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Mohandas/Mahatma Gandhi — Indian independence leader; nonviolent resistance
Jawaharlal Nehru — First Indian PM; Indian socialism, non-alignment
Muhammad Ali Jinnah — Founder of Pakistan
Indira Gandhi — Nehru's daughter, later Indian PM; assassinated 1984
Theodor Herzl — Founder of modern Zionism
David Ben-Gurion — First PM of Israel; proclaimed independence 1948
Yasser Arafat — Chairman of PLO
Menachem Begin — Israeli PM; signed Camp David Accords
Anwar Sadat — Egyptian president; signed Camp David Accords; assassinated 1981
Yitzhak Rabin — Israeli PM; signed Oslo Accords; assassinated 1995
Gamal Abdel Nasser — Egyptian leader; Suez Crisis; pan-Arab nationalism
Kwame Nkrumah — Ghanaian independence leader
Jomo Kenyatta — Kenyan independence leader; first president of Kenya
Léopold Sédar Senghor — Senegalese poet and president; Negritude
Patrice Lumumba — First PM of independent Congo; assassinated 1961
Frantz Fanon — Martinican thinker; The Wretched of the Earth
Nelson Mandela — South African anti-apartheid leader; first Black president
Desmond Tutu — South African archbishop; chaired TRC
F.W. de Klerk — Last apartheid-era president; negotiated transition
Sukarno — First president of independent Indonesia
Ho Chi Minh — Vietnamese independence leader
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi — Iranian shah overthrown in 1979
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini — Leader of Iranian Revolution