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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany during the Nazi era from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor of Germany in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934. Germany's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 under his leadership marked the outbreak of the Second World War. Throughout the ensuing conflict, Hitler was closely involved in the direction of German military operations and was central to the perpetration of the Holocaust, the genocide of about six million Jews and millions of other victims.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist best known for developing the theory of relativity. Einstein also made important contributions to quantum theory. His mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2, which arises from special relativity, has been called "the world's most famous equation". He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for "his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect".
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818-1883)
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher (1844-1900)
Leon Trotsky
Russian Marxist revolutionary (1879–1940)
Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Muhammad bin 'Awad bin Laden was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda from 1988 until his death in 2011. A pan-Islamist, bin Laden organized and funded numerous jihadist or anti-Western militants and terrorist attacks worldwide. Al-Qaeda's attacks against the United States on 11 September 2001 (9/11) directly killed 2,977 victims, causing the global war on terror.
Anne Frank
Annelies Marie Frank was a German-born Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim. She gained worldwide notability posthumously for keeping a diary documenting her life in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands. In the diary, she regularly described her family's everyday life in their hiding place in an Amsterdam attic from 1942 until their arrest in 1944.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russian writer, publicist, poet and politician (1918–2008)
Henry Kissinger
American politician and diplomat (1923–2023)
Joseph Brodsky
Russian-American poet (1940-1996)
Mikheil Saakashvili
Georgian-Ukrainian politician, former President of Georgia, former Governor of Odesa
Robert E. Lee
Confederate States general (1807–1870)
Palestinians
Palestinians () are an Arab ethnonational group native to the Levantine region of Palestine. They represent a highly homogeneous community who share a cultural and ethnic identity, speak Palestinian Arabic and share close religious, linguistic, and cultural ties with other Levantine Arabs.
Fethullah Gülen
Turkish preacher and imam (1941–2024)
Rohingya
ethnic group
Emil Cioran
Romanian-French philosopher and essayist (1911–1995)
Otto von Habsburg
Head of the House of Habsburg and German politician
Lajos Kossuth
Hungarian politician (1802–1894)
Alexander Grothendieck
French mathematician (1928–2014)
Vittorio Alfieri
Italian noble, dramatist and poet (1749–1803)
Imre Lakatos
Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science (1922-1974)
Pitirim Sorokin
Russian sociologist (1889-1968)
Alexander Berkman
Russian-American anarchist and writer (1870–1936)
Eduard Limonov
Russian writer (1943-2020)
Eugene V. Debs
American labor and political leader (1855–1926)
Shing-Tung Yau
American mathematician from Hong Kong
Edith Frank-Holländer
Mother of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank (1900–1945)
Mehran Karimi Nasseri
Iranian refugee who spent 18 years in a French airport
Rosika Schwimmer
Hungarian activist, editor (1877-1948)
Margot Frank
older sister of Anne Frank (1926–1945)
Giovanni Segantini
Italian painter, neo-impressionist and symbolist (1858–1899)
Herschel Grynszpan
Polish Jewish resistance fighter
Rima Hassan
French–Palestinian politician and legal scholar, French MEP
Yasser Al-Habib
Shia cleric
Hamza bin Laden
key member of al-Qaeda
Paul Goma
Romanian writer (1935–2020)
Tony Cliff
British activist (1917-2000)
Gregor von Rezzori
Austrian journalist, actor and writer (1914–1998)
Nicholas Romanov
Italian historian and businessperson (1922-2014)
Ruth Maier
Austrian author and holocaust victim (1920–1942)
Antal Nagy
Hungarian footballer (born 1944)
Hikmat Abu Zayd
Egyptian politician and academic
Gustav Metzger
artist and political activist (1926-2017)
Garry Davis
American actor turned peace activist (1921-2013)
Rolando José Álvarez Lagos
IX Bishop of Matagalpa
Heinrich Boere
Dutch SS officer (1921–2013)
Jho Low
Malaysian fugitive conman
Ayatollah Isa Qassim
Bahrani scholar and politician
Arshak Makichyan
Armenian climate activist and violinist (b. 1994)
Shamima Begum
British born teenager who left the UK to join ISIL and later attempted to come back
Thomas C. Hindman
American politician and Confederate States Army general in the Civil War (1828–1868)
Henri Kichka
Belgian Holocaust survivor and writer (1926–2020)
Joseph O. Shelby
Confederate States Army general (1830–1897)
Alikram Hummatov
Azerbaijani convicted of treason
Bedoun
The Bedoon or Bidoon or Bidoun (), fully Bidoon jinsiya, are stateless people in several Middle Eastern countries, but particularly in Kuwait, where there is a large population of stateless people who lack access to many of the country's basic services. It is widely believed that the Bedoon issue in Kuwait is sectarian in nature.
Eliana Rubashkyn
woman who lost her citizenship after hormone replacement therapy
ethnic Chinese in Brunei
ethnic group
Marie Vassiltchikov
Russian princess (1916–1978)
Arsène Tchakarian
French Armenian Resistance fighter and historian (1916-2018)
Herta Mohr
Austrian Egyptologist, who later lived stateless in the Netherlands