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Family First Party

Family First Party: Australian socially conservative Christian party, founded in Adelaide in 2004 from Assemblies of God networks, amalgamated into the Australian Conservatives in 2017, then relaunched and federally registered as Family First Party Australia in September 2024.

Family of Barack Obama

Family of Barack Obama, the 44th US president: wife Michelle Robinson Obama, daughters Malia and Sasha, White House resident Marian Robinson, half-sister Maya Soetoro-Ng, and the Luo Obama family of Kenya.

Family of Deng Xiaoping

Family of Deng Xiaoping: parents Deng Wenming and Deng Danshi, wife Zhuo Lin (married 1939), five children Deng Lin, Deng Pufang, Deng Nan, Deng Zhifang, and Deng Rong, and granddaughter Yang Yang, a prominent princeling family.

Family of Donald Trump

Family of Donald Trump: the U.S. president's family, from parents Fred and Mary Trump to children Donald Jr., Ivanka, Eric, Tiffany, and Barron, their spouses, business trust, and political roles.

Family of Gustavo Petro

The family of Gustavo Petro, also known as the Petro family, comprises the parents, siblings, three wives, and six children of Colombia's president from 2022 to 2026.

Family of Imran Khan

The family of Imran Khan, Pakistan's former prime minister, spans his four politically active sisters, his wife Bushra Bibi, and his two sons, Sulaiman Isa and Qasim, and has grown prominent during his imprisonment since 2023.

Family of JD Vance

Family of JD Vance: vice president, wife Usha Vance, children Ewan, Vivek, Mirabel, and Alec Neel Vance, plus Middletown, Ohio parents and Kentucky Vance grandparents from Hillbilly Elegy.

Family of Joe Biden

The Biden family: Joe Biden's marriages to Neilia Hunter and Jill Biden, children Beau, Hunter, Ashley, and Naomi's line, brother James, and the family business investigations.

Family of Kamala Harris

Family of Kamala Harris: parents Donald J. Harris (Jamaican economist, Stanford) and Shyamala Gopalan (Indian breast cancer researcher), sister Maya, husband Doug Emhoff, first second gentleman, and stepchildren Cole and Ella, called "Momala".

Family of Mao Zedong

Family of Mao Zedong (毛泽东): his Shaoshan peasant parents, four wives (Luo bride, Yang Kaihui, He Zizhen, Jiang Qing), ten children including Mao Anying, Li Min, and Li Na, and relatives lost to the revolution.

Family of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex

Family of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex: her mother Doria Ragland, father Thomas Markle Sr., half-siblings Samantha and Thomas Jr., their genealogy, estrangement, and lack of royal titles.

Family of Mike Pence

Family of Mike Pence: parents Edward and Nancy Pence of Columbus, Indiana, five siblings, wife Karen Pence (married 1985), and children Michael, Charlotte, and Audrey; Irish Catholic roots, evangelical conversion, public roles.

Family of Shavkat Mirziyoyev

Family of Shavkat Mirziyoyev, president of Uzbekistan: wife Ziroatkhon Hoshimova, daughters Saida and Shakhnoza, son Alisher; sons-in-law Oybek Tursunov and Otabek Umarov; Saida heads the Presidential Administration and is seen as a possible successor.

Family Order of Laila Utama

The Most Esteemed Family Order of Laila Utama (Darjah Kerabat Laila Utama Yang Amat Dihormati, DK) is a Brunei royal family order founded 1 March 1954 by Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien III; recipients receive the title Dato Laila Utama. Distinct from Singapore's Order of Nila Utama.

Family tree of the British royal family

Family tree of the British royal family: the House of Windsor genealogy from George V to Charles III, with the statutory line of succession, the 2013 Succession Act, and Windsor and Mountbatten-Windsor naming rules.

Fan Noli

Fan Noli, born Theofan Stylian Noli (1882 to 1965), was an Albanian Orthodox bishop, statesman, and translator who founded the Albanian Orthodox Church in America and briefly served as Albania's prime minister in 1924.

Fanmi Lavalas

Fanmi Lavalas, Haitian Creole for "Lavalas Family," is a Haitian political party founded by former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1997, carrying the progressive lineage of the Lavalas movement.

Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977), Mississippi voting rights activist, MFDP co-founder and vice chair, famed for her 1964 DNC Credentials Committee testimony; later founded Freedom Farm, NWPC founding member, posthumous 2025 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient.

Far-left politics

Far-left politics denotes the extreme left of the left-right spectrum, rooted in Marxist, socialist, and anarchist anti-capitalism. Also called radical or ultra-left, it spans communist, council-communist, and anarchist currents, with contested boundaries between radical-left parties and extremist violence.

Far-right politics

Far-right politics covers radical-right and extreme-right actors at the rightmost end of the spectrum, defined by nativism, authoritarianism, and illiberalism; it has grown electorally in Europe since the 1990s and erodes democracy in government.

Far-right politics in Australia

Far-right politics in Australia: parties and movements from the White Army and Australia First Movement to One Nation and the National Socialist Network; no far-right party has governed, but ASIO raised the terror threat level to PROBABLE in 2024.

Far-right politics in Israel

Far-right politics in Israel covers Kahanist and religious-nationalist movements such as Otzma Yehudit and Religious Zionism, their roots in Revisionist Zionism, their entry into Netanyahu's December 2022 coalition, and their judicial overhaul and annexationist agenda.

Farah Pahlavi (فرح پهلوی)

Farah Pahlavi (فرح پهلوی), born Farah Diba in Tehran in 1938, was the last shahbanou (empress) of Iran, wife of Mohammad Reza Shah from 1959 to 1979, first crowned Iranian empress, patron of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, and an exile in Paris since 1979.

Farah Rumy

Farah Rumy is a Swiss Social Democratic politician from Grenchen who joined the National Council in 2023, became its Second Vice-President in 2025, and works as a nursing professional.

Farahnaz Pahlavi (فرحناز پهلوی)

Farahnaz Pahlavi (فرحناز پهلوی), born 1963 in Tehran, is a daughter of Iran's last Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Empress Farah; educated in social work, she lives in exile and keeps a private, low-profile life.

Farhash Wafa Salvador

Farhash Wafa Salvador Rizal Mubarak, Malaysian businessman and former political secretary to Anwar Ibrahim, ex-PKR Perak chief; chairman of Apex Equity and 7-Eleven Malaysia, MMAG shareholder, and figure in the Sabah mining licence controversy.

Farooq Abdullah (فاروق عبداللہ)

Farooq Abdullah (فاروق عبداللہ, born 1937) is a Jammu and Kashmir National Conference leader, three-time chief minister (1982–84, 1986–90, 1996–2002), son of Sheikh Abdullah, and advocate of restoring Article 370.

Farouk of Egypt (فاروق الأول)

Farouk of Egypt (فاروق الأول) was the penultimate king of Egypt, succeeding Fuad I in 1936 at 16 and abdicating after the Free Officers coup of 1952.

Fascism

Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology that places the nation above the individual; it first took shape in Europe in the twentieth century.

Fascism and ideology

Fascism and ideology: the doctrinal content of fascism, from the 1932 Doctrine of Fascism to Griffin's palingenetic ultranationalism and Paxton's action-based view, plus the Italy–Germany comparison and historiographical debate.