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A

Afghanistan

Hamid Karzai (b. 1957), Interim Prime Minister of Afghanistan, 2001-2002; President of Afghanistan, 2002-2014

Algeria

Chadli Bendjedid (1929-2012), President of Algeria, 1979-1992

Argentina

Raúl Alfonsín (1927-2009), President of Argentina, 1983-1989

Australia

Bob Hawke (1929-2019), Prime Minister of Australia, 1983-1991

John Howard (b. 1939), Prime Minister of Australia, 1996-2007

Austria

Franz Vranitzky (b. 1937), Chancellor of Austria, 1986-1997


B

Bosnia and Herzegovina (including the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika Srpska)

See also Yugoslavia

Haris Silajdžić (b. 1945), Prime Minister of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1993-1996

Ejup Ganić (b. 1946), President of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1997-2001

Radovan Karadžić (b. 1945), President of Republika Srpska, 1992-1996


C

Canada (including Quebec)

Brian Mulroney (1939-2024), Prime Minister of Canada, 1984-1993

René Lévesque (1922-1987), Premier of Quebec, 1976-1985

China

Zhou Enlai (1898-1976), Premier of the People's Republic of China, 1949-1976

Li Peng (1928-2019), Premier of the People's Republic of China, 1987-1998

Jiang Zemin (1926-2022), President of the People's Republic of China, 1993-2003

Zhu Rongji (b. 1928), Premier of the People's Republic of China, 1998-2003

Colombia

Belisario Betancur (1923-2018), President of Colombia, 1982-1986

César Gaviria (b. 1947), President of Colombia, 1990-1994

Ernesto Samper (b. 1950), President of Colombia, 1994-1998

Andrés Pastrana (b. 1954), President of Colombia, 1998-2002

Juan Manuel Santos (b. 1951), President of Colombia, 2010-2018

Congo-Kinshasa (also known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Joseph Kabila (b. 1971), President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2001-2019

Costa Rica

Óscár Arias (b. 1940), President of Costa Rica, 1986-1990 and 2006-2010

Cuba

Fidel Castro (1926-2016), Prime Minister of Cuba, 1959-1976; President of Cuba, 1976-2008

Czech Republic and Czechoslovakia

Václav Havel (1936-2011), President of Czechoslovakia, 1989-1992; President of the Czech Republic, 1993-2003


E

Egypt

Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-1970), President of Egypt, 1954-1970

Anwar el-Sadat (1918-1981), President of Egypt, 1970-1981

Hosni Mubarak (1928-2020), President of Egypt, 1981-2011

Ahmed Nazif (b. 1952), Prime Minister of Egypt, 2004-2011

El Salvador

Álvaro Magaña (1925-2001), President of El Salvador, 1982-1984

José Napoleón Duarte (1925-1990), Head of Revolutionary Government Junta, 1980-1982; President of El Salvador, 1984-1989

Alfredo Cristiani (b. 1947), President of El Salvador, 1989-1994

Francisco Flores (1959-2016), President of El Salvador, 1999-2004

Ethiopia

Mengistu Haile Mariam (b. 1937), Head of State of Ethiopia, 1977-1991, President of Ethiopia, 1987-1991


F

France

Jacques Chirac (1932-2019), Prime Minister of France, 1974-1976, 1986-1988; President of France, 1995-2007

François Mitterrand (1916-1996), President of France, 1981-1995


G

Germany

Willy Brandt (1913-1992), Chancellor of West Germany, 1969-1974

Helmut Schmidt (1918-2015), Chancellor of West Germany, 1974-1982

Greece

George Papandreou (b. 1952), Foreign Minister of Greece, 1999-2004; Prime Minister of Greece, 2009-2011

Kostas Karamanlis (b. 1956), Prime Minister of Greece, 2004-2009

Guatemala

Vinicio Cerezo (b. 1942), President of Guatemala, 1986-1991

Guyana

Forbes Burnham (1923-1985), Prime Minister of Guyana, 1964-1980; Executive President of Guyana, 1980-1985

H

Haiti

Jean-Bertrand Aristide (b. 1953), President of Haiti, 1991; 1993-1994; 1994-1996; 2001-2004

Honduras

José Azcona (1927-2005), President of Honduras, 1986-1990

Hungary

Károly Grósz (1930-1996), Prime Minister of Hungary and General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, 1988-1989


I

India

Indira Gandhi (1917-1984), Prime Minister of India, 1966-1977; 1980-1984

Morarji Desai (1896-1995), Prime Minister of India, 1977-1979

Rajiv Gandhi (1944-1991), Prime Minister of India, 1984-1989

Inder Gujral (1919-2012), Prime Minister of India, 1997-1998

Indonesia

Mohammad Hatta (1902-1980), Prime Minister of Indonesia, 1948-1950

Iran

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919-1980), Shah of Iran, 1941-1979

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (1900 or 1902-1989), Supreme Leader of Iran, 1979-1989

Mehdi Bazargan (1907-1995), Prime Minister of Iran, 1979; and Ebrahim Yazdi (1931-2017), Deputy Prime Minister of Iran, 1979

Iraq (including Kurdistan Region)

Ayad Allawi (b. 1944), Interim Prime Minister of Iraq, 2004-2005

Jalal Talabani (1933-2017), President of Iraq, 2005-2014

Barham Salih (b. 1960), Prime Minister of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) Regional Government, 2001-2004, 2009-2012; President of Iraq, 2018-2022

Ireland

Garret FitzGerald (1926-2011), Prime Minister of Ireland, 1981-1982; 1982-1987

Charles Haughey (1925-2006), Prime Minister of Ireland, 1982; 1987-1992

Bertie Ahern (b. 1951), Prime Minister of Ireland, 1997-2008

Enda Kenny (b. 1951), Prime Minister of Ireland, 2011-2017

Israel

See also Palestine

Levi Eshkol (1895-1969), Prime Minister of Israel, 1963-1969

Golda Meir (1898-1978), Prime Minister of Israel, 1969-1974

Yitzhak Rabin (1922-1995), Prime Minister of Israel, 1974-1977, 1992-1995; Minister of Defense of Israel, 1984-1990

Menachem Begin (1913-1992), Prime Minister of Israel, 1977-1983

Yitzhak Shamir (1915-2012), Prime Minister of Israel, 1983-1984; 1986-1992

Shimon Peres (1923-2016), Prime Minister of Israel, 1984-1986; 1995-1996

Benjamin Netanyahu (b. 1949), Prime Minister of Israel, 1996-1999; 2009-2021; 2022-

Ehud Barak (b. 1942), Prime Minister of Israel, 1999-2001

Ehud Olmert (b. 1945), Prime Minister of Israel, 2006-2009

Italy

Enrico Letta (b.1966), Prime Minister of Italy, 2013-2014


J

Jamaica

Michael Manley (1924-1997), Prime Minister of Jamaica, 1972-1980; 1989-1992

Edward Seaga (1930-2019), Prime Minister of Jamaica, 1980-1989

Japan

Takeo Fukuda (1905-1995), Prime Minister of Japan, 1974-1976

Toshiki Kaifu (1931-2022), Prime Minister of Japan, 1989-1991

Morihiro Hosokawa (b. 1938), Prime Minister of Japan, 1993-1994

Ryutaro Hashimoto (1937-2006), Prime Minister of Japan, 1996-1998

Jordan

Hussein bin Talal (1935-1999), King of Jordan, 1952-1999

Hassan bin Talal (b. 1947), Crown Prince of Jordan, 1965-1999

Abdullah II al-Hussein (b. 1962), King of Jordan, 1999-


K

Kiribati

Anote Tong (b. 1952), President of Kiribati, 2003-2016


L

Lebanon

Rafiq Hariri (1944-2005), Prime Minister of Lebanon, 1992-1998, 2000-2004

Libya

Muammar Gaddafi (ca. 1942-2011), Leader of Libya, 1969-2011

Lithuania

Kazimiera Prunskienė (b. 1943), Prime Minister of Lithuania, 1990-1991


M

Mexico

José López Portillo (1920-2004), President of Mexico, 1976-1982

Miguel de la Madrid (1934-2012), President of Mexico, 1982-1988

Carlos Salinas de Gortari (b. 1948), President of Mexico, 1988-1994

Ernesto Zedillo (b. 1951), President of Mexico, 1994-2000

Vicente Fox (b. 1942), President of Mexico, 2000-2006


N

Nicaragua

Anastasio Somoza (1925-1980), President of Nicaragua, 1967-1972, 1974-1979

Daniel Ortega (b. 1945), President of Nicaragua, 1985-1990, 2007-

Violeta Chamorro (b. 1929), President of Nicaragua, 1990-1997


P

Pakistan

Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007), Prime Minister of Pakistan, 1988-1990, 1993-1996

Nawaz Sharif (b. 1949), Prime Minister of Pakistan, 1990-1993, 1997-1999, 2013-2017

Pervez Musharraf (1943-2023), President of Pakistan, 2001-2008

Palestine

See also Israel

Yasser Arafat (1929-2004), Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, 1969-2004; President of the Palestinian National Authority, 1994-2004

Mahmoud Abbas (b. 1935), President of the State of Palestine, 2005-

Peru

Alberto Fujimori (b. 1938), President of Peru, 1990-2000

Philippines

Ferdinand Marcos (1917-1989), President of the Philippines, 1965-1986

Corazon Aquino (1933-2009), President of the Philippines, 1986-1992

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (b. 1947), President of the Philippines, 2001-2010

Poland

Wojciech Jaruzelski (1923-2014), First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party, 1981-1989, Prime Minister of Poland, 1981-1985, Chairman of the Council of State, 1985-1989, President of Poland, 1989-1990

Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1927-2013), Prime Minister of Poland, 1989-1991

Lech Walesa (b. 1943), President of Poland, 1990-1995

Aleksander Kwaśniewski, President of Poland, 1995-2005


S

South Africa (including Zulu Territorial Authority and KwaZulu)

John Vorster (1915-1983), Prime Minister of South Africa, 1966-1978; State President of South Africa, 1978-1979

F. W. de Klerk (1936-2021), President of South Africa, 1989-1994

Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), President of the African National Congress, 1991-1997; President of South Africa, 1994-1999

Thabo Mbeki (b. 1942), President of South Africa, 1999-2008

Gatsha Buthelezi (b. 1928), Chief Minister of Zulu Territorial Authority and KwaZulu, 1970-1994

South Korea

Kim Dae-Jung (1924-2009), President of South Korea, 1998-2003

Roh Moo-Hyun (1946-2009), President of South Korea, 2003-2008

Soviet Union

Mikhail Gorbachev (1931-2022), General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1985-1991; President of the Soviet Union, 1990-1991

Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007), President of Russia, 1991-1999

Spain

Felipe González (b. 1942), Prime Minister of Spain, 1982-1996

Sudan

Muhammad Ahmad Mahgoub (1908-1976), Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1956-1958; Prime Minister of Sudan, 1965-1966

Syria

Hafez al-Assad (1930-2000), Prime Minister of Syria, 1970-1971; President of Syria, 1971-2000


T

Tanzania (formerly Tanganyika)

Julius Nyerere (1922-1999), President of the Tanganyika African National Union, 1954-1990; Prime Minister of Tanganyika, 1961-1962; President of Tanganyika, 1962-1964; President of Tanzania, 1964-1985

Turkey

Süleyman Demirel (1924-2015), Prime Minister of Turkey, 1965-1971, 1975-1977, 1977-1978, 1979-1980, 1991-1993; President of Turkey, 1993-2000

Bülent Ecevit (1925-2006), Prime Minister of Turkey, 1974, 1977, 1978-1979, 1999-2002

Turgut Özal (1927-1993), Prime Minister of Turkey, 1983-1989; President of Turkey, 1989-1993

Tansu Çiller (b. 1946), Prime Minister of Turkey, 1993-1996

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (b. 1954), Prime Minister of Turkey, 2003-2014; President of Turkey, 2014-


U

Ukraine

Leonid Kravchuk (1934-2022), President of Ukraine, 1991-1994

United Kingdom (including Northern Ireland and Scotland)

Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1979-1990

John Major (b. 1943), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1990-1997

Tony Blair (b. 1953), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1997-2007

David Trimble (1944-2022), First Minister of Northern Ireland, 1998-2002

Nicola Sturgeon (b. 1970), First Minister of Scotland, 2014-2023


V

Venezuela

Carlos Andrés Pérez (1922-2010), President of Venezuela, 1974-1979, 1989-1993

Vietnam (formerly South Vietnam and North Vietnam)

Nguyễn Khánh (1927-2013), Prime Minister of South Vietnam, 1964

Nguyễn Cao Kỳ (1930-2011), Prime Minister of South Vietnam, 1965-1967; Vice President of South Vietnam, 1967-1971

Nguyễn Văn Thiệu (1923-2001), President of South Vietnam, 1967-1975

Nguyễn Hữu Thọ (1910-1996), Prime Minister of Republic of South Vietnam, 1975-1976; Acting President of Vietnam, 1980-1981

Pham Van Dong (1906-2000), Prime Minister of North Vietnam, 1955-1976; Prime Minister of Vietnam, 1976-1987

Y

Yugoslavia

See also Bosnia and Herzogovina

Milovan Djilas (1911-1995), Minister for Montenegro, 1945; Deputy Prime Minister of Yugoslavia, 1953-1954

Ante Marković (1924-2011), Prime Minister of Yugoslavia, 1989-1991

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