Inventors & Engineers
Builders of the tools that changed everything.
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Contemporary era
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
b. July 15, 1949
Emirati royal and politician (born 1949)
Contemporary era
Shavkat Mirziyoyev
b. July 24, 1957
President of the Republic of Uzbekistan
Contemporary era
Hakainde Hichilema
b. June 4, 1962
President of Zambia since 2021
Contemporary era
Pandeli Majko
b. November 15, 1967
Albanian politician
Modern era
Òscar Ribas Reig
October 26, 1936 – December 18, 2020
Prime Minister of Andorra
Modern era
José Eduardo dos Santos
August 28, 1942 – July 8, 2022
President of Angola from 1979 to 2017
Contemporary era
Mauricio Macri
b. February 8, 1959
President of Argentina from 2015 to 2019
Contemporary era
Armen Sarkissian
b. June 23, 1953
4th President of Armenia, Member of the Global Leadership Foundation, one of the directors of Eurasia House, physicist, diplomat, politician (born 1953)
Contemporary era
Robert Kocharyan
b. August 31, 1954
Former leader of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and Armenia
Contemporary era
Malcolm Turnbull
b. October 24, 1954
Prime Minister of Australia from 2015 to 2018
Contemporary era
Hartwig Löger
b. July 15, 1965
Austrian politician, businessman, former secretary for finance and vice federal chancellor
Modern era
Artur Rasizade
b. February 26, 1935
6th Prime Minister of the Republic of Azerbaijan
Modern era
Fuad Guliyev
b. July 6, 1941
Azerbaijani politician
Contemporary era
Andrei Kobyakow
b. November 21, 1960
8th Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus
Contemporary era
Mikhail Myasnikovich
b. May 6, 1950
Chairman of the ECC Board
Contemporary era
Alexander De Croo
b. November 3, 1975
Prime Minister of Belgium from 2020 to 2025
Contemporary era
Rosen Plevneliev
b. May 14, 1964
Bulgarian politician
Modern era
Paul Martin
b. August 28, 1938
Prime minister of Canada from 2003 to 2006
Modern era
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
b. June 24, 1942
President of Chile from 1994 to 2000
Contemporary era
Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi
b. June 5, 1958
Former President of Comoros
Contemporary era
Tihomir Orešković
b. January 1, 1966
Croatian-Canadian entrepreneur and politician
Modern era
Giorgos Vasiliou
May 20, 1931 – January 13, 2026
3rd President of the Republic of Cyprus (1988-1993)
Contemporary era
Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde Kyenge
b. August 4, 1977
Politician of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Contemporary era
Lenín Moreno
b. March 19, 1953
President of Ecuador (2017 - 2021)
Contemporary era
Lucio Gutiérrez
b. March 23, 1957
President of Ecuador (2003 - 2005)
Contemporary era
Mohamed Morsi
August 8, 1951 – June 17, 2019
President of Egypt from 2012 to 2013
Contemporary era
Sherif Ismail
July 6, 1955 – February 4, 2023
Egyptian politician (1955–2023)
Contemporary era
Ibrahim Mahlab
b. April 12, 1949
Egyptian politician; prime minister (2014-2015)
Contemporary era
Hesham Qandil
b. September 17, 1962
Prime Minister of Egypt from 2012 to 2013
Contemporary era
Miguel Abia Biteo
January 11, 1961 – December 6, 2012
Equatorial Guinean politician (1961-2012)
Contemporary era
Andrus Ansip
b. October 1, 1956
Estonian chemist and politician (born 1956)
Contemporary era
Juha Sipilä
b. April 25, 1961
44th Prime Minister of Finland
Contemporary era
Élisabeth Borne
b. April 18, 1961
Prime Minister of France from 2022 to 2024
Contemporary era
Irakli Garibashvili
b. June 28, 1982
Prime Minister of Georgia (2013–2015, 2021–2024)
Modern era
John Kufuor
b. December 8, 1938
Fifth President of the Republic of Ghana and Lawyer
Contemporary era
Alexis Tsipras
b. July 28, 1974
Prime Minister of Greece (2015; 2015–2019)
Contemporary era
Álvaro Colom
June 15, 1951 – January 23, 2023
President of Guatemala (2008-2012)
Contemporary era
Jovenel Moïse
June 26, 1968 – July 7, 2021
Former President of Haiti
Modern era
Roberto Micheletti
b. August 13, 1943
Interim president of Honduras following the 2009 coup until 2010
Contemporary era
Ágnes Forsthoffer
b. March 24, 1980
Hungarian politician (born 1980)
Contemporary era
Gordon Bajnai
b. March 5, 1968
Hungarian politician
Modern era
B. J. Habibie
June 25, 1936 – September 11, 2019
3rd President of Indonesia (1998—1999) and 7th Vice President of Indonesia (1998)
Contemporary era
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
b. October 28, 1956
6th President of the Islamic Republic of Iran from 2005 to 2013
Modern era
Abdul Latif Rashid
b. August 10, 1944
President of Iraq since 2022
Contemporary era
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer
b. March 11, 1958
72nd prime minister of Iraq
Contemporary era
Haider Al-Abadi
b. April 25, 1952
Prime Minister of Iraq from 2014 to 2018
Modern era
Ezer Weizman
June 15, 1924 – April 24, 2005
Israeli politician, 7th president of Israel (1993–2000)
Contemporary era
Naftali Bennett
b. March 25, 1972
Prime Minister of Israel from 2021 to 2022
Contemporary era
Amadou Gon Coulibaly
February 10, 1959 – July 8, 2020
Ivorian politician (1959–2020)
Modern era
Ruud Lubbers
May 7, 1939 – February 14, 2018
Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1982 to 1994
Modern era
Andris Bērziņš
b. December 10, 1944
Eighth president of Latvia (born 1944)
Contemporary era
Krišjānis Kariņš
b. December 13, 1964
Latvian politician (born 1964)
Contemporary era
Hassan Diab
b. June 1, 1959
Lebanese engineer, academic and minister of higher education
Contemporary era
Saad Harirị
b. April 18, 1970
Saudi Lebanese and france politician
Contemporary era
Ahmed Miitig
b. 1972
Libyan businessman and politician
Modern era
Valdas Adamkus
b. November 3, 1926
Lithuanian politician, twice President of Lithuania (born 1926)
Contemporary era
Marc Ravalomanana
b. December 12, 1949
President of Madagascar from 2002 to 2009
Modern era
Bakili Muluzi
b. March 17, 1943
Malawian politician
Contemporary era
Ismail Ould Bedde Ould Cheikh Sidiya
b. March 17, 1961
15th Prime Minister of Mauritania
Contemporary era
Yahya Ould Hademine
b. December 31, 1953
Mauritanian politician