list 10 popular leaders 1 . Mah at ma Gandhi 2 . Nelson Mandela 3 . Martin Luther King Jr . 4 . Winston Churchill 5 . Franklin D . Roosevelt 6 . Adolf Hitler 7 . Mao Zed ong 8 . John F . Kennedy 9 . Barack Obama 10 . Vladimir Putin list 20 popular leaders from around the world 1 . Barack Obama 2 . Xi Jinping 3 . Vladimir Putin 4 . Recep Tayyip Erdogan 5 . Angela Merkel 6 . Theresa May 7 . Donald Trump 8 . Emmanuel Macron 9 . Justin Trudeau 10 . Narendra Modi 11 . King Salman bin Abdul az iz 12 . Kim Jong - un 13 . Hassan Rouhani 14 . A ung San Su u Ky i 15 . Michelle B ache let 16 . Juan Manuel Santos 17 . Maur icio Mac ri 18 . Malcolm Turnbull 19 . Paul Kag ame 20 . Sheikh Has ina popular ind ians 1 . Mah at ma Gandhi 2 . Jaw ah arl al Neh ru 3 . Sub has Chandra B ose 4 . Sard ar Vall ab h bh ai Patel 5 . Ind ira Gandhi 6 . Raj iv Gandhi 7 .