- John McCain
John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936 in Panama Canal Zone) is an American politician, decorated war veteran, and currently the Republican Senior U.S. Senator from Arizona. He was a presidential candidate in the 2000 election, but was defeated by George W. Bush for the Republican nomination. On February 28, 2007, during a guest appearance on "The Late Show with David Letterman", …
- John Edwards
Johnny Reid "John" Edwards (born June 10 1953), is an American politician who was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2004 and a one-term U.S. Senator from North Carolina. On December 27 2006, he announced his entry into the 2008 Presidential election. Edwards was a trial lawyer before entering politics.
- Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton is a junior Democratic Senator from New York. Married to former President Bill Clinton , she was First Lady from 1993 to 2001. She is currently seeking the Democratic nomination for President in 2008 and is considered the front-runner. Mike Huckabee
- Fred Thompson
Frederick Dalton "Fred" Thompson (born August 19 1942) is an American lawyer, lobbyist, and character actor. He represented Tennessee as a Republican in the U.S. Senate from 1994 thru 2003. Thompson resides in McLean, Virginia near Washington D.C. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Visiting Fellow with the American Enterprise Institute, specializing in national security and intelligence. As an actor, Thompson has performed in film and on television.
- Jesse Jackson
Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. (born October 8, 1941) is a professional civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988, and is a prominent leader of the American Christian left. He is the father of Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr.
- Bob Barr
Bob Barr represented the 7th District of Georgia in the U. S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003, serving as a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, as Vice-Chairman of the Government Reform Committee, and as a member of the Committee on Financial Services. Bob Barr occupies the 21st Century Liberties Chair for Freedom and Privacy at the American Conservative Union, and serves as a Board Member of the National Rifle Association.
- Garry Kimovich Kasparov
After long term friction with the international chess organisation, FIDE, Kasparov set up the rival organisation, the Professional Chess Association (PCA) and arranged a World Championship match in 1993 in which he beat British Grandmaster, Nigel Short. At the same time FIDE held their official Championship match between former World Champion, Anatoly Karpov and Jan Timman which Karpov won. Both Kasparov and Karpov claim the title of World Champion.
- Winfield Scott
Winfield Scott (June 13, 1786 - May 29, 1866) was a United States Army general, diplomat, and presidential candidate. Known as "Old Fuss and Feathers" and the "Grand Old Man of the Army", he served on active duty as a general longer than any other man in American history and most historians rate him the ablest American commander of his time. Over the course of his fifty-year career, he commanded forces in the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Black Hawk War, …
- Pratibha Patil
Pratibha Devisingh Patil (born December 19, 1934) is a politician belonging to the Indian National Congress and is the nominee of the ruling United Progressive Alliance and Indian left for the upcoming election of the President of India. The presidential election are slated to be held on 19 July 2007. A lawyer by training, Pratibha Patil was a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, representing Edlabad constituency in Jalgaon District from 1962 to 1985.
- Ali Larijani
Ali Ardashir Larijani is an Iranian politician, and the current secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran. He was appointed to this position by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on August 15, 2005 replacing Hassan Rowhani. He is one of the two representatives of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei to the council. In his post as secretary he effectively functions as the top negotiator on issues of national security, including Iran's nuclear program.
- Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, born Luiz Inácio da Silva on October 27, 1945, popularly known as Lula, is the current President of Brazil, and a founding member of the Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores). Lula was elected to the post in October 27, 2002 with 61% of the votes (run-off), and took office on January 1, 2003. He was elected on the same ticket as his vice-president, José Alencar.
- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Hashemi Bahramani born on August 25, 1934, is an influential Iranian politician, and is currently serving as the Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council of Iran. He served as President of Iran from 1989 to 1997, losing on the second ballot to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the 2005 election on his attempt for a third term in office.
- Eugene V. Debs
Eugene Victor Debs (November 5, 1855-October 20, 1926) was an American labor and political leader, one of the founders of the International Labor Union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and five-time Socialist Party of America candidate for President of the United States.
- Geraldo Alckmin
Geraldo José Rodrigues Alckmin Filho, or Geraldo Alckmin (pron.) is a Brazilian politician, former governor of São Paulo and former candidate for president of Brazil in the 2006 Elections. He attended the Universidade de Taubaté's medical school, specializing in Anesthesiology, before going on to work in the São Paulo Public Service Hospital.
- George W. Romney
George Wilcken Romney was chairman of the American Motors Corporation from 1954 to 1962 and was elected three times as the Republican Governor of Michigan from 1963 to 1969. He was a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 1968, losing to Richard Nixon. He is also the father of Republican Presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.
- Shamil Basayev
Shamil Salmanovich Basayev was a Vice-President of the internationally unrecognized separatist government of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Islamist guerrilla leader, self-admitted terrorist and a national hero for many Chechens. He led guerrilla campaigns against Russia for years as well as launching several mass-casualty attacks against Russian civilians with his goal being the withdrawal of Russian soldiers from Chechnya.
- Doug Stanhope
Douglas Gene Stanhope (born March 25, 1967) is an American stand-up comedian.
- Alan García
Alan Gabriel Ludwig García Pérez is the current President of Peru, having won the 2006 elections on June 4, 2006 in a run-off against Union for Peru candidate Ollanta Humala. He is the leader of the Peruvian Aprista Party and the only APRA party member ever to have served as President of Peru. He served a first term as President from 1985 to 1990. His first term was marked by a severe economic crisis, social unrest and violence.
- Eddie Villanueva
Eduardo Villanueva (born October 6, 1946) is a religious and political leader in the Philippines. He was a presidential candidate in the 2004 Philippine election. He lost the election to incumbent Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and placed last in a field of five candidates, with 6.2% of the vote. He is the owner and chairman of ZOE Broadcasting Network, a commercial TV station currently operated by GMA Network through Quality TeleVision (QTV).
- Olu Falae
Olu Falae is a Nigerian politician and from Akure, Ondo State. A banker by profession, he served as the Minister of Finance in the military regime of Ibrahim Babangida in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He unsuccessfully contested the 1999 Nigerian presidential elections on the joint platform of the Alliance for Democracy (AD) and the All People's Party (APP) against Olusegun Obasanjo, the presidential candidate for the People's Democratic Party (PDP).
- Akhmed Zakayev
Akhmed Khalidovich Zakayev is the Foreign Minister of Chechen Republic government-in-exile, appointed by the President Aslan Maskhadov shortly after his 1997 election, and again in 2006 by Abdul Halim Sadulayev.
- Li Ao
Li Ao (李敖 pinyin Lǐ Áo) (born April 25, 1935), is a writer, social commentator, historian, and independent politician in the Republic of China. He is considered by many to be one of the most important modern Chinese essayists today, although critics have termed him an intellectual narcissist. His political inclinations are more controversial; he is a very vocal critic of both the Kuomintang and the Democratic Progressive Party and their many politicians, …
- Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev
Zelimkhan Abdumuslimovich Yandarbiyev was an acting president of the breakaway Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (1996-1997).
- Mehdi Karroubi
Hojjat ol-Eslam Mehdi Karroubi is an Iranian politician and cleric, the resigned chairman and founding member of the Association of Combatant Clerics party. He was the Speaker of the Iranian parliament from 2000 to 2004, and from 1989 to 1992, and a presidential candidate in the 2005 presidential election. Karroubi was also a candidate in the 2004 parliamentary elections in Tehran, but after he ranked thirty-first in the first round, …
- Heloísa Helena
Heloísa Helena Lima de Moraes Carvalho, pron., (born June 6, 1962 in Pão de Açúcar, Alagoas) is a left-wing politician in Brazil. Trained as a nurse, Helena helped found the Center of Health at the Federal University of Alagoas. She was also involved in the student movements against the military dictatorship. She became a member of the left-wing Workers' Party (PT) and a leader of Socialist Democracy, a Trotskyist caucus in the PT. In 1992, …
- Peng Ming-Min
Peng Ming-min(Taiwanese: Phêⁿ Bêng-bín; 彭明敏, pinyin: Péng Míngmǐn) (born August 15, 1923) is a noted Taiwan independence activist and politician.
- James Rassmann
James Rassmann (born ~1948), a resident of the U.S. state of Oregon, served as a United States Army Special Forces First Lieutenant and Executive Officer of a 12-man Green Beret unit (designated A404), in the Vietnam War. He was rescued from the Bay Hap River on March 13, 1969 by future Presidential candidate John Kerry. Rassman recommended Kerry for a Silver Star medal, but the two did not maintain a relationship for the following 30 years.
- Movladi Udugov
Movladi Saidarbievich Udugov is a major ideologue of the Chechen rebels.
- Sonia Roco
Sonia Cubillo Malasarte-Roco is the widow of the late Senator of the Philippines and former Presidential candidate Raul Roco. She is running for the Senate in the 2007 Philippine Midterm Elections under her late husband's party, Aksyon Demokratiko, which is allied with the broad opposition coalition called Genuine Opposition. She joined the coalition after JV Ejercito, son of deposed President Joseph Estrada, pulled out as an opposition candidate at his father's behest.
- Mohsen Mehralizadeh
- Judith Exner
Judith Exner (January 11, 1934 - September 25, 1999) was an American woman who was reputed to be the mistress of both U.S. president John F. Kennedy and Mafia leaders Sam Giancana and John Roselli. She is also known as Judith Campbell. " Judith was born Judith Katherine Inmoor on January 11 1934 to a family of a German architect in New York. Her family moved to Los Angeles when she was a child.
- Nzanga Mobutu
François Joseph Nzanga Mobutu Ngbangawe was a candidate in the 2006 presidential election in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and is the eldest son of former Zairian dictator Mobutu Sese Seko by his former mistress (later second wife), Bobi Landawa. Nzanga is the chairman of the Union of Mobutist Democrats (UDEMO), a collection of political parties and civil society associations and non-governmental organisations advocating the restoration of peace, …
- James Clinton
James Clinton (August 9,1733 - September 22 1812) was an American Revolutionary War soldier who obtained the rank of major general. He was born in Ulster County in the colony of New York, in a location now part of Orange County, New York. He was the brother of George Clinton, who was governor of New York from 1777 to 1795 and U.S. Vice President from 1805 to 1812. James Clinton was also the father of DeWitt Clinton, who was Governor of New York.
- Marshall Jewell
Marshall Jewell (October 20, 1825 - February 10, 1883) was a U.S. political figure. He served as the Governor of Connecticut between 1869 and 1870, and again from 1871 until 1873. Born in 1825 in Winchester, New Hampshire, he was first appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant as Minister to Russia from 1873 to 1874, but after only seven months in St. Petersburg, he left. Jewell then served as the Postmaster General between 1874 and 1876.
- Malik Saidullaev
Malik Saidullaev Born October 5, 1964, Alhan-Yurt settlement in the Urus-Martan region (Teip Benoj), Saidullaev is considered one of the richest Chechens in Moscow with a net worth estimated at $500 million US dollars. He was instrumental in early defection of several Chechen commanders to the Russian side.
- Mostafa Moeen
Mostafa Moeen, M.D. (مصطفی معین; born April 1, 1951), also spelled Moin, is an Iranian politician and professor of Pediatrics, and an Advisor to the former President Mohammad Khatami. He was a presidential candidate for the 2005 Iranian presidential election. His campaign enjoyed the support of some reformist parties and organizations, headed by the Islamic Iran Participation Front (IIPF).
- Ahmad Tavakkoli
Ahmad Tavakkoli is a conservative representative of Tehran in the Iranian parliament, and the Director of Strategic Majlis Research Center. He was a possible candidate for the role of Speaker of the Parliament, but he refused to run for the post. Before, he had been the Iranian Minister of Labour under Mir-Hossein Mousavi, a parliament representative from Behshahr, …
- Ana Maria Rangel
Ana Maria Rangel (Rio de Janeiro, May 21, 1957) is a Brazilian politician and was the Progressive Republican Party presidential candidate in 2006. Ana Maria Rangel ran a controversial presidential campaign. The TSE approved her candidacy days short of the deadline and she wasn't able to actively promote her campaign while the TSE was holding various hearings to determine whether or not she would be allowed to run.
- Gérard Royal
Gérard Royal is the former agent of the French intelligence agency DGSE who is accused of being a Rainbow Warrior bomber. A long serving officer, who retired from the French Army with the rank of Colonel, Royal works in an "economic intelligence business". He is the brother of former French presidential candidate Ségolène Royal.
- Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri
Hodjatoleslam Ali Akbar Nateq-Nouri was the speaker of the Majles of Iran. Before that, he was the interior minister of the Islamic Republic. He ran to become the president of Iran for the Iranian presidential election in 1997.