Famous Diplomats

Hillary Rodham Clinton is a lawyer, former First Lady, and a powerful politician in American politics. She was born October 26, 1947, in Chicago, Illinois. She grew up in a conservative home but later adopted social justice and equality. Hillary Clinton graduated from Wellesley College in 1969. She got her law degree from Yale University in 1973. There, she met Bill Clinton. Clinton's legal career focused on children's rights and public service. She worked for the Children's Defense Fund and taught.

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born October 11, 1884, into a prominent New York family. She became an influential figure in twentieth-century politics despite a life with loss and loneliness. She was orphaned young. She lived with her grandmother before moving to England for Allenswood School. There, headmistress Marie Souvestre encouraged her to think for herself and engage with social issues. Returning to the United States, Eleanor married distant cousin Franklin D. Roosevelt, starting a political career.

Shirley Temple was born April 23, 1928, in Santa Monica, California. She started her career as a charming child actress during the Great Depression. Her first film contract came at age three with Educational Pictures. Soon after, she moved to Fox Film Corporation, which later became 20th Century Fox. Temple used a captivating smile, spirited singing, and great dancing skills to become America's sweetheart. Her appearances in short films called Baby Burlesks started her rise to fame.

Benjamin Franklin was a Founding Father of the United States. He was a polymath with many talents and accomplishments. Franklin served as a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, Freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humorist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. He founded many civic organizations. These included the Library Company, Philadelphia's first fire department, and the University of Pennsylvania. As a scientist, he made major contributions to the American Enlightenment and physics history, especially in electricity. He invented the lightning rod.

Henry Kissinger, born Heinz Alfred Kissinger on May 27, 1923, in Fürth, Germany, is a famous American political scientist and diplomat. His family, being Jewish, fled Germany in 1938 to escape the Nazi regime, settling in New York City. Early life shaped Kissinger's view of the world, which guided his political ideas and diplomatic plans. His studies took him to Harvard University. He earned his bachelor's degree in 1950 and a PhD in 1954, both in Government. Kissinger taught at Harvard until 1969, building an impressive network.

Colin Powell, born April 5, 1937, in New York City, became a major figure in American public life. He gained recognition for his military service, statesmanship, and writing. The son of Jamaican immigrants, he grew up in the South Bronx. Powell attended City College of New York (CCNY), joining ROTC and finding his interest in the military. Powell's military career lasted over thirty years. He served in two tours during the Vietnam War. He later held high-ranking positions.

Ernesto "Che" Guevara was an Argentinian writer and actor. He wrote "Che: Part One," "The Motorcycle Diaries," and "Che: Part Two."

Condoleezza Rice, a scholar and diplomat, played a key role in American politics. Born November 14, 1954, in Birmingham, Alabama, Rice's early life involved the civil rights movement. This history shaped her outlook and drive to succeed. She earned a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Denver. She got a master's from the University of Notre Dame. She earned a PhD from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver. Rice's studies took her to Stanford.

Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, born May 6, 1953, served as United Kingdom Prime Minister from 1997 to 2007. He led the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007 and was Leader of the Opposition from 1994 to 1997. As of 2019, Blair remains the last British Labour Party leader to win a general election. Blair was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007. He became Labour Party leader in July 1994 after John Smith died. Under Blair, the party used "New Labour" to separate itself from [missing information].

Sidney Poitier, born February 20, 1927, in Miami, Florida, is a major figure in Hollywood film. Poitier's father was a Bahamian farmer. Poitier grew up poor but built a career in acting against difficulties. He moved from tomato farms in The Bahamas to Hollywood streets. His acting career started on stage in New York. He moved to films in the early 1950s. He had roles in films like No Way Out (1950) and Cry, the Beloved Countr

Ralph Johnson Bunche (August 7, 1904 – December 9, 1971) was an American political scientist, academic, and diplomat. He received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for mediating in Israel during the late 1940s. He became the first African American to earn that honor. Bunche helped form and run the United Nations. He played a large part in many UN peacekeeping missions. President John F. Kennedy gave him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963. Bunche served on the US delegation at the Dumbarton Oaks Conference in 1944 and the United Nations Conference.

Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu (born October 21, 1949) is an Israeli politician. He became Prime Minister of Israel in 2009, having held the post from 1996 to 1999 before that. Netanyahu also chairs the Likud-National Liberal Movement. He remains the longest-serving Prime Minister in Israeli history. He was the first person born in Israel after the state was established. Born in Tel Aviv to secular Jewish parents, Netanyahu joined the Israel Defense Forces after the Six-Day War in 1967, becoming a team leader in the Sayeret Matkal special forces.

Alan Keyes acted in "Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," "Fuck," and "The Journey."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (August 28, 1749 – March 22, 1832) was a German writer and statesman. His works include four novels, epic and lyric poetry, prose and verse dramas, memoirs, an autobiography, literary and aesthetic criticism, and writings on botany, anatomy, and color. Over 10,000 letters and nearly 3,000 drawings by him survive. Goethe became a literary celebrity by age 25. The Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Karl August, ennobled him in 1782.

Jon Meade Huntsman Jr. (born March 26, 1960) is an American businessman, diplomat, politician, and the current U.S. Ambassador to Russia, serving from October 2017 to October 3, 2019. Huntsman served as the U.S. Ambassador to Singapore from 1992 to 1993. He was the 16th Governor of Utah from 2005 to 2009 and the U.S. Ambassador to China from 2009 until 2011. He served in five presidential administrations and ran for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. On August 6, 2019, Huntsman sent his resignation letter to President Donald Trump as Ambassador of the United States.

Kofi Atta Annan (April 8, 1938 – August 18, 2018) was a Ghanaian diplomat. He served as the seventh UN Secretary-General from January 1997 to December 2006. Annan and the UN shared the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. Annan founded and chaired the Kofi Annan Foundation. He also chaired The Elders, an international group started by Nelson Mandela. Annan studied economics at Macalester College. He studied international relations at the Graduate Institute Geneva. He studied management at MIT. Annan joined the UN in 1962, working for the World Health Organization.

Anne Beau Cox Chambers, born December 1, 1919, is an American media owner. She holds a stake in Cox Enterprises, a media empire covering newspapers, television, radio, cable television, and other businesses. James M. Cox, a newspaper publisher and 1920 Democratic Presidential nominee, and his second wife, Margaretta Parker Blair, are her parents. She controls her father's business interests through Cox Enterprises. For 33 years, she co-owned the family company with her sister, Barbara Cox Anthony, who died May 28, 2007. She lives in Atlanta.

Nicolaus Copernicus (born February 19, 1473; Polish: Mikołaj Kopernik; German: Nikolaus Kopernikus; Niklas Koppernigk; died May 24, 1543) was a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer. Copernicus created a universe model placing the Sun, not Earth, at the center. This model likely predates Aristarchus of Samos, who proposed a similar idea eighteen centuries prior. Copernicus published his model in *De revolutionibus orbium coelestium* before his death in 1543. This publication was a major event.

William Blaine Richardson III, born November 15, 1947, is an American politician, author, and diplomat. He served as the 30th governor of New Mexico from 2003 to 2011. Richardson also served as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Energy Secretary during the Clinton administration. He was a U.S. Congressman, chairman of the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and chairman of the Democratic Governors Association. In December 2008, he sought the cabinet position of Secretary of Commerce in the first Obama administration but withdrew a month later after an investigation into possible improper business practices.

Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld (HAM-ər-shuuld, Swedish: [ˈdɑːɡ ²hamːarˌɧœld] (listen); July 29, 1905 – September 18, 1961) was a Swedish economist and diplomat. Hammarskjöld served as the second United Nations Secretary-General. He became the youngest person to hold the post, at age 47 upon appointment. His second term ended when he died in a DC-6 airplane crash (the cause is still disputed) while traveling to cease-fire talks during the Congo Crisis. Hammarskjöld is one of only four people who received a posthumous Nobel Prize.

Marcos Orlando Letelier del Solar (April 13, 1932 – September 21, 1976) was a Chilean economist, politician, and diplomat while Salvador Allende was president. A refugee from the Augusto Pinochet military dictatorship, Letelier took several academic jobs in Washington, D.C., after leaving Chile. In 1976, agents from Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA), the Pinochet regime's secret police, killed Letelier in Washington using a car bomb. These agents worked with members of the Coordination of United Revolutionary Organi.

Golda Meir (born Golda Mabovitch; May 3, 1898 – December 8, 1978) was an Israeli teacher, kibbutznik, stateswoman, politician, and Israel's fourth Prime Minister. She was born in Kiev. She moved to the United States with her family in 1906 and studied there, becoming a teacher. After marriage, she and her husband moved to Mandatory Palestine in 1921, settling on a kibbutz. Meir became Israel's prime minister on March 17, 1969, after serving as Minister of Labour and Foreign Minister. She became the world's fourth and Israel's first and only woman to hold the office.

Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright (born Marie Jana Korbelová; May 15, 1937 – March 23, 2022) was an American diplomat. She served as the 64th United States Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. Albright became the first female secretary of state in U.S. history. Albright immigrated with her family to the United States in 1948 from Czechoslovakia. Her father, diplomat Josef Korbel, settled the family in Denver, Colorado, and she became a U.S. citizen in 1957. Albright graduated from Wellesley College in 1959 and earned a PhD from Columbia University in 1975, writing her thesis.

Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (January 2, 1895 – September 17, 1948) was a Swedish diplomat and nobleman. During World War II, he negotiated the release of about 31,000 prisoners from German concentration camps, including 450 Danish Jews from the Theresienstadt camp. They were released on April 14, 1945. In 1945, he received a German surrender offer from Heinrich Himmler, but he rejected the offer. After the war, Bernadotte became the United Nations Security Council mediator in the Arab–Israeli conflict of 1947–1948. He was assassinated in Jerusalem in 19

George Frost Kennan (February 16, 1904 – March 17, 2005) was an American diplomat and historian. He became known as an advocate for a policy of containing Soviet expansion during the Cold War. Kennan lectured widely and wrote scholarly histories of the relations between the USSR and the United States. He was also one of the foreign policy elders called "The Wise Men". Kennan's writings inspired the Truman Doctrine and the U.S. foreign policy of "containing" the Soviet Union. His "Long Telegram" from Moscow in 1946 and the 1947 article The Sources of

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 25 October 1400) wrote for England. People call him the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages. He wrote The Canterbury Tales. People style him the "Father of English literature." Chaucer became the first writer buried in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. Chaucer also became a philosopher and astronomer. He wrote the scientific A Treatise on the Astrolabe for his ten-year-old son, Lewis. Chaucer worked actively in the civil service as a bureaucrat, courtier, and diplomat. He also wrote many other works.

Raoul Gustaf Wallenberg (4 August 1912 – disappeared 17 January 1945) was a Swedish architect, businessman, diplomat, and humanitarian. He saved tens of thousands of Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary during the Holocaust from German Nazis and Hungarian Fascists later in World War II. Serving as Sweden's special envoy in Budapest from July to December 1944, Wallenberg issued protective passports and sheltered Jews in buildings designated as Swedish territory. On 17 January 1945, during the Siege of Budapest by the Red Army, SM detained Wallenberg.

John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, and diarist. He served as the sixth president of the United States from 1825 to 1829. Adams previously served as the eighth United States Secretary of State from 1817 to 1825. During his long diplomatic and political career, Adams also acted as an ambassador, represented Massachusetts as a United States Senator, and served in the United States House of Representatives. John Adams, who served as the second US president from 1797 to 1801, was his eldest son, John Adams, and First Lady Abi.

Geraldine Anne "Gerry" Ferraro (August 26, 1935 – March 26, 2011) was an American attorney and Democratic Party politician who served in the United States House of Representatives. In 1984, she became the first female vice presidential candidate representing a major American political party. Ferraro grew up in New York City. She worked as a public school teacher before training as a lawyer. She joined the Queens County District Attorney's Office in 1974, leading the new Special Victims Bureau that handled sex crimes, child abuse, and domestic violence. She was elected to the U.S. House in 1978.

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Italian: [nikkoˈlɔ mmakjaˈvɛlli]; 3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527) was an Italian diplomat, politician, historian, philosopher, writer, playwright, and poet of the Renaissance period. Many call him the father of modern political philosophy and political science. For many years, he held a senior official post in the Florentine Republic with duties in diplomatic and military affairs. He wrote comedies, carnival songs, and poetry. Historians and scholars recognize his personal correspondence. He worked as secretary to the Second Chancery.

Guillaume de Machaut (French: [gijom də maʃo]; sometimes spelled Machault; c. 1300 – April 1377) was a medieval French poet and composer. Musicologists regard him as the greatest and most important composer of the 14th century. Daniel Leech-Wilkinson called Machaut "the last great poet who was also a composer." Poets like Geoffrey Chaucer admired and copied Machaut's work throughout the 15th century. Machaut wrote in many styles and forms.

Masako (雅子, born Masako Owada (小和田雅子, Owada Masako); December 9, 1963) is the Empress of Japan (皇后, kōgō). She is the wife of Naruhito, the current Emperor of Japan, who took the Chrysanthemum Throne in 2019.

Peter Ustinov was an extraordinary entertainment personality. Born April 16, 1921, in London, England, Ustinov's career lasted six decades. It included acting, playwriting, directing, and journalism. Ustinov studied at the Westminster School. He skipped university to start his acting career. Ustinov showed great talent across many art forms. His first play, House of Regrets, debuted when he was just 19, showing prodigious talent early on.

Leonore Cohn Annenberg (February 20, 1918 – March 12, 2009), also known as Lee Annenberg, was an American businesswoman, diplomat, and philanthropist. She served as Chief of Protocol for the United States from 1981 to 1982. Annenberg married Walter Annenberg, an Ambassador to the United Kingdom and newspaper publishing magnate. She chaired and presided over the Annenberg Foundation from 2002 to 2009. She was born in New York City and raised in Los Angeles. She graduated from Stanford University. She married twice, and after the first two divorces, she married...

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Sir Harold George Nicolson (21 November 1886 – 1 May 1968) was a British diplomat, author, diarist, and politician. He married writer Vita Sackville-West.

James Russell Lowell (; February 22, 1819 – August 12, 1891) was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. Lowell is linked to the Fireside Poets. These New England writers were among the first American poets who matched the popularity of British poets. These writers used standard forms and meters in their poetry, making it suitable for family gatherings. Lowell graduated from Harvard College in 1838. He earned a law degree from Harvard Law School. He published his first collection

Ernst Eduard vom Rath (June 3, 1909 – November 9, 1938) was a German diplomat. A Polish Jewish teenager, Herschel Grynszpan, assassinated him in Paris in 1938. This act provided the pretext for Kristallnacht, "The Night of Broken Glass".

Warren Minor Christopher, an American lawyer, diplomat, and politician, lived from October 27, 1925, to March 18, 2011. During Bill Clinton's first term as president, Christopher held the role of the 63rd Secretary of State. Christopher was born in Scranton, North Dakota. After graduating from Stanford Law School, he clerked for Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. He became a partner at the firm O'Melveny & Myers. Christopher served as Deputy Attorney General from 1967 to 1969 under President Lyndon B. Johnson. He served as Deputy Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter, holding that position from 1977 to 198

Lester Bowles "Mike" Pearson (April 23, 1897 – December 27, 1972) was a Canadian scholar, statesman, soldier, prime minister, and diplomat. Pearson won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for organizing the United Nations Emergency Force to solve the Suez Canal Crisis. He served as Canada's 14th prime minister from 1963 to 1968, leading two back-to-back Liberal minority governments after the 1963 and 1965 elections. During his time as prime minister, Pearson's Liberal governments introduced universal health care, student loans, the Canada Pension Plan, the Order of Canada, and the Mapl.

Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (July 12, 1904 – September 23, 1973), known by his pen name Pablo Neruda (Spanish: [ˈpaβlo neˈɾuða]), was a Nobel Prize winning Chilean poet-diplomat and politician. Neruda became known as a poet at age 13. He wrote many styles: surrealist poems, historical epics, political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and love poems like those in Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924). He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. Neruda occupied many

Sri Lankabhimanya Lakshman Kadirgamar, PC (Tamil: லக்ஷமன் கதிர்காமர்; Sinhala: ලක්ෂ්මන් කදිර්ගාමර්, April 12, 1932 – August 12, 2005) was a Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and statesman. Kadirgamar served as Sri Lanka's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1994 to 2001 and again from April 2004 until his assassination in August 2005. His international fame came from strongly condemning the LTTE (Tamil Tigers) and pushing for their international ban. He was a distinguished lawyer and international humanitarian; an LTTE sniper assassinated him in August 2005.

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (French: [pjɛʁ bomaʁʃe]; January 24, 1732 – May 18, 1799) was a French polymath. He acted as a watchmaker, inventor, playwright, musician, diplomat, spy, publisher, horticulturist, arms dealer, satirist, financier, and revolutionary, both French and American. Born the son of a provincial watchmaker, Beaumarchais rose in French society. He became influential in Louis XV's court as an inventor and music teacher. He made many important business and social contacts. Beaumarchais played various roles as a diplomat and spy and earned a commission.

John Foster Dulles (February 25, 1888 – May 24, 1959) was an American diplomat. A Republican, he became United States Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. Dulles pushed for an aggressive stance against communism globally during the early Cold War. Dulles joined the New York City law firm Sullivan & Cromwell after finishing George Washington University Law School. His grandfather, John W. Foster, and uncle, Robert Lansing, both held the post of United States Secretary of State.

Paul Dundes Wolfowitz (born December 22, 1943) is an American political scientist and diplomat. He held positions including the 10th President of the World Bank, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, and U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia. Wolfowitz was also the former dean of Johns Hopkins SAIS. He currently works as a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He focuses on international economic development, Africa and public-private partnerships, and chairs the U.S.-Taiwan Business Council. Wolfowitz is considered a leading neoconservative. He rejects that label and prefers the title "Scoop Jackson Republi".

Viscount Mori Arinori (森 有礼, August 23, 1847 – February 12, 1889) was a Meiji period Japanese statesman, diplomat, and founder of Japan's modern education system.

Patricia Roberts Harris (May 31, 1924 – March 23, 1985) served as United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under President Jimmy Carter. She became the first African American woman in the United States Cabinet. She was also the first to enter the line of succession to the Presidency. Harris previously served as United States Ambassador to Luxembourg under President Lyndon B. Johnson and was the first African-American

Joseph Patrick Kennedy (September 6, 1888 – November 18, 1969) was an American businessman, investor, and politician. He held high-profile government positions and his children achieved political and other successes. Kennedy grew up in East Boston, Massachusetts, a political family. He built a large fortune investing in the stock market and commodities. He then reinvested those profits in real estate and various business industries across the United States. During World War I, he served as an assistant general manager for a Bethlehem Steel ship in the Boston area.

Adolph "Spike" Dubs (August 4, 1920 – February 14, 1979) served as the United States Ambassador to Afghanistan from May 13, 1978, until his death in 1979. He died during a rescue attempt following his kidnapping.

Thomas Cranmer (July 2, 1489 – March 21, 1556) led the English Reformation and served as Archbishop of Canterbury under Henry VIII, Edward VI, and briefly Mary I. He helped establish the argument for annulling Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon, a cause for splitting the English Church from the Holy See. Cranmer and Thomas Cromwell supported Royal Supremacy, holding that the king ruled the Church within his territory. As Archbishop of Canterbury, Cranmer managed