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Profiles of heads of state, leaders and business figures from Nepal, the United States, China, India and the Middle East.

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  Walter Rudolf HessSwiss physiologist (1881–1973)
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  Walther BotheGerman physicist (1891–1957)
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  Wendell Meredith StanleyAmerican biochemist, virologist, and Nobel laureate (1904–1971)
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  Werner ArberSwiss microbiologist and geneticist (born 1929)
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  Werner ForssmannGerman physician, Nobel prize winner (1904–1979)
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  Willard BoyleCanadian physicist (1924–2011)
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  Willard LibbyAmerican physical chemist (1908–1980)
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  William Alfred FowlerAmerican nuclear physicist (1911–1995)
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  William C. CampbellIrish-American microbiologist and Nobel laureate in medicine (born 1930)
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  William Daniel PhillipsAmerican physicist (born 1948)
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  William E. MoernerNobel prize winning American chemical physicist (born 1953)
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  William GiauqueCanadian-born American chemist (1895–1982)
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  William Kaelin Jr.American Nobel Laureate, Professor of Medicine at Harvard University
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  William LipscombAmerican chemist (1919–2011)
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  William P. MurphyAmerican scientist (1892–1987)
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  William ShockleyAmerican physicist (1910–1989)
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  William Standish KnowlesAmerican chemist (1917–2012)
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  Willis LambAmerican physicist (1913–2008)
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  Wolfgang KetterleGerman physicist (born 1957)
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  Wolfgang PaulGerman physicist (1913–1993)
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  Yang Chen-NingChinese-American physicist (1922–2025)
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  Yoichiro NambuJapanese-American nobel-winning physicist
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  Yuan T. LeeTaiwanese chemist and Nobel Laureate
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  Yves ChauvinFrench chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
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  Zhores AlferovRussian physicist (1930–2019)
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  10th Dalai LamaSpiritual leader of Tibet from 1816 to 1837
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  11th Dalai LamaSpiritual leader of Tibet from 1842 to 1855
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  12th Dalai LamaSpiritual leader of Tibet from 1860 to 1875
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  13th Dalai LamaSpiritual leader of Tibet from 1879 to 1933
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  14th Dalai LamaSpiritual leader of Tibet since 1940
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  1st Dalai LamaSpiritual leader of Tibet from 1391 to 1474
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  2nd Dalai LamaSpiritual leader of Tibet from 1486 to 1542
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  3rd Dalai LamaSpiritual leader of Tibet from 1578 to 1588
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  4th Dalai LamaSpiritual leader of Tibet from 1601 to 1616
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  5th Dalai LamaSpiritual and political leader of Tibet from 1642 to 1682
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  6th Dalai LamaSpiritual leader of Tibet from 1697 to 1706
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  7th Dalai LamaSpiritual leader of Tibet from 1720 to 1757
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  8th Dalai LamaSpiritual leader of Tibet from 1762 to 1804
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  9th Dalai LamaSpiritual leader of Tibet from 1810 to 1815
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  A. George PradelAmerican mayor (1937–2018)
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  A. J. CassonCanadian painter in the Group of Seven (1898–1992)
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  A. K. Antony23rd Defence Minister Of India And Former Chief Minister of Kerala
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  A. N. R. RobinsonPresident of Trinidad and Tobago from 1997 to 2003
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  A. Q. M. Badruddoza ChowdhuryPresident of Bangladesh from 2001 to 2002
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  Abbad II al-Mu'tadidRuler of Seville, Al-Andalus, from 1042 to 1069
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  Abbas El FassiPrime Minister of Morocco from 2007 to 2011
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  Abbas IIISafavid Shah of Iran (1732-c.1740) (r.1732-1736)
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  Abbas the GreatShah of Safavid Iran from 1587 to 1629
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  Abd Allah ibn al-ZubayrArab leader of Mecca-based caliphate from 683 to 692
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  Abd al-IlahRegent and Crown Prince of Iraq (1913–1958)
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  Abd al-Rahman IEmir of Córdoba from 756 to 788
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  Abd al-Rahman IIIFinal Emir of Córdoba (r. 912–929); founder and 1st Caliph of Córdoba (r. 929–961)
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  Abd ar-Rahman IIEmir of Cordoba from 822 to 852
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  Abdallah IbrahimPrime minister of Morocco (1958–1960)
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  Abdallah MohamedComorian politician (died 2000)
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  Abdalá BucaramPresident of Ecuador from 1996 to 1997
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  Abdel Halim MohamedSudanese physician and politician (1910-2009)
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  Abdel-Aziz bin HabtourYemeni politician (born 1955)
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  Abdelaziz BouteflikaPresident of Algeria from 1999 to 2019
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  Abdelilah BenkiranePrime Minister of Morocco from 2011 to 2017

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