Random Famous People by Country

Can you name these five famous people from six randomly-changing countries?

Fictional characters are included

For the sake of this quiz, we separate the "countries" of the UK. Northern Ireland included in Ireland

You may think some of these people are from another country, rather than the other. Please keep that to yourself

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Scotland
Hero portrayed in "Braveheart"	William Wallace
16th century Queen of Scots	Mary
Young Obi-Wan Kenobi actor	Ewan McGregor
Creator of Sherlock Holmes, first mentioned it in "A Study in Scarlet"	Arthur Conan Doyle
Discovered penicillin	Alexander Fleming

Italy
Genovese explorer who "Discovered" the New World	Christopher Columbus
"Mona Lisa" painter	Leonardo da Vinci
Fascist dictator	Benito Mussolini
Radio pioneer	Guglielmo Marconi
"Marriage Italian-Style" actress	Sophia Loren

Denmark
Shakespearean Danish Prince	Hamlet
Fairy tale writer	H.C. Andersen
Current monarch	Margrethe II
Existential philosopher who wrote "Either/Or"	Søren Kierkegaard
Explorer and namesake of a strait	Vitus Bering

China
"Great Leap Forward"	Mao Zedong
"Charlie's Angels"/ "Kill Bill" actress	Lucy Liu
Most famous philosopher	Confucius
7'6" basketball player	Yao Ming
Led China towards a market economy from 1978 to 1992	Deng Xiaoping

Ethiopia
Last Emperor of Ethiopia	Haile Selassie
Marathoner with almost the same name as the above	Haile Gebrselassie
He is a "Starboy"	The Weeknd
Barefoot Olympic marathoner	Abebe Bikila
Oldest human fossil	Lucy

Chile
Chilean dictator, 1974-1990	Augusto Pinochet
Poet and 1971 Nobel Prize winner	Pablo Neruda
First Marxist to be democratically elected president	Salvador Allende
"Warrior" Inter Milan midfielder	Arturo Vidal
Portrays "The Mandalorian"	Pedro Pascal

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