshi Political leader (1880-1976)
Abdul Majeed Didi
Lord of Twelve Thousand Isles,
Abdul Salam Arif
20th-century Iraqi politician
Abdul-Karim Qasim
Prime Minister of Iraq from 1958 to 1963
Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah
11h Ruler of Kuwait and 1st Emir of the State of Kuwait
Abdullah al-Sallal
First president of North Yemen
Abdullah Gül
Turkish politician
Abdullah I of Jordan
Ruler of Transjordan and Jordan from 1921 to 1951
Abdullah II of Jordan
King of Jordan since 1999
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
King of Saudi Arabia (2005-2015)
Abdulsalami Abubakar
Nigerian general and brief head of state
Abdurrahman Wahid
President of Indonesia from 1999 to 2001
Abiy Ahmed
Prime Minister of Ethiopia since 2018
Abolhassan Banisadr
1st President of Iran from 1980 to 1981
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
Nigerian politician
Adama Barrow
3rd President of the Gambia
Adlai Stevenson II
American politician
Adnan Menderes
Turkish politician
Adolfo Suárez
Prime Minister of Spain (1976–1981)
Agostinho Neto
First President of Angola
Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani
Emir of Qatar
Ahmad bin Yahya
King and Imam of Yemen from 1948 to 1962
Ahmad Shah of Pahang
Yang di-Pertuan Agong from 1979 to 1984
Ahmad Tejan Kabbah
3rd President of Sierra Leone (1996-97, 1998-2007)
Ahmadou Ahidjo
1st President of Cameroon
Ahmed Abdallah
President of the Comoros
Ahmed Ben Bella
First President of Algeria (1916-2012)
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr
4th president of Iraq
Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud
4th president of Somaliland
Ahmed Sékou Touré
President of Guinea (1922-1984) –
Ahmet Necdet Sezer
10th President of Turkey
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
President of Iran from 1989 to 1997
Akhmad Kadyrov
Chechen militant; leader of Chechnya from 2000 to 2004
Akhtar Mansour
2nd leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
Akihito
Emperor of Japan from 1989 to 2019
Al Gore
Vice president of the United States from 1993 to 2001
Alain Poher
French politician (1909-1996)
Alan García
President of Peru (1985–1990 and 2006–2011)
Albert II of Belgium
Sixth king of the Belgians
Albert II, Prince of Monaco
Prince of Monaco
Alberto Fujimori
President of Peru (1990-2000)
Alberto Lleras Camargo
Colombian journalist and politician (1906-1990)
Alcide De Gasperi
Italian politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party (1881-1954)
Aldo Moro
Italian politician (1916–1978)
Alec Douglas-Home
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964
Aleksander Kwaśniewski
President of Poland from 1995 to 2005
Alex Salmond
Former First Minister of Scotland
Alexander Bustamante
Jamaican politician and labour leader
Alexander Dubček
Czechoslovak and Slovak politician
Alexander Lukashenko
Belarusian politician, president of Belarus
Alexander Rutskoy
Russian politician and former Soviet military officer
Alexei Kosygin
Soviet politician (1904–1980)
Alfredo Cristiani
Salvadoran politician, President of El Salvador from 1989 to 1994
Alfredo Stroessner
Paraguayan military dictator
Ali Abdullah Saleh
President of Yemen, 1978 to 2012
Ali Khamenei
Supreme Leader of Iran since 1989
Álvaro Arzú
Guatemalan President (1996-2000)
Álvaro Uribe
31st President of Colombia
Amata Kabua
Former President of the Marshall Islands (1928-1996)
Amha Selassie
Emperor of Ethiopia
Amin al-Hafiz
Syrian politician and army general (1921–2009)
Anastasio Somoza Debayle
President of Nicaragua
Anastasio Somoza García
Dictator of Nicaragua (1896–1956)
Andrei Gromyko
Soviet diplomat (1909–1989)
Andrés Manuel López Obrador
President of Mexico
Andrés Pastrana Arango
30st President of Colombia
Andrés Rodríguez (politician)
43.° President of Paraguay from February 3, 1989 to August 15, 1993
Anerood Jugnauth
Mauritian statesman (1930–2021)
Aneurin Bevan
Welsh politician
Angela Merkel
Chancellor of Germany
Anthony Albanese
Prime Minister of Australia since 2022
Anthony Eden
British soldier, diplomat and politician (1897–1977)
António de Oliveira Salazar
Prime Minister of Portugal during the Estado Novo
António Guterres
Portuguese politician and diplomat (born 1949)
Anwar Ibrahim
Prime Minister of Malaysia since 2022
Anwar Sadat
President of Egypt from 1970 to 1981
Ariel Sharon
Prime Minister of Israel and Israeli general
Aristides Pereira
Cape Verdean politician, and first president of Cape Verde (1923-2011)
Arthur Chung
1st President of Guyana
Artur da Costa e Silva
27th President of Brazil
Arturo Frondizi
27th President of Argentina (1958-62)
Ashraf Ghani
President of Afghanistan
Askar Akayev
Kyrgyz politician
Asma al-Assad
First Lady of Syria (born 1975)
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
10th Prime Minister of India (1996, 1998–2004)
Ati George Sokomanu
President of Vanuatu
Augusto Pinochet
Former dictator of the Republic of Chile
Ayaz Mutallibov
President of Azerbaijan from 1990 to 1992
Ayub Khan
President of Pakistan from 1958 to 1969
Azali Assoumani
President of the Comoros
Ba U
Former President of Burma
Babrak Karmal
Afghanistan politician of Tajik ethnicity communist politician (1929–1996)
Bachir Gemayel
Lebanese politician and a resistance commander and President of Lebanon (1947-1982)
Ban Ki-moon
South Korean politician and diplomat
Bảo Đại
Emperor of Vietnam from 1926 to 1945
Barack Obama
President of the United States from 2009 to 2017
Barry Goldwater
American statesman
Bashar al-Assad
President of Syria since 2000
Baudouin of Belgium
King of the Belgians from 1951 to 1993
Beatrix of the Netherlands
Queen of the Netherlands (1980-2013)
Belisario Betancur
Former President of Colombia (1923-2018)
Ben Chifley
Australian politician
Benazir Bhutto
Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988–1990; 1993–1996)
Benigno Aquino III
15th President of the Philippines
Benjamin Netanyahu
Prime Minister of Israel (1996–1999; 2009–2021; since 2022)
Bernie Sanders
American politician and activist (born 1941)
Bettino Craxi
Italian politician
Bhumibol Adulyadej
King of Thailand
Bidya Devi Bhandari
Current president of Nepal
Bill Clinton
President of the United States from 1993 to 2001
Birendra of Nepal
King of Nepal
Blaise Compaoré
President of Burkina Faso from 1987 to 2014
Bob Brown
Former Australian Greens politician, medical doctor, environmentalist
Bob Dole
American politician
Bob Hawke
Australian politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia
Bolesław Bierut
Polish politician; leader of Poland (1947-1956)
Boris Johnson
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022
Boris Yeltsin
President of Russia from 1991 to 1999
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
6th Secretary-General of the United Nations
Brian Mulroney
18th Prime Minister of Canada
C. R. Swart
South African politician
Canaan Banana
1st President of Zimbabwe (1980-87)
Carl Hayden
Democratic U.S. Senator from Arizona
Carles Puigdemont
Politician from Catalonia, Spain
Carlos Andrés Pérez
President of Venezuela from 1974 to 1979 and 1989 to 1993
Carlos Arias Navarro
Spanish politician (1908–1989)
Carlos Camacho
1st Governor of Guam
Carlos Castillo Armas
Guatemalan President
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
President of Guatemala (1918-2003)
Carlos Menem
President of Argentina
Carlos Prío Socarrás
President of Cuba (1903-1977)
Carlos Salinas de Gortari
60th president of Mexico
Carrie Lam
Chief Executive of Hong Kong from 2017 to 2022
Celâl Bayar
Turkish politician; President of Turkey (1950-1960)
César Gaviria
Colombian economist and politician
Chaim Herzog
Israeli politician
Chandra Shekhar
Prime Minister of India from 1990 to 1991
Chandrika Kumaratunga
20th century President of Sri Lanka
Chang Myon
South Korean politician (1899–1966)
Charan Singh
Prime Minister of India from 1979 to 1980
Charles de Gaulle
20th century President of the French Republic, army officer in World War II and national hero
Charles III
King of the United Kingdom since 2022
Charles Taylor (Liberian politician)
22nd President of Liberia (1997-2003); convicted war criminal
Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum
Cambodian politician
Cheddi Jagan
President of Guyana, Prime Minister of Guyana, dentist (1918-1997)
Chen Shui-bian
Taiwanese former politician
Chiang Ching-kuo
Former president of Taiwan
Chris Patten
British politician (born 1944)
Christian X of Denmark
King of Denmark
Chun Doo-hwan
Leader of South Korea from 1979 to 1988
Clement Attlee
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951
Corazon Aquino
President of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
President of Argentina from 2007 to 2015
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas
Mexican politician
Cyril Ramaphosa
President of South Africa since 2018
D. S. Senanayake
Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
Dag Hammarskjöld
Swedish diplomat, economist, and author
Daniel arap Moi
Kenyan President
Daniel Inouye
United States Senator from Hawaii (1963–2012)
Daniel Ortega
President of Nicaragua (1985–1990 and 2007–present)
David Ben-Gurion
Israeli politician, Zionist leader, prime minister of Israel
David Cameron
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016
David Dacko
Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (1930-2003)
David Lange
32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand
David Trimble
Northern Irish politician
Dawda Jawara
First president of the Gambia from 1970 to 1994
Dean Barrow
Prime Minister of Belize from 2008 to 2020
Deng Xiaoping
Chinese politician and paramount leader
Denis Sassou Nguesso
President of the Republic of the Congo (1997-present, 1979-1992)
Dési Bouterse
Former president of Suriname
Diana, Princess of Wales
Member of the British royal family; first wife of Prince Charles (1961–1997)
Dick Cheney
46th Vice President of the United States
Dilma Rousseff
Former President of Brazil
Diosdado Macapagal
9th President of the Philippines
Dipendra of Nepal
King of Nepal
Dmitry Medvedev
President of Russia from 2008 to 2012
Dmitry Ustinov
Soviet politician (1908–1984)
Donald Rumsfeld
American politician and diplomat (1932–2021)
Donald Trump
President of the United States (2017–2021; since 2025)
Donald Tsang
Chief Executive of Hong Kong from 2005 to 2012
Donald Tusk
Polish politician, former President of the European Council, and former Prime Minister of Poland
Dong Biwu
Former acting President of the People's Republic of China (1886–1975)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
American army general and 34th president of the United States (1890–1969)
Edmund Ho
Chinese politician
Edmund Muskie
United States politician
Eduard Shevardnadze
Georgian politician and diplomat (1928–2014)
Eduardo Frei Montalva
President of Chile (1911-1982)
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
Chilean politician
Edward Brooke
American politician
Edward Heath
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974
Edward Oliver LeBlanc
Dominican politician (1923-2004)
Efraín Ríos Montt
38th President of Guatemala from 1982 to 1983
Ehud Barak
Prime Minister of Israel from 1999 to 2001
Eisaku Satō
61st, 62nd and 63rd Prime Minister of Japan (1901–1975)
Elizabeth II
Queen of the United Kingdom from 1952 to 2022
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Former President of Liberia
Ellis Clarke
Last Governor-General and first President of Trinidad and Tobago
Elpidio Quirino
President of the Philippines from 1948 to 1953
Elsie Tu
Hong Kong politician and social activist (1913-2015)
Emílio Garrastazu Médici
President of Brazil from 1969 to 1974
Emmanuel Macron
President of France since 2017
Emmerson Mnangagwa
President of Zimbabwe since 2017
Emomali Rahmon
President of Tajikistan (1992–present)
Enoch Powell
British politician (1912–1998)
Enrique Peña Nieto
64th president of Mexico
Enver Hoxha
Leader of Albania from 1944 to 1985
Eric Gairy
20th-century Grenadian politician; 1st Prime Minister (1974–79)
Eric Williams
First Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
Erich Honecker
20th-century German communist politician
Erich Mielke
German communist official
Ernest Shonekan
Interim President of Nigeria in 1993
Ernesto Geisel
29th President of Brazil
Ernesto Samper
Colombian politician
Ernesto Zedillo
61st president of Mexico
Errol Barrow
Barbadian politician
Eugenia Charles
Prime Minister of Dominica
Eurico Gaspar Dutra
13th President of Brazil
Eva Perón
Argentine actress and politician
Evo Morales
President of Bolivia from 2006 to 2019
F. W. de Klerk
State President of South Africa from 1989 to 1994
Fahd of Saudi Arabia
Saudi king from 1982 to 2005
Faisal II
3rd king of Hashemite Iraq
Faisal of Saudi Arabia
King of Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975
Felipe Calderón
63rd president of Mexico
Felipe González
Spanish politician
Félix Houphouët-Boigny
Doctor, Ivorian politician, first president of Côte d'Ivoire (1905-1993)
Ferdinand Marcos
President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986
Ferhat Abbas
Algerian pharmacist, writer and politician
Fernando Belaúnde
President of Peru
Fernando Chui
Chief Executive of Macau (2009-2019)
Fernando Collor de Mello
32nd President of Brazil
Fernando Henrique Cardoso
34th President of Brazil
Fernando Lugo
Paraguayan politician
Festus Mogae
Former President of Botswana
Fidel Castro
Leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008
Fidel V. Ramos
President of the Philippines from 1992 to 1998
Forbes Burnham
2nd President of Guyana
Fouad Chehab
Third president of Lebanon (1902-1973)
France-Albert René
President of Seychelles
Francisco Franco
Spanish general and dictator who ruled from 1939-75
Francisco Javier Arana
Guatemalan politician
Francisco Macías Nguema
Equatoguinean politician, 1st and former President of Equatorial Guinea (1924-1979)
Francisco Morales Bermúdez
Peruvian general and politician
Francisco Xavier do Amaral
Timorese (1937-2012)
François Bozizé
6th President of the Central African Republic
François Duvalier
Former President-Dictator of Haiti
François Hollande
24th President of the French Republic
François Mitterrand
21st President of the French Republic (1981-95)
François Tombalbaye
President of Chad
Fulbert Youlou
President of the Republic of the Congo (1917-1972)
Fulgencio Batista
Cuban politician (1901–1973)
Gaafar Nimeiry
Former President of Sudan
Gabriel González Videla
Chilean politician (1898-1980)
Galo Plaza
President of Ecuador (1948 - 1952)
Gamal Abdel Nasser
2nd President of Egypt (1954-70)
Gaston Flosse
French politician
George Cadle Price
Leader of Belize (1961–1984, 1989–1993)
George F. Kennan
American advisor, diplomat, political scientist and historian
George H. W. Bush
President of the United States from 1989 to 1993
George J. Mitchell
American politician, diplomat, and judge
George McGovern
American politician
George Vassiliou
3rd President of the Republic of Cyprus (1988-1993)
George W. Bush
President of the United States from 2001 to 2009
George Wallace
American politician (1919–1998)
Georges Pompidou
President of France from 1969 to 1974
Georgi Dimitrov
Bulgarian politician
Georgy Malenkov
Soviet politician (1902–1988)
Gerald Ford
President of the United States from 1974 to 1977
Geraldine Ferraro
American lawyer and politician (1935–2011)
Gerhard Schröder
Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005
Gerry Adams
Irish Politician
Giulio Andreotti
Italian politician and political leader; 41st Prime Minister of Italy (1972-73, 1976-79, 1989-92)
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
President of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010
Gnassingbé Eyadéma
20th and 21st-century President of Togo
Goh Chok Tong
2nd Prime Minister of Singapore
Golda Meir
Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada
President of Bolivia
Goodluck Jonathan
President of Nigeria from 2010 to 2015
Gordon Brown
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2010
Gough Whitlam
Australian politician, 21st Prime Minister of Australia
Grégoire Kayibanda
Rwandan politician, 1st and former President of Rwanda
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Norwegian politician
Guillermo Endara
President of Panama (1936-2009)
Guillermo Lasso
President of Ecuador
Gulzarilal Nanda
Two-time Acting Prime Minister of India
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow
President of Turkmenistan
Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
President of Mexico from 1964 to 1970
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla
26th President of Colombia (1900-1975)
Gyanendra of Nepal
Former King of Nepal
H. D. Deve Gowda
Prime Minister of India from 1996 to 1997
Habib Bourguiba
President of Tunisia from 1957 to 1987
Hafez al-Assad
Former President of Syria
Hafizullah Amin
Afghan communist politician (1929–1979)
Haile Selassie
Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
Emir/King of Bahrain since 1999
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
Emir of Qatar from 1995 to 2013
Hamani Diori
President of Niger from 1960 to 1974
Hamid Karzai
President of Afghanistan
Hammer DeRoburt
President of Nauru
Harold Holt
Prime Minister of Australia from 1966 to 1967
Harold Macmillan
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963
Harold Martin (New Caledonian politician)
New Caledonian politician
Harold Wilson
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1964–1970, 1974–1976)
Harry Reid
American politician, former Senate Majority Leader
Harry S. Truman
President of the United States from 1945 to 1953
Hassan Gouled Aptidon
President of Djibouti (1916-2006)
Hassan II of Morocco
King of Morocco from 1961 to 1999
Hassan Rouhani
President of Iran since 2013
Hassanal Bolkiah
Sultan of Brunei
Hastings Banda
First president of Malawi
Hayato Ikeda
Prime Minister of Japan from 1960 to 1964
Helen Clark
37th Prime Minister of New Zealand
Helmut Kohl
Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998
Helmut Schmidt
Chancellor of West Germany (1974–1982)
Hendrik Verwoerd
Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 to 1966
Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
Grand Duke of Luxembourg
Henry Kissinger
American diplomat and scholar (1923–2023)
Henryk Jabłoński
Polish politician
Heydar Aliyev
Soviet-Azerbaijani politician; President of Azerbaijan (1993-2003)
Hibatullah Akhundzada
Supreme leader of Afghanistan since 2021
Hifikepunye Pohamba
2nd president of Namibia
Hillary Clinton
American politician and diplomat (born 1947)
Hirohito
Emperor of Japan from 1926 to 1989
Hissène Habré
5th president of Chad
Ho Chi Minh
Leader of North Vietnam from 1945 to 1969
Horacio Cartes
President of Paraguay from 2013 to 2018
Hosni Mubarak
4th President of Egypt (1981-2011)
Houari Boumédiène
Second President of Algeria
Hu Jintao
General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party from 2002 to 2012
Hu Yaobang
Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China
Hua Guofeng
Leader of China from 1976 to 1978
Hubert Humphrey
38th Vice President of the United States
Hubert Ingraham
Prime Minister of the Bahamas
Hubert Maga
First president of Benin (1916-2000)
Hugo Banzer
51st President of Bolivia
Hugo Chávez
45th president of Venezuela (1999-2013)
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco
26th President of Brazil (1964-67)
Hun Sen
Prime Minister of Cambodia (1985–1993, 1998–2023)
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy
Bengali politician,lawyer and Prime Minister of Pakistan
Hussain Muhammad Ershad
Former President of Bangladesh
Hussein of Jordan
King of Jordan (r. 1952–1999)
Iajuddin Ahmed
Former president of Bangladesh (1931-2012)
Ian Paisley
Northern Irish politician and religious leader
Ian Smith
Prime Minister of Rhodesia from 1964 to 1979
Ibrahim Babangida
Nigerian soldier and statesman
Ibrahim Nasir
Maldivian politician, 2nd president of the Maldives (1922-2008)
Idi Amin
President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979
Idris of Libya
Last King of Libya from 1951-1969
Idriss Déby
6th President of Chad (from 1990–2021)
Ieremia Tabai
I-Kiribati politician
Ilham Aliyev
President of Azerbaijan since 2003
Imelda Marcos
10th First Lady of the Philippines
Imre Nagy
Hungarian politician
Inder Kumar Gujral
12th Prime Minister of India
Indira Gandhi
Prime Minister of India from 1966 to 1977 and 1980 to 1984
Ion Iliescu
President of Romania (1990–1996, 2000–2004)
Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa
Emir of Bahrain from 1961 to 1999
Isabel Perón
36th President of Argentina (1974-76)
Isaias Afwerki
President of Eritrea since 1993
Islam Karimov
President of Uzbekistan from 1991 to 2016
Ismaïl Omar Guelleh
President of Djibouti (1999-present)
İsmet İnönü
Turkish politician (1884–1973)
Itamar Franco
33rd President of Brazil
Iván Duque
33rd President of Colombia
J. R. Jayewardene
President of Sri Lanka from 1978 to 1989
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
Emir of Kuwait from 1977 to 2006
Jacinda Ardern
Prime Minister of New Zealand from 2017 to 2023
Jacob Zuma
President of South Africa from 2009 to 2018
Jacobo Árbenz
President of Guatemala from 1951–54
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
35th First Lady of the United States
Jacques Chirac
President of France from 1995 to 2007
Jacques Delors
French politician
Jacques Santer
Prime Minister of Luxembourg
Jaime Lusinchi
Venezuelan Politician (1924-2014)
Jaime Roldós Aguilera
33rd President of Ecuador (1979-81)
Jair Bolsonaro
President of Brazil
Jalal Talabani
6th president of Iraq
James Callaghan
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979
James Mancham
President of Seychelles
Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar
Sultan of Zanzibar
Janet Jagan
President of Guyana, Prime Minister of Guyana, nurse
Jang Song-thaek
North Korean government official (1946–2013)
Jânio Quadros
Former President of Brazil
János Kádár
Former General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
5th Secretary-General of the United Nations
Jawaharlal Nehru
First Prime Minister of India
Jean Chrétien
22nd Prime Minister of Canada
Jean Monnet
French political economist regarded by as a chief architect of European unity (1888-1979)
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 1964 to 2000
Jean-Bédel Bokassa
Central African politician
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Haitian priest and politician; President of Haiti (1991, 1994-96, 2001-04)
Jean-Claude Duvalier
President of Haiti from 1971 to 1986
Jean-Claude Juncker
Luxembourgish and European Union politician (born 1954)
Jean-Marie Le Pen
French politician (1928–2025)
Jerry Brown
Governor of California (1975–1983; 2011–2019)
Jerry Rawlings
Fourth President of the Republic of Ghana
Jesse Helms
American politician
Jiang Qing
Chinese Political Figure
Jiang Zemin
General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party from 1989 to 2002
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck
King of Bhutan
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
King of Bhutan
Jigme Singye Wangchuck
King Father of Bhutan
Jimmy Carter
President of the United States from 1977 to 1981
João Bernardo Vieira
2nd President of Guinea-Bissau (1984-99, 2005-09)
João Figueiredo
The 30th President of Brazil
João Goulart
President of Brazil from 1961 to 1964
Joaquim Chissano
2nd President of Mozambique
Joaquín Balaguer
President of the Dominican Republic (1906-2002)
Joe Biden
President of the United States from 2021 to 2025
Joh Bjelke-Petersen
Australian politician
Johan Ferrier
1st President of Suriname
John Compton
1st and former Prime Minister of Saint Lucia
John Diefenbaker
Prime Minister of Canada from 1957 to 1963
John Dingell
American politician
John F. Kennedy
President of the United States from 1961 to 1963
John Foster Dulles
United States Secretary of State (1888–1959)
John Gorton
Prime Minister of Australia from 1968 to 1971
John Howard
Australian politician
John Hume
Former leader of the SDLP
John Kerry
68th U.S. Secretary of State
John Key
38th Prime Minister of New Zealand
John Major
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1990 to 1997
John McCain
American statesman and military officer
John Swan (Bermudian politician)
Bermudian political figure (born 1935)
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi
Military head of state of Nigeria in 1966
Joko Widodo
President of Indonesia from 2014 to 2024
Jomo Kenyatta
President of Kenya from 1964 to 1978
Joop den Uyl
45th Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Jorge Rafael Videla
37th President of Argentina
José Alencar
Vice President of Brazil from 2003 to 2011
José Eduardo dos Santos
Angolan politician
José Figueres Ferrer
32nd, 34th, and 38th President of Costa Rica
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
Spanish politician
José María Aznar
Spanish politician
José María Velasco Ibarra
Presidente de Ecuador (1934- 1935) / (1944 - 1947) / (1952 - 1956) / (1960 - 1961) / (1968 - 1972)
José Mujica
Uruguayan farmer and politician
José Napoleón Duarte
President of El Salvador (1925-1990)
José Ramos-Horta
4th President of East Timor (2007-2012)
José Sarney
President of Brazil from 1985 to 1990
Joseph Kabila
President of the DR Congo from 2001 to 2019
Joseph McCarthy
American politician
Josip Broz Tito
Leader of Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1980
Joyce Banda
Malawian politician
Józef Cyrankiewicz
Polish politician
Juan Carlos I
Former King of Spain
Juan Carlos Onganía
30th President of Argentina
Juan Guaidó
Venezuelan politician and engineer
Juan José Arévalo
Guatemalan politician
Juan José Torres
Bolivian socialist politician and President from 1970 to 1971
Juan Manuel Santos
32nd President of Colombia
Juan María Bordaberry
Uruguayan politician and rancher (1928-2011)
Juan Perón
24th and 35th President of Argentina
Juan Velasco Alvarado
President of Peru (1910-1977)
Julia Gillard
Australian politician and lawyer, 27th Prime Minister of Australia
Juliana of the Netherlands
Queen of the Netherlands
Julio María Sanguinetti
35st and 37st President of Uruguay
Julius Nyerere
President of Tanzania from 1964 to 1985
Junichiro Koizumi
Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006
Juscelino Kubitschek
President of Brazil from 1956 to 1961
Justin Trudeau
Prime Minister of Canada from 2015 to 2025
Juvénal Habyarimana
2nd President of Rwanda from 1973 until assassinated in 1994
K. R. Narayanan
The 10th President of India
Kamal Hossain
Bangladeshi politician
Kamala Harris
Vice president of the United States since 2021
Kamisese Mara
President of Fiji
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
President of Kazakhstan since 2019
Kaysone Phomvihane
First General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (r. 1955-1992)
Keir Starmer
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 2024
Keith Holyoake
20th-century Governor-General, Prime Minister of New Zealand, politician
Kennedy Simmonds
Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis
Kenneth Kaunda
First President of Zambia
Kevin Rudd
26th Prime Minister of Australia
Kgalema Motlanthe
3rd President of South Africa
Khaleda Zia
Former prime minister of Bangladesh, chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-BNP
Khalid of Saudi Arabia
King of Saudi Arabia (1975—1982)
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
2nd Ra'is of the United Arab Emirates
Khawaja Nazimuddin
Bengali politician and Prime Minister of Pakistan (1894-1964)
Kim Campbell
19th Prime Minister of Canada
Kim Dae-jung
8th President of South Korea (1998-2003)
Kim Il Sung
Founder and first leader of North Korea
Kim Jong Il
Second supreme leader of North Korea
Kim Jong Un
Leader of North Korea since 2011
Kim Jong-nam
Brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un
Kim Seong-su
South Korean educator, activist, journalist, entrepreneur and politician (1891-1955)
Kim Yo Jong
North Korean politician (born 1987)
Kim Yong-nam
Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly
Kim Young-sam
President of South Korea from 1993 to 1998
Klement Gottwald
5th President of Czechoslovakia
Kofi Annan
Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006
Konrad Adenauer
German statesman, Federal Chancellor of Germany, politician (CDU)
Konstantin Chernenko
1984–1985 General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Konstantinos Karamanlis
Greek politician (1907–1998)
Kukrit Pramoj
Thai politician (1911-1995)
Kurmanbek Bakiyev
20th and 21st-century Kyrgyzstani politician
Kurt Georg Kiesinger
Chancellor of West Germany from 1966–1969
Kurt Waldheim
4th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1972-81), President of Austria (1986-92)
Kwame Nkrumah
President of Ghana from 1960 to 1966
Lal Bahadur Shastri
2nd prime minister of India
Lansana Conté
20th and 21st-century President of Guinea
Laura Chinchilla
46th President of Costa Rica
Laurent Gbagbo
President of Côte d'Ivoire from 2000 to 2011
Laurent-Désiré Kabila
President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1997–2001
Lê Đức Thọ
Vietnamese diplomat (1911–1990)
Lech Kaczyński
Polish politician, democratic oppositionist, ministry of justice, president of Poland
Lech Wałęsa
President of Poland from 1990 to 1995
Lee Hsien Loong
3rd Prime Minister of Singapore
Lee Kuan Yew
Prime Minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990
Lee Myung-bak
17th President of South Korea
Lee Teng-hui
President of Taiwan from 1988 to 2000
Lenín Moreno
46th President of Ecuador
León Febres Cordero
President of Ecuador (1984-1988)
Léon M'ba
Prime Minister of Gabon (1959-61), 1st President of Gabon (1961-67)
Leonid Brezhnev
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1964–1982
Leonid Kravchuk
President of Ukraine from 1991 to 1994
Leonid Kuchma
Second president of Ukraine
Léopold Sédar Senghor
First president of Senegal, poet, and cultural theorist (1906-2001)
Leopoldo Galtieri
40th President of Argentina
Leslie Goonewardene
Sri Lankan politician
Lester B. Pearson
14th Prime Minister of Canada
Letsie III
King of Lesotho
Leung Chun-ying
Chinese politician
Levon Ter-Petrosyan
Armenian politician
Li Peng
Former Premier of the People's Republic of China (1928–2019)
Li Xiannian
Former President of the People's Republic of China
Liaquat Ali Khan
First Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Lidia Gueiler
56th President of Bolivia
Liu Shaoqi
2nd President of the People's Republic of China (1898–1969)
Louis St. Laurent
12th Prime Minister of Canada
Lu Wei (politician)
Chinese politician
Lucina da Costa Gomez-Matheeuws
Dutch politician
Ludwig Erhard
German politician
Luis Carlos Galán
Colombian politician (1943-1989)
Luis Echeverría
57th president of Mexico
Luis Herrera Campins
President of Venezuela
Luis Muñoz Marín
First elected governor of Puerto Rico (1949–1965)
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
President of Brazil (2003–2011, 2023–present)
Lynden Pindling
Bahamian politician (1930-2000)
Lyndon B. Johnson
President of the United States from 1963 to 1969
Lyudvig Chibirov
South Ossetian politician; former President of South Ossetia (born 1938)
Ma Ying-jeou
President of Taiwan from 2008 to 2016
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya
President of Mauritania from 1984 to 2005
Mahathir Mohamad
Prime Minister of Malaysia (1981–2003, 2018–2020)
Mahendra of Nepal
King of Nepal from 1955 to 1972
Mahmoud Abbas
President of Palestine since 2005
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
President of Iran from 2005 to 2013
Makarios III
Archbishop of Cyprus from 1950 to 1977 and 1st President of Cyprus
Malcolm Fraser
Australian politician
Malcolm Turnbull
29th Prime Minister of Australia
Malietoa Tanumafili II
Malietoa in Samoa (1913-2007)
Manmohan Singh
Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014
Manuel Noriega
Former Panamanian military head of state
Manuel Pinto da Costa
1st President of São Tomé and Príncipe
Manuel Roxas
First President of the Philippines
Manuel Urrutia Lleó
President of Cuba from January to July 1959
Manuel Zelaya
Honduran politician
Mao Zedong
Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
Marcos Pérez Jiménez
Venezuelan military officer and dictator of Venezuela (1950-58)
Margaret Chase Smith
American politician
Margaret Thatcher
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990
Margot Honecker
East German politician (1927-2016)
Maria Zakharova
Russian diplomat and journalist
Mariano Rajoy
Former Prime Minister of Spain
Marine Le Pen
French politician
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First Minister of Wales from 2018 to 2024
Martin McGuinness
Irish republican politician and IRA leader (1950–2017)
Martín Vizcarra
Former Peruvian president
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President of Ireland from 1997 to 2011
Mathieu Kérékou
Beninese politician
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Japanese journalist and media mogul
Mátyás Rákosi
Hungarian Communist leader
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom
3rd President of the Maldives from 1978 to 2008
Maurice Yaméogo
Former president of Burkina Faso
Mauricio Funes
Salvadoran politician
Mauricio Macri
President of Argentina from 2015 to 2019
Megawati Sukarnoputri
President of Indonesia from 2001 to 2004
Meles Zenawi
Prime Minister of Ethiopia from 1995 to 2012
Menachem Begin
6th Prime Minister of Israel (1977-83)
Menen Asfaw
Empress consort of Ethiopia
Mengistu Haile Mariam
Leader of Ethiopia from 1977 to 1991
Mia Mottley
Prime Minister of Barbados
Michael Manley
4th Prime Minister of Jamaica
Michael Somare
Papua New Guinean politician
Michaëlle Jean
27th Governor General of Canada
Michel Martelly
President of Haiti, musician
Michel Micombero
First President of Burundi
Michel Temer
37th president of Brazil
Michelle Bachelet
President of Chile from 2006 to 2010 and 2014 to 2018
Michelle Obama
Former First Lady of the United States
Miguel de la Madrid
59th president of Mexico
Miguel Díaz-Canel
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and 17th president of Cuba
Mikhail Fradkov
Russian politician
Mikhail Gorbachev
Leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991
Mikhail Mishustin
Current Prime Minister of Russia
Mikheil Saakashvili
Georgian-Ukrainian politician, former President of Georgia and former Governor of Odessa
Milton Cato
Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1915-1997)
Milton Margai
Sierra Leonean politician (1895-1964)
Milton Obote
Ugandan politician
Mireya Moscoso
President of Panama from 1999 to 2004
Mitch McConnell
American politician and lawyer (born 1942)
Mitt Romney
American senator from Utah
Mobutu Sese Seko
President of DR Congo and Zaire from 1965 to 1997
Modibo Keïta
Malian politician and President of Mali (1915-1977)
Mohamed Abdelaziz (Sahrawi politician)
Sahrawi politician
Mohamed Amin Didi
1st president of the Maldives (1910–1954)
Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi
Mohamed ElBaradei
Egyptian law scholar and diplomat, former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
Mohamed Morsi
President of Egypt from 2012 to 2013
Mohamed Naguib
First President of Egypt
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz
President of Mauritania from 2009 to 2019
Mohammad Ali Bogra
Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1953 to 1955
Mohammad Daoud Khan
Afghan military officer and politician
Mohammad Khatami
President of Iran from 1997 to 2005
Mohammad Mosaddegh
Prime Minister of Iran in the 1950s
Mohammad Najibullah
Leader of Afghanistan from 1986 to 1992
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Shah of Iran from 1941 to 1979
Mohammad Zahir Shah
King of Afghanistan from 1933 to 1973
Mohammad-Ali Rajai
President of Iran in 1981
Mohammad-Javad Bahonar
Iranian politician (1933-1981)
Mohammed bin Salman
Saudi crown prince and minister of defence
Mohammed V of Morocco
Former king of Morocco (1909-1961)
Mohammed VI of Morocco
King of Morocco since 1999
Moktar Ould Daddah
Mauritanian politician
Moon Jae-in
President of South Korea from 2017 to 2022
Morarji Desai
Prime Minister of India from 1977 to 1979
Moshe Katsav
Israeli politician
Moshe Sharett
2nd Prime Minister of Israel from 1954 to 1955
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho
King of Lesotho (1966–90; 1995–96)
Moussa Traoré
Malian former dictator (1936-2020)
Mswati III
King of Eswatini
Muammar Gaddafi
Libyan revolutionary and politician (c.1942–2011)
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Founder and 1st Governor-General of Pakistan (1876–1948)
Muhammad Fareed Didi
Sultan of Maldives
Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i
1st president of Iraq
Muhammadu Buhari
Nigerian head of state, 1983–85 and 2015–2023
Mullah Omar
Afghan militant leader (1960–2013)
Murray MacLehose, Baron MacLehose of Beoch
British politician
Murtala Muhammed
Former Nigerian Army general and head of state (1938–1976)
Mutesa II of Buganda
Kabaka of the Kingdom of Buganda from 1939 to 1969
Najib Razak
Prime Minister of Malaysia from 2009 to 2018
Nancy Pelosi
American politician (born 1940)
Nancy Reagan
American actress and First Lady of the United States
Narendra Modi
Prime Minister of India since 2014
Naruhito
Emperor of Japan since 2019
Natalia Poklonskaya
Deputy of the State Duma
Nawaz Sharif
Prime Minister of Pakistan (1990–1993; 1997–1999; 2013–2017)
Ne Win
20th-century Burmese politician and general
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
President of India from 1978 to 1982
Negasso Gidada
Ethiopian politician
Nelson Mandela
President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999
Nelson Rockefeller
41st Vice President of the United States
Néstor Kirchner
President of Argentina
Newt Gingrich
50th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
Ngo Dinh Diem
20th-century President of the Republic of Vietnam
Nguyễn Khánh
20th-century South Vietnamese military officer
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu
President of South Vietnam from 1965–75
Nicola Sturgeon
First Minister of Scotland from 2014 to 2023
Nicolae Ceaușescu
Leader of Romania from 1965 to 1989
Nicolás Maduro
46th President of Venezuela
Nicolas Sarkozy
23rd president of France
Nicolau dos Reis Lobato
Prime Minister of East Timor
Nigel Farage
British politician (born 1964)
Nikita Khrushchev
1950–1964 First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Nikolai Podgorny
Soviet politician (1903-1983)
Nikolai Shvernik
Soviet politician, chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1888–1970)
Ninoy Aquino
Filipino Senator and a former Governor of Tarlac
Nnamdi Azikiwe
Nigerian statesman (1904-1996)
Nobusuke Kishi
56th and 57th Prime Minister of Japan (1896-1987)
Norman Manley
Chief Minister of Jamaica (1893-1969)
Norodom Sihamoni
King of Cambodia since 2004
Norodom Sihanouk
King of Cambodia (1941–1955; 1993–2004)
Nouri al-Maliki
Prime Minister of Iraq from 2006 to 2014
Nur Muhammad Taraki
Former president of Afghanistan
Nursultan Nazarbayev
Chairman of the Security Council of Kazakhstan
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson
Icelandic politician
Olusegun Obasanjo
Former president of Nigeria and elder statesman
Omar al-Bashir
President of Sudan from 1989 to 2019
Omar Ali Saifuddien III
Sultan of Brunei from 1950 to 1967
Omar Bongo
President of Gabon
Omar Torrijos
Panamanian dictator who ruled Panama 1968–1981
Orrin Hatch
American politician
Óscar Arias
President of Costa Rica (1986–1990, 2006–2010)
Oswaldo López Arellano
President of Honduras (1921-2010)
Owen Arthur
Barbadian politician
P. J. Patterson
Former prime minister of Jamaica, Jamaican politician
P. V. Narasimha Rao
Prime Minister of India from 1991 to 1996
P. W. Botha
Leader of South Africa from 1978 to 1989
Paolo Gentiloni
Italian politician
Park Chung Hee
Leader of South Korea from 1961 to 1979
Park Geun-hye
Eighteenth President of South Korea
Park Won-soon
South Korean politician (1955–2020)
Patricio Aylwin
Chilean politician
Paul Biya
President of Cameroon since 1982
Paul Kagame
6th President of Rwanda
Paul Keating
Prime Minister of Australia from 1991 to 1996
Paul Martin
21st Prime Minister of Canada
Paul Scoon
2nd Governor-General of Grenada
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
Peruvian politician and economist; Prime Minister (2005-06), President (2016-18)
Pedro Pires
President of Cape Verde from 2001 to 2011
Pedro Sánchez
Prime Minister of Spain since 2018
Pervez Musharraf
Army general who became 10th President of Pakistan after a military coup d'etat
Peter Kenilorea
Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands (1943-2016)
Peter Lougheed
Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985
Peter O'Neill
Papua New Guinean politician
Peter Tali Coleman
American Samoa politician (1919–1997)
Petro Poroshenko
President of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019
Philibert Tsiranana
First President of Madagascar (1959 - 1972)
Philip Noel-Baker
British athlete and politician
Pierre Nkurunziza
Burundian politician and former president
Pierre Trudeau
Prime Minister of Canada (1968–1979; 1980–1984)
Pol Pot
20th-century Cambodian Communist revolutionary and politician
Portia Simpson-Miller
Jamaican politician
Poul Schlüter
Prime Minister of Denmark from 1982 to 1993
Pranab Mukherjee
13th President of India (1935–2020)
Pratibha Patil
12th President of India
Prayut Chan-o-cha
Thai politician, current Prime Minister of Thailand
Prem Tinsulanonda
Prime Minister of Thailand from 1980 to 1988
Prince George of Wales
British prince (born 2013)
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
Member of the British royal family
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Consort of Queen Elizabeth II from 1952 to 2021
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat
1st President of Mongolia (1990-97)
Pushpa Kamal Dahal
Nepalese politician and former prime minister
Qaboos bin Said
Sultan of Oman from 1970 to 2020
Qahhor Mahkamov
Soviet politician, then president of Tajikistan (1990–1991)
Queen Rania of Jordan
Queen consort of Jordan
Rafael Caldera
Venezuelan politician, twice President of Venezuela
Rafael Correa
President of Ecuador from 2007 to 2017
Rafic Hariri
Former Prime Minister of Lebanon
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco
Prince of Monaco from 1949 to 2005
Rajendra Prasad
President of India from 1950 to 1962
Rajiv Gandhi
Prime Minister of India from 1984 to 1989
Ram Baran Yadav
First President of Nepal
Ramón Grau
Two-time president of Cuba (1881 - 1969)
Ramón José Velásquez
Venezuelan politician; President of Venezuela (1993-1994)
Ramon Magsaysay
7th President of the Philippines
Ramón Villeda Morales
President of Honduras (1909-1971)
Ramzan Kadyrov
Head of Chechen Republic since 2007
Rashid Karami
Lebanese politician
Rauf Denktaş
Founding President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
Raúl Alfonsín
President of Argentina from 1983 to 1989
Raúl Castro
Leader of Cuba from 2008 to 2021
Raúl Leoni
President of Venezuela (1964-1969)
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
President of Turkey since 2014
René Barrientos
47th President of Bolivia
René Coty
17th President of the French Republic
René Lévesque
23rd Premier of Quebec (1976–1985)
Reynaldo Bignone
42nd President of Argentina
Riad Al Solh
Lebanese politician (1894–1951)
Ricardo Lagos
Chilean politician
Richard J. Daley
American politician
Richard Nixon
President of the United States from 1969 to 1974
Richard Russell Jr.
66th Governor of Georgia (1931–1933), U.S. Senator from Georgia (1933–1971)
Robert Byrd
American politician
Robert F. Kennedy
20th-century American politician and brother of John F. Kennedy
Robert Kocharyan
Armenian politician
Robert McNamara
American businessman and government official (1916–2009)
Robert Menzies
12th Prime Minister of Australia (1894-1978)
Robert Mugabe
President of Zimbabwe from 1987 to 2017
Robert Muldoon
31st Prime Minister of New Zealand
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos
Ecuadorian politician
Rodrigo Duterte
President of the Philippines from 2016 to 2022
Roh Moo-hyun
President of South Korea from 2003 to 2008
Rómulo Betancourt
President of Venezuela
Ron Paul
American politician (born 1935)
Ronald Reagan
President of the United States from 1981 to 1989
Ross Perot
American businessman and politician (1930–2019)
Ruhollah Khomeini
Supreme Leader of Iran from 1979 to 1989
Ruth Williams Khama
First Lady of Botswana (1923-2002)
Ruud Lubbers
47th Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah
Emir of Kuwait in 2006
Sabah Al-Salim Al-Sabah
12th Ruler of Kuwait and 2nd Emir of the State of Kuwait
Saddam Hussein
President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003
Said bin Taimur
Sultan of Oman
Salah al-Din al-Bitar
Syrian politician (1912-1980)
Salman of Saudi Arabia
King of Saudi Arabia since 2015
Salva Kiir Mayardit
President of South Sudan (2011-present)
Salvador Allende
28th president of Chile (1908–1973)
Salvador Sánchez Cerén
President of El Salvador (2014-2019)
Sam Hinds
5th Prime Minister of Guyana
Sam Nujoma
1st President of Namibia
Samuel Doe
21st President of Liberia
Sani Abacha
Military head of state of Nigeria from 1993 to 1998
Sao Shwe Thaik
First President of Burma and Last Saopha of Yawnghwe
Saparmurat Niyazov
Turkmen politician
Sarah Palin
9th Governor of Alaska
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
President of India from 1962 to 1967
Saud of Saudi Arabia
King of Saudi Arabia between 1953 and 1964
Scott Morrison
Prime Minister of Australia from 2018 to 2022
Sebastián Piñera
Chilean politician and businessman
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam
Prime Minister of Mauritius from 1968 to 1982
Serdar Berdimuhamedow
3rd President of Turkmenistan since 2022
Seretse Khama
First President of Botswana (1921–1980)
Serzh Sargsyan
3rd President of Armenia
Shavkat Mirziyoyev
President of Uzbekistan since 2016
Shehu Shagari
President of Nigeria (1925–2018)
Sheikh Hasina
Current Prime Minister of Bangladesh
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Bangladeshi politician and revolutionary (1920–1975)
Sher Bahadur Deuba
Nepalese politician and former Prime Minister of Nepal
Shigeru Yoshida
Prime minister of Japan (1878–1967)
Shimon Peres
Israeli politician who served as Prime Minister and then President of Israel (1923-2016)
Shintaro Ishihara
Japanese politician and author, Governor of Tokyo
Shinzo Abe
Prime Minister of Japan (2006–2007, 2012–2020)
Shirley Chisholm
American politician
Shukri al-Quwatli
President of Syria (1891–1967)
Siad Barre
President of Somalia from 1969 to 1991
Siaka Stevens
Leader of Sierra Leone from 1967-85
Silvio Berlusconi
Italian politician and media tycoon
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Sri Lankan politician
Sisavang Vatthana
Last monarch of the Kingdom of Laos (reigned 1959-75)
Sitiveni Rabuka
Former Prime Minister of Fiji
Sixto Durán Ballén
President of Ecuador from 1992 to 1996
Slobodan Milošević
Yugoslav and Serbian politician (1941–2006)
Solomon Mamaloni
Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands (1943-2000)
Sonia Gandhi
Indian politician
Soong Ching-ling
Chinese political figure
Souphanouvong
Laotian politician
Spiro Agnew
39th Vice President of the United States
Spyros Kyprianou
2nd President of the Republic of Cyprus (1932–2002)
Stephen Harper
22nd prime minister of Canada
Strom Thurmond
American politician (1902–2003)
Suharto
President of Indonesia from 1967 to 1998
Sukarno
President of Indonesia from 1945 to 1967
Süleyman Demirel
President of Turkey from 1993 to 2000
Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi
Member of the Supreme Council of the United Arab Emirates
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
President of Indonesia from 2004 to 2014
Sveinn Björnsson
Icelandic politician, 1st President of Iceland
Sylvanus Olympio
20th-century President of Togo
Syngman Rhee
President of South Korea from 1948 to 1960
Tabaré Vázquez
President of Uruguay (2005–2010; 2015–2020)
Tadeusz Mazowiecki
Polish politician and prime minister (1927-2013)
Tajuddin Ahmad
Bangladeshi politician and First Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1925-1975)
Talal of Jordan
King of Jordan
Tancredo Neves
Brazilian politician (1910–1985)
Tansu Çiller
Turkish politician, who has been the first female prime minister of the country
Tarō Asō
Japanese politician
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV
King of Tonga from 1965 to 2006
Ted Kennedy
American senator from Massachusetts
Ted Stevens
Republican U.S. Senator from Alaska
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo
President of Equatorial Guinea since 1982
Thabo Mbeki
South African politician, President of South Africa
Thaksin Shinawatra
Prime Minister of Thailand from 2001 to 2006
Than Shwe
Burmese senior general, commander in chief of all armed forces and Prime Minister
Thein Sein
Thein Sein, the 8th President of Myanmar from 2011 to 2016
Theresa May
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2016 to 2019
Thomas E. Dewey
American politician
Thomas Playford IV
20th-century Australian politician and fruit grower
Thomas Remengesau Jr.
President of Palau
Tip O'Neill
American politician (1912–1994)
Todor Zhivkov
Former General Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party
Tommy Douglas
7th Premier of Saskatchewan (1944–1961)
Tôn Đức Thắng
President of North Vietnam (1888-1980)
Tony Abbott
Prime Minister of Australia from 2013 to 2015
Tony Blair
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007
Tosiwo Nakayama
President of Federated States of Micronesia (1931-2007)
Trygve Lie
1st Secretary-General of the United Nations
Tsai Ing-wen
Taiwanese politician; 18th President of Taiwan
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi
Prime Minister of Samoa
Tung Chee-hwa
Politician and businessman from Hong Kong
Tunku Abdul Rahman
Prime Minister of Malaysia from 1957 to 1970
Turgut Özal
8th president of Turkey
U Thant
Third Secretary-General of the United Nations
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua
President of Nigeria (2007-2010)
Urho Kekkonen
Finnish politician (1900–1982)
Ursula von der Leyen
President of the European Commission
V. P. Singh
Founder Janata Dal
Václav Havel
Czech statesman, writer, and former dissident (1936–2011)
Vajiralongkorn
King of Thailand
Valdas Adamkus
6th President of Lithuania
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
President of France from 1974 to 1981
Vallabhbhai Patel
Indian independence activist (1875–1950)
Vere Bird
Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda (1910-1999)
Vicente Fox
62nd president of Mexico
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
Icelandic politician
Viktor Chernomyrdin
Prime Minister of Russia from 1992 to 1998
Viktor Orbán
Hungarian politician, chairman of Fidesz; Prime Minister of Hungary (2010-present)
Viktor Yanukovych
Politician (born 1950)
Viktor Zubkov
Prime Minister of Russia From 2007 to 2008
Vincent Auriol
President of France from 1947 to 1954
Vincent Massey
18th Governor General of Canada (served from 1952-1959)
Violeta Chamorro
President of Nicaragua from 1990 to 1997
Virgilio Barco Vargas
President of Colombia (1986-1990)
Vladimir Putin
President of Russia (1999–2008, 2012–present)
Vladislav Ardzinba
Soviet-Abkhaz politician; President of Abkhazia (1945-2010)
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
6th President of Ukraine since 2019, actor, director and film producer
Walter Lini
Anglican priest and politician (1942-1999)
Walter Mondale
42nd vice president of the United States (1928–2021)
Walter Ulbricht
German communist politician
Wen Jiabao
Premier of China from 2003 to 2013
Willem Drees
37th Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
King of the Netherlands since 2013
William Gopallawa
Sri Lankan President (1897-1981)
William McMahon
Prime Minister of Australia from 1971 to 1972
William Tolbert
President of Liberia 1971–1980
William Tubman
Former President of Liberia
William, Prince of Wales
Heir apparent to the British throne (born 1982)
Willy Brandt
German politician and statesman
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Polish military and political official, leader of Poland (1981-1989)
Xi Jinping
General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
Yahya Jammeh
President of the Gambia from 1996 to 2017
Yahya Khan
President of Pakistan from 1969 to 1971
Yakubu Gowon
Nigerian soldier and statesman
Yang Shangkun
Former President of the People's Republic of China
Yasser Arafat
President of Palestine from 1989 to 2004
Yasuhiro Nakasone
Japanese politician
Ye Jianying
Former Head of State of the People's Republic of China (1897-1986)
Yingluck Shinawatra
Prime Minister of Thailand from 2011 to 2014
Yitzhak Rabin
Prime Minister of Israel (1974–1977; 1992–1995)
Yitzhak Shamir
Israeli politician; Prime Minister of Israel (1983-1984, 1986-1992)
Yoshihide Suga
99th Prime Minister of Japan
Yoweri Museveni
President of Uganda
Yulia Tymoshenko
Former Prime Minister of Ukraine
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal
Prime Minister of Mongolia from 26 January 1952 to 11 June 1974 and President of Mongolia from 11 June 1974 to 8 August 1984
Yun Po-sun
President of South Korea from 1960 to 1962
Yuri Andropov
Leader of the Soviet Union from 1982 to 1984
Zakir Husain
President of India from 1967 to 1969
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
Sheikh of Abu Dhabi
Zhao Ziyang
Former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
Zhou Enlai
Chinese politician (1898–1976)
Zhu Rongji
Retired Chinese politician
Zia-ul-Haq
Sixth President of Pakistan from 1978 to 1988 (1924–1988)
Ziaur Rahman
Former President of Bangladesh
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
President of Tunisia from 1987 to 2011
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
4th President and 9th Prime Minister of Pakistan (1928–1979)