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Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
Afghan politician, mujahid and drug trafficker (born 1949)
Abdul Rashid Dostum
Afghan politician
Markus Söder
German politician (CSU)
Bobby Jindal
American politician and 55th governor of Louisiana (born 1971)
Joan Laporta
Spanish businessman and politician (born 1962)
Mark Kelly
American politician, astronaut, and naval officer (born 1964)
Muhammad V of Kelantan
15th and former Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia & 29th and current Al-Sultan of Kelantan
Chuck Grassley
United States Senator from Iowa since 1981
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf
Iranian conservative politician, professor, and former air force pilot
Anthony Kennedy
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1988 to 2018
Ilie Bolojan
Romanian politician (born in 1969)
L. K. Advani
Deputy Prime Minister of India (2002-2004)
Mamady Doumbouya
Guinean military officer and politician (1980-)
Bo Xilai
former Politburo member of the Chinese Communist Party
Sagal Abdi-Wali
Sagal Abdi-Wali is a Somali-born British Labour politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Holborn and St Pancras since 2026. She has served as Leader of Camden London Borough Council since May 2026, representing Camden Square since 2022. She is the first Black woman and person of Somali origin to lead the council.
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Shashi Tharoor
Shashi Tharoor is an Indian politician, civil servant, author, public intellectual, diplomat, and bureaucrat. A member of the Indian National Congress, he has represented Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, in the Lok Sabha since 2009. He was formerly an Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and ran for the office of Secretary-General in 2006, coming second.
Ken Friar
Kenneth John Friar was a former board member, managing director and secretary of Arsenal Football Club. In September 2020 he was appointed life president of the club.
Brad Bradford
Bradford MacDonald Bradford is a Canadian politician and former urban planner who has represented Ward 19 Beaches—East York on Toronto City Council since 2018. He is a candidate in the 2026 Toronto mayoral election and previously contested the 2023 mayoral by-election, placing eighth.
Chowdhury Sajjadul Karim
Chowdhury Sajjadul Karim was a Bangladeshi nuclear physicist and former advisor of the caretaker government led by Fakhruddin Ahmed. He was in charge of the Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock, and Ministry of Environment and Forest.
Mary Peltola
Mary Sattler Peltola is an American politician and former tribal judge who served as the U.S. representative for Alaska's at-large congressional district from 2022 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as a judge on the Orutsararmiut Native Council's tribal court, was executive director of the Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, Bethel city councillor, and member of the Alaska House of Representatives. As of 2026, Peltola is the most recent Democrat to hav...
Neil Kinnock
Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock is a Welsh politician who was Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1970 to 1995, first for Bedwellty and then for Islwyn. He was Vice-President of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004. Kinnock was positioned on the soft left of the Labour Party.
Francesco Samà
Francesco Samà was an Italian politician.
Mallikarjun Kharge
Mapanna Mallikarjun Kharge is an Indian politician and lawyer from the Indian state of Karnataka serving as the 61st President of the Indian National Congress since 2022 and Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha since 2021. He has been a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from Karnataka since 2020. He has been re-elected for Rajya Sabha in June 2026.
Emily Thornberry
Dame Emily Anne Thornberry is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Islington South and Finsbury since 2005. A member of the Labour Party, she served as Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales from 2021 until the 2024 general election, and previously from 2011 to 2014. Thornberry has also served in a number of other senior positions on Labour's front bench, namely as Shadow Foreign Secretary from 2016 to 2020, Shadow First Secretary of State from 2017 to 20...