Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (Leaders)

(January 5, 1928-April 4, 1970) was a Pakistani politician who served as President, from 1971 to 1973, and as Prime Minister, from 1973 to 1977, of Pakistan. He has the rare distinction of being a civilian Chief Martial Law Administrator.

Gardihewa Sarath Chandralal Fonseka (Leaders)

known as Sarath Fonseka, born on December 18, 1950, is a former commander and General of the Sri Lanka Army and a former candidate for President of Sri Lanka. As Commander of the Army, he played an instrumental role in ending the 26 year Sri Lankan Civil War in 2009, defeating the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in the process. He later had a public falling out with President Mahinda Rajapaksa, and unsuccessfully challenged Rajapaksa in the 2010 presidential election.

Joseph Robinette “Joe” Biden, Jr. (Leaders)

was born on November 20, 1942 , is the 47th and current Vice President of the United States, serving under President Barack Obama. He was a United States Senator from Delaware from January 3, 1973 until his resignation on January 15, 2009, following his election to the Vice Presidency.

Christopher John “Chris” Dodd (Leaders)

was born on May 27, 1944 in Willimantic, Connecticut, is an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician serving as the senior U.S. Senator from Connecticut.

David Alexander Paterson (Leaders)

born on May 20, 1954 in Brooklyn to Basil Paterson and his wife Portia, is the 55th and current Governor of New York. He is the first governor of New York of African American heritage and also the second legally blind[2] governor of any U.S. state after Bob C. Riley, who was Acting Governor of Arkansas for eleven days in January 1975.

Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari (Leaders)

(December 1878 – December 25, 1972), known as or Rajaji or C.R., was n Indian lawyer, writer, statesman and a Hindu spiritualist. He was the econd vernor-General of independent India. Later he became the Chief Minister of the Madras Presidency.

Abraham Lincoln (Leaders)

was born on February 12, 1809 in Hardin County, Kentucky & died on April 15, 1865 in Washington, D.C., sometimes called Abe Lincoln and nicknamed Honest Abe, the Rail Splitter, and the Great Emancipator, was the 16th President of the United States, and the first president from the Republican Party.

Andrew Jackson (Leaders)

(March 15, 1767-June 8, 1845) was the seventh President of the United States, serving from 1829 to 1837. Sometimes nicknamed “Old Hickory,” Jackson was the first president not born an aristocrat. Andrew Jackson’s Scotch-Irish parents Andrew Jackson, Sr. (c. 1730 – February, 1767) and Elizabeth “Betty” Hutchinson (c. 1740 – November, 1781), immigrated to the US from Carrickfergus, in modern-day Northern Ireland, in 1765.

Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabhudin Adbul Kalam (Leaders)

the twelfth President of India, is rightfully termed as the father of India’s missile technology. He was born to parents Jainulabdeen Marakayar and Ashiamma on 15th October, 1931, at Dhanushkodi in Rameshwaram district, Tamil Nadu. Dr. Kalam as an eminent Aeronautical Engineer, contributed for the development of Indiaâ first Satellite launch vehicle SLV-3 and the missiles like the Trishul, Agni, Pritvi etc.

(Field Marshal) Mohammad Ayub Khan (Leaders)

was born on May 14, 1907 in Hazra, India. After the partition, he was made commander-in-chief of the army of Pakistan. When President Mirza abrogated the constitution, Ayub had himself declared president and introduced a system of basic democracies. He was confirmed as president and reelected in 1965. Political turmoil caused Ayub to resign in 1969. He died in 1974.

William Wallace (Leaders)

was born in Elderslie, in the county of Renfrewshire, Scotland in 1272. Little is known about his early life, though he seems to have been educated in Greek and Latin.

Oliver Cromwell (Leaders)

Oliver Cromwell (1599 - 1658) was born in Cambridgeshire the son of a middle class gentry. He studied at Cambridge University and in 1628 was elected to parliament for the Huntingdon seat. On the outbreak of civil war in 1642, Cromwell joined the side of the Parliamentarians. He started off by commanding a small troop, but, ended up commanding the whole roundhead army.

Lech Walesa (Leaders)

was born in Poland in 1943. He grew up in Communist controlled Poland and became active in the trade union movement in Gdansk shipyards. He worked as an electrician.

Barack Obama (Leaders)

The first black President of the US, Barack Obama ushered in a new era in American politics and society. Many saw his election as a turning point in America's long turbulent troubles regarding race. From a society that defended slavery of Africans, to a black man leading the country it was more than just a symbolic victory. It was proof America has changed. Barack Obama is a visible role model for all his fellow Americans from ethnic minorities.

The 14th Dalai Lama (Leaders)

was born 6 July 1935 (age 76) Lhamo Döndrub, the 5th child of a large family in the farming village of Qinghai, China. At the age of 2, he was picked out as the rebirth of the thirteenth Dalai Lama and sent for formal monastic training to become a Buddhist monk and eventually become the spiritual head of the Tibetan people.

Kofi Annan (Leaders)

Born 8 April 1938 (age 73) into a family of traditional chiefs of the Fante tribe in Ghana, Kofi Annan rose to become Secretary General of the United Nations, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001.

Benazir Bhutto (Leaders)

(21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician who chaired the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), a centre-left political party in Pakistan. Bhutto was the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state, having twice been Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988–1990; 1993–1996). She was Pakistan's first and to date only female prime minister.

Eva Peron (Leaders)

(June 1946 – 26 July 1952) was born in rural poverty in a town called Los Toldos. She was the illegitimate daughter of a failed land owner. Aged fifteen, she left her rural home to go to Buenos Aires where she hoped to pursue her theatrical career.

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi née: Nehru (Leaders)

(19 November 1917 - 31 October 1984) was the Prime Minister of the Republic of India for three consecutive terms from 1966 to 1977 and for a fourth term from 1980 until her assassination in 1984, a total of fifteen years. She was India's first and, to date, only female Prime Minister.

Lyndon Johnson (Leaders)

Johnson was born on August 27, 1908, in central Texas. Growing up in the Great Depression, he gained a first hand perspective on poverty and the great society reforms he later implemented were an attempt to make this kind of poverty a thing of the past.