| RUICOSTA | Former Portuguese midfielder, who won 96 caps, elected president of Benfica in 2021 |
| FRANKIEBROWN | Defender who won the last of her 96 caps for the Scotland women's football team in a 1-0 win over Denmark in 2019 |
| TIAGO | Portuguese midfielder who won 66 caps and was at Chelsea from 2004 to 2005 |
| CASSON | Director of architecture at the Festival of Britain who was elected president of the Royal Academy in 1976 and illustrated the Prince of Wales' The Old Man of Lochnagar (6) |
| GEORGEWEAH | Former FIFA World Player of the Year elected President of Liberia in 2017 (6,4) |
| SEBASTIANCOE | Former middle-distance runner elected president of the International Association of Athletics Federations in 2015 |
| PARLOUR | Ray ___, former Arsenal midfielder who won the first of his ten England caps as a substitute in a Euro 2000 qualifier against Poland in 1999 |
| BERNARDO | _____ Silva, Portuguese midfielder who joined Manchester City FC in 2017 (8) |
| LAPORTE | Bernard ___, former rugby union coach elected president of the French Rugby Federation in 2016 |
| SAMUELQUINA | Central defender for Benfica in the 1980s and 1990s who won five caps for Portugal |
| NGO | --- Dinh Diem, first elected President of Republic of South Vietnam |
| GUERRERO | Vicente ?, revolutionary general elected president of Mexico in 1829 (8) |
| BANKS | Joseph ?, British explorer and naturalist elected president of the Royal Society in 1778 (5) |
| HAMID | He was elected president of Afghanistan in 2004, ... Karzai |
| KENNEDY | Surname of the youngest person to be elected President of the United States (7) |
| URSULA | ____ von der Leyen, German politician elected President of the European Commission in 2019 (6) |
| KARZAI | In 2004 he became the first elected president of Afghanistan |
| NEHRU | Jawaharlal, statesman elected president of the Indian National Congress in 1928 (5) |
| MADURO | Recently re-elected president of Venezuela in disputed circumstances (6) |
| GASCOIGNE | Paul, former Newcastle United and Spurs midfielder who won 57 caps for England (9) |
