Notable Politicians and Statespeople

This list is comprised of some of the most recognizable names from the world of politics and statesmanship.
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NameLifespanOther Names
Solon638-558 BC
Pericles495-429 BC
Demosthenes384-322 BC
Cato the Elder234-149 BC
Lucius Cornelius Sullac. 138-78 BC
Marcus Licinius Crassusc. 115-53 BC
Pompey the Great106-48 BC
Cicero106-43 BC(Tullius)
Gaius Julius Caesar100-44 BC
Cato the Younger95-46 BC(Porcius, Uticensis)
Marcus Aemilius Lepidusc. 88-c. 12 BC
Gaius Cassius Longinusc. 86-42 BC
Marcus Junius Brutus85-42 BC
Marcus Antonius83-30 BC(Antony)
Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus81-43 BC
Calpurnia75-0xx BC
Gaius Cilnius Maecenas70-8 BC
Charles Martel?-741
John of Gaunt1340-1399
Lorenzo de' Medici1449-1492
Thomas Cromwellc. 1485-1540
Roxelanac. 1504-1558
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey?-1530
Safiye Sultanc. 1550-c. 1619
Jacob Cats1577-1660
Cardinal Richelieu1585-1642(du Plessis)
Kösem Sultanc. 1589-1651
Cardinal Mazarin1602-1661(Mazzarino)
Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani1658-1725
Carl Adolph von Plessen1678-1758
Benjamin Franklin1706-1790
George Clinton1739-1812
Elbridge Gerry1744-1814
Tadeusz Kościuszko1746-1817
Aaron Burr1756-1836
Gustaf Adolf Reuterholm1756-1813
Maximilien Robespierre1758-1794
Joséphine de Beauharnais1763-1814(Bonaparte)
Michał Kleofas Ogiński1765-1833
Klemens von Metternich1773-1859
Daniel D. Tompkins1774-1825
Richard Mentor Johnson1780-1850
John C. Calhoun1782-1850
William R. King1786-1853
Alphonse de Lamartine1790-1869
István Széchenyi1791-1860
George M. Dallas1792-1864
Adolphe Crémieux1796-1880
Lajos Kossuth1802-1894
Ferenc Deák1803-1876
Eftimie Murgu1805-1870
Alexander von Schleinitz1807-1885
Hannibal Hamlin1809-1891
Henry Wilson1812-1875(Colbath)
William A. Wheeler1819-1887
Thomas A. Hendricks1819-1885
Marthinus Wessel Pretorius1819-1901
John C. Breckinridge1821-1875
Schuyler Colfax1823-1885
Levi P. Morton1824-1920
Algernon Paddock1830-1897
Benjamin Bristow1832-1896
Adlai Stevenson I1835-1914
Cixi1835-1908
William A. Clark Sr.1839-1925
Garret Hobart1844-1899
Joseph Pulitzer1847-1911
Charles W. Fairbanks1852-1918
Thomas R. Marshall1854-1925
James S. Sherman1855-1912
Keir Hardie1856-1915
Marthinus Theunis Steyn1857-1916
Dirk Fock1858-1941
Charles Curtis1860-1936
Simeon D. Fess1861-1936
William Randolph Hearst1863-1951
Charles G. Dawes1865-1951
Alikhan Bukeikhanov1866-1937
Gustav Adolf von Götzen1866-1910(von Goetzen)
John Nance Garner1868-1967
Brand Whitlock1869-1934
Aleksandra Kollontai1872-1952
Alben W. Barkley1877-1956
Alvan T. Fuller1878-1958
Kyrre Grepp1879-1922
Leon Trotsky1879-1940
George C. Marshall1880-1959
Irakli Tsereteli1881-1959
Adolf Köster1883-1930
Adolph Joffe1883-1927
Hastings Ismay1887-1965
Henry A. Wallace1888-1965
Adolf Grimme1889-1963
Vyacheslav Molotov1890-1986
Gerard van der Leeuw1890-1950
Lavrenti Kartvelishvili1890-1938
Michael Collins1890-1922(Ó Coileáin)
Rudolf Hess1894-1987
Eelco van Kleffens1894-1983
Dirk Stikker1897-1979
Wim Beyen1897-1976(Beijen)
Manlio Brosio1897-1980
Lavrenti Beria1899-1953
Lavrenti Tsanava1900-1955
Hein Vos1903-1972
Zerach Warhaftig1906-2002(Wahrhaftig)
Nelson Rockefeller1908-1979
Sicco Mansholt1908-1995
Joseph McCarthy1908-1957
Barry Goldwater1909-1998
Gaius de Gaay Fortman1911-1997
Hubert Humphrey1911-1978
Joseph Luns1911-2002
Maan Sassen1911-1995
Eva Braun1912-1945
Marga Klompé1912-1986
Haxhi Lleshi1913-1998
Michael Foot1913-2010
Hans de Koster1914-1992
Moshe Dayan1915-1981
Elena Ceaușescu1916-1989(Petrescu)
Robert McNamara1916-2009
Bayken Ashimov1917-2010
Molly Geertsema1918-1991
Spiro Agnew1918-1996
Siddhi Savetsila1919-2015
Eva Perón1919-1952(Duarte)
Vance Hartke1919-2003
Robert Boulin1920-1979
Melina Mercouri1920-1994(Merkouri)
Norbert Schmelzer1921-2008
Johan Witteveen1921-2019
Janez Stanovnik1922-2020
Henry Kissinger1923-2023
Bob Dole1923-2021
Demmus Hentze1923-2016
Max van der Stoel1924-2011
Pierre Lardinois1924-1987
Chris van der Klaauw1924-2005
Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan1924-2016
Henk Vredeling1924-2007
Til Gardeniers-Berendsen1925-2019
Wil Albeda1925-2014
Robert F. Kennedy1925-1968
Bé Udink1926-2016
Amo Houghton1926-2020
Jan de Koning1926-1994
Vedat Dalokay1927-1991
Šime Đodan1927-2007
Walter Mondale1928-2021
Jean-Marie Le Pen1928-
Koos Andriessen1928-2019
Shulamit Aloni1928-2014(Adler)
Frans Andriessen1929-2019
Imelda Marcos1929-
Zdenko Škrabalo1929-2014
Gijs van Aardenne1930-1995(Vredenrijk van Aardenne)
Arie Pais1930-2022
Job de Ruiter1930-2015
Vlatko Pavletić1930-2007
Wim van Eekelen1931-
Frits Korthals Altes1931-
Hans Gruijters1931-2005
Kees van Dijk1931-2008
Hans van Mierlo1931-2010
Ien Dales1931-1994
Jan Terlouw1931-
Ted Kennedy1932-2009
Els Borst1932-2014(Eilers)
Donald Rumsfeld1932-2021
Frits Bolkestein1933-
Dianne Feinstein1933-2023(Goldman, Berman)
Peter Kooijmans1933-2013
Firuz Mustafayev1933-2018
Michael Dukakis1933-
Piet Bukman1934-2022
Landelino Lavilla Alsina1934-2020
Ed van Thijn1934-2021
Manfred Wörner1934-1994
Pjetër Arbnori1935-2006
Dick Dolman1935-2019
Wim Duisenberg1935-2005
Ron Paul1935-
Rudolf de Korte1936-2020
Seamus Mallon1936-2020
John McCain1936-2018
Hans van den Broek1936-
Jos van Kemenade1937-2020
Laurens Jan Brinkhorst1937-
Colin Powell1937-2021
Madeleine Albright1937-2022
Hedy d'Ancona1937-
Ben Bot1937-
Suhaila Seddiqi1938-2020
Betico Croes1938-1986
John Smith1938-1994
Willy Claes1938-
Bram Peper1940-2022
Jan Pronk1940-
Nancy Pelosi1940-(D'Alesandro)
Alija Behmen1940-2018
Dick Cheney1941-
Alexander Gauland1941-
Yagub Mammadov1941-(Məmmədov)
Hans Wiegel1941-
Neelie Kroes1941-(Smit)
Bernie Sanders1941-
Vural Öger1942-
Mitch McConnell1942-
Pieter Winsemius1942-
Neil Kinnock1942-
Bas van der Vlies1942-2021
Javier Solana1942-(de Madariaga)
Fred Thompson1942-2015
Hans Dijkstal1943-2010
Erica Terpstra1943-
Newt Gingrich1943-
Alun Michael1943-
Saxby Chambliss1943-
Androulla Vassiliou1943-
John Kerry1943-
Hanja Maij-Weggen1943-
Zhiuli Shartava1944-1993
Matan Vilnai1944-
Eduard Bomhoff1944-
Uri Rosenthal1945-
Tzvia Greenfeld1945-
Ursula Haubner1945-(Haider)
Tedo Japaridze1946-
Dan Quayle1947-
Mitt Romney1947-
Ignazio La Russa1947-
Job Cohen1947-
Hillary Clinton1947-(Rodham)
Kinga Göncz1947-
Bachir Gemayel1947-1982
Jozias van Aartsen1947-
Pim Fortuyn1948-2002
Al Gore1948-
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer1948-
Gerry Adams1948-(Mac Ádhaimh)
Piet Hein Donner1948-
Radimir Čačić1949-
Jeremy Corbyn1949-
Elizabeth Warren1949-(Herring)
Maria van der Hoeven1949-
Leonida Lari1949-2011
John Boehner1949-
Ella Vogelaar1949-2019
Skënder Gjinushi1949-
Agnes van Ardenne1950-(van der Hoeven)
Jörg Haider1950-2008
Lucille George-Wout1950-
Rick Perry1950-
Henk Krol1950-
Jill Stein1950-
Annemarie Jorritsma1950-(Lebbink)
Chuck Schumer1950-
Ernst Hirsch Ballin1950-
Gerdi Verbeet1951-
Johan Remkes1951-
Frits Goedgedrag1951-(de los Santos)
Gerrit Zalm1952-
John Kasich1952-
Mars Di Bartolomeo1952-
Henk Kamp1952-
Kastriot Islami1952-
Jan Marijnissen1952-
Ali Masimli1953-(Məsimli, Masimov, Məsimov)
Vesna Pusić1953-
Neven Mimica1953-
Condoleezza Rice1954-
Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu1954-2009
Miomir Žužul1955-
Eberhard van der Laan1955-2017
Lindsey Graham1955-
Boris Dittrich1955-
Željka Antunović1955-
Rita Verdonk1955-
Martin Schulz1955-
Christine Lagarde1956-
Artur Mas1956-
Ad Melkert1956-
Michele Bachmann1956-(Amble)
David Sassoli1956-2022
Marianne Thyssen1956-
Meg Whitman1956-
Maxime Verhagen1956-
Jozo Radoš1956-
Entissar Amer1956-
Isa Gambar1957-(Qəmbər)
Ronald Plasterk1957-
Lindsay Hoyle1957-
Thom de Graaf1957-
Roy Cooper1957-
Gerda Verburg1957-
Tim Kaine1958-
Bert Koenders1958-
Ursula von der Leyen1958-(Albrecht)
Zlatko Komadina1958-
Ab Klink1958-
Tomislav Karamarko1959-
Mike Pence1959-
Crin Antonescu1959-
Mirando Mrsić1959-
Ferd Grapperhaus1959-
Marthinus van Schalkwyk1959-
Robbert Dijkgraaf1960-
Tineke Huizinga1960-(Heringa)
Amy Klobuchar1960-
Berislav Rončević1960-
Khadija Arib1960-
Zindzi Mandela1960-2020(Hlongwane)
Susanne Riess1961-(Hahn, Passer)
Jet Bussemaker1961-
Armin Laschet1961-
Frans Timmermans1961-
Marja van Bijsterveldt1961-(Vliegenthart)
Jörg Meuthen1961-
Tonino Picula1961-
Sigrid Kaag1961-
Arie Slob1961-
Guido Westerwelle1961-2016
Davor Božinović1961-
André Rouvoet1962-
Ank Bijleveld1962-(Schouten)
Lilianne Ploumen1962-
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer1962-
Bernd Lucke1962-
Emile Roemer1962-
Ranko Ostojić1962-
Quim Torra1962-(Pla)
Carles Puigdemont1962-(Casamajó)
Alessandra Mussolini1962-
Eric Wiebes1963-
Marija Pejčinović Burić1963-
Darko Milinović1963-
Jolande Sap1963-
Cora van Nieuwenhuizen1963-(Wijbenga)
Bruno Bruins1963-
Marino Baldini1963-
Wouter Bos1963-
Geert Wilders1963-
Guido Crosetto1963-
Jozefina Topalli1963-
Mike Pompeo1963-
Anna-Maja Henriksson1964-
Sarah Palin1964-(Heath)
Mark Kelly1964-
Nigel Farage1964-
Tim Walz1964-
Branko Grčić1964-
Edith Schippers1964-
Cécile Kyenge1964-
Kamala Harris1964-
Stef Blok1964-
J. B. Pritzker1965-
Sybrand van Haersma Buma1965-(Buma)
Alexander Pechtold1965-
Jeroen Dijsselbloem1966-
Liesbeth Spies1966-
Femke Halsema1966-
Ingrid van Engelshoven1966-
Liz Cheney1966-
Blaženka Divjak1967-
Anouchka van Miltenburg1967-
Kajsa Ollongren1967-
Caroline van der Plas1967-
Gordan Jandroković1967-
Gavin Newsom1967-
Giorgi Baramidze1968-
Nika Rurua1968-2018
Milanka Opačić1968-
Marine Le Pen1968-
Kees van der Staaij1968-
Karien van Gennip1968-
Mona Keijzer1968-
Herbert Kickl1968-
Sandra Roelofs1968-(Rulovsi)
Halbe Zijlstra1969-
Jan Kees de Jager1969-
Oriol Junqueras i Vies1969-
Mark Harbers1969-
Cory Booker1969-
Heinz-Christian Strache1969-
Gert-Jan Segers1969-
Kari Lake1969-
Sajid Javid1969-
Ed Miliband1969-
Paul Ryan1970-
Gabby Giffords1970-
Zbigniew Ziobro1970-
Sadiq Khan1970-
Ted Cruz1970-
Sylvana Simons1971-
Norbert Hofer1971-
Marco Rubio1971-
Vera Bergkamp1971-
Diederik Samsom1971-
Gretchen Whitmer1971-
Mirela Holy1971-
Nikki Haley1972-(Randhawa)
Marianne Thieme1972-
Jasen Mesić1972-
Manfred Weber1972-
Arsen Bauk1973-
Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert1973-
Laura Codruța Kövesi1973-(Lascu)
Federica Mogherini1973-
Josh Shapiro1973-
Camiel Eurlings1973-
Stacey Abrams1973-
Pieter Omtzigt1974-
Marjorie Taylor Greene1974-
Tamara van Ark1974-
Lodewijk Asscher1974-
Sander Dekker1975-
Tino Chrupalla1975-
Frauke Petry1975-(Marquardt)
Wopke Hoekstra1975-
Santiago Abascal1976-(Conde)
Esther Ouwehand1976-
Kyrsten Sinema1976-
Ludivine Dedonder1977-
Jenni Haukio1977-
Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius1977-
Hugo de Jonge1977-
Carola Schouten1977-
Hanke Bruins Slot1977-
Andy Beshear1977-
Ron DeSantis1978-
Alice Weidel1979-
Nika Melia1979-
Davor Bernardić1980-
Annalena Baerbock1980-
Klaas Dijkhoff1981-
Tulsi Gabbard1981-
Tunahan Kuzu1981-
Sjoerd Sjoerdsma1981-
Gabrielius Landsbergis1982-
Pete Buttigieg1982-
Sarah Huckabee Sanders1982-
Pere Aragonès1982-(Garcia)
André Ventura1983-(Amaral)
Thierry Baudet1983-
Femke Merel van Kooten-Arissen1983-
J. D. Vance1984-(Bowman)
Maria Ohisalo1985-
Nika Gvaramia1985-
Lilian Marijnissen1985-
Laurens Dassen1985-
Jesse Klaver1986-
Lauren Boebert1986-(Roberts)
Rob Jetten1987-
Li Andersson1987-
Katri Kulmuni1987-
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez1989-
Jordan Bardella1995-