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68 figures
Mahatma Gandhi
Independence leader
Wu Zetian
Empress regnant
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Ho Chi Minh
Revolutionary & statesman
José Rizal
Writer & nationalist
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Akbar
Mughal Emperor
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Benazir Bhutto
Prime Minister of Pakistan
Jawaharlal Nehru
Prime Minister of India
Sukarno
First President of Indonesia
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Shogun & unifier of Japan
Genghis Khan
Founder of the Mongol Empire
Kim Dae-jung
President of South Korea
Yi Sun-sin
Naval commander
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Emperor Meiji
Emperor of Japan
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Hirohito
Emperor of Japan
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Pol Pot
Dictator of Democratic Kampuchea
Kim Il Sung
Founder & dictator of North Korea
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Srinivasa Ramanujan
Mathematician
Confucius
Philosopher
Norodom Sihanouk
King & Head of State of Cambodia
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Bhumibol Adulyadej
King of Thailand
Aung San
Independence activist & revolutionary
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Aung San Suu Kyi
Politician & Nobel laureate
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Ang Duong
King of Cambodia
Lee Kuan Yew
First Prime Minister of Singapore
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Tunku Abdul Rahman
First Prime Minister of Malaysia
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Founding President of Bangladesh
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D. S. Senanayake
First Prime Minister of Ceylon
Ravi Shankar
Sitarist and composer
Sachin Tendulkar
Cricketer
Corazon Aquino
President of the Philippines
Ferdinand Marcos
President of the Philippines
Manuel L. Quezon
President of the Philippines
Mohammad Zahir Shah
King of Afghanistan
Norodom Sihamoni
King of Cambodia
Ashoka
Emperor of the Mauryan Empire
Chandragupta Maurya
Founder of the Mauryan Empire
Kublai Khan
Founder of the Yuan dynasty
Zheng He
Admiral and diplomat
Nur Jahan
Mughal empress
Rani Lakshmibai
Queen of Jhansi
Muhammad Yunus
Economist and microfinance pioneer
Malala Yousafzai
Education activist
Naomi Osaka
Tennis player
Nursultan Nazarbayev
President of Kazakhstan
Islam Karimov
President of Uzbekistan
Kurmanjan Datka
Tribal leader
Askar Akayev
President of Kyrgyzstan
Abai Qunanbaiuly
Poet and philosopher
Timur
Founder of the Timurid Empire
Chien-Shiung Wu
Physicist
Suharto
President of Indonesia
Megawati Sukarnoputri
President of Indonesia
Emilio Aguinaldo
First President of the Philippines
Andrés Bonifacio
Revolutionary leader
Diosdado Macapagal
President of the Philippines
Ngô Đình Diệm
President of South Vietnam
Bảo Đại
Last emperor of Vietnam
Lê Duẩn
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam
Võ Nguyên Giáp
General
Pridi Banomyong
Prime Minister of Thailand
Chulalongkorn
King of Siam
Rama I
Founder of the Chakri dynasty
Taksin
King of Thonburi
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Laozi
Philosopher
Sun Tzu
Military strategist
Qin Shi Huang
First emperor of China
Indira Gandhi
Prime Minister of India
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Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
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