Most Famous Politicians & Lawyers in the World

100 Politicians & Lawyers in view out of 31,683

Politics & Law 31,683
All 152,953
Barack Obama
Barack Obama American Politician Born 1961
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler Austrian Politician 1889 – 1945
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill British Politician 1874 – 1965
Napoleon
Napoleon French Politician 1769 – 1821
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi Indian Politician 1869 – 1948
#11
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela South African Politician 1918 – 2013
#15
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln American Politician 1809 – 1865
#19
CG
Che Guevara Argentine Politician 1928 – 1967
#24
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton American Politician Born 1947
#25
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin Russian Politician 1870 – 1924
#30
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin Russian Politician 1879 – 1953
#30
George W. Bush
George W. Bush American Politician Born 1946
#32
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy American Politician 1917 – 1963
#43
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt American Statesman 1882 – 1945
#45
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton American Politician Born 1946
#46
Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro Cuban Politician 1926 – 2016
#50
Benito Mussolini
Benito Mussolini Italian Politician 1883 – 1945
#62
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong Chinese Politician 1893 – 1976
#70
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt American Statesman 1858 – 1919
#75
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar Roman Politician -100 – -44
#78
Charles de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle French Statesperson 1890 – 1970
#94
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter American Politician Born 1924
#109
Angela Merkel
Angela Merkel German Politician Born 1954
#113
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman American Politician 1884 – 1972
#115
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon American Politician 1913 – 1994
#116
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson American Politician 1908 – 1973
#140
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher British Politician 1925 – 2013
#144
Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky Russian Politician 1879 – 1940
#146
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev Russian Politician Born 1931
#147
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson American Politician 1856 – 1924
#148
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin Russian Politician Born 1952
#154
BS
Bernie Sanders American Politician Born 1941
#159
George H. W. Bush
George H. W. Bush American Politician 1924 – 2018
#178
John McCain
John McCain American Politician 1936 – 2018
#179
Otto von Bismarck
Otto von Bismarck German Politician 1815 – 1898
#190
Simón Bolívar
Simón Bolívar Venezuelan Politician 1783 – 1830
#207
Francisco Franco
Francisco Franco Spanish Politician 1892 – 1975
#218
Cicero
Cicero Roman Lawyer -106 – -43
#239
Benjamin Netanyahu
Benjamin Netanyahu Israeli Politician Born 1949
#248
Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger German Politician Born 1923
#280
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Turkish Politician 1881 – 1938
#282
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson American Statesman 1767 – 1845
#316
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Giuseppe Garibaldi Italian Politician 1807 – 1882
#331
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru British Statesperson 1889 – 1964
#337
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover American Politician 1874 – 1964
#338
AG
Al Gore American Politician Born 1948
#343
Joseph Goebbels
Joseph Goebbels German Politician 1897 – 1945
#349
Josip Broz Tito
Josip Broz Tito Austro-Hungarian Politician 1892 – 1980
#379
Yasser Arafat
Yasser Arafat Palestinian Politician 1929 – 2004
#398
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton American Statesman 1757 – 1804
#403
Leonid Brezhnev
Leonid Brezhnev Russian Politician 1906 – 1982
#405
Muammar Gaddafi
Muammar Gaddafi Libyan Politician 1942 – 2011
#407
François Hollande
François Hollande French Politician Born 1954
#414
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev Russian Politician 1894 – 1971
#420
Maximilien Robespierre
Maximilien Robespierre French Politician 1758 – 1794
#422
Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi Burmese Politician Born 1945
#424
Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell British Politician 1599 – 1658
#432
Jacques Chirac
Jacques Chirac French Politician 1932 – 2019
#445
David Cameron
David Cameron British Politician Born 1966
#453
Emmanuel Macron
Emmanuel Macron French Politician Born 1977
#461
François Mitterrand
François Mitterrand French Politician 1916 – 1996
#470
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Kai-shek Chinese Politician 1887 – 1975
#474
Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein Iraqi Politician 1937 – 2006
#484
James Madison
James Madison American Politician 1751 – 1836
#491
Helen Keller
Helen Keller American Political 1880 – 1968
#495
Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Himmler German Politician 1900 – 1945
#533
Kofi Annan
Kofi Annan Ghanaian Secretary 1938 – 2018
#536
Kim Il-sung
Kim Il-sung North Korean Politician 1912 – 1994
#538
SA
Salvador Allende Chilean Politician 1908 – 1973
#543
Boris Yeltsin
Boris Yeltsin Russian Politician 1931 – 2007
#564
Shimon Peres
Shimon Peres Israeli Politician 1923 – 2016
#572
Konrad Adenauer
Konrad Adenauer German Statesman 1876 – 1967
#588
Helmut Kohl
Helmut Kohl German Politician 1930 – 2017
#612
Hermann Göring
Hermann Göring German Politician 1893 – 1946
#615
Sun Yat-sen
Sun Yat-sen Chinese Politician 1866 – 1925
#639
Anthony Eden
Anthony Eden British Politician 1897 – 1977
#644
Nicolae Ceaușescu
Nicolae Ceaușescu Romanian Politician 1918 – 1989
#661
Neville Chamberlain
Neville Chamberlain British Politician 1869 – 1940
#661
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing French Politician 1926 – 2020
#670
Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland American Politician 1837 – 1908
#684
Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson American Politician 1808 – 1875
#685
Xi Jinping
Xi Jinping Chinese Politician Born 1953
#691
GA
Gamal Abdel Nasser Egyptian Politician 1918 – 1970
#698
Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge American Politician 1872 – 1933
#704
William McKinley
William McKinley American Politician 1843 – 1901
#724
Eva Perón
Eva Perón Argentine Politician 1919 – 1952
#729
James A. Garfield
James A. Garfield American Politician 1831 – 1881
#765
Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping Chinese Politician 1904 – 1997
#774
AS
Albert Speer German Politician 1905 – 1981
#780
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine British Political 1737 – 1809
#793
Lech Wałęsa
Lech Wałęsa Polish Politician Born 1943
#802
Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis American Politician 1808 – 1889
#835
Gilbert du Motier (Marquis de Lafayette)
Gilbert du Motier (Marquis de Lafayette) French Politician 1757 – 1834
#850
Warren G. Harding
Warren G. Harding American Politician 1865 – 1923
#853
James Monroe
James Monroe American Politician 1758 – 1831
#894
Ted Kennedy
Ted Kennedy American Politician 1932 – 2009
#929
Clement Attlee
Clement Attlee British Politician 1883 – 1967
#959
Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren American Politician 1782 – 1862
#971
David Ben-Gurion
David Ben-Gurion Israeli Politician 1886 – 1973
#989
John Kerry
John Kerry American Politician Born 1943
#1,001

By the numbers

Inside Politicians & Lawyers

31,683 notable people in this slice of the dataset.

Through the Centuries

One face per century — the leading figure from Politicians & Lawyers born in each.

Notable Births by Decade

Notable births among Politicians & Lawyers peaked in the 1950s with 3,335 people.

What Politicians & Lawyers Are Known For

Disciplines inside this family, plus countries that over- and under-produce them.

Politician is the largest group within Politicians & Lawyers — 25,900 people, 82% of the family.

Politicians & Lawyers over-index on canada1.6× the global rate.

Politicians & Lawyers under-produce united kingdom — only 0.6× the global rate.

  1. Politician25,900
  2. Lawyer2,472
  3. Diplomat697
  4. Judge515
  5. Activist349
  6. Minister222
  7. Revolutionary199
  8. Trade Union166
  1. Canada1,2221.6×
  1. United Kingdom1,1130.6×
  2. Russia5680.6×
  3. Italy8690.6×
  4. Sweden6990.7×

City Hot Spots

Cities that over-produce Politicians & Lawyers compared to the world average — multiplier shows how much more.