Famous Politicians: Ranked by Popularity (Page 5 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.201. Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker (1889–1982), British: Labour politician and disarmament campaigner who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1959 and earlier won an Olympic silver medal.202. Alfred Rosenberg (1893–1946), Soviet: Nazi ideologue who wrote The Myth of the Twentieth Century, ran the occupied eastern territories ministry, and was hanged at Nuremberg.203. Idi Amin (1928–2003), Ugandan: Seized power in a 1971 coup and ruled Uganda through a brutal regime, including the expulsion of its Asian community in 1972.204. John Nance Garner (1868–1967), American: Vice president during Franklin Roosevelt's first two terms, he earlier served as Speaker of the House and was nicknamed "Cactus Jack".205. Moshe Dayan (1915–1981), Israeli: Eye-patched Israeli general who led the army in 1956 and was defence minister in 1967.206. Herbert Hoover (1874–1964), American: President whose single term was overshadowed by the Wall Street Crash and the onset of the Great Depression.207. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1926–2020), French: French president who modernised social law, later chairing the convention that drafted the proposed European Constitution.208. Franz von Papen (1879–1969), German: Conservative who served briefly as Chancellor in 1932, then helped bring Hitler to power as his vice-chancellor.209. Olaf Scholz (1958), German: Served as German chancellor from 2021 to 2025, announcing a Zeitenwende in defence policy after Russia invaded Ukraine.210. Imre Nagy (1896–1958), Hungarian: Reformist Communist prime minister who backed the 1956 Hungarian uprising and was executed after it was crushed by Soviet forces.211. Robert Schuman (1886–1963), German: French foreign minister whose 1950 Schuman Declaration proposed the coal and steel community that became the foundation of European integration.212. James Monroe (1758–1831), American: Fifth American president, whose 1823 Monroe Doctrine warned European powers against further colonisation in the Americas.213. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (1954), Egyptian: Army chief who helped remove Mohamed Morsi in 2013 and was then elected Egypt's president.214. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (1954), American: Environmental lawyer and vaccine sceptic who ran an independent 2024 presidential campaign before becoming US health secretary.215. Heydar Aliyev (1923–2003), Azerbaijani: Led Soviet Azerbaijan for over a decade, then returned as president of the newly independent state.216. Hugo Chávez (1954–2013), Venezuelan: Launched the Bolivarian Revolution during his long presidency of Venezuela, which began with his 1998 election victory.217. Norodom Sihanouk (1922–2012), Cambodian: Cambodian king who won independence from France and led the country in many roles.218. Fulgencio Batista (1901–1973), Cuban: Cuban strongman who won the presidency in 1940, seized power again in a 1952 coup, and fled when Castro's revolution succeeded.219. Franjo Tuđman (1922–1999), Croatian: Historian turned politician who led Croatia to independence from Yugoslavia and served as its first president from 1990.220. Menachem Begin (1913–1992), Russian: Founder of Herut and Likud who became Israel's prime minister in 1977 and signed the Camp David peace treaty with Egypt.221. Mobutu Sese Seko (1930–1997), Zairean: Dictator who ruled Zaire for 32 years and became a byword for corruption.222. Giuseppe Mazzini (1805–1872), Italian: Revolutionary who founded Young Italy and inspired the campaign for a united Italian republic.223. Viktor Yushchenko (1954), Ukrainian: Became Ukraine's president after the 2004 Orange Revolution, which overturned a disputed election result, and pursued closer ties with the West.224. Grover Cleveland (1837–1908), American: Only American president to serve two non-consecutive terms, winning office in 1884 and again in 1892.225. Georgi Dimitrov (1882–1949), People's Republic of Bulgaria: Acquitted after the 1933 Reichstag fire trial, he went on to head Bulgaria's communist government after the Second World War.226. Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi (1894–1972), Austrian: Founded the Pan-Europa movement in 1923, an early and influential campaign for a politically united Europe.227. Ion Antonescu (1882–1946), Kingdom of Romania: Army marshal who ruled Romania as Conducător during the Second World War and aligned the country with Nazi Germany.228. Nūrsūltan Nazarbaev (1940), Kazakh: Ruled Kazakhstan as its first president for nearly three decades, and the capital Astana was later renamed after him.229. Moon Jae-in (1953), South Korean: Former human rights lawyer who served as South Korea's twelfth president, holding office from 2017 to 2022.230. Chun Doo-hwan (1931–2021), South Korean: Army general who seized power after a coup and ruled South Korea as president through the 1980s.231. Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619–1683), French: As Louis XIV's finance minister, he shaped French mercantilist policy and rebuilt the country's navy and manufacturing.232. Leonid Kuchma (1938), Ukraine: Succeeded Kravchuk as Ukraine's second president, serving two terms before the Orange Revolution era that followed his departure.233. Kim Jong-un (1982), North Korean: Supreme leader of North Korea since succeeding his father Kim Jong Il, overseeing nuclear and missile tests and summits with Donald Trump.234. Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850–1937), Czechoslovak: Philosopher and statesman who became the first president of Czechoslovakia after its creation from the ruins of Austria-Hungary.235. James Madison (1751–1836), American: Principal drafter of the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights, who later led the nation through the War of 1812.236. Lech Kaczyński (1949–2010), Polish: Served as Poland's president and earlier as mayor of Warsaw, and died in the 2010 Smolensk air crash.237. Zakir Husain (1897–1969), Indian: Educationist who helped found Jamia Millia Islamia and became the third President of India, dying in office.238. Gerónimo (1829–1909), American: Apache leader who resisted US and Mexican forces for decades before surrendering in 1886.239. Dilma Rousseff (1947), Brazilian: Former guerrilla and economist who became Brazil's first woman president before her impeachment and removal from office.240. Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903–1946), Austrian: Headed the Reich Main Security Office after Reinhard Heydrich and was condemned at the Nuremberg trials for his part in Nazi atrocities.241. Georges Clemenceau (1841–1929), French: Led France as prime minister in the final year of the First World War and helped shape the Treaty of Versailles.242. Friedrich Ebert (1871–1925), German: Social Democrat who became the Weimar Republic's first head of state, steering Germany through revolution and instability as its inaugural president.243. Edvard Beneš (1884–1948), Czechoslovak: Czechoslovak president who led the country's government-in-exile in London during the Second World War, and resigned after the 1948 communist takeover.244. Aldo Moro (1916–1978), Italian: Christian Democrat prime minister who was kidnapped and killed by the Red Brigades in 1978.245. Alija Izetbegović (1925–2003), Herzegovinian: Led Bosnia and Herzegovina as president of its presidency through the 1992 to 1995 war and signed the Dayton Agreement.246. Dmitry Medvedev (1965), Russian: Russian president who stepped aside for Vladimir Putin, then served as prime minister and Security Council deputy chairman.247. Islam Karimov (1938–2016), Uzbek: Last Communist Party leader of Uzbekistan, he became the independent country's first president in 1991 and ruled for twenty-five years.248. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (1947), Filipino: Economist who became Philippine president after Joseph Estrada's removal, and later served as Speaker of the House of Representatives.249. Raymond Poincaré (1860–1934), French: French president during the First World War who also served several times as prime minister.250. Robert Mugabe (1924–2019), Zimbabwean: Led Zimbabwe from independence as prime minister and then president, until a military intervention forced him out in 2017.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.

Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker

Alfred Rosenberg

John Nance Garner

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

Franz von Papen

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Norodom Sihanouk

Fulgencio Batista

Mobutu Sese Seko

Giuseppe Mazzini

Viktor Yushchenko

Grover Cleveland

Georgi Dimitrov

Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi

Nūrsūltan Nazarbaev

Jean-Baptiste Colbert

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk

Lech Kaczyński

Ernst Kaltenbrunner

Georges Clemenceau

Friedrich Ebert

Alija Izetbegović

Dmitry Medvedev

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Raymond Poincaré

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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 5 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 #201)

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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