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Helen Haines
Helen Mary Haines is an Australian politician who has served as the independent MP for the Victorian seat of Indi since the 2019 federal election.
Allegra Spender
Allegra Spender is an Australian politician and businesswoman. She is currently the member of parliament for Wentworth, having originally won the seat at the 2022 federal election. Originally elected as a teal independent, Spender co-founded the political party Community Strong Australia with Zali Steggall in 2026.
M. K. Stalin
Muthuvel Karunanidhi Stalin is an Indian politician and statesman who served as the eighth chief minister of Tamil Nadu from 2021 to 2026. He became president of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) on 28 August 2018, after serving as the party's working president from January 2017 to August 2018.
Pascal Paradis
Pascal Paradis is a Canadian politician of the Parti Québécois (PQ) who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec from Jean-Talon in a 2023 by-election.
Ziaur Rahman
Ziaur Rahman was a Bangladeshi military leader and politician who served as the sixth president of Bangladesh from 1977 until his assassination in 1981. One of the leading figures of the country's independence war, Zia broadcast the Bangladeshi declaration of independence in March 1971 from Chittagong. In the aftermath of the Sipahi-Janata revolution in 1975, he consolidated power to lead Bangladesh with pragmatic policies through economic liberalisation and civic nationalism that significant...
Thomas Lukaszuk
Thomas Adam Lukaszuk is a Polish-born Canadian politician and former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He represented the constituency of Edmonton-Castle Downs from 2001 to 2015 as a Progressive Conservative. He served in the provincial cabinet from 2010 to 2014, and was the 8th Deputy Premier from 2012 to 2013. He was the first Polish-born cabinet minister and deputy premier in Canada.
Andrew Hastie
Andrew William Hastie is an Australian politician and former military officer who has served as Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the House of Representatives and Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Representatives since 2026. He has been the member of parliament (MP) for the Western Australian division of Canning since 2015.
Torsten Bell
Torsten Henricson Bell is a Labour politician, economist, author, and newspaper columnist, serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Swansea West since 2024. He was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary for the Treasury and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Pensions in January 2025.
Matt Hancock
Matthew John David Hancock is a British former politician who served as Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General from 2015 to 2016, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport from January to July 2018, and Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from 2018 to 2021. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for West Suffolk from 2010 to 2024. He is a member of the Conservative Party.
K. Annamalai (BJP politician)
Annamalai Kuppusamy, commonly known as K. Annamalai, is an Indian politician and former Indian Police Service officer employed with the Karnataka State Police from 2011 until his resignation in 2019. A former member of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he served as the state president of the BJP - Tamil Nadu from July 2021 to April 2025, during which he became known for rising visibility and prominence of the party in the state. He unsuccessfully contested the 2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly...
Priyank Kharge
Priyank Mallikarjun Kharge is an Indian politician belonging to the Indian National Congress (INC) and a 3rd time Minister in the Government of Karnataka. He is serving as Minister for Home Affairs, Information Technology, Biotechnology, and E-Governance since June 2026. He is a three-time Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from the Chittapur constituency in Kalaburagi district.
Ruba Ghazal
Ruba Ghazal is a Canadian politician. A member of Québec solidaire, she was first elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2018 provincial election, representing the district of Mercier. Since 2024, she has served as Québec solidaire's female co-spokesperson.
Brad Lander
Bradford Scott Lander is an American politician and urban planner who is the Democratic Party nominee for New York's 10th congressional district in 2026, having defeated incumbent representative Dan Goldman in the primary. A progressive Democrat, he previously served as New York City comptroller from 2022 until 2025, and before that served on the New York City Council from 2010 to 2021, representing the 39th district, which is partly based in Brooklyn.
Nicolas Marceau
Nicolas Marceau is a Canadian economist, university professor, politician and former Minister of Finance of Quebec. He was previously a professor of economics at the Université du Québec à Montréal.
Natalie Bisaillon
Natalie Bisaillon is a Quebec politician who was the elected to the National Assembly of Quebec for Marie-Lacoste-Gérin-Lajoie in the 2026 Quebec general election as a member of the Parti Québécois. She was the CEO of Desjardins International Asset Management. She also held several senior management positions at Intact from 2007 to 2020 and worked as an analyst and portfolio manager at the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec between 2001 and 2007.
Jim Risch
James Elroy Risch is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the junior United States senator from Idaho since 2009. A member of the Republican Party, he served as lieutenant governor of Idaho under governors Dirk Kempthorne and Butch Otter, and briefly as governor between their terms.
Kanishka Narayan
Kanishka Narayan is a British politician who has served as Minister for Artificial Intelligence since July 2026. He previously served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for AI and Online Safety from 2025 to 2026. A member of the Labour Party, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Vale of Glamorgan since 2024.
Georgie Purcell
Georgina Purcell is an Australian politician. Elected to the Victorian Legislative Council at the 2022 state election, she represents the Animal Justice Party and is currently the party's sole MP in the Victorian Parliament. During her term as an MP, she has advocated for a number of issues relating to animal welfare. Purcell supports a ban on duck hunting, has named offenders in the greyhound racing industry under parliamentary privilege, and passed a motion for an inquiry into pig welfare. ...
Daniel Stewart (brigadier general)
Daniel Stewart was an American politician and brigadier general in the Georgia Militia. He joined the militia in 1776 and served during the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.
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Amanda Stoker
Amanda Jane Stoker is an Australian politician who served as a Senator for Queensland from 2018 until 2022. She is a member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland (LNP) and sat with the Liberal Party in federal parliament. She was appointed to the Senate after the retirement of George Brandis. Stoker held the ministerial portfolios of Assistant Minister to the Attorney-General, Assistant Minister for Industrial Relations and Assistant Minister for Women in the Morrison government. Stoker...
Anant Kumar Singh
Anant Kumar Singh, also known as Chhote Sarkar, is an Indian politician who has served, and is currently serving, as MLA from Mokama Assembly Constituency in the Bihar Legislative Assembly. In 2020, he left the Janata Dal (United) party after nearly 15 years to join the Rashtriya Janata Dal, but later rejoined the Janata Dal (United) in 2025 to contest Mokama in the most recent state election. According to his election affidavit of 2020, he is facing 38 criminal charges including 7 murders, 1...
Ronald Napoli Jr.
Ronald A. Napoli Jr. is an American politician who serves in the Connecticut House of Representatives representing the 73rd district in New Haven County.
Victoria Furtună
Victoria Furtună is a Moldovan politician and former prosecutor. She worked as a prosecutor for 18 years, having been involved in numerous high-profile cases and having been considered for the position of acting Prosecutor General of Moldova in 2021. Furtună resigned amid a major scandal with the judicial system in March 2024 and announced four months later that she would run as an independent candidate at the 2024 Moldovan presidential election, in which she placed fifth with 4.45% of the vo...
Steve Rotheram
Steven Philip Rotheram is a British politician serving as the strategic authority mayor for the Liverpool City Region since 2017. A member of the Labour Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Liverpool Walton from 2010 to 2017.