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J. R. Jayewardene
President of Sri Lanka from 1978 to 1989
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
English Peer and statesman; inventor of the sandwich
Kamisese Mara
President of Fiji (1920-2004)
Harbhajan Singh
Indian cricketer and politician (born 1980)
Lord William Bentinck
First Governor General of India, British soldier and statesman (1774-1839)
Thomas Hughes
English lawyer, judge, politician and author (1822–1896)
Shakib Al Hasan
Bangladeshi cricketer and Politician
Henry Hyndman
English writer and politician (1842–1921)
Navjot Singh Sidhu
Indian cricketer and politician
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon
British politician (1866-1941)
Gautam Gambhir
Indian politician and former cricketer
Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford
Governor of New South Wales; Governor of Queensland; Viceroy of India (1868–1933)
Mashrafe Mortaza
Bangladeshi international cricketer and politician
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby
British politician and Governor General of Canada (1841–1908)
Wendell R. Anderson
American politician (1933-2016)
Erki Nool
Estonian athletics competitor and politician (born 1970)
Shintaro Ishihara
Japanese politician and author, Governor of Tokyo (1932–2022)
Antonio Inoki
Japanese professional wrestler, businessman, and politician (1943-2022)
Trent Lott
United States Senator from Mississippi
Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko
Prominent Soviet Bolshevik leader/diplomat (1883-1938)
Bruce Rauner
Governor of Illinois from 2015 to 2019
Akhmed Zakayev
Prime Minister of Ichkeria
Clare Boothe Luce
American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)
Eric Garcetti
American politician and diplomat (born 1971)