List of dictators
From Wikinfo
List of Dictators in Modern Times
(Alphabetical listing)
- Idi Amin - Uganda 1971 - 1979
- Hafez al-Assad -- Syria 1970 - 2000
- Fulgencio Batista -- Cuba 1952 - 1959
- Jean-Bédel Bokassa -- Central African Republic 1966 - 1979
- Fidel Castro -- Cuba 1959 -
- Nicolae Ceausescu -- Romania 1967 - 1989
- Chiang Kai-shek -- China, Taiwan
- Porfirio Diaz -- Mexico 1876 - 1911
- [[Fran�ois Duvalier]] -- "Papa Doc" - Haiti
- Jean Claude Duvalier -- "Baby Doc" - Haiti
- Francisco Franco Bahamonde -- Spain 1939 - 1975
- Alberto Fujimori -- Peru 1990 - 2000
- Adolf Hitler -- Germany 1933 - 1945
- Ho Chi Minh -- North Vietnam 1954 - 1969
- Erich Honecker -- German Democratic Republic 1971 - 1989
- Saddam Hussein -- Iraq 1979 - 2003
- Kim Il-Sung -- North Korea 1948 - 1994
- Kim Jong Il -- North Korea 1994 -
- Ayatollah Khomeini -- Iran 1979 - 1989
- Vladimir Lenin -- USSR 1917 - 1924
- Mao Zedong -- China 1949 - 1976
- Ferdinand Marcos -- Philippines 1972 - 1986
- Benito Mussolini -- Italy 1922 - 1943
- Manuel Noriega -- Panama 1983 - 1989
- Juan Peron -- Argentina 1946 - 1955
- [[Henri Philippe P�tain]] -- France 1940 - 1944
- Simon Petlyura -- Ukraine
- [[J�zef Pilsudski]] -- Poland 1926 - 1935
- Augusto Pinochet -- Chile 1973 - 1990
- Pol Pot -- Cambodia 1975 - 1978
- Miguel Primo de Rivera -- Spain 1923 - 1930
- [[Efra�n R�os Montt]] -- Guatemala 1982 - 1983
- Gustavo Rojas Pinilla -- Colombia 1953 - 1957
- Muammar Abu Minyar al-Qadhafi -- Libya 1969 -
- Vidkun Quisling -- Norway 1940 - 1945
- [[Ant�nio de Oliveira Salazar]] -- Portugal 1932 - 1968
- Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna -- Mexico
- Mobutu Sese Seko -- Zaire 1967 - 1997
- Anastasio Somoza Debayle -- Nicaragua
- [[Anastasio Somoza Garc�a]] -- Nicaragua
- Luis Somoza Debayle -- Nicaragua
- Joseph Stalin -- USSR 1924 - 1953
- Alfredo Stroessner -- Paraguay 1954 - 1989
- Suharto -- Indonesia 1968 - 1998
- Sukarno -- Indonesia 1949 - 1968
- Monsignor Jozef Tiso -- Slovakia 1939 - 1944
- Rafael Trujillo (Rafael Leonidas Trujillo y Molina) -- Dominican Republic
- Getulio Vargas -- Brazil
- Jorge Videla -- Argentina 1976 - 1981
Modern dictators
- Bashar Assad -- Syria 2000-present
- [[Kemal Atat�rk]] -- Turkey 1923-1938 (a benevolent dictator, but still...)
- Leonid Brezhnev -- USSR 1968-1982
- Engelbert Dollfuss -- Austria 1933-34
- Wojciech Jaruzelski -- Poland 1981-1989
- Alexander Lukashenko -- Belarus 1994-present
- Ioannis Metaxas -- Greece 1936-1941
- Hosni Mubarak -- Egypt 1981-present
- Pervez Musharraf -- Pakistan 1998-present
- Miklos Horthy de Nagyb�nya -- Hungary 1920-1944
- Kurt von Schuschnigg -- Austria 1934-38 (It's politically incorrect to say this now, because of his imprisonment in Dachau, but he was a dictator)
- Josip Broz Tito -- Yugoslavia 1945-1980
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "List_of_dictators" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dictators, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
