elder statesman - an elderly statesman whose advice is sought be government leaders

Founding Father - a member of the Constitutional Convention that drafted the United States Constitution in 1787

pol, political leader, politico, politician - a person active in party politics

stateswoman - a woman statesman

Acheson, Dean Acheson, Dean Gooderham Acheson - United States statesman who promoted the Marshall Plan and helped establish NATO (1893-1971)

Adenauer, Konrad Adenauer - German statesman; chancellor of West Germany (1876-1967)

Agrippa, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa - Roman general who commanded the fleet that defeated the forces of Antony and Cleopatra at Actium (63-12 BC)

Alcibiades - ancient Athenian statesman and general in the Peloponnesian War (circa 450-404 BC)

Arafat, Yasser Arafat - Palestinian statesman who is chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (born in 1929)

Ataturk, Kemal Ataturk, Kemal Pasha, Mustafa Kemal - Turkish statesman who abolished the caliphate and founded Turkey as a modern secular state (1881-1938)

1st Earl Attlee, Attlee, Clement Attlee, Clement Richard Attlee - British statesman and leader of the Labour party who instituted the welfare state in England (1883-1967)

Augustus, Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, Gaius Octavianus, Octavian - Roman statesman who established the Roman Empire and became emperor in 27 BC; defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra in 31 BC at Actium (63 BC - AD 14)

Baron Verulam, Francis Bacon, Sir Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Albans, 1st Baron Verulam, Bacon - English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626)

1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, Stanley Baldwin, Baldwin - English statesman; member of the Conservative Party (1867-1947)

1st Earl of Balfour, Arthur James Balfour, Balfour - English statesman; member of the Conservative Party (1848-1930)

Baruch, Bernard Baruch, Bernard Mannes Baruch - economic advisor to United States Presidents (1870-1965)

Begin, Menachem Begin - Israeli statesman (born in Russia) who (as prime minister of Israel) negotiated a peace treaty with Anwar Sadat (then the president of Egypt) (1913-1992)

Ben Gurion, David Ben Gurion, David Grun - Israeli statesman (born in Poland) and active Zionist who organized resistance against the British after World War II; prime minister of Israel (1886-1973)

Bevin, Ernest Bevin - British labor leader and statesman who played an important role in diplomacy after World War II (1884-1951)

Bismarck, Iron Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, Prince Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck, Prince Otto von Bismarck, von Bismarck - German statesman under whose leadership Germany was united (1815-1898)

Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, Blair, Tony Blair - British statesman who became prime minister in 1997 (born in 1953)

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, Boethius - a Roman who was an early Christian philosopher and statesman who was executed for treason; Boethius had a decisive influence on Medieval logic (circa 480-524)

El Libertador, Simon Bolivar, Bolivar - Venezuelan statesman who led the revolt of South American colonies against Spanish rule; founded Bolivia in 1825 (1783-1830)

Brandt, Willy Brandt - German states who as chancellor of West Germany worked to reduce tensions with eastern Europe (1913-1992)

Brezhnev, Leonid Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev - Soviet statesman who became president of the Soviet Union (1906-1982)

Brutus, Marcus Junius Brutus - statesman of ancient Rome who (with Cassius) led a conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar (85-42 BC)

Burke, Edmund Burke - English statesman famous for his oratory; pleaded the cause of the American colonists in Parliament and defended the parliamentary system (1729-1797)