| DEKLERK | F. W. _; South African statesman and Nobel peace prize-winner (2,5) |
| ARAFAT | Yasser _; Palestinian statesman and Nobel Peace Prize-winner (6) |
| JANSMUTS | South African statesman and military officer (1870-1950) (3,5) |
| MANDELA | African statesman and staff -- short stay (7) |
| STEYN | D W ___, South Africa Test cricketer who took 7-51 against India at Nagpur in 2010 (5) |
| HERTZOG | J. B. M. --, 1866-1942, South African statesman, Prime Minister from 1924 to 1939 (7) |
| NYIRERE | First president of Tanzania and African statesman, Julius Kambarage _ (7) |
| BOTHA | P(ieter) W(illem) ___, South African statesman; Prime Minister 1978-84 and State President 1984-9 (5) |
| SMUTS | Jan Christiaan ___, South African statesman; prime minister 1919-24 and 1939-48 (5) |
| NYERERE | African statesman normally on periphery before monarch turned up |
| DRACULA | 1897 novel with film adaptations by F. W. Murnau, Werner Herzog, and Francis Ford Coppola, among others |
| BRANDT | Willy -, W. German chancellor nineteen sixty nie to nineteen seventy four and Nobel Peace Prize winner |
| NELSON | ____ Mandela, South African statesman who was a co-winner of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize (6) |
| MBEKI | Thabo ___, South African statesman; President 1999-2008 (5) |
| LESTER | Former Canadian P.M. and Nobel Peace Prize winner ___ Pearson |
| BEGIN | Israeli prime minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner, d. 1992 (5) |
| MALALA | _ Yousafzai, Pakistani activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner (6) |
| ELIE | ___ Wiesel, Jewish writer and Nobel Peace Prize winner (4) |
| MARIARESSA | Filipino American journalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner (2 wds.) |
| TUTU | Archbishop Desmond ___, South African statesman |