Statesmen & Politicians
“Senators, governors & diplomats”
These names are shared with the statesmen and politicians who fill the halls of government — the senators, governors, diplomats, and ministers who shape policy and steer nations from within. They're the working machinery of public life, just below the top office.
Michael Bloomberg
Former Mayor of New York City
Daniel Webster
American statesman and orator
Andrew Cuomo
Former Governor of New York
Elizabeth Warren
US Senator from Massachusetts
Samantha Power
Former US Ambassador to the United Nations
Sarah Palin
Former Governor of Alaska and VP nominee
Robert Kennedy
U.S. Senator and Attorney General
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady of the United States and diplomat
Julian Castro
Former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Levi Woodbury
U.S. Supreme Court Justice and Secretary of the Treasury
Did you know American politics is full of usable first names? Daniel (Webster), Elizabeth (Warren), Andrew (Cuomo), and Samantha (Power) all move easily from the ballot box to the birth certificate.
Gavin Newsom
Governor of California
Kimberly Guilfoyle
Political advisor and television news personality
Jesse Ventura
Former Governor of Minnesota and wrestler
Michelle Obama
Former First Lady of the United States and author
Dominic Cummings
British political strategist
Haley Barbour
Former Governor of Mississippi
Josiah Bartlett
Signer of the United States Declaration of Independence
Devin Nunes
Former U.S. Representative from California
Caroline Kennedy
U.S. Ambassador and daughter of John F. Kennedy
Madeline Albright
First female United States Secretary of State
Antonio Villaraigosa
Former Mayor of Los Angeles
Claire McCaskill
Former United States Senator
Gabrielle Giffords
Former U.S. Representative from Arizona
Alejandro Mayorkas
United States Secretary of Homeland Security
Edward Kennedy
Long-serving United States Senator
Amy Klobuchar
United States Senator from Minnesota
Laura Bush
Former First Lady of the United States
Colin Powell
Former U.S. Secretary of State and General
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
U.S. Representative for New York
Corey Booker
United States Senator from New Jersey
Plenty of political surnames have become first names in their own right — Madison and Reagan now appear far more often on babies than on ballots, proof that a name can outlast a campaign.
Preston Brooks
19th-century U.S. Representative
Elena Kagan
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Hazel McCallion
Long-serving Canadian mayor of Mississauga
Francisco Franco
Spanish general who ruled over Spain as a dictator
Lindsey Graham
United States Senator from South Carolina
Manuel Noriega
Former military leader of Panama
Mario Cuomo
Former Governor of New York
Silas Wright
American statesman and 14th Governor of New York
Everett Dirksen
Influential U.S. Senator from Illinois
Cassidy Hutchinson
Former American White House aide
Brett Kavanaugh
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
Beau Biden
Former Attorney General of Delaware
London Breed
Mayor of San Francisco
Marco Rubio
United States Senator from Florida
Elliot Richardson
United States Attorney General
Elise Stefanik
U.S. Representative from New York
Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Former Managing Director of the IMF
Brittney Miller
American politician serving in the Nevada Assembly
Cory Booker
United States Senator from New Jersey
Griffin Bell
Former United States Attorney General
Lyla Berg
Former member of the Hawaii House of Representatives
Desirée Rogers
Former White House Social Secretary for the Obama administration
Kristina Keneally
Former Premier of New South Wales
Kathleen Sebelius
Former US Secretary of Health and Human Services
Lisa Murkowski
United States Senator from Alaska
Felix Frankfurter
Former Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Guadalupe Larriva
Ecuadorian politician and former Minister of Defense
Allyson Schwartz
Former U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania
Douglas Wilder
First African-American to be elected as governor of a US state
Nancy Pelosi
Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
Leon Panetta
Former US Secretary of Defense
Judah P. Benjamin
Confederate Secretary of State
Trey Gowdy
Former U.S. Representative and television host
Madeleine Albright
First female U.S. Secretary of State
Leila Khaled
Palestinian political figure
Claudia Johnson
Former First Lady of the United States, known as Lady Bird Johnson
Kayleigh McEnany
Former White House Press Secretary
Trent Lott
Former U.S. Senator from Mississippi
Krystal Ball
Political commentator and former candidate
Kirsten Gillibrand
United States Senator from New York
Joaquin Castro
United States Representative from Texas
Tate Reeves
Governor of Mississippi
Quentin Bryce
Former Governor-General of Australia
Ari Fleischer
Former White House Press Secretary
Hugo Black
Long-serving Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Rosalie Abella
Former Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Alessandra Mussolini
Italian politician and former actress
Julissa Villanueva
Honduran forensic pathologist and public official
Gina Raimondo
US Secretary of Commerce and former Governor
Bobby Kennedy
US Attorney General and Senator
Tommy Douglas
Canadian politician known as the father of Medicare
Marisol Touraine
French politician and former Minister of Social Affairs
Susan Rice
Former U.S. National Security Advisor
Frances Perkins
First female U.S. Cabinet member
Cyrus Vance
Former U.S. Secretary of State
Gwendolyn King
Former Commissioner of Social Security
Melvin Laird
Former U.S. Secretary of Defense
Leland Stanford
Founder of Stanford University and Governor of California
Barbara Bush
Former First Lady of the United States
Alma Adams
U.S. Representative from North Carolina
Mayra Flores
First Mexican-born woman to serve in the U.S. Congress
Elaine Chao
Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation and Labor
Colleen Hanabusa
Former U.S. Representative from Hawaii
Mohamed ElBaradei
Nobel Peace Prize winner and Egyptian diplomat
Janet Reno
First female Attorney General of the United States
Edith Roosevelt
First Lady of the United States and wife of Theodore Roosevelt
Porter Goss
Former Director of the CIA
Lewis Cass
American military officer and politician
Ann Lewis
White House Communications Director
Pamela Harriman
United States Ambassador to France
Asa Hutchinson
American politician who served as the 46th Governor of Arkansas
Blaine Luetkemeyer
U.S. Representative from Missouri
Darrell Issa
U.S. Representative from California
Moshe Dayan
Israeli military leader and politician
Raphael Warnock
United States Senator from Georgia
Abram Hewitt
Mayor of New York City and industrialist
Luciana Berger
British politician and former Member of Parliament
Royal Copeland
United States Senator and physician
Mohammed bin Salman
Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia
Ayanna Pressley
U.S. Representative for Massachusetts
Rudy Giuliani
Former Mayor of New York City
Clare Boothe Luce
US Ambassador and first woman appointed to a major ambassadorial post
Danica Roem
American journalist and politician
Saige Martin
American politician and artist
Hillary Clinton
Former US Secretary of State and First Lady
Denver Beanland
Australian politician and former Attorney-General of Queensland
Maryam Nawaz
Pakistani politician and Chief Minister of Punjab
Sonny Perdue
Former Governor of Georgia and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
Carlie Boland
Former member of the Montana State Senate
Duncan Hunter
Former U.S. Representative from California
Nikki Haley
Former US Ambassador to the United Nations
Hattie Caraway
First woman elected to serve a full term as a U.S. Senator
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
First Cuban American elected to Congress
Antonia Novello
First female Surgeon General of the United States
Donna Brazile
Political strategist and former DNC chair
Lamar Alexander
Former US Senator and Governor of Tennessee
Arely Gomez Gonzalez
Mexican lawyer and former Attorney General of Mexico
Yvette Clarke
U.S. Representative from New York
Lina Khan
Chair of the Federal Trade Commission
Marianna Madia
Italian politician and former minister
Yusuf Akçura
Prominent Turkish politician and ideologue
Ayana Pressley
U.S. Representative for Massachusetts
Selina Chow
Former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Salma Kikwete
Former First Lady of Tanzania and politician
Sally Yates
Former United States Deputy Attorney General
Coleman Young
First African American mayor of Detroit
Mariela Castro
Cuban politician and sexologist
Rex Tillerson
Former US Secretary of State and CEO of ExxonMobil
Lilyana Pavlova
Bulgarian politician and former Minister of Regional Development
Heath Shuler
Former NFL quarterback and U.S. Representative
Clarence Thomas
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Sheila Jackson Lee
U.S. Representative from Texas
Sheldon Whitehouse
United States Senator from Rhode Island
Yosef Burg
Israeli politician and rabbi
Jeanette Rankin
First woman to hold federal office in the United States
Baby V. Ajith
Indian politician and former Mayor of Kozhikode
Thaddeus Stevens
Influential Radical Republican leader during the American Civil War
Kathy Hochul
Governor of New York
Shirley Chisholm
First Black woman elected to the US Congress
Maxine Waters
U.S. Representative from California
Humberto Delgado
Portuguese Air Force general and politician
Susana Martinez
First female Governor of New Mexico
Bernard Sanders
United States Senator from Vermont
Lacy Clay
Former U.S. Representative from Missouri
Garret Graves
U.S. Representative from Louisiana
Austen Chamberlain
British statesman and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Marion Barry
Former Mayor of Washington, D.C.
Angeline Fankhauser
Swiss politician
Gretchen Whitmer
Governor of Michigan
Arlene Foster
Former First Minister of Northern Ireland
Sarahi Cerna
Honduran politician and government official
Nikita Khrushchev
Former Premier of the Soviet Union
Anton Drexler
German political leader
Belinda Stronach
Canadian businesswoman and former Member of Parliament
Sonya Sotomayor
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Raya Haffar el-Hassan
Lebanese politician and first female Minister of Interior
Christiana Figueres
Costa Rican diplomat and UN climate chief
Van Jones
Political commentator and author
Earl Warren
14th Chief Justice of the United States
Betty Ford
Former First Lady of the United States
Zainab Ahmed
Nigerian Minister of Finance
Kristi Noem
Governor of South Dakota
Elmer Davis
Director of the United States Office of War Information during WWII
Gwen Ifill
Journalist and television news anchor
Antoinette Sayeh
Liberian economist and Deputy Managing Director of the IMF
Juanita Kreps
Former United States Secretary of Commerce
Enoch Powell
British politician and classical scholar
Romina Pourmokhtari
Swedish Minister for Climate and the Environment
Violeta Bulc
Slovenian politician and EU Commissioner
Louie Gohmert
American attorney and former U.S. Representative
Leanne Wood
Former leader of Plaid Cymru
Hillary Clinton
Former US Secretary of State and First Lady
Jill Biden
First Lady of the United States and educator
Yousef Beidas
Palestinian banker and founder of Intra Bank
Kent Conrad
Former United States Senator from North Dakota
Evelin Ilves
Former First Lady of Estonia
Jenifer Rajkumar
New York State Assembly member
Kalyn Free
Attorney and former candidate for Congress
Loretta Sanchez
Former U.S. Representative from California
Rosalynn Carter
Former First Lady of the United States and humanitarian
Geneva Reed-Veal
Social justice advocate and public speaker
Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius
Dutch politician and leader of the VVD
Ramsey Clark
Former United States Attorney General
Cordell Cleare
New York State Senator
Lloyd Austin
United States Secretary of Defense
Cori Bush
U.S. Representative from Missouri
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Founder of the Special Olympics
Tammy Duckworth
United States Senator and retired Army Lieutenant Colonel
Keisha Lance Bottoms
Former Mayor of Atlanta
Lourdes Flores
Peruvian politician and lawyer
Judson Harmon
45th United States Attorney General and Governor of Ohio
Heidy Purga
Estonian politician and radio presenter
Karim Khan
British lawyer and Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
Hakeem Jeffries
U.S. House Minority Leader
Abner Mikva
American politician, federal judge, and legal scholar
Gavyn Davies
Former Chairman of the BBC and economist
Eliot Spitzer
Former Governor of New York
Alexi Giannoulias
American politician and Illinois Secretary of State
Maricela Contreras Julian
Mexican politician and former mayor of Tlalpan
Slade Gorton
Former United States Senator from Washington
Jody Powell
White House Press Secretary under Jimmy Carter
Merrick Garland
United States Attorney General
Edmund Burke
Anglo-Irish statesman and philosopher
Anson Chan
Former Chief Secretary of Hong Kong
Josef Stalin
Former leader of the Soviet Union
Xochitl Torres Small
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Agriculture
Rick Perry
Former Governor of Texas
Yaakov Litzman
Israeli politician and former Minister of Health
Shlomo Ben-Ami
Israeli diplomat, politician, and historian
Elvin L. Martinez
Former member of the Florida House of Representatives
Khadija Arib
Dutch politician who served as Speaker of the House of Representatives
Dallin H. Oaks
First Counselor in the First Presidency of the LDS Church and former judge
Ayanna Pressley
U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
Djamila Bouhired
Algerian militant and nationalist hero
Irma Rangel
First Mexican-American woman elected to the Texas House of Representatives
Amar Singh
Indian politician and leader of the Samajwadi Party
Vladimir Lenin
Founder of the Russian Communist Party
Zev Jabotinsky
Zionist leader and founder of the Jewish Self-Defense Organization
LaToya Cantrell
First female Mayor of New Orleans
Citlali Ibáñez
Mexican politician also known as Yeidckol Polevnsky
Janna Taylor
American politician from Montana
Avraham Burg
Former Speaker of the Knesset
Kelby Woodard
American politician and former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives
Symone Sanders-Townsend
American political strategist and commentator
Meir Kahane
Orthodox rabbi and political figure
Yulissa Villanueva
Honduran Vice Minister of Security and forensic pathologist
Marlin Stutzman
Former U.S. Representative from Indiana
Jessika Roswall
Swedish politician and EU minister
Isidro Fabela
Mexican judge, politician, and writer
Nazir Afzal
Former Chief Crown Prosecutor for North West England
Gray Davis
Former Governor of California
Tallulah Brockman Bankhead
US Senator from Alabama and namesake of the actress
Vicky Colbert
Former Vice-Minister of Education of Colombia
Daylin Leach
Former Pennsylvania State Senator
Mona Sahlin
Former Swedish politician and party leader
Zephaniah Swift
Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court and legal author
Harriet Harman
Long-serving British Member of Parliament
Kahlil Byrd
American political strategist and entrepreneur
Emiliana Santoli
Italian politician and environmentalist
Jasmyne Cannick
Award-winning journalist and political strategist
Achille Lauro
Italian shipowner and former Mayor of Naples
Mikhail Gorbachev
Final leader of the Soviet Union and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Corrine Brown
Former U.S. Representative from Florida
Mazie Hirono
United States Senator from Hawaii
Genaro García Luna
Former Mexican Secretary of Public Security
Giuseppe Mazzini
Italian politician and journalist who spearheaded the Risorgimento
Nayla Moawad
Former Lebanese Minister of Social Affairs
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
First Cuban-American elected to Congress
Liz Cheney
Former U.S. Representative from Wyoming
Jacquelin Holzman
Former Mayor of Ottawa
Elan Carr
American attorney and diplomat
Ivonne Ortega Pacheco
Mexican politician and former Governor of Yucatan
Lars Onarheim
Norwegian business leader and member of Parliament
Ameera al-Taweel
Saudi Arabian philanthropist and former princess
Everardo Villarreal Salinas
Mexican politician and former Mayor of Reynosa
Yaseen Anwar
Former Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan
Oren Hatch
Long-serving United States Senator from Utah
Suzanna Hupp
American politician and advocate for gun rights
Chauncey Depew
US Senator and attorney for Cornelius Vanderbilt
Ted Kennedy
Long-serving United States Senator
Reem Al Hashimy
Minister of State for International Cooperation in the UAE
Hiram Revels
First African American to serve in the U.S. Congress
Saira Blair
Youngest person elected to state or federal office in the US
Mohamad Javad Zarif
Iranian diplomat and former Foreign Minister
Yasir Arafat
Former Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization
Gwyneth Dunwoody
Long-serving British Member of Parliament
Maylinn Smith
American attorney and tribal advocate
Naila Munir
Pakistani politician
Yakov Sverdlov
Bolshevik party leader and official
Samia Nkrumah
Ghanaian politician and daughter of Kwame Nkrumah
Hilda Solis
Former United States Secretary of Labor
Lindy Boggs
U.S. Representative and Ambassador
Randolph Churchill
British politician and father of Winston Churchill
Aryeh Deri
Israeli politician and leader of the Shas party
Analisa Torres
United States District Judge
Vito Fossella
Former U.S. Representative from New York
Ammar Campa-Najjar
American politician and former federal official
Sahana Pradhan
Former Foreign Minister of Nepal
Bryon Wilfert
Canadian Member of Parliament
Safa Al Hashem
Former member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly
Joni Ernst
United States Senator from Iowa
Dov Lior
Israeli rabbi and public figure
Amor De Cosmos
Canadian politician and second Premier of British Columbia
Fatimah Baeshen
First woman spokesperson for the Saudi Arabian embassy in Washington, D.C.
Tasia Scolinos
Former Director of Public Affairs for the U.S. Department of Justice
Nicola Sturgeon
Former First Minister of Scotland
Shanelle Jackson
Former member of the Michigan House of Representatives
Ron DeSantis
Governor of Florida
Aysha Siddika
Bangladeshi politician and former Member of Parliament
Bennie Thompson
U.S. Representative from Mississippi
Debbie Stabenow
United States Senator from Michigan
Daren Tang
Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization
Jeannette Rankin
First woman to hold federal office in the United States Congress
Geovanny Vicente Romero
Political strategist and columnist
Rahul Gandhi
Prominent Indian politician and member of the Parliament
Sherman Minton
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
Anayeli Munoz
Mexican politician and journalist
Manuela Carmena
Spanish lawyer and former Mayor of Madrid
Asiya Nasir
Pakistani politician and former member of the National Assembly
Rosalynn Carter
Former First Lady of the United States and humanitarian
Elouise Pepion Cobell
Tribal leader and lead plaintiff in Cobell v. Salazar
Nila Moeloek
Indonesian physician and former Minister of Health
Millicent Fenwick
American fashion editor and member of Congress
Kwame Kilpatrick
Former Mayor of Detroit
Marlow Cook
United States Senator from Kentucky
Rosalynn Carter
Former First Lady of the United States and humanitarian
Christofer Fjellner
Swedish Member of the European Parliament
Hamilton Jordan
White House Chief of Staff for Jimmy Carter
Khaled Meshaal
Palestinian political leader
Saif al-Adel
Former Egyptian special forces officer
Varun Gandhi
Indian Member of Parliament
Kay Bailey Hutchison
Former United States Senator from Texas
Richelle Parham
Former Global Chief Marketing Officer of eBay and advisor
Talya Lador-Fresher
Israeli diplomat and Ambassador
Mariya Gabriel
European Commissioner and Bulgarian politician
Asma al-Assad
First Lady of Syria
Kamil Bin Mohd Kassim
Malaysian politician
Christiana Thorpe
Sierra Leonean politician and former nun
Jerald terHorst
White House Press Secretary under Gerald Ford
Jeanne Shaheen
United States Senator from New Hampshire
Valentine Fleming
British Member of Parliament and father of Ian Fleming
Arlen Specter
Long-serving United States Senator from Pennsylvania
Om Birla
Speaker of the Lok Sabha in India
Lael Brainard
American economist and Director of the National Economic Council
Warner Miller
United States Senator from New York
Adair Turner
British businessman and academic peer
Mahdi Al-Mashat
Yemeni political figure
Olin Johnston
Former Governor of South Carolina and U.S. Senator
Yusef Salaam
Member of the Exonerated Five and New York City Council member
Rudolph Giuliani
Former Mayor of New York City
Parris Glendening
Former Governor of Maryland
Jasleen Kaur
New York City Council member
Tamir Pardo
Former Director of the Mossad
Callista Gingrich
Former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See
Irina Bokova
Former Director-General of UNESCO
Merlin Hull
U.S. Representative from Wisconsin
Lisandro de la Torre
Argentine politician and writer
Kamran Michael
Pakistani politician and senator
Roel Degamo
Filipino politician
Harlyn Geronimo
Mescalero Apache leader and great-grandson of Geronimo
Hellen Kim
South Korean educator and diplomat
Ozias M. Hatch
Illinois politician and advisor to Abraham Lincoln
Blade Nzimande
South African politician and cabinet minister
Leander Perez
Influential Louisiana political boss
Kirstyn Sinema
United States Senator from Arizona
Lamya Kaddor
German politician and scholar of Islamic studies
Arvin Boolell
Mauritian politician and former Minister of Foreign Affairs
Willard Wheatley
Former Chief Minister of the British Virgin Islands
Orin Hatch
Long-serving United States Senator from Utah
Meg Whitman
Former CEO of eBay and Hewlett-Packard
Woodrow Wyatt
British politician and journalist
Bronwyn Bishop
Former Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives
Asya Abdullah
Syrian Kurdish politician and co-chair of the Democratic Union Party
Nahum Sokolow
Zionist leader and pioneer of Hebrew journalism
Ved Pratap Vaidik
Indian journalist and political analyst
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
First Hispanic woman elected to the U.S. Congress
Lovely Warren
Former Mayor of Rochester, New York
Simcha Felder
American politician serving in the New York State Senate
Raeann Magill
Former member of the Ohio House of Representatives
Dianne Feinstein
Long-serving United States Senator
Kezia Dugdale
Former leader of the Scottish Labour Party
Huda Sha'arawi
Egyptian feminist leader and nationalist
Michell Hicks
Former Principal Chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
Orrin Hatch
Long-serving United States Senator from Utah
Abdullahi Ibrahim
Former Nigerian Minister of Justice
Iqra Khalid
Canadian Member of Parliament
Soledad Alvear
Chilean lawyer and former Minister of Foreign Affairs
Madaline A. Williams
First African American woman elected to the New Jersey Legislature
Lou Henry Hoover
First Lady of the United States and wife of Herbert Hoover
Uma Aaltonen
Finnish author and Member of the European Parliament
Jamila Schäfer
German politician and member of the Bundestag
Rudra Madhab Ray
Indian politician and member of parliament
Aslan Mashkhadov
Leader of the Chechen independence movement
Jeniffer González-Colón
Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico
Roscoe Conkling
United States Senator from New York and Radical Republican leader
Kyrsten Sinema
United States Senator from Arizona
Maryanne Trump Barry
American attorney and former federal judge
Raymon Anning
Former Commissioner of Police of Hong Kong
Torie Clarke
Former Pentagon spokeswoman and communications strategist
Imelda Marcos
Former First Lady of the Philippines
Cate Edwards
American attorney and daughter of John Edwards
Amina Mohamed
Kenyan lawyer and diplomat
Marcy Kaptur
U.S. Representative from Ohio
Anibal Acevedo Vila
Former Governor of Puerto Rico
Syeda Rizwana Hasan
Award-winning environmental lawyer and advisor
Marsha Blackburn
United States Senator from Tennessee
Elsy del Pilar Cuello
Colombian lawyer and magistrate
Eliora Katz
American foreign policy advisor
Hilario Davide Jr.
Former Chief Justice of the Philippines
Emrys Hughes
Welsh Labour politician and Member of Parliament
Naveen Patnaik
Indian politician and Chief Minister of Odisha
Priyanka Gandhi
Indian politician and member of the Nehru-Gandhi family
Nohemi Sanin
Colombian lawyer and former ambassador
Nabil Elaraby
Egyptian diplomat and former Secretary-General of the Arab League
Abdulaziz Kamilov
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan
Raj Iyer
First Chief Information Officer of the US Army
Jennings Randolph
US Senator known as the 'Father of the 26th Amendment'
Hadassa Ben-Itto
Israeli diplomat and jurist
Ameen Faheem
Pakistani populist poet and politician
Joycelyn Elders
Former United States Surgeon General
Amit Shah
Indian Minister of Home Affairs
Aleksandr Kerensky
Key figure in the Russian Revolution of 1917
Saxon Rice
Australian politician and former member of the Legislative Assembly
Jo Swinson
Former Leader of the Liberal Democrats
Kalaya Phongsathorn
Former Thai Senator and prominent political figure
Price Daniel
38th Governor of Texas and US Senator
Najah Wakim
Lebanese member of parliament and lawyer
Ibraheem Samirah
American politician and former member of the Virginia House of Delegates
DeAndrea Salvador
North Carolina State Senator
Rohit Khanna
U.S. Representative known as Ro Khanna
Abiel Foster
American clergyman and politician from New Hampshire
Mahlon Dickerson
U.S. Secretary of the Navy and Governor of New Jersey
Meira Kumar
Former Speaker of the Lok Sabha in India
Horace Greeley
Founder and editor of the New-York Tribune
Hamzah bin Hussein
Former Crown Prince of Jordan
Dixon Hall Lewis
U.S. Senator from Alabama in the 1840s
Nadiya Savchenko
Ukrainian politician and former army helicopter pilot
Hazen Pingree
Four-term mayor of Detroit and 24th Governor of Michigan
Arlin Adams
Prominent American federal judge
Sima Samar
Afghan women's rights advocate and physician
LaTonya Johnson
American politician serving in the Wisconsin State Senate
Karan Singh
Indian politician and philosopher
Yisrael Galili
Israeli politician and commander of the Haganah
Natan Sharansky
Soviet refusenik and Israeli politician
Heber Manning Wells
First Governor of the State of Utah
Goldy Brar
Canadian-based figure associated with political activism
Daniele Manin
Italian patriot and statesman during the Risorgimento
Perrin Beatty
Former Canadian Minister of National Defence
Janey Buchan
Scottish Member of the European Parliament
Nydia Velázquez
First Puerto Rican woman elected to the U.S. Congress
Keshav Baliram Hedgewar
Founder of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
Yamil Bukele
Salvadoran sports executive and politician
Mihir Shah
Indian economist and former Planning Commission member
Sampson Willis Harris
U.S. Representative from Alabama in the mid-19th century
Christos Pappas
Greek politician
Zaki al-Arsuzi
Syrian philosopher and sociologist
Arlette Laguiller
French politician and first woman to run for the French presidency
Kylon Middleton
South Carolina religious leader and county council member
Alexandros Panagoulis
Greek politician and poet who resisted the military junta
Ignatius Donnelly
American Congressman and writer known for his theories on Atlantis
Emmanuella Lambropoulos
Canadian Member of Parliament
Maliha Lodhi
Former Pakistani Ambassador to the United Nations
Yunus Pasha
Ottoman statesman and Grand Vizier
Erasmo Seguín
Tejano leader and politician in 19th-century Texas
Olympia Snowe
Former United States Senator from Maine
Azlan Shah of Perak
The ninth Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia
Hakim Jeffries
U.S. House Minority Leader
Eriberto Medeiros
Brazilian politician and lawyer
Marleny Contreras
Venezuelan politician and engineer
Efraim Halevy
Former director of the Mossad
Randell Woodfin
American lawyer and mayor of Birmingham, Alabama
Artemio Panganiban
Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
Jibril Rajoub
Palestinian political leader
Audie Bock
American politician and former member of the California State Assembly
Princess Reema bint Bandar Al Saud
Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States
Bakari Sellers
American attorney and CNN commentator
Humza Yousaf
Former First Minister of Scotland
Harlyn Geronimo
Apache leader and public official
Iyad Ag Ghaly
Malian Tuareg militant leader
Nidia Velázquez
U.S. Representative from New York and first Puerto Rican woman in Congress
Kathia Bolio Pinelo
Mexican politician and senator
Morrison England
Senior United States District Judge
Theodor Herzl
Austro-Hungarian journalist and father of modern political Zionism
Mazen Al-Asbahi
American doctor and political advisor
Tennyson Guyer
Former U.S. Representative from Ohio
Freeman Walker
US Senator from Georgia in the early 19th century
Mairead Farrell
Irish republican and Sinn Féin politician
Vivek Kundra
First Chief Information Officer of the United States
Binyomin Ze'ev Kahane
Israeli politician and scholar
Haneen Zoabi
Palestinian-Israeli politician and former member of the Knesset
Gabby Giffords
Former U.S. Representative and gun control advocate
Wilma Mankiller
First female Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation
Fatou Bensouda
Former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
Mick Mulvaney
American politician and former White House Chief of Staff
Patsy Mink
First woman of color elected to the U.S. Congress
Delbert Hosemann
American politician serving as Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi
Henna Virkkunen
Finnish Member of the European Parliament
Marci Ien
Canadian politician and former broadcast journalist
Gaspar de Guzmán
Count-Duke of Olivares and Spanish royal favorite
Kofi Annan
Former Secretary-General of the United Nations and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Ginny Brown-Waite
Former U.S. Representative from Florida
Terrel Bell
Former U.S. Secretary of Education
Noura Al Kaabi
Minister of Culture and Youth for the United Arab Emirates
Kyrsten Sinema
United States Senator from Arizona
Katina Schubert
German politician and chair of the Left Party
Manal bint Mohammed Al Maktoum
Emirati politician and member of the ruling family of Dubai
Zakia Meghji
Former Minister of Finance in Tanzania
Hinda Déby Itno
Former First Lady of Chad
Maria Fernanda Espinosa
Ecuadorian politician and diplomat
Xochilt Galvez
Mexican politician and businesswoman
Norris Cotton
United States Senator from New Hampshire
Carl Vinson
Long-serving U.S. Representative known as the Father of the Two-Ocean Navy
Tzipora Malka Livni
Israeli lawyer and politician
Alastair Campbell
British journalist and political strategist
Georgette Mosbacher
American business executive and diplomat
Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum
Sheikha of Dubai and member of the ruling family
Qasim Soleimani
Iranian military officer
Bibiana Aído
Former Spanish Minister for Equality
Jeb Bush
Former Governor of Florida
Lelia Foley
First African American woman elected mayor in the United States
Celso Amorim
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brazil
Marwan Barghouti
Palestinian political figure
Ebenezer Bassett
First African American diplomat and U.S. Minister to Haiti
Ayala Procaccia
Former Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel
Etienne de Silhouette
French minister of finance under Louis XV
Briahna Joy Gray
American political commentator and former press secretary
Lawton Chiles
Former Governor of Florida and U.S. Senator
Mazie Hirono
United States Senator from Hawaii
Zebulon Baird Vance
Confederate military officer and 37th Governor of North Carolina
Mitch McConnell
U.S. Senator from Kentucky
Filiberto Villalobos
Spanish physician and Minister of Education
Kendel Ehrlich
Former First Lady of Maryland and radio host
Eduard Bernstein
German social democratic theorist and politician
Maximino Avila Camacho
Mexican military officer and politician
Yasser Arafat
Former Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization
Roseanna Cunningham
Former Scottish Cabinet Secretary
Zahid Khan
British politician and member of the House of Lords
Salah Jadid
Syrian general and political figure
Antonino Scalia
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Johny Lahure
Luxembourgish politician
Dacia Valent
Somali-born Italian politician and MEP
Tonia Antoniazzi
British Member of Parliament
Amory Houghton
U.S. Representative and former CEO of Corning Glass Works
Muriel Humphrey
Former Second Lady of the United States and U.S. Senator
J.C. Watts
Former U.S. Representative and college football player
Asim Munir
Chief of Army Staff of Pakistan
Doreen Lawrence
British social campaigner and life peer
Maxime Bernier
Canadian politician and party leader
Jibril Rajoub
Palestinian political leader
Neena Gill
British politician and former Member of the European Parliament
Raisa Gorbacheva
First Lady of the Soviet Union and philanthropist
Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry
American lawyer and diplomat
Pinchas Sapir
Considered the 'architect' of the Israeli economy
Blas Ople
Philippine senator and diplomat
Amera Khalif
Jordanian politician and advocate for persons with disabilities
Homer Cummings
United States Attorney General under Franklin D. Roosevelt
Yaneth Giha Tovar
Former Minister of Education of Colombia
Nabil Elaraby
Egyptian diplomat and former Secretary-General of the Arab League
Oswald Mosley
British politician and leader of the British Union of Fascists
Selin Sayek Böke
Turkish politician and economist
Ilias Kasidiaris
Greek political figure
Arun Shourie
Indian economist, journalist, and former minister
Noreen Evans
Former California State Senator
Cheri Bustos
Former U.S. Representative from Illinois
Odell Shepard
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut
Alphonse de Lamartine
French writer, poet and statesman
Ruthann Aron
Former Maryland politician
Betzy Kjelsberg
Norwegian women's rights pioneer and factory inspector
Elbert Guillory
Former member of the Louisiana State Senate
Ioannis Paleokrassas
Greek politician and European Commissioner
Julissa Villanueva
Honduran public servant and forensic pathologist
Abubakar Shekau
Former leader of the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram
Murad Saeed
Prominent Pakistani politician
Aishah Ahmad
Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria
Jozef Pilsudski
First Chief of State of the Second Polish Republic
Alva Myrdal
Swedish sociologist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Aviv Kochavi
Former Chief of General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces
Daymon Ely
American attorney and former member of the New Mexico House of Representatives
Zulema Castro de Peña
Former First Lady of Paraguay
Benita Ferrero-Waldner
Austrian diplomat and former European Commissioner
Hadiya Khalaf Abbas
First female Speaker of the People's Council of Syria
Tenisha Yancey
Former member of the Michigan House of Representatives
Isaura Navarro
Spanish politician and lawyer
Cristin McCarthy Vahey
American state legislator
Desmon Adams
American politician and businessman
Maher al-Assad
Syrian military commander
Nandini Satpathy
Former Chief Minister of Odisha and author
Eveline Herfkens
Dutch politician and diplomat who served as Minister for Development Cooperation
Thad Cochran
Long-serving United States Senator from Mississippi
Amrit Mangat
Canadian Member of Provincial Parliament
Asma al-Assad
First Lady of Syria
Aneesh Chopra
First Chief Technology Officer of the United States
Sander Levin
Former U.S. Representative from Michigan
Vilma Santos
Filipino actress and prominent politician
Adham Baba
Former Malaysian Minister of Health
Teresita de Castro
Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
Dade Phelan
American politician and Speaker of the Texas House
Meher Afroz Shaheen
Pakistani politician
Noora Salem Al Mazrouei
Emirati politician and government official
Abdias do Nascimento
Brazilian scholar, artist, and politician
Derwin Brown
Sheriff-elect of DeKalb County, Georgia
Lauro Müller
Brazilian diplomat and engineer
Awa Marie Coll-Seck
Senegalese doctor and former Minister of Health
Najma Chowdhury
Bangladeshi academic and advisor to the caretaker government
Pasquale Paoli
Corsican patriot and leader of the Corsican Republic
Zuleika Alambert
Brazilian feminist writer and communist politician
Iver Lawson
Norwegian-American real estate developer and politician
Sherrod Brown
United States Senator from Ohio
Josselin de Rohan
French politician and member of the House of Rohan
Ahsan Iqbal
Senior Pakistani politician and minister
Afnan Ullah Khan
Pakistani politician and member of the Senate of Pakistan
Lynne Cheney
Former Second Lady of the United States and author
Sahib Singh Verma
Former Chief Minister of Delhi
Lilianne Ploumen
Dutch politician and former Minister for Foreign Trade
Tasnim Aslam
Pakistani career diplomat and former spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Karlo Ressler
Croatian politician and Member of the European Parliament
Lisbet Palme
Swedish politician and child psychologist who served as chairperson of UNICEF
Yonah Martin
Canadian Senator and educator
Ayelet Shaked
Israeli politician and former Minister of Justice
Markos Vafiadis
Greek Communist Party leader during the Greek Civil War
Sekou Nkrumah
Ghanaian politician and son of Kwame Nkrumah
Socorro Diaz Palacios
Mexican journalist and politician
Walid Muallem
Former Syrian Foreign Minister
Abbott Lawrence
American businessman and philanthropist for whom Lawrence, MA is named
Nadiya Savchenko
Ukrainian politician and former army helicopter pilot
Jarad Klein
American politician from Iowa
Roshni Nadar
Indian billionaire businesswoman and chairperson of HCL Technologies
Lizzette Reynolds
Tennessee Commissioner of Education
Eber J. Driscoll
Former Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
Matan Vilnai
Israeli politician and former Major General in the IDF
Josi Meier
Swiss politician and feminist advocate
Abubakar Shekau
Former leader of the militant group Boko Haram
Yanis Varoufakis
Greek economist and former Minister of Finance
Nithya Raman
American urban planner and Los Angeles City Council member
Samy Vellu
Long-serving Malaysian cabinet minister
Lucina Hagman
Finnish feminist and early member of Parliament
Newton Minow
Former FCC Chairman known for his 'vast wasteland' speech
Maryan Street
Former New Zealand Minister of Health
Farida Mzamber Waziri
Former Executive Chairperson of the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
Mahad Abdalle Awad
Former Second Deputy Speaker of the Federal Parliament of Somalia
Marlaina Smith
Canadian politician and Premier of Alberta
Roslynn R. Mauskopf
United States District Judge
Elda Neyis Mosquera
Former Colombian guerrilla commander turned peace advocate
Laurin Liu
Former Canadian Member of Parliament
Rama Yade
Senegalese-born French politician and former government minister
Pnina Rosenblum
Israeli businesswoman and former member of the Knesset
Meliza Haradinaj-Stublla
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kosovo
Bowman Crum
Former American politician and lawyer
Habiba Sarabi
Afghan hematologist and politician who served as Governor of Bamyan Province
Fatma Samoura
Senegalese diplomat and FIFA executive
J.D. Vance
U.S. Senator and author
Lovell Rousseau
Union general and U.S. Congressman
Amílcar Cabral
Bissau-Guinean and Cape Verdean agricultural engineer, intellectual, and anti-colonial leader
Siham Sergiwa
Libyan psychologist and member of parliament
Miri Regev
Israeli politician and former Brigadier-general
Zehava Gal-on
Israeli politician and former leader of the Meretz party
Sumner Welles
Diplomat and US Under Secretary of State
Rand Paul
United States Senator from Kentucky
Sinclair Weeks
Former United States Secretary of Commerce
Hansen Clarke
Former U.S. Representative from Michigan
Artur Davis
Former U.S. Representative from Alabama
Marcelle Lentz-Cornette
Luxembourgish politician and Member of the European Parliament
Muhammadali Magomedov
Former leader of the Republic of Dagestan
Katherina Reiche
German politician and business executive
Zulema Castro de Peña
Former First Lady of Paraguay
Rashida Tlaib
U.S. Representative for Michigan
Enid Greene
Former U.S. Representative from Utah
Cass Sunstein
American legal scholar and former White House official
Ridwan Kamil
Indonesian architect and prominent politician
Yannis Varoufakis
Greek economist and former Minister of Finance
Liem Hoang-Ngoc
French economist and Member of the European Parliament
Zakia Meghji
Former Tanzanian Minister of Finance
Anisa Makhlouf
Former First Lady of Syria
Raheel Sharif
Retired Pakistani army general
Ayanna Pressley
U.S. Representative for Massachusetts
Champ Clark
Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
Jamilah Nasheed
Former Missouri State Senator
Manar El-Shorbagy
Egyptian political scientist and professor
Munira Mirza
British political advisor and former Director of the Number 10 Policy Unit
Sahra Wagenknecht
Prominent German politician and author
Aysel Tuğluk
Turkish politician of Kurdish descent
Gershon Agron
Former Mayor of Jerusalem and founder of The Jerusalem Post
Stavros Lambrinidis
European Union diplomat and politician
Zulema Castro de Peña
Former First Lady of Paraguay
Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani
The current Emir of Qatar
Charbel Nahas
Lebanese economist and former government minister
Erion Veliaj
Mayor of Tirana, Albania
Kadi Sesay
Sierra Leonean politician and feminist
Whitman Blount Hill
Early American politician and delegate to the Continental Congress
Soloman Bennett
Early 19th-century Canadian politician
Walden Bello
Filipino academic and environmentalist
Abhishek Singhvi
Indian politician and senior advocate
Florencio Randazzo
Argentine politician and former Minister of the Interior
Neomi Rao
United States Circuit Judge
Darleen Druyun
Former high-ranking United States Air Force official
Bay Buchanan
Former Treasurer of the United States
Anthonie Heinsius
Dutch statesman and Grand Pensionary of Holland
Jerico Nograles
Filipino politician and former member of the House of Representatives
José Antonio Primo de Rivera
Spanish politician and founder of the Falange Española
Mar Galcerán
First Spanish parliamentarian with Down syndrome
Othniel Looker
The fifth Governor of Ohio
Tej Pratap Singh Yadav
Indian politician and former Member of Parliament
Lindley Miller Garrison
United States Secretary of War under Woodrow Wilson
Tavish Scott
Former leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats
Djamila Bouhired
Algerian militant and nationalist icon
Naila Munir
Pakistani politician
Thurman Arnold
Associate Justice of the U.S. Court of Appeals and trust-buster
Orly Levy
Israeli politician and former member of the Knesset
Lazar Kaganovich
Soviet politician and administrator
Keiko Fujimori
Peruvian politician and former First Lady
Mele Tuilotolava
Tongan-New Zealand lawyer and advocate
Carlina Rivera
New York City Council member
Cherelle Parker
American politician serving as the 100th Mayor of Philadelphia
Zehra Zümrüt Selçuk
Turkish government minister
Sabino Arana
Basque writer and founder of the Basque Nationalist Party
Marleny Contreras
Venezuelan politician and engineer
Uzair Baloch
Pakistani politician and former gang leader
Samad Khan Momtaz os-Saltaneh
Iranian diplomat and politician during the Qajar dynasty
Harsh Vardhan
Indian physician and former Minister of Health
Naveen Patnaik
Indian politician and Chief Minister of Odisha
Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
Saudi Arabian prince and former government minister
Konstantin Chernenko
Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Corine Mauch
First female Mayor of Zurich
Lady Bird Johnson
Former First Lady of the United States
Gildardo Magaña
Mexican general and politician during the Mexican Revolution
Farris Bryant
34th Governor of Florida
Renard Johnson
American businessman and civic leader
Grisel Muñiz
Mexican electoral magistrate
Sadiq Khan
Mayor of London and former Member of Parliament
Sixto Brillantes Jr.
Filipino election official and lawyer
Nachman Shai
Israeli politician and journalist
Ihsan Sabri Çağlayangil
Former Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs
Curren Price
Los Angeles City Council member
Yaqub Beg
Central Asian ruler of Kashgaria
Pinchas Sapir
Considered the 'architect' of the Israeli economy
Kasim Reed
Former Mayor of Atlanta
Huey P. Newton
Co-founder of the Black Panther Party
Sharron Angle
American politician and former Nevada Assemblywoman
Mills Godwin
Two-time Governor of Virginia
Juventino Castro y Castro
Mexican jurist and politician who served on the Supreme Court
Arsen Kanokov
Former Head of the Kabardino-Balkar Republic
Adarsh Sein Anand
Former Chief Justice of India
Meridith McGraw
National political correspondent for Politico
Kadiatou Sow
First female governor in Mali
Cuyler Walker
American lawyer and local official
Natividad Almeda-López
First female lawyer and judge in the Philippines
Zebulon Vance
Confederate military officer and Governor of North Carolina
Maïmouna Ndoye Seck
Senegalese politician and former cabinet minister
Nazar Najarian
Lebanese politician
Iriana Joko Widodo
First Lady of Indonesia
Desiree Rogers
Former White House Social Secretary
Maynard Jackson
First African American mayor of Atlanta
Hadia Khalaf Abbas
Former Speaker of the People's Council of Syria
Jenniffer González-Colón
Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico
Nataniel Aguirre
Bolivian lawyer, diplomat, and writer
Azeem Daultana
Pakistani politician and member of the National Assembly
Fatuma Gedi
Kenyan politician and women's rights advocate
Bintou Keita
United Nations diplomat from Guinea
Ilhan Omar
U.S. Representative for Minnesota
Patty Murray
United States Senator from Washington
Giani Kiritsis
Greek politician and former mayor
Kadija Bukar Abba Ibrahim
Nigerian politician and former Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
Martine Aubry
French politician and former First Secretary of the Socialist Party
Rashida Tlaib
U.S. Representative for Michigan
Kristof Szalay-Bobrovniczky
Hungarian Minister of Defence
Coleen Seng
Former Mayor of Lincoln, Nebraska
Mary Jo White
Former Chair of the SEC and U.S. Attorney
Shadrach Bond
The first Governor of Illinois
Johnie Hammond
Former member of the Iowa Senate
Buckley Belanger
Canadian politician from Saskatchewan
Kathie Tovo
American politician and city council member
Ruthanne Fuller
First female Mayor of Newton, Massachusetts
Conrado Estrella
Filipino politician and former Governor
Anum Qaisar
Scottish National Party politician
Yuval Steinitz
Israeli philosopher and government minister
Aïssata Tall Sall
Senegalese lawyer and Minister of Foreign Affairs
Levar Stoney
American politician serving as the 80th mayor of Richmond, Virginia
Citlali Ibáñez
Mexican politician also known as Yeidckol Polevnsky Gurwitz
Sharice Davids
U.S. Representative from Kansas and former MMA fighter
Shant Sahakian
California public official and community leader
Delmy de la Paz
Salvadoran politician and deputy
Manasseh Cutler
American clergyman and member of the U.S. House of Representatives
Eddison Zvobgo
Zimbabwean politician and a founding member of ZANU-PF
Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng
Ghanaian physician and former Minister
Suzana Garcia
Portuguese lawyer and political figure
Justino Arriaga Rojas
Mexican politician and lawyer
Kersten Artus
German politician and journalist
Herlinda Bevin
Former First Lady of Kentucky
Binta Jammeh
Gambian politician and diplomat
Qamar Aden Ali
Somali lawyer and former Minister of Health
Henrique Meirelles
Former Minister of Finance of Brazil
Itai Hagman
Argentine politician and economist
Aruna Miller
Lieutenant Governor of Maryland
Aasim Sajjad Akhtar
Pakistani politician and academic
Merlyn Rees
British Home Secretary and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
Danica Roem
American journalist and politician
Karlene Maywald
Australian politician and water security advocate
Vadim Krasnoselsky
Transnistrian politician
Whitten Peters
Former United States Secretary of the Air Force
Kadir Topbaş
Former Mayor of Istanbul
Karlin Itchoak
Alaska state director for The Wilderness Society
Rosaria Capacchione
Italian journalist and senator
Hieu Van Le
Former Governor of South Australia
Josée Verner
Canadian Senator and former Cabinet minister
Demetre Daskalakis
American physician and public health official
Amina Mohamed
Kenyan lawyer and diplomat
Ayman al-Zawahiri
Former leader of al-Qaeda
Anitra Steen
Swedish politician and civil servant
Mehreen Faruqi
Australian politician and engineer
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
The former Emir of Qatar
Nita Lowey
Former U.S. Representative from New York
Saundra Brown Armstrong
Senior United States District Judge
Eligio de la Garza
American politician who served in the House of Representatives
Sherilyn Peace Garnett
United States District Judge
Salih Muslim
Syrian Kurdish political leader
Kellyanne Conway
American political consultant and strategist
Meenakshi Lekhi
Indian Minister of State for External Affairs and Culture
Townsend Harris
First United States Consul General to Japan
Keir Hardie
Founder of the UK Labour Party
Ayanna Pressley
U.S. Representative for Massachusetts
Elihu Root
US Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize winner
Basilio Badillo
Mexican politician and educator
Fariha Razak Haroon
Pakistani journalist and politician
Stevenson Archer
United States Representative from Maryland
Marisabel Rodríguez
Former First Lady of Venezuela
Taner Yıldız
Former Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources
Kalman Kahana
Israeli politician and signatory of the Declaration of Independence
Durell Peaden
Former Florida State Senator and physician
Eoghan Murphy
Former Irish Fine Gael politician
Dalya Attar
American politician serving in the Maryland House of Delegates
Hammad Azhar
Pakistani politician and former federal minister
Amjad Bashir
British politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament
Issak Saba
Iranian-born Israeli politician
Mir Hossein Mousavi
Iranian reformist politician and architect
Aboubacar Ibrahim Abani
Nigerien diplomat and politician
Aïssa Diori
First Lady of Niger from 1960 to 1974
Artin Boşgezenyan
Armenian deputy in the Ottoman Parliament
Narciso Ramos
Filipino diplomat and politician
Chauncey Depew
US Senator and attorney
Merit Janow
Former member of the WTO Appellate Body and academic
Abena Oppong-Asare
British Labour Party politician and Member of Parliament
Huzaifa al-Badri
Historical figure in early Islamic administration
Avigdor Lieberman
Soviet-born Israeli politician and former Defense Minister
Diallo Rabain
Bermudian politician and cabinet minister
Eliane Karp
Former First Lady of Peru and anthropologist
Orly Levy
Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset
Justyne Caruana
Maltese politician and former Minister for Education
Karlton Moore
Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance
Avik Roy
American political advisor and journalist
Kenson Casimir
Saint Lucian politician and minister
Simi Nwogwugwu
Prominent Nigerian non-profit leader and advocate
Woodson Bradley
American politician and member of the Kentucky Senate
Imad Mughniyeh
Lebanese political and military figure
Natia Turnava
Former Minister of Economy of Georgia
Hale Boggs
Former U.S. House Majority Leader
Kadir Topbaş
Former Mayor of Istanbul
Anastasio de Gracia
Spanish trade unionist and politician
Eva Per3n
Former First Lady of Argentina, famously known as Evita
Aeneas Chigwedere
Zimbabwean historian and politician
Karine Jean-Pierre
White House Press Secretary
Leonid Brezhnev
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Berit Ås
Norwegian politician and social psychologist
Najla El Mangoush
Libyan diplomat and lawyer
Aurélie Filippetti
French politician and novelist who served as Minister of Culture
Gideon Welles
United States Secretary of the Navy under Abraham Lincoln
José Miguel Arroyo
Former First Gentleman of the Philippines
Alexandr Vondra
Czech diplomat and politician
Moise Katumbi
Congolese businessman and politician
Adlai Stevenson III
U.S. Senator from Illinois
Jim Mattis
U.S. Secretary of Defense and Marine Corps General
Estuardo Díaz
Peruvian politician and former mayor
Woody Johnson
American businessman and diplomat
Carden Conboy
Former Irish politician and judge
Ed Koch
Former Mayor of New York City
Sadiq Khan
The Mayor of London
Chuck Schumer
U.S. Senator and Senate Majority Leader
Param Bir Singh
Former Police Commissioner of Mumbai
Ammar Campa-Najjar
American politician
Edwina Currie
Former British Member of Parliament and author
Alima Boumediene-Thiery
French politician and former Member of the European Parliament
Dionisio Meade y Garcia de Leon
Mexican lawyer and politician
Thaddeus Stevens
American statesman and leader of the Radical Republicans
Basma bint Talal
Princess of Jordan and advocate for women's rights
Rexford Tugwell
Economist and member of Franklin D. Roosevelt's 'Brain Trust'
Pavan Varma
Indian diplomat and author
Bhavya Bishnoi
Indian politician and Member of the Legislative Assembly
Manpreet Akali
Indian politician and member of the Shiromani Akali Dal
Seema Verma
Former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Aleem Khan
Prominent Pakistani politician and businessman
Jovita Carranza
44th Treasurer of the United States
Korrie Louwes
Dutch politician and former alderwoman of Rotterdam
Mohsin Naqvi
Pakistani media mogul and government official
Xochitl Torres Small
United States Deputy Secretary of Agriculture
Nitin Gadkari
Senior Indian politician and Minister for Road Transport and Highways
Arvind Kejriwal
Indian politician and Chief Minister of Delhi
Webb Hubbell
Former Associate Attorney General of the United States
Russ Feingold
Former United States Senator from Wisconsin
Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum
Sheikha of Dubai and member of the ruling family
Fiza Farhan
Social entrepreneur and former member of the UN Lead Group on Women's Economic Empowerment
Fahim Hashimy
Afghan entrepreneur and former government minister
Mesha Mainor
American politician serving in the Georgia House of Representatives
Prentiss M. Brown
US Senator from Michigan
Aminah Faal-Sonko
Gambian politician and former cabinet minister
Mannix Flynn
Irish independent politician and author
Migdalia Machín
Cuban political figure
Neven Mimica
Croatian diplomat and European Commissioner
Alejo Vidal-Quadras
Spanish politician and physicist
Jerrold Nadler
U.S. Representative from New York
Arline Friscia
Former member of the New Jersey General Assembly
Aryeh Deri
Israeli politician and leader of the Shas party
Kamen Kostadinov
Bulgarian politician and member of parliament
Mauri Eggert
Finnish diplomat and former Under-Secretary of State
Asaph Whittlesey
Wisconsin pioneer and state legislator
Hayk Marutyan
Armenian actor and former Mayor of Yerevan
Judit Varga
Former Hungarian Minister of Justice
Yonis Abdihafid
Somali politician
Jennelle Moore
Former First Lady of North Carolina
Eliora Katz
Former National Security Council official and policy advisor
Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor
Former Chief Executive of Hong Kong
Suha Arafat
Former First Lady of the Palestinian National Authority
Zulay Rodriguez
Panamanian lawyer and politician
Christiana Figueres
Costa Rican diplomat and UN climate chief
Marquetta J. Bryan
American judge and legal professional
Elsi Katainen
Finnish Member of the European Parliament
Rosanne Hertzberger
Dutch politician and microbiologist
Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani
The current Emir of Qatar
Maire Geoghegan-Quinn
Former Irish politician and European Commissioner
Yasir Al-Rumayyan
Governor of the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia
Barnabas Kelet Henagan
44th Governor of South Carolina
Salima Yenbou
French politician and Member of the European Parliament
Rod Blagojevich
Former Governor of Illinois
Yazid Sabeg
French businessman and government official
Eliu Root
Often cited variant spelling for the American statesman Elihu Root
Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum
Crown Prince of Dubai known as Fazza
Riyad Mansour
Palestinian diplomat and Permanent Observer to the United Nations
Tymon de Weger
Dutch politician and urban planner
Kaleem Shaukat
Former Vice Admiral of the Pakistan Navy
Leondra Kruger
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California
Anesa Kajtazovic
Former Iowa State Representative
Siddhi Kumari
Member of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly
Yuli Edelstein
Israeli politician and former Speaker of the Knesset
Frazier Glenn Miller Jr.
American political figure
Cordel Hull
Longest-serving US Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize winner
Corley Kenna
Former State Department official and public affairs executive
Hung Cao
Retired Navy Captain and political candidate
Abijah Gilbert
United States Senator from Florida during the Reconstruction era
Nafis Sadik
Pakistani physician and former Executive Director of the UNFPA
Amalya Kearse
First African American woman to serve on a US International Court of Appeals
Desiree Rogers
Former White House Social Secretary
Karianne Tung
Norwegian Minister of Digitalisation
Kwaku Baah
Ghanaian lawyer and member of parliament
Lura Lynn Ryan
Former First Lady of Illinois
Zohra Drif
Algerian retired lawyer and politician
Nizar Rayan
Palestinian political leader
Arnell Engstrom
Former member of the Michigan House of Representatives
Murtaza Bhutto
Pakistani politician and leader of Al-Zulfiqar
Olena Zelenska
First Lady of Ukraine and screenwriter
Hazelle Rogers
Jamaican-American member of the Florida House of Representatives
Nickie Antonio
American politician serving in the Ohio Senate
Husam bin Saud Al Saud
Prince and Governor of Al Bahah Province
Laird Bell
American attorney and philanthropist
Dalal Mughrabi
Palestinian militant and political figure
Khalifa Haftar
Libyan military commander
Pinchas Sapir
Considered the 'architect' of the Israeli economy
Leonides Morales
Former Governor of the Philippines
Mujtaba Khamenei
Iranian cleric and influential political figure
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Former U.S. Representative from Florida
Noach Dear
New York Supreme Court justice and former city councilman
Yasser Arafat
Former Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization
Folasade Yemi-Esan
Nigerian civil servant and Head of the Civil Service of the Federation
Denzil Minnan-Wong
Canadian politician and former Deputy Mayor of Toronto
Hoda Muthana
American-born woman involved in international legal citizenship cases
Manuela Carmena
Spanish lawyer and former Mayor of Madrid
Maximilien Robespierre
Key figure of the French Revolution
Yoav Gallant
Israeli politician and military general
Annastacia Palaszczuk
Former Premier of Queensland, Australia
Avelino Lopes
Angolan political figure
Dari Taylor
Former British Member of Parliament
Raisa Gorbacheva
Former First Lady of the Soviet Union
Wright Patman
Long-serving U.S. Representative from Texas
Aristides de Sousa Mendes
Portuguese diplomat who saved thousands of Jews during WWII
Bezalel Smotrich
Israeli politician
Akua Dansua
Ghanaian journalist and former Member of Parliament
Naser Orić
Bosnian military officer during the Bosnian War
Richardson Dilworth
Former Mayor of Philadelphia
Alla Yaroshinskaya
Journalist and former Soviet deputy
Dawood Shah
Afghan politician and military leader
Ousman Jammeh
Gambian politician and former Foreign Minister
Mansour Abbas
Israeli Arab politician
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Director-General of the World Trade Organization
Roby Smith
American politician and State Treasurer of Iowa
DeWitt Clinton
Governor of New York and driving force behind the Erie Canal
Emeka Anyaoku
Former Commonwealth Secretary-General
Ma Jiyuan
Chinese general and political figure
Suhail al-Mazrouei
Minister of Energy and Infrastructure in the United Arab Emirates
Caoimhe Archibald
Sinn Fein politician and Member of the Legislative Assembly
Jamillah Nasheed
Former member of the Missouri Senate
Rosalynn Carter
Former First Lady of the United States
Zaeem Qadri
Pakistani politician and former provincial minister
Caylan Ford
Canadian politician and commentator
Angelino Alfano
Former Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs
Jerard J. Goss
American local politician and civic leader
Shazia Ilmi
Indian politician and former television journalist
Yaw Boateng Gyan
Former National Organizer of the National Democratic Congress in Ghana
Brahm Dutt
Indian politician and former cabinet minister
Gila Katsav
Former First Lady of Israel
Kannan Gopinathan
Former Indian Administrative Service officer
Akbar Al Baker
Former CEO of Qatar Airways and tourism official
Abid Raja
Norwegian lawyer and politician who served as Minister of Culture
Blanche Lincoln
Former United States Senator from Arkansas