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Leo Brincat (b. 1949) is a Maltese politician, since 2016 member of the European Court of Auditors.

Brincat was first elected to Maltese parliament in 1982 as a member of the Malta Labour Party and was minister for finance and commerce between 1997 and 1998 and minister for sustainable development, the environment and climate change between 2013 and 2016, when he was nominated to the European Court of Auditors.

Born in Valletta, the son of Emmanuele De Marco and Giovanna née Raniolo, Guido was educated at St Aloysius College and the Royal University of Malta (RUM) where he graduated NP (1951), BA in philosophy, economics, and Italian (1952), and LLD (1955). In 1967 he was appointed lecturer and later professor of criminal law at the UM. He was defence counsel in several cases involving human rights.

Active in politics since his student days when he set up a PN committee at the RUM, De Marco was also the editor of Encounter and The Leader, organs of the Nationalist youth movement. He was elected president of the SRC in 1953 and in the same year he organised the first National Congress of Maltese Students.

In 1964 de Marco was appointed crown counsel at the crown advocate general’s office, a post he relinquished two years later to contest successfully the 1966 elections in the interests of the PN and he was returned to parliament in all general elections up to 1998.

DeMarco always contested the 1st district, which comprises Valletta, and the 7th, 8th or 10th districts. In 1966 (812 1st district and 2,449 8th district), in 1971 (1542 1st and 3,213 8th district), in 1976 (2,417 1st and 2,631 7th), in 1981 (3,215 1st and 3,561 7th), in 1987 (3,891 1st and 3,699 7th), in 1992 ( 2,125 1st), in 1996 (2,975 1st and 3,104 10th), and in 1998 (3,228 1st and 2,815 10th).

He was the PN’s parliament spokesman on justice, parliamentary affairs, and human rights since 1973. From 1972-1977, he was the PN’s secretary general and later deputy leader (1977-1998).

De Marco was appointed deputy prime minister and minister of the interior and justice in 1987, and minister of foreign affairs and justice in 1990 and presented Malta’s application for membership of the EU at Brussels in July 1990. Appointed deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs after the 1998 PN electoral victory, on 11 September 1998 he presented Malta’s request for the reactivation of its application for membership to the EU.

De Marco held the post of foreign minister until April 1999, when he was elected President of Malta on 4 April, and served as President till April 2004.

De Marco represented the Maltese parliament in the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly for almost 20 years.

Guido de Marco was a Maltese politician who serves as the sixth president of Malta from 1999 to 2004. He also served as deputy prime minister, minister of the interior and justice, and minister for foreign affairs. He was elected President of the 45th session of the United Nations General Assemebly in 1990 and Chairman of the Commonwealth Foundation in 2004.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule. He inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was an Indian politician and stateswoman who was Prime Minister of India from 1966 to 1977 and again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984. She was India's first and, to date, only female prime minister, and a central figure in Indian politics as the leader of the Indian National Congress (INC). She was the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India, and the mother of Rajiv Gandhi, who succeeded her in office as the country's sixth prime minister. Gandhi's cumulative tenure of 15 years and 350 days makes her the second-longest-serving Indian prime minister after her father. Henry Kissinger described her as an "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her tough personality.

Valéry René Marie Georges Giscard d'Estaing, also known as simply Giscard or VGE, was born on 2nd February 1926 in Koblenz, Germany, during the French occupation of the Rhineland. He graduated from the École Polytechnique and the École nationale d'administration (1949–1951) and chose to enter the prestigious Inspection des finances.

He joined the French Resistance and participated in the Liberation of Paris; during the liberation, he was assigned to protecting Alexandre Parodi. He then joined the French First Army and served until the end of the war. He was later awarded the Croix de guerre for his military service.

He was admitted to the Tax and Revenue Service, then joined the staff of Prime Minister Edgar Faure (1955–1956).

Giscard was the Minister of Economy and Finance and then President of France. His tenure was marked by a more liberal attitude on social issues—such as divorce, contraception and abortion—and by attempts to modernise the country and the office of the presidency, notably overseeing such far-reaching infrastructure projects as the TGV and the turn towards reliance on nuclear power as France's main energy source. Giscard d'Estaing launched the Grande Arche, Musée d'Orsay, Arab World Institute and Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie projects in the Paris region, later included in the Grands Projets of François Mitterrand. He promoted liberalisation of trade; however, his popularity suffered from the economic downturn that followed the 1973 energy crisis. As president, Giscard d'Estaing promoted cooperation among the European nations.

As a former president, he was a member of the Constitutional Council. He also served as president of the Regional Council of Auvergne from 1986 to 2004. Involved with the process of European integration, he notably presided over the Convention on the Future of Europe that drafted the ill-fated Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe. In 2003, he was elected to the Académie Française, taking the seat that his friend and former president of Senegal Léopold Sédar Senghor had held. He died at the age of 94, and is the longest-lived French president in history.

12 September 1889 - Born in Valletta, the son of Judge Gio Batta and Marianna nee Francia
1910 - Graduated from the University of Malta as LLD.
1921 - Contested the elections as a UPM candidate
1924 - Became the youngest prime minister in the British Empire after the resignation of Dr Francesco Buhagiar as Head Ministry
1926 - Became the co-leader of the PN after the UPM’s coalition with Enrico Mizzi’s PDN
1927 - Knighted and given the title of Sir. Re-elected in Parliament
1928 - Married to Maria Beatrice Francia
1928 - Presided over the aerial and radio law committee (Warsaw)
1928 - Represented Malta at a conference in Canada by the Empire Parliamentary Association
1934 - Chaired the Trade Marks Committee (Budapest)
1932 - Elected as vice-president of the International Law Association
1932 - PN landslide victory where he held the office of Prime Minister
1932 - Formed part of a government delegation to the secretary of state for the colonies, Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister with a request for Malta to be placed under the Dominion Office as an independent member of the Commonwealth.
1939 - Elected member of the Council of Government
1942 - As the Council was debating the British Government’s intention to deport several Maltese citizens, Sir Ugo suffered a heart attack and two days later he passed away.

6th August 1916 – Born in Cospicua toLaurence and Concetta nee Farrugia
1939 - Awarded a Rhodes scholarship where he obtained his qualifications in science and engineering which included MA, BSc and BE&A, A&CE
1935 – Assistant Secretary of the Cospicua Labour Party
1935 – 1937; 1944 – Served as General Secretary of the Labour Party
1945 – Contested the general electrions for the Council of Government
1947 – 1949 – Appointed Minister of Public Works and Reconstruction
1947 – Led delegations to London regarding the Marshall Aid
1947 – Married Moira Bentinck
1949 – Mintoff became the leader of the Malta Labour Party
1950 – 1996 – Contested all general elections
1953 – 1955 – Editor of The Knight
1955 – Became Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance and led a delegation to discuss the question of integration
1958 – Resigned in protest against the Britishand led the Maltese Liberation Movement
1958 – Led a delegation to London to discuss the re-introduction of self-government
1962 – 1971 – Became Leader of Opposition, in light of the MLP’s dispute with the Church
1971 – Removed Sir Maurice Dorman from governor-general and appointed Sir Anthony Mamo instead
1971 – Given the Order of the Republic of Libya
1973 – Given the Grand Cordon De l’Ordre de la Republique of Tunisia
1974 – Chose Mamo as the first president of the Republic of Malta
1978 – Given the Order of the Gran Cordon of Oissam Alaouite from Morocco
1979 – Ended the British military hold on Malta
1980 – Negotiated a protocol neutrality agreement with Italy
1984 - Resigned from Prime Minister and leader of the MLP but retained his parliamentary seat
1990 – Made Companion of the National Order of Merit (KUOM)
1998 – Mintoff voted against the Labour Government on a motion on the Cottonera development
2003 – Campaigned against Malta’s accession to the European Union
2008 – Awarded the Al-Qathafi Prize by the International Committee for the Al-Qathafi Award for Human Rights

Muhammad Anwar es-Sadat (1918 - 1981) was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the third president of Egypt, from 15 October 1970 until his assassination by fundamentalist army officers on 6 October 1981. Sadat was a senior member of the Free Officers who overthrew King Farouk I in the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, and a close confidant of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, under whom he served as vice president twice and whom he succeeded as president in 1970. In 1978, Sadat and Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, signed a peace treaty in cooperation with United States President Jimmy Carter, for which they were recognized with the Nobel Peace Prize.

Carm Lino Spiteri was born in Valletta on 9 September 1932. He was also known by his nickname Iċ-Ċumpaqq. In 1955 he graduated as an architect and in 1970 he entered the political scene.

As an architect, Spiteri was involved in a number of projects, including the construction of the Malta International Airport at Gudja and the conversion of the Sacra Infermeria in Valletta to the Mediterranean Conference Centre.

Spiteri's political career began in 1970, when he was approached by both George Borg Olivier and Dom Mintoff to contest the 1971 election with the Nationalist Party or Malta Labour Party respectively. Spiteri chose the former, and he was elected to parliament in a 1971 by-election. In 1976, he was elected on his own steam from one district, while in 1981 he sailed through in two districts. But in 1987, he unexpectedly failed to get elected. The Mellieħa architect staged a comeback and got elected in 1992, when he was once again chosen to be parliamentary whip. He finally withdrew from the political scene after the 1996 election in which he was not elected, but remained interested in political debate.

He was also the president of the Soċjetà Mużikali Vittorja in his hometown Mellieħa, and in 1996 he was awarded a medal on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Malta's self-government.

Spiteri died on 9 February 2008 at the age of 75.