Famous Politicians

The ranked list (from #801)

1. 801Humberto Castelo BrancoArmy marshal who became Brazil's first president under military rule after the 1964 coup, governing until 1967.🇧🇷Brazilian · Born September 20, 1900 · Died July 18, 1967
2. 802Juvénal HabyarimanaRuled Rwanda as president for two decades; the shooting down of his plane in 1994 triggered the genocide against the Tutsi.Rwandan · Born March 8, 1937 · Died April 6, 1994
3. 803Ludwig QuiddePacifist who shared the 1927 Nobel Peace Prize and wrote a famous satirical pamphlet attacking Kaiser Wilhelm II.🇩🇪German · Born March 23, 1858 · Died March 4, 1941
4. 804Wolfgang SchäubleChristian Democrat who negotiated the 1990 German unification treaty and later served as finance minister through the eurozone debt crisis.🇩🇪German · Born September 18, 1942 · Died December 26, 2023
5. 805João GoulartBrazilian president overthrown by the 1964 military coup, which began two decades of army rule.🇧🇷Brazilian · Born March 1, 1918 · Died December 6, 1976
6. 806James CallaghanLabour prime minister during the 1978-79 Winter of Discontent, and the only person to hold all four great offices of state.🇬🇧British · Born March 27, 1912 · Died March 26, 2005
7. 807Jörg HaiderLeader of the Freedom Party of Austria who turned it into a major force and twice served as governor of Carinthia.🇦🇹Austrian · Born January 26, 1950 · Died October 11, 2008
8. 808Edi RamaFormer artist and mayor of Tirana, he has led Albania as prime minister since 2013 and pursued European Union accession.Albanian · Born July 4, 1964
9. 809Tarō AsōLed Japan as prime minister for a year before spending nearly a decade as finance minister under Shinzo Abe.🇯🇵Japanese · Born September 20, 1940
10. 810Janez DrnovšekLiberal statesman who led Slovenia as prime minister through its early independence years, later serving as the country's president.Slovene · Born May 17, 1950 · Died February 23, 2008
11. 811Junichiro KoizumiJapanese prime minister from 2001 to 2006 who pushed through the privatisation of the postal service.🇯🇵Japanese · Born January 8, 1942
12. 812Xanana GusmãoResistance commander turned statesman who became the first president of independent East Timor and later served as its prime minister.East Timorese · Born June 20, 1946
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    Elio Di RupoSocialist politician who led Belgium as prime minister from 2011 to 2014 and repeatedly served as minister-president of Wallonia.🇧🇪Belgian · Born July 18, 1951
14. 814Nobusuke KishiLed Japan as prime minister from 1957 to 1960, and pushed through the revised US-Japan security treaty despite mass protests.🇯🇵Japanese · Born November 13, 1896 · Died August 7, 1987
15. 815Abdulla YameenMaldives president whose government pursued Chinese-funded infrastructure projects before losing the 2018 election to Ibrahim Mohamed Solih.Maldivian · Born May 21, 1959
16. 816Kolinda Grabar-KitarovićBecame Croatia's first woman president in 2015, having earlier served as a foreign minister and as a NATO assistant secretary general.🇭🇷Croatian · Born April 29, 1968
17. 817Alberto FernándezPeronist who led Argentina as president through the Covid-19 pandemic after serving as cabinet chief.🇦🇷Argentine · Born April 2, 1959
18. 818Felipe GonzálezLed Spain's Socialist government for fourteen years, overseeing the country's entry into the European Community in 1986.🇪🇸Spanish · Born March 5, 1942
19. 819Yahya SinwarLed Hamas in the Gaza Strip from 2017 and later became head of its political bureau, the group's overall leader.Palestinian · Born October 29, 1962 · Died October 16, 2024
20. 820Ramsay MacDonaldLed Britain's first Labour government in 1924, later heading a controversial National Government coalition during the Great Depression.🇬🇧British · Born October 12, 1866 · Died November 9, 1937
21. 821Ted KennedyServed almost five decades as a Massachusetts senator, becoming a leading Democratic voice on health care and civil rights legislation.🇺🇸American · Born February 22, 1932 · Died August 25, 2009
22. 822Marco RubioFormer Florida senator who became the 72nd United States secretary of state, while also serving as national security advisor.🇺🇸American · Born May 28, 1971
23. 823Min Aung HlaingMyanmar's army commander who seized power in the February 2021 coup and later became the country's president.Burmese · Born July 3, 1956
24. 824Laurent GbagboPresident of Côte d'Ivoire from 2000, he refused to concede the 2010 election and was later tried at the International Criminal Court.Ivoirian · Born May 31, 1945
25. 825Colin PowellGeneral who led the US military in the Gulf War and became the first Black secretary of state.🇺🇸American · Born April 5, 1937 · Died October 18, 2021
26. 826Kyriakos MitsotakisHas led Greece as prime minister since 2019, heading the New Democracy party and winning re-election in 2023.🇬🇷Greek · Born March 4, 1968
27. 827Zulfikar Ali BhuttoFounded the Pakistan Peoples Party and served as president and prime minister before being overthrown and executed.🇵🇰Pakistani · Born January 5, 1928 · Died April 4, 1979
28. 828Alfred MoisiuFormer army general who served as Albania's president from 2002 to 2007, overseeing early steps towards NATO membership.Albanian · Born December 1, 1929
29. 829Giorgos PapandreouGreek prime minister when the debt crisis struck, he negotiated the first international bailout in 2010.🇺🇸American · Born June 16, 1952
30. 830Andreas PapandreouEconomist who founded PASOK and served as Greek prime minister.🇬🇷Greek · Born February 5, 1919 · Died June 23, 1996
31. 831Bidzina IvanishviliBillionaire financier who founded the Georgian Dream party and used it to defeat the ruling party in the 2012 parliamentary elections.Georgian · Born February 18, 1956
32. 832Deodoro da FonsecaArmy marshal who led the coup ending the monarchy in 1889 and became the first president of Brazil.🇧🇷Brazilian · Born August 5, 1827 · Died August 23, 1892
33. 833Khaled MashalHead of Hamas's political bureau for two decades, he survived a 1997 Israeli poisoning attempt in Amman.Palestinian · Born May 28, 1956
34. 834Abolhassan BanisadrBecame the first president of Iran after the 1979 revolution, then was impeached and fled into exile in France.🇮🇷Iranian · Born March 22, 1933 · Died October 9, 2021
35. 835Antonio José de SucreBolívar's general who won the Battle of Ayacucho and became Bolivia's second president.Spanish Empire · Born February 3, 1795 · Died June 4, 1830
36. 836Georgy ChicherinSoviet foreign commissar who negotiated the Treaty of Rapallo with Germany.🇷🇺Soviet · Born November 24, 1872 · Died July 7, 1936
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    Alar KarisGeneticist turned head of state, chosen by parliament in 2021 as Estonia's sixth president.Estonian · Born March 26, 1958
38. 838Zoran MilanovićFormer Social Democratic Party leader and Croatian prime minister, later elected president of Croatia in 2020.🇭🇷Croatian · Born October 30, 1966
39. 839Evgeny PrimakovServed as Russia's prime minister after the 1998 financial crash, having earlier led the foreign intelligence service and the Foreign Ministry.🇷🇺Russian · Born October 29, 1929 · Died June 26, 2015
40. 840Lázaro CárdenasAs Mexican president he nationalised the country's oil industry in 1938 and carried out sweeping land redistribution to peasants.🇲🇽Mexican · Born May 21, 1895 · Died October 19, 1970
41. 841Asma al-AssadBritish-born former first lady of Syria, wife of Bashar al-Assad.🇬🇧British · Born August 11, 1975
42. 842Mohammed bin Salman Al SaudSaudi crown prince and prime minister behind the Vision 2030 reform plan.Saudi Arabia · Born August 31, 1985
43. 843Mikhail MishustinFormer head of the Federal Taxation Service who has served as Russia's prime minister since 2020.🇷🇺Russian · Born March 3, 1966
44. 844Ebrahim RaisiCleric who rose from head of the judiciary to Iran's presidency in 2021, and died in office in a helicopter crash.🇮🇷Iranian · Born December 14, 1960 · Died May 19, 2024
45. 845Fumimaro KonoePrime Minister who led Japan at the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War and signed the Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy.Empire of Japan · Born October 12, 1891 · Died December 16, 1945
46. 846Rafael CorreaEconomist who served as president of Ecuador from 2007 to 2017, leading a left-wing government and rewriting the constitution.Ecuadorian · Born April 6, 1963
47. 847Vicente FoxWon Mexico's 2000 election, ending the Institutional Revolutionary Party's seventy-one years of uninterrupted rule.🇲🇽Mexican · Born July 2, 1942
48. 848Paul DeschanelElected French president in 1920 but resigned after seven months, following a widely reported fall from a train and illness.🇫🇷French · Born February 13, 1855 · Died April 28, 1922
49. 849Mohamed Abdullahi MohamedKnown as Farmaajo, he served as Somalia's president from 2017 to 2022 after a brief spell as prime minister.Somali · Born March 11, 1962
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    Abdullah Ahmad BadawiSucceeded Mahathir Mohamad as Malaysian prime minister and led Barisan Nasional to a landslide win in 2004.🇲🇾Malaysian · Born November 26, 1939 · Died April 14, 2025