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Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Dutch-American political activist and author
Peter Singer
Australian moral philosopher (born 1946)
Mia Mottley
prime minister of Barbados since 2018
Princess Leia
fictional character from Star Wars
Serdar Berdimuhamedow
3rd President of Turkmenistan since 2022
Dennis Hastert
John Dennis Hastert was an American politician, educator who served as the 51st speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1999 to 2007. A member of the Republican Party, he represented Illinois's 14th congressional district from 1987 to 2007 and was the sixth longest-serving speaker in history, and the longest serving Republican. In 2016, he was sentenced to 15 months in prison for financial offenses related to the sexual abuse of teenage boys. He admitted to the abuse at a s...
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Katie Britt
Katie Elizabeth Boyd Britt is an American politician and attorney serving since 2023 as the junior United States senator from Alabama. A member of the Republican Party, Britt is the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate from Alabama and the youngest Republican woman to be elected to the Senate. She was president and CEO of the Business Council of Alabama from 2019 to 2021, and served as chief of staff for the previous incumbent, Richard Shelby, from 2016 to 2018. Britt is expected to b...
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Justina Shiroka Pula
Justina Shiroka Pula is a Kosovar politician, author and economist who is currently serving as the 7th President of Kosovo since 7 October 2026. She is the third woman to hold the office, after Atifete Jahjaga and Vjosa Osmani. Previously, she served as Minister of Energy and Mining from 2008 to 2011 and as president of the Kosova Academy of Sciences and Arts (ASHAK), becoming the first woman to lead the institution.
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Peter Barca
Peter William Barca is an American Democratic politician from Kenosha, Wisconsin. He was the 14th secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Revenue (2019–2024) in the administration of Governor Tony Evers. He was a candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Wisconsin's 1st congressional district in 2024 losing to incumbent Bryan Steil; he previously represented the district during the 103rd Congress (1993–1995).
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Pyrrhus of Epirus
King of Epirus from 297 to 272 BC
Cesare Borgia
Italian cardinal deacon (1475–1507)
Haitham bin Tariq
Sultan of Oman since 2020 (born 1955)
Charles Taylor
22nd president of Liberia
Rick Perry
American politician
Min Aung Hlaing
11th President of Myanmar
Leon Panetta
American politician, Secretary of Defense 2011–2013
Liz Cheney
United States Representative from Wyoming from 2017 to 2023
Priyanka Gandhi
Indian politician
Christopher Luxon
Prime Minister of New Zealand since 2023
Jan Hus
Czech theologian, philosopher, and martyr (c. 1369–1415)
Bel Zamora
Ysabel Maria "Bel" Jorge Zamora-Jornada is a Filipino lawyer and politician who has served as the representative of the Lone District of the City San Juan since 2022, as a member of Lakas–CMD.
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Marcus Licinius Crassus
Roman general and statesman (115–53 BC)
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
Holy Roman Emperor from 1508 to 1519
Hafez al-Assad
President of Syria from 1971 to 2000