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Michael Hancock (American politician)

Michael B. Hancock is an American author and politician who served as the 45th mayor of Denver, Colorado from 2011 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he was in his second term as the Denver City Councilor from the 11th district at the time he was elected to the mayorship.

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Josh Green (politician)

Joshua Booth Green is an American politician and physician serving since 2022 as the ninth governor of Hawaii. A member of the Democratic Party, he served from 2018 to 2022 as the 15th lieutenant governor of Hawaii. From 2004 to 2018, he was a member of the Hawaii State Legislature.

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Russ Wyatt

Russ Wyatt is a Canadian politician in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He represented Transcona on the Winnipeg City Council from 2002 to 2018, and is the incumbent. And at times he served as a member of the city's executive policy committee. His father, Reg Wyatt, was a councillor from 1983 to 1986.

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Raghuram Rajan

Raghuram Govind Rajan is an Indian economist and former central banker. He has been the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business since 2016. He was previously with the university's economics department from 1991 to 2013. Rajan served as the Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 2003 to 2006. He oversaw Indian monetary policy as the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 2013 to 20...

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Bernie Moreno

Bernardo Francisco Moreno Mejía is an American politician and businessman serving since 2025 as the senior United States senator from Ohio. He is a member of the Republican Party.

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Stockwell Day

Stockwell Burt Day Jr. is a former Canadian politician who served as leader of the Canadian Alliance from 2000 to 2001 and later as a member of the Conservative Party of Canada.

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Mahua Moitra

Mahua Moitra is an Indian politician and former investment banker. She is known for her fiery speeches in the Parliament of India. She won the 2019 Indian general election as a Trinamool Congress (TMC) party candidate from Krishnanagar and served as a Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from 2019 to 2023 until being expelled. She was re-elected to parliament in the 2024 Indian general election.

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Willy Mayambala

Willy Mayambala is an Ugandan engineer and politician. He ran for the office of the president of Uganda in the 2021 president poll as an independent candidate. He was one of the four less visible presidential candidates and blamed his poor performance at the poll on the ten-man security guard who he claimed prevented him from going out to canvass for votes.

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Andrew Pakes

Andrew Elliot Pakes is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Peterborough since 2024. A member of the Labour and Co-operative Party, he previously served as the 48th President of the National Union of Students (NUS) from 1998 to 2000.

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Marie-France van Heel

Marie-France van Heel is a marketing executive, who is married to Andy Burnham, the prime minister of the United Kingdom and the leader of the Labour Party.