Famous Political Leaders

• Abe, Shinzo

  Prime Minister of Japan, 2006-07 and 2012-present

• al-Assad, Bashar

   The president of Syria, 2000-24

• Amin, Idi

  The dictator of Uganda, 1971-79

• Arias, Oscar

  The Nobel Prize-winning president of Costa Rica

• Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal

  The father of modern Turkey

• Batista, Fulgencio

  The Cuban president overthrown by Castro

• Ben Bella, Ahmed

  Co-founder of FLN and first elected president of Algeria, 1963-65

• Berlusconi, Silvio

   Italian prime minister between 1994 and 2011

• Bolívar, Simón

  el Libertador of 19th-century South America

• Calderón, Felipe

  The president of Mexico, 2006-12

• Castro, Fidel

  Marxist revolutionary leader of Cuba, 1959-2008

• Chavez, Hugo

  President of Venezuela, 1999-2013

• Cromwell, Oliver

  Lord Protector of England, 1653-58

• Duterte, Rodrigo

  16th president of The Philippines, 2016-present

• Duvalier, François "Papa Doc"

  The all-powerful President of Haiti, 1957-71

• Gaddafi, Muammar

  Dictator of Libya, 1969-2011

• Gandhi, Mohandas

  Non-violent leader of Indian independence

• Goh Chok Tong

  Prime Minister of Singapore, 1990-2004

• Havel, Václav

  The dissident who became the first president of the Czech Republic

• Hitler, Adolf

  The leader of Nazi Germany during World War II

• Hussein, King

  The ruler of Jordan from 1953-1999

• Hussein, Saddam

  Leader of Iraq, 1979-2003

• Jinping, Xi

  President of China, 2013-present

• Kaiser Wilhelm II

  The ruler of Germany during World War I

• Khrushchev, Nikita

  Leader of the USSR, 1956-64

• Lenin, Vladimir

  Founder of Bolshevism and the force behind the Russian revolution

• Livni, Tzipi

  The leader of Israel's Kadima party, 2008-present

• Lula

  President of Brazil, 2002-2010 and 2022-present

• Mankiller, Wilma

  The first woman Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation

• Marcos, Ferdinand

  President of The Philippines, 1965-1986

• Marcos, Subcommander

  Rebel leader of Mexico's EZLN

• Merkel, Angela

  The Chancellor of Germany, 2005-present

• Milosevic, Slobodan

  President of Serbia, 1989-1997

• Morales, Evo

  President of Bolivia, 2006-present

• Morsi, Mohammed

   President of Egypt, 2012-present

• Mugabe, Robert

   The leader of Zimbabwe from 1980-2017

• Mussolini, Benito

  Italy's dictator during World War II

• Nasser, Gamal Abdel

  Leader of Egypt, 1956-70

• Noriega, Manuel

  The Panamanian dictator arrested by the U.S.A.

• Ortega, Daniel

  President of Nicaragua, 1985-90, 2007-present

• Paisley, Ian

  Protestant preacher and Northern Ireland politician

• Pinochet, Augusto

  Dictator, then president of Chile, 1973-1990

• Pol Pot

  Ruthless Cambodian communist leader of the 1970s

• Préval, René

  President of Haiti, 1996-2000, 2006-present

• Raffles, Sir Thomas Stamford

  Founder of Singapore

• Rousseff, Dilma

  The president of Brazil who was impeached and ousted in 2016

• Saakashvili, Mikheil

  President of Georgia since 2004

• Sadat, Anwar

  President of Egypt, 1970-81

• Senghor, Leopold

  The French poet who was Senegal's first president

• Shah of Iran

  The Shah of Iran, 1941-1979

• Stalin, Joseph

  The dictatorial leader of the U.S.S.R. from 1928 to 1953

• Sturgeon, Nicola

  First Minister of Scotland, 2014-present

• Sukarno

  President of Indonesia, 1945-67

• Taylor, Charles

  The president of Liberia who was convicted of war crimes 

• Tito, Josip Broz

   The leader of Yugoslavia, 1943-80

• Xioping, Deng

  Leader of China, 1978-89

• Yeltsin, Boris

  The first post-Gorbachev president of Russia

• Yew, Lee Kuan

  The first prime minister of modern Singapore

• Zedong, Mao

  Head of the People's Republic of China, 1949-76

• Zelensky, Volodymyr

  The comedian who became President of Ukraine

• Zemin, Jiang

  President of the People's Republic of China, 1993-2003

See: Index by Occupation