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- Jaan Tõnisson Jaan Tõnisson Estonian prime minister who concluded the Treaty of Tartu, publisher of Postimees
- Antanas Smetona Antanas Smetona Lithuania's first president who led the declaration of independence, later leader of the 1926 coup
- Alexander Khatisian Ալեքսանդր Խատիսեան Dashnak foreign minister and prime minister of the First Republic of Armenia who signed the treaties of Batum and Alexandropol
- Avgustyn Voloshyn Августин Волошин Greek Catholic priest who became president of Carpatho-Ukraine when it declared independence in March 1939
- Kārlis Ulmanis Kārlis Ulmanis Latvia's prime minister in the war of independence, later dictator after the 1934 coup
- Vaclau Lastouski Вацлаў Ластоўскі Historian who headed the government of the Belarusian People’s Republic in exile, moved to Soviet Byelorussia and was executed
- Augustinas Voldemaras Augustinas Voldemaras Lithuania's first prime minister, later leader of the far-right Iron Wolf
- Pan Halippa Pan Halippa Journalist and politician who, as vice-president and later president of Sfatul Țării, led the movement for Bessarabia’s union with Romania
- İsmet İnönü İsmet İnönü Officer who negotiated the Treaty of Lausanne and succeeded Atatürk as Turkey’s second president
- Noman Çelebicihan Номан Челебиджихан First head of the Crimean People’s Republic, the first elected mufti of Crimea and the poet of the Crimean Tatar anthem
- Jüri Uluots Jüri Uluots Law professor and Estonia’s last constitutional prime minister who, acting as president, formed the Tief government in 1944
- László Bárdossy Bárdossy László Wartime prime minister who declared war on the Soviet Union over the Kassa bombing and approved the deportation of Jews
- Ahmet-Zaki Validi Әхмәтзәки Вәлиди Leader of the Bashkir national movement who proclaimed Bashkir autonomy, commanded the Bashkir Army and took it over to the Soviet side
- Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle Charles de Gaulle A statesman who declared that France would continue the war amid defeat
- Andor Jaross Jaross Andor Hungarian minority leader in Czechoslovakia who, as interior minister in Sztójay’s cabinet in 1944, organised the deportation of Jews
- Hjalmar Mäe Hjalmar Mäe Estonian Vaps politician who headed the collaborationist Estonian Self-Administration under German occupation in 1941–1944