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
  Skanderbeg
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  Algeria
  Barbarossa Hayreddin Pasha
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  American Samoa
  Tupua Tamasese Lealofi III
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  Andorra
  Charlemagne
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  Angola
  Paulo Dias de novais
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  Anguilla
  Ronald Webster
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  Antigua and Barbuda
  Christopher Columbus
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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
  Sir Henry Parkes
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  Austria
  King Rudolf I of Habsburg
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  Azerbaijan
  Mammad Amin Rasulzade
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  Bahamas
  Lynden Pindling
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  Bahrain
  Usfur ibn Rashid
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  Bangladesh
  Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
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  Barbados
  Errol Barrow
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  Belarus
  Alexander Lukashenko
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  Belgium
  Philip the Good
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  Belize
  George Cadle Price
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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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  Bosnia and Herzegovina
  Tvrtko I of Bosnia
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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
  President Thomas Sankara
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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
  John A. Macdonald
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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
  Bernardo O'Higgins
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  China
  Sun Yat-sen
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  Cocos (Keeling) Islands
  Captain William Keeling
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  Colombia
  Simón Bolívar
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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
  Patrice Lumumba
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  Cook Islands
  Captain James Cook
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  Costa Rica
  José María Castro Madriz
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  Croatia
  Ante Starčević
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  Cuba
  Carlos Manuel de Céspedes
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  Cyprus
  Archbishop Makarios III
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  Czech Republic
  František Palacký
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  Dagestan
  Imam Shamil
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  Denmark
  Harald "Bluetooth" Gormsson
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  Djibouti
  Hassan Gouled Aptidon
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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
  Manuel José Arce
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  England
  King James VI & I
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  Equatorial Guinea
  Francisco Macias Nguema
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  Eritrea
  Isaias Afwerki
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  Estonia
  Konstantin Päts
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  Eswatini (Swaziland)
  Ngwane III
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  Ethiopia
  Amda Tseyon
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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
  Léon M'ba
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  The 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
  Alexander the Great
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  Greenland
  Erik the Red
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  Grenada
  Eric Matthew Gairy
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  Guam
  Jesus Baza Dueñas
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  Guatemala
  Juan José Arévalo
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  Guernsey
  Sir Dawda
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  Guinea
  Ahmed Sékou Touré
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  Guinea-Bissau
  Amílcar Cabral
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  Guyana
  HE Cheddi Berret Jagan
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  Haiti
  Jean-Jacques Dessalines
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  Honduras
  Jose Cecilio del Valle
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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
  Vittorio Emanuele II di Savoia
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  Côte d’Ivoire
  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 Tienang Tabai
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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
  Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah
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  Kyrgyzstan
  Askar Akayev
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  Laos
  Fa Ngum
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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
  Joseph Jenkins Roberts
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  Libya
  King Idris Al-Sanusi
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  Liechtenstein
  Emperor Karl
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  Lithuania
  King Mindaugas
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  Luxembourg
  Adolf Wilhelm August Karl Friedrich
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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
  Abu al-Barakat Yusuf al-Barbari
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  Mali
  Sundiata 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
  Andon Amaraich
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  Moldova
  Mircea Snegur
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  Monaco
  François Grimaldi
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  Mongolia
  Genghis Khan
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  Montenegro
  Petar I Petrović-Njegoš
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  Montserrat
  Father Ignacio Duarte Quirós
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  Morocco
  Mohammed V
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  Mozambique
  His Excellency Samora Machel
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  Myanmar (Burma)
  Aung San
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  Namibia
  Sam Nujoma
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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
  James Busby
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  Nicaragua
  Francisco Hernández de Córdoba
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  Niger
  Hamani Diori
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  Nigeria
  Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe
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  Niue
  Washington and Jefferson
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  Norfolk Island
  Captain James Cook
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  Norway
  Einar Gerhardsen
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  Oman
  Said bin Taimur
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  Pakistan
  Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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  Palau
  Roman Tmetuchl
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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
  José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia
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  Peru
  Simón Bolívar
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  Philippines
  Andrés Bonifacio
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  Poland
  Duke Mieszko I
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  Portugal
  D. Afonso Henriques
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  Puerto Rico
  Pedro Albizu Campos
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  Qatar
  Sheikh Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani
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  Romania
  Decebalus and Trajan
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  Russia
  Peter the Great
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  Rwanda
  Grégoire Kayibanda
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  Saint Barthélemy
  Bruno Magras
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  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  Milton Cato
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  Samoa
  Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II
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  San Marino
  Saint Marinus
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  Sao Tome and Principe
  Álvaro Caminha
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  Saudi Arabia
  Ibn Saud
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  Scotland
  Kenneth I
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  Senegal
  Léopold Sédar Senghor
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  Serbia
  Dobrica Ćosić
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  Seychelles
  James Mancham
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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
  Primož Trubar
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  Solomon Islands
  Alvaro de Mendana de Neira
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  Somalia
  Somali Youth League
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  Somaliland
  Sultan Guled Abdi at Toon
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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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  Saint Kitts and Nevis
  Kennedy Simmonds
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  Saint 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
  Gustav I or Gustav Eriksson
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  Switzerland
  Ulrich Ochsenbein
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  Syria
  Nazim al-Kudsi
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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
  Sylvanus Olympio
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  Tonga
  George Tupou I
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  Trinidad and Tobago
  Eric Williams
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  Tunisia
  Habib Bourguiba
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  Turkiye
  Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
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  Turkmenistan
  Atamyrat Niyazov
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  Turks and Caicos Islands
  The Lucayans and Pre-Columbian Settlement
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  Tuvalu
  Toaripi Lauti
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  Uganda
  Apollo Milton Obote
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  Ukraine
  Mykhailo Hrushevsky
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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
  Pedro Fernandez de Quiros
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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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  Wales
  Maximus
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  Yemen
  Imam Ahmad bin Yahya Hamididdin
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  Zambia
  Kenneth Kaunda
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  Zimbabwe
  Canaan Sodindo Banana