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Jennifer Granholm
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Jennifer Granholm

16th United States Secretary of Energy

Harmeet Dhillon
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Harmeet Dhillon

Harmeet Kaur Dhillon is an American lawyer who has served as the U.S. assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division since 2025. A member of the Republican Party, she is the former vice chair of the California Republican Party and a former Republican National Committeewoman for California.

Tom Emmer
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Tom Emmer

Thomas Earl Emmer Jr. is an American attorney, lobbyist, and politician who has served as majority whip in the United States House of Representatives since 2023. A member of the Republican Party, he has represented Minnesota's 6th congressional district since 2015. During his tenure in Congress, he has been known as a strong advocate for the crypto industry.

Robert Jenrick
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Robert Jenrick

Robert Edward Jenrick is an English politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Newark since the 2014 by-election. Elected as a member of the Conservative Party, he joined Reform in January 2026.

Mélanie Joly
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Mélanie Joly

Mélanie Joly is a Canadian politician and lawyer who has been Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions since May 2025. A member of the Liberal Party, Joly has been the member of Parliament (MP) for Ahuntsic-Cartierville since 2015. She has held a number of portfolios including Canadian heritage, tourism, foreign affairs, and La Francophonie.

Prashant Bhushan
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Prashant Bhushan

Prashant Bhushan is an Indian author and a public interest lawyer in the Supreme Court of India. He was a member of the faction of the India Against Corruption (IAC) movement known as Team Anna which supported Anna Hazare's campaign for the implementation of the Jan Lokpal Bill. After a split in IAC, he helped Team Anna form the Aam Aadmi Party. In 2015, he made several allegations against the party's leadership, its functioning and its deviation from the core ideology, values and commitments...

Pascal Paradis
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Pascal Paradis

Pascal Paradis is a Canadian politician of the Parti Québécois (PQ) who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec from Jean-Talon in a 2023 by-election.

John Tory
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John Tory

John Howard Tory is a Canadian lawyer, broadcaster, businessman, and former politician who served as the 65th mayor of Toronto from 2014 to 2023. He led the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario from 2004 to 2009 and was Leader of the Official Opposition from 2005 to 2007. Outside politics, Tory served as the 9th Commissioner of the CFL from 1997 to 2000 and has worked for Rogers Communications.

Hugo Grotius
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Hugo Grotius

Dutch philosopher and jurist (1583–1645)

Robert Badinter
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Robert Badinter

French politician, lawyer and author (1928–2024)

Letitia James
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Letitia James

Letitia Ann "Tish" James is an American lawyer and politician from the state of New York. She has served since 2019 as the 67th attorney general of New York (NYAG), having been first elected to the post in 2018. A member of the Democratic Party, James is the first Black person to serve as New York attorney general and is the first Black woman to hold statewide office in New York.

Oleksiy Honcharuk
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Oleksiy Honcharuk

17th Prime Minister of Ukraine (2019-2020)

Adolfo Rodríguez Saá
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Adolfo Rodríguez Saá

President of Argentina in 2001

Doug Jones (politician)
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Doug Jones (politician)

Gordon Douglas Jones is an American politician and attorney who served as a United States senator from Alabama from 2018 to 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, Jones was previously the United States attorney for the Northern District of Alabama from 1997 to 2001. As of 2026, he is the last Democrat to have won or held statewide office in Alabama.

Ferdinand von Schirach
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Ferdinand von Schirach

German lawyer and writer (born 1964)

János Áder
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János Áder

President of Hungary from 2012 to 2022 (born 1959)

Oleksii Reznikov
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Oleksii Reznikov

Ukrainian lawyer and politician

Gonzalo Winter
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Gonzalo Winter

Chilean politician (born 1987)

Celeste Amarilla
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Celeste Amarilla

Paraguayan lawyer and politician (born 1964)

Konrad Adenauer
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Konrad Adenauer

Chancellor of West Germany from 1949 to 1963

Nina Warken
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Nina Warken

German politician

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Iris Stalzer

German politician