State
State: biographies of political and public figures, their careers, major decisions and influence on government, society and historical events.

Stjepan Mesic
Croatia
CroatiaPresident of Croatia since 2000, re-elected in 2005.

Lisa Perez Jackson
USA
USAAmerican politician, chemical engineer

Joy Johnson
USA
USAThe 86-year-old runner who died the day after the marathon

Jack Layton
Canada
CanadaCanadian politician, PhD

Pope Francis
Argentina
Argentina266th Pope since March 13, 2013

Tatyana Moskalkova
Belarus
BelarusRussian politician, lawyer

Lars Gathenhielm
Sweden
SwedenSwedish privateer and adventurer

Ilse Aigner
Germany
GermanyGerman statesman and politician

Valter Fecherin
Switzerland
SwitzerlandAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Switzerland to the Russian Federation

Ed Rendell
USA
USAAmerican politician, 45th Governor of Pennsylvania

Dina Boluarte
Peru
PeruPresident of Peru from December 7, 2022

Red Adair
USA
USAFamous American firefighter

Andrey Yrodivuy
A famous Christian saint and holy fool.

Maxine Waters
USA
USAAmerican politician

Hu Yaobang
China
ChinaChinese statesman and politician

Fernando Vergez Alzaga
Vatican
VaticanCardinal Deacon with Titular Deaconry from August 27, 2022

Jan Krugier
Poland
PolandSwiss gallery owner and antique dealer

Joachim II
Turkey
TurkeyPatriarch of Constantinople

Tucker Carlson
USA
USAAmerican conservative political commentator

Omran Daqneesh
Syria
SyriaA Syrian boy who has found himself in the spotlight of the world's press and social media

Amy Goodman
USA
USAAmerican journalist, host and author.

Otto Karlowa
Germany
GermanyGerman lawyer.

Naomi Klein
Canada
CanadaCanadian journalist, writer and sociologist

Larry Edwin Craig
USA
USAFormer American Republican politician

Andrey Lukanov
Bulgaria
BulgariaBulgarian statesman and political figure

Francis Day
Great Britain
Great BritainInspector General of Fisheries in India and Burma, ichthyologist.

Lisa Pritchett-Johnson
USA
USAGirlfriend of John Entwistle, bass guitarist of the rock band The Who

Sergey Zarudniuy
France
FranceOutstanding statesman

Mikhail Rashkovetskiy
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian art historian, art critic, curator

Tom Fitton
USA
USAAmerican conservative activist and president of Judicial Watch

Jorg Marchais
France
FranceLeader of the French communists from 1972 to 1994.

Grigory Didenko
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian businessman and politician

Giovanni Cheli
Italy
ItalyItalian Curial Cardinal and Vatican diplomat

John Winston Howard
Australia
Australia25th Prime Minister of Australia

Alfons III
Portugal
PortugalKing of Portugal

Raimundo
Brazil
BrazilSouth American with lymphatic filariasis

Levan Gruzinsky
Georgia
GeorgiaPrince, Tsarevich of Georgia, Guards Major, grandson of Georgia.

Fernando Belaunde Terry
Peru
PeruPeruvian politician

Francis Scott Key
USA
USAAmerican lawyer and poet

Valeriy Matskevich
Belarus
BelarusBelarusian political and public figure

Jose Zapatero
Spain
SpainPrime Minister of Spain (since 2004).

Arseniy Pushkarenko
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian political and public figure

Grant Shapps
UK Secretary of State for Defence from 31 August 2023

Helen Thomas
USA
USAAmerican author and former news correspondent, columnist for the Hearst Corporation newspapers, member of the White House press corps

Maykl Ware
Russia
RussiaEnglish farmer of the Russian hinterland

Abdelmadjid Tebboune
Algeria
Algeria6th President of Algeria since December 19, 2019

Ravile Heniatulin
Russia
RussiaHead of the Chita Region Administration

James Jeffords
USA
USAAmerican politician

Tokyo Iguchi
Japan
JapanJapanese literary scholar best known for his studies of Japanese literature of the second half of the 20th century. Lecturer at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (1990–2011).

Nikolay Azarov
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian politician and statesman.