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1980s - People

1980s - World Leaders

• Chancellor Bruno Kreisky (Austria)
• Chancellor Fred Sinowatz (Austria)
• Chancellor Franz Vranitzky (Austria)
• Prime Minister Bob Hawke (Australia)
• Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser (Australia)
• President João Figueiredo (Brazil)
• President José Sarney (Brazil)
• Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau (Canada)
• Prime Minister Brian Mulroney (Canada)
• General Augusto Pinochet (Chile)
• Deng Xiaoping (People's Republic of China)
• President Chiang Ching-kuo (Republic of China on Taiwan)
• Prime Minister Poul Schlüter (Denmark)
• Erich Honecker (East Germany)
• President Anwar Sadat (Egypt)
• President Hosni Mubarak (Egypt)
• President Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua)
• President Mengistu Haile Mariam (Ethiopia)
• President Urho Kekkonen (Finland)
• President Mauno Koivisto (Finland)
• President François Mitterrand (France)
• Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou (Greece)
• Prime Minister Indira Gandhi (India)
• Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi (India)
• Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (Iran)
• President Saddam Hussein (Iraq)
• President Patrick Hillery (Ireland)
• Taoiseach Charles Haughey (Ireland)
• Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald (Ireland)
• Prime Minister Menachem Begin (Israel)
• Prime Minister Shimon Peres (Israel)
• Emperor Hirohito (Japan)
• Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone (Japan)
• Emir Jabir al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah (Kuwait)
• President Muammar al-Qaddafi (Libya)
• Pope John Paul II
• Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad (Malaysia)
• Prime Minister Dom Mintoff (Malta)
• Prime Minister Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici (Malta)
• Prime Minister Eddie Fenech Adami (Malta)
• Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad (Malaysia)
• President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado (Mexico)
• President Samora Machel (Mozambique)
• Prime Minister Robert Muldoon (New Zealand)
• Prime Minister David Lange (New Zealand)
• Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer (New Zealand)
• Queen Beatrix (Netherlands)
• General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (Pakistan)
• General Manuel Noriega (Panama)
• President Ferdinand Marcos (Philippines)
• President Corazon Aquino (Philippines)
• President Wojciech Jaruzelski (Poland)
• President Nicolae Ceauşescu (Romania)
• Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew (Singapore)
• President and Prime Minister P.W. Botha (South Africa)
• President Chun Doo-hwan (South Korea)
• Premier Leonid Brezhnev (Soviet Union)
• General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev (Soviet Union)
• King Juan Carlos (Spain)
• President Felipe González (Spain)
• Prime Minister Ranasinghe Premadasa of Sri Lanka
• Prime Minister Olof Palme (Sweden)
• Prime Minister Turgut Ozal (Turkey)
• Queen Elizabeth II (United Kingdom and the Commonwealth Realms)
• Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (United Kingdom)
• President George H.W. Bush (United States)
• President Jimmy Carter (United States)
• President Ronald Reagan (United States)
• Chancellor Helmut Schmidt (West Germany)
• Chancellor Helmut Kohl (West Germany)
• President Josip Broz Tito (Yugoslavia)
• President Mobutu Sese Seko (Zaire)
• President Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe)

1980s - Entertainers

• AC/DC
• Brat Pack
• Mötley Crüe
• David Brooks
• Garth Brooks
• Matthew Broderick (Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Glory)
• The Cars
• Phoebe Cates (Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Gremlins)
• Guns N' Roses
• Tom Cruise (Top Gun, Rain Man, Risky Business, The Color of Money)
• Bo Derek
• Matt Dillon
• Dalida
• Ozzy Osbourne
• Emilio Estevez (The Breakfast Club, The Outsiders, Young Guns)
• Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones series, Star Wars series, Blade Runner, Witness)
• Jodie Foster
• Iron Maiden
• Michael J. Fox (Back to the Future series, Teen Wolf)
• Mel Gibson (Lethal Weapon series, Mad Max series)
• Debbie Harry (Blondie)
• Paul Hogan (Crocodile Dundee)
• John Hughes
• Chrissie Hynde (Pretenders)
• Michael Jackson (Thriller)
• Janet Jackson (Control)
• Elton John
• Michael Keaton (Batman, Mr. Mom, Night Shift)
• Annie Lennox (Eurythmics)
• George Lucas (Indiana Jones series, Star Wars series, Captain Eo)
• Madonna (Material Girl)
• Metallica
• George Michael (Wham!)
• Mötley Crüe
• Rick Moranis ("Before Napolean Dynamite, there was Rick Moranis")
• Eddie Murphy (Saturday Night Live, Beverly Hills Cop, Trading Places)
• Jack Nicholson (Terms of Endearment, The Shining, Batman, Prizzi's Honor, Ironweed, Reds)
• Queen (band)
• Rush (band)
• Sean Penn
• Michelle Pfeiffer (Scarface, Dangerous Liaisons)
• Prince (Purple Rain, Sign O' the Times)
• Meg Ryan
• Charlie Sheen
• Arnold Schwarzenegger (The Terminator, Predator, Conan the Barbarian)
• Sylvester Stallone (Rambo: First Blood)
• Patrick Swayze (Dirty Dancing)
• Judas Priest
• The Cure
• U2 (War, The Joshua Tree, Rattle and Hum)
• Van Halen
• Sigourney Weaver

1980s - Sports figures

• Alexis Arguello (Nicaraguan boxer)
• Marco van Basten (Dutch soccer player)
• Wilfred Benitez (Puerto Rican boxer)
• Larry Bird (U.S. basketball player)
• Allan Border (Australian cricket captain/batsman)
• Ian Botham (Somerset & England cricket all-rounder)
• Mike Brearley (Middlesex & England cricket captain/batsman)
• George Brett (U.S. baseball player)
• Warwick Capper (Australian football player)
• Julio Cesar Chavez (Mexican boxer)
• Roberto Duran (Panamanian boxer)
• Paulo Roberto Falcão (Brazilian soccer player)
• Ric Flair (U.S. wrestler)
• Mike Gatting (Middlesex & England cricket captain/batsman)
• Sunil Gavaskar (India cricket opening batsman)
• Wilfredo Gómez (Puerto Rican boxer)
• Gordon Greenidge (West Indies cricket opening batsman)
• Wayne Gretzky (Canadian ice hockey player)
• Florence Griffith Joyner (U.S. track and field athlete)
• Richard Hadlee (New Zealand cricket fast bowler)
• Marvin Hagler (U.S. boxer)
• Alan Hansen (Liverpool & Scotland footballer))
• Thomas Hearns (U.S. boxer)
• Hulk Hogan (U.S. wrestler)
• Larry Holmes (U.S. boxer)
• Bo Jackson (U.S. American football and baseball player)
• Imran Khan (Pakistani cricket player)
• Jahangir Khan (Pakistani squash player)
• Earvin "Magic" Johnson (U.S. basketball player)
• Michael Jordan (U.S. basketball player)
• Jarmila Kratochvílová (Czech track and field athlete)
• Greg LeMond (U.S. cyclist)
• Sugar Ray Leonard (U.S. boxer)
• Carl Lewis (U.S. track and field athlete)
• Wally Lewis (Australian Rugby League player}
• Gary Lineker (English footballer)
• Ronnie Lott (U.S. American football player)
• Saleem Malik (Pakistani cricket player)
• Diego Armando Maradona (Argentinesoccer player)
• Malcolm Marshall (West Indies cricket fast bowler)
• John McEnroe (U.S. tennis player)
• Mal Meninga (Australian Rugby League player}
• Mark Messier (Canadian ice hockey player)
• Javed Miandad (Pakistani cricket player)
• Joe Montana (U.S. American football player)
• Dale Murphy (U.S. baseball player)
• Martina Navratilova (Czech/U.S. tennis player)
• Jack Nicklaus (U.S. golfer)
• Nelson Piquet (Brazilian racing driver)
• Michel Platini (French soccer player)
• Alain Prost (French racing driver)
• Jerry Rice (U.S. football player)
• Vivian Richards (West Indies cricket batsman)
• Nolan Ryan (U.S. baseball player)
• Ozzie Smith (U.S. baseball player)
• Michael Spinks (U.S. boxer)
• Lawrence Taylor (U.S. American football player)
• Isiah Thomas (U.S. basketball player)
• Daley Thompson (English track and field athlete)
• Mike Tyson (U.S. boxer)
• Zico (Brazilian soccer player)

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "People", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki