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Top 100 leaders of all time

The top 100 leaders of all time, ranked by everyone, one head-to-head pick at a time.

  1. Cleopatra 68–29 BC
  2. Benedict XVI 1927–2022
  3. Genghis Khan 1162–1227
  4. Pope Francis 1936–2025
  5. Donald Trump 1946–
  6. Joseph Stalin 1878–1953
  7. Alexander the Great 355–322 BC
  8. Vladimir Putin 1952–
  9. Mahatma Gandhi 1869–1948
  10. Julius Caesar 99–43 BC
  11. Elizabeth II 1926–2022
  12. Jimmy Carter 1924–2024
  13. Vladimir Lenin 1870–1924
  14. Che Guevara 1928–1967
  15. Napoleon 1769–1821
  16. Nelson Mandela 1918–2013
  17. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929–1968
  18. Saint Peter ?–64
  19. Winston Churchill 1874–1965
  20. Mother Teresa 1910–1997
  21. Leo XIV 1955–
  22. Elizabeth I of England 1533–1603
  23. Charles III 1948–
  24. George Washington 1732–1799
  25. John F. Kennedy 1917–1963
  26. John Paul II 1920–2005
  27. Paul the Apostle 5–66
  28. Constantine the Great 272–337
  29. Barack Obama 1961–
  30. Akbar 1542–1605
  31. Thomas Jefferson 1743–1826
  32. Abraham Lincoln 1809–1865
  33. Charles V 1500–1558
  34. George VI 1895–1952
  35. Louis XIV of France 1638–1715
  36. Benjamin Netanyahu 1949–
  37. Emmanuel Macron 1977–
  38. Mao Zedong 1893–1976
  39. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882–1945
  40. Charlemagne 748–814
  41. Benito Mussolini 1883–1945
  42. Martin Luther 1483–1546
  43. Qin Shi Huang 258–209 BC
  44. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494–1566
  45. Henry VIII of England 1491–1547
  46. Hillary Clinton 1947–
  47. Joan of Arc 1412–1431
  48. Lech Wałęsa 1943–
  49. Timur 1336–1405
  50. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931–2022
  51. Ronald Reagan 1911–2004
  52. Kublai Khan 1215–1294
  53. John Paul I 1912–1978
  54. Nicholas II of Russia 1868–1918
  55. Kim Jong-un 1984–
  56. Augustus 62 BC–14 AD
  57. Muammar Gaddafi 1942–2011
  58. Narendra Modi 1950–
  59. Otto von Bismarck 1815–1898
  60. Xi Jinping 1953–
  61. Joe Biden 1942–
  62. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1881–1938
  63. Anne Boleyn 1501–1536
  64. Hermann Göring 1893–1946
  65. Marcus Aurelius 121–180
  66. Grigori Rasputin 1869–1916
  67. Indira Gandhi 1917–1984
  68. Saladin 1138–1193
  69. Joseph Goebbels 1897–1945
  70. Louis XVI of France 1754–1793
  71. George W. Bush 1946–
  72. Ali Khamenei 1939–2026
  73. Franz Joseph I of Austria 1830–1916
  74. Fidel Castro 1926–2016
  75. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 1929–1994
  76. Hirohito 1901–1989
  77. Cyrus the Great 599–529 BC
  78. Bill Clinton 1946–
  79. Angela Merkel 1954–
  80. Friedrich Merz 1955–
  81. Melania Trump 1970–
  82. Peter the Great 1672–1725
  83. Leo XIII 1810–1903
  84. Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib 599–661
  85. Volodymyr Zelenskyy 1978–
  86. Benjamin Franklin 1706–1790
  87. James VI and I 1566–1625
  88. Boris Yeltsin 1931–2007
  89. George H. W. Bush 1924–2018
  90. Commodus 161–192
  91. Al Gore 1948–
  92. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 1954–
  93. Francis of Assisi 1182–1226
  94. Francisco Franco 1892–1975
  95. Nikita Khrushchev 1894–1971
  96. Tenzin Gyatso 1935–
  97. Margaret Thatcher 1925–2013
  98. Caligula 12–41
  99. Trajan 53–117
  100. Hernán Cortés 1485–1547

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