BBC List of
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50 Greatest Political Leaders
History of Britain
These are the leaders selected by the editors of the National
Geographic Society's Almanac of World History as the "top fifty
political leaders of all time": Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.)
William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950)
"Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment." ~ Napoléon Bonaparte
Atilla the Hun (ca 406-453)
Benazir Bhutto (1953-)
Bilqis, The Queen of Sheba (10th Century B.C.)
Simon Bolivar (1783-1830)
Napoléon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
Kim Campbell (1947-)
Catherine de Medici (1519-1589)
Catherine the Great (1729-1796)
Charlemagne (742-814)
Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975)
Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Cleopatra (69-30 B.C.)
Charles De Gaulle (1890-1970)
Elizabeth I (1533-1603)
Fu Hsi (2900 B.C.)
Indira Gandhi (1917-1984)
Genghis Khan (ca 1162-1227)
Hannibal (247-183 B.C.)
Emperor Hirohito (1926-1989)
Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)
Isabella of Castile (1451-1504)
Empress Jingo (ca 169-269)
Julius Caesar (100-44 B.C.)
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924)
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Sir John A. Macdonald (1815-1891)
Nelson Mandela (1918-)
Moctezuma I (reigned 1440-1469)
Benito Mussolini (1883-1945)
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964)
Nero (A.D. 37-68)
Pericles (ca 495-429 B.C.)
Eva Peron (1919-1952)
Chief Pontiac (ca 1720-1769)
Ramses II (reigned 1304-1237 B.C.)
Romulus (753 B.C.)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)
Shanakdakhete (reigned 177-155 B.C.)
Joseph Stalin (1879-1953)
Raden Suharto (1921-)
Suleyman the Magnificent (1494-1566)
Margaret Thatcher (1925-)
Getulio Vargas (1883-1954)
Queen Victoria (1819-1901)
George Washington (1732-1799)
William the Conquerer (ca 1028-1087)
Mao Zedong (1893-1976)