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Thomas Jefferson
3rd U.S. President & Founding Father
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Theodore Roosevelt
26th U.S. President
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd U.S. President
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Ulysses S. Grant
18th U.S. President & Civil War general
John F. Kennedy
35th U.S. President
Barack Obama
44th U.S. President
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Woodrow Wilson
28th U.S. President
James Madison
4th U.S. President & Founding Father
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
34th U.S. President & WWII general
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Andrew Jackson
7th U.S. President
Ronald Reagan
40th U.S. President
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Bill Clinton
42nd U.S. President
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Harry S. Truman
33rd U.S. President
Salvador Allende
President of Chile
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Founding President of Bangladesh
Léopold Sédar Senghor
First President of Senegal & poet
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Juan Perón
President of Argentina
Anwar Sadat
President of Egypt
Samora Machel
President of Mozambique
Julius Nyerere
President of Tanzania
Gamal Abdel Nasser
President of Egypt
Getúlio Vargas
President of Brazil
John A. Macdonald
First Prime Minister of Canada
Pierre Trudeau
Prime Minister of Canada
Hugo Chávez
President of Venezuela
Corazon Aquino
President of the Philippines
Ferdinand Marcos
President of the Philippines
Manuel L. Quezon
President of the Philippines
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
Founding President of the United Arab Emirates
Porfirio Díaz
President of Mexico
Lázaro Cárdenas
President of Mexico
Tomáš Masaryk
Founding President of Czechoslovakia
Václav Havel
Playwright and statesman
Lech Wałęsa
President of Poland
Mobutu Sese Seko
President of Zaire
Thomas Sankara
President of Burkina Faso
Ahmed Sékou Touré
President of Guinea
Nnamdi Azikiwe
President of Nigeria
Olusegun Obasanjo
President of Nigeria
F. W. de Klerk
President of South Africa
Francisco Morazán
President of the Federal Republic of Central America
José Figueres Ferrer
President of Costa Rica
Eloy Alfaro
President of Ecuador
Rafael Correa
President of Ecuador
Rafael Reyes
President of Colombia
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
President of Argentina
Antanas Smetona
President of Lithuania
Konstantin Päts
President of Estonia
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
Military leader and President of Finland
Urho Kekkonen
President of Finland
Olof Palme
Prime Minister of Sweden
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
President of Liberia
Levon Ter-Petrosyan
President of Armenia
Heydar Aliyev
President of Azerbaijan
Nursultan Nazarbayev
President of Kazakhstan
Islam Karimov
President of Uzbekistan
Askar Akayev
President of Kyrgyzstan
Georgi Dimitrov
Leader of Bulgaria
Todor Zhivkov
Leader of Bulgaria
Josip Broz Tito
Leader of Yugoslavia
Slobodan Milošević
President of Serbia and Yugoslavia
Alija Izetbegović
President of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Franjo Tuđman
President of Croatia
Habib Bourguiba
President of Tunisia
Hafez al-Assad
President of Syria
Bashar al-Assad
Former President of Syria
Peter Fraser
Prime Minister of New Zealand
Michael Joseph Savage
Prime Minister of New Zealand
John Curtin
Prime Minister of Australia
Robert Menzies
Prime Minister of Australia
Gough Whitlam
Prime Minister of Australia
Julia Gillard
Prime Minister of Australia
David Ben-Gurion
Founding Prime Minister of Israel
Chaim Weizmann
First President of Israel
Levi Eshkol
Prime Minister of Israel
Menachem Begin
Prime Minister of Israel
Yitzhak Rabin
Prime Minister of Israel
Shimon Peres
Prime Minister and President of Israel
Ariel Sharon
Prime Minister of Israel
Ehud Barak
Prime Minister of Israel
Benjamin Netanyahu
Prime Minister of Israel
Suharto
President of Indonesia
Megawati Sukarnoputri
President of Indonesia
Emilio Aguinaldo
First President of the Philippines
Diosdado Macapagal
President of the Philippines
Ngô Đình Diệm
President of South Vietnam
Lê Duẩn
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam
Pridi Banomyong
Prime Minister of Thailand
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