1. Australia
   Germany
2. England
   Canada

Winston Churchill served as the prime minister of England during World War II. He is also noted for the popular phrase, "Keep Calm and Carry On."

1. Belgium
   Switzerland
2. Spain
   France

Napoleon Bonaparte was the emperor of France for over 10 years. One of the country's most prominent leaders, he is known for his military tactics and his rise during the French Revolution.

1. Dominican Republic
   Cuba
2. Honduras
   Ecuador

Fidel Castro served as the prime minister of Cuba for 17 years before becoming the president in 1976. He served in that position until 2008, when he was replaced by his vice president and brother.

1. England
   Ireland
2. United States
   Canada

John F. Kennedy, often referred to as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States. Almost three years into his term, he was assassinated.

1. China
   Macedonia
2. Russia
   Ethiopia

Alexander the Great was one of the most strategic military leaders in history. He went across Greece to India, conquering land and countries before he succumbed to malaria at the young age of 33.

1. Macedonia
   Roman Republic
2. Asia
   India

Julius Caesar first served as a general in the Gallic Wars. Following his rebellion and the Great Roman War, he became leader and dictator of the Roman Republic.

1. France
   Spain
2. Scotland
   England

Elizabeth I was the reigning Queen of England and Ireland for over 40 years. She was the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.

1. Sweden
   Russia
2. Germany
   England

Adolf Hitler served as the Fuhrer of Nazi Germany for 11 years. He concurrently served as the Chancellor and was central to the Holocaust.

1. Nigeria
   South Africa
2. Ethiopia
   Ghana

Nelson Mandela first worked as a revolutionary before becoming the leader of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. For his work, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

1. Japan
   Thailand
2. Taiwan
   China

Mao Zedong was the founding father of the People's Republic of China where he ruled as an autocrat for almost 30 years.

1. Soviet Union
   Germany
2. Ukraine
   Poland

Joseph Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union for almost thirty years. He served under the title of general secretary.

1. Roman Empire
   Egypt
2. Greece
   Macedonia

Cleopatra was the last pharaoh of Ptolemy's Egypt. She formed ties with Julius Caesar before his death and afterwards joined Mark Antony.

1. Russia
   Ukraine
2. Syria
   Armenia

Vladimir Putin is the incumbent president of Russia, as of 2017. He first held office as prime minister for one year in 1999, before serving as president from 2000-2008. He then served again as prime minister before being re-elected as president in 2012.

1. Greece
   Italy
2. Russia
   Portugal

Benito Mussolini served as prime minister of Italy under a democratic government. He soon changed the system to a dictatorship, however, and became known as Il Duce.

1. Ireland
   Poland
2. Sweden
   Germany

As of 2017, Angela Merkel has served as the chancellor of Germany since 2005. She got her start in politics in 1991 and has since been named the most powerful woman in the world ten times by Forbes.

1. Ukraine
   Soviet Union
2. Poland
   Scotland

Mikhail Gorbachev served as the General Secretary of the Soviet Union before becoming the first president of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union dissolved in 1991.

1. The UK
   Germany
2. Poland
   Australia

Margaret Thatcher served as prime minister of the UK for 11 years and the leader of the Conservative Party from 1975-1990.

1. Canada
   United States
2. Italy
   France

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly referred to as FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States. He served as president for 12 years until his death and was responsible for pulling the United States out of a major economic depression. With modern term limits, no other president will be able to match FDR's 12 years of service.

1. France
   Spain
2. England
   Portugal

Henry VIII was a monarch in England during the 1500s. He was known for his many wives. He separated himself from the Catholic Church by appointing himself Supreme Head of the Church of England.

1. Brazil
   Argentina
2. Venezuela
   Mexico

Hugo Chavez was first a military leader in Venezuela, from 1971 to 1992. He then served as president of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013.

1. Germany
   Soviet Union
2. Switzerland
   Georgia

Nikita Khrushchev served as the first secretary of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. He was a major proponent and supporter of the USSR expanding their space program.

1. Iran
   Iraq
2. Israel
   Pakistan

Saddam Hussein served as the prime minister of Iraq from 1979-1991 and again from 1994-2003. He concurrently served as the president for the entire 24 years until the invasion of Iraq and the start of the Iraq War.

1. Belgium
   France
2. Switzerland
   Portugal

Charles de Gaulle served as the prime minister of France for one year before becoming the president in 1959. He served for 10 years and France's largest airport is named after him.

1. Mexico
   Brazil
2. Argentina
   Uruguay

Eva Peron was the wife of Argentina's President Juan Peron. She was known for her work on labor rights and trade unions. She was running for vice president before she dropped out, due to her declining health from cancer. She was named the Spiritual Leader of the Nation.

1. Iraq
   Israel
2. Syria
   Iran

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad started out as an engineer and teacher before being appointed as a governor and then a mayor. In 2005 he was elected president of Iran, a position he held until 2013.

1. Vatican City
   Italy
2. Ireland
   France

Pope Saint John Paul II served as the pope from 1978 to 2005. He helped reconcile Catholic relations and was known for his efforts to bring together many religions.

1. Canada
   Sweden
2. Greenland
   United States

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. He is known for leading the United States through the Civil War, which abolished slavery.

1. France
   Haiti
2. Guyana
   Jamaica

Toussaint Louverture is known for leading Haiti through its Revolution, beginning in 1791. He was named governor-general in 1801, before he was forced to resign by Napoleon.

1. China
   Japan
2. Vietnam
   Thailand

Hirohito is often referred to as Emperor Showa. He reigned from 1926 to 1989. During World War II, he was one of the main Axis leaders and post-war he helped Japan solidify their economic status.

1. England
   Ireland
2. United States
   Scotland

Susan B. Anthony was an important figure during the mid-late 1800s. Not only did she help with anti-slavery petitions, but she was the leading member of the women's suffrage movement.

1. Brazil
   El Salvador
2. Mexico
   Honduras

Born as Francisco, "Pancho" Villa was a prominent force in the Mexican Revolutionary War where he acted as a general. He served as a governor prior to his successes as a general.

1. India
   Syria
2. Israel
   Nepal

Mahatma Gandhi helped lead India to independence from Great Britain's rule through nonviolent civil disobedience. He was born Mohandas, but the title Mahatma, meaning venerable, was given to him.

1. Great Britain
   United States
2. Canada
   Germany

George Washington first served as a general and helped lead the United States in its quest for independence from Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War. He became the first president of the United States.

1. Syria
   Israel
2. Jordan
   Turkey

After his third service as prime minister from 1995 to 1996 and his third service as minister of foreign affairs from 2001 to 2002, Shimon Peres served as the Israeli president from 2007 to 2014. In 1994 he was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for talks that resulted in the Oslo Accords.

1. Jordan
   Syria
2. Iran
   Palestine

Yasser Arafat was the 3rd Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization before he became the first president of the Palestinian National Authority. In 1994 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for his part in the Oslo Accords.