English > statesman: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | A man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs. |
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| Synonyms | solon, national leader |
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| Instances | Acheson, Dean Acheson, Dean Gooderham Acheson | United States statesman who promoted the Marshall Plan and helped establish NATO (1893-1971) |
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| Adenauer, Konrad Adenauer | German statesman |
| 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 was chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (1929-2004) |
| Ataturk, Kemal Ataturk, Kemal Pasha, Mustafa Kemal | Turkish statesman who abolished the caliphate / caliphate and founded Turkey as a modern secular state (1881-1938) |
| Attlee, Clement Attlee, Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee | British statesman and leader of the Labour Party who instituted the welfare state in Britain (1883-1967) |
| Augustus, Gaius Octavianus, Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, Octavian | Roman statesman who established the Roman Empire and became emperor in 27 BC |
| Bacon, Francis Bacon, Sir Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam, 1st Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans | English statesman and philosopher |
| Baldwin, Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley | English statesman |
| Balfour, Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour | English statesman |
| 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 |
| Bevin, Ernest Bevin | British labor leader and statesman who played an important role in diplomacy after World War II (1884-1951) |
| Bismarck, von Bismarck, Otto von Bismarck, Prince Otto von Bismarck, Prince Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck, Iron Chancellor | German statesman under whose leadership Germany was united (1815-1898) |
| Blair, Tony Blair, Anthony Charles Lynton Blair | British statesman who became prime minister in 1997 (born in 1953) |
| Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius | A Roman who was an early Christian philosopher and statesman who was executed for treason |
| Bolivar, Simon Bolivar, El Libertador | Venezuelan statesman who led the revolt of South American colonies against Spanish rule |
| Brandt, Willy Brandt | German statesman 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 | British statesman famous for his oratory |
| Caesar, Julius Caesar, Gaius Julius Caesar | conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC) |
| Cassius, Cassius Longinus, Gaius Cassius Longinus | prime mover in the conspiracy against Julius Caesar (died in 42 BC) |
| Chamberlain, Neville Chamberlain, Arthur Neville Chamberlain | British statesman who as Prime Minister pursued a policy of appeasement toward fascist Germany (1869-1940) |
| Chateaubriand, Francois Rene Chateaubriand, Vicomte de Chateaubriand | French statesman and writer |
| Chesterfield, Fourth Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope | suave and witty English statesman remembered mostly for letters to his son (1694-1773) |
| Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Chung-cheng | Chinese military and political figure |
| Churchill, Winston Churchill, Winston S. Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill | British statesman and leader during World War II |
| Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Tully | A Roman statesman and orator remembered for his mastery of Latin prose (106-43 BC) |
| Cincinnatus, Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus | Roman statesman regarded as a model of simple virtue |
| Clemenceau, Georges Clemenceau, Georges Eugene Benjamin Clemenceau | French statesman who played a key role in negotiating the Treaty of Versailles (1841-1929) |
| Clive, Robert Clive, Baron Clive, Baron Clive of Plassey | British general and statesman whose victory at Plassey in 1757 strengthened British control of India (1725-1774) |
| Cosimo de Medici, Cosimo the Elder | Italian financier and statesman and friend of the papal court (1389-1464) |
| Cromwell, Oliver Cromwell, Ironsides | English general and statesman who led the parliamentary army in the English Civil War (1599-1658) |
| Davis, Jefferson Davis | American statesman |
| Dayan, Moshe Dayan | Israeli general and statesman (1915-1981) |
| Demosthenes | Athenian statesman and orator (circa 385-322 BC) |
| Deng Xiaoping, Teng Hsiao-ping, Teng Hsiaoping | Chinese communist statesman (1904-1997) |
| Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli, First Earl of Beaconsfield | British statesman who as Prime Minister bought controlling interest in the Suez Canal and made Queen Victoria the empress of India (1804-1881) |
| Flaminius, Gaius Flaminius | Roman statesman and general who built the Flaminian Way |
| Fox, Charles James Fox | English statesman who supported American independence and the French Revolution (1749-1806) |
| Gandhi, Indira Gandhi, Indira Nehru Gandhi, Mrs. Gandhi | daughter of Nehru who served as prime minister of India from 1966 to 1977 (1917-1984) |
| Gladstone, William Gladstone, William Ewart Gladstone | liberal British statesman who served as prime minister four times (1809-1898) |
| Gorbachev, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev | Soviet statesman whose foreign policy brought an end to the Cold War and whose domestic policy introduced major reforms (born in 1931) |
| Grey, Charles Grey, Second Earl Grey | Englishman who as Prime Minister implemented social reforms including the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire (1764-1845) |
| Haldane, Richard Haldane, Richard Burdon Haldane, First Viscount Haldane of Cloan | Scottish statesman and brother of Elizabeth and John Haldane (1856-1928) |
| Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton | United States statesman and leader of the Federalists |
| Havel, Vaclav Havel | Czech dramatist and statesman whose plays opposed totalitarianism and who served as president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 to 1992 and president of the Czech Republic since 1993 (born in 1936) |
| Hindenburg, Paul von Hindenburg, Paul Ludwig von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg | German field marshal and statesman |
| Ho Chi Minh, Nguyen Tat Thanh | Vietnamese communist statesman who fought the Japanese in World War II and the French until 1954 and South Vietnam until 1975 (1890-1969) |
| Jinnah, Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Indian statesman who was the founder of Pakistan as a Muslim state (1876-1948) |
| Kalinin, Mikhail Kalinin, Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin | soviet statesman and head of state of the USSR (1875-1946) |
| Kaunda, Kenneth Kaunda, Kenneth David Kaunda | statesman who led Northern Rhodesia to full independence as Zambia in 1964 and served as Zambia's first president (1924-1999) |
| Kenyata, Jomo Kenyata | Kenyan statesman and the first president of independent Kenya (1893-1978) |
| Kerensky, Aleksandr Feodorovich Kerensky | Russian revolutionary who was head of state after Nicholas II abdicated but was overthrown by the Bolsheviks (1881-1970) |
| Khama, Sir Seretse Khama | Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980) |
| Khrushchev, Nikita Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev | Soviet statesman and premier who denounced / denounced Stalin (1894-1971) |
| Konoe, Fumimaro Konoe, Prince Fumimaro Konoe, Konoye, Fumimaro Konoye, Prince Fumimaro Konoye | Japanese statesman who set Japan's expansionist policies and formed an alliance with Germany and Italy (1891-1945) |
| Kruger, Oom Paul Kruger, Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger | Boer statesman (1825-1904) |
| Lorenzo de'Medici, Lorenzo the Magnificent | Italian statesman and scholar who supported many artists and humanists including Michelangelo and Leonardo and Botticelli (1449-1492) |
| Machiavelli, Niccolo Machiavelli | A statesman of Florence who advocated a strong central government (1469-1527) |
| Major, John Major, John R. Major, John Roy Major | British statesman who was prime minister from 1990 until 1997 (born in 1943) |
| Mandela, Nelson Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela | South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918) |
| Marshall, George Marshall, George Catlett Marshall | United States general and statesman who as Secretary of State organized the European Recovery Program (1880-1959) |
| Meir, Golda Meir | Israeli statesman (born in Russia) (1898-1978) |
| Metternich, Klemens Metternich, Prince Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von Metternich | Austrian statesman (1773-1859) |
| Mitterrand, Francois Mitterrand, Francois Maurice Marie Mitterrand | French statesman and president of France from 1981 to 1985 (1916-1996) |
| Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov | Soviet statesman (1890-1986) |
| More, Thomas More, Sir Thomas More | English statesman who opposed Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and was imprisoned and beheaded |
| Morris, Gouverneur Morris | United States statesman who led the committee that produced the final / final draft of the United States Constitution (1752-1816) |
| Mubarak, Hosni Mubarak | Egyptian statesman who became president in 1981 after Sadat was assassinated (born in 1929) |
| Nansen, Fridtjof Nansen | Norwegian explorer of the Arctic and director of the League of Nations relief program for refugees of World War I (1861-1930) |
| Nasser, Gamal Abdel Nasser | Egyptian statesman who nationalized the Suez Canal (1918-1970) |
| Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru | Indian statesman and leader with Gandhi in the struggle / struggle for home rule |
| North, Frederick North, Second Earl of Guilford | British statesman under George III whose policies led to rebellion in the American colonies (1732-1792) |
| Ortega, Daniel Ortega, Daniel Ortega Saavedra | Nicaraguan statesman (born in 1945) |
| Paderewski, Ignace Paderewski, Ignace Jan Paderewski | Polish pianist who in 1919 served as the first Prime Minister of independent Poland (1860-1941) |
| Pericles | Athenian statesman whose leadership contributed to Athens' political and cultural / cultural supremacy in Greece |
| Pitt, William Pitt, First Earl of Chatham, Pitt the Elder | English statesman who brought the Seven Years' War to an end (1708-1778) |
| Pitt, William Pitt, Second Earl of Chatham, Pitt the Younger | English statesman and son of Pitt the Elder (1759-1806) |
| Pompey, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, Pompey the Great | Roman general and statesman who quarrelled with Caesar and fled to Egypt where he was murdered (106-48 BC) |
| Powell, Colin Powell, Colin luther Powell | United States general who was the first African American to serve as chief of staff |
| Putin, Vladimir Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin | Russian statesman chosen as president of the Russian Federation in 2000 |
| Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | Indian philosopher and statesman who introduced Indian philosophy to the West (1888-1975) |
| Richelieu, Duc de Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu | French prelate and statesman |
| Rockingham, Second Marquis of Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth | English statesman who served as prime minister and who opposed the war with the American colonies (1730-1782) |
| Sadat, Anwar Sadat, Anwar el-Sadat | Egyptian statesman who (as president of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin (then prime minister of Israel) (1918-1981) |
| Schmidt, Helmut Schmidt, Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt | German statesman who served as chancellor of Germany (born in 1918) |
| Seneca, Lucius Annaeus Seneca | Roman statesman and philosopher who was an advisor to Nero |
| Smith, Ian Smith, Ian Douglas Smith | Rhodesian statesman who declared independence of Zimbabwe from Great Britain (born in 1919) |
| Smuts, Jan Christian Smuts | South African statesman and soldier (1870-1950) |
| Suharto | Indonesian statesman who seized power from Sukarno in 1967 (born in 1921) |
| Sukarno, Achmad Sukarno | Indonesian statesman who obtained the independence of Indonesia from the Netherlands in 1949 and served as president until ousted by Suharto in a coup d'etat (1901-1970) |
| Sully, Duc de Sully, Maxmilien de Bethune | French statesman (1560-1641) |
| Sun Yat-sen, Sun Yixian | Chinese statesman who organized the Kuomintang and led the revolution that overthrew the Manchu dynasty in 1911 and 1912 (1866-1925) |
| Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand | French statesman (1754-1838) |
| Themistocles | Athenian statesman who persuaded Athens to build a navy and then led it to victory over the Persians (527-460 BC) |
| Tito, Marshal Tito, Josip Broz | Yugoslav statesman who led the resistance to German occupation during World War II and established a communist state after the war (1892-1980) |
| Vargas, Getulio Dornelles Vargas | Brazilian statesman who ruled Brazil as a virtual dictator (1883-1954) |
| Verwoerd, Hendrik Verwoerd, Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd | South African statesman who instituted the policy of apartheid (1901-1966) |
| Waldheim, Kurt Waldheim | Austrian diplomat who was Secretary General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981 |
| Walesa, Lech Walesa | Polish labor leader and statesman (born in 1943) |
| Walpole, Robert Walpole, Sir Robert Walpole, First Earl of Orford | Englishman and Whig statesman who (under George I) was effectively the first British prime minister (1676-1745) |
| Warwick, Earl of Warwick, Richard Neville, Kingmaker | English statesman |
| Weizmann, Chaim Weizmann, Chaim Azriel Weizmann | Israeli statesman who persuaded the United States to recognize the new state of Israel and became its first president (1874-1952) |
| Wellington, Duke of Wellington, First Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Iron Duke | British general and statesman |
| Wykeham, William of Wykeham | English prelate and statesman |
| de Gaulle, General de Gaulle, Charles de Gaulle, General Charles de Gaulle, Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle | French general and statesman who became very popular during World War II as the leader of the Free French forces in exile (1890-1970) |
| de Valera, Eamon de Valera | Irish statesman (born in the United States) |
| Narrower | Founding Father | A member of the Constitutional Convention that drafted the United States Constitution in 1787 |
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| elder statesman | An elderly statesman whose advice is sought be government leaders |
| stateswoman | A woman statesman |
| Broader | politician, politico, pol, political leader | A person active in party politics |
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| Spanish | estadista, hombre de estado |
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| Catalan | estadista, home d'estat |
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| Adjectives | statesmanly | marked by the qualities of or befitting a statesman |
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| Nouns | statesmanship | wisdom in the management of public affairs |
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