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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by TwinsFan48 (talk | contribs) at 20:07, 29 November 2003. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

I wanted to find out about dictators and their history, particularly how their reigns came to an end. So I came here, only to find very little info on this page, and a list of dictators that's been redirected here. It's contents was as follows:

List of Dictators in Modern Times

(Alphabetical listing)

I agree that the definition of a dictator is vague to have it boiled down to a list, but all of the above should be mentioned in this article, if some people call them dictators. I've put the list here to help towards a more detailed and useful article! -- Sam 12:12 Apr 16, 2003 (UTC)

There's a similar list (with a bit more text) in one of the old versions of The List of Dictators, which I just restored. See this revision if you want to try and salvage something

I can think of a few more, if we're going for the definitive list of modern dictators:

Also, I would add Pinochet to the list of so-called "benevolent dictators". Like Franco, he is a hero to a large minority of his countrymen, who believe he "saved" them from Communism. But Ataturk is probably the best example of this kind of dictator.

I dont think Franco was a benevolent dictator! What about the thousands he ordered killed? What about the Spannish civil war and its consequences? In the 70's he was still executing oponents! Muriel Gottrop 10:25, 6 Sep 2003 (UTC)

I didn't study the above lists in detail, but I think they should be added to the article. They must not be forgotten. They are modern dictators, a dictator is just a dictator, this page should mention them, it's up to the people to judge them as "benevolent". An interesting link: http://www.moreorless.au.com/killers/killers.htm. Curero 19:33, 18 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Any idea why List of dictators was scrapped ? No discussions could be found on the original talk page, though the page has an impressive history. What we're seeing in this article is that the list is coming back as a sub-section. So this list can either be put into List of dictators, or better, the old page be revived. Jay 20:15, 19 Oct 2003 (UTC)

I removed Jiang Zemin from the list. First, he was President of the People's Republic of China, not the Republic of China. Don't get them mixed up! Second, his position in the government was not exactly absolute and he did not gain an "extraconstitutional or unconstitutional degree of power." I wouldn't object if someone put him back in the list again, provided you linked to the right China (not Taiwan!!).

I also removed Yuan Shikai. He wasn't a dictator durning the Qing Dynasty, although he was PM. Power was wielded by Empress Cixi until her death. Although his actions as President (for Life) of China were tyrannical, he was not around long and was abandoned by his supporters by the time he died. Nothing famous, I believe... --Jiang 17:44, 26 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Possibly complete list. I tried to make it as wide-ranging as possible to avoid bias. Not wikified. No particular order. Formatting not great. Any changes should be made in subsequent comments; please don't edit the list itself.

NORTH AMERICA

  • George Walker Bush (United States) (2001-)
  • Ronald Reagan (United States)

CENTRAL AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN

  • José de la Cruz Porfirio Diaz Mori (Mexico) (1877-1880, 1884-1911)
  • Manuel Noriega (Panama) (1983-1989)
  • Anastasio Somoza Debayle (Nicaragua) (1967-1972, 1974-1979)
  • Anastasio Somoza Garcia (Nicaragua) (1937-1947, 1950-1956)
  • Vere Cornwall Bird (Antigua and Barbuda) (1960-1971, 1976-1994)
  • Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (Cuba) (1959-)
  • François Duvalier (Haiti) (1957-1971)
  • Jean-Claude Duvalier (Haiti) (1971-1986)
  • Rafael Leonidas Trujillo y Molina (Dominican Republic) (1930-1961)
  • Raoul Cedras (Haiti) (1991)
  • Maximiliano Hernández Martínez (El Salvador) (1931-1934, 1935-1944)
  • Roberto Suazo Córdova (Honduras) (1982-1986)
  • Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar (Cuba) (1940-1944, 1952-1959)
  • Efraín Ríos Montt (Guatemala) (1982-1983)
  • Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana (Mexico) (1833-1837, 1841-1844, 1844-1845, 1847, 1853-1855)
  • Jorge Ubico y Castañeda (Guatemala) (1931-1944)
  • Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo (Guatemala) (1986-1991)
  • Alfredo Cristiani (El Salvador) (1989-1994)
  • Maurice Bishop (Grenada)
  • Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua)

SOUTH AMERICA

  • Juan Domingo Perón (Argentina) (1946-1955, 1973-1974)
  • Augusto Pinochet Ugarte (Chile) (1973-1990)
  • Alfredo Stroessner (Paraguay) (1954-1989)
  • Alberto Fujimori (Peru) (1990-2000)
  • Dési Bouterse (Suriname) (1980-1988)
  • Getulio Vargas (Brazil) (1930-1945, 1951-1954)
  • Hugo Banzer Suárez (Bolivia) (1971-1978, 1997-2001)
  • Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada (Bolivia) (1993-1997, 2002-2003)
  • Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco (1964-1967)
  • Jorge Rafael Videla (Argentina) (1976-1981)
  • Leopoldo Galtieri (Argentina) (1981-1982)
  • Gustavo Rojas Pinilla (Colombia) (1953-1957)
  • Forbes Burnham (Guyana) (1964-1985)

EUROPE

  • Ioannis Metaxas (Greece) (1936-1941, 1946-1949)
  • Georgi Dmitrov (Bulgaria) (1948-1949)
  • Josip Broz Tito (Yugoslavia) (1937-1980)
  • António de Oliveira Salazar (Portugal) (1932-1968)
  • Nicolae Ceausescu (Romania) (1965-1989)
  • Karl Dönitz (Germany) (1945)
  • Joseph Goebbels (Germany) (1945)
  • Józef Pilsudski (Poland) (1918-1922, 1926-1928, 1930)
  • Edward Rydz-Smigly (Poland) (unk)
  • Engelbert Dolfuss (Austria) (1932-1934)
  • Elizabeth II (United Kingdom) (1952-)
  • Franjo Tuđman (Croatia) (1990-1999)
  • Francisco Franco Bahamonde (Spain) (1936-1975)
  • Napoléon Bonaparte (France) (1799-1815)
  • Georgios Papadopoulos (Greece) (1967-1973)
  • Alyaksandr Lukashenka (Belarus) (1994-)
  • Adolf Hitler (Germany) (1934-1945)
  • Vidkun Quisling (Norway) (1942-1945)
  • Benito Mussolini (Italy) (1922-1943)
  • Todor Zhivkov (Bulgaria) (1954-1989)
  • Slobodan Milosevic (Yugoslavia) (1997-2000)
  • Enver Hoxha (Albania) (1948-1985)
  • Ferenc Szalasi (Hungary) (1944-1945)
  • Ion Antonescu (Romania) (1940-1944)
  • Joris van Severen (Belgium) (unk)
  • Miklos Horthy de Nagybánya (Hungary) (1920-1944)
  • Erich Honecker (Germany) (1971-1989)
  • Henri-Philippe Pétain (France) (1940-1944)
  • Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja (Spain) (1923-1930)
  • Kurt Schuschnigg (Austria) (1934-1938)
  • Turgut Ozal (Turkey) (1983-1993)
  • Sir Winston Churchill (United Kingdom) (1940-1945, 1951-1955)
  • Kurt Waldheim (Austria) (1986-1992)
  • Leopold II (Belgium) (1865-1909)
  • Simon Petlyura (Ukraine)

MIDDLE EAST AND MAGHREB

  • Sheikh Jabir al-Ahmad al-Sabah (Kuwait) (1977-)
  • Ali Abd Allah Saleh (Yemen) (1978-)
  • Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (Iran) (1979-1989)
  • Lewis Paul Bremer (Iraq) (2003-)
  • Saddam Hussein (Iraq) (1979-2003)
  • Fahd ibn Abd ul-Aziz al-Saud (Saudi Arabia) (1982-)
  • Qaboos ibn Said (Oman) (1970-)
  • Sheikh Zayed ibn Sultan al-Nahayan (United Arab Emirates) (1971-)
  • Hafez al-Assad (Syria) (1971-2000)
  • Bashar al-Assad (Syria) (2000-)
  • Ariel Sharon (Israel) (2001-)
  • Yasir Arafat (Israel) (1969-)
  • Houari Boumediène (Algeria) (1965-1978)
  • Zine el-Abidine ben Ali (Tunisia) (1987-)
  • Habib Bourguiba (Tunisia) (1957-1987)
  • Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi (Libya) (1969-)
  • Hosni Mubarak (Egypt) (1981-)
  • Anwar as-Sadat (Egypt) (1970-1981)
  • Kemal Atatürk (Turkey) (1922-1938)
  • Abd el-Aziz Bouteflika (Algeria) (1999-)
  • Gamal Abd el-Nasser (Egypt) (1954, 1954-1970)
  • Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (Iran) (1941-1979)
  • Hassan II (Morocco) (1961-1999)

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

  • Ian Douglas Smith (Zimbabwe) (1964-1979)
  • Hastings Kamuzu Banda (Malawi) (1963-1994)
  • Valentine Strasser (Sierra Leone) (1992-1996)
  • Ahmad Tejan Kabbah (Sierra Leone) (1996-1997, 1998-)
  • Charles MacArthur Ghankay Taylor (Liberia) (1990, 1997-2003)
  • Gnassingbé Eyadéma (Togo) (1967-)
  • Jerry John Rawlings (Ghana) (1979, 1981-2001)
  • Blaise Compaoré (Burkina Faso) (1987-)
  • Lansana Conté (Guinea) (1984-)
  • Ahmed Sékou Touré (Guinea) (1958-1984)
  • Félix Houphouet-Boïgny (Côte d'Ivoire) (1959-1993)
  • Omar Bongo (Gabon) (1967-)
  • Denis Sassou Nguesso (Congo-Brazzaville) (1977, 1979-1992, 1997-)
  • François Bozizé (Central African Republic) (2003-)
  • Francisco Macías Nguema (Equatorial Guinea) (1968-1979)
  • Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (Equatorial Guinea) (1979-)
  • Paul Biya (Cameroon) (1975-)
  • Ahmadou Babatoura Ahidjo (1960-1982)
  • Robert Gabriel Mugabe (Zimbabwe) (1980-)
  • Azali Assoumani (Comoros) (1999-2002, 2002-)
  • Bob Denard (Comoros) (unk)
  • Idi Amin Dada (Uganda) (1971-1979)
  • Yoweri Kaguta Museveni (Uganda) (1986-)
  • Paul Kagame (Rwanda) (2000-)
  • Juvénal Habyarimana (1973-1994)
  • Joseph Kabila (Congo-Kinshasa) (2001-)
  • Laurent-Désiré Kabila (Congo-Kinshasa) (1997-2001)
  • Mobutu Sese Seko Koko Ngbendu Wa Za Banga (Congo-Kinshasa) (1965-1997)
  • Laurent Gbagbo (Côte d'Ivoire) (2000-)
  • Samuel Shafiishuna Nujoma (Namibia) (1990-)
  • Ahmed Mathieu Kérékou (Benin) (1972-1991, 1996-)
  • Julius Kambarage Nyerere (Tanzania) (1960-1985)
  • Kofi Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana) (1952-1966)
  • Robert Guéï (Côte d'Ivoire) (1999-2000)
  • Meles Zenawi (Ethiopia) (1991-)
  • Sani Abacha (Nigeria) (1993-1998)
  • Hassan Gouled Aptidon (Djibouti) (1958-1959, 1977-1999)
  • Isaias Afewerki (Eritrea) (1991-)
  • Pierre Buyoya (Burundi) (1987-1993, 1996-2003)
  • Maxamed Siyaad Bare (Somalia) (1969-1991)
  • Daniel Toroitich arap Moi (Kenya) (1978-2002)
  • Jomo Kenyatta (Kenya) (1963-1978)
  • Pieter Willem Botha (South Africa) (1978-1989)
  • Mswati III (Swaziland) (1986-)
  • José Eduardo dos Santos (Angola) (1979-)
  • Jean-Bédel Bokassa (Central African Republic) (1966-1979)
  • Idriss Déby (Chad) (1990-)
  • Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir (Sudan) (1989-)
  • Yahya Jammeh (The Gambia) (1994-)
  • Apolo Milton Obote (Uganda) (1962-1971, 1980-1985)
  • Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara (Niger) (1996-1999)
  • Mengistu Haile Mariam (Ethiopia) (1979-1991)
  • Haile Selassie I (Ethiopia) (1916-1936, 1941-1974)
  • Hissène Habré (Chad) (1978-1979, 1982-1990)
  • Olusegun Obasanjo (Nigeria) (1976-1979, 1999-)
  • Ibrahim Babangida (Nigeria) (1985-1993)
  • Ange-Félix Patassé (Central African Republic) (1993-2003)
  • Samuel Kanyon Doe (Liberia) (1980-1990)
  • Ignatius Kutu Acheampong (Ghana) (1972-1978)
  • Abdulkassim Salat Hassan (2000-)
  • Saye Zerbo (Burkina Faso)

SOUTHEAST ASIA

  • Maumoon Abd ul-Gayoom (Maldives)
  • Ngo Dinh Diem (Vietnam)
  • Tran Duc Luong (Vietnam)
  • Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam)
  • Suharto (Indonesia)
  • Hassan al-Bolkiah (Brunei Dar-es-Salaam)
  • Khamtai Siphandon (Laos)
  • Lee Kuan Yew (Singapore)
  • Goh Chok Tong (Singapore)
  • Mahathir Mohamad (Malaysia)
  • Pol Pot (Cambodia)
  • Heng Samrin (Cambodia)
  • Kaysone Phomvihan (Laos)
  • Pervez Musharraf (Pakistan)
  • Jigme Singye Wangchuk (Bhutan)
  • Than Shwe (Burma)
  • Ne Win (Burma)
  • Thaksin Shinawatra (Thailand)
  • Mohammad Zia ul-Haq (Pakistan)

FORMER SOVIET REPUBLICS

  • Heydar Aliyev (Azerbaijan)
  • Ilham Aliyev (Azerbaijan)
  • Nursultan Nazarbayev (Kazakhstan)
  • Saparmurat Niyazov (Turkmenistan)
  • Emomali Rahmonov (Tajikistan)
  • Askar Akayev (Kyrgyzstan)
  • Vladimir Putin (Russia)
  • Boris Yeltsin (Russia)
  • Robert Kocharyan (Armenia)
  • Joseph Stalin (Russia)
  • Vladimir Lenin (Russia)
  • Nikita Khruschchev (Russia)
  • Leonid Brezhnev (Russia)
  • Mikhail Gorbachev (Russia)
  • Eduard Shevardnadze (Georgia)

EAST ASIA

  • Ferdinand Marcos (Philippines)
  • Chiang Kai-shek (Taiwan)
  • Hideki Tojo (Japan)
  • Jiang Zemin (China)
  • Deng Xiaoping (China)
  • Mao Zedong (China)
  • Hu Jintao (China)
  • Kim Jong Il (North Korea)
  • Kim Il Sung (North Korea)
  • Yuan Shikai (Taiwan)
  • Park Chung Hee (South Korea)
  • Joseph Marcelo Ejercito Estrada (Philippines)

OCEANIA

  • Taufa'ahau Tupou IV (Tonga)
  • Salote III (Tonga)
  • Richard Fell (Pitcairn Islands)
  • Sitiveni Rabuka (Fiji)
  • René Harris (Nauru)

--TwinsFan48 November 29, 2003

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