Famous Politicians: Ranked by Popularity (Page 7 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.301. Habib Bourguiba (1903–2000), Tunisian: Leader of Tunisia's independence movement who became the republic's first president and introduced a progressive personal status code for women.302. Steve Bannon (1953), American: Former Breitbart News chief who ran Donald Trump's 2016 campaign and was White House strategist.303. Javier Pérez de Cuéllar (1920–2020), Peruvian: Peruvian diplomat who served two terms as UN Secretary-General in the 1980s.304. Isabel Martínez de Perón (1931), Argentine: Argentine dancer turned politician who succeeded her husband Juan Perón in 1974, becoming the first woman president of any country.305. Todor Zhivkov (1911–1998), Bulgarian: Communist leader of Bulgaria for 35 years, the longest of any Soviet bloc ruler.306. Subhas Chandra Bose (1897–1945), British Raj: Indian nationalist who formed the Indian National Army with Japanese backing to fight British rule during the Second World War.307. Dick Schoof (1957), Dutch: Former senior civil servant and intelligence chief who headed a four-party coalition cabinet as Dutch prime minister.308. Hjalmar Schacht (1877–1970), German: Banker who helped end German hyperinflation in 1923 and later served as Hitler's economics minister.309. Édouard Daladier (1884–1970), French: As French prime minister he signed the 1938 Munich Agreement with Hitler, Mussolini and Chamberlain, and led France into war in 1939.310. Inder Kumar Gujral (1919–2012), Indian: Diplomat and politician who led India's government as prime minister from 1997 to 1998 and promoted the conciliatory Gujral Doctrine towards neighbours.311. Salome Zourabichvili (1952), French: Former French diplomat who became Georgia's first elected female president, serving as its fifth head of state.312. Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901), American: Republican president who signed the Sherman Antitrust Act in 1890, following his grandfather William Henry Harrison into the White House.313. Edith Roosevelt (1861–1948), American: As first lady she oversaw the renovation of the White House and hired the first full-time social secretary.314. Edmund Burke (1729–1797), Irish: Statesman whose Reflections on the Revolution in France made him the father of modern conservatism.315. Adolphe Thiers (1797–1877), French: Historian and statesman who crushed the Paris Commune and became the first president of the Third Republic.316. Konstantin von Neurath (1873–1956), German: Hitler's first foreign minister, later Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia.317. Jair Bolsonaro (1955), Brazilian: Former army captain who won Brazil's 2018 presidential election, governing from the political right until losing to Lula in 2022.318. Andrew Johnson (1808–1875), American: Lincoln's successor as American president, and the first to be impeached by the House of Representatives.319. Ilham Aliyev (1961), Azerbaijani: Has been president of Azerbaijan since 2003, succeeding his father Heydar Aliyev and winning the 2020 war over Nagorno-Karabakh.320. Abd al-Aziz Boutafliqa (1937–2021), Algerian: Algerian president who ended the civil war era and held office for twenty years until protests forced him out.321. Lev Kamenev (1883–1936), Russian: Early Bolshevik leader who was executed after the first of Stalin's show trials.322. Jozef Tiso (1887–1947), Hungarian: Catholic priest who led the wartime Slovak Republic as president, a state allied to Nazi Germany, and was later executed.323. Alberto Fujimori (1938–2024), Peruvian: President of Peru through the 1990s who fought the Shining Path and was later jailed for human rights abuses.324. Ranil Wickremesinghe (1949), Sri Lankan: Served as Sri Lanka's president during the economic crisis, having already been prime minister on several separate occasions.325. Zachary Taylor (1784–1850), American: Mexican-American War general nicknamed Old Rough and Ready, who became the twelfth US president and died in office.326. Nikolai Bukharin (1888–1938), Soviet: Bolshevik theorist and Pravda editor who championed the New Economic Policy before being executed in Stalin's show trials.327. Burhanuddin Rabbani (1940–2011), Afghan: Led the Jamiat-e Islami party and was Afghanistan's president during the civil war of the early 1990s.328. Hassan Rouhani (1948), Iranian: Moderate cleric who, as Iranian president, concluded the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.329. Wilhelm Pieck (1876–1960), East German: First and only president of East Germany, holding the largely ceremonial office from its founding until his death.330. Donald Tusk (1957), Polish: Polish prime minister who also chaired the European Council and returned to lead the government in 2023.331. Roh Tae-woo (1932–2021), South Korean: Former general who became South Korea's first directly elected president in decades and hosted the 1988 Seoul Olympics.332. Mohammed Daoud Khan (1909–1978), Afghan: Afghan prime minister who then led the 1973 coup abolishing the monarchy and became the republic's first president.333. U Thant (1909–1974), Burmese: Burmese diplomat who served as UN Secretary-General during the Cuban Missile Crisis.334. Alfredo Stroessner (1912–2006), Paraguayan: General who ruled Paraguay as dictator for 35 years until 1989.335. Kim Young-sam (1927–2015), South Korean: Became South Korea's first civilian president in decades, ending a long run of military-backed rule and prosecuting two former presidents.336. James A. Garfield (1831–1881), American: Twentieth American president, shot by an assassin in July 1881 and dying that September after only months in office.337. Gro Harlem Brundtland (1939), Norwegian: Three-time Norwegian prime minister who chaired the commission behind the 1987 report Our Common Future, popularising sustainable development.338. Joachim Gauck (1940), German: Ran the federal agency handling Stasi files after reunification, then served as Germany's federal president.339. Mohammad Najibullah (1947–1996), Afghan: Afghan president in the final Soviet-backed government, killed by the Taliban in 1996.340. Liu Shaoqi (1898–1969), Chinese: Served as Chairman of the People's Republic of China, before being purged and dying in custody during the Cultural Revolution.341. Tarja Halonen (1943), Finn: Served two terms as Finland's first woman president, a post she held from 2000 until 2012.342. Chaim Weizmann (1874–1952), British: Chemist and Zionist leader who became the first president of Israel.343. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (1953), Argentine: Lawyer who succeeded her husband as Argentina's president, serving two terms before returning as vice president under Alberto Fernández.344. Béla Kun (1886–1938), Hungarian: Communist leader who headed the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919 before Romanian forces brought it down.345. Yun Po-sun (1897–1990), South Korean: Served as South Korea's second president, a mostly ceremonial head of state during the short-lived Second Republic.346. Bernie Sanders (1941), American: Self-described democratic socialist who ran strong campaigns for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 and 2020 while representing Vermont in the Senate.347. Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (1748–1836), French: Priest whose pamphlet What Is the Third Estate? helped spark the French Revolution.348. Petro Poroshenko (1965), Ukrainian: Confectionery magnate known as the 'Chocolate King' who was elected Ukraine's president in 2014 after the Euromaidan protests.349. Ahmad Shah Massoud (1953–2001), Islamic State of Afghanistan: Commander called the Lion of Panjshir who fought the Soviets and the Taliban.350. Abul Kalam Azad (1888–1958), Indian: Independence activist and Congress leader who became India's first education minister after 1947.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.

Habib Bourguiba

Javier Pérez de Cuéllar

Isabel Martínez de Perón

Subhas Chandra Bose

Hjalmar Schacht

Édouard Daladier

Inder Kumar Gujral

Salome Zourabichvili

Benjamin Harrison

Edith Roosevelt

Konstantin von Neurath

Abd al-Aziz Boutafliqa

Alberto Fujimori

Ranil Wickremesinghe

Nikolai Bukharin

Burhanuddin Rabbani

Mohammed Daoud Khan

Alfredo Stroessner

James A. Garfield

Gro Harlem Brundtland

Mohammad Najibullah

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès

Petro Poroshenko

Ahmad Shah Massoud

Abul Kalam Azad

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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 7 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 #301)

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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