- Vladimir Putin
President Vladimir Putin said air strikes did nothing to settle the situation around Iraq and urged any action taken against it to be sanctioned by the United Nations.
- Hamid Karzai
Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai 's days may be numbered . I wrote the 25 Must-Know Facts about Afghanistan . How about 19 must know facts about their possible ex-president Hamid Karzai .
- Augusto Pinochet
"' The junta members originally planned for the presidency to rotate among the commanders-in-chief of the four military branches. However, Pinochet soon consolidated his control, first retaining sole chairmanship of the military junta, and then proclaiming himself "Supreme Chief of the Nation" (de facto provisional president) on June 27, 1974. He officially changed his title to "President" on December 17. In 1980, by the way of another national referendum, Chile got a new Constitution, …
- Charles de Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (November 22, 1890 – November 9, 1970), in France commonly referred to as "Général de Gaulle", was a French military leader and statesman. Prior to World War II, he was primarily known as an armoured warfare tactician and an advocate of the concentrated use of armoured and aviation forces.
- Mary Robinson
Mary Robinson was the first female President of Ireland, serving from 1990 to 1997, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, from 1997 to 2002. She first rose to prominence as an academic, barrister, campaigner and member of the Irish senate (1969–1989). She defeated "Fianna Fáil's" Brian Lenihan and Fine Gael's Austin Currie in the 1990 presidential election becoming, as an Independent candidate nominated by the Labour Party, …
- Tarja Halonen
Tarja Kaarina Halonen (born December 24, 1943, in Helsinki, Finland) is the President of Finland. She began her first term of office in 2000 and was re-elected on January 29, 2006. Her current term expires in 2012. She is the eleventh President of Finland and the first woman to hold the office. She married her long time cohabitator, Dr. Pentti Arajärvi, after she was elected President for the first term.
- Sani Abacha
General Sani Abacha (Kano, 20 September 1943 - Abuja, 8 June 1998) was a Nigerian military leader and politician. He was the "de facto" President of Nigeria from 1993 to 1998.
- Benito Mussolini
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (July 29, 1883 - April 28, 1945) was the prime minister and dictator of Italy from 1922 until 1943, when he was overthrown. He established a fascist regime that valued socialism, nationalism, militarism and anti-communism combined with strict censorship and state propaganda. Mussolini became a close ally of German dictator Adolf Hitler, whom he influenced. Mussolini entered World War II in June 1940 on the side of Nazi Germany.
- Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell was an English military and political leader best known for his involvement in making England into a republican Commonwealth and for the brutal war exercised in his conquest of Ireland. He was born in Huntingdon, seventy miles north of London, into the ranks of the middle gentry, and remained relatively obscure for his first forty years, …
- Ibrahim Babangida
General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (born August 17 1941), popularly known as IBB, was the military ruler of Nigeria from August 1985 until his departure from office under heavy popular pressure in 1993, after his annulment of elections held that year which were widely held to have been the freest and fairest in Nigeria's post-independence history.
- Mary McAleese
Mary McAleese , President of Ireland
- Corazon Aquino
María Corazón Sumulong Cojuangco-Aquino, widely known as 'Cory Aquino', was President of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992. She was the first female President of The Philippines. She was Asia's first female President and world-renowned advocate of democracy, peace, women empowerment, and religious piety. Aquino is the widow of the popular opposition senator Benigno Aquino, Jr., …
- Megawati Sukarnoputri
Diah Permata Megawati Setiawati Soekarnoputri (born January 23, 1947), was President of Indonesia from July 2001 to October 20, 2004. She was the country's first female President, and the first Indonesian leader born after independence. On September 20 she lost her campaign for re-election in the 2004 Indonesian presidential election. She is the daughter of Indonesia's first president, Sukarno.
- Chandrika Kumaratunga
Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga (born 29 June 1945) was the fifth President (and fourth to hold the office as Executive president) of Sri Lanka (12 November 1994 - 19 November 2005). She was the leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party until end of 2005. She was Sri Lanka's first female president. Her father, Solomon Bandaranaike, was a government minister at the time of her birth and later became Prime Minister. He was assassinated in 1959, when Chandrika was fourteen.
- Muhammadu Buhari
Muhammadu Buhari (born December 17, 1942) was the military ruler of Nigeria (December 31,1983 - August 27, 1985) and an unsuccessful candidate for president in the April 19, 2003 presidential election. His ethnic background is Fulani and his faith is Islam; his family is from Katsina State.
- Yakubu Gowon
General Yakubu "Jack" Dan-Yumma Gowon (born October 19, 1934) was the head of state (Head of the Federal Military Government) of Nigeria from 1966 to 1975. He took power after one military coup d'etat and was overthrown in another. During his rule, the Nigerian government successfully prevented Biafran secession, and he subsequently followed a magnanimous "no victor, …
- Beatrix Of The Netherlands
Beatrix (born January 31, 1938 as "Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard, Prinses der Nederlanden, Prinses van Oranje-Nassau, Prinses van Lippe-Biesterfeld") has been the queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands since April 30, 1980.
- Ruhollah Khomeini
Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Ruhollah Mustafavi Khomeini (Persian: روح الله موسوی خمینی "Rūollāh Mūsavī Khomeynī" (September 21 1902 – June 3 1989) was a Shi`i Muslim cleric, philosopher and "marja" (religious authority), and the political leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution which saw the overthrow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran.
- Mireya Moscoso
Mireya Elisa Moscoso Rodríguez de Arias was the President of Panama from 1999 to 2004, representing the Arnulfista Party. Moscoco has an interior design diploma from Miami-Dade Community College in the United States, and she is the widow of former President Arnulfo Arias.
- Shehu Shagari
Alhaji Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari, "Turakin Sakkwato" (born May 25, 1925) was the President of Nigeria's ill-fated Second Republic (1979 - 1983), after the handover of power by General Olusegun Obasanjo's caretaker government. Shagari is a northerner of Fulani extraction and holds the title of "Turakin Sakkwato" in the Sokoto Caliphate. He was a schoolteacher for a brief period before entering politics in 1954, …
- Burhanuddin Rabbani
Burhanuddin Rabbani, an ethnic Tajik, is a former President of Afghanistan. Burhanuddin Rabbani is the leader of Jamiat-e Islami Afghanistan (Islamic Society of Afghanistan). He also served as the political head of the United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan (UIFSA), an alliance of various political groups who fought against Taliban rule in Afghanistan.
- Mohammed Omar
Mullah Mohammed Omar (born c. 1959, Nodeh, near Kandahar) or simply Mullah Omar, is the reclusive leader of the Taliban of Afghanistan and was Afghanistan's de facto head of state from 1996 to 2001, under the title Commander of the Faithful. Since the Post-9/11 war in Afghanistan began in 2001 he has been in hiding and wanted by U.S. authorities for harboring Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda organization. He is believed to be hiding in Pakistan.
- Philippe Pétain
Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain, generally known as Philippe Pétain or Marshal Pétain, was a French general, later Chief of State of Vichy France ("Chef de l'État Français"), from 1940 to 1944. Due to his military leadership in World War I, he was viewed as a hero in France, but his actions during World War II resulted in a conviction and death sentence for treason, …
- Georges Bidault
Georges-Augustin Bidault was a French politician and active in the French Resistance and Organisation armée secrète (OAS).
- Violeta Chamorro
Violeta Barrios de Chamorro (born October 18, 1929) is a Nicaraguan political leader and publisher. She was the forty-eighth President of Nicaragua from April 1990 to January 1997, and the first and to date only woman to hold that office. Chamorro was the second woman elected in her own right as a head of government in North America (behind Eugenia Charles of Dominica), and the first in Latin America.
- Murtala Mohammed
General Murtala Ramat Mohammed born (November 8, 1938-February 13, 1976) was a military ruler (Head of the Federal Military Government) of Nigeria,(1975-1976). Muhammed opposed the regime of Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi which took power after a coup d'etat on January 15, 1966, in which several Northern Nigerian leaders had been killed under gruesome circumstances. Thus he participated in the successful counter-coup of July 29, 1966, …
- Léon Blum
Léon Blum, French politician, was the Prime Minister of France three times: from 1936 to 1937, for one month in 1938, and from December 1946 to January 1947.
- Ernest Shonekan
Ernest Adegunle Oladeinde Shonekan (born 9 May 1936 in Lagos, south-west Nigeria) is a British trained Nigerian lawyer, industrialist and politician. He was appointed as interim president of Nigeria by General Ibrahim Babangida on 26 August 1993. Babangida resigned under pressure to cede control to a democratic government.
- Janet Jagan
Janet Rosalie Jagan was President of Guyana from 19 December 1997 to 11 August 1999, and also served as Prime Minister from 17 March 1997 up until her appointment as President. She was married to Cheddi Jagan, a Prime Minister and President of Guyana well known for his leftist leanings, from 1943 until his death in 1997. Janet Jagan was a communist political activist in her youth but moderated her stance later in her career.
- Nino Burjanadze
Nino Burjanadze (born on July 16, 1964 in Kutaisi, Georgia) was the interim President of Georgia from November 23, 2003 to January 25, 2004. She is a jurist and politician. (Her surname is also occasionally transliterated in English as "Burdzhanadze" or "Burdjanadze") She is currently serving as the Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia. Burjanadze's father is Anzor Burjanadze.
- Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga
- Mohammed Zahir Shah
Mohammed Zahir Shah (born 16 October 1914) was the last King ("Shah") of Afghanistan, reigning for four decades from 1933 to 1973.
- Moise Tshombe
Moise Kapenda Tshombe was a Congolese politician.
- Ruth Dreifuss
Ruth Dreifuss (born January 9, 1940 in St. Gallen) is a Swiss politician and former member of the Swiss Federal Council (1993-2002 representing the Republic and Canton of Geneva). She was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on March 10, 1993 (as the second woman ever and the only Jew so far). She is affiliated to the Social Democratic Party.
- Richard Cromwell
Richard Cromwell (4 October 1626 - 12 July 1712) was the third son of Oliver Cromwell, and the second Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland, for little over eight months, from 3 September 1658 until 25 May 1659. Richard Cromwell's enemies called him "Tumbledown Dick" and "Queen Dick".
- Ruth Perry
Ruth Sando Fahnbulleh Perry (born 1939) was leader of Liberia from 3 September 1996 until 2 August 1997 as chairwoman of the "Council of State," which governed Liberia following the overthrow and murder of former head of state Samuel K. Doe, and the end of the presidency of Amos Sawyer. The council of state consisted of a civilian chair, as well as members: Charles Taylor, United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy-K leader Alhaji Kromah, …
- Jacques-Charles Dupont de L'Eure
Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure (February 27, 1767 - March 3, 1855) was a French lawyer and statesman. He is best know as first head of state of the Second Republic, after collapse of the July Monarchy.
- Hideki Tojo
Hideki Tojo (Kyūjitai: 東條 英機; Shinjitai: 東条 英機; ' was a General in the Imperial Japanese Army and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during the time when Japan was Empire of Japan; he served as prime minister during much of World War II, from October 18 1941 to July 22 1944. He was sentenced to death for war crimes after the war and executed by hanging after a vote by judges of the International Military Tribunal of the Far East.
- Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir (born 15 April 1930) was the 4th president of Iceland, serving from 1980 to 1996. She was the world's first elected female president. She was Iceland's first female president, and their only one to date, however, her male successor is still in office.
- Bao Dai
Bao Dai still held great influence among local political figures in the Quảng Trị and Thừa Thiên-Huế provinces and also in the city of Huế, the ancient capital of Vietnam. The Communist government of North Vietnam sent representatives to France hoping that Bảo Đại would become a member of a coalition government which might reunite Vietnam, in the hope of attracting his supporters in the regions wherein he still held influence.