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Gandhi
Country: India | Achievements: Non-violent resistance, Indian independence, Civil rights
Winston Churchill
Country: United Kingdom | Achievements: Leadership during WWII, Nobel Prize in Literature, Iron Curtain speech
Nelson Mandela
Country: South Africa | Achievements: End of Apartheid, President of South Africa, Nobel Peace Prize
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Country: United States | Achievements: New Deal, WWII leadership, United Nations foundation
Martin Luther King Jr.
Country: United States | Achievements: Civil Rights Movement leader, 'I Have A Dream' speech, Nobel Peace Prize
Angela Merkel
Country: Germany | Achievements: First female Chancellor, Managed Eurozone crisis, Open-door policy for refugees
Margaret Thatcher
Country: United Kingdom | Achievements: First female Prime Minister, Conservative economic policies, Falklands War
Mao Zedong
Country: China | Achievements: Founding of the People's Republic of China, Cultural Revolution, Great Leap Forward
Emmeline Pankhurst
Country: United Kingdom | Achievements: Leader of the British suffragette movement, Women's Social and Political Union, Women's right to vote
Fidel Castro
Country: Cuba | Achievements: Cuban Revolution, Longest serving non-royal national leader of the 20th century, Bay of Pigs Invasion defense
Simon Bolivar
Country: Venezuela (and others) | Achievements: Liberation of South American states, Establishment of Gran Colombia, Military leadership
George Washington
Country: United States | Achievements: First President, Commander-in-Chief during American Revolution, Constitutional Convention
Vladimir Lenin
Country: Russia | Achievements: Leader of the Bolshevik Revolution, Establishment of Soviet Russia, New Economic Policy
Abraham Lincoln
Country: United States | Achievements: Abolition of slavery, American Civil War leadership, Gettysburg Address
Charles de Gaulle
Country: France | Achievements: Leader of Free France during WWII, Establishment of the Fifth Republic, President of France
Golda Meir
Country: Israel | Achievements: Fourth Prime Minister of Israel, Signatory of the Israeli Declaration of Independence, Peace talks with Arab countries
Che Guevara
Country: Argentina/Cuba | Achievements: Major figure in the Cuban Revolution, Guerrilla warfare theorist, International revolutionary symbol
Queen Elizabeth II
Country: United Kingdom | Achievements: Longest-reigning current monarch, Commonwealth Head, Numerous state visits
Otto von Bismarck
Country: Germany | Achievements: Unification of Germany, Chancellor, Social policies
Ronald Reagan
Country: United States | Achievements: 40th President, Reaganomics, End of the Cold War
Mohammad Ali Jinnah
Country: Pakistan | Achievements: Founding Father, Leader of the All-India Muslim League, First Governor-General
Indira Gandhi
Country: India | Achievements: First and only female Prime Minister of India, Green Revolution, 1971 victory over Pakistan
Julius Nyerere
Country: Tanzania | Achievements: First President of Tanzania, Founding member of the non-aligned movement, Ujamaa policies
Benazir Bhutto
Country: Pakistan | Achievements: First female Prime Minister of a Muslim-majority country, Social reforms, Founded telecom industry in Pakistan
Joseph Stalin
Country: Soviet Union | Achievements: Leader during WWII defeating the Axis Powers, spearheaded industrialization, Great Purge
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