50 Famous People from Asia

Can you name 50 famous people from Asia?

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Japanese film director whose famous movies are Ikiru and Seven Samurai and Yojimbo	Akira Kurosawa
Title of Tenzin Gyatso who is the highest spiritual leader of Tibet	The Dalai Lama
Iranian politician who served as the sixth President of Iran from 2005 to 2013	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Japanese female tennis player and first Asian player to hold the top ranking in singles	Naomi Osaka
Religious teacher who lived in South Asia and who founded Buddhism	Siddhartha Gautama
Palestinian political leader who died in 2004	Yasser Arafat
Indian actress and the winner of the Miss World 1994 pageant	Aishwarya Rai
Afghan-American novelist and author of The Kite Runner	Khaled Hosseini
Israeli Yemenite Jewish singer, known in the Western world as 'The Israeli Madonna'	Ofra Haza
First Prime Minister of India	Jawaharlal Nehru
Israeli actress who portrayed superheroine Wonder Woman	Gal Gadot
South Korean who served as the 8th Secretary-General of the UN from 2007 to 2016	Ban Ki-moon
Chinese-born Hong Kong film director whose most famous movie is Red Cliff	John Woo
Vietnamese revolutionary after whom was the most populous city in Vietnam named	Ho Chi Minh
Pakistani politician who held the presidency from 2001 until 2008	Pervez Musharraf
Indian chess grandmaster and former world chess champion	Viswanathan Anand
Qatari athlete who is with a 2.43m the second highest jumper of all time	Mutaz Essa Barshim
Saudi Arabian citizen until 1994 and founder of al-Qaeda	Osama bin Laden
President of the People's Republic of China since 2013.	Xi Jinping
Founder and first Great Khan (Emperor) of the Mongol Empire	Genghis Khan
Indian filmmaker known for movies The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and The Village	M. Night Shyamalan
Hong Kong martial artist and actor who played in Shanghai Noon and Armour of God	Jackie Chan
Israeli-American actress who starred in Leon: Professional and Star Wars	Natalie Portman
North Korean politician serving as Supreme Leader of North Korea since 2011	Kim Jong-un
South Korean singer and rapper known for his hit single Gangnam Style	Psy
First President of Indonesia, serving from 1945 to 1967	Sukarno
Indian politician and the leader of the nationalist movement against the British rule	Mahatma Gandhi
Formula One driver from Thailand who drove for Torro Rosso, Red Bull and Williams	Alexander Albon
Female Pakistani politician who was assassinated in 2007	Benazir Bhutto
President of Syria since 17 July 2000	Bashar al-Assad
South Korean footballer who plays for Tottenham Hotspur	Son Heung-min
Saudi Arabian journalist who was assassinated in Istanbul in 2018	Jamal Khashoggi
Japanese male tennis player who was ranked inside the top 5 in singles	Kei Nishikori
Bengali poet, writer and the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature	Rabindranath Tagore
Founder of the People's Republic of China	Mao Zedong
Sri Lankan stateswoman who was the world's first female prime minister	Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Chinese-born Singaporean film actor and martial artist who played in Kiss of the Dragon	Jet Li
Chinese philosopher whose teaching greatly affected people around the world	Confucius
Israeli politician who has served from 1996 to 1999 and since 2009	Benjamin Netanyahu
Chinese basketballer who played 8 seasons for Houston Rockets in the NBA	Yao Ming
Malaysian actress who played in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Michelle Yeoh
South Korean film director who won Academy Award for his movie Parasite	Bong Joon-ho
President of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003	Saddam Hussein
Israeli model and actress who co-hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv	Bar Refaeli
Japanese Marshall Admiral who led the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Midway	Isoroku Yamamoto
Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Palestinian president	Mahmoud Abbas
Japanese-American actor known for his roles as Mr. Miyagi in The Karate Kid film series	Pat Morita
Japanese artist who was married to English singer-songwriter John Lennon	Yoko Ono
Chinese-American martial artist, actor and the founder of Jeet Kune Do	Bruce Lee
Filipino professional boxer nicknamed 'PacMan'	Manny Pacquiao

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