National Founders

List of National founders of over 200 countries in alphabetical order.

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  Afghanistan
  Ahmad Shah Durrani
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  Albania
  Charles of Anjou
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  Algeria
  Barbarossa Hayreddin Pasha
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  American Samoa
  Jacob Roggeveen
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  Andorra
  Charlemagne
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  Angola
  Jonas Savimbi
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  Anguilla
  Pierre Laudonnaire
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  Antigua and Barbuda
  Sir Christopher Codrington
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  Argentina
  José de San Martín
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  Armenia
  King Argishti I
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  Aruba
  Betico Croes
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  Australia
  Captain Arthur Phillip
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  Austria
  King Rudolf I of Habsburg
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  Azerbaijan
  Mammad Amin Rasulzade
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  Bahamas
  Christopher Columbus
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  Bahrain
  Usfur ibn Rashid
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  Bangladesh
  Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
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  Barbados
  King James I
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  Belarus
  Alexander Lukashenko
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  Belgium
  Leopold I of Saxe-Coburg
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  Belize
  Peter Wallace
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  Benin
  Oranmiyan
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  Bermuda
  Juan de Bermúdez
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  Bhutan
  Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal
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  Bolivia
  Liberator Simón Bolívar
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  Botswana
  Sir Seretse Khama
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  Brazil
  Pedro I
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  British Virgin Islands
  Christopher Columbus
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  Brunei
  Awang Alak Betatar
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  Bulgaria
  Khan Asparuh
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  Burkina Faso
  Mossi people
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  Burundi
  Cambarantama
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  Cambodia
  Jayavarman II
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  Cameroon
  Ruben Um Nyobe
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  Canada
  George-Étienne Cartier
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  Cape Verde
  Amílcar Cabral
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  Cayman Islands
  Christopher Columbus
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  Central African Republic
  David Dacko
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  Chad
  François Tombalbaye
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  Chile
  Diego de Almagro
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  China
  Mao Zedong
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  Cocos (Keeling) Islands
  Captain William Keeling
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  Colombia
  Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada
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  Comoros
  Ahmed Abdallah Sambi
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  Republic of Congo
  Henry Morton Stanley
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  Democratic Republic of the Congo
  King Leopold II
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  Cook Islands
  Captain James Cook
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  Costa Rica
  Christopher Columbus
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  Croatia
  Franjo Tuđman
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  Cuba
  Carlos Manuel de Céspedes
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  Cyprus
  Archbishop Makarios III
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  Czech Republic
  Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
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  Dagestan
  Imam Shamil
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  Denmark
  No Official National Founder
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  Dominica
  Prime Minister Patrick John
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  Dominican Republic
  Juan Pablo Duarte
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  East Timor (Timor-Leste)
  José Alexandre "Kay Rala Xanana" Gusmão
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  Ecuador
  Juan José Flores
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  Egypt
  Saad Zaghlul
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  El Salvador
  José Matías Delgado
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  Equatorial Guinea
  Francisco Macias Nguema
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  Eritrea
  Hamid Idris Awate
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  Estonia
  Konstantin Päts
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  Eswatini (Swaziland)
  Sobhuza II
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  Ethiopia
  Menelik I
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  Fiji
  Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara
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  Finland
  Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
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  Flanders
  Leopold I of Saxe-Coburg
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  France
  Hugh Capet
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  Gabon
  Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza
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  Gambia
  Dawda Jawara
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  Georgia
  Ilia Chavchavadze
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  Germany
  Otto von Bismarck
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  Ghana
  Kwame Nkrumah
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  Gibraltar
  Agustin Huart
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  Greece
  Mycenaeans
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  Greenland
  Erik the Red
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  Grenada
  Martinique led by Jacques Dyel du Parquet
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  Guam
  Father Oscar L. Calvo
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  Guatemala
  Hernán Cortés
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  Guinea
  Ahmed Sékou Touré
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  Guinea-Bissau
  Luís Cabral
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  Guyana
  HE Cheddi Berret Jagan
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  Haiti
  Toussaint L'Ouverture
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  Honduras
  Cristóbal de Olid
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  Hungary
  Árpád
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  Iceland
  Ingólfur Arnarson
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  India
  Mahatma Gandhi
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  Indonesia
  Sukarno
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  Iran
  Ruhollah Khomeini
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  Iraq
  Sumu-abum
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  Italy
  Camillo Benso, Conte di Cavour Giuseppe Garibaldi Giuseppe Mazzini Vittorio Emanuele II di Savoia
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  Ivory Coast
  Félix Houphouët-Boigny
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  Jamaica
  Norman Washington Manley
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  Japan
  Emperor Jimmu
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  Jordan
  Abdullah II bin Hussein
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  Kazakhstan
  Alikhan Bukeikhanov
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  Kenya
  Jomo Kenyatta
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  Kiribati
  Sir Ieremia
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  North Korea
  Kim Jong-il
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  South Korea
  Syngman Rhee
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  Kosovo
  Ibrahim Rugova
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  Kuwait
  Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
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  Laos
  Lan Xang
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  Latvia
  Kārlis Ulmanis
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  Lebanon
  Bechara El Khoury, Riad El-Solh, and Emir Majid Arslan II
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  Lesotho
  King Moshoeshoe I
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  Liberia
  William Tubman
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  Libya
  King Idris Al-sanusi
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  Liechtenstein
  Prince Hans-Adam
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  Lithuania
  Mindaugas
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  Luxembourg
  Siegfried, count de Ardennes
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  North Macedonia
  Krste Petkov Misirkov
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  Madagascar
  Philibert Tsiranana
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  Malawi
  Maravi Empire
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  Malaysia
  Tunku Abdul Rahman
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  Maldives
  Ibrahim Nasir
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  Mali
  Modibo Keita
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  Malta
  Dom Mintoff
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  Marshall Islands
  Amata Kabua
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  Mauritania
  Moktar Ould Daddah
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  Mauritius
  Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam
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  Mexico
  Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
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  Micronesia
  President Bailey Olter
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  Moldova
  Vlachs
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  Monaco
  Otto Canella
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  Mongolia
  Genghis Khan
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  Montenegro
  Petar I Petrović-Njegoš
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  Morocco
  Moulay Ali Cherif
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  Mozambique
  His Excellency Samora Machel
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  Myanmar (Burma)
  Anawrahta
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  Namibia
  Dr. Sam Shafiishuna
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  Nauru
  Hammer DeRoburt
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  Nepal
  Prithvi Narayan Shah
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  Netherlands
  Prince William I of Orange
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  New Zealand
  Abel Tasman
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  Nicaragua
  Francisco Hernández de Córdoba
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  Niger
  Hamani Diori
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  Nigeria
  Nnamdi Azikiwe
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  Norway
  Harald Fairhair
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  Oman
  Said bin Taimur
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  Pakistan
  Quaid i Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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  Palau
  Pablo Clain
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  Palestine
  Yasser Arafat (Modern Palestine)
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  Panama
  Simón Bolívar
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  Papua New Guinea
  Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare
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  Paraguay
  Rutherford B. Hayes
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  Peru
  José de San Martín
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  Philippines
  José Rizal
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  Poland
  Józef Piłsudski
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  Portugal
  D. Afonso Henriques
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  Puerto Rico
  Pedro Albizu Campos
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  Qatar
  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
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  Romania
  Alexandru Ioan Cuza
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  Russian Federation
  Peter I of Russia
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  Rwanda
  Paul Kagame
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  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  Chief Joseph Chatoyer
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  Samoa
  Jacob Roggeveen
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  San Marino
  Saint Marinus
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  Sao Tome & Principe
  Álvaro Caminha
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  Saudi Arabia
  Ibn Saud
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  Senegal
  Léopold Sédar Senghor
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  Serbia
  Karađorđe
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  Seychelles
  David Antat
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  Sierra Leone
  Thomas Peters
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  Singapore
  Lee Kuan Yew
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  Slovakia
  Great Moravia
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  Slovenia
  France Bučar
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  Solomon Islands
  Sir Peter Kenilorea
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  Somalia
  The Somali Youth League
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  South Africa
  Nelson Mandela
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  South Sudan
  John Garang
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  Spain
  Ferdinand II of Aragon
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  Sri Lanka
  Don Stephen Senanayake
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  St Kitts & Nevis
  Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw
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  St Lucia
  John Compton
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  Sudan
  Muḥammad Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Mahdī
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  Suriname
  Johan Ferrier
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  Svalbard
  Harald Fairhair
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  Sweden
  Per Albin Hansson
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  Switzerland
  Eidgenossen
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  Syria
  General Hafez al-Assad
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  Taiwan
  Sun Yat-sen
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  Tajikistan
  Ismail Samani
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  Tanzania
  Julius Nyerere
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  Thailand
  King Mangrai
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  Togo
  Gnassingbé Eyadéma
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  Tonga
  Willem Schouten
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  Trinidad & Tobago
  Eric Williams
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  Tunisia
  Habib Bourguiba
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  Turkey
  Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
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  Turkmenistan
  Atamyrat Niyazov Gurbansoltan Eje
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  Tuvalu
  Captain John Byron
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  Uganda
  Field Marshal Idi Amin
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  Ukraine
  Leonid Kravchuk
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  United Arab Emirates
  Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
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  United Kingdom
  King James VI & I
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  United States of America
  George Washington
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  Uruguay
  José Gervasio Artigas
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  Uzbekistan
  Islam Abduganiyevich Karimov
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  Vanuatu
  Donald Kalpokas
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  Holy See (Vatican City)
  Benito Mussolini
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  Venezuela
  Simon Bolivar
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  Vietnam
  Ho Chi Minh
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  Yemen
  Muhammad ibn Abdullah ibn Ziyad
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  Zambia
  Kenneth Kaunda
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  Zimbabwe
  Canaan Sodindo Banana