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- Ban Ki-Moon
- Secretary-General of the UN
- Stamford Raffles
- founder/discoverer of Singapore
- Mansa Musa
- leader of the Mali people
- Karzai
- current President of Afghanistan
- Ralphe Bunche
- black representative of the UN who came up with the plan to divide Palestine into 2 states--1 Arab, 1 Jewish
- Correa
- current leader of Ecuador
- Muhammad Yunus
- creator of micro credit
- Jim Thompson
- started Thailand's silk industry, suddenly disappeared
- Corazon Aquino
- 1st female President of the Philippines
- Morelos
- farmer turned priest turned general who tried to declare independence in 1813 but was captured and executed
- Ali Jinnah
- first Governor-General of Pakistan
- Ferdinand marcos
- former President turned dictator of the Philippines
- Brown
- current Prime Minister of Great Britian
- Nyerere
- started Tanzania's socialist system
- Muammar al-Gaddafi
- current leader of Libya
- Mahatma Ghandi
- pivitol independence leader of India
- Kenyatta
- founder of Kenya and leader during the Mau Mau Rebellion
- Uribe
- current leader of Colombia
- King Hussien
- leader of Jordan from 1952-1999
- Sadat
- President of Egypt who visited Israel, 1st Arab leader to visit Israel
- Nelson Mandela
- 1st black President of South Africa
- Ayatollah Khomeini
- fundamentalist Muslim of Iran during Iranian Revolution
- Desmund Tutu
- Anglican archbishop with Nobel Peace Prize
- Morales
- current leader of Bolivia
- Ortega
- current leader of Nicaragua
- Aung San Suu Kyi
- pro-democracy leader of Myanmar, Nobel Peace Prize winner
- Ibrahim
- economic minister of Dr. M in Malaysia...accused of being gay by Dr. M
- Lt. Gen. Omar al-Bashir
- current President of Sudan
- Ben-Gurion
- founder of Israel
- Olmert
- current President of Israel
- Peron
- former leader of Argentina
- Ho Chi Minh
- Communist leader of North Vietnam during most of the Vietnam War
- Idi Amin
- Ugandan genocide leader
- Menelik II
- won at the battle of Adowa in Ethiopia
- Lee Hsien Loong
- 3rd and current PM of Singapore
- Sukarno
- found father and 1st President of Indonesia
- Peres
- 6 months as Israeli President after Rabin
- Lula da Silva
- President of Brazil
- Noriega
- current leader of Panama
- Mobutu
- President of Zaire
- Johnson
- U.S. President who was in office during the largest escalation of our troops during the Vietnam War
- Sharon
- conservative Israeli President, overweight, surgery, coma, visited Temple Mount
- Hun Sen
- current Prime Minister of Cambodia
- Hugo Chavez
- current leader of Venezuela
- Bolivar
- independence leader in northern South America
- Sonia Ghandi
- asked to be PM of India but refused, member of India's parliment
- Nehru
- first Prime Minister of an independent India
- Bashar Al-Assad
- Syria's leader
- Thieu
- President of South Vietnam elected by the people
- Mugabe
- current leader of Zimbabwe
- Manmohan Singh
- current Prime Minister of India
- Father Miguel Hidalgo
- poor but well-edu. priest who organized a march to Mexico City and wanted to abolish slavery but was betrayed by peasants and executed
- Muhammad Zia
- overthrew Ali Bhutto and accused him of having an opponnet assassinated, went on a plane and it exploded in midair
- Maliki
- current leader of Iraq
- Hu Jintao
- current leader of China
- Maathai
- Kenyan woman who won Nobel Prize for planting trees in desert
- Pol Pot
- Prime Minister of Cambodia, leader of the Khmer Rouge
- Hasina and Zia
- 2 woman political opponents in Bangladesh
- Haile Selassie
- longest ruling emperor of Ethiopia
- Bachelet
- current leader of Chile
- San Martin
- independence leader in southern South America
- Zapata
- helped fight against Diaz in 1911
- Fukuda
- current Prime Minister of Japan
- Calderon
- current President of Mexico
- Saddam Hussein
- former leader of Iraq, executed by US
- Norodom Sihamoni
- current King of Cambodia
- Abdullah
- current Prime Minister of Malaysia
- Merkel
- Chancellor of Germany
- Charles Taylor
- corrupt leader of Liberia, killed/mutilated children
- Ali Bhutto
- Prime Minister of Pakistan who persued a socialist agenda, nationalized gov't programs, but was executed after being accused of having an opponent assassinated
- Rajiv Ghandi
- 7th Prime Minister of India, assassinated in 1991 when he campaigned
- Moi
- leader of Kenya who burned ivory to show its distain for poachers
- Indira Ghandi
- first woman Prime Minister of India, Green Revolution
- Kirchner
- current leader of Argentina
- Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
- currnent President of Indonesia
- Iturbide
- creole officer who captured Morelos, declared himself emperor but was later shot
- Dr. M
- economic progress in Malaysia but doesn't like political opposition
- Gyanendra
- most recent King of Nepal
- Garcia
- current leader of Peru
- Gautama
- founder of Buddhism
- Rabin, Peres, Netanyahu, Sharon, Olmert
- 5 Israeli presidents in order
- Arafat
- Head of the PLO
- Begin
- blew up King David Hotel, became Israeli President, was at Camp David Accords, assassinated in 1981
- Pinochet
- former leader of Chile
- Netanyahu
- conservative, won over Peres for Isreali President
- Joseph Kony
- LRA leader
- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
- current President of the Philippines
- Abdullah II
- current leader of Jordan
- Ayub Khan
- first Pakistani military official to gain power in a coup
- Harper
- Canadian Prime Minister
- Guru Nanak
- founder of Sikhism
- Suharto
- top military official turned 2nd President of Indonesia
- John Garang
- rebel leader of SPLA
- Kibaki
- current President of Kenya
- Benazir Bhutto
- 1st female leader of an Islamic country, Pakistan, her administration accused of corruptness
- Kabila
- current President of the DR Congo
- Eva Peron
- "people's leader" of Argentina
- Ngo Dinh Diem
- named himself 1st President of South Vietnam
- Gayoom
- leader of the Maldives
- Lee Kuan Yew
- founding father and 1st Prime Minister of Singapore
- Pervez Musharraf
- current President of Pakistan
- Kemel Ataturk
- "Father of the Turks"
- Sonni Ali
- leader of the Songhai nation
- Sarkozy
- current President of France
- Diaz
- army officer became leader of Meixco, ruled like a dictator, overruled in 1910 revolution
- Odinga
- current Prime Minister of Kenya
- Ken Saro-Wiwa
- Nigerian poet/environmentalist
- Ellen Sirleaf Johnson
- current President of Liberia