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John Mahama
President of the Republic of Ghana
Ben Bernanke
American economist (born 1953)
Magdalena Andersson
Prime Minister of Sweden from 2021 to 2022, Swedish politician and economist
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Hashim Thaçi
Kosovar politician (born 1968)
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Leo Varadkar
Taoiseach from 2017 to 2020, and from 2022 to 2024.
Petr Pavel
Czech general and statesman, 4th president of the Czech Republic (born 1961)
Janez Janša
Slovenian politician (born 1958)
Vicente Fox
62th president of Mexico
Norman Foster
British architect (born 1935)
Andrej Babiš
Czech politician and businessman, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
Shigeru Ishiba
President of the Liberal Democratic Party from 2024 to 2025 and Prime Minister of Japan from 2024 to 2025
Annalena Baerbock
German politician (born 1980)
Hun Sen
Prime Minister of Cambodia (1985–1993; 1998–2023)
Blaise Compaoré
President of Burkina Faso from 1987 to 2014
Vjosa Osmani
President of Kosovo (2020–2021, 2021–2026)
Farah Pahlavi
queen/empress consort of Iran from 1959 to 1979
Rex Tillerson
69th United States Secretary of State
Chuck Schumer
American politician (born 1950)
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud
Somali removal of president
Iliana Iotova
President of Bulgaria since 2026, vice-president of Bulgaria from 2017 to 2026, politician and journalist
Mamata Banerjee
Former Chief Minister of West Bengal
Sunny Balwani
Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani is a Pakistani businessman who was the former president and chief operating officer of Theranos, which was a privately held health technology company founded by his then-girlfriend Elizabeth Holmes. He and Holmes fraudulently represented that they had devised a revolutionary blood test that required only small amounts of blood, such as from a fingerstick. Both Balwani and Holmes were convicted of fraud. The consequences of the fraud led to the collapse of Theranos and t...
John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president, at 43 years, and the first Catholic president. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his foreign policy concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in both houses of the United States Congress before his pre...
Sergei Fomchenkov
Sergei Alexandrovich Fomchenkov is a Russian politician, a former member of the banned National Bolshevik Party (NBP) and then member of The Other Russia. During the Russo-Ukrainian war, he has been serving as commander of various military units; his call sign is "Fomich".