Politics and government

Felipe Santiago Salaverry

Felipe Santiago Salaverry was a Peruvian military officer who seized power in 1835 and ruled as Supreme Chief until his defeat and execution by Andrés de Santa Cruz.

Felipe Varela

Felipe Varela (1821–1870) was an Argentine caudillo from Catamarca who led the Revolución de los Colorados, the last major federalist rising against Buenos Aires, in 1866–1867.

Felipe VI, King of Spain since his 19 June 2014 proclamation after Juan Carlos I's abdication; born Madrid 1968, married Queen Letizia 2004; head of state defined by Article 56, defined by his 3 October 2017 Catalan crisis address.

Felix Banaszak

Felix Banaszak, born 1989 in Duisburg, is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens, a Bundestag member since 2021 and federal co-chair of the party since 2024.

Félix Éboué

Félix Éboué (1884–1944), Guyana-born French colonial administrator, first Black governor (Guadeloupe 1936) and governor-general of French Equatorial Africa; rallied Chad to Free France in 1940, shaped the 1944 Brazzaville Conference, buried in the Panthéon.

Félix Faure

Félix Faure (François Félix Faure), 1841-1899, French President of the Republic 1895-1899; Le Havre leather merchant and moderate republican deputy; promoted the Franco-Russian alliance and Fashoda evacuation; died suddenly at the Élysée.

Félix Houphouët-Boigny

Félix Houphouët-Boigny, born Dia Houphouët, was an Ivorian physician and politician who served as the first president of Côte d'Ivoire, from independence in 1960 until his death in 1993.

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Félix Kir

Félix Kir was a French Catholic priest, Resistance figure, and mayor of Dijon from 1945 until his death in 1968; the kir apéritif is named for him.

Félix María Calleja del Rey

Félix María Calleja del Rey was a Spanish soldier who commanded royalist forces in the Mexican War of Independence and served as viceroy of New Spain from 1813 to 1816.

Félix Plasencia

Félix Plasencia is a Venezuelan diplomat and career foreign service officer serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade since July 2026, after serving as foreign minister from 2021 to 2022.

Félix Tshisekedi

Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, Congolese president since 24 January 2019 and re-elected December 2023 with 73% of the vote; son of Étienne Tshisekedi, UDPS leader, broke from Kabila via the Sacred Union, and faces the Rwanda-backed M23 rebellion in eastern DRC.

Félix Ulloa

Félix Ulloa is a Salvadoran lawyer and politician of the Nuevas Ideas party who has served as Vice President of El Salvador since 2019, elected alongside President Nayib Bukele.

Felix zu Schwarzenberg

Felix zu Schwarzenberg was an Austrian statesman and diplomat who served as Minister-President and Foreign Minister of the Austrian Empire from 1848 until his death in 1852.

Félix-Roland Moumié

Félix-Roland Moumié (1925–1960) was a Cameroonian physician and anticolonial politician who, as president of the UPC, led Cameroon's independence campaign from exile until poisoned in Geneva.

Fellow traveller

Fellow traveller (fellow traveler, Russian poputchik) literally means a traveling companion; politically it denotes a Communist sympathizer who is not a party member, a term coined in Soviet usage by Lenin and Trotsky and widely used as Cold War derision.

Felony disenfranchisement in the United States

Felony disenfranchisement in the United States bars people with felony convictions from voting under state laws; 4 million Americans, 1.7% of voting-age adults, were disenfranchised in 2024, with sharp racial and state disparities.

Feminist international relations

Feminist international relations (feminist IR) is a body of IR theory examining gender and women's roles in international politics, emerging from the late 1980s onward.

Femke Halsema

Femke Halsema is a Dutch politician of the party GroenLinks-PvdA who has served as Mayor of Amsterdam since 2018, after leading GroenLinks in the House of Representatives from 2002 to 2010.

Fenian

Fenian: member of the 1858 Irish republican revolutionary movement, the Irish Republican Brotherhood in Ireland and John O'Mahony's Fenian Brotherhood in America, known for the failed 1867 rising and the Fenian Raids on Canada (1866, 1870, 1871).

Fenian Brotherhood

Fenian Brotherhood, Irish-American republican organization founded in New York in 1858 by John O'Mahony as the American wing of James Stephens's Irish Republican Brotherhood; Civil War veterans, failed 1867 rising, and Fenian raids on Canada 1866–1871.

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Fenner Brockway

Fenner Brockway, born Archibald Fenner Brockway, was a British socialist politician and anti-colonial campaigner, MP for Eton and Slough from 1950 to 1964, known as "the member for Africa."

Feodor III of Russia (Фёдор III Алексеевич)

Feodor III of Russia (Фёдор III Алексеевич) was Tsar of Russia from 1676 until his death in 1682. Son of Tsar Alexis, he abolished mestnichestvo and reformed taxation.

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Ferdinand Buisson

Ferdinand Buisson was a French educator, parliamentarian, and pacifist who built the Third Republic's free, compulsory, secular schools and shared the 1927 Nobel Peace Prize.

Ferdinand I of Bulgaria

Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, born Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-Koháry (1861–1948), ruled 31 years as Prince from 1887 and King of the Bulgarians from independence in 1908 until forced abdication in 1918 after World War I.

Ferdinand I of Romania

Ferdinand I of Romania (1865–1927), Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen king 1914–1927, nephew of Carol I, called Întregitorul the Unifier; led Romania into WWI on the Entente, refused to ratify the 1918 Treaty of Bucharest, sanctioned the unions and the 1923 Constitution.