- Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq and Chairman of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council from 1979 until his overthrow by US forces in 2003. He was executed after being found guilty of war crimes at his trial in 2006. He was a member of the revolutionary Ba'ath Party, which espoused secular pan-Arabism, economic modernization, and Arab socialism. Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup that brought the party to long-term power.
- Ban Ki-Moon
Ban Ki-moon (born June 13 1944 in Eumseong, North Chungcheong, Korea) is a South Korean diplomat and the current Secretary-General of the United Nations. He succeeded Kofi Annan in this capacity on January 1 2007. Ban was the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Korea from January 2004 to November 1 2006. On October 13 2006, he was elected to be the eighth Secretary-General by the United Nations General Assembly and was sworn in on December 14 2006.
- 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.
- Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie (born June 4, 1975) is an American film actress, a former fashion model, and a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. She is often cited by popular media as the world's sexiest person and her off-screen life is widely reported. She has received three Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and an Academy Award. After appearing as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in the 1982 film "Lookin' to Get Out", …
- Thomas Tancredo
I am a US House Representative for the state of CO. I am a Republican. My religion is Christian. I am Married. I received my BA from University of Northern Colorado. I live in Littleton. I was born in North Denver, CO. For issues within my power to resolve, write me at "6099 South Quebec St., Ste. 200, Centennial, CO 80111".
- Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Boutros Boutros-Ghali is an Egyptian diplomat who was the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1992 to December 1996.
- Shashi Tharoor
Shashi Tharoor , Former United Nations Under-Secretary General for Communications and Public Information, and Author, India: From Midnight to the Millennium and Beyond
- Martti Ahtisaari
Martti Oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari (born June 23, 1937) is a former President of Finland (1994-2000) and a UN diplomat and mediator, noted for his international peace work. Currently he is the UN representative and mediator during the Vienna peace talks that will determine the final status of Serbia's southern province, Kosovo (which has been under UN administration since 1999). In his proposal to the UN Security Council he has recommended supervised independence for Kosovo.
- 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.
- David Suzuki
David Takayoshi Suzuki, CC, OBC, Ph.D (born March 24 1936), is a Canadian science broadcaster and environmental activist. Since the mid 1970s, Suzuki has become known for his TV and radio series and books about nature and the environment. He is best known as host of the popular and long-running CBC Television science magazine, "The Nature of Things", seen in syndication in over 40 nations.
- U Thant
U Thant was a Burmese diplomat and the third Secretary-General of the United Nations, from 1961 to 1971. He was chosen for the post when his predecessor Dag Hammarskjöld was killed in an air crash in September 1961. 'U' is an honorific in Burmese, roughly equal to 'Mister'. Thant was his only name. In Burmese he was known as Pantanaw U Thant, a reference to his home town of Pantanaw.
- Dan Gillerman
Dan Gillerman, born in British Mandate Palestine in 1944, is Israel's 13th Permanent Representative to the United Nations. He was appointed in July 2002 and assumed his post on January 1, 2003. Educated at Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Gillerman served as the CEO of several Israeli companies, Chairman of the Federation of Israeli Chambers of Commerce, …
- John Foster Dulles
John Foster Dulles (February 25, 1888 - May 24, 1959) served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. He was a significant figure in the early Cold War era, advocating an aggressive stance against communism around the world. He advocated support of the French in their war against the Viet Minh in Indochina and famously refused to shake the hand of Zhou Enlai at the Geneva Conference in 1954.
- Michael Dukakis
Michael Stanley Dukakis (born November 3, 1933) is an American Democratic politician, former Governor of Massachusetts, and the Democratic presidential nominee in 1988. He was born to Greek-immigrant parents in Brookline, Massachusetts and was the longest serving governor in Massachusetts' history
- Kurt Waldheim
Kurt Josef Waldheim was an Austrian diplomat and politician. At the time of his death from congestive heart failure at age 88, Waldheim was the oldest living former Secretary-General of the United Nations and the oldest living former Austrian President, having served in these roles from 1972 to 1981 and 1986 to 1992, respectively.
- Jay Garner
Jay Montgomery Garner (born April 15, 1938) is a retired United States Army general who was appointed in 2003 as Director of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance for Iraq following the 2003 invasion of Iraq but was soon replaced by L. Paul Bremer. Born in Arcadia, Florida, Garner served a hitch with the Marines before attending Florida State University, where he received a degree in history in 1962.
- Ann Veneman
Ann M. Veneman is first UNICEF Executive Director to visit Swaziland © UNICEF/HQ05-0695/Nesbitt UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman joins children at the Dvumbe Primary School, south-east of Mbabane, Swaziland.
- Jayantha Dhanapala
Jayantha Dhanapala is a member of the Board of Sponsors of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Dr. Dhanapala was Sri Lanka's official candidate for the post of Secretary-General of the United Nations, before withdrawing from the race on 29 September 2006.
- Ian Martin
Ian Martin is a human rights activist who has been involved in a number of Human Rights organisation. He is currently the Personal Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General in Nepal for Support to the Peace Process. He has been: *Secretary-General of Amnesty International from 1986 to 1992. *Director-General of The UN/OAS International Civilian Mission in Haiti 1993 and 1994-5. *Chief of the UN Human Rights Field Operation in Rwanda 1995-96.
- Raoul Wallenberg
Raoul Gustav Wallenberg was a Swedish humanitarian sent to Budapest, Hungary under diplomatic cover to rescue Jews from the Holocaust. He worked to save the lives of many Hungarian Jews in the later stages of World War II by issuing them protective passports from the Swedish embassy. These documents identified the bearers as Swedish nationals awaiting repatriation. It is impossible to determine exactly how many Jews were rescued by his actions.
- Jacques Attali
Jacques Attali French writer, music critic, statesman
- Álvaro Uribe
President Uribe reacted to this most recent scandal by purging the military. But he tellingly said that human-rights scandals "make us look bad," as if the problem were simply one of perception. He also called a representative of Human Rights Watch, an organization that helped uncover the violations, an "accomplice of the FARC," Colombia's largest guerrilla group.
- Richard Goldstone
Richard J. Goldstone, (born October 26, 1938), South African judge and international war crimes prosecutor.
- Abdus Salam
Abdus Salam (January 29, 1926 at Santokdas, Sahiwal in Punjab - November 21, 1996 in Oxford, England) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 for his work in Electro-Weak Theory which is the mathematical and conceptual synthesis of the Electromagnetic and Weak interactions, the latest stage in the effort to provide a unified description of the four fundamental forces of nature.
- Trygve Lie
Trygve Halvdan Lie (July 16, 1896 - December 30, 1968) was a Norwegian politician. From 1946 to 1952 he was the first elected Secretary-General of the United Nations. Lie was born in Oslo (then Kristiania) on 16 July 1896. Lie's father, Martin, left the family to work as a carpenter in the United States and his mother, Hulda, ran a boarding house.
- Elisabeth Bumiller
Elisabeth Bumiller (born May 15, 1956), an American journalist and former White House correspondent for the "New York Times".
- Timothy Garton Ash
Timothy Garton Ash is a renowned historian, columnist, essayist and author. He is currently director of the European Studies Centre and a Gerd Bucerius Senior Research Fellow in Contemporary History at St. Antony's College, Oxford. He is also a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University , a fellow of the European Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of Arts and a governor of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy.
- Dith Pran
Dith Pran was born into a respectable family in 1942. He grew up in Siemp Reap, Cambodia. Cambodia was under the rule of the French, but at the time the Japanese army had invaded it. Although most of Cambodia was poor, he grew up in a family with at least a little bit of money. His father had a high ranking job in the government, and while most had to work, Pran was able to go to school.
- Raphael Lemkin
Raphael Lemkin and "-cide" (Latin for killing). He first used the word in print in "Axis Rule in Occupied Europe: Laws of Occupation - Analysis of Government - Proposals for Redress" (1944).
- Roméo Dallaire
Lieutenant-General Roméo Alain Dallaire, OC, CMM, GOQ, MSC, CD, B.Sc, LL.D (h.c.) (born June 25, 1946 in Denekamp, The Netherlands) is a Canadian senator, humanitarian, author and retired general. Dallaire is widely known for having served as Force Commander of UNAMIR, the ill-fated United Nations peacekeeping force for Rwanda between 1993 and 1994, and for trying to stop a war of genocide that was being waged by Hutu extremists against Tutsis and Hutu moderates.
- Gough Whitlam
Edward Gough Whitlam, AC, QC (born 11 July 1916), known as Gough Whitlam (pronounced "Goff"), is an Australian former politician and 21st Prime Minister of Australia. After initially falling short of gaining enough seats to win government at the 1969 election, Whitlam led the Labor Party in to government at the 1972 election after 23 years of conservative government in Australia.
- Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida (July 15, 1930 - October 8, 2004) was an Algerian-born French philosopher, known as the founder of deconstruction. His voluminous work had a profound impact upon continental philosophy, French philosophy, and literary theory.
- Jessie Street
Born in Chota Nagpur, Bihar, India, Jessie Mary Grey Street (April 18, 1889 - July 2, 1970) was an Australian suffragette, feminist and human rights campaigner. She was a key figure in Australian political life for over 50 years, from the women's suffrage struggle in England to the removal of Australia’s constitutional discrimination against Aboriginal people in 1967. She is recognised both in Australia and internationally for her activism in women's rights, …
- Shirley Temple
Shirley Jane Temple (born April 23, 1928) later known as Shirley Temple Black, is an American former child actress. She starred in over 40 films during the 1930s. She was later a diplomat and is now retired
- Francis Deng
Dr Francis Mading Deng is Research Professor of International Politics, Law and Society at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, where he is also the Director of a newly established Center for Displacement Studies. He has served as Human Rights Officer in the United Nations Secretariat, as Ambassador of Sudan to Canada, the Scandinavian countries and the United States of America, and as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs.
- Sidney Poitier
Sir Sidney Poitier KBE, (born February 20 1927), is an Academy Award-winning Bahamian American actor, film director, and activist. He broke through as a star in acclaimed performances in American films and plays, which, by consciously defying racial stereotyping, gave a new dramatic credibility for black actors to mainstream film audiences in the Western world.
- Sue Kedgley
Sue Kedgley (born 1948), BA (Victoria University), TTC (Auckland University), MA (Hons) (Otago University), a New Zealand politician, has represented the Green Party in the New Zealand Parliament since first becoming a Member of Parliament as a list MP in the 1999 elections. She won re-election in the 2002 and 2005 elections. She currently fills the 3rd slot on the Green Party list.
- Sharad Pawar
Sharadchandra Govind Rao Pawar (born December 12, 1940) Maratha strongman and president of the Nationalist Congress Party which he formed in 1999 in India.
- Danielle Pletka
Danielle Pletka Print Mail Vice President, Foreign and Defense Policy Studies Danielle Pletka is the vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at AEI. Her research areas include the Middle East, South Asia , terrorism, and weapons proliferation. While at AEI, Ms. Pletka has developed a conference series on rebuilding post-Saddam Iraq and a project on democracy in the Arab world.
- Hans Corell
Hans Corell (born July 7, 1939) is a Swedish diplomat. Between March 1994 and March 2004 he was Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and the Legal Counsel of the United Nations. In this capacity, he was head of the Office of Legal Affairs in the United Nations Secretariat. Before joining the United Nations in 1994, Corell was an Ambassador and Under-Secretary for Legal and Consular Affairs in the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs.