User:Sesel/Dictatorships


 * China: Yuan Shikai, warlord era, Chiang Kai-shek, Communist Party of China
 * India: Indira Gandhi (during the Emergency)
 * Indonesia: Suharto
 * Pakistan: Ayub Khan, Yahya Khan, Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq, Pervez Musharraf
 * Nigeria: military juntas (1966-79, 1983-99)
 * Brazil: Getúlio Vargas, military junta (1964-85)
 * Bangladesh: Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Ziaur Rahman, Hossain Mohammad Ershad
 * Russia/USSR: Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Putin
 * Chechnya: Akhmad Kadyrov, Ramzan Kadyrov
 * Kalmykia: Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
 * Mexico: Antonio López de Santa Anna, Porfirio Díaz, Victoriano Huerta, Institutional Revolutionary Party
 * Japan: Duke Konoe Fumimaro, Tōjō Hideki
 * Philippines: Ferdinand E. Marcos
 * Ethiopia: Haile Selassie, Mengistu Haile Mariam
 * Egypt/UAR: Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat, Hosni Mubarak, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
 * DR Congo/Zaire: Leopold II, Mobutu Sese Seko
 * South Vietnam: Ngô Đình Diệm, Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, Nguyễn Cao Kỳ
 * Iran: Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
 * Turkey/Ottoman Empire: the Three Pashas, Kemal Atatürk, military juntas (1960-66, 1980-89), Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
 * Germany: Wilhelm II, Adolf Hitler
 * GDR: Socialist Unity Party of Germany
 * Thailand: Plaek Pibulsongkram, Sarit Thanarat, Thanom Kittikachorn, Prem Tinsulanonda, Prayut Chan-o-cha
 * France: Napoleon I, Napoleon III, Vichy regime
 * England: Oliver Cromwell
 * Italy: Benito Mussolini
 * Zanzibar: Sheikh Abeid Amani Karume
 * Burma/Myanmar: Ne Win, Than Shwe, Min Aung Hlaing
 * Bophuthatswana: Lucas Mangope
 * Ciskei: Lennox Sebe
 * Transkei: K.D. Matanzima, George Matanzima
 * Kenya: Jomo Kenyatta, Daniel arap Moi
 * South Korea: Syngman Rhee, Park Chung-hee, Chun Doo-hwan
 * Spain: Miguel Primo de Rivera, Dámaso Berenguer, Francisco Franco
 * Colombia: Rafael Reyes, Mariano Ospina Pérez, Laureano Gómez Castro, Gustavo Rojas Pinilla
 * Sudan: Ibrahim Abboud, Gaafar Nimeiry, Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir
 * Argentina: Juan Manuel de Rosas, military juntas (1930-43, 1955-58, 1966-73, 1976-83), Juan Perón
 * Uganda: Milton Obote, Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni
 * Algeria: National Liberation Front
 * Iraq: Baath Party, including Saddam Hussein
 * Poland: Józef Piłsudski, Piłsudski's colonels, Polish United Workers' Party
 * Canada
 * Québec: Maurice Duplessis
 * Afghanistan: Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan, People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Taliban
 * Morocco: Hassan II
 * Saudi Arabia: House of Saud
 * Malaysia: Tun Mahathir bin Mohamad
 * Angola: José Eduardo dos Santos
 * Peru: Augusto B. Leguía y Salcedo, Luis M. Sánchez Cerro, Manuel A. Odría, Alberto Fujimori
 * Uzbekistan: Islam Karimov
 * Nepal: Rana dynasty, Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva
 * Yemen: Ali Abdullah Saleh
 * Ghana: Kwame Nkrumah, military juntas (1966-69, 1972-79, 1981-93)
 * Venezuela: José Antonio Páez, Antonio Guzmán Blanco, Cipriano Castro, Juan Vicente Gómez, Marcos Pérez Jiménez
 * Cameroon: Ahmadou Ahidjo, Paul Biya
 * Côte d'Ivoire: Félix Houphouët-Boigny
 * Madagascar: Ranavalona I
 * North Korea: Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un
 * Taiwan: Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Ching-kuo
 * Niger: Hamani Diori, Seyni Kountché
 * Romania: Carol II, Ion Antonescu, Nicolae Ceaușescu
 * Malawi: Hastings Kamuzu Banda
 * Burkina Faso: Blaise Compaoré
 * Mali: Moussa Traoré
 * Syria: Husni al-Zaim, Adib al-Shishakli, Hafez al-Assad, Bashar al-Assad
 * Kazakhstan: Nursultan Nazarbayev
 * Chile: Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, Augusto Pinochet
 * Guatemala: Rafael Carrera, Justo Rufino Barrios, Manuel Estrada Cabrera, Jorge Ubico, military junta (1954-86)
 * Cambodia: Lon Nol, Pol Pot, Samdech Hun Sen
 * Ecuador: Juan José Flores, Gabriel García Moreno
 * Chad: N'Garta Tombalbaye, Hissène Habré, Idriss Déby Itno
 * Zimbabwe: Robert Mugabe
 * Benin: Mathieu Kérékou
 * Rwanda: Grégoire Kayibanda, Juvénal Habyarimana, Paul Kagame
 * Guinea: Ahmed Sékou Touré, Lansana Conté
 * Burundi: Michel Micombero, Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, Pierre Buyoya
 * Somalia: Muhammad Siad Barre
 * Tunisia: Habib Bourguiba, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
 * Bolivia: Andrés de Santa Cruz, Manuel Isidoro Belzu, Mariano Melgarejo, Germán Busch, Gualberto Villarroel, René Barrientos, Hugo Banzer, Luis García Meza Tejada
 * Haiti: Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Henry Christophe, Alexandre Pétion, Jean-Pierre Boyer, Faustin Soulouque, Paul Eugène Magloire, François Duvalier, Jean-Claude Duvalier, Prosper Avril, Raoul Cédras
 * Cuba: Gerardo Machado y Morales, Fulgencio Batista, Fidel Castro
 * Jordan: Hussein bin Talal
 * Czechoslovakia: Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
 * Greece: Theodoros Pangalos, Ioannis Metaxas, Georgios Papadopoulos
 * Dominican Republic: Pedro Santana, Buenaventura Báez, Ulises Heureaux, Rafael Trujillo, Joaquín Balaguer
 * Portugal: João Franco, Sidónio Pais, António de Oliveira Salazar, Marcelo Caetano
 * Azerbaijan: Heydər Əliyev, İlham Əliyev
 * Hungary: Count István Tisza, Gyula Gömbös, Ferenc Szálasi, Mátyás Rákosi
 * Belarus: Aleksandr Lukashenko
 * Honduras: Tiburcio Carías Andino, military juntas (1963-71, 1972-82)
 * Tajikistan: Emomali Rakhmon
 * Austria: Count Karl von Stürgkh, Engelbert Dollfuß, Kurt Schuschnigg
 * Togo: Gnassingbé Eyadéma
 * Laos: Phoumi Nosavan, Kaysone Phomvihane
 * Paraguay: José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Carlos Antonio López, Francisco Solano López, Higinio Morínigo, Alfredo Stroessner
 * Yugoslavia: Alexander I, Milan Stojadinović, Josip Broz Tito, Slobodan Milošević
 * Bulgaria: Stefan Stambolov, Aleksandŭr Tsankov, Boris III, Todor Zhivkov
 * Libya: Muammar al-Qaddafi
 * Sierra Leone: Siaka Stevens, Valentine Strasser, Johnny Paul Koroma
 * El Salvador: Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, military junta (1962-79)
 * Singapore: Lee Kuan Yew
 * Nicaragua: José Santos Zelaya, Anastasio Somoza García, Luis Somoza Debayle, Anastasio Somoza Debayle
 * Eritrea: Isaias Afewerki
 * Central African Republic: Jean-Bédel Bokassa, André Kolingba, François Bozizé
 * Denmark: Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup
 * Turkmenistan: Saparmurat Niyazov, Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, Serdar Berdymukhammedov
 * Norway: Vidkun Quisling
 * Slovakia: Jozef Tiso
 * Rep. Congo: Denis Sassou-Nguesso
 * Costa Rica: Braulio Carrillo, Juan Rafael Mora, Tomás Guardia Gutiérrez, Federico Tinoco Granados
 * Liberia: William V.S. Tubman, William R. Tolbert, Jr., Samuel K. Doe, Charles Taylor
 * Oman: Said bin Taimur
 * Croatia: Ante Pavelić
 * Mauritania: Moktar Ould Daddah, Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya
 * Panama: José Antonio Remón Cantera, Omar Torrijos, Manuel Noriega
 * Bosnia and Herzegovina
 * Republika Srpska: Radovan Karadžić
 * Uruguay: Gabriel Terra, military junta (1973-85)
 * Mongolia: Khorloogiyn Choybalsan, Yumjaagiyn Tsedenbal
 * Albania: Zog I, Enver Hoxha
 * Lithuania: Antanas Smetona
 * Gabon: Omar Bongo Ondimba
 * The Gambia: Yahya Jammeh
 * Lesotho: Leabua Jonathan
 * Guinea-Bissau: João Bernardo Vieira
 * Latvia: Kārlis Ulmanis
 * Estonia: Konstantin Päts
 * Swaziland/Eswatini: Sobhuza II, Mswati III
 * Fiji: Sitiveni Rabuka, Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama
 * Djibouti: Hassan Gouled Aptidon, Ismail Omar Guelleh
 * Comoros: Ahmed Abdallah, Ali Soilih
 * Anjouan: Mohamed Bacar
 * Equatorial Guinea: Francisco Macías Nguema, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo
 * Guyana: Forbes Burnham
 * Suriname: Dési Bouterse
 * Brunei: Hassanal Bolkiah
 * Maldives: Maumoon Abdul Gayoom
 * Grenada: Sir Eric Gairy
 * Antigua and Barbuda: Sir V.C. Bird
 * Seychelles: France-Albert René
 * San Marino: Giuliano Gozi

Family dictatorships
Based on deleted page:


 * China/Taiwan: Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Ching-kuo
 * Russia (Chechnya): Akhmad Kadyrov, Ramzan Kadyrov
 * DR Congo: Laurent-Désiré Kabila, Joseph Kabila
 * Iraq: Abdul Salam Arif, Abdul Rahman Arif
 * North Korea: Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un
 * Syria: Hafez al-Assad, Bashar al-Assad
 * Chad: Idriss Déby Itno, Mahamat Idriss Déby
 * Haiti: François Duvalier, Jean-Claude Duvalier
 * Cuba: Fidel Castro, Raúl Castro
 * Dominican Republic: Rafael Trujillo, Héctor Trujillo, Ramfis Trujillo
 * Azerbaijan: Heydər Əliyev, İlham Əliyev
 * Togo: Gnassingbé Eyadéma, Faure Gnassingbé
 * Paraguay: Carlos Antonio López, Francisco Solano López
 * El Salvador: Carlos Meléndez, Jorge Meléndez, Alfonso Quiñónez Molina
 * Nicaragua: Anastasio Somoza García, Luis Somoza Debayle, Anastasio Somoza Debayle
 * Turkmenistan: Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, Serdar Berdymukhammedov
 * Gabon: Omar Bongo Ondimba, Ali Bongo Ondimba
 * Antigua and Barbuda: Sir V.C. Bird, Sir Lester Bird

Brothers:


 * South Vietnam: Ngô Đình Diệm and Ngô Đình Nhu
 * South Africa (Ciskei): Lennox Sebe, Charles Sebe
 * South Africa (Transkei): K.D. Matanzima, George Matanzima
 * Costa Rica: Federico Tinoco Granados and José Joaquín Tinoco Granados

Spouses:


 * China: Mao Zedong and Jiang Qing
 * Philippines: Ferdinand E. Marcos and Imelda Marcos
 * East Germany: Erich Honecker and Margot Honecker
 * Romania: Nicolae Ceaușescu and Elena Ceaușescu
 * Nicaragua: Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo
 * Guyana: Forbes Burnham and Viola Burnham