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Salam Fayyad (Arabic: سلام فياض‎; b. 1952 Deir al-Ghusun) is a Palestinian politician and the current Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority after being reappointed on 19 May 2009. His first appointment, on 15 June 2007, was justified by...

James Strom Thurmond (December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003) was an American politician who served as governor of South Carolina and as a United States Senator. He also ran for the Presidency of the United States in 1948 as the...

Serge Brammertz (born 17 February 1962 in Eupen, Belgium) is currently the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

Michael Anthony "Mike" Nutter (born June 29, 1957) is the Mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is Philadelphia's third African American mayor, and Philadelphia is currently the largest city in the United States with an African American mayor. Elected on November...

Matthew Christopher Howard (born September 22, 1967 in Fall River, Massachusetts) is a retired Major League Baseball second baseman. He played during one season at the major league level for the New York Yankees. He was drafted by the Los...

Marwan Hamadeh (born September 11, 1939) is the former Lebanese Minister of Telecommunications. He has also held the positions of Minister of the Economy and Trade, Minister of Tourism, and Minister of Health.

Lalu Prasad Yadav (Devanāgarī: लालू प्रसाद यादव) is an Indian politician from Bihar. He was Minister of Railways from 2004 to 2009 in the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, and President of the Rashtriya Janata Dal political party. He...

Joseph M. "Joe" Arpaio (born June 14, 1932) is an American law enforcement officer, and the sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona. Arpaio, who promotes himself as "America's Toughest Sheriff," has become controversial for his approach to operating the Maricopa County...

Jaswant Singh (born January 3, 1938) is an Indian politician and member of parliament from Darjeeling parliamentary constituency. He is from the Indian State of Rajasthan and was an officer in the Indian Army in the 1960s and is an...

Jacques Diouf (born 1 August 1938) is a Senegalese diplomat with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. He has served as Director-General of FAO since replacing Edouard Saouma of Lebanon in January 1994.