| SUNYATSEN | Physician who became president of China |
| XI | He became president of China in 2013 |
| PRINCEWILLIAM | Member of the British royal family who became president of the FA in 2006 (6,7) |
| LYNDONJOHNSON | Who became president of the US on the assassination of John F. Kennedy? (6,7) |
| PERON | Soldier who became president of Argentina (5) |
| PUTIN | Former KGB agent who became president of Russia in 2012 |
| EMMANUEL | - Macron, politician who became president of France in 2017 (8) |
| CHAMORRO | Violeta, politician who became president of Nicaragua in 1990 (8) |
| JUANPERON | Army colonel and statesman who became President of Argentina three times between 1946 and 1974 (4,5) |
| SITHOLE | Reverend Ndabaningi, who became president of Zanu in Zimbabwe in 1963 (7) |
| HUERTA | Victoriano ---, Mexican general who became president of the country by coup in 1913 (6) |
| BETANCOURT | Anticommunist politician who became president of Venezuela after a coup in 1945 |
| VOLODYMYRZELENSKYY | Former comedian and actor who became president of Ukraine in 2019 |
| WEAH | George ---, AC Milan and Chelsea footballer who became president of Liberia |
| TAMBO | Oliver, South African politician who became president of the ANC in 1977 (5) |
| LULA | Politician who became president of Brazil for the second time in 2023 (4) |
| BOLIVAR | Politician and military leader, 1783-1830, who became president of Venezuela, Peru and Bolivia (7) |
| IDIAMIN | Which soldier became president of Uganda in 1971, ruled through most of the decade as a military dictator, and is now considered one of the most brutal despots in modern world history? (3,4) |
| DEGAULLE | Charles _, leader of the Free French Forces in the Second World War who later became president of France (2,6) |
| MUGABE | African politician who eventually became President of Zimbabwe, Robert ... |
