All Countries by Famous People (with a map) - Statistics

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Hint	First Name	Famous Person	% Correct
Revolutionary, dictator, cigar enthusiast	Fidel	Castro	84%
Probably the greatest genius of the Middle Ages ("Mona Lisa", "Vitruvian Man", helicopter)	* Leonardo	Da Vinci	84%
"Fidelio" and "Ode to Joy" composer	Ludwig (van)	Beethoven	82%
Al Qaeda leader, killed in 2011	Osama (bin)	Laden	82%
Economist and father of the 44th US President	Barack	Obama Sr.	82%
Conqueror of a huge empire in Eurasia	* Genghis	Khan	80%
Billionaire drug lord shot in 1993	Pablo	Escobar	78%
Soviet dictator, responsible for millions of deaths	Josef	Stalin	78%
Brutal dictator, attacked Kurds with poison gas	Saddam	Hussein	76%
"Magic Flute" composer	Wolfgang Amadeus	Mozart	76%
Last female Pharaoh, lover of Caesar and Antonius, committed suicide in 30 B.C.	* Queen	Cleopatra VII Philopator	73%
Communist revolutionary and dictator, responsible for the death of up to 2 million people ("Killing fields"), subject of a Dead Kennedys song	* Pol	Pot	73%
Surrealist painter of melting watches	Salvador	Dali	71%
Revolutionary and communist president of his SE Asian country, giving France and the US a hard time	* Chi Minh	Ho	71%
Peasant girl and heroine of the Hundred Years' War	Jeanne d' (Joan of)	Arc	69%
ANC leader jailed on Robben Island, first democratically elected president of his country	Nelson	Mandela	69%
Went on a "Long March" and wrote a "Little Red Book"	Zedong	Mao	69%
Model and First Lady of the US 2017-2021	Melania	Trump	69%
Founder and longtime dictator of his isolated Asian country	Il-Sung	Kim	67%
"Starry Night" painter, cut off his ear	Vincent	Van Gogh	67%
"Iron Lady"	Margaret	Thatcher	65%
Bloodthirsty dictator of the 1970s, responsible for up to 500'000 deaths in his East African country	Idi	Amin	64%
Revolutionary "Colonel", longtime dictator, and terrorism sponsor	Muammar (al-)	Gaddafi	64%
Reggae legend ("Buffalo Soldier")	Bob	Marley	64%
Author of fairy tales like "The Little Mermaid"	Hans Christian	Andersen	62%
First female PM of her country, assassinated in 1984. Not related to Mahatma, the pacifist liberator of the same name.	Indira	Gandhi	62%
"Queen of Rap", R&B and pop singer ("Pink Friday")	Nicki	Minaj	62%
Five time winner of "Ballon d'Or" soccer trophy	Cristiano	Ronaldo	62%
Her "School Strike for Climate" inspired millions to protest against global warming	Greta	Thunberg	62%
Winner of 23 tennis Grand Slam titles, record number of weeks as No1 of the ATP world ranking	Novak	Djokovic	60%
"Huckleberry Finn" author	Mark	Twain	60%
Dictator heavily responsible for the civil war ravaging his country since 2011	Bashar (al-)	Assad	58%
Founding father and modernizer of his country after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire	* Mustafa Kemal	Atatürk	56%
Authoritarian president introducing the "Bolivarian revolution" in his country, died of cancer in 2013	Hugo	Chavez	56%
Winner of 20 tennis Grand Slam titles	Roger	Federer	56%
Popular First Lady of her country, her life being told in musical (Andrew Lloyd Webber) and film (Madonna)	Maria Eva ("Evita")	Peron	55%
"War and Peace" author	Leo	Tolstoy	55%
UN Secretary General 1997-2006	Kofi	Annan	53%
First European on the American continent	Leif	Eriksson	53%
Singer ("I Should Be So Lucky", "Can't Get You Out Of My Head") and actress ("Swinging Safari")	Kylie	Minogue	53%
"Lord of the Rings" director, triple Oscar winner	Peter	Jackson	51%
"Europe's last dictator"	Alexander	Lukashenko	51%
WWII resistance fighter and longtime dictator of Yugoslavia	Josip	Tito	51%
US Founding Father, emigrated from his Caribbean island in 1772, killed in a duel	Alexander	Hamilton	49%
President in his Southern African country from 1987 to 2017, evolving from a respected anti-colonial reformer to a corrupt dictator	Robert	Mugabe	49%
Painter of "The Scream"	Edvard	Munch	49%
Prime Minister (1988-90, 1993-96), influential party and opposition leader, assassinated in 2007	Benazir	Bhutto	47%
"Ulysses" author	James	Joyce	47%
Leader of the Islamic Revolution	* Ayatollah	Khomeini	47%
Striker for Liverpool, Barcelona and Atletico, and notorious biter	Luis	Suarez	47%
Longtime Chelsea striker (164 goals), voted African Footballer of the Year twice	Didier	Drogba	45%
Controversial multiple Prime Minister of his country located between Egypt and Lebanon	Benjamin	Netanyahu	45%
Shipping magnate and second husband of Jackie Kennedy	Aristotle	Onassis	45%
Argentina-born head of the Catholic Church (since 2013)	* Jorge Mario	Bergoglio (Pope Francis)	44%
Actress, human rights activist and former wife of British rock singer Mick	Bianca	Jagger	40%
First or second man on the summit of Mt Everest	Tenzing	Norgay	40%
Leader of the "Solidarity" trade union, president after the fall of the Iron Curtain	Lech	Walesa	40%
"The Great One": Best ice hockey player of all time	Wayne	Gretzky	38%
Leftist and first indigenous president of his Andean country (2006-19)	Evo	Morales	38%
Real Madrid and Paris SG goalkeeper, helped his country's national team reach the 2014 World Cup quarter finals	Keylor	Navas	38%
Assassin of archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914	Gavrilo	Princip	38%
Striker for AC Milan, Dortmund, and Arsenal	Pierre-Emerick	Aubameyang	36%
Rapper, "Fugees"-Member, intended to run for president	Wyclef	Jean	36%
Film director ("Hulk", "Brokeback Mountain"), winner of three Oscars	Ang	Lee	36%
Supermodel, ex-wife of football player Tom Brady	Gisele	Bündchen	35%
Lawyer, human rights activist, and wife of actor George	Amal	Clooney	35%
Playwright and first president of his country	Vaclav	Havel	35%
Longtime dictator of his communist country in the Balkans with strong ties to China	Enver	Hoxha	35%
National poet of his South American country ("Canto general"), 1971 Nobel Prize winner	Pablo	Neruda	35%
Prince of a rich Mediterranean country and husband of Grace Kelly	Rainier	Grimaldi	33%
Drug dealing ruler of his Central American country, removed from power and arrested by a US Invasion in 1989	Manuel	Noriega	33%
Actor ("In the Heat of the Night", "They call me Mister Tibbs!") and 1964 Academy Award winner	Sidney	Poitier	33%
Inventor of the Magic Cube	Ernö	Rubik	33%
Freedom fighter, over 15 years under house arrest, State Counselor from 2016 to 2021 (ousted through a military coup)	Aung San	Suu Kyi	33%
Five time Olympic gold medalist and first gymnast to get a perfect 10.0 at Olympic Games (1976)	Nadia	Comaneci	31%
"The Kite Runner" author who fled with his family to the US in 1980	Khaled	Hosseini	31%
Only boxer to win World Champion titles in eight weight divisions, now a politician	Manny	Pacquiao	31%
Striker for Chelsea, Leeds and Middlesbrough, played for the national team of the Netherlands (former colonial power of his native country)	Jimmy Floyd	Hasselbaink	29%
Outlaw, revolutionary General, "Robin Hood" of his country, and Hollywood actor (portraying himself)	* Pancho	Villa	29%
Longtime striker in the English Premier League (97 goals) and 2008 African footballer of the year	Emmanuel	Adebayor	27%
Former heavyweight boxing champion and mayor of his country's capital	Vitali	Klitschko	27%
Legendary "Seven Samurai" director	Akira	Kurosawa	27%
Longtime dictator in his country and name giver of its capital	Nursultan	Nazarbayev	27%
Warlord and cruel president of his West African country, condemned in The Hague to 50 years for war crimes	Charles	Taylor	27%
Voivode of his country 1457-1504	* Stephen (the)	Great (cel Mare)	25%
Anti-colonial and social justice leader, first PM of his country, ousted by General Mobutu, assassinated in 1961	Patrice	Lumumba	25%
PM of his country and president of the EU commission (2014-19)	Jean-Claude	Juncker	24%
Increasingly authoritarian president since 2000, ended the genocide on Tutsi in his small Central African country	Paul	Kagame	24%
"This is not a pipe" painter	René	Magritte	24%
1st president and "Father" of his SE African country, achieved the union with Zanzibar	Julius	Nyerere	24%
Possibly the most legendary long-distance and marathon runner of all time, setting 27 world records	Haile	Gebrselassie	22%
Popular Queen of the "Hashemite Kingdom", wife of King Abdullah II	* Queen	Rania (al-)Abdullah	22%
First female president of her South East Asian country, daughter of former president Sukarno	* Megawati	Sukarnoputri	22%
Ruler of his North East African country from 1989-2019, charged with genocide and war crimes by the International Criminal Court	Omar (al-)	Bashir	20%
Dictator and self-declared "emperor" of his country in Central Africa (1966-79)	Jean-Bédel	Bokassa	20%
Anti-colonial activist and first president of his country in Southern Africa (1964-91)	Kenneth	Kaunda	20%
Founder of the Unification Church known for its mass weddings	Sun Myung	Moon	20%
Authoritarian first ruler of his oil-rich country at the Caspain Sea	Heydar	Aliyev	18%
"Rude Boy" singer	Rihanna	Fenty	18%
Indigenous human rights activist, feminist and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1982	Rigoberta	Menchu	18%
Dictator of his central Asian country with an absurd cult of personality	Saparmurat	Niyazov	18%
Revolutionary and authoritarian leader of his East African country since 1991	Isaias	Afwerki	16%
The world's first female Prime Minister (1960), mother of future President Chandrika Kumaratunga	Sirimavo	Bandaranaike	16%
Leftist president of his Andean country (2007-17) with successes in reducing poverty but critiziced for restricting liberties	Rafael	Correa	16%
Leftist guerrilla leader and controversial long-time president of his oil-rich country in South West Africa	José Eduardo	Dos Santos	16%
African swimmer famous for swimming the 100 m freestyle in an extremely slow time at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, but frenetically applauded by the public	* Eric (the)	Eel (Moussambani)	16%
Authoritarian president of his Central Asian country since 1994	Emomali	Rahmon	16%
Longtime president of his country on the Arab peninsula, toppled in the Arab Spring in 2011, killed by Houthi rebels in 2017	Ali Abdullah	Saleh	16%
Businessman, PM of his SE Asian country, briefly owned Manchester City Football Club	Thaksin	Shinawatra	16%
The world's No1 golfer 2004/05, won three major titles (Masters, 2 PGA Championships)	Vijay	Singh	16%
Independence hero of his Maghreb country	Habib	Bourguiba	15%
Sprinter, four time Olympic medalist, 200 m World Champion in 1993	Frankie	Fredericks	15%
Actor ("Withnail & I", "Bram Stoker's Dracula"), nominated for a 2019 Academy Award for "Can You Ever Forgive Me?"	Richard E.	Grant	15%
Human rights activist and third wife of Nelson Mandela, only First Lady of two different countries	Graça	Machel	15%
Winner of 9 Olympic Gold medals in athletics in the 1920s	Paavo	Nurmi	15%
2017 French Open surprise winner	Jelena	Ostapenko	15%
Longtime Emir and founding father of the Union of seven Arab emirates	Sheikh Zayed (bin)	Sultan (al-)Nahyan	15%
SE Asian action star, best known for her roles in "Tomorrow Never Dies" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"	Michelle	Yeoh	15%
Strongman of his Southern African country formerly called Nyasaland from 1964-1994	Hastings	Banda	13%
Socialist PM in his Caribbean country (1979-83), his policy resulting in a US invasion	Maurice	Bishop	13%
Very tall (2.30 m) NBA player with a great shot-block record, activist for the independence of his country from Sudan	Manute	Bol	13%
Authoritarian long-time ruler of his landlocked African country, "winning" 6 presidential elections, died from gunshot wounds in 2021	Idriss	Déby	13%
Mbalax singer ("7 seconds"), 2005 Grammy winner for "Egypt", actor, and politician	Youssou	N'Dour	13%
Outstanding batter, captain of the West Indies cricket team in 50 Test matches (1984-91)	Viv	Richards	13%
Archbishop of his country's capital, murdered in 1980, canonized in 2018	Oscar	Romero	13%
Sultan of his country on the Arabian Peninsula for 50 years (1970-2020)	Qabus (bin)	Said (al-)Said	13%
Influential revolutionary with a socialist and Pan-African ideology, president of his country, murdered in 1987	Thomas	Sankara	13%
Successful alpine skier, wife of Austrian skier Harti, and mother of skier Tina	Hanni	Weirather (Wenzel)	13%
Emir of his oil-rich country from 1977-2006, shortly in exile after an Iraqi invasion	Jaber (al-)	Ahmad (al-)Sabah	11%
Investigative journalist and blogger murdered in 2017	Daphne	Caruana Galizia	11%
World Chess Champion 1963-69	Tigran	Petrosian	11%
Authoritarian longtime president of his Indian Ocean island country, came to power by a coup d'état in 1977	(France-)Albert	René	11%
Tall basketball player (2,21 m) for the Indiana Pacers and Olympic gold medalist in 1988	Arvydas	Sabonis	11%
South American author ("The Green House", "Death in the Andes"), winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature	Mario	Vargas Llosa	11%
Poet ("Omeros") and 1992 winner of the Nobel Prize in literature	Derek	Walcott	11%
Current King of his Himalayan country	Jigme Khesar Namgyel	Wangchuck	11%
Legendary soccer goal keeper known for his attacking spirit	José Luis	Chilavert	9%
Singer ("Sodade"), 1994 Grammy Award winner, and "Queen of Morna"	Cesaria "Cise"	Evora	9%
Authoritarian PM of his country, getting in growing conflict with the neighboring Apartheid regime	Leabua	Jonathan	9%
High jump world record holder (2.09 m) since 1987	Stefka	Kostadinova	9%
Real Madrid soccer player (1996-99) from a small Balkan country	Predrag	Mijatovic	9%
Dominating and controversial political figure in his Central African country since 1979 (officer, rebel, president for decades)	Denis	Sassou-Nguesso	9%
First PM of his newly independent Balkan country (2008-14), accused of war crimes	Hashim	Thaci	9%
First president of his Indian Ocean island country (1975 and 1978-89), shot by soldiers commanded by infamous mercenary Bob Denard	Ahmed	Abdallah	7%
Author of "Jamila", dubbed "the world's most beautiful love story" by a critic.	Chinghiz	Aitmatov	7%
5000 m gold medal winner at the 1984 Olympics and former world record holder	Saïd	Aouita	7%
First female president of her Pacific island country (2016-20), and women's rights advocate	Hilda	Heine	7%
Raï singer/songwriter ("Aïcha", "Didi")	* Cheb	Khaled	7%
West African singer ("Agolo", "Batonga"), choreographer, activist, four time Grammy winner	Angélique	Kidjo	7%
Singer, band leader, pioneer of Afrobeat genre and civil rights activist	Fela	Kuti	7%
11 time MLB Allstar, first baseman (Cardinals, Angels, dodgers), has hit over 700 home runs so far	Albert	Pujols	7%
Cardinal, archbishop of Tegucigalpa, and strong advocate of debt relief for poor countries	Oscar	Rodriguez Maradiaga	7%
Pop singer ("To poli-poli") and multiple Eurovision song contest participant for her Mediterranean island country and for Greece	Anna	Vissi	7%
Heptathlon and long jump World Champion, competing first for her native West African country, later for France	Eunice	Barber	5%
High jumper (2.43 m) and 2021 Olympic gold medalist	Mutaz Essa	Barshim	5%
Singer, saxophonist, bandleader, pioneer of "Mokassa" style fusioning funk, brass and traditional elements	Manu	Dibango	5%
Long jumper and heptathlete, later competing for Portugal, winning two gold medals at World Indoor Championships	Naide	Gomes	5%
Actor and film director ("Soleil O"), winner of the 1970 Golden Leopard at Locarno film festival	Med (Mohamed Abid)	Hondo	5%
West African singer and musician best known for his hit "Yé ké yé ké"	Mory	Kanté	5%
Soca singer ("Turn Me On") with a falsetto voice from a Caribbean island nation	Kevin	Lyttle	5%
400 m sprinter, 2011 world champion by beating Allyson Felix	Amantle	Montsho	5%
Composer, inventor of the tintinnabuli style	Arvo	Pärt	5%
President of his Pacific island country (2003-16), advocated measures against global warming, got into a row with China	Anote	Tong	5%
Economist, pioneer of the microfinance concept, and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2006	Muhammad	Yunus	5%
Warlord in his country at the Horn of Africa, enemy of the US troops in "Black Hawk Down"	Mohamed Farrah	Aidid	4%
Former Swansea and Reading player with 51 Premier League games	Modou ("Mo")	Barrow	4%
Army officer in his troubled Central African country, led two military coups to serve two presidential terms (1987-93, 1996-2004)	Pierre	Buyoya	4%
First Asian to win a heavyweight world championship title of a major boxing organization	Ruslan	Chagayev	4%
Motorcyclist from a tiny European country (active 1999-2020) winning four Grand Prix races	Alex	De Angelis	4%
Independence hero and four-time president of his Pacific island country, made Australian rules football the national sport	Hammer	DeRoburt	4%
Authoritarian longtime president (1978-2008) of his island country in the Indian Ocean	Maumoon Abdul	Gayoom	4%
Guitar player and folk musician singing in Malagasy ("Tambazako", "Tsy Ferana")	* Erick	Manana	4%
Film director, winner of the 1994 Golden Lion in Venice for "Before the Rain"	Milcho	Manchevski	4%
17th century chief whose gravesite is the first Unesco World Heritage Site of his Melanesian island country	* Roi	Mata	4%
President of his Pacific island country, descendant of Japanese explorer Koben	Manny	Mori	4%
Actress ("Rambo: First Blood Part II", "Sidekicks"), ex-wife of David Soul	Julia	Nickson	4%
Leader of communist Pathet Lao, first president of his country, and son of Prince Bounkhong	* (Souphanouvong), the Red	Prince	4%
Dub music producer and sound engineer ("Dub Me Crazy")	* Mad	Professor	4%
Won four presidential elections in his small island country in Oceania, awarded the UN title "Champion of the Earth" for his environment policy	Tommy	Remengesau	4%
"Devilish" ice hockey player with 15 NHL seasons and a 2009 Stanley Cup win	Miroslav	Satan	4%
Singer, guitarist and pioneer of West Africa's "desert blues"	Ali Farka	Touré	4%
Bishop of Lonum, awarded the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize (together wirth José Ramos-Horta) for his peaceful efforts to seek independence of his small SE Asian country	Carlos Filipe	Ximenes Belo	4%
Painter and musician, pioneer of Punta Rock with his "Turtle Shell Band"	Pen	Cayetano	2%
Author ("Sens-plastique", "Pensées") and artist from an Indian Ocean island country, famous for his aphorisms	Malcolm (de)	Chazal	2%
Rugby union player on the scrum-half position, competing for Australia (110 caps) since moving to Brisbane	Will	Genia	2%
Rugby union player (flanker), captained the national team of his Pacific kingdom 42 times	* Nili	Latu	2%
Rugby Hall of Famer called "The Chiropractor" because of his powerful hits	Brian	Lima	2%
Politician, diplomat, secretary-general of the Organization of African Unity, and writer (won the Grand prix littérarie d'Afrique noire for "Gros Plan")	Idé	Oumarou	2%
Human rights activist in his small island country in the Persian Gulf	Nabeel	Rajab	2%
Author of historical novels, writing in Catalan (the official language of his Pyrenean country) and Spanish	Albert	Salvado	2%
Author ("The Orchid House"), labour activist, and Minister of Labour and Social Affaires in the West Indies Federation 1958-62	Phyllis	Shand Allfrey	2%
Diplomat, PM of his tiny Pacific island country 2013-19	Enele	Sopoaga	2%
Military coup leader and three time president of his small West African country, assassinated in 2009	João "Nino"	Vieira	2%
Best known novelist and poet of his small country at the Horn of Africa ("In the United States of Africa", "Passage of Tears")	Abdourahman	Waberi	2%
Swimmer from a Pacific island country, pioneer of the front crawl style, broke the world diving record (62 m) in 1918	Alick	Wickham	2%
Actor ("14 Blades") and singer from a small SE Asian monarchy, member of Taiwanese boy band Fahrenheit	Chun	Wu	2%

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