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Sun Yat-sen
Chinese politician, physician, and revolutionary (1866–1925)
Jacques-Louis David
French painter (1748–1825)

Qaboos bin Said Al Said
sultan of Oman from 1970 to 2020 (1940–2020)
Emilio Aguinaldo
President of the Philippines from 1899 to 1902
Marcus Garvey
Jamaica-born British political activist, Pan-Africanist, orator, and entrepreneur (1887-1940)
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
British statesman and naval officer (1900-1979)
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Austrian artist (1928–2000)

Vajiravudh
Vajiravudh (1 January 188126 November 1925) was the sixth king of Siam from the Chakri dynasty, titled Rama VI. He reigned from 1910 until his death in 1925. King Vajiravudh is best known for his efforts to create and promote Siamese nationalism. His reign was characterized by Siam's further Westernization, minimal participation in World War I, and lavish spending on arts and culture. He had keen interests in Siamese history, archaeology, and literature, as well as economics, politics and world affairs, and founded the country's first university, Chulalongkorn University.

Agustín I of Mexico
first constitutional emperor of Mexico (1783-1824)

Manuel Belgrano
Argentine politician and military leader

Francisco de Miranda
Venezuelan military leader (1750–1816)

Hussein bin Ali
Sharif and Emir of Mecca, then King of Hejaz and Sharifian Caliph (1854–1931)
Gojong of the Korean Empire
26th king of Joseon, first emperor of the Korean Empire (1852–1919)

Sobhuza II
King of Swaziland (1899-1982)

Sabino Arana
Basque nationalist, writer and politician (1865–1903)
Barthélemy Boganda
1st Prime Minister of the Central African Republic autonomous territory (1910-1959)

Prithvi Narayan Shah
King of Nepal
Moktar Ould Daddah
President of Mauritania from 1960 to 1978

Malietoa Tanumafili II
Malietoa in Samoa (1913-2007)
Gilbert Baker
American artist and gay rights activist (1951–2017)
Henry Steel Olcott
U.S. Army officer; founder of Theosophy (1832-1907)
Yusef of Morocco
Sultan of Morocco (1882-1927)

Betsy Ross
American upholsterer who was credited by her relatives with making the first American flag
George William Russell
Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter (1867-1935)
Kim Tu-bong
Korean linguist and politician (1886–1958?)

Carlos Westendorp
Spanish diplomat and politician
Juan Pablo Duarte
Presidente y libertador of the Dominican Republic (1813-1876)
Mark Sykes
British politician, diplomatic advisor, and traveller (1879-1919)
Oliver Wolcott
United States federal judge; second U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1760-1833)
Whitney Smith
founder of vexillology, the study of flags (1940–2016)
Thue Christiansen
Greenlandic politician and designer of the Greenland flag (1940–2022)
Pingali Venkayya
Indian independence activist (1876–1963)
Ghevont Alishan
Armenian Catholic priest, historian, and poet (1820–1901)
Francis Hopkinson
American politician, judge, and author 1737-1791
Joaquín Suárez
president of Uruguay
Theodosia Okoh
designer of the Ghana national flag
El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed
co-founder and general-secretary of the Polisario (1948-1976)
Christopher Gadsden
American soldier and politician (1724-1805)
Manuel Isidoro Belzu
President of Bolivia (1808-1865)
Klaudzi Duzh-Dusheuski
Belarusian architect, diplomat and journalist (1891-1959)
Ali bey Huseynzade
Azerbaijani and Turkish writer, doctor and university teacher (1864–1940)
Albert Hastings Markham
British explorer and Royal Navy officer (1841–1918)
Tupua Tamasese Meaʻole
Was the Tupua Tamasese from 1929 to 1963, a Samoan paramount chief
Stepan Malkhasyants
Armenian academic (1857-1947)
Lorenzo de Zavala
19th-century Mexican politician (1788-1836)
Zeng Liansong
economist, designer of the flag of the People's Republic of China
Sadik Kaceli
Albanian artist (1914-2000)
David Urquhart
British politician (1805-1877)
Lu Haodong
Chinese revolutionary
Catherine Flon
Haitian flag designer
Astrid Båhl
Norwegian Sámi artist

Narciso López
Venezuelan adventurer (1797-1851)
Marcela Agoncillo
Seamstress (1859-1946)
Israel Belkind
Russian historian
Ron Cobb
American cartoonist (1937-2020)
Arsène Heitz
author of the Flag of Europe (1908-1989)
Shaken Niyazbekov
Kazakhstani artist (1938-2014)
Al-Husayn II ibn Mahmud
Bey of Tunis (1824-1835)
Marko Pogačnik
Slovenian artist and author (born 1944)
Paul Ahyi
Artist, sculptor, architect (1930-2010)