People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Albert Apponyi Apponyi Albert Aristocratic statesman who led Hungary’s delegation to the Paris peace talks in 1920 and pleaded for revising Trianon at the League
- Wilhelm II Wilhelm II. Last German Emperor, who backed Austria-Hungary in the July Crisis and abdicated and fled in 1918
- Victor Emmanuel III Vittorio Emanuele III A monarch caught between constitutional authority and responsibility for Fascism
- Joseph August Joseph August von Österreich Habsburg archduke and last field marshal of the Austro-Hungarian army who briefly declared himself regent of Hungary in August 1919
- Antal Lehár Lehár Antal Legitimist general who led counter-revolutionary troops in western Hungary and joined both of King Charles’s return attempts in 1921
- Said Alim Khan Said Olimxon Last Emir of Bukhara, driven into exile in Afghanistan by the Red Army in 1920
- Alexandros Papagos Αλέξανδρος Παπάγος The Greek field marshal who staked the war on the Albanian front
- Gyula Ostenburg-Moravek Ostenburg-Moravek Gyula Gendarmerie officer whose detachment murdered two Népszava journalists and who joined King Charles’s 1921 return attempt
- Charles I Karl I. Last Habsburg monarch, Emperor Charles I of Austria and King Charles IV of Hungary, who twice tried to regain the Hungarian throne in 1921
- George II of Greece Γεώργιος Βʹ Patron of the restored monarchy and Metaxas dictatorship
- József Mindszenty Mindszenty József Archbishop of Esztergom and cardinal sentenced to life in a 1949 show trial, who sheltered in the US embassy in Budapest from 1956
- Paul Karađorđević Pavle Karađorđević A regent pressed toward the Axis while trying to keep Yugoslavia out of war
- Hirohito 裕仁 The emperor who carried Japan through war and constitutional transformation
- Michael I Mihai I The last King of Romania, who arrested Antonescu on 23 August 1944 to bring the country over to the Allies and abdicated at gunpoint in 1947
- Peter II Petar II Karađorđević The last king who carried Yugoslavia’s royal legitimacy into exile