Persons of International Interest of 2022
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- Joe Biden became the 46th President of the United States on January 20th 2021.
He is an actor, known for Parks and Recreation (2009), Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? (1991) and Great Performances (1971). He has been married to Jill Biden since June 17, 1977. They have one child. He was previously married to Neilia Biden.The officiating President of the U.S.A. - Producer
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Donald John Trump was born on June 14, 1946 at the Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in Queens, New York City, New York. He is the son of Mary Trump (née Macleod) and Fred Trump, a real estate millionaire. His mother was a Scottish immigrant who initially worked as a maid. His father was born in New York, to German parents.
From kindergarten through seventh grade, he attended the Kew-Forest School. At age 13, he enrolled in the New York Military Academy.
In 1964, he began his higher education at Fordham University. After two years, he transferred to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1968 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics.
From 1971 to 2017, he was chairman and president of his family real estate company, Elizabeth Trump & Son (now called The Trump Organization), which was founded in 1923 by his grandmother and father. His business career primarily focused on building or renovating office towers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses.
He has five children, Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump with his first wife, Ivana Trump (m. 1977- d.1990), Tiffany Trump with his second wife, Marla Maples (m. 1993- d.1999) and Barron Trump with his third wife, Melania Trump (m. 2005).
He has hosted and produced the reality television series, The Apprentice (2004), which has been nominated for nine Primetime Emmy awards.
He was the 45th President of the United States from January 20, 2017 - January 20, 2021.Former (45th) President of the U.S.A.- Actor
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the 6th president of Ukraine. Before entering politics, he was a comedian, actor, screenwriter, film producer, and director.
Prior to his political career, he obtained a degree in law and created a production company, Kvartal 95, which produces films, cartoons, TV comedy shows, including Servant of the People (2015), in which Zelenskiy played the role of President of Ukraine. A political party bearing the same name as the television show was created in March 2018 by employees of Kvartal 95.
Zelenskiy announced his candidacy for the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election on the evening of 31 December 2018, alongside the New Year's Eve address of President Petro Poroshenko on 1+1 TV Channel. At the time, Zelenskiy had already been one of the front-runners in opinion polls for the election. Zelenskiy won the election with 73.22% of the vote in the second round, defeating Poroshenko.The officiating President of the Ukraine.- Additional Crew
António Guterres was born on 30 April 1949 in Lisbon, Portugal. He is known for Stockholmsavtalet (2022), PBS NewsHour (1975) and Novo Jornal (1994). He has been married to Catarina de Almeida Vaz Pinto since 2001. He was previously married to Luisa Amélia Guimarães e Melo.Secretary-General of the United Nations.- 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 brother King Edward VIII in 1936, from which time she was the heir presumptive. She began to undertake public duties during the Second World War, serving in the Auxiliary Territorial Service. In 1947, she married Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, a former prince of Greece and Denmark, with whom she had four children: Charles, Prince of Wales; Anne, Princess Royal; Prince Andrew, Duke of York; and Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex.
When her father died in February 1952, Elizabeth became head of the Commonwealth and queen regnant of seven independent Commonwealth countries: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan, and Ceylon. She reigned as a constitutional monarch through major political changes, such as devolution in the United Kingdom, Canadian patriation, and the decolonization of Africa. Between 1956 and 1992, the number of her realms varied as territories gained independence, and as realms, including South Africa, Pakistan, and Ceylon (renamed Sri Lanka), became republics. Her many historic visits and meetings included a state visit to the Republic of Ireland and visits to or from five popes. Significant events included her coronation in 1953 and the celebrations of her Silver, Golden, and Diamond Jubilees in 1977, 2002, and 2012, respectively. In 2017, she became the first British monarch to reach a Sapphire Jubilee. She was the longest-lived and longest-reigning British monarch. She was the longest-serving female head of state in world history, and the world's oldest living monarch, longest-reigning monarch, and oldest and longest-serving head of state.The Queen of the United Kingdom who passed this year (2022) after 70 years of royal offices. - King Charles III was born November 14, 1948. His first military services appointment was in 1969. His favorite food is scrambled eggs and he likes to drink whisky. He enjoys going to Scotland, UK; Klosters, Switzerland; and the Eleuthra in the Caribbean. He enjoys hunting, shooting, fishing, polo, skiing, painting, writing and reading.
On February 24, 1981 the engagement of Charles, Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer was announced at Buckingham Palace. On July 29, 1981 Charles married Princess Diana. The fairy-tale wedding took place at St. Paul's Cathedral. Eleven months later on June 21, 1982 Prince William of Wales was born. William is second in line for the throne after his father. Two years later their second son Prince Harry was born September 15, 1984. Diana said that during the months before was his birth, she and Charles were closer than they ever had been before, but after the birth of Harry the marriage went badly wrong. On August 28, 1996 the fairy-tale marriage came to an end: Charles and Diana divorced. A year later, on August 31, 1997, Diana died in a car crash.
Charles now is married to his long-time love, Queen Camilla.The new King of England & The United Commonwealth. - Liz Truss was born on 26 July 1975 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK. She has been married to Hugh O'Leary since 2000. They have two children.The former Prime Minister of the UK in 2022.
- Rishi Sunak was born on 12 May 1980 in Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK. He has been married to Akshata Murty Sunak since 30 August 2009. They have two children.The Officiating Prime Minister of the UK.
- 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 foreign intelligence officer for 16 years, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel (podpolkovnik), before resigning in 1991 to begin a political career in Saint Petersburg. He moved to Moscow in 1996 to join the administration of president Boris Yeltsin. He briefly served as director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) and secretary of the Security Council, before being appointed as prime minister in August 1999. After the resignation of Yeltsin, Putin became acting president and, less than four months later, was elected outright to his first term as president. He was reelected in 2004. As he was constitutionally limited to two consecutive terms as president at the time, Putin served as prime minister again from 2008 to 2012 under Dmitry Medvedev. He returned to the presidency in 2012 in an election marred by allegations of fraud and protests and was reelected in 2018. In April 2021, following a referendum, he signed into law constitutional amendments including one that would allow him to run for reelection twice more, potentially extending his presidency to 2036.
During his first tenure as president, the Russian economy grew on average by seven percent per year, following economic reforms and a fivefold increase in the price of oil and gas. He also led Russia during a war against Chechen separatists, reestablishing federal control of the region. As prime minister under Medvedev, he oversaw military reform and police reform, as well as Russia's victory in its war against Georgia. During his third term as president, Russia annexed Crimea and sponsored a war in eastern Ukraine with several military incursions made, resulting in international sanctions and a financial crisis in Russia. He also ordered a military intervention in Syria against rebel and jihadist groups.[16] During his fourth term as president, he presided over a military buildup on the border of Ukraine. Putin accused the Ukrainian government of committing atrocities against its Russian-speaking minority, and in February 2022, he ordered a full-scale invasion of the country, resulting in numerous atrocities and leading to widespread international condemnation, as well as expanded sanctions and calls for Putin to be pursued with war crime charges.
Under Putin's leadership, Russia has experienced democratic backsliding and a shift to authoritarianism. Putin's rule has been characterised by endemic corruption, the jailing and repression of political opponents, the intimidation and suppression of independent media in Russia, and a lack of free and fair elections. Putin's Russia has scored poorly on Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index, the Economist Intelligence Unit's Democracy Index, and Freedom House's Freedom in the World index. Putin is the second-longest currently serving European president after Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus.The officiating President of Russia. - Xi Jinping is a Chinese politician who has been serving as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) since 2012, and President of the People's Republic of China (PRC) since 2013. Xi has been the paramount leader of China, the most prominent political leader in the People's Republic of China, since 2012.The officiating President of People's Republic of China.
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Emmanuel Macron was born on 21 December 1977 in Amiens, Somme, France. He is known for Djink, Forêt d'Ukraine (2009), Djink Europa 2027 (2009) and Le Rêve aux Loups (2014). He has been married to Brigitte Macron since 20 October 2007.The officiating President of France.- Justin Trudeau is a Canadian politician. He was born on December 25, 1971, the son of the then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Margaret Trudeau (née Sinclair). Educated at McGill University and the University of British Columbia, he worked as a teacher before going into politics. He was elected to the Canadian Parliament as a Liberal Party candidate in the 2008 federal election, representing the Papineau riding (located in Montreal), and was re-elected in 2011. In 2013, he was elected the leader of the Liberal Party.
In the run up to the 2015 Canadian federal election, Justin Trudeau was subject to a long running negative campaign by the Conservative Party that painted him as a intellectual lightweight pretty boy who had no business in politics. However, that campaign backfired by lowering the public expectations of him until he was able to easily impress the public with his passionate and articulate intelligence and charisma with his first televised election debate. With an appealing left wing campaign platform that stole a march from the rival New Democratic Party, Trudeau was able to win a majority government for his party, a very rare Canadian feat for a third place party to leap to first place to form a government.The officiating Prime Minister of Canada. - Actress
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Nancy Pelosi is an American Democratic Party politician serving as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives since January 2019. She is the first woman in U.S. history to hold this position. As such, and having first been elected to Congress in 1987, Pelosi is the highest-ranking female elected official in United States history. As Speaker of the House, she is second in the presidential line of succession, immediately after the vice president.
As of 2019, Pelosi is in her 17th term as a congresswoman. She represents California's 12th congressional district, which consists of four fifths of the city and county of San Francisco. She initially represented the 5th district (1987-1993), and then, when district boundaries were redrawn after the 1990 Census, the 8th district (1993-2013).The officiating Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.- Paul Pelosi was born on 15 April 1940 in San Francisco, California, USA. He has been married to Nancy Pelosi since 7 September 1963. They have five children.The politically motivated attacked husband of Nancy Pelosi.
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Col Needham was born on 26 January 1967 in Manchester, England, UK. He is an executive and actor. He has been married to Karen Needham since 22 July 1989. They have two children.Founder of IMDb.- Actor
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Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994. Amazon's mission is to be Earth's most customer-centric company. Amazon offers low prices and fast delivery on millions of items, provides thousands of movies and TV shows through Prime Video, designs and builds the bestselling Kindle, Fire and Echo devices and Alexa voice recognition service, and empowers companies and governments in over 190 countries around the world with the leading cloud computing infrastructure through Amazon Web Services. Bezos is also the founder of aerospace company Blue Origin, which is working to lower the cost and increase the safety of spaceflight, and he is owner of the Washington Post. Bezos has launched two philanthropic organizations. The Bezos Earth Fund helps fund nonprofits preserving and protecting the natural world, and The Bezos Day One Fund provides grants to nonprofits to help homeless families and is creating a network of preschools in low-income communities. Bezos graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University in 1986, and was named TIME Magazine's Person of the Year in 1999.Founder of Amazon.- Pope Francis was born on 17 December 1936 in Buenos Aires, Federal District, Argentina. He is a writer, known for Francesco (2020), In Viaggio: The Travels of Pope Francis (2022) and The Private Lives of Jordi Molla' & Domingo Zapata.The Pope.
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Boris Johnson was born on 19 June 1964 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Have I Got News for You (1990), EastEnders (1985) and PMQs (2010). He has been married to Carrie Johnson since 29 May 2021. They have two children. He was previously married to Marina Wheeler and Allegra Mostyn-Owen.Former Prime Minister of England.- Actor
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Elon Musk was born on 28 June 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa. He is an actor and producer, known for Machete Kills (2013), Iron Man 2 (2010) and Why Him? (2016). He was previously married to Talulah Riley and Justine Musk.Co-founder of Paypal, founder of Tesla and Space X, the new owner of Twitter.- Actor
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Mark Zuckerberg is the founder, chairman and CEO of Facebook, which he founded in 2004. Mark is responsible for setting the overall direction and product strategy for the company. He is also the co-founder and co-CEO of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, which is leveraging technology to help solve some of the world's toughest challenges - from eradicating disease, to improving education, to reforming the criminal justice system. Mark studied computer science at Harvard University before moving to Palo Alto, California in 2004.Founder of Facebook.- With roots in Rize, Recep Tayyip Erdogan was born in Istanbul on February 26, 1954. He graduated from Kasimpasa Piyale Primary School in 1965 and completed his high school education at Istanbul Imam Hatip School (Religious Vocational High School) in 1973. Having succeeded in the necessary examinations for additional courses, Mr. Erdogan received a diploma from Eyup High School as well. He received his graduation diploma from Marmara University's Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences in 1981.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, as the General Chairman of the AK Party, won a great victory during the parliamentary elections held on July 22, 2007 and established the 60th government of the Republic of Turkey by winning 46.6 % of the votes and received the vote of confidence.
Mr. Erdogan was sworn in on July 9, 2018 as the first President of the Presidential System of Government, which Turkey switched to following the constitutional amendment that was adopted in the referendum on April 16, 2017.The officiating President of Turkey. - Mohammad Bin Salman was born on 31 August 1985 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.The officiating Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Defense of Saudi Arabia.
- 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 17 December 2011, Kim Jong-il died and Kim Jong-un took over as the dictator of North Korea. He is the current Dictator for North Korea. He has a military parade in honor of his father and his country. On 12 December 2013, Kim ordered the execution of his uncle Jang Song-Thaek for treason. On November 24, 2014 a movie called The Interview (2014) featured an actor portraying Kim Jong-un caused controversy and a group of hackers hacked Sony Pictures website, despite this the controversial film The Interview was released in theaters and on home video. He is suspected to have killed his half-brother, Jong-Nam Kim, in Malaysia airport in February 2017. Kim Jong-Un was and still is involved with the nuclear missile launches. He and Donald Trump had a war of words in 2017 and almost got the war started, then the South Korean Olympics begin in 2018 and he has limited his nuclear missile tests. Later on in 2018 he and Donald Trump agreed to meet in Singapore and On 12 June, Kim held his first summit with US President Donald Trump and signed a declaration and they both shook hands. On 30 June 2019, Kim again met with President Donald Trump at the Demilitarized zone between North and South Korea and shook hands.Officiating General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and officiating President of the State Affairs of North Korea.
- Bashar al-Assad has been the Syrian Dictator since 2000, he was born on September 11, 1965 in Damascus, Syria. He has been married to Asma Al Akhras since December 2000. They have three children. He is the son of Hafez al-Assad who ran as dictator. He went to school to be a medical doctor. His brother Bassel died in a car crash in 1994. So after he was called back to the Syrian army and was prepared to be a dictator for the country Syria, in 2000 he became Dictator of Syria after his father passed away. He had made a reform on the Damascus Spring which led to the shutdown of Mezzeh prison and releasing the Muslim prisoners. During the War on Terror he allied with the West and interrogated people believed to be al-Qaeda suspects. In 2005 Rafic Hariri was assassinated in the car bombing at the hotel in Lebanon. Soon afterwards he was blamed for the terrorist attack. In 2007 he was reelected to run for dictatorship. On January 26, 2011 Mass protests in Syria began and riots occurred and the Syrian Army responded with violence against the protesters which led to the 9 year Syrian war. Many of the refugees escaped Syria due to the violence occurring in the cities. Assad sent his army to retake the cities held by rebels. He is accused of the war crimes including torturing people in prisons and killing people who opposed him, He is also known for human rights violation against his people and is accused of using chemical attacks in Syria. Assad fought to retake the cities of Syria including Appello. He received military support from Russia to stop the uprisings of the Syrian rebels. He is still trying to retake Syria affected by the Syrian War.Secretary-General of the Central Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party.
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Yair Lapid is an Israeli politician and former journalist who has been serving as the 14th prime minister of Israel since 1 July 2022. He previously served as the alternate prime minister of Israel and minister of Foreign Affairs from 2021 to 2022. Lapid is the chairman of the centrist Yesh Atid party, and was Leader of the Opposition from 2020 to 2021, and Minister of Finance from 2013 to 2014.Prime Minister of Israel. His tenur ended prematurely in December 2022.- Cinematographer
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Bolsonaro was born on 21 March 1955 in Glicério, São Paulo, in southeast Brazil, to Percy Geraldo Bolsonaro and Olinda Bonturi. His family is mostly of Italian descent, with some German ancestry. In his final years in high school, Bolsonaro was admitted to the Escola Preparatória DE Cadetes do Exército (the prep school of the Brazilian Army), which he entered in 1973. In 1974, he went to the Academia Militar das Agulhas Negras (Brazil's main military academy), graduating in 1977, as an Artillery officer. He served in the 9th Field Artillery Group, in Nioaque, Mato Grosso do Sul.The former president of Brazil.- Actor
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Luiz Inácio DA Silva was born from Recife, capital of Pernambuco, a state in the Northeast of Brazil. He was the seventh of eight children of Aristides Inácio DA Silva and Eurídice Ferreira DE Melo. Two weeks after Lula's birth, his father moved to Santos, São Paulo, with Valdomira Ferreira DE Góis, a cousin of Eurídice. He was raised Roman Catholic. Lula's mother was of Portuguese and partial Italian descent.The officiating president of Brazil.- Olaf Scholz was born on 14 June 1958 in Osnabrück, Germany. He has been married to Britta Ernst since 1998.Officiating Chancellor of Germany.
- Annalena Baerbock was born on 15 December 1980 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany. She has been married to Daniel Holefleisch since 2007. They have two children.Officiating Forreign Minister of Germany.
- Lionel Messi is a football player from Argentina who plays for Inter Miami. He has won the Ballon D'Or, the annual award given to the best player in the world, 8 times, 2022 FIFA World Cup winner and an Olympic gold medal winner in 2008. He was born in 1987 in Rosario, Argentina's third-biggest city. He showed an enormous aptitude for football and was in the youth teams for Newell's Old Boys, his local team. Faced with mounting medical expenses to treat a growth hormone condition, Messi's family accepted an offer to move the 13-year-old prodigy to FC Barcelona, who would pay for his treatment. Messi has gone on to become one of the most decorated players in football history and has broken countless records for his club and his country.World class soccer celebrity.
- Gianni Infantino was born on 23 March 1970 in Brig, Valais, Switzerland. He has been married to Leena Al Ashqar since 2001. They have four children.Leader of the FIFA.
- Brittney Griner was born on 18 October 1990 in Houston, Texas, USA. She is an actress, known for It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005), Dem Tinseltown Homiez, the Hollywood Guys (2021) and Free Brittney Griner & Usa's 40 K Cannabis Prisoners! Legalize Marijuana Ganja America Russia (2022). She has been married to Cherelle Griner since June 2019. She was previously married to Glory Johnson.American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Mercury of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). On December 8, Griner was released in a prisoner exchange for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.