Notable Politicians and Statespeople
This list is comprised of some of the most recognizable names from the world of politics and statesmanship.
| Name | Lifespan | Other Names | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Solon | 638-558 BC |  | |
| Pericles | 495-429 BC | | |
| Demosthenes | 384-322 BC | | |
| Cato the Elder | 234-149 BC | | |
| Lucius Cornelius Sulla | c. 138-78 BC | | |
| Marcus Licinius Crassus | c. 115-53 BC | | |
| Pompey the Great | 106-48 BC | | |
| Cicero | 106-43 BC | (Tullius) | |
| Gaius Julius Caesar | 100-44 BC | | |
| Cato the Younger | 95-46 BC | (Porcius, Uticensis) | |
| Marcus Aemilius Lepidus | c. 88-c. 12 BC | | |
| Gaius Cassius Longinus | c. 86-42 BC | | |
| Marcus Junius Brutus | 85-42 BC | | |
| Marcus Antonius | 83-30 BC | (Antony) | |
| Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus | 81-43 BC | | |
| Calpurnia | 75-0xx BC | | |
| Gaius Cilnius Maecenas | 70-8 BC | | |
| Charles Martel | ?-741 | | |
| John of Gaunt | 1340-1399 | | |
| Lorenzo de' Medici | 1449-1492 | | |
| Thomas Cromwell | c. 1485-1540 | | |
| Roxelana | c. 1504-1558 | | |
| Cardinal Thomas Wolsey | ?-1530 | | |
| Safiye Sultan | c. 1550-c. 1619 | | |
| Jacob Cats | 1577-1660 | | |
| Cardinal Richelieu | 1585-1642 | (du Plessis) | |
| Kösem Sultan | c. 1589-1651 | | |
| Cardinal Mazarin | 1602-1661 | (Mazzarino) | |
| Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani | 1658-1725 | | |
| Carl Adolph von Plessen | 1678-1758 | | |
| Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790 | | |
| George Clinton | 1739-1812 | | |
| Elbridge Gerry | 1744-1814 | | |
| Tadeusz Kościuszko | 1746-1817 | | |
| Aaron Burr | 1756-1836 | | |
| Gustaf Adolf Reuterholm | 1756-1813 | | |
| Maximilien Robespierre | 1758-1794 | | |
| Joséphine de Beauharnais | 1763-1814 | (Bonaparte) | |
| Michał Kleofas Ogiński | 1765-1833 | | |
| Klemens von Metternich | 1773-1859 | | |
| Daniel D. Tompkins | 1774-1825 | | |
| Richard Mentor Johnson | 1780-1850 | | |
| John C. Calhoun | 1782-1850 | | |
| William R. King | 1786-1853 | | |
| Alphonse de Lamartine | 1790-1869 | | |
| István Széchenyi | 1791-1860 | | |
| George M. Dallas | 1792-1864 | | |
| Adolphe Crémieux | 1796-1880 | | |
| Lajos Kossuth | 1802-1894 | | |
| Ferenc Deák | 1803-1876 | | |
| Eftimie Murgu | 1805-1870 | | |
| Alexander von Schleinitz | 1807-1885 | | |
| Hannibal Hamlin | 1809-1891 | | |
| Henry Wilson | 1812-1875 | (Colbath) | |
| William A. Wheeler | 1819-1887 | | |
| Thomas A. Hendricks | 1819-1885 | | |
| Marthinus Wessel Pretorius | 1819-1901 | | |
| John C. Breckinridge | 1821-1875 | | |
| Schuyler Colfax | 1823-1885 | | |
| Levi P. Morton | 1824-1920 | | |
| Algernon Paddock | 1830-1897 | | |
| Benjamin Bristow | 1832-1896 | | |
| Adlai Stevenson I | 1835-1914 | | |
| Cixi | 1835-1908 | | |
| William A. Clark Sr. | 1839-1925 | | |
| Garret Hobart | 1844-1899 | | |
| Joseph Pulitzer | 1847-1911 | | |
| Charles W. Fairbanks | 1852-1918 | | |
| Thomas R. Marshall | 1854-1925 | | |
| James S. Sherman | 1855-1912 | | |
| Marthinus Theunis Steyn | 1857-1916 | | |
| Dirk Fock | 1858-1941 | | |
| Charles Curtis | 1860-1936 | | |
| Simeon D. Fess | 1861-1936 | | |
| William Randolph Hearst | 1863-1951 | | |
| Charles G. Dawes | 1865-1951 | | |
| Alikhan Bukeikhanov | 1866-1937 | | |
| Gustav Adolf von Götzen | 1866-1910 | (von Goetzen) | |
| John Nance Garner | 1868-1967 | | |
| Brand Whitlock | 1869-1934 | | |
| Aleksandra Kollontai | 1872-1952 | | |
| Alben W. Barkley | 1877-1956 | | |
| Alvan T. Fuller | 1878-1958 | | |
| Kyrre Grepp | 1879-1922 | | |
| Leon Trotsky | 1879-1940 | | |
| George C. Marshall | 1880-1959 | | |
| Irakli Tsereteli | 1881-1959 | | |
| Adolf Köster | 1883-1930 | | |
| Adolph Joffe | 1883-1927 | | |
| Henry A. Wallace | 1888-1965 | | |
| Adolf Grimme | 1889-1963 | | |
| Vyacheslav Molotov | 1890-1986 | | |
| Gerard van der Leeuw | 1890-1950 | | |
| Lavrenti Kartvelishvili | 1890-1938 | | |
| Michael Collins | 1890-1922 | (Ó Coileáin) | |
| Rudolf Hess | 1894-1987 | | |
| Eelco van Kleffens | 1894-1983 | | |
| Dirk Stikker | 1897-1979 | | |
| Wim Beyen | 1897-1976 | (Beijen) | |
| Lavrenti Beria | 1899-1953 | | |
| Lavrenti Tsanava | 1900-1955 | | |
| Hein Vos | 1903-1972 | | |
| Zerach Warhaftig | 1906-2002 | (Wahrhaftig) | |
| Nelson Rockefeller | 1908-1979 | | |
| Sicco Mansholt | 1908-1995 | | |
| Joseph McCarthy | 1908-1957 | | |
| Barry Goldwater | 1909-1998 | | |
| Gaius de Gaay Fortman | 1911-1997 | | |
| Hubert Humphrey | 1911-1978 | | |
| Joseph Luns | 1911-2002 | | |
| Maan Sassen | 1911-1995 | | |
| Eva Braun | 1912-1945 | | |
| Marga Klompé | 1912-1986 | | |
| Haxhi Lleshi | 1913-1998 | | |
| Hans de Koster | 1914-1992 | | |
| Moshe Dayan | 1915-1981 | | |
| Elena Ceaușescu | 1916-1989 | (Petrescu) | |
| Robert McNamara | 1916-2009 | | |
| Bayken Ashimov | 1917-2010 | | |
| Molly Geertsema | 1918-1991 | | |
| Spiro Agnew | 1918-1996 | | |
| Siddhi Savetsila | 1919-2015 | | |
| Eva Perón | 1919-1952 | (Duarte) | |
| Vance Hartke | 1919-2003 | | |
| Robert Boulin | 1920-1979 | | |
| Norbert Schmelzer | 1921-2008 | | |
| Johan Witteveen | 1921-2019 | | |
| Janez Stanovnik | 1922-2020 | | |
| Henry Kissinger | 1923-2023 | | |
| Bob Dole | 1923-2021 | | |
| Demmus Hentze | 1923-2016 | | |
| Max van der Stoel | 1924-2011 | | |
| Pierre Lardinois | 1924-1987 | | |
| Chris van der Klaauw | 1924-2005 | | |
| Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan | 1924-2016 | | |
| Henk Vredeling | 1924-2007 | | |
| Til Gardeniers-Berendsen | 1925-2019 | | |
| Wil Albeda | 1925-2014 | | |
| Robert F. Kennedy | 1925-1968 | | |
| Bé Udink | 1926-2016 | | |
| Amo Houghton | 1926-2020 | | |
| Jan de Koning | 1926-1994 | | |
| Vedat Dalokay | 1927-1991 | | |
| Šime Đodan | 1927-2007 | | |
| Walter Mondale | 1928-2021 | | |
| Jean-Marie Le Pen | 1928- | | |
| Koos Andriessen | 1928-2019 | | |
| Shulamit Aloni | 1928-2014 | (Adler) | |
| Frans Andriessen | 1929-2019 | | |
| Imelda Marcos | 1929- | | |
| Zdenko Škrabalo | 1929-2014 | | |
| Gijs van Aardenne | 1930-1995 | (Vredenrijk van Aardenne) | |
| Arie Pais | 1930-2022 | | |
| Job de Ruiter | 1930-2015 | | |
| Vlatko Pavletić | 1930-2007 | | |
| Wim van Eekelen | 1931- | | |
| Frits Korthals Altes | 1931- | | |
| Hans Gruijters | 1931-2005 | | |
| Kees van Dijk | 1931-2008 | | |
| Hans van Mierlo | 1931-2010 | | |
| Ien Dales | 1931-1994 | | |
| Jan Terlouw | 1931- | | |
| Els Borst | 1932-2014 | (Eilers) | |
| Donald Rumsfeld | 1932-2021 | | |
| Frits Bolkestein | 1933- | | |
| Dianne Feinstein | 1933-2023 | (Goldman, Berman) | |
| Peter Kooijmans | 1933-2013 | | |
| Firuz Mustafayev | 1933-2018 | | |
| Michael Dukakis | 1933- | | |
| Piet Bukman | 1934-2022 | | |
| Landelino Lavilla Alsina | 1934-2020 | | |
| Ed van Thijn | 1934-2021 | | |
| Pjetër Arbnori | 1935-2006 | | |
| Dick Dolman | 1935-2019 | | |
| Wim Duisenberg | 1935-2005 | | |
| Ron Paul | 1935- | | |
| Rudolf de Korte | 1936-2020 | | |
| Seamus Mallon | 1936-2020 | | |
| John McCain | 1936-2018 | | |
| Hans van den Broek | 1936- | | |
| Jos van Kemenade | 1937-2020 | | |
| Laurens Jan Brinkhorst | 1937- | | |
| Colin Powell | 1937-2021 | | |
| Madeleine Albright | 1937-2022 | | |
| Hedy d'Ancona | 1937- | | |
| Ben Bot | 1937- | | |
| Suhaila Seddiqi | 1938-2020 | | |
| Betico Croes | 1938-1986 | | |
| Bram Peper | 1940-2022 | | |
| Jan Pronk | 1940- | | |
| Nancy Pelosi | 1940- | (D'Alesandro) | |
| Alija Behmen | 1940-2018 | | |
| Dick Cheney | 1941- | | |
| Yagub Mammadov | 1941- | (Məmmədov) | |
| Hans Wiegel | 1941- | | |
| Neelie Kroes | 1941- | (Smit) | |
| Bernie Sanders | 1941- | | |
| Vural Öger | 1942- | | |
| Mitch McConnell | 1942- | | |
| Pieter Winsemius | 1942- | | |
| Bas van der Vlies | 1942-2021 | | |
| Fred Thompson | 1942-2015 | | |
| Hans Dijkstal | 1943-2010 | | |
| Erica Terpstra | 1943- | | |
| Newt Gingrich | 1943- | | |
| Alun Michael | 1943- | | |
| Saxby Chambliss | 1943- | | |
| Androulla Vassiliou | 1943- | | |
| John Kerry | 1943- | | |
| Hanja Maij-Weggen | 1943- | | |
| Zhiuli Shartava | 1944-1993 | | |
| Matan Vilnai | 1944- | | |
| Eduard Bomhoff | 1944- | | |
| Uri Rosenthal | 1945- | | |
| Tzvia Greenfeld | 1945- | | |
| Tedo Japaridze | 1946- | | |
| Dan Quayle | 1947- | | |
| Mitt Romney | 1947- | | |
| Job Cohen | 1947- | | |
| Hillary Clinton | 1947- | (Rodham) | |
| Kinga Göncz | 1947- | | |
| Bachir Gemayel | 1947-1982 | | |
| Jozias van Aartsen | 1947- | | |
| Pim Fortuyn | 1948-2002 | | |
| Al Gore | 1948- | | |
| Jaap de Hoop Scheffer | 1948- | | |
| Gerry Adams | 1948- | (Mac Ádhaimh) | |
| Piet Hein Donner | 1948- | | |
| Radimir Čačić | 1949- | | |
| Elizabeth Warren | 1949- | (Herring) | |
| Maria van der Hoeven | 1949- | | |
| Leonida Lari | 1949-2011 | | |
| John Boehner | 1949- | | |
| Ella Vogelaar | 1949-2019 | | |
| Skënder Gjinushi | 1949- | | |
| Agnes van Ardenne | 1950- | (van der Hoeven) | |
| Jörg Haider | 1950-2008 | | |
| Lucille George-Wout | 1950- | | |
| Rick Perry | 1950- | | |
| Henk Krol | 1950- | | |
| Annemarie Jorritsma | 1950- | (Lebbink) | |
| Ernst Hirsch Ballin | 1950- | | |
| Gerdi Verbeet | 1951- | | |
| Johan Remkes | 1951- | | |
| Frits Goedgedrag | 1951- | (de los Santos) | |
| Gerrit Zalm | 1952- | | |
| John Kasich | 1952- | | |
| Mars Di Bartolomeo | 1952- | | |
| Henk Kamp | 1952- | | |
| Kastriot Islami | 1952- | | |
| Jan Marijnissen | 1952- | | |
| Ali Masimli | 1953- | (Məsimli, Məsimov, Masimov) | |
| Vesna Pusić | 1953- | | |
| Neven Mimica | 1953- | | |
| Condoleezza Rice | 1954- | | |
| Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu | 1954-2009 | | |
| Miomir Žužul | 1955- | | |
| Eberhard van der Laan | 1955-2017 | | |
| Lindsey Graham | 1955- | | |
| Boris Dittrich | 1955- | | |
| Željka Antunović | 1955- | | |
| Rita Verdonk | 1955- | | |
| Martin Schulz | 1955- | | |
| Christine Lagarde | 1956- | | |
| Artur Mas | 1956- | | |
| Ad Melkert | 1956- | | |
| David Sassoli | 1956-2022 | | |
| Marianne Thyssen | 1956- | | |
| Meg Whitman | 1956- | | |
| Maxime Verhagen | 1956- | | |
| Jozo Radoš | 1956- | | |
| Entissar Amer | 1956- | | |
| Isa Gambar | 1957- | (Qəmbər) | |
| Ronald Plasterk | 1957- | | |
| Lindsay Hoyle | 1957- | | |
| Thom de Graaf | 1957- | | |
| Gerda Verburg | 1957- | | |
| Bert Koenders | 1958- | | |
| Ursula von der Leyen | 1958- | (Albrecht) | |
| Zlatko Komadina | 1958- | | |
| Ab Klink | 1958- | | |
| Tomislav Karamarko | 1959- | | |
| Mike Pence | 1959- | | |
| Crin Antonescu | 1959- | | |
| Mirando Mrsić | 1959- | | |
| Ferd Grapperhaus | 1959- | | |
| Marthinus van Schalkwyk | 1959- | | |
| Robbert Dijkgraaf | 1960- | | |
| Tineke Huizinga | 1960- | (Heringa) | |
| Amy Klobuchar | 1960- | | |
| Berislav Rončević | 1960- | | |
| Khadija Arib | 1960- | | |
| Zindzi Mandela | 1960-2020 | (Hlongwane) | |
| Jet Bussemaker | 1961- | | |
| Armin Laschet | 1961- | | |
| Frans Timmermans | 1961- | | |
| Marja van Bijsterveldt | 1961- | (Vliegenthart) | |
| Tonino Picula | 1961- | | |
| Sigrid Kaag | 1961- | | |
| Arie Slob | 1961- | | |
| Guido Westerwelle | 1961-2016 | | |
| Davor Božinović | 1961- | | |
| André Rouvoet | 1962- | | |
| Ank Bijleveld | 1962- | (Schouten) | |
| Lilianne Ploumen | 1962- | | |
| Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer | 1962- | | |
| Emile Roemer | 1962- | | |
| Ranko Ostojić | 1962- | | |
| Quim Torra | 1962- | (Pla) | |
| Carles Puigdemont | 1962- | (Casamajó) | |
| Alessandra Mussolini | 1962- | | |
| Eric Wiebes | 1963- | | |
| Marija Pejčinović Burić | 1963- | | |
| Darko Milinović | 1963- | | |
| Jolande Sap | 1963- | | |
| Cora van Nieuwenhuizen | 1963- | (Wijbenga) | |
| Bruno Bruins | 1963- | | |
| Marino Baldini | 1963- | | |
| Wouter Bos | 1963- | | |
| Geert Wilders | 1963- | | |
| Jozefina Topalli | 1963- | | |
| Anna-Maja Henriksson | 1964- | | |
| Sarah Palin | 1964- | (Heath) | |
| Nigel Farage | 1964- | | |
| Branko Grčić | 1964- | | |
| Edith Schippers | 1964- | | |
| Cécile Kyenge | 1964- | | |
| Kamala Harris | 1964- | | |
| Stef Blok | 1964- | | |
| Sybrand van Haersma Buma | 1965- | (Buma) | |
| Alexander Pechtold | 1965- | | |
| Jeroen Dijsselbloem | 1966- | | |
| Liesbeth Spies | 1966- | | |
| Femke Halsema | 1966- | | |
| Ingrid van Engelshoven | 1966- | | |
| Liz Cheney | 1966- | | |
| Blaženka Divjak | 1967- | | |
| Anouchka van Miltenburg | 1967- | | |
| Kajsa Ollongren | 1967- | | |
| Caroline van der Plas | 1967- | | |
| Gordan Jandroković | 1967- | | |
| Gavin Newsom | 1967- | | |
| Giorgi Baramidze | 1968- | | |
| Nika Rurua | 1968-2018 | | |
| Milanka Opačić | 1968- | | |
| Marine Le Pen | 1968- | | |
| Kees van der Staaij | 1968- | | |
| Karien van Gennip | 1968- | | |
| Mona Keijzer | 1968- | | |
| Sandra Roelofs | 1968- | (Rulovsi) | |
| Halbe Zijlstra | 1969- | | |
| Jan Kees de Jager | 1969- | | |
| Oriol Junqueras i Vies | 1969- | | |
| Mark Harbers | 1969- | | |
| Cory Booker | 1969- | | |
| Gert-Jan Segers | 1969- | | |
| Sajid Javid | 1969- | | |
| Paul Ryan | 1970- | | |
| Zbigniew Ziobro | 1970- | | |
| Sadiq Khan | 1970- | | |
| Ted Cruz | 1970- | | |
| Sylvana Simons | 1971- | | |
| Marco Rubio | 1971- | | |
| Vera Bergkamp | 1971- | | |
| Diederik Samsom | 1971- | | |
| Mirela Holy | 1971- | | |
| Marianne Thieme | 1972- | | |
| Jasen Mesić | 1972- | | |
| Manfred Weber | 1972- | | |
| Arsen Bauk | 1973- | | |
| Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert | 1973- | | |
| Laura Codruța Kövesi | 1973- | (Lascu) | |
| Federica Mogherini | 1973- | | |
| Camiel Eurlings | 1973- | | |
| Stacey Abrams | 1973- | | |
| Pieter Omtzigt | 1974- | | |
| Tamara van Ark | 1974- | | |
| Lodewijk Asscher | 1974- | | |
| Sander Dekker | 1975- | | |
| Wopke Hoekstra | 1975- | | |
| Esther Ouwehand | 1976- | | |
| Ludivine Dedonder | 1977- | | |
| Jenni Haukio | 1977- | | |
| Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius | 1977- | | |
| Hugo de Jonge | 1977- | | |
| Carola Schouten | 1977- | | |
| Hanke Bruins Slot | 1977- | | |
| Ron DeSantis | 1978- | | |
| Nika Melia | 1979- | | |
| Davor Bernardić | 1980- | | |
| Annalena Baerbock | 1980- | | |
| Klaas Dijkhoff | 1981- | | |
| Tulsi Gabbard | 1981- | | |
| Tunahan Kuzu | 1981- | | |
| Sjoerd Sjoerdsma | 1981- | | |
| Gabrielius Landsbergis | 1982- | | |
| Pete Buttigieg | 1982- | | |
| Pere Aragonès | 1982- | (Garcia) | |
| Thierry Baudet | 1983- | | |
| Femke Merel van Kooten-Arissen | 1983- | | |
| Maria Ohisalo | 1985- | | |
| Nika Gvaramia | 1985- | | |
| Lilian Marijnissen | 1985- | | |
| Laurens Dassen | 1985- | | |
| Jesse Klaver | 1986- | | |
| Rob Jetten | 1987- | | |
| Li Andersson | 1987- | | |
| Katri Kulmuni | 1987- | | |
| Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez | 1989- | |