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president of Uzbekistan
Shavkat Mirziyoyev is an Uzbek politician who served as Uzbekistan’s prime minister (2003–16) and president (2016– ). A younger protégé of the repressive president Islam Karimov (1991–2016), he became...
prime minister of United Kingdom
Winston Churchill was a British statesman, orator, and author who as prime minister (1940–45, 1951–55) rallied the British people during World War II and led his country from the brink of defeat to victory....
Canadian politician
Justin Trudeau is a Canadian politician, prime minister of Canada (2015–25), leader of the Liberal Party (2013–25), and son of four-term prime minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau. Justin Trudeau’s Christmas-night...
president of Russia
Vladimir Putin is a Russian intelligence officer and politician who has served as president (1999–2008 and 2012– ) of Russia and as the country’s prime minister (1999 and 2008–12). One of the 21st century’s...
prime minister of United Kingdom
David Cameron is a British Conservative Party leader who served as prime minister of the United Kingdom (2010–16). Cameron, a descendant of King William IV, was born into a family with both wealth and...
German chancellor and prime minister
Otto von Bismarck was the prime minister of Prussia (1862–73, 1873–90) and founder and first chancellor (1871–90) of the German Empire. Once the empire was established, he actively and skillfully pursued...
prime minister of United Kingdom
Theresa May is a British politician who became the second woman prime minister of the United Kingdom in British history in July 2016 after replacing David Cameron as the leader of the Conservative Party....
prime minister of United Kingdom
Boris Johnson is an American-born British journalist and Conservative Party politician who became prime minister of the United Kingdom in July 2019. He left office in September 2022 after being forced...
premier of Soviet Union
Joseph Stalin was the secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922–53) and premier of the Soviet state (1941–53), who for a quarter of a century dictatorially ruled the Soviet Union...
prime minister of Israel
Benjamin Netanyahu is an Israeli politician and diplomat who served as his country’s prime minister three times (1996–99, 2009–21, and 2022– ) and is the longest-serving prime minister since Israel’s independence....
premier of Soviet Union
Nikita Khrushchev was the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1953–64) and premier of the Soviet Union (1958–64) whose policy of de-Stalinization had widespread repercussions throughout...
prime minister of India
Jawaharlal Nehru was the first prime minister of independent India (1947–64), who established parliamentary government and became noted for his neutralist (nonaligned) policies in foreign affairs. He was...
Italian dictator
Benito Mussolini was the Italian prime minister (1922–43) and the first of 20th-century Europe’s fascist dictators. Mussolini was the first child of the local blacksmith. In later years he expressed pride...
prime minister of Cape Colony
Cecil Rhodes was a financier, statesman, and empire builder of British South Africa. He was prime minister of Cape Colony (1890–96) and organizer of the giant diamond-mining company De Beers Consolidated...
prime minister of Kenya
Raila Odinga is a Kenyan businessman and politician who served as prime minister of Kenya (2008–13) following the contentious presidential election of December 2007. Of Luo descent, Odinga is the son of...
prime minister of United Kingdom
William Pitt, the Younger was a British prime minister (1783–1801, 1804–06) during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. He had considerable influence in strengthening the office of the prime minister....
prime minister of Great Britain
Robert Walpole, 1st earl of Orford was a British statesman (in power 1721–42), generally regarded as the first British prime minister. He deliberately cultivated a frank, hearty manner, but his political...
prime minister of United Kingdom
Tony Blair is a British Labour Party leader who served as prime minister of the United Kingdom (1997–2007). He was the youngest prime minister since 1812 and the longest-serving Labour prime minister,...
prime minister of United Kingdom
David Lloyd George was a British prime minister (1916–22) who dominated the British political scene in the latter part of World War I. He was raised to the peerage in the year of his death. Lloyd George’s...
prime minister of United Kingdom
William Pitt, the Elder was a British statesman, twice virtual prime minister (1756–61, 1766–68), who secured the transformation of his country into an imperial power. Pitt was born in London of a distinguished...
prime minister of France
Georges Clemenceau was a statesman and journalist who was a dominant figure in the French Third Republic and, as premier (1917–20), a major contributor to the Allied victory in World War I and a framer...
Piedmontese statesman
Camillo Benso, count di Cavour was a Piedmontese statesman, a conservative whose exploitation of international rivalries and of revolutionary movements brought about the unification of Italy (1861) under...
prime minister of Australia
Scott Morrison is an Australian conservative politician who served as leader of the Liberal Party and prime minister of Australia (2018–22). He became prime minister in August 2018 following a challenge...
prime minister of Great Britain
Arthur Wellesley, 1st duke of Wellington was an Irish-born commander of the British army during the Napoleonic Wars and later prime minister of Great Britain (1828–30). He first rose to military prominence...
prime minister of New Zealand
Jacinda Ardern is a New Zealand politician who in August 2017 became leader of the New Zealand Labour Party and then in October 2017, at age 37, became the country’s youngest prime minister in more than...
prime minister of United Kingdom
Lord Palmerston was an English Whig-Liberal statesman whose long career, including many years as British foreign secretary (1830–34, 1835–41, and 1846–51) and prime minister (1855–58 and 1859–65), made...
prime minister of Greece
Alexis Tsipras is a Greek politician and leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (Syriza) who became prime minister of Greece in January 2015. Tsipras rode into office on a wave of popular opposition...
prime minister of Hungary
Viktor Orbán is a Hungarian politician who served as prime minister of Hungary (1998–2002; 2010– ). He is considered to be the first post-Cold War head of government in eastern and central Europe who had...
president of Zimbabwe
Robert Mugabe was the first prime minister (1980–87) of the reconstituted state of Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia. A Black nationalist of Marxist persuasion, he eventually established one-party rule in his...
prime minister of United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone was a statesman and four-time prime minister of Great Britain (1868–74, 1880–85, 1886, 1892–94). Gladstone was of purely Scottish descent. His father, John, made himself a merchant...
prime minister of Israel
Ariel Sharon was an Israeli general and politician, whose public life was marked by brilliant but controversial military achievements and political policies. He was one of the chief participants in the...
prime minister of Pakistan
Nawaz Sharif is a Pakistani businessman and politician who served as prime minister in 1990–93, 1997–99, and 2013–17. He was disqualified from holding public office in 2017 over allegations of corruption...
prime minister of United Kingdom
Rishi Sunak is a British politician and financier who became the leader of the Conservative Party and prime minster of the United Kingdom in October 2022. He resigned as prime minister in July 2024 and...
prime minister of United Kingdom
Benjamin Disraeli was a British statesman and novelist who was twice prime minister (1868, 1874–80) and who provided the Conservative Party with a twofold policy of Tory democracy and imperialism. Disraeli...
president of Turkey
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is the two-decade-long ruler of Turkey (Türkiye), who served first as prime minister (2003–14) and later as president (2014– ), during which time he successfully pushed constitutional...
prime minister of Pakistan
Imran Khan is an antiestablishment politician in Pakistan who in 2022 became the first prime minister (2018–22) to be removed by a parliamentary vote. He rose to fame as a cricket player who led Pakistan’s...
prime minister of Canada
Stephen Harper is a Canadian politician who served as prime minister of Canada (2006–15). Harper was born in eastern Canada, where he spent his childhood. He attended the University of Calgary, where he...
political leader of Cuba
Fidel Castro was the political leader of Cuba (1959–2008) who transformed his country into the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere. Castro became a symbol of communist revolution in Latin America....
prime minister of Armenia
Nikol Pashinyan is an Armenian journalist and politician who serves as prime minister of Armenia (2018– ). He rose to power in 2018 on a wave of popular discontent against the ruling party, an event that...
prime minister of Sweden
Stefan Löfven is a Swedish labour leader and Social Democratic politician who served as prime minister of Sweden (2014–21). Löfven grew up as foster child in a working-class family in Ådalen, Västernorrland,...
prime minister of Poland
Mateusz Morawiecki is a Polish banker, economist, and politician who served as prime minister of Poland (2017–23). Morawiecki, who had been serving as deputy prime minister and finance minister and minister...
president of Côte d’Ivoire
Alassane Ouattara is an Ivoirian economist and politician who was elected president of Côte d’Ivoire in 2010. Despite Ouattara’s victory, the incumbent, Laurent Gbagbo, refused to step down, and the two...
prime minister of Australia
Anthony Albanese is an Australian politician who became the 31st prime minister of Australia in May 2022 at the head of the first Labor government to rule the country since 2013. In May 2025 he secured...
prime minister of United Kingdom
Liz Truss is a British politician who became leader of the Conservative Party and prime minister of the United Kingdom in September 2022. She announced her resignation as prime minister six weeks later....
prime minister of Pakistan
Shehbaz Sharif is a Pakistani businessman and politician, and the second brother of his family to serve as prime minister (2022–23; 2024– ). He began his political career in the late 1980s after his elder...
prime minister of Bangladesh
Sheikh Hasina Wazed is a Bengali politician and leader of the Awami League political party who served as prime minister of Bangladesh for one term from 1996 to 2001 and four consecutive terms from 2009...
premier of China
Zhou Enlai was a leading figure in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and premier (1949–76) and foreign minister (1949–58) of the People’s Republic of China who played a major role in the Chinese Civil...
Italian media magnate and prime minister
Silvio Berlusconi was an Italian media tycoon who served three times as prime minister of Italy (1994, 2001–06, and 2008–11). After graduating from the University of Milan with a degree in law, Berlusconi...
prime minister of Zimbabwe
Morgan Tsvangirai was a Zimbabwean opposition leader and trade union activist known for his dissent against the policies of Zimbabwe’s longtime president Robert Mugabe. He formed a power-sharing government...
prime minister of Prussia
Karl, Reichsfreiherr vom und zum Stein was a Rhinelander-born Prussian statesman, chief minister of Prussia (1807–08), and personal counselor to the Russian tsar Alexander I (1812–15). He sponsored widespread...
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