Secretaries-general of the Non-Aligned Movement

First President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist (1918–2013)

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban politician and revolutionary who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as prime minister from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 2008. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist, he also served as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1965 until 2011. Under his administration, Cuba became a one-party communist state; industry and business were nationalized, and socialist reforms were implemented throughout society.

Prime Minister of Malaysia from 1981 to 2003 and 2018 to 2020

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is an Iranian politician who served as the sixth president of Iran from 2005 to 2013. Ideologically a principlist and nationalist, he was a member of the Expediency Discernment Council and a strong supporter of Iran's nuclear program. He was also the main political leader of the Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran, a coalition of conservative political groups in the country, and served as the mayor of Tehran from 2003 to 2005, reversing many of his predecessor's reforms.

Nicolás Maduro Moros is a Venezuelan politician and former union leader who became President of Venezuela in 2013. On 3 January 2026, US forces captured Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores; they were transported to the US and charged with drug trafficking to which they pleaded not guilty. Although he was de facto removed from power, according to the Venezuelan government and interim president Delcy Rodríguez, he is still the de jure president of Venezuela. Prior to his presidency, he served as the vice president of Venezuela under President Hugo Chávez from 2012 to 2013 and as minister of foreign affairs from 2006 to 2012.

2nd President of Zimbabwe from 1987 to 2017

President of Egypt from 1981 to 2011

Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman (1892−1980)

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

President of Egypt from 1956 to 1970

President of Iran from 2013 to 2021

Suharto (8 June 1921 – 27 January 2008) was an Indonesian military officer and politician who served as the second and longest-serving president of Indonesia from 1967 to 1998. Widely regarded as a military dictator by international observers, Suharto led Indonesia as an authoritarian regime from 1967 until his resignation in 1998 following nationwide unrest. His 31-year dictatorship is considered one of the most brutal and corrupt of the 20th century: he was central to the perpetration of mass killings against alleged communists and subsequent persecution of ethnic Chinese, Islamists, irrelig

former First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba

President of South Africa from 1999 to 2008

First president of Zambia (1924–2021)

2nd President of the Republic of Croatia

Slovenian politician (1950–2008)

Head of State of Algeria from 1965 to 1978

President of India from 1982 to 1987

Prime Minister of Malaysia from 2003 to 2009

Egyptian Field marshal and former statesman (1935–2021)

Serbian politician and writer (1921-2014)

President of Sri Lanka from 1978 to 1989

President of Colombia from 1998 to 2002

President of Colombia

Serbian diplomat (1928–2021)

Sri Lankan President (1897-1981)

Montenegrin politician (1939–2020)