| |  | Tabinshwehti (1512 - 1550; also spelt Tabinshweti) was a king who unified Burma (now Myanmar) in 1539 and known as the founder of the Second... |  | Bo Ne Win was a Burmese military commander and dictator of Burma from 1962 until 1988. Ne Win was appointed Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces... |  | Professor John Anderson (4 October 1833 - 22 July 1900) was a Scottish zoologist. He was born in Edinburgh, studied medicine in 1861 and went to... |  | Min Ko Naing (born 18 October 1962), whose name literally means "conqueror of kings" was born Paw Oo Tun in Rangoon (Yangon), Burma. He is the... |  | Adoniram Judson, Sr. was an American Baptist missionary who labored for almost forty years in Burma (now known as Myanmar). At the age of 25,... |  | U Saw aka Galon U Saw (1900-1948) was a leading Burmese politician and Prime Minister during the colonial era before the Second World War. He was... |  | Dr. Than Tun was well-known as a historian as well as an outspoken critic of the military junta of Burma. He joined Rangoon University, Burma,... |  | Michael Vaillancourt Aris (March 27, 1946, Havana, Cuba - March 27, 1999, Oxford) was an academic and lecturer in Asian history at St John's... |  | King Naresuan the Great (1555 - April 25 1605 also sometimes called Naret or "the Black Prince",) was king of Siam (today Thailand) from 1590 until... |  | Dr. Cynthia Maung is a Karen medical doctor who since 1989 has lived in Mae Sot, on the Thai-Burmese border. She left Burma (now Myanmar) after the... | |
