Category
page 1Exiled politicians
Rafael Correa
President of Ecuador (2007 - 2017) y Prófugo de la Justicia
Kwame Nkrumah
Ghanaian politician (1909–1972)
Bashar al-Assad
President of Syrian Arab Republic from 2000 to 2024
Ferdinand Marcos
President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986
Idi Amin
President of Uganda (1971-1979)

Erich Honecker
former leader of East Germany, General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party (1976-1989)

Syngman Rhee
President of South Korea from 1948 to 1960
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
Tunisian politician
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
Belarusian politician, educator, and pro-democracy activist (born 1982)

Reza Shah
Reza Shah Pahlavi was Shah of Iran from 1925 to 1941 and founder of the Pahlavi dynasty. Originally an army officer, he became a politician, serving as minister of war and prime minister of Iran, and was elected shah following the deposition of Ahmad Shah, the last monarch of the Qajar dynasty.

Alan García
President of Peru (1985–1990 and 2006–2011)

Edvard Beneš
Czechoslovak politician (1884-1948)
Mengistu Haile Mariam
former General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Ethiopia
Alfredo Stroessner
military dictator of Paraguay from 1954 to 1989
Yahya Jammeh
2nd President of the Gambia

Jalal Talabani
Iraqi politician (1933-2017)
Emilio Aguinaldo
President of the Philippines from 1899 to 1902
Pridi Banomyong
Thai prime minister (1900-1983)

Blaise Compaoré
President of Burkina Faso from 1987 to 2014

Amadou Toumani Touré
Malian soldier and politician

Makarios III
Archbishop primate, primate & 1st President of Cyprus (1913–1977)

João Goulart
President of Brazil from 1961 to 1964

Manuel L. Quezon
President of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944
Askar Akayev
1st and former President of Kyrgyzstan
Antanas Smetona
first President of Lithuania from 4 April 1919 until 19 June 1920 (1874-1944)
Jacobo Árbenz
president of Guatemala in 1951–54
Jean-Claude Duvalier
President of the Republic of Haiti (1951-2014)
Ninoy Aquino
Filipino senator and governor of Tarlac (1932–1983)

Plaek Phibunsongkhram
Prime Minister of Thailand, 1938–44 and 1948–57 (1897–1964)

Iskandar Ali Mirza
Pakistani politician, statesman and military general (1899–1969)
Anastasio Somoza Debayle
Dictador of Nicaragua (1967–72, 1974–79)
Władysław Sikorski
Polish military and political leader (1881-1943)
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Haitian politician who became Haiti's first democratically elected president
Marc Ravalomanana
President of Madagascar from 2002 to 2009

Sergio Osmeña
(1878-1961) President of the Philippines from 1944 to 1946

Ranavalona III
last sovereign of the Kingdom of Madagascar (1861-1917)
Gaafar Nimeiry
Sudanese President (1931-2009)

Didier Ratsiraka
President of Madagascar (1936-2021)

Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba
Burkinabé military officer and president (January–September 2022)

Albert Pike
American author, poet, orator, editor, lawyer, jurist and Confederate States Army general Associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, Freemason (1809–1891)

Władysław Raczkiewicz
Polish politician, president of Poland from 1939 to 1947 (1885-1947)
Thanom Kittikachorn
Prime Minister of Thailand from 1958 and 1963 to 1973

Azmi Bishara
Palestinian intellectual, academic, politician, and writer; founder of the Balad Party
Essad Toptani
Ottoman army officer and Prime Minister of Albania from 1914 to 1916
Henri Namphy
President of Haiti (1932-2018)
Andrei Sannikov
Belarusian pro-democracy activist
Hama Amadou
Nigerien politician (1950–2024)
Paul Magloire
President of Haiti (1907-2001)
Veranika Capkała
Belarusian public activist
Valer Capkała
Belarusian politician and diplomat
Volha Kavalkova
Belarusian politician
Oskari Tokoi
Finnish politician (1873-1963)
Jean Wyllys
Brazilian politician, journalist and former federal deputy of Brazil (2011–2019)
Harris Flanagin
governor of Arkansas from 1862 to 1864, and in exile from 1864 to 1865 (1817–1874)

Claiborne Fox Jackson
15th Governor of Missouri (1806-1862)
Samuil Agurskii
Belarusian Communist and historian (1884–1947)
Emanoil Băleanu
politician
Voĺha Karač
Belarusian journalist
Valfrid Perttilä
Finnish politician
Juan Moles
Spanish jurist, lawyer and politician (1871-1945)