- Tony Clement
Anthony Peter "Tony" Clement, PC, BA, LL.B., MP (born January 27, 1961 in Manchester, England) is a Canadian politician, federal Minister of Health, Minister for the Federal Economic Initiative for Northern Ontario (FedNor) and member of the Conservative Party of Canada. Clement had previously served as an Ontario cabinet minister, most recently as Minister of Health and Long-Term Care under Premiers Mike Harris and Ernie Eves.
- Allan Rock
Allan Michael Rock, PC, BA, LL.B (born August 30, 1947) is a lawyer and former Canadian politician and diplomat. He was Canada's ambassador to the United Nations (2004-2006) and had previously served in the Cabinet of Jean Chrétien, most notably as Justice Minister (1993-1997) and Health Minister (1997-2002).
- Ujjal Dosanjh
Ujjal Singh Dosanjh, PC, MP, BA, LL.B (born September 9, 1947, Jalandhar) is a Canadian lawyer and politician, currently serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Vancouver South. He serves as critic for the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Offi ...
- Steven Fletcher
Steven John Fletcher, MP, BSc (Eng), MBA (born June 17, 1972) is a Canadian politician. He has served in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004, representing the riding of Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia as a member of the Conservative Party. He is the first quadriplegic to serve in the House of Commons. Fletcher is currently the parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Health and the minister for the Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario.
- Chua Soi Lek
Yang Berhormat Datuk Seri Dr. Chua Soi Lek is currently the Minister of Health in the Cabinet of Malaysia. He is the vice president of the Malaysian Chinese Association and the Member of Parliament for Labis, Johor.
- Robert Thibault
Robert G. Thibault, PC, MP, BBA (born September 29, 1959 in Digby, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian politician. Thibault is a current member of the Liberal Party of Canada in the Canadian House of Commons, serving his third term as the representative of West Nova. He served as a municipal councillor in Clare, Nova Scotia from 1988 to 2001. He won his first federal election in 2000. He was named Minister of State (Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency) in 2001.
- Neville Chamberlain
Arthur Neville Chamberlain (18 March 1869 - 9 November 1940), known as Neville Chamberlain, was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940. Chamberlain's legacy is marked by his policy of appeasement towards Nazi Germany regarding the concession of Czechoslovakia to Adolf Hitler, marked by the Munich Agreement in 1938. In the same year he also gave up the Irish Free State Royal Navy ports.
- Diane Marleau
Diane Marleau, PC, MP (born June 21 1943 in Kirkland Lake, Ontario) is a Canadian politician and former Cabinet minister. Before being elected to the Canadian House of Commons, she served as an alderman in Sudbury, Ontario and as a regional councillor in the Regional Municipality of Sudbury from 1980 to 1985. She was first elected to the House of Commons as the Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Sudbury in the 1988 election, a seat she presently holds.
- Jim Wilson
Jim Wilson is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He has been a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1990, initially representing Simcoe West and later Simcoe—Grey for the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. Wilson was educated at St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto where he served on Student Council President and as a member of the university's governing council.
- Xavier Bertrand
Xavier Bertrand is a French politician. He is the current Minister of Labour, Social Affairs and Solidarity in François Fillon's second government. He was for over two years Minister of Health in Dominique de Villepin's government under President Jacques Chirac. He played a foremost role in Nicolas Sarkozy's presidential campaign in 2007.
- Roselyne Bachelot
Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, generally known as Roselyne Bachelot (born 24 December 1946 in Nevers), is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the west of France. She currently is the French Minister of Health, Youth Affairs and Sport. She is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement, which is part of the European People's Party, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.
- Jake Epp
Arthur Jacob "Jake" Epp, PC (born September 1 1939) is an executive and former Canadian politician. Born into a Mennonite family in Manitoba, Jake Epp was a High School history teacher in Steinbach, Manitoba before entering politics. Jake Epp was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) in the 1972 election for the riding of Provencher, …
- Kenneth Robinson
The Rt. Hon. Kenneth Robinson (19 March 1911-16 February 1996) was a British Labour politician who served as Minister of Health in Harold Wilson's first government, from 1964 to 1968, when the position was merged into the new title of Secretary of State for Social Services.
- Simone Veil
Simone Veil, DBE (born 13 July 1927) is a French lawyer and politician who served as a member of the Constitutional Council of France.
- Els Borst
Prof.dr. Else Borst-Eilers (born March 22, 1932 in Amsterdam) is a former Dutch politician, she led Democrats 66 (D66)) in the 1998 election campaign and served as Ministry of Public Health, Wellbeing and Sports for eight years, the last four as deputy prime minister. Before entering politics she has a distinguished career in medicine.
- José Serra
José Serra (born March 19, 1942 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian politician, former minister, mayor of São Paulo and current Governor of São Paulo state.
- Colm Imbert
Colm "Peter" Imbert is a politician from Trinidad and Tobago. He is a member of the House of Representatives of Trinidad and Tobago and the People's National Movement (PNM) and is the Member of Parliament for the constituency of Diego Martin East. He is also the Minister of Works and Transport of Trinidad and Tobago which he will remain as until the General Elections which is carded for October of 2007 or his post is changed by the Prime Minister.
- Kingsley Wood
Sir Howard Kingsley Wood (19 August 1881 - 21 September 1943) was a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom. He was first elected to office as member of the London County Council in 1911, and was elected to parliament in 1918. He served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health in the Conservative Government from 1924 to 1929 and entered the National Government of Ramsay MacDonald in 1931, and served as Postmaster General, Minister of Health, …
- Myrna Driedger
Myrna Driedger is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. She is currently a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba. Before entering provincial politics, Driedger worked as a nurse for 23 years. She served as C.E.O. of Child Find Manitoba, and was Co-Chair of the province's Abuse Prevention Services Adult Advisory Committee. She has also participated in other groups which provide services to poor and vulnerable children.
- Stan Struthers
Stan Struthers is a Manitoba politician, and a current member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for the New Democratic Party. Born in Swan River, Manitoba, Struthers graduated from Swan Valley Regional Secondary School in 1977, and later received his Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education degrees from Brandon University, and his Masters of Education from the University of Manitoba.
- Darren Praznik
Darren Thomas Praznik (born May 9, 1961) is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a prominent cabinet minister in the Progressive Conservative government of Gary Filmon, and considered running for the party's leadership in 2000. Praznik was born in Selkirk, Manitoba, and attended the University of Winnipeg and the University of Manitoba. He was called to the Manitoba bar in 1986, and worked as a barrister and solicitor.
- Frances Lankin
Frances Lankin is President and CEO, United Way of Greater Toronto, which works to strengthen neighbourhoods in Toronto by funding a network of 200 social and health service agencies. In January 2004, the charity celebrated its most successful fundraising campaign ever, raising $84.3 million for its agencies, as well as other United Ways and charities designated by donors.
- Perrin Beatty
Henry Perrin Beatty, PC (born June 1, 1950) is a corporate executive and former Canadian politician. Perrin Beatty first won election to the Canadian House of Commons as a Progressive Conservative at the age of 22 in the 1972 election. He is a graduate of Upper Canada College in Toronto, Ontario, and of the University of Western Ontario in London.
- David Rath
David Rath is a doctor, a politician and the former Minister of Health for the Czech Republic. He is a member of the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD).
- David Chomiak
David Walter Chomiak (February 15, 1953-) is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He is currently a cabinet minister in the New Democratic Party government of Gary Doer. Chomiak was born in Winnipeg and grew up in East Kildonan graduating from Miles MacDonell Collegiate, and currently lives in the West Kildonan area. He worked as a lawyer before entering politics, and was a member of the Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Centre, …
- Walter Elliot
Walter Elliot Elliot <sup>1<;/sup> (19 September 1888 - 8 January 1958) was a prominent Scottish Unionist Party politician in the interwar years. The son of a Lanarkshire farmer, Elliot was raised in Glasgow and educated at the Glasgow Academy and the University of Glasgow, where he studied science and medicine. He then became a medical officer to the Scots Greys and served in the First World War where he gained a Military Cross.
- Francesco Storace
Francesco Storace (Cassino, 25 January 1959) is an Italian politician. He began his career at the post-fascist newspaper "Il Secolo d'Italia", until entering the ranks of the Italian Social Movement (MSI) and later of National Alliance (AN). He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for the first time in 1994. At the time he was the spokesman of Gianfranco Fini. In April 2000 he was elected President of Lazio, but failed the re-election in 2005, …
- Murray Elston
Murray John Elston (born October 8, 1949 in Wingham, Ontario) is an executive and former Canadian politician. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1981 to 1994, and was a prominent cabinet minister in the government of David Peterson. He briefly served as interim leader of the Liberal Party in 1991. Elston was educated at the University of Western Ontario, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree and a law degree.
- Rosy Bindi
Maria Rosaria Bindi, best known as Rosy Bindi (born february 12, 1951) is an Italian politician, currently a member of the centre party "Margherita". Born in Sinalunga (Tuscany), she graduated in Political science. She was next to the jurist Vittorio Bachelet when he was assainated by the Red Brigades in 1980. She held the position of vice-president of Azione Cattolica, the most popular Italian Catholic lay association, from 1984 to 1989.
- Frank Miller
Frank Stuart Miller, O.Ont (May 14, 1927 - July 21, 2000) was a Canadian politician, who served briefly as Premier of Ontario for four months in 1985.
- Tomáš Julínek
Tomáš Julínek is a politician and Minister of Health for the Czech Republic. He is a member of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS). Julínek received his degree from Masaryk University in 1982. Julínek was appointed Minister of Health in September 2006 to replace David Rath whose radical reforms of the Czech health system were strongly opposed by the country’s doctors.
- Arthur Griffith-Boscawen
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Arthur Sackville Trevor Griffith-Boscawen PC (18 October 1865 - 1 June 1946) was a British Conservative Party politician whose career was cut short by repeatedly losing a string of Parliamentary elections. Griffith-Boscawen was born in Trefalun, Denbighshire. He was educated at Rugby School and Queen's College, Oxford. In 1892 he was elected an MP and in his early years he carved out a niche for himself as a parliamentary Churchman.
- Henry Willink
Sir Henry Urmston Willink, 1st Baronet (7 March, 1894 - 20 July, 1973), was a British politician and public servant. He is best known for his service in the Conservative as Minister of Health from 1943-1945 in the wartime Coalition Government of the United Kingdom. He proposed many of the bases of the National Health Service later taken up by the Labour Party.
- David A. Dodge
Mr. Dodge was appointed Governor of the Bank of Canada on 1 February 2001, for a term of seven years. As Governor, he is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank. A native of Toronto, Mr. Dodge received a bachelor's degree (Honours) in Economics from Queen's University, and a PhD in Economics from Princeton (1972).
- Judy Lamarsh
Julia Verlyn (Judy) LaMarsh, PC, OC (December 20, 1924 - October 27, 1980) was a Canadian politician, author and broadcaster. Of French and English descent, LaMarsh was born in Chatham, Ontario, and raised in Niagara Falls. Although she trained as a teacher, she never taught school. She enlisted in the Canadian Women's Army Corps, travelled the country from 1943 to 1946 and attained the rank of sergeant.
- Larry Grossman
Lawrence "Larry" Sheldon Grossman (born December 2, 1943 in Toronto, Ontario; died June 1997) was a politician in Ontario, Canada, and a noted baseball fan. He was the son of Allan Grossman, who had represented a downtown Toronto riding in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for twenty years after defeating Ontario's last Communist Member of Provincial Parliament, J. B. Salsberg.
- Michel Poniatowski
Michel Poniatowski. He was a Polish Prince and French politician. He was a founder of the Independent Republicans and a part of the government of President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. Poniatowski served as Minister of Health from 1973 to 1974 and Minister of the Interior in the d'Estaing government from 1974 to 1977. He also was a founder and honorary president of the UDF.
- Hilary Marquand
Hilary Adair Marquand PC (24 December 1901 - 6 November 1972) was a British Labour Party politician. He was educated at Cardiff High School and at University College, Cardiff (State Scholar) where he studied history and economics. He was a lecturer in Economics at the University of Birmingham from 1926-1930, and Professor of Industrial Relations, University College, Cardiff, 1930-1945. He was Director of Industrial Surveys of South Wales, 1931 and 1936, …
- Dennis Timbrell
Dennis Roy Timbrell is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1971 to 1987, and was a cabinet minister in the governments of William Davis and Frank Miller. Timbrell was born in Kingston, Ontario, and educated at York University in Toronto. He worked as a teacher before entering provincial politics, and served as an alderman in North York from January 1970 until September 1, 1972.
- Miroslav Macek
Miroslav Macek is a politician and former Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic. A former dentist, Macek is well known for his association with current Czech President Vaclav Klaus, his deep implication in the occult funding of Klaus' ODS party, his attempt to "privatize" for himself a large publishing company, and brutal tactics (including physical violence). In May 2006 Macek made international news when, coming from behind, …