- Ion Iliescu
Ion Iliescu is a Romanian politician. He was the elected President of Romania for eleven years (three terms), from 1990 to 1992, 1992 to 1996, and 2000 to 2004. His first and second terms were separated from the third term by the presidency of Emil Constantinescu. His successor is the former Democratic Party leader Traian Băsescu. Currently, Iliescu is Senator for the Social Democratic Party (PSD), which is the largest single political party in Romania.
- Kurt Beck
Kurt Beck (born February 5, 1949) is a German politician and since 1994 the prime minister of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz), serving as President of the Bundesrat in 2000/01. He was officially elected as chairman of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) on May 14 2006 with the approval of 95 % of the delegates. He succeeded Matthias Platzeck who resigned on April 10, 2006 due to medical reasons
- Olof Palme
Sven Olof Joachim Palme (January 30, 1927 - March 1, 1986) was a Swedish politician. Palme was the leader of the Social Democratic Party from 1969 to 1986 and was the Prime Minister of Sweden with a Privy Council Government from 1969 to 1976 and a cabinet government from 1982 until his assassination in 1986.
- Franz Müntefering
"'"' (born January 16, 1940) is a German politician and former chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Since November 22, 2005 he has served as Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs and Vice-Chancellor in the cabinet of Angela Merkel
- Roy Jenkins
Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead OM PC (11 November 1920 - 5 January 2003) was a British politician. Once prominent as a Labour Member of Parliament (MP) and government minister in the 1960s and 1970s, he went on to be President of the European Commission (1977-81) and one of the four principal founders of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in 1981. He was also a distinguished writer, especially of biographies.
- Mizuho Fukushima
Mizuho Fukushima is a Japanese politician. She is the current chair of Social Democratic Party of Japan, a position she has held since 2003.
- David Owen
David Anthony Llewellyn Owen, Baron Owen, CH, PC (born July 2, 1938) is a British politician, Chancellor of the University of Liverpool and one of the founders of the British Social Democratic Party (SDP). He led the SDP from 1983 to 1987 and the re-formed SDP from 1988 to 1990.
- Max Weber
Max Weber was a Swiss politician. He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on December 13, 1951 and handed over office on January 31, 1954. He was affiliated to the Social Democratic Party. During his time in office he held the Department of Finance. als:Max Weber (Politiker)
- Poul Nyrup Rasmussen
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, informal: (born June 15, 1943 in Esbjerg) was the Prime Minister of Denmark from January 25, 1993 to November 27, 2001, and is currently a Member of the European Parliament and President of the Party of European Socialists (PES). He was the leader of the governing Social Democrats from 1992 to 2002 where he was succeeded by Mogens Lykketoft.
- David Steel
David Martin Scott Steel, Baron Steel of Aikwood, KT, KBE, PC (born 31 March 1938) is a British and Scottish politician and a Liberal Democrat member of the UK House of Lords. He was leader of the Liberal Party from 1976 until its 1988 merger with the Social Democratic Party that formed the Liberal Democrats, and was briefly joint interim leader of the new party, then known as the Social and Liberal Democrats.
- Charles Kennedy
Charles Peter Kennedy (born 25 November 1959), is a British politician. From 9 August 1999 until 7 January 2006, he was the leader of the Liberal Democrats, the third largest political party in the United Kingdom. Born in Inverness, Scotland, Charles Kennedy studied for a Master of Arts degree in Politics and Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. At university, he became politically active, was elected president of Glasgow University Union, …
- Hans-Dietrich Genscher
Hans-Dietrich Genscher (born March 21, 1927) is a German politician and member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP). He was Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1974-1992, making him Germany's longest serving Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor
- Tomiichi Murayama
Tomiichi Murayama is a retired Japanese politician who served as the 81st Prime Minister of Japan from June 30, 1994 to January 11, 1996. He was the head of the Social Democratic Party of Japan (until 1996 the Japan Socialist Party) and the first Socialist prime minister in nearly fifty years. He is most remembered today for his speech "On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the war's end," in which he publicly apologized for Japanese atrocities during World War II.
- Ingvar Carlsson
Ingvar Carlsson (born 9 November 1934 in Borås, Västra Götaland County (then Älvsborg County), Sweden), is a Swedish politician, former Prime Minister of Sweden (March 1986-October 1991; October 1994-March 1996) and leader of the Social Democratic Party (March 1986-March 1996). In 1965, after completing his studies at Northwestern University in the United States, he was elected member of the Swedish Parliament.
- Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Toomas Hendrik Ilves (born December 26, 1953) is the current President of Estonia. He is a former diplomat and journalist, was the leader of the Social Democratic Party in the 1990s and later a member of the European Parliament. His term as President began on 9 October, 2006.
- Daniel de Leon
Daniel De Leon was a Curaçao-born American socialist and Syndicalism-influenced trade unionist of Jewish origin. He was educated in Germany and the Netherlands and arrived in the United States in 1874. De Leon settled in New York City, studying at Columbia University. He became a committed socialist during the 1886 Mayoral campaign of Henry George and in 1890 joined the Socialist Labor Party (SLP), becoming the editor of its newspaper, "The People".
- Emil Boc
Emil Boc is a Romanian politician. He was elected in June 2004 as the Mayor of Cluj-Napoca, the largest city in Transylvania. Boc is also president of the Democratic Party of Romania, the party of President Traian Băsescu. He assumed the position of mayor after the 2004 defeat of Romanian far right nationalist Gheorghe Funar, who had been mayor of Cluj-Napoca for twelve years, first as a member of the Romanian National Unity Party, and then, …
- Charity Ngilu
Charity Ngilu is a Kenyan politician and the minister of health since 2002. Ngilu was born in Mbooni, Makueni District in 1952. She worked as a secretary for Central Bank of Kenya, before becoming an entrepreneur. She acted as a director of a plastics extrusion factory. Ngilu has been the leader of the Maendeleo Ya Wanawake, a women’s movement, since 1989.
- Paulo Portas
Paulo de Sacadura Cabral Portas, commonly known just by Paulo Portas, pron., is a Portuguese politician and former Portuguese minister of State, National Defense and Sea Affairs. Born into a bourgeois family in Lisbon, with roots in Vila Viçosa on the paternal side and agricultural aristocracy of the side of his mother, Portas grew up in a political family. His father, Nuno Portas, was a progressive, left-wing Roman Catholic.
- Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul
Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul is a German politician and a member of the Social Democratic Party since 1965. Wieczorek-Zeul is a prominent figure of the Social Democrats' left wing and therefore often called 'Red Heidi'. From 1974- 1977 she was the chairperson of the Jusos. In 1993, she stood for the Social Democrats' candidacy for the chancellor's office, but Rudolf Scharping came in first. Since Gerhard Schröder (SPD) became German chancellor in 1998, …
- Moritz Leuenberger
Moritz Leuenberger is a Swiss politician, lawyer, member of the Swiss Federal Council since 1995 and President of the Confederation for the years 2001 and 2006. Leuenberger was elected to the Federal Council on September 27, 1995 as a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPS/PSS) from the Canton of Zürich. From 1991 to 1995, he was a member of the government of the Canton of Zurich. Since 1995, Leuenberger has headed the Federal Department of Environment, Transport, …
- Kiyomi Tsujimoto
Kiyomi Tsujimoto (born 28 April 1960) is a Japanese politician from the Social Democratic Party (SDP), formerly the Japan Socialist Party.
- Adrian Severin
Adrian Severin (born 28 March 1954 in Bucharest) is a Romanian politician and Member of the European Parliament. A former member of the National Salvation Front and the Democratic Party, Severin was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania between 12 December 1996 and 29 December 1997, as part of the Victor Ciorbea cabinet. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party, part of the Group of the Party of European Socialists, …
- James Orengo
James Orengo is a lawyer and former presidential candidate in Kenya. He comes from Ugenya constituency of Siaya District; he was educated at Ambira Primary School and the Alliance High School. He is law graduate of the University of Nairobi where he was the student body president in his final year. He graduated in 1974. James Orengo is well known for his fight against unjust rule.
- Jan Eliasson
Jan Kenneth Eliasson (born 17 September 1940) is a Swedish diplomat with connections to the Social Democratic party. He is the former President of the United Nations General Assembly and was Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs since April 24, 2006 until October 6 2006. He is currently the United Nations Secretary General Special Envoy to Darfur, Sudan.
- Otto Grotewohl
Otto Grotewohl (March 11, 1894 - September 21 1964) was an East German politician. Grotewohl was born in Braunschweig. A leader of the Social Democratic Party in the Soviet Zone of Occupation after World War II, he led his party into a merger with the Communist Party led by Wilhelm Pieck in April 1946, forming the new Socialist Unity Party (SED). Grotewohl and Pieck had received the Eulenberg estate as a life gift from the Soviet Government for the merger.
- Sorin Oprescu
Sorin Mircea Oprescu (born November 7, 1951 in Bucharest) is a Romanian Social Democratic (PSD) politician and doctor. He has been a senator representing the PSD since 2000 and is currently the vice president of the Senate Committee for Public Health. In February 2006, Oprescu also became the president of the Social Democratic Party's Bucharest branch. Oprescu is divorced.
- Adrian Năstase
Adrian Năstase is a Romanian politician who was the Prime Minister of Romania from December 2000 to December 2004. He competed as the Social Democratic Party (PSD) candidate in the 2004 presidential election, but was defeated by centre-right Justice and Truth (DA) Alliance candidate Traian Băsescu. He was the President of the Chamber of Deputies from December 21 2004 until 15 March 2006, when he resigned due to corruption charges.
- Hans-Ulrich Klose
Hans-Ulrich Klose is a German politician from the Social Democratic Party and is now 2007 member of the German Federal Diet ("Bundestag"). Klose was the First Mayor ("Erster Bürgermeister") of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg from 1974 up to 1981, serving as President of the Bundesrat in 1979/80.
- Bruno Amoussou
Bruno Ange-Marie Amoussou is a Beninese politician and leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD). He was the president of the National Assembly from April 1995 to April 1999 and Minister of State in charge of planning and prospective development under President Mathieu Kérékou from 1999 to 2005. In April 1999, Amoussou, who was the favored candidate of Kérékou for the presidency of the National Assembly, was defeated by Adrien Houngbédji in a parliamentary vote.
- Gustav Bauer
"'"' (6 January 1870 - 16 September 1944) was a German Social Democratic Party leader and Chancellor of Germany from 1919 to 1920. Born in Darkehmen near Königsberg in East Prussia, Bauer, who rose to notice through his leadership of a white-collar trade union, served from 1908 to 1918 as chairman of the General Commission of Trade Unions for all of Germany. A member of the Reichstag, Bauer entered Prince Max of Baden's government in October 1918 as Minister of Labour, …
- Otto Strasser
Otto Johann Maximilian Strasser was a German politician and left-wing member of the National Socialist (Nazi) party who rejected some of Adolf Hitler's ideas and more moderate economical tendencies (those opposed to a radical socialist change and revolution). Strasser subsequently formed his own faction within the Nazi Party, along with his brother, Gregor Strasser.
- Leo Jogiches
Leo Jogiches, also known by his party name Tyska or Tyshko (was born 17 July 1867 in the multi national city of Vilnius and died 10 March 1919 in Berlin). He was a Marxist revolutionary active in Lithuania, Poland and Germany. A contemporary in Vilnius of Felix Dzerzhinsky and Arkadi Kemer, little is known of his early years due to his secretive work habits ingrained through years of conspiratorial work.
- Seiji Mataichi
Seiji Mataichi is a Japanese politician and member of the House of Councillors for the Social Democratic Party.
- Gheorghe Funar
Gheorghe Funar is a nationalist Romanian politician, who rose to fame as mayor of Cluj-Napoca between 1992 and 2004. He became well known for his very strong nationalist stance in favor of ethnic Romanians in Cluj-Napoca, which is a multi-ethnic city with an ethnic Romanian majority (79.39%) and a significant ethnic Hungarian population (18.96%). Other ethnic groups include Roma and Germans. Cluj-Napoca is considered to be the capital city of Transylvania, …
- Scottish Liberal Democrats
The Scottish Liberal Democrats are one of the three state parties within the federal structure of the British Liberal Democrats; the others being the English and the Welsh parties. The party is the successor to the Scottish Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party in Scotland, following the merger of these parties in 1988. The Scottish Liberal Democrats have 16 of 129 seats in the Scottish Parliament, 12 of 59 Scottish seats in the UK Parliament, …
- 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.
- Andres Tarand
Andres Tarand (born 11 January 1940 in Tallinn), is an Estonian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Social Democratic Party, part of the Party of European Socialists. Tarand also served as the Prime Minister of Estonia from 1994 to 1995. Born in Tallinn, Tarand graduated from the University of Tartu with a degree in climatology in 1963. After receiving his first degree he continued his studies at Tartu receiving a second degree in geography in 1973.
- Eiki Nestor
Eiki Nestor (born September 5 1953) is an Estonian politician. He was the leader of the Social Democratic Party of Estonia from 1994 to 1996. Nestor has been a member of the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th Parliament of Estonia, being a Minister without Portfolio in charge of regional affairs from 1994 to 1995 and a Minister of Social Affairs from 1999 to 2002.
- Vincent Cable
Dr (John) Vincent Cable (born 9 May 1943, York) is a British Liberal Democrat politician and economist. He is Member of Parliament for Twickenham and has been the Liberal Democrats' Shadow Chancellor since 2003, having previously served as Chief Economist for the oil company Shell. He was elected as deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats in March, 2006.