Famous Politicians: Ranked by Popularity (Page 27 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.1301. Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (1913–1996), Indian: Served as Speaker of the Lok Sabha and became India's sixth president, elected unopposed in 1977.1302. Sanna Marin (1985), Finnish: Became Finland's prime minister at 34, leading a five-party coalition and overseeing the country's application to join NATO.1303. Abhisit Vejjajiva (1964), Thai: Oxford-educated leader of the Democrat Party who served as Thailand's prime minister during the 2010 red-shirt protests.1304. Valdis Dombrovskis (1971), Latvian: Latvian prime minister during the 2008 crisis who later became an EU commissioner.1305. Newt Gingrich (1943), American: Architect of the Republican Contract with America, he led his party to a House majority in 1994 and became Speaker.1306. Shankar Dayal Sharma (1918–1999), Indian: Indian lawyer who served as the country's ninth president, having previously been vice president.1307. Elizabeth Warren (1949), American: Former Harvard law professor who has served as a Democratic senator for Massachusetts since 2013 and championed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.1308. Alexander De Croo (1975), Belgian: Led Belgium's seven-party Vivaldi coalition as prime minister through the pandemic and the energy crisis.1309. Jeannette Rankin (1880–1973), American: First woman elected to the US Congress, who voted against entering both world wars.1310. Paetongtarn Shinawatra (1986), Thai: Led the Pheu Thai Party and became Thailand's 31st prime minister, until she was removed from office in 2025.1311. Ferenc Gyurcsány (1961), Hungarian: Led Hungary's government as Prime Minister from 2004 to 2009, after earlier serving as minister for youth and sport.1312. Morgan Tsvangirai (1952–2018), Zimbabwean: Opposition leader who became Zimbabwe's prime minister in a power-sharing government with Robert Mugabe, serving from 2009 to 2013.1313. Jovenel Moïse (1968–2021), Haitian: Banana exporter turned politician who was Haiti's president until his assassination at his home in 2021.1314. Grace Coolidge (1879–1957), American: Popular first lady in the 1920s, who had previously taught at a school for deaf children in Northampton.1315. Kim Campbell (1947), Canadian: Held the office of Canada's nineteenth prime minister in 1993, the only woman so far to lead the country.1316. Patrick Henry (1736–1799), American: Virginia orator whose 1775 cry of "Give me liberty or give me death!" became a rallying call of the American Revolution.1317. Ralph Nader (1934), American: Consumer advocate who wrote Unsafe at Any Speed and ran for US president.1318. Ross Perot (1930–2019), American: Texan businessman who founded Electronic Data Systems and won nearly a fifth of the popular vote in the 1992 presidential election.1319. Muqtada al-Sadr (1974), Iraqi: Iraqi Shia cleric who founded the Mahdi Army in 2003 to resist the American occupation and leads the Sadrist Movement.1320. Andry Rajoelina (1974), Malagasy: Businessman and former disc jockey who led Madagascar as its eighth president, after first holding power through a 2009 transition.1321. Vjosa Osmani (1982), Kosovan: Became Kosovo's president in 2021, having earlier served as the country's acting president and as speaker of its Assembly.1322. Michael Sata (1937–2014), Zambian: Leader of the Patriotic Front who won the 2011 election and served as Zambia's fifth president until his death.1323. Luísa Diogo (1958–2026), Mozambican: Became Mozambique's first woman prime minister in 2004 after serving as the country's finance minister.1324. Anthony Albanese (1963), Australian: Labor leader who defeated Scott Morrison's government at the 2022 election to become Australia's prime minister.1325. Arsenii Yatseniuk (1974), Soviet: Economist who served as prime minister of Ukraine after the 2014 revolution.1326. Gavin Newsom (1967), American: Democrat who became governor of California in 2019, having earlier been lieutenant governor and mayor of San Francisco.1327. Jeanine Áñez (1967), Bolivian: Took office as Bolivia's interim president in 2019 after Evo Morales resigned amid disputed election results.1328. Nikola Gruevski (1970), Macedonian: Led North Macedonia's government for ten years as prime minister and headed the VMRO-DPMNE party until he resigned in 2016.1329. Xavier Bettel (1973), Luxembourgish: Liberal politician who led Luxembourg as prime minister for a decade, heading a coalition with the Socialists and Greens from 2013.1330. Edmund Barton (1849–1920), Australian: Led the Protectionist Party as the first prime minister of Australia after federation, then became a founding High Court justice.1331. Adlai Stevenson I (1835–1914), American: Served as vice president under Grover Cleveland in his second term, from 1893 to 1897.1332. Mari Kiviniemi (1968), Finn: Centre Party politician who became Finland's second female prime minister, leading a coalition government from 2010 until 2011.1333. Artur Mas (1956), Spanish: Catalan nationalist who, as president of the Generalitat, led the 2014 non-binding independence vote.1334. Luis Lacalle Pou (1973), Uruguayan: Centre-right president of Uruguay who ended fifteen years of Broad Front rule when elected in 2019.1335. Kevin Rudd (1957), Australian: Labor prime minister who delivered the 2008 national apology to Indigenous Australians, including the Stolen Generations.1336. Zail Singh (1916–1994), Indian: Became the first Sikh President of India, serving during the 1984 Operation Blue Star and the Indira Gandhi assassination.1337. Jen Psaki (1978), American: Served as Joe Biden's first White House press secretary, then became an MSNBC host.1338. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya (1982), Belarusian: Stood in place of her jailed husband in Belarus's 2020 presidential election and became the leading figure of the country's exiled opposition.1339. Trần Đại Quang (1956–2018), Vietnamese: Police general and former public security minister who became Vietnam's president in 2016 and died in office.1340. Maithripala Sirisena (1951), Sri Lankan: Defeated Mahinda Rajapaksa in the 2015 election to become Sri Lanka's seventh president.1341. Klaus Wowereit (1953), German: Governed Berlin as mayor for over a decade, famously declaring that he was gay and that this was fine.1342. Sophie Wilmès (1975), Belgian: Became Belgium's first female prime minister in 2019, leading a caretaker government through the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic.1343. Peter Mutharika (1940), Malawian: Law professor who first served as Malawi's president from 2014 and returned to the office after winning the 2025 election.1344. Chandra Shekhar (1927–2007), Indian: Led a short-lived minority government as India's prime minister, propped up from outside by Congress, in 1990 and 1991.1345. Micheál Martin (1960), Irish: Fianna Fáil leader who has served two spells as Taoiseach, first from 2020 to 2022 and again from 2025.1346. Gabriel Boric (1986), Chilean: Former student protest leader who won Chile's 2021 election and became the country's youngest president, taking office in 2022.1347. Gordon Bajnai (1968), Hungarian: Businessman who led a Hungarian caretaker government through the 2009 financial crisis with a programme of austerity.1348. Mojtaba Khamenei (1969), Iranian: Shia cleric who became Iran's supreme leader in 2026, taking the country's highest political and religious office.1349. Robert Mueller (1944–2026), American: FBI director from 2001 to 2013 who later led the special counsel inquiry into Russian election interference.1350. Martín Vizcarra (1963), Peruvian: Engineer who became President of Peru in 2018 after Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigned, and held office until Congress removed him in 2020.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.

Neelam Sanjiva Reddy

Abhisit Vejjajiva

Valdis Dombrovskis

Shankar Dayal Sharma

Elizabeth Warren

Alexander De Croo

Jeannette Rankin

Paetongtarn Shinawatra

Ferenc Gyurcsány

Morgan Tsvangirai

Muqtada al-Sadr

Andry Rajoelina

Anthony Albanese

Arsenii Yatseniuk

Nikola Gruevski

Adlai Stevenson I

Luis Lacalle Pou

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

Trần Đại Quang

Maithripala Sirisena

Peter Mutharika

Chandra Shekhar

Micheál Martin

Mojtaba Khamenei

Martín Vizcarra

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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 27 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 #1301)

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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