World Conflict & Tragedy People

Riek Machar Teny (born 1952), a Dok Nuer, is the current vice-president of the autonomous Government of Southern Sudan.

Afrasiab Khattak or Afrasayab Khattak (Urdu: افراسیاب خٹک ) is a politician from Kohat, Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. He is currently a member of the Senate, the upper house of the Parliament of Pakistan and the provincial president of the Awami National...

Mahinda Rajapaksa (Sinhala: මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ, pronounced [maˈhində ˈraːɟəˌpakʂə]; full name Percy Mahinda Rajapaksa; born November 18, 1945) is the 6th and current executive President of Sri Lanka and Commander in Chief of the Sri Lankan Armed Forces....

Ruth Ann Minner (born January 17, 1935) is an American politician and businesswoman from Milford, in Kent County, Delaware. She is a member of the Democratic Party who served in the Delaware General Assembly, as Lieutenant Governor of Delaware and...

John Morrison Clarke (born 29 July 1948) is a comedian, writer, and satirist. He was born in Palmerston North, New Zealand, but has lived in Australia since the 1970s. He is a regular actor and writer on Australian TV.

Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar (Urdu: چوہدری احمد مختار )(born 1946 in Lahore) is the current Defence Minister of Pakistan in the PM Yousaf Raza Gillani-led cabinet. He is a central leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party from Gujrat District. He defeated...

Mohamed Mani Ahmad al-Kahtani (Arabic: محمد مانع أحمد القحطاني‎, Muḥammad Māniʾ ʼAḥmad al-Qaḥṭānī) — sometimes transliterated Muhammed al-Qahtani — is an alleged member of the terrorist group al-Qaeda. He allegedly intended to come to the United States...

Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir (Arabic: عمر حسن أحمد البشير‎, born 1 January 1944) is the current President of Sudan and the head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a colonel in the...

Guillaume Depardieu (7 April 1971 – 13 October 2008) was a French actor.

Margret Elizabeth Rey (May 16, 1906 – December 21, 1996), born Margarete Elisabeth Waldstein, was (with her husband H. A. Rey), the co-author and illustrator of children's books, the most famous of which are the Curious George series.