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Leo historical figures
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43 figures
Simón Bolívar
Military & political leader
Napoleon Bonaparte
General & Emperor
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Haile Selassie
Emperor of Ethiopia
Barack Obama
44th U.S. President
Emiliano Zapata
Revolutionary & guerrilla leader
Usain Bolt
Sprinter
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Louis Armstrong
Jazz musician & singer
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Roger Federer
Tennis player
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Bill Clinton
42nd U.S. President
Benito Mussolini
Dictator of Italy
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Henry Ford
Industrialist & engineer
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Fidel Castro
Revolutionary & head of state
Bernardo O'Higgins
Military officer & statesman
Sundiata Keita
Founder of the Mali Empire
Menelik II
Emperor of Ethiopia
Yasser Arafat
Chairman of the PLO
Isabel Allende
Novelist
Hugo Chávez
President of Venezuela
Rosalind Franklin
X-ray crystallographer
Neil Armstrong
Astronaut
Abebe Bikila
Marathon runner
Toumani Diabaté
Musician
Manuel L. Quezon
President of the Philippines
John III Sobieski
King of Poland
Erwin Schrödinger
Theoretical physicist
Bernardo de Gálvez
Colonial military leader and administrator
Antanas Smetona
President of Lithuania
Dag Hammarskjöld
United Nations Secretary-General
Carl Jung
Founder of analytical psychology
Wilt Chamberlain
Basketball player
Coco Chanel
Fashion designer
Abai Qunanbaiuly
Poet and philosopher
Slobodan Milošević
President of Serbia and Yugoslavia
Alija Izetbegović
President of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Habib Bourguiba
President of Tunisia
Mohammed V of Morocco
King of Morocco
Riad Al Solh
Founding statesman of Lebanon
Menachem Begin
Prime Minister of Israel
Shimon Peres
Prime Minister and President of Israel
Raoul Wallenberg
Diplomat and humanitarian
Primo Levi
Writer and Holocaust survivor
Vera Rubin
Astronomer
Elisha Otis
Industrialist & inventor
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