list of dictators

The following is an incomplete historical list of dictators classified by era and part of the world in which they ruled and listed with their country and dates of rule.

Ancient (before 1000 A.D.)

Titus Larcius (Roman Republic) 501 BC
Marcus Furius Camillus (Roman Republic)
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (Roman Republic) 458 and 439 BC
Marcus Valerius Corvus (Roman Republic) 342 and 301 BC
Publius Cornelius Rufinus (Roman Republic) 333 BC
Lucius Papirius Cursor (Roman Republic) 324 BC
Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus (Roman Republic) 315 BC
Appius Claudius Caecus (Roman Republic) 292 and 285 BC
Aulus Atilius Caiatinus (Roman Republic) 249 BC
Quintus Fabius Maximus Cunctator (Roman Republic) 217 BC
Publius Sulpicius Galba Maximus (Roman Republic) 203 BC
Lucius Cornelius Sulla (Roman Republic) 81/79 BC
Gaius Julius Caesar (Roman Republic) 46 BC and 45/44 BC

Modern (1000 A.D.-present)

Europe

Adolf Hitler (Germany) 1933-1945
Ahmet Bej Zogu (Albania) 1925-1939
Alexander III (Russia) 1881-1984
Alexander Lukashenko (Belarus) 1994-
Antanas Smetona (Lithuania) 1926-1940
Ante Pavelić (Croatia) 1941-1945
Antnio Salazar (Portugal) 1932-1968
Benito Mussolini (Italy) 1922-1943
Engelbert Dollfuss (Austria) 1932-1934
Enver Hoxha (Albania) 1946-1985
Erich Honecker (East Germany) 1971-1989
Ferenc Szlasi (Hungary) 1944-1945
Francisco Franco (Spain) 1936-1975
Franjo Tuđman (Croatia) 1991-1999
Georgi Dimitrov (Bulgaria) 1946-1949
Georgios Papadopoulos (Greece) 1967-1973
Ioannis Metaxas (Greece) 1936-1941
Ion Antonescu (Romania) 1940-1944
Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union) 1922-1953
Josip Broz Tito (Yugoslavia) 1945-1980
Jzef Piłsudski (Poland) 1918-1922
Jozef Tiso (Slovakia) 1939-1945
Kārlis Ulmanis (Latvia) 1934-1940
Konstantin Chernenko (Soviet Union) 1984-1985
Konstantin Pts (Estonia) 1933-1940
Leonid Brezhnev (Soviet Union) 1964-1982
Miguel Primo de Rivera (Spain) 1923-1930
Mikhail Gorbachev (Soviet Union) 1985-1991
Mikls Horthy (Hungary) 1920-1944
Nicolae Ceauşescu (Romania) 1965-1989
Nikita Khrushchev 1953-1964
Nicholas II (Russia) 1894-1917
Peter the Great (Russia) 1682-1725
Philippe Ptain (Vichy France) 1940-1944
Ramiz Alia (Albania) 1985-1992
Slobodan Miloević (Yugoslavia) 1997-2000
Vidkun Quisling (Norway) 1942-1945
Vlad III Dracula (Wallachia) 1448, 1456-1462, 1476
Vladimir Lenin (Soviet Union) 1918-1924
Wilhelm II (Germany) 1888-1918
Wojciech Jaruzelski (Poland) 1981-1990
Yuri Andropov (Soviet Union) 1982-1984

Africa

Albert Ren (Seychelles) 1977-2004
Andr Kolingba (Central African Republic) 19811993
Anwar Sadat (Egypt) 1970-1981
Charles Taylor (Liberia) 1997-2003
Daniel arap Moi (Kenya) 1978-2002
David Dacko (Central African Republic) 19601966, 1979-1981
Flix Houphout-Boigny (Cte d'Ivoire) 1960-1993
Francisco Macas Nguema (Equatorial Guinea) 1968-1979
Franois Boziz (Central African Republic) 2003-
Gaafar Nimeiry (Sudan) 1969-1985
Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt) 1953-1970
Gnassingb Eyadma (Togo) 1967-2005
Haile Selassie (Ethiopia) 1930-1974
Hastings Banda (Malawi) 1964-1994
Hissne Habr (Chad) 1982-1990
Hosni Mubarak (Egypt) 1981-
Ian Smith (Rhodesia) 1964-1979
Idi Amin (Uganda) 1971-1979
Idriss Dby (Chad) 1990-
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza (Burundi) 1976-1987
Jean-Bdel Bokassa (Central African Republic) 1966-1979
Jomo Kenyatta (Kenya) 1963-1978
Joseph Kabila (Congo-Kinshasa) 2001-
Jos Eduardo dos Santos (Angola) 1979-
Juvnal Habyarimana (Rwanda) 1973-1994
Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana) 1957-1966
Laurent-Dsir Kabila (Congo-Kinshasa) 1997-2001
Leopold II (Congo Free State) 1885-1908
Maxamed Siyaad Barre (Somalia) 1969-1991
Mengistu Haile Mariam (Ethiopia) 1974-1991
Milton Obote (Uganda) 1962-1971; 1980-1985
Mobutu Sese Seko (Zare) 1965-1997
Moussa Traor (Mali) 1968-1991
Muammar al-Qadhafi (Libya) 1969-
Omar Bongo (Gabon) 1967-
Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir (Sudan) 1989-
Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe) 1980-
Samuel Doe (Liberia) 1980-1990
Sani Abacha (Nigeria) 1993-1998
Skou Tour (Guinea) 1958-1984
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (Tunisia) 1987-

Latin America

Alfredo Stroessner (Paraguay) 1954-1989
Anastasio Somoza Garca (Nicaragua) 1937-1956
Andrs de Santa Cruz (Bolivia) 1829-1839
Antonio Guzmn Blanco (Venezuela) 1863-1877
Antonio Lpez de Santa Anna (Mexico) 1833-1855
Artur da Costa e Silva (Brazil) 1966-1969
Augusto Legua (Peru) 1919-1930
Augusto Pinochet (Chile) 1973-1990
Buenaventura Bez (Dominican Republic)
Carlos Antonio Lpez (Paraguay) 1841-1862
Carlos Castillo Armas (Guatemala) 1954-1957
Carlos Ibez del Campo (Chile) 1927-1931
Cipriano Castro (Venezuela) 1899-1909
Dsi Bouterse (Suriname) 1980-1988
Efran Ros Montt (Guatemala) 1982-1983
Eric Gairy (Grenada) 1974-1979
Emlio Garrastaz Mdici (Brazil) 1969-1974
Fidel Castro (Cuba) 1959-
Forbes Burnham (Guyana) 1966-1985
Francisco Solano Lpez (Paraguay) 1862-1869
Franois Duvalier (Haiti) 1957-1971
Fulgencio Batista (Cuba) 1952-1959
Gabriel Garca Moreno (Ecuador)
Gabriel Terra (Uruguay) 1931-1938
Gerardo Machado (Cuba) 1925-1933
Getlio Vargas (Brazil) 1934-1945
Gregorio Conrado lvarez (Uruguay) 1981-1984
Gustavo Rojas (Colombia) 1953-1957
Henri Christophe (Haiti) 1806-1820
Higinio Mornigo (Paraguay) 1940-1948
Hugo Banzer (Bolivia) 1971-1978
Humberto Branco 1964-1967
Jean-Pierre Boyer (Haiti) 1818-1843
Jorge Ubico (Guatemala) 1931-1944
Jorge Videla (Argentina) 1976-1981
Jos Gaspar Rodrguez de Francia (Paraguay) 1813-1840
Jos Santos Zelaya (Nicaragua) 1893-1909
Juan Manuel de Rosas (Buenos Aires) 1835-1852
Juan Mara Bordaberry (Uruguay) 1972-1976
Juan Pern (Argentina) 1946-1955
Juan Vicente Gmez (Venezuela) 1909-1935
Justo Rufino Barrios (Guatemala) 1873-1885
Laureano Gmez (Colombia) 1950-1953
Leopoldo Galtieri (Argentina) 1981-1982
Luis Garca Meza (Bolivia) 1980-1981
Manuel Estrada Cabrera (Guatemala) 1898-1920
Manuel Isidoro Belzu (Bolivia) 1848-1855
Manuel Noriega (Panama) 1983-1989
Manuel Odra (Peru) 1948-1950
Manuel Oribe (Uruguay) 1835-1838
Marcos Prez Jimnez (Venezuela) 1948-1958
Mariano Melgarejo (Bolivia) 1864-1871
Maximiliano Hernndez Martnez (El Salvador) 1935-1944
Nuo Guzmn de Beltrn (Mexico) 1528-1536
Omar Torrijos (Panama) 1968-1981
scar Benavides (Peru) 1933-1939
Paul Magloire (Haiti) 1950-1956
Pedro Santana (Dominican Republic)
Porfirio Daz (Mexico) 1876-1911
Rafael Carrera (Guatemala) 1844-1848, 1851-1865
Rafael Nez (Colombia) 1880-1894
Rafael Trujillo (Dominican Republic) 1930-1961
Ramn Castilla (Peru) 1845-1862
Ren Barrientos (Bolivia) 1964-1969
Tiburcio Caras (Honduras) 1924-1949
Ulises Heureaux (Dominican Republic) 1882-1899

Asia

Abdul Karim Qassem (Iraq) 1958-1963
Abdul Salam Arif (Iraq) 1963-1966
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (Iraq) 1968-1979
Askar Akayev (Kyrgyzstan) 1990-2005
Ayub Khan (Pakistan) 1958-1969
Chiang Kai-shek (China) 1928-1949 (Taiwan) 1949-1975
Chun Doo Hwan (Korea) 1980-1988
Deng Xiaoping (China) 1978-1997
Eduard Shevardnadze (Georgia) 1995-2003
Ferdinand Marcos (Philippines) 1965-1986
Hafez al-Assad (Syria) 1970-2000
Heydar Aliyev (Azerbaijan) 1993-2003
Horloogiyn Choybalsan (Mongolia) 1929-1952
Hossain Mohammad Ershad (Bangladesh) 1982-1990
Ilham Aliyev (Azerbaijan) 2003-
Kim Il Sung (Korea) 1948-1994
Kim Jong Il (Korea) 1994-
Lee Kuan Yew (Singapore) 1959-1990
Lon Nol (Cambodia) 1972-1975
Mahathir bin Mohamad (Malaysia) 1981-2003
Mao Zedong (China) 1949-1976
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom (Maldives) 1978-
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (Iran) 1941-1979
Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq (Pakistan) 1978-1988
Ne Win (Burma) 1962-1988
Ng nh Diệm (Vietnam) 1955-1963
Park Chung Hee (Korea) 1962-1979
Pol Pot (Cambodia) 1976-1979
Robert Kocharian (Armenia) 1998-
Ruhollah Khomeini (Iran) 1979-1989
Saddam Hussein (Iraq) 1979-2003
Saparmurat Niyazov (Turkmenistan) 1991-
Sitiveni Rabuka (Fiji) 1987
Suharto (Indonesia) 1967-1998
Yahya Khan (Pakistan) 1969-1971

Oceania

Frank Bainimarama (Fiji) 2000
George Speight (Fiji) 2000
Sitiveni Rabuka (Fiji) 1987

List Of Dictators

Ancient (before 1000 A.D.)

Modern (1000 A.D.-present)

Europe

Africa

Latin America

Asia

Oceania

See also