| TOURE | (Ahmed) Sekou ___, first president of the Republic of Guinea (1958-84) |
| CONAKRY | Capital of the Republic of Guinea (7) |
| SPITZBERGEN | Swimming great's been taking in Republic of Guinea island |
| DEGAULLE | Charles ___, first president of the Fifth Republic in France (2,6) |
| SOBUKWE | Mangaliso Robert _, first president of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (7) |
| EBERT | Friedrich ___, first president of the German Republic (1919-25) |
| HAVEL | Vaclav _, first President of the Czech Republic (19932003) |
| SUNYATSEN | First president of the Republic of China and co-founder of the Kuomintang (3,3-3) |
| YELTSIN | Boris _; first president of the Russian Federation (7) |
| DUBE | John Langalibalele _, first president of the ANC (4) |
| WASHINGTON | George _, first President of the United States (10) |
| NGODINHDIEM | He proclaimed himself the first president of the Republic of Vietnam |
| BURNET | County named for the first president of the Republic of Texas |
| KEMALATATURK | The first president of the Republic of Turkey (5,7) |
| BENBELLA | Ahmed ___, first president of Algeria (3,5) |
| KENYATTA | Jomo _, first president of Kenya, 1964 to 1978 (8) |
| NETO | Agostinho _, first president of Angola, 1975-1979 (4) |
| NYERERE | Julius ___, first president of Tanzania (1964-1985) (7) |
| MARCOS | Ferdinand _, president of the Republic of the Philippines from 1965 until he was ousted by the People Power Revolution in 1986 (6) |
| NGO | First president of the Republic of Vietnam, ... Dinh Diem |
