1Alec Douglas-Home
In 1964, British Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home was almost kidnapped by two students with political motivations. He persuaded them not to by pointing out that his kidnapping would ensure a Conservative victory in the next election. Instead he gave them a case of beer and bid them goodnight.
2Nguyen Cao Ky
Nguyen Cao Ky, the former Prime Minister of Vietnam moved to Orange County in California after Vietnam War where he opened and ran a liquor store.
3Harold Holt
Australian prime minister Harold Holt loved swimming and diving so much that when his press secretary expressed concern about this he said, "Look, what are the odds that a PM would drown or be eaten by a shark?". In 1967, Holt went for a swim in the ocean and was never seen again.
4Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher was more proud of being the first UK Prime Minister with a science degree than she was of being the first female Prime Minister.
5Jaroslaw Kaczynski and Lech Kaczynski
Between 2006 and 2007 Poland’s prime minister (Jaroslaw Kaczynski [Right side]) and president (Lech Kaczynski) were identical twin brothers, making them the first brothers in history to hold a country’s prime ministership and the presidency at the same time.
6Pierre Trudeau
When Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau found out Richard Nixon called him an "as*hole", he replied, "I've been called worse things by better people."
7Patrice Lumumba
Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected prime minister of Congo got shot by a firing squad.
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8Clement Attlee
Clement Attlee, widely regarded as the greatest Prime Minister of Britain of the 1900s, said that he believed in "the ethics of Christianity" but not "the mumbo-jumbo."
9R. B. Bennett
Canadian Prime Minister R. B. Bennett lived in a luxurious 17-room hotel suite in Ottawa for the duration of his time in office between 1930 to 1935. It was during the Great Depression and his government lost when news of his expensive lifestyle became public.
10Mohammad Mosaddegh
Mohammad Mosaddegh was the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran who was overthrown by the USA’s CIA in 1953 for having the audacity to nationalize the Iranian oil industry to wrest it from the hands of the United Kingdom and the Americans.
