George W. Bush (1946–) was the 43rd President of the United States. He was president during the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001 and launched America's war in Afghanistan and Iraq i...

Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (1919–1980) was the Shah of Iran from 1941 to 1979. He was born in Tehran, sent to school in Switzerland as a child, and he completed his education at a Tehran military...

Ayatollah Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini (1902–1989) was the religious leader of the 1979 Iranian revolution. He was born into a family of religious scholars and didn't engage in any political activiti...

Saddam Hussein (1937–2006) was the President of Iraq from 1979 to 2006. He was born to a peasant family near Tikrit in north-central Iraq but was educated in Baghdad. At age 20, he joined the Ba'...

Osama Bin Laden (1957–2011) was the leader of Al Qaeda and the mastermind behind the terrorist bombings of September 11th, 2001. Born into a wealthy family in Saudi Arabia, he studied engineering...