The World Leaders (worth listing)

1. Mohammed Mossadegh

Mohammad Mosaddegh (16 June 1882 - 5 March 1967) was an Iranian politician who served as the 35th Prime Minister of Iran. An author, administrator, lawyer and parliamentarian, he was elected in 1951 by the 16th Iranian Majlis to the office of Prime Minister, his government came under scrutiny for ...

2. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

Actor | Sandali

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was the last Shah of Iran, his reign lasted from 1941 until his overthrow in 1979. He was educated in Switzerland and was familiar with the western ideas. In 1941, Britain and USSR occupied Iran and forced Reza Shah the Great to resign in favor of his son. Later the young Shah...

3. Mohammad Khatami

Self | Iran and the West

Mohammad Khatami was born on September 29, 1943 in Ardakan, Iran.

4. Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Self | Baraye azadi

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was born on August 25, 1934 in Bahraman, Kerman Province, Iran. He was married to Effat Marashi. He died on January 8, 2017 in Teheran, Iran.

5. Hassan Rouhani

Self | Divarkesh

He was born Hassan Fereydoon on 12 November 1948 in Sorkheh, Iran. He later changed his name to Hassan Rouhani (Rouhani meaning "spiritual" or "cleric").

He has held many political posts in Iran following the Islamic Revolution. Including being a member of the Iranian Parliament from 1980 to 2000, ...

6. Abolhassan Bani Sadr

Self | Le journal de 20 heures

Abolhassan Bani Sadr was the first President of Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. His presidency was impeached a year after his inauguration after Bani Sadr criticized the Islamic government for violating the human rights of the people of Iran, and also criticized the many executions of the ...

7. Ayatollah Khomeini

Self | Baraye azadi

Sayyid Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini (17 May 1900 - 3 June 1989), also known as Ayatollah Khomeini, was an Iranian political and religious leader who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the leader of the ...

8. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Self | Tagesschau

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was born on July 17, 1939 in Mashhad, Iran. He has been married to Khojaste Khamenei since 1964.

9. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Actor | FNAF Roblox Movie

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was born on October 28, 1956 in Aradan, Garmsar, Iran. He is an actor, known for FNAF Roblox Movie, Deh Namaki-ha (2008) and Letters to the President (2009).

10. John F. Kennedy

Writer | Profiles in Courage

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts, to Rose Kennedy (née Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald) and Joseph P. Kennedy. John was named after his maternal grandfather, John "HoneyFitz" Fitzgerald, the mayor of Boston. John was very ill as a child and was given the last ...

11. Richard Nixon

Soundtrack | Frost/Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. He was a member of the Republican Party who previously served as a representative and senator from California and was the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961. His five years in the White House saw ...

12. Ronald Reagan

Actor | Kings Row

Ronald Reagan had quite a prolific career, having catapulted from a Warner Bros. contract player and television star, into serving as president of the Screen Actors Guild, the governorship of California (1967-1975), and lastly, two terms as President of the United States (1981-1989).

Ronald Wilson ...

13. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self | Nazi Concentration Camps

Dwight D. Eisenhower was born on Tuesday, October 14, 1890, as Dwight David Eisenhower, in Denison, Texas. He was the third of seven sons born to David Jacob Eisenhower and Ida Elizabeth Stover. Both of his parents were of German descent. Eisenhower studied at the West Point Military Academy from ...

14. Herbert Hoover

Self | Public Be Damned

Herbert Hoover was born on August 10, 1874 in West Branch, Iowa. His family were devout Quakers. At age eight, Hoover was orphaned and was sent to live with relatives. They showed him little affection, but taught him the importance of hard work and industry. In 1891, Hoover entered Stanford ...

15. Theodore Roosevelt

Writer | Simple Gifts

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 - January 6, 1919), often referred to as Teddy or his initials T. R., was an American politician, statesman, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. He previously served as ...

16. Abraham Lincoln

Writer | Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

Abraham Lincoln was an American politician from Kentucky. He was the second presidential candidate of the then-new Republican Party, following John Charles Frémont (1813 - 1890). He served as President of the United States from 1861 to 1865, during the American Civil War. He was assassinated in ...

17. Anwar Sadat

Self | Midweek

Anwar Sadat was born on December 25, 1918 in Mit Abu al-Kum, Al-Minufiyah, Egypt. He was married to Jehan Sadat and Ehsan Madi. He died on October 6, 1981 in Cairo, Egypt.

18. Hosni Mubarak

Actor | Wadaa' fi elfagr

Hosni Mubarak was born on May 4, 1928 in Al-Minufiyah, Egypt. He was an actor, known for Wadaa' fi elfagr (1956), Vremya (1968) and Tagesschau (1952). He was married to Suzan Mubarak. He died on February 25, 2020 in Cairo, Egypt.

19. Idi Amin

Self | Général Idi Amin Dada: Autoportrait

Idi Amin Dada Oumee was born in the rural village of Koboko, Uganda, in 1923, a member of the Kakwa tribe. Raised in the isolated farming country of northwestern Uganda, Amin received a scant education which left him functionally illiterate.

During the Second World War, at the age of 18, he enlisted...

20. Robert Mugabe

Self | Zimbabwe i dag

Robert Gabriel Mugabe was a Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987 and then as President from 1987 to 2017. He served as Leader of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) from 1975 to 1980 and led its successor political party, the ZANU...

21. Hirohito

Self | Arrivée du prince du Japon Hiro Hito

Emperor Showa (29 April 1901 - 7 January 1989), commonly known in English-speaking countries by his personal name Hirohito, was the 124th emperor of Japan, ruling from 25 December 1926 until his death in 1989. Hirohito and his wife, Empress Kojun, had two sons and five daughters; he was succeeded ...

22. Akihito

Self | The 1994 Hiroshima Asian Games

Akihito was born on December 23, 1933 in Tokyo, Japan. He has been married to Michiko since April 10, 1959. They have three children.

23. Hu Jintao

Self | Beijing

After attending school in Taizhou, Hu began studying engineering at Beijing Technical University in 1959. He specialized in hydraulic engineering projects and completed his studies as a water management engineer in 1965. Hu then worked as a research assistant at his university until 1968. Since he ...

24. Wen Jiabao

Self | The 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games

Wen Jiabao was born on September 15, 1942 in Tianjin, China.

25. Il-Sung Kim

Writer | Kotpanum chonio

Kim Il-sung (15 April 1912 - 8 July 1994) was a North Korean politician and the founder of North Korea, which he led from the country's establishment in 1948 until his death in 1994. He held the posts of Premier from 1948 to 1972 and President from 1972 to 1994. He was also the leader of the ...

26. Jong-Il Kim

Producer | Pulgasari

Kim Jong-IL (born Yuri Irsenovich Kim was a North Korean politician who was the second supreme leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011. He led North Korea from the 1994 death of his father Kim Il-sung, the first Supreme Leader, until his own death in 2011, when he was succeeded by his son, Kim ...

27. Jong-Un Kim

Self | North Korea: Inside the Mind of a Dictator

Kim Jong-un was born on January 8, 1984 in Pyongyang, North Korea. He is appeared in many documentaries including, Panorama (1953) and Dennis Rodman's Big Bang in PyongYang (2015). He went to boarding school in Switzerland. He has been married to Sol-Ju Ri since 2009. They have three children. On ...

28. Saddam Hussein

Writer | Al-ayyam al-tawila

Saddam Hussein was a bloody and brutal dictator who kept his country of Iraq at war almost constantly after assuming power in 1979. At least one million people died due to the machinations of Saddam. After his regime was toppled by the U.S. invasion of 2003, he wound up on a gallows, his life ...

29. Jalal Talabani

Self | The Iraq War

Jalal Talabani was born on November 12, 1933 in Kelkan, Iraqi Kurdistan. He was married to Hero Ibrahim Ahmed. He died on October 3, 2017 in Berlin, Germany.

30. Silvio Berlusconi

Producer | Mediterraneo

Silvio Berlusconi was born on September 29, 1936 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He was a producer, known for Mediterraneo (1991), Man Trouble (1992) and Folks! (1992). He was married to Veronica Lario and Carla Elvira Lucia Dall'Oglio. He died on June 12, 2023 in Milan, Italy.

31. Muammar Gaddafi

Producer | Al-risâlah

Muammar Abu Meniar el-Gaddafi was born in the North African desert, south of Sirte, Libya, in 1942 (the exact date is unknown; some sources day June 1, while others say sometime in September). The son of a poor Bedouin nomad, Gaddafi lived in his family's remote desert camp until he went away to ...

32. Fidel Castro

Actor | Araaayyyyy!!!

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was born in Birán, Holguin Province, Cuba, the fifth of nine children of Ángel María Bautista Castro y Argiz, a plantation owner originally from Galicia, Spain, who operated a plantation in Cuba's Oriente Province. His mother, Lina Ruz González, was a servant in his ...

33. Raúl Castro

Self | La guerra necesaria

Raúl Castro was born on June 3, 1931 in Biran, Oriente Province, Cuba. He is an actor, known for La guerra necesaria (1980), The New Yorker Presents (2015) and Castro (2003). He was previously married to Vilma Espin.

34. Nelson Mandela

Writer | Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (July 18, 1918 - December 5, 2013) was the former leader of the African National Congress (ANC). He was known for his lifelong struggle against apartheid (enforced racial separation), which was instituted in South Africa in 1948. The ANC was soon declared a terrorist ...

35. Gerald Ford

Actor | Dynasty

Gerald Rudolph Ford was the 38th President of the United States from August 1974 until January 1977.

Ford was born on July 14, 1913, in Omaha, Nebraska as Leslie Lynch King, Jr., being the son of Leslie Lynch King and Dorothy Ayer Gardner King. His parents separated two weeks after his birth and his...

36. Lyndon B. Johnson

Self | Spartamerika

Lyndon Baines Johnson often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. He had previously served as the 37th vice president from 1961 to 1963 under President John F. Kennedy. A Democrat from Texas, Johnson also...

37. Bill Clinton

Writer | The President Is Missing

His father, a sales representative, died in a car accident a few months before his birth. His mother then moved to New Orleans. Bill Clinton initially grew up with his grandparents. In 1950 his mother returned to Hope. That same year she married car dealer Roger Clinton. As a member of a student ...

38. Barack Obama

Producer | Leave the World Behind

U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama II was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. His mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was a white American from Wichita, Kansas. His father, Barack Obama Sr., who was black, was from Alego, Kenya. They were both young college students at the University of Hawaii. When his father left...

39. George Bush

Self | 41

The 41st President of the United States of America, George Herbert Walker Bush (known colloquially as "Bush 41" to distinguish him from his son, George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the U.S., who is known as "Bush 43"), was born on June 12, 1924 in Milton, Massachusetts, a suburb south of Boston. ...

40. George W. Bush

Camera_department | Journeys with George

The 43rd President of the United States of America, George Walker Bush (known colloquially as "W" to distinguish himself from his father, George Bush, the 41st president of the U.S.), was born two days after the national holiday of the Fourth of July, 1946 in New Haven, Connecticut. There, his ...

41. Charles de Gaulle

Writer | Une mauvaise rencontre

Charles André Joseph Marie DE Gaulle (22 November 1890 - 9 November 1970) was a French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 in order to restore democracy in France. In 1958...

42. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

Self | 1974, une partie de campagne

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was born on February 2, 1926 in Koblenz, Germany. He was married to Anne-Aymone Giscard d'Estaing. He died on December 2, 2020 in Authon, Loir-et-Cher, France.

43. François Mitterrand

Self | Echtzeit

François Mitterrand was born in Jarnac on October 26, 1916. He was finishing his studies in Paris when he was called by the French army in September 1939. He was 3 times mentioned, then injured and imprisoned but he escaped in December 1941 during his transfer to another war camp. Back to France, ...

44. Jacques Chirac

Self | Breaking Point: Canada/Quebec - The 1995 Referendum

Jacques Chirac was born on November 29, 1932 in Paris, France. He was married to Bernadette Chirac. He died on September 26, 2019 in Paris, France.

45. Nicolas Sarkozy

Writer | Le dernier été

He grew up as the son of the Hungarian journalist Pál Sárközy von Nagybócsa and the French lawyer Andrée Mallah. The father comes from a Hungarian count family. At the end of the Second World War, he fled to Germany via Austria before the Red Army invaded Hungary. After graduating from college, ...

46. François Hollande

Actor | Silex & The City - The Movie

François Hollande was born on August 12, 1954 in Rouen, Seine-Inférieure [now Seine-Maritime, Normandy], France. He is an actor, known for Silex & The City - The Movie (2024), Au nom de la grèce and Trump Takes on the World (2021). He has been married to Julie Gayet since June 4, 2022.

47. Winston Churchill

Writer | Matinee Theater

Born in Blenheim Palace, the residence of his grandfather, the 7th Duke of Marlborough. His father was the Duke's third son, Lord Randolph Churchill. His mother, Jennie Jerome, was the daughter of an American financier.

After passing through famous English public schools such as Harrow, he went on ...

48. Margaret Thatcher

SDI Star Wars

Margaret Thatcher was born on October 13, 1925 in Grantham, England, the younger daughter of Alfred and Beatrice Roberts. Her father was a greengrocer and respected town leader, serving as lay-leader with their church, city-alderman and then as mayor. He taught Margaret never to do things because ...

49. David Cameron

Self | Wimbledon

David Cameron was educated at England's most prestigious school, Eton College. He then attended Brasenose College, Oxford University, where he achieved a first class degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. He became Member of Parliament for Witney at the 2001 general election. Following the ...

50. Tony Blair

Actor | The Force of Nature

Anthony Charles Lynton Blair is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. On his resignation he was appointed Special Envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East, a diplomatic post which he held until 2015...

51. Gordon Brown

Self | Songs of Praise

Gordon Brown was born on February 20, 1951 in Govan, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He has been married to Sarah Brown since August 3, 2000. They have three children.

52. John Major

Self | The Major Years

John Major was born on March 29, 1943 in London. He was the son of Tom Major-Ball, a retired circus performer who was 65 when John Major was born. He attended Cheam Common Primary School and Rutlish Grammar School, where he had an undistinguished academic career. In the mid '50s, his family was ...

53. Adolf Hitler

Self | Triumph des Willens

Born the fourth of six children to Austrian customs officer Alois Hitler--who had been married twice before--and the former Klara Polzl, Adolf Hitler grew up in a small Austrian town in the late 19th century. He was a slow learner and did poorly in school. He was frequently beaten by his ...

54. Konrad Adenauer

Writer | Konrad Adenauer und seine Zeit

Konrad Adenauer was born on January 5, 1876 in Cologne, Germany. He was a writer, known for Konrad Adenauer und seine Zeit (1966), Deutschland grüßt Kennedy - Vier geschichtliche Tage (1963) and Das Lied meines Lebens (1956). He was married to Auguste Zinsser and Emma Weyer. He died on ...

55. Helmut Kohl

Actor | Rotwang muß weg!

Helmut Kohl earned his place in history by securing the successful reunification of Germany after the collapse of communism. His 16 years in office made him the longest-serving German chancellor since Bismarck and he was once described as the greatest European leader in the second half of the 20th ...

56. Angela Merkel

Self | Bild. Macht. Deutschland?

Angela Merkel was born on July 17, 1954 in Hamburg, Germany. She has been married to Joachim Sauer since December 30, 1998. She was previously married to Ulrich Merkel.

57. Christian Wulff

Actor | Mein alter Freund Fritz

Christian Wulff was born on June 19, 1959 in Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany. He is an actor, known for Mein alter Freund Fritz (2007), Der Torwart and Semperopernball - Die große Ballnacht aus Dresden (2006). He has been married to Bettina Wulff since March 19, 2008. He was previously ...

58. Tsar Nicholas II

Self | The German Curse in Russia

Czar Nicholas II of Russia was crowned in 1894, and was the last Emperor of Russia. He was born on 19 May, 1868, the first child of Tsarevitch Aleksandr III and his wife, Maria Fyodorovna. He was christened His Imperial Highness Nicholas Aleksandrovitch Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia. He was followed...

59. Vladimir Lenin

Writer | Un'alba

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April 1870 - 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his ...

60. Joseph Stalin

Self | One Inch from Victory

Joseph Stalin (a code name meaning "Man of Steel") was born Iosif (Joseph) Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in 1878 in Gori, Georgia, the Transcaucasian part of the Russian Empire. His father was a cobbler named Vissarion Dzhugashvili, a drunkard who beat him badly and frequently and left the family ...

61. Nikita Khrushchev

Self | This Hour Has Seven Days

Nikita Khruschev was born on April 17, 1894, into a family of peasants in the village of Kalinovka, Kursk region, Russian Empire. He was raised among agricultural and mining workers. He studied for only two years at grammar school as a child. After the Russian Revolution he joined the Red Army, ...

62. Leonid Brezhnev

Self | Gost' s ostrova svobody

Leonid Brezhnev was a communist leader of the Soviet Union who restored a conservative, centralized state, initially raising living standards and bringing the country to its height but ultimately causing economic stagnation and disproportionate military growth. This process exhausted the Soviet ...

63. Mikhail Gorbachev

Self | Meeting Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev was the last leader of the Soviet Communist Party. He initiated the changes known as "perestroika" and "glasnost".

He was born Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev into a peasant family on March 2, 1931, in the village of Privolnoe, Stavropol province, Southern Russia. His father, named ...

64. Boris Yeltsin

Self | Vremya

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1 February 1931 - 23 April 2007) was a Russian and Soviet politician who served as the first president of Russia from 1991 to 1999. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1961 to 1990. He later stood as a political independent, during which time ...

65. Vladimir Putin

Self | The Putin Interviews

Born in 7 October 1952 is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has been serving as the president of Russia since 2012, and previously between 2000 and 2008. He also served as the prime minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000, and again from 2008 to 2012.

Putin worked as a KGB ...

66. Dmitry Medvedev

Actor | Yolki

Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev is a Russian politician who has been serving as the deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia since 2020. Medvedev also served as the president of Russia between 2008 and 2012 and prime minister of Russia between 2012 and 2020.

Medvedev was elected president in ...

67. King George V

Self | Their Imperial Majesties in Bombay

George V was the King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions from 1910 until his death in 1936. He was the second son of Edward VII of the United Kingdom and Alexandra of Denmark. George outlived his older brother Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (1864-1892), who died ...

68. King George VI

Soundtrack | The Autobiography of a 'Jeep'

Albert Frederick Arthur George was born on December 14, 1895, to the future King George V and Queen Mary who was born a Princess of Teck. It was the anniversary of the death of Queen Victoria's husband Albert the Prince Consort, his great-grandfather, so it was obvious that his name would start ...

69. Queen Victoria

Writer | En kongelig familie

Princess Alexandrina Victoria was born on May 24, 1819 to the Duke and Duchess of Kent. Victoria as she was called was the granddaughter of King George III. When she was less than a year old her father died leaving her mother broke and at the mercy of her brother Leopold, the King of Belgium. ...

70. Queen Mary

Self | Arrival at Howrah

Queen Mary was born Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes Mary in Kensington Palace on May 26, 1867 to Duke Francis and Duchess Mary of Teck. Young Mary was the great-granddaughter of George III and a second cousin to Queen Victoria.

She and her family lived a quiet life in ...

71. Queen Elizabeth II

Civilisation

Elizabeth II was Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.

Elizabeth was born in London, the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York, later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, and she was educated privately at home. Her father ascended the throne on the abdication of his ...

72. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother