Trending in Politics

Heads of state, lawmakers, candidates and officials ranked by current search interest. Elections, hearings, policy fights and scandals drive these rankings, and each profile links out to the original reporting.

2440 people ranked by attention right now compared with their usual. See who's rising fastest.

#1777 Politics

Carolyn Evans

Carolyn Maree Evans is an Australian academic administrator. She is currently the vice-chancellor of University of Melbourne.

#1778 Politics

Stjepan Srkulj

Stjepan Srkulj was a Croatian historian and politician born in Varaždin. Srkulj studied history and earned his doctoral degree from the University of Vienna before working as a high school teacher between 1895 and 1917. He became politically active as a supporter of the Croat-Serb Coalition, the ruling political group in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia within Austria-Hungary. He participated in the coalition's work until 1918 after collapse of Austria-Hungary in the final days of the First Wo...

#1779 Politics

Piyush Goyal

Piyush Vedprakash Goyal is an Indian politician who is serving as the 13th Minister of Commerce and Industry since 2019, also being the longest serving minister for the same. He also served as Minister of Textiles and Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution. He was elevated to the Cabinet Minister position on 3 September 2017. Formerly a Member of Parliament for Rajya Sabha from the state of Maharashtra, he is also the former Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha. Goyal was el...

#1780 Politics

Ray L. Chesebro

Raymond L. Chesebro was a 20th-century police judge and city attorney in Los Angeles, California, who became known and commended throughout the nation.

#1781 Politics

Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he represented California in both houses of the United States Congress before serving as the 36th vice president under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1961. His presidency saw the reduction of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, the Apollo 11 Moon landing, and the establishment of the Environ...