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Hakainde Hichilema
President of Zambia since 2021
Nikolai Patrushev
Aide to the President of the Russian Federation since 2024 and former secretary of the Security Council of Russia (2008–2024)
Antonio Tajani
Italian politician (born 1953)
Frauke Petry
German politician
Oleg the Wise
Varangian prince, founder of Kievan Rus'
Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha
Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1523 to 1536
Tupou VI
King of Tonga
Kais Saied
Tunisian politician, academic and jurist
Jakov Milatović
President of Montenegro since 2023
Bakir Izetbegović
Bosnian politician
Dmitry Peskov
Russian politician and diplomat (born 1967)
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah
Namibian politician
Igor Girkin
Russian citizen from Moscow who played a significant role in the War in Donbass
Denis Pushilin
Russian politician and head of the Donetsk People's Republic
Irakli Kobakhidze
Prime Minister of Georgia since 2024
Ernesto Zedillo
61st President of Mexico
Goh Chok Tong
2nd Prime Minister of Singapore from 1990 to 2004
Dominic Raab
British politician (born 1974)
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Haitian politician who became Haiti's first democratically elected president
Ivica Dačić
Serbian politician (born 1966)
Graça Machel
Mozambican humanitarian activist and politician
Vojislav Šešelj
Serbian politician (born 1954)
Thongloun Sisoulith
General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
Zahi Hawass
Egyptian egyptologist and archaeologist