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Diplomat Biographies
Every archived life recorded as diplomat, ordered by their place in the ledger.
Contemporary era
Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf
b. December 12, 1957
Mauritanian Prime Minister
Modern era
Luis Echeverría
January 17, 1922 – July 8, 2022
57th President of Mexico
Modern era
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz
March 12, 1911 – July 15, 1979
56th President of Mexico
Contemporary era
Aureliu Ciocoi
b. June 5, 1968
Moldovan diplomat
Contemporary era
Serge Telle
b. May 5, 1955
French civil servant, Minister of State of Monaco from 2016 to 2020
Ancient era
Demosthenes
384 BCE – 322 BCE
Classical Athenian statesman and orator (384–322 BC)
Early Modern era
John Adams
October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1797 to 1801 (1735–1826)
Early Modern era
James Madison
March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836
President of the United States from 1809 to 1817 (1751–1836)
Early Modern era
Duke of Wellington
May 1, 1769 – September 14, 1852
British Field Marshal, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1828–1830, 1834 (1769-1852)
Modern era
Eleanor Roosevelt
October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962
American diplomat and activist, First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945 (1884–1962)
Modern era
Jimmy Carter
October 1, 1924 – December 29, 2024
President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
Contemporary era
Bill Clinton
b. August 19, 1946
42nd President of the United States (1993–2001)
Modern era
William Gladstone
December 29, 1809 – May 19, 1898
British Liberal prime minister (1809–1898)
Modern era
David Lloyd George
January 17, 1863 – March 26, 1945
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922
Modern era
Clement Attlee
January 3, 1883 – October 8, 1967
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 (1883–1967)
Contemporary era
Tony Blair
b. May 6, 1953
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007
Modern era
Otto von Bismarck
April 1, 1815 – July 30, 1898
German statesman and Chancellor (1815-1898)
Modern era
Leon Trotsky
October 26, 1879 – August 21, 1940
Russian Marxist revolutionary (1879–1940)
Modern era
Anwar Sadat
December 25, 1918 – October 6, 1981
President of Egypt from 1970 to 1981
Modern era
Yitzhak Rabin
March 1, 1922 – November 4, 1995
Israeli politician, statesman and general (1922–1995)
Modern era
Deng Xiaoping
August 22, 1904 – February 19, 1997
Chinese politician and paramount leader from 1978 to 1989
Modern era
Kwame Nkrumah
September 21, 1909 – April 27, 1972
Ghanaian politician (1909–1972)
Modern era
Che Guevara
June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967
Argentine Marxist revolutionary (1928–1967)
Modern era
Kofi Annan
April 8, 1938 – August 18, 2018
7th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1938-2018)
Medieval era
Giovanni Boccaccio
June 16, 1313 – September 21, 1375
Italian author and poet (1313–1375)
Modern era
Nathaniel Hawthorne
July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864
American author (1804–1864)
Modern era
Pablo Neruda
July 12, 1904 – September 23, 1973
Chilean poet and politician (1904-1973)
Early Modern era
Peter Paul Rubens
June 28, 1577 – May 30, 1640
Flemish painter (1577–1640)
Medieval era
Marco Polo
September 15, 1254 – January 8, 1324
Venetian merchant whose travels opened European eyes to Asia
Medieval era
Zheng He
1371 – 1433
Chinese mariner, explorer, and diplomat
Modern era
Fridtjof Nansen
October 10, 1861 – May 13, 1930
Norwegian polar explorer and diplomat; Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1861-1930)
Modern era
Edmund Hillary
July 20, 1919 – January 11, 2008
New Zealand mountaineer and philanthropist (1919–2008)
Modern era
Frederick Douglass
1817 – February 20, 1895
African-American social reformer, writer, and abolitionist (c. 1818–1895)
Modern era
Raoul Wallenberg
August 4, 1912 – January 1, 1947
Swedish architect, businessman, diplomat and humanitarian (1912-1947)
Modern era
Chiune Sugihara
January 1, 1900 – July 31, 1986
Japanese diplomat, Righteous Among the Nations (1900-1986)
Modern era
Sidney Poitier
February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022
Bahamian and American actor and diplomat (1927–2022)
Contemporary era
Michael Schumacher
b. January 3, 1969
German racing driver (born 1969)
Modern era
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
January 5, 1928 – April 4, 1979
4th President and 9th Prime Minister of Pakistan (1928–1979)
Modern era
Liaquat Ali Khan
October 1, 1895 – October 16, 1951
1st Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1947 to 1951
Modern era
Abdul Hafeez Kardar
January 17, 1925 – April 21, 1996
Indian cricketer (1925-1996)
Modern era
Begum Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan
February 13, 1905 – June 13, 1990
Pakistani diplomat (1905-1990)
Modern era
I. I. Chundrigar
September 15, 1897 – September 26, 1960
Pakistani politician and diplomat (1897–1960)
Modern era
Feroz Khan Noon
June 18, 1893 – December 9, 1970
7th Prime Minister of Pakistan (1893–1970)
Modern era
Muhammad Ali Bogra
October 19, 1909 – January 23, 1963
Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1953 to 1955
Modern era
Aga Khan III
November 2, 1877 – July 11, 1957
48th Imam of the Nizari Ismaili community (1877-1957)
Modern era
Patras Bokhari
October 1, 1898 – December 5, 1958
Pakistani diplomat
Modern era
D. S. Senanayake
October 20, 1884 – March 22, 1952
Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (1884-1952)
Modern era
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike
January 8, 1899 – September 26, 1959
4th Prime Minister of the Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) from 1956-59
Modern era
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
April 17, 1916 – October 10, 2000
Prime Minister of Ceylon (later Sri Lanka) from 1960–65, 1970–77, 1994–2000
Modern era
Ito Hirobumi
October 16, 1841 – October 26, 1909
1st, 5th, 7th and 10th Prime Minister of Japan (1841–1909)
Modern era
Chulalongkorn
September 20, 1853 – October 23, 1910
King of Siam (1853-1910)
Modern era
U Thant
January 22, 1909 – November 25, 1974
UN Secretary-General from 1961 to 1971
Modern era
Apolinario Mabini
July 22, 1864 – May 13, 1903
Prime Minister of the Philippines in 1899
Modern era
Amir Kabir
1807 – January 9, 1852
Prime Minister of Iran (1807-1852)
Modern era
Mohammad Mosaddegh
May 19, 1882 – March 5, 1967
Former Prime Minister of Iran (1882–1967)
Modern era
Nizar Qabbani
March 21, 1923 – April 30, 1998
Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher (1923-1998)
Modern era
Octavio Paz
March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998
Mexican writer, poet an diplomat (1914–1998)
Modern era
Ruben Dario
January 18, 1867 – February 6, 1916
Nicaraguan poet, journalist, writer, and diplomat (1867-1916)
Modern era
Ramon Emeterio Betances
April 8, 1827 – September 16, 1898
Puerto Rican nationalist (1827–1898)
Medieval era
Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick
November 22, 1428 – April 14, 1471
Jure uxoris 16th Earl of Warwick and suo jure 6th Earl of Salisbury (1428-1471)