Famous Politicians: Ranked by Popularity (Page 16 of 30) | Who Shares My BirthdayThe most famous politicians in history, ranked by historical popularity: leaders and reformers with their birthdays, nationality and legacy.A politician becomes notable through the power they held and the change they left behind. That includes presidents and prime ministers, revolutionaries and reformers, and some leaders remembered mainly for the harm they caused. Being on this list is a measure of how widely someone is known, not a judgement of their record.This list covers heads of state and government, ministers, legislators and political activists in our database, across every century we cover. We rank them by historical popularity, so the order reflects how much the world still reads about each person today.Who is included: everyone in our database whose primary occupation matches this list. Each person must have an English Wikipedia article and a full date of birth recorded on Wikidata. A growing share of people also have an original profile, written to our editorial rules and marked with a Last reviewed date.Most famous politician: Donald Trump. Highest historical popularity score (HPI 99.3).Most common birth month: October. 136 of 1,474 were born in October.Living vs deceased: 687 / 787. 47% are still living.Most common nationality: American. 177 people, 12% of the list.Editor-written profiles: 304. 21% have a full original profile so far.751. Andrés Manuel López Obrador (1953), Mexican: Founder of the Morena party who won Mexico's presidency in 2018 on an anti-corruption platform.752. Raúl Alfonsín (1927–2009), Argentine: Restored civilian democracy in Argentina as president after military rule, and oversaw the trials of the generals who led the junta.753. Milorad Dodik (1959), Herzegovinian: Long-dominant Bosnian Serb leader who served as president of Republika Srpska until being removed from that office in 2025.754. Oswald Mosley (1896–1980), British: Founder of the British Union of Fascists in the 1930s.755. Jorge Sampaio (1939–2021), Portuguese: Socialist Party leader who served two terms as Portugal's president and earlier was mayor of Lisbon.756. Petr Pavel (1961), Czech: Retired general and former NATO military committee chairman who became Czech president in 2023.757. Sergei Witte (1849–1915), Russian: Statesman who drove the Trans-Siberian Railway's construction and became the Russian Empire's first prime minister after the 1905 October Manifesto.758. Francisco I. Madero (1873–1913), Mexican: Revolutionary who challenged Porfirio Díaz and became Mexico's president in 1911, before being overthrown and murdered in a coup.759. Francesco Cossiga (1928–2010), Italian: Christian Democrat who served as Italy's prime minister from 1979 to 1980 and then as president of the Republic until 1992.760. Sergei Shoigu (1955), Russian: Long-serving Russian defence minister who earlier ran the emergencies ministry, and later became secretary of the Security Council.761. Milton Obote (1925–2005), Ugandan: Led Uganda to independence as its first prime minister, then returned to power as president after being overthrown by Idi Amin.762. B. J. Habibie (1936–2019), Indonesian: Aeronautical engineer who succeeded Suharto as president and oversaw East Timor's 1999 independence referendum.763. Algirdas Brazauskas (1932–2010), Lithuanian: Former Communist leader who guided Lithuania to independence from the Soviet Union and served as its president, then as prime minister.764. Prem Tinsulanonda (1920–2019), Thai: Army commander who served as Thai prime minister for eight years and later headed the King's Privy Council.765. Pavlo Skoropadsky (1873–1945), Russian: General who ruled Ukraine as Hetman for most of 1918.766. George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859–1925), British: Viceroy of India who oversaw the controversial 1905 partition of Bengal and later served as Foreign Secretary after the First World War.767. Thein Sein (1945), Burmese: Presided over Myanmar's move from military rule, releasing political prisoners and allowing Aung San Suu Kyi's party into parliament.768. Emmerson Mnangagwa (1942), Zimbabwean: Became president of Zimbabwe in 2017 after the military removed Robert Mugabe, whom he had long served.769. Jean Casimir-Perier (1847–1907), French: Resigned the French presidency after only about six months, one of the shortest tenures in the Third Republic.770. Ismail Haniyeh (1962–2024), Palestinian: Hamas leader who chaired the group's Political Bureau from 2017 and earlier served as Palestinian Authority prime minister in Gaza.771. Samora Moisés Machel (1933–1986), Mozambican: Guerrilla leader of Frelimo who became Mozambique's first president at independence from Portugal, and died in a 1986 plane crash.772. Léon Gambetta (1838–1882), French: Proclaimed the Third Republic after Napoleon III's fall and famously escaped Paris by balloon during the siege of 1870.773. Ferhat Abbas (1899–1985), Algerian: Headed the Algerian provisional government in exile from 1958 to 1961 and later presided over the country's first National Assembly.774. Sergo Ordzhonikidze (1886–1937), Soviet: Old Bolshevik who, as head of Soviet heavy industry, oversaw Stalin's rapid industrialisation drive in the 1930s.775. Li Peng (1928–2019), Chinese: Served as China's premier during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and later chaired the National People's Congress.776. Jarosław Kaczyński (1949), Polish: Co-founded the conservative Law and Justice party with his twin brother and steered it to government in 2015.777. Rajendra Prasad (1884–1963), Indian: Independence leader who became the first president of India.778. Andrzej Duda (1972), Polish: Law and Justice-backed politician who won Poland's presidency in 2015 and served two terms.779. Li Keqiang (1955–2023), Chinese: Served as China's premier for a decade, running the State Council and steering economic policy under Xi Jinping.780. Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta (1945–2022), Malian: Served as Mali's president from 2013 until a military coup removed him in 2020 amid protests and a worsening jihadist insurgency.781. Thomas Boni Yayi (1952), Beninese: A former banker who won Benin's 2006 presidential election and served two terms before stepping down in 2016.782. Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1931), Brazilian: Sociologist who served two terms as Brazil's president, and whose Plano Real curbed the country's runaway inflation in the 1990s.783. Prabowo Subianto (1951), Indonesian: Former special forces general who became Indonesia's eighth president in 2024 after serving as defence minister.784. Antonín Novotný (1904–1975), Czechoslovak: Communist leader of Czechoslovakia who was forced from office in 1968, opening the way for the Prague Spring.785. James Comey (1960), American: FBI director whose handling of the Clinton email case and firing by Trump made headlines.786. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (1920–1975), Bangladeshi: Led the Bangladeshi independence movement and became the country's founding president after the 1971 liberation war.787. Félix Houphouët-Boigny (1905–1993), Ivoirian: Led Ivory Coast to independence and served as its first president for over three decades, overseeing the Yamoussoukro basilica project.788. Hissène Habré (1942–2021), Chadian: Chadian ruler later convicted of crimes against humanity by a special African Union-backed court in Senegal.789. Guy Verhofstadt (1953), Belgian: Liberal Belgian premier who led a coalition government for nine years, later becoming a prominent federalist voice in the European Parliament.790. João Bernardo Vieira (1939–2009), Guinea-Bissauan: Long-serving Guinea-Bissau president who returned to office after being ousted in the civil war of 1998 and 1999.791. Gordon Brown (1951), British: Britain's longest-serving modern Chancellor of the Exchequer, who then succeeded Tony Blair as prime minister during the 2008 financial crisis.792. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888–1975), Indian: Philosopher who wrote on Indian thought, then served as India's second president, with his birthday marked as Teachers' Day.793. John Mahama (1958), Ghanaian: Ghana's president who returned to office in 2025 after an earlier term that began when he succeeded John Atta Mills.794. Frank B. Kellogg (1856–1937), American: As US Secretary of State, he co-authored the 1928 Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war, earning the 1929 Nobel Peace Prize.795. Tunku Abdul Rahman (1903–1990), Malaysian: Led Malaya to independence in 1957 and became the first prime minister of Malaysia after its formation in 1963.796. Askar Akayev (1944), Kyrgyzstani: Physicist who became Kyrgyzstan's first post-Soviet president and held office until the 2005 Tulip Revolution forced him out.797. Toomas Hendrik Ilves (1953), Estonian: Estonian president for ten years who championed digital government, including the country's e-residency and online public services.798. Paul Kagame (1957), Rwandan: Led the rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front to end the genocide in 1994, then became Rwanda's long-serving president.799. Boris Tadić (1958), Serbian: Led the Democratic Party and served two terms as president of Serbia, pursuing closer ties with the European Union.800. Shigeru Yoshida (1878–1967), Japanese: Japanese prime minister who guided the country through most of the postwar Allied occupation and signed the 1951 San Francisco peace treaty.How we rank and selectRanking: people are ordered by their Historical Popularity Index (HPI) from Pantheon. HPI combines how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about a person, how many page views those articles get, how evenly the views are spread across languages and how long ago the person lived. People Pantheon does not yet cover are listed after them, ordered by our own popularity score (the number of Wikipedia language editions with an article about them).Membership: each person appears in one occupation list only, based on their primary occupation as classified by Pantheon (for example, a queen who wrote poetry is listed as royalty, not as a writer). Kings, queens, emperors, sultans and royal consorts are not listed as politicians or writers: anyone who held a monarch's office on Wikidata, and never served as a president or head of government, counts as royalty. For the few people Pantheon does not cover, we use the primary field recorded in our database.One-line summaries: each summary is an original line written for this site with AI assistance under our editorial rules, then checked against the Wikipedia introduction so no wording is copied.Statistics: every figure on this page is calculated live from our database each time the page loads, so it changes as we add people.Last reviewed: October 2026Sources: Pantheon: Historical Popularity Index (HPI) rankings, Wikidata: birth dates, death dates and occupations, Wikipedia: biographies behind our summaries and popularity scores. Who Shares My Birthday.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador

Raúl Alfonsín

Francisco I. Madero

Francesco Cossiga

Algirdas Brazauskas

Prem Tinsulanonda

Pavlo Skoropadsky

George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

Emmerson Mnangagwa

Jean Casimir-Perier

Samora Moisés Machel

Sergo Ordzhonikidze

Jarosław Kaczyński

Rajendra Prasad

Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta

Thomas Boni Yayi

Fernando Henrique Cardoso

Prabowo Subianto

Antonín Novotný

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

Félix Houphouët-Boigny

Hissène Habré

Guy Verhofstadt

João Bernardo Vieira

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Frank B. Kellogg

Tunku Abdul Rahman

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Shigeru Yoshida

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Famous Politicians

The best-known political leaders in our archive, ranked by historical popularity.

1,474 politicians in our database, ranked by historical popularity. Page 16 of 30.

Most famous politician

Highest historical popularity score (HPI 99.3)

Most common birth month

October

136 of 1,474 were born in October

Living vs deceased

687 / 787

47% are still living

Most common nationality

American

177 people, 12% of the list

Editor-written profiles

304

21% have a full original profile so far

The ranked list (from #751)

How we rank and select

Ranking: people are ordered by their Historical Popularity Index (HPI) from Pantheon. HPI combines how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about a person, how many page views those articles get, how evenly the views are spread across languages and how long ago the person lived. People Pantheon does not yet cover are listed after them, ordered by our own popularity score (the number of Wikipedia language editions with an article about them).
Membership: each person appears in one occupation list only, based on their primary occupation as classified by Pantheon (for example, a queen who wrote poetry is listed as royalty, not as a writer). Kings, queens, emperors, sultans and royal consorts are not listed as politicians or writers: anyone who held a monarch's office on Wikidata, and never served as a president or head of government, counts as royalty. For the few people Pantheon does not cover, we use the primary field recorded in our database.
One-line summaries: each summary is an original line written for this site with AI assistance under our editorial rules, then checked against the Wikipedia introduction so no wording is copied.
Statistics: every figure on this page is calculated live from our database each time the page loads, so it changes as we add people.

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Last reviewed: October 2026

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