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  1. Andy Burnham

    January 7 Politician 6,278,694 visits

    Andrew Murray Burnham (born 7 January 1970) is a British politician who has served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party since July 2026. He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Makerfi…

  2. Gianni Infantino

    March 23 Politician 3,658,933 visits

    Giovanni Vincenzo "Gianni" Infantino (born 23 March 1970) is a Swiss football administrator who has served as the president of FIFA since 2016. He was previously Secretary General of UEFA from 2009 to 2016, where he form…

  3. Elizabeth II

    April 21 Politician 1,555,391 visits

    Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022. She was queen regnant of 32 sovereign …

  4. George Washington

    February 22 Politician 1,356,178 visits

    George Washington (February 22, 1732 [O.S. February 11, 1731] – December 14, 1799) was a Founding Father and the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. As commander of the Continental Army, Wash…

  5. John F. Kennedy

    May 29 Politician 1,113,529 visits

    John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president,…

  6. Franklin D. Roosevelt

    January 30 Politician 1,080,492 visits

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving US president and the onl…

  7. Hermann Göring

    January 12 Politician 825,720 visits

    Hermann Wilhelm Göring (or Goering; German: [ˈhɛʁman ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈɡøːʁɪŋ] ; 12 January 1893 – 15 October 1946) was a German politician, aviator, military commander, and convicted war criminal. He was one of the most powerfu…

  8. Ronald Reagan

    February 6 Politician 809,296 visits

    Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. A member of the Republican Party, he became an importan…

  9. Thomas Jefferson

    April 13 Politician 743,996 visits

    Thomas Jefferson (April 13 [O.S. April 2], 1743 – July 4, 1826) was a Founding Father and the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He also served as the second vice president under John Adams from 1797…

  10. Sepp Blatter

    March 10 Politician 668,884 visits

    Joseph Sepp Blatter (born Josef Blatter; 10 March 1936) is a Swiss former football administrator who served as the eighth president of FIFA from 1998 to 2015. He has been suspended from participating in FIFA activities s…

  11. Rishi Sunak

    May 12 Politician 655,452 visits

    Rishi Sunak (born 12 May 1980) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2022 to 2024. Following his defeat to Keir Starmer's Labour Party in the…

  12. Richard Nixon

    January 9 Politician 645,927 visits

    Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he represented California in both h…

  13. Ulysses S. Grant

    April 27 Politician 592,848 visits

    Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was the 18th president of the United States, serving from 1869 to 1877, and was the Commanding General of the Union Army, leading it to victory …

  14. Rob Reiner

    March 6 Politician 572,258 visits

    Robert Reiner (; March 6, 1947 – December 14, 2025) was an American filmmaker, actor, and political activist. He directed a series of acclaimed studio films in a career that spanned comedy, drama, romance, and documentar…

  15. Harry S. Truman

    May 8 Politician 564,501 visits

    Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. As the 34th vice president in 1945, he assumed the presidency upon the death of Franklin D. Roosev…

  16. Felipe VI

    January 30 Politician 553,138 visits

    Felipe VI (Spanish pronunciation: [feˈlipe ˈseksto]; Felipe Juan Pablo Alfonso de Todos los Santos de Borbón y Grecia; born 30 January 1968) is King of Spain, having reigned since 19 June 2014. Felipe was born in Madrid …

  17. Kemi Badenoch

    January 2 Politician 525,182 visits

    Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke "Kemi" Badenoch (née Adegoke; born 2 January 1980) is a British politician who has served as Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Conservative Party since 2024. Badenoch previously worked i…

  18. Saddam Hussein

    April 28 Politician 502,231 visits

    Saddam Hussein (28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 until his overthrow in 2003 during the United States-led invasion of Iraq. H…

  19. Vladimir Lenin

    April 22 Politician 492,626 visits

    Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of gove…

  20. Mary I

    February 18 Politician 455,106 visits

    Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558) was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain as the wife of King Philip II from January 1556 until her death in 1558. She made vigorous attempts to rever…

  21. Candace Owens

    April 29 Politician 449,743 visits

    Candace Amber Owens Farmer (née Owens; born April 29, 1989) is an American far-right political commentator, author, and conspiracy theorist. She has promoted conspiracy theories on a wide range of subjects throughout her…

  22. Andrew Jackson

    March 15 Politician 420,461 visits

    Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. He rose to fame as a U.S. Army general and served in both houses of the U.S. Congress. His political philos…

  23. Henry VII of England

    January 28 Politician 418,330 visits

    Henry VII (28 January 1457 – 21 April 1509), also known as Henry Tudor, was King of England and Lord of Ireland from his seizure of the crown on 22 August 1485 until his death in 1509. He was the first monarch of the Hou…

  24. Anne, Queen of Great Britain

    February 6 Politician 413,737 visits

    Anne (6 February 1665 – 1 August 1714) was Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 8 March 1702, and Queen of Great Britain and Ireland following the ratification of the Acts of Union 1707 merging the kingdoms of En…

  25. Shirley Temple

    April 23 Politician 412,273 visits

    Shirley Temple Black (born Shirley Jane Temple; April 23, 1928 – February 10, 2014) was an American actress, singer, dancer, politician, and diplomat, who was Hollywood's number-one box-office draw as a child actress fro…

  26. Shivaji

    February 19 Politician 401,305 visits

    Shivaji I (Shivaji Shahaji Bhonsale, Marathi pronunciation: [ʃiˈʋaːdʑiː ˈbʱos(ə)le]; c. 19 February 1630 – 3 April 1680) was an Indian ruler and a member of the Bhonsle dynasty. Shivaji inherited a fiefdom (Marathi: jagi…

  27. Pol Pot

    May 19 Politician 397,628 visits

    Pol Pot (born Saloth Sâr; 19 May 1925 – 15 April 1998) was a Cambodian politician, revolutionary, and dictator who ruled Democratic Kampuchea from 1975 until his overthrow in 1979 during the Cambodian–Vietnamese War. Ide…

  28. Mamata Banerjee

    January 5 Politician 394,503 visits

    Mamata Banerjee (Bengali pronunciation: [ˈmɔmot̪aˑ ˈbɔnd̪ːoˌpad̪ːʱae̯] ; born 5 January 1955) is an Indian politician and lawyer who served as the eighth chief minister of West Bengal from 2011 to 2026. She was the first…

  29. Gregory Peck

    April 5 Politician 392,402 visits

    Eldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor and one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1970s. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Peck the 12th-greatest male star of…

  30. Pauline Hanson

    May 27 Politician 391,109 visits

    Pauline Lee Hanson (née Seccombe, formerly Zagorski; born 27 May 1954) is an Australian politician who is the leader of One Nation. She has been a senator for Queensland since 2016, and was the member of Parliament (MP) …

  31. Oliver Cromwell

    April 25 Politician 382,958 visits

    Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 – 3 September 1658) was an English statesman, farmer and soldier, widely regarded as one of the most important figures in British history. He came to prominence during the Wars of the Three…

  32. Mikhail Gorbachev

    March 2 Politician 376,066 visits

    Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician who was the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until the country's dissolution in 1991. He served as General Secret…

  33. Hirohito

    April 29 Politician 368,819 visits

    Emperor Shōwa (29 April 1901 – 7 January 1989), personal name Hirohito, was Emperor of Japan from 25 December 1926 until his death on 7 January 1989. He reigned during a period of increasing Japanese nationalism and mili…

  34. William McKinley

    January 29 Politician 349,628 visits

    William McKinley (January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901) was the 25th president of the United States, serving from 1897 until his assassination in 1901. A member of the Republican Party, he led a realignment that made Re…

  35. Pete Buttigieg

    January 19 Politician 346,033 visits

    Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg ( BOO-tij-əj; born January 19, 1982) is an American politician and former naval officer who served as the 19th United States secretary of transportation from 2021 to 2025. A member of the …

  36. Michelle Obama

    January 17 Politician 345,626 visits

    Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (née Robinson; born January 17, 1964) is an American attorney and author who served as First Lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017 as the wife of Barack Obama, the 44th president of…

  37. Grover Cleveland

    March 18 Politician 337,312 visits

    Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, serving from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897. He was the first Democrat elected president after the Ameri…

  38. Rudolf Hess

    April 26 Politician 331,634 visits

    Rudolf Walter Richard Hess (Heß in German; 26 April 1894 – 17 August 1987) was a German politician, convicted war criminal, and a leading member of the Nazi Party in Germany. Appointed Deputy to the Führer (Stellvertrete…

  39. Roy Cohn

    February 20 Politician 330,375 visits

    Roy Marcus Cohn ( KOHN; February 20, 1927 – August 2, 1986) was an American lawyer, prosecutor, and conservative political activist. He first gained fame as a prosecutor of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in their trials (195…

  40. Ted Kennedy

    February 22 Politician 314,793 visits

    Edward Moore Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) was an American lawyer and politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1962 until his death in 2009. A member of the Democratic Par…

  41. Bono

    May 10 Politician 314,149 visits

    Paul David Hewson (born 10 May 1960), known by the nickname Bono ( BON-oh), is an Irish singer-songwriter and activist. He is a founding member, the lead vocalist, and primary lyricist of the rock band U2. Bono is known …

  42. Joan Baez

    January 9 Politician 309,348 visits

    Joan Chandos Baez (, Spanish: [ˈbaes]; born January 9, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and activist. Her contemporary folk music often includes songs of protest and social justice. Baez has performed pu…

  43. Nikita Khrushchev

    April 15 Politician 298,626 visits

    Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (15 April [O.S. 3 April] 1894 – 11 September 1971) was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1958…

  44. Harold Wilson

    March 11 Politician 297,512 visits

    James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx (11 March 1916 – 23 May 1995), was a British politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1964 to 1970 and from 1974 to 1976. He was Leader of th…

  45. Mary of Teck

    May 26 Politician 291,799 visits

    Mary of Teck (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes; 26 May 1867 – 24 March 1953) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, from 6 May 1910 until 20 January 1936 …

  46. John Major

    March 29 Politician 291,775 visits

    Sir John Major (born 29 March 1943) is a British statesman and former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997. He previously held various Cabin…

  47. Aaron Burr

    February 6 Politician 288,384 visits

    Aaron Burr Jr. (February 6, 1756 – September 14, 1836) was an American politician, businessman, and lawyer who served as the third vice president of the United States from 1801 to 1805, during Thomas Jefferson's first pr…

  48. Napoleon III

    April 20 Politician 280,916 visits

    Napoleon III (born Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 1808 – 9 January 1873) was President of France from 1848 to 1852 and then Emperor of the French from 1852 until his deposition in 1870. He was the first elect…

  49. William Henry Harrison

    February 9 Politician 280,771 visits

    William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) was the ninth president of the United States from March to April 1841. He died 31 days into his term, making him the shortest serving president and the first pres…

  50. James Madison

    March 16 Politician 273,300 visits

    James Madison (March 16, 1751 [O.S. March 5, 1750] – June 28, 1836) was a Founding Father and the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. Before his presidency, Madison was a statesman and diplomat. Madi…

  51. James Buchanan

    April 23 Politician 264,776 visits

    James Buchanan Jr. ( bew-KAN-ən; April 23, 1791 – June 1, 1868) was the 15th president of the United States, serving from 1857 to 1861. He also served as the 17th United States secretary of state from 1845 to 1849 and re…

  52. M. G. Ramachandran

    January 17 Politician 263,112 visits

    Maruthur Gopalan Ramachandran (17 January 1917 – 24 December 1987), popularly known by his initials M. G. R., was an Indian politician, actor, environmentalist, and philanthropist who served as the chief minister of Tami…

  53. Jefferson Davis

    June 3 Politician 258,411 visits

    Jefferson F. Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was the only president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865, leading the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Before the war, he was a member of the Democ…

  54. Constantine the Great

    February 27 Politician 256,030 visits

    Constantine I (27 February 272 – 22 May 337), also known as Constantine the Great, was Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337 and the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity. He played a pivotal role in elevating the st…

  55. Lavrentiy Beria

    March 29 Politician 255,617 visits

    Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (29 March [O.S. 17 March] 1899 – 23 December 1953) was a Soviet politician and one of the longest-serving and most influential of Joseph Stalin's secret police chiefs, serving as head of the NKV…

  56. Jeremy Corbyn

    May 26 Politician 250,039 visits

    Jeremy Bernard Corbyn ( ; born 26 May 1949) is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Islington North since 1983. He is the parliamentary leader of Your Party, which he co-founded with Zarah …

  57. Jasmine Crockett

    March 29 Politician 247,193 visits

    Jasmine Felicia Crockett (born March 29, 1981) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Texas's 30th congressional district since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she represented the 100th …

  58. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

    May 1 Politician 243,550 visits

    Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (né Wesley; 1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852), was a British Army officer and statesman. A leading figure in early-19th-century British politics, Wellesley served as P…

  59. Kim Jong Il

    February 16 Politician 243,503 visits

    Kim Jong Il (16 February 1941 or 1942 – 17 December 2011) was a North Korean politician and dictator who was the second supreme leader of North Korea from the death of his father Kim Il Sung in 1994 until his own death i…

  60. Rosa Parks

    February 4 Politician 243,064 visits

    Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an American civil rights activist. She is best known for her 1955 refusal to move from her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in defiance of Jim Cro…

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