Famous Politicians

The ranked list (from #51)

1. 51Boris YeltsinFirst president of post-Soviet Russia, who stood on a tank in 1991 to resist the hardliners' coup against Gorbachev.🇷🇺Russian · Born February 1, 1931 · Died April 23, 2007
2. 52Heinrich HimmlerLongest-serving head of the SS, he organised the machinery of the Holocaust in Nazi Germany.🇩🇪German · Born October 7, 1900 · Died May 23, 1945
3. 53George W. BushLed the United States as 43rd president, launching the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq after the September 2001 attacks.🇺🇸American · Born July 6, 1946
4. 54Rodrigo DuterteFormer Davao City mayor who won the Philippine presidency in 2016 and launched a deadly nationwide war on drugs.🇵🇭Filipino · Born March 28, 1945
5. 55Silvio BerlusconiMedia tycoon who founded Forza Italia and served three times as Italy's prime minister, and owned AC Milan.🇮🇹Italian · Born September 29, 1936 · Died June 12, 2023
6. 56Lorenzo de' MediciRuled Florence as its leading citizen and sponsored artists such as Botticelli and Michelangelo during the Italian Renaissance.🇮🇹Italian · Born January 1, 1449 · Died April 8, 1492
7. 57Hermann GöringLuftwaffe commander and senior Nazi who founded the Gestapo and was sentenced to death at Nuremberg.🇩🇪German · Born January 12, 1893 · Died October 15, 1946
8. 58George MarshallUS Army chief of staff in the Second World War whose Marshall Plan rebuilt Western Europe.🇺🇸American · Born December 31, 1880 · Died October 16, 1959
9. 59John MajorSucceeding Margaret Thatcher as prime minister, he won the 1992 general election and signed the Maastricht Treaty.🇬🇧British · Born March 29, 1943
10. 60Margaret ThatcherBritain's first female prime minister, she governed for eleven years, privatised state industries and faced down the miners' strike of 1984-85.🇬🇧British · Born October 13, 1925 · Died April 8, 2013
11. 61Yasser ArafatChairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization who signed the Oslo Accords and became the first president of the Palestinian Authority.Palestinian · Born August 24, 1929 · Died November 11, 2004
12. 62Harry S. TrumanTook over as US president when Roosevelt died, and ordered the atomic bombings of Japan in 1945.🇺🇸American · Born May 8, 1884 · Died December 26, 1972
13. 63Recep Tayyip ErdoğanCo-founder of the Justice and Development Party who dominated Turkish politics for two decades, first as prime minister and then as president.🇹🇷Turkish · Born February 26, 1954
14. 64Simón BolívarVenezuelan general known as the Liberator who freed much of South America from Spanish rule.🇻🇪Venezuelan · Born July 24, 1783 · Died December 17, 1830
15. 65Kuan Yew LeeLed Singapore as its first prime minister for three decades, guiding its rapid rise from a small port to a wealthy city-state.🇸🇬Singaporean · Born September 16, 1923 · Died March 23, 2015
16. 66Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de RichelieuCardinal and chief minister to Louis XIII who centralised royal power in France.🇫🇷French · Born September 9, 1585 · Died December 4, 1642
17. 67Bill ClintonDemocrat who held the White House for two terms as the 42nd American president, overseeing a long economic expansion during the 1990s.🇺🇸American · Born August 19, 1946
18. 68Pol PotLeader of the Khmer Rouge regime, whose rule brought about the Cambodian genocide.Cambodian · Born May 19, 1925 · Died April 15, 1998
19. 69Xi JinpingGeneral secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since 2012 and president of China.🇨🇳Chinese · Born June 15, 1953
20. 70Sun Yat-senFounded the Kuomintang and became the first provisional president of the Republic of China after the 1911 Revolution.🇨🇳Chinese · Born November 12, 1866 · Died March 12, 1925
21. 71Lech WałęsaCo-founded the Solidarity trade union, won the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize and became Poland's first post-communist president.🇵🇱Polish · Born September 29, 1943
22. 72Benjamin NetanyahuLikud leader who became Israel's youngest prime minister in 1996 and later its longest-serving holder of the office.🇮🇱Israeli · Born October 21, 1949
23. 73Richard NixonThirty-seventh US president, who opened relations with China in 1972 and became the only president to resign, over the Watergate scandal.🇺🇸American · Born January 9, 1913 · Died April 22, 1994
24. 74Deng XiaopingParamount leader who launched the economic reforms and opening-up policy that transformed China into a market-oriented economy.🇨🇳Chinese · Born August 22, 1904 · Died February 19, 1997
25. 75Jacques ChiracGaullist leader who served twice as prime minister, spent years as Mayor of Paris, then won two terms as French president.🇫🇷French · Born November 29, 1932 · Died September 26, 2019
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    Manmohan SinghEconomist who opened up India's economy as finance minister and served ten years as prime minister.🇮🇳Indian · Born September 26, 1932 · Died December 26, 2024
27. 77Sonia GandhiLed the Indian National Congress for over two decades as its longest-serving president, guiding the party to government in 2004.🇮🇹Italian · Born December 9, 1946
28. 78George H. W. BushRepublican president who led the 1991 Gulf War coalition and presided over the end of the Cold War.🇺🇸American · Born June 12, 1924 · Died November 30, 2018
29. 79Hosni MubarakEgypt's president for three decades, forced to resign during the 2011 uprising.🇪🇬Egyptian · Born May 4, 1928 · Died February 25, 2020
30. 80William Ewart GladstoneLiberal statesman who served four terms as prime minister and championed Irish Home Rule in the 1880s and 1890s.🇬🇧British · Born December 29, 1809 · Died May 19, 1898
31. 81Gamal Abdel NasserArmy officer who led Egypt's 1952 revolution, nationalised the Suez Canal in 1956 and became a leading voice of Arab nationalism.🇪🇬Egyptian · Born January 15, 1918 · Died September 28, 1970
32. 82Yuri AndropovLong-time KGB chief who briefly led the Soviet Union from 1982 until his death.🇷🇺Soviet · Born June 15, 1914 · Died February 9, 1984
33. 83Dwight D. EisenhowerSupreme Allied Commander in Europe during the Second World War, he later served two terms as the 34th American president.🇺🇸American · Born October 14, 1890 · Died March 28, 1969
34. 84Sardar Vallabhbhai PatelAs India's first home minister, he oversaw the integration of hundreds of princely states into the new Indian union.🇮🇳Indian · Born October 31, 1875 · Died December 15, 1950
35. 85Bashar al-AssadTrained ophthalmologist whose government's response to the 2011 uprising led to Syria's civil war, ending with his fall in 2024.Syrian · Born September 11, 1965
36. 86Barbara BushFirst lady who championed family literacy and was both the wife and the mother of American presidents.🇺🇸American · Born June 8, 1925 · Died April 17, 2018
37. 87José MujicaFormer Tupamaro guerrilla who became Uruguay's president, famed for his modest lifestyle and for legalising cannabis and same-sex marriage.🇺🇾Uruguayan · Born May 20, 1935 · Died May 13, 2025
38. 88Golda MeirLed Israel as prime minister during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the country's only woman to hold the post.🇮🇱Israeli · Born May 3, 1898 · Died December 8, 1978
39. 89Saparmyrat NyýazowRuled Turkmenistan as president for life, building a personality cult around his self-styled title Turkmenbashi.Turkmen · Born February 19, 1940 · Died December 21, 2006
40. 90Muhammad AliOttoman viceroy who ruled Egypt from 1805 to 1848 and is widely regarded as the founder of modern Egypt.Ottoman · Born March 4, 1769 · Died August 2, 1849
41. 91Konrad AdenauerServed as West Germany's first chancellor, guiding its postwar recovery and its integration with Western Europe and NATO.🇩🇪German · Born January 5, 1876 · Died April 19, 1967
42. 92Paul von HindenburgField marshal who commanded German forces in the First World War and later appointed Adolf Hitler as chancellor in 1933.🇩🇪German · Born October 2, 1847 · Died August 2, 1934
43. 93Enver HoxhaCommunist leader who ruled Albania from 1944 until 1985, isolating the country from both the Soviet Union and China.Albanian · Born May 12, 1908 · Died April 11, 1985
44. 94Slobodan MiloševićLed Serbia as president through the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s, later facing trial at The Hague for war crimes.🇷🇸Serbian · Born August 20, 1941 · Died March 11, 2006
45. 95Augusto PinochetGeneral who took power in Chile's 1973 coup and ruled as dictator until 1990.🇨🇱Chilean · Born November 25, 1915 · Died December 10, 2006
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    Pratibha PatilLawyer and politician who became the first woman to serve as president of India, holding office from 2007 to 2012.🇮🇳Indian · Born December 19, 1934
47. 97Reinhard HeydrichSS leader and a chief architect of the Holocaust, assassinated in Prague in 1942.🇩🇪German · Born March 7, 1904 · Died June 4, 1942
48. 98António de Oliveira SalazarEconomist who ruled Portugal for decades through the authoritarian Estado Novo regime.🇵🇹Portuguese · Born April 28, 1889 · Died July 27, 1970
49. 99David Ben-GurionDeclared Israel's independence in 1948 and served as the new state's first prime minister.🇮🇱Israeli · Born October 16, 1886 · Died December 1, 1973
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    A. P. J. Abdul KalamAerospace scientist behind India's missile and space programmes, later its widely admired eleventh head of state.🇮🇳Indian · Born October 15, 1931 · Died July 27, 2015