1. Geraldine Valentino-Smith (1970)

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Politician best known as the representative of district 23A in the Maryland House of Delegates. She was formerly a member of the Bowie City Council. 

2. Isabella d'Este (1474)

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Prominent figure in the Italian Renaissance known as "The First Lady of the World."

3. Henri Falcón (1970)

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Venezuelan politician who is known for holding positions as the mayor of Barquisimeto in the Iribarren Municipality as well as governor of Lara State. He is also known for having...

4. Steven Blaney (1970)

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Conservative politician and business executive known for having served as Minister of Public Safety Canada. He also served as Minister of Veterans Affairs and Minister of State for La Francophonie.

5. Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537)

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Warrior and politician of the Japanese Sengoku period who held the offices of Imperial Regent of Japan and Chancellor of the Realm.

6. Timothy Donnelly (1966)

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Republican politician who became a member of the California State Assembly in 2010 and ran for Governor of California in 2014. He is staunchly anti-immigration and notably founded the Minuteman...

7. Guan Yu (0160)

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Great general of ancient China nicknamed "Beautiful Beard." He is now worshiped as the the God of War and his exploits are featured in the historical novel Romance of the...

8. William Bradford (1590)

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Founder and Governor of Plymouth Colony, the first British colony in North America. He was one of the one-hundred people to depart England for a new world on The Mayflower...

9. John Winthrop (1587)

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Influential puritan colonist who famously called the Massachusetts Bay Colony a 'city upon a hill.' He served multiple terms as the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the second major...

10. Danilo Toninelli (1970)

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Italian politician who is known for having served as the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport. He is also known for being a member of the Senate of the Republic and...

11. Commodus (0161)

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Roman Emperor from 180 to 192 who ruled jointly with his emperor father before that. He was strangled to death by his wrestling partner in his bath.

12. Paul Gavan (1970)

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Irish politician in the Sinn Féin party. He has served on the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. He is popular on Twitter and has over 4,000 followers.

13. William Penn (1644)

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Colonial Quaker leader whose strong beliefs in democracy and religious freedom led to the formation of the state of Pennsylvania. He directly helped plan and and develop the city of...

14. Algernon Sidney (1653)

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Politician and political theorist who argued against the monarchy in his seminal work, "Discourses Concerning Government, and paid for it with his life.

15. Coronel Telhada (1961)

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Brazilian politician known for being the State Representative of Sao Paulo. He is also known for having been a commander of Military Police as part of ROUTE in 2009. He...

16. Charles Boyle (1674)

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Officially named Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery, he was both a politician and a patron of scientific study.

17. Bill de Blasio (1961)

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Best known as New York City's 109th mayor. He served two terms, holding office from 2014 to 2021. Early in his career, he worked as campaign manager for Hillary Clinton and Charles...

18. Stephen Hopkins (1707)

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Four term Rhode Island governor and Chief Justice who signed the Declaration of Independence. He was notably the great grandson of an original settler from England.

19. James Bowdoin (1726)

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Massachusetts political leader who wrote the report on the Boston Massacre that rallied American revolutionary opinion. After the Revolutionary War he became the 2nd Governor of Massachusetts.

20. John Elwes (1714)

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Member of Parliament for Berkshire from 1772 to 1784. He was a noted miser and who might have been the real-life inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge.

21. William Preston (1729)

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Remembered for his service in the American Revolutionary War, this Irish-born colonist was also a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses. In 1775, he signed the Fincastle Resolutions, a...

22. Robert Clive (1725)

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Nicknamed "Clive of India," this British Army officer and adventurer was one of the main architects of British-ruled India. He served as a British East India Company Governor of Bengal...

23. Robert Yates (1738)

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Remembered for his Anti-Federalist views, this eighteenth-century American politician wrote a series of pseudonymously-published essays that decried the United States Constitution. Also a lawyer and judge, he served on the...

24. Thomas Nelson Jr. (1738)

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After serving in the Continental Congress and signing the Declaration of Independence, this United States Founding Father became the fourth Governor of Virginia. During the Revolutionary War, he was involved...

25. John Dickinson (1732)

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Lawyer and politician who served as the President of Delaware from 1781 to 1783 and the President of Pennsylvania from 1782 to 1785. He represented Delaware at the Continental Congress.

26. Richard Bassett (1745)

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Federalist politician who served as Governor of Delaware from 1799 to 1801 and as it's U.S. Senator from 1789 to 1793. He was a veteran of the Revolutionary War, a...

27. Alexander Hamilton (1755)

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First Secretary of the Treasury and aide to George Washington who was famously killed in a duel to the death by Vice President Aaron Burr. He was an active participant...

28. Neto Bran (1980)

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Guatemalan politician who is recognized for having been elected as the mayor of Mixco in 2015. He was a member of the Reforming Movement political party and has amassed more than 130,000 Instagram...

29. William Blount (1749)

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One of the signers of the United States Constitution who was the North Carolina delegate at the Constitutional Convention in 1787. He also served the state of Tennessee as it's...

30. Benjamin Rush (1746)

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One of the founding fathers of the United States of America who was a physician and founded Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He also notable served as Surgeon General in...

31. Thomas Heyward Jr. (1746)

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Best remembered as a member of the Continental Congress and a signer of both the Articles of Confederation and the Declaration of Independence, this South Carolina-born political figure also had...

32. Abraham Baldwin (1754)

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American politician and Founding Fathers who represented Georgia at the Continental Congress. He served in the United States House of Representatives and Senate after the Constitution was written.

33. Robert Page (1765)

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Federalist politician who served his home state of Virginia as a first-district Member of the United States House of Representatives. He held the position from 1799 until 1801.

34. William Jackson (1759)

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Best known as being the secretary to the U.S. Constitutional Convention, which took place from May 25 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He served with distinction in the...

35. Henry Molleston (1970)

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Federalist politician and Delaware General Assemblyman who was elected Governor of Delaware in 1819, but passed away before taking office.

36. Daniel O'Connell (1775)

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Early nineteenth-century Irish political figure remembered for his work on behalf of Irish Catholic rights and emancipation. He also fought to overturn an 1800 England and Ireland-unifying measure called the...

37. John Randolph (1773)

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Congressman from Virginia who in the House of Representatives at various times between 1799 and 1833. He was the leader of the "Old Republicans", a faction of the early Democratic-Republican...

38. Joseph Hernandez (1788)

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Florida's first ever Delegate to the United States House of Representatives and Spain ceded the state to the US in the Adams-Onis Treaty in 1822.

39. Sergio Tejada (1970)

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Peruvian politician who is best recognized for having served as a congressman for the Republic of Peru representing Lima. He is known for being a member of the Bloque Nacional...

40. Richard H. Bayard (1970)

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Whig politician who was the first Mayor of Wilmington. He was also the Chief Justice of the Delaware Superior Court, and a U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1841 to 1845.

41. Mercedes Aráoz (1961)

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Economist, professor and politician who was sworn in as the Vice President of Peru in March, 2018. She served as Prime Minister from September 2017 to March 2018. 

42. Marcus Ward (1812)

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Republican politician who served as the 21st Governor of New Jersey from 1866 to 1869. He also spent time as the chairman of the Republican National Committee.

43. Mary Anna Custis Lee (1808)

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Third cousin and wife of Robert E. Lee, who was a Confederate General during the American Civil War. She was also related to the first president of the United States, George...

44. Elihu Burritt (1810)

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American diplomat who advocated for the cessation of slavery and devoted himself to the pursuit of world peace.

45. Alexander Stephens (1812)

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Politician from Georgia who was the Vice President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. He was also the 50th Governor of Georgia from 1882 to 1883....

46. John Cochrane (1813)

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American lawyer, Union Army general and politician who was New York State Attorney General from 1864 to 1865. He was a colonel of the First United States Chasseurs at the...

47. John Vanderbilt (1819)

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Lawyer, politician, and member of the New York Senate from 1852 to 1853. He was also the first Judge of the Kings County Court from 1844 to 1847.

48. James Steadman (1818)

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Two-term member (from 1854-1865) of New Brunswick, Canada's Legislative Assembly. He also served, at various points in his career, as Postmaster General and County Court Judge.

49. Aaron Perry (1815)

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Republican politician who represented Ohio in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1871 to 1872. He also served in the Ohio General Assembly for a year.

50. L'udovit Stur (1815)

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Nineteenth-century author, politician, and leader of the Slovak National Revival. He published his most important work, The Theory of the Slovak language, in the mid-1840s.