Top 10 Most Fascinating People of the Past Twenty Five Years

Ronald Wilson Reagan, GCB was the 40th President of the United States and the 33rd Governor of California ***

Pope John Paul II reigned as the 264th Pope of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of the State of the Vatican City from 16 October 1978, until his death more than 26 years later, making his the second-longest pontificate in modern times after Pius IX's 31 ***

Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini was a senior Shi`i Muslim cleric, Islamic philosopher and marja, and the political leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution which saw the overthrow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran ***

George W. Bush ***

Deng Xiaoping listen was a prominent Chinese politician and reformer, and the late leader of the Communist Party of China . ***

William Jefferson Clinton was the forty-second President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001 ***

Osama bin Muhammad bin 'Awad bin Laden, most often referred to as Osama bin Laden or Usama bin Laden, is a Saudi Arabian-born militant Islamist who is reported to be the founder of the organization al-Qaeda ***

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev , surname more accurately romanized as Gorbachyov; is a Russian politician ***

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is the former President of South Africa, and the first to be elected in fully representative democratic elections ***

Mohammed Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini, popularly known as Yasser Arafat, was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization and President of the Palestinian National Authority ***