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Fulbert Youlou

Fulbert Youlou was a Congolese Catholic priest and politician, the first president of the Republic of the Congo from independence in 1960 until his overthrow in 1963.

Fulgencio Batista

Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar (1901–1973), Cuban soldier and president 1940–1944, ruled as dictator after his March 10, 1952 coup until fleeing to the Dominican Republic in January 1959, when Fidel Castro's revolution toppled his regime.

Fumihito, Crown Prince of Japan

Fumihito, Crown Prince of Japan (Prince Akishino), born 1965, is Emperor Naruhito's younger brother and first in line to the Chrysanthemum Throne since 2019; ornithologist with a Ph.D. in chicken domestication, father of Prince Hisahito.

Fumimaro Konoe (近衛文麿)

Konoe Fumimaro (近衛文麿, 1891–1945) was a Fujiwara-descent prince and three-time Japanese prime minister whose have-not-nation worldview, New Order declaration, Imperial Rule Assistance Association, and failed 1941 Roosevelt summit preceded Japan's wars.

Fumio Kishida (岸田文雄)

Fumio Kishida (岸田文雄), born 1957, Japanese LDP politician, 100th prime minister 2021-2024, former foreign minister; known for the 2022 counterstrike security strategy, defense spending raised to 2% of GDP, and leaving office amid funding-scandal record-low approval.

Fumitake Fujita

Fumitake Fujita (藤田文武) is a Japanese politician of the Japan Innovation Party, serving as its co-leader and as a House of Representatives member from Osaka's 12th district.

FUNCINPEC

FUNCINPEC, short for the National United Front for an Independent, Neutral, Peaceful and Cooperative Cambodia, is a royalist Cambodian party that won the 1993 election before being ousted by Hun Sen in 1997.

Fund accounting

Fund accounting segregates an organization's resources into separate self-balancing funds to prove restricted money was used as intended. Used by governments (GASB, modified accrual), nonprofits (FASB), federal grantees, and investment funds (ASC 946, NAV).

Fundamental Articles

The Fundamental Articles (Fundamentální články; German: Fundamentalartikel) were a draft 1871 Czech-Austrian compromise, meant to give Bohemia a status like Hungary's within the Habsburg monarchy, but the plan failed.

Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti

Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (1900–1978), born Frances Abigail Olufunmilayo Thomas, Nigerian teacher, nationalist, and feminist who led the Abeokuta Women's Union tax protests, forced the Alake's abdication, and founded the Nigerian Women's Union.

Future Left (Sweden)

Framtidens Vänster (Future Left) is a Swedish political party founded by former Left Party MPs Lorena Delgado Varas and Daniel Riazat; socialist, feminist, anti-imperialist; dual leaders, first congress March 2026.

Fyodor Shchukin

Fyodor Vyacheslavovich Shchukin (Фёдор Вячеславович Щукин), born 1976, is a Russian judge and politician, former chairman of the Supreme Court of Dagestan (2024) and head of Dagestan from 2026, first acting from May, then elected head of the republic in October 2026.

G Kumar Naik

G Kumar Naik is an Indian National Congress politician and former IAS officer who has served as the Lok Sabha member for Raichur, Karnataka, since 2024.

G. C. Murmu

Girish Chandra Murmu (born 1959), Indian IAS officer (Gujarat cadre, 1985 batch), first Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir (2019-2020) and 14th Comptroller and Auditor General of India (2020-2024), former Expenditure Secretary and Modi's Gujarat principal secretary.

G. Chinna Reddy

Gillella Chinna Reddy, Indian National Congress leader from Wanaparthy, Telangana; four-time MLA, Rural Development minister in undivided Andhra Pradesh 2007–2009, and Vice-Chairman of the Telangana State Planning Board 2024–2026.

G. D. H. Cole

G. D. H. Cole, English socialist economist and historian, chief theorist of guild socialism, author of Guild Socialism Restated (1920) and the five-volume History of Socialist Thought.

G. David Schine

G. David Schine (Gerard David Schine), American hotel and theater fortune heir, unpaid consultant to Senator Joseph McCarthy whose Army draft and Roy Cohn's pleas for special treatment triggered the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings; later a Los Angeles entertainment executive.

G. Janardhana Reddy

Gali Janardhana Reddy (born 1967) is a Karnataka politician and mining baron from Ballari, Obulapuram Mining Company figure, former Yeddyurappa minister, convicted in the 2025 OMC illegal mining case with conviction stayed, and KRPP founder who rejoined the BJP.

G. K. Butterfield

G. K. Butterfield (George Kenneth Butterfield Jr., born 1947) was a Democratic U.S. representative for North Carolina's 1st District, 2004–2022, CBC chair 2015–2017, chief deputy whip, former NC Supreme Court justice, succeeding Frank Ballance and succeeded by Don Davis.

G. Kaito Aye

G. Kaito Aye is an Indian politician from Nagaland and a Naga People's Front minister in the state government, holding the Roads and Bridges portfolio.

G. Kishan Reddy

G. Kishan Reddy (born 1960), BJP leader from Telangana, Union Minister of Coal and Mines and MP for Secunderabad; earlier MoS Home Affairs, Culture/Tourism/DoNER minister, and three-term Andhra Pradesh and Telangana MLA.

G. Lakshminarayana

G. Lakshminarayana, also known as Ambica Lakshminarayana, is an Indian politician of the Telugu Desam Party who has represented Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, in the Lok Sabha since 2024.

G. M. Harish Balayogi

G. M. Harish Balayogi, born in 1991 in Kakinada, is an Indian Telugu Desam Party politician who has represented Amalapuram, Andhra Pradesh, in the Lok Sabha since 2024.

G. N. S. Rajasekaran

G. N. S. Rajasekaran is an Indian politician and Bharatiya Janata Party minister in Puducherry, elected from Thirunallar in 2026 and holding the agriculture and rural development portfolios.

G. Nagesh

G. Nagesh, also known as Godam Nagesh, is an Indian BJP politician who represents Adilabad, Telangana, in the Lok Sabha, a seat he earlier held from 2014 to 2019.

G. Parameshwara

G. Parameshwara, born 1951, is an Indian National Congress politician serving as Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka and the longest-serving president of the state party unit.

G. Selvam

G. Selvam, born 1974, in Kancheepuram, Tamil Nadu, is an Indian Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam politician representing Kancheepuram in the Lok Sabha since 2024, after first winning the seat in 2019.

G. T. Dhungel

G. T. Dhungel, also spelled Gay Tshering Dhungel, is an Indian Sikkim Krantikari Morcha politician who has held the Health & Family Welfare and Culture portfolios since 2024.

G. Vivekanand

G. Vivekanand, also known as Vivek Venkatswamy, is an Indian National Congress politician who has been a Telangana minister since 2023 and earlier represented Peddapalli in the Lok Sabha from 2009 to 2014.

G.C. Chandrashekhar

G.C. Chandrashekhar is an Indian National Congress politician from Karnataka serving his second term in the Rajya Sabha, from 2024 to 2030, and was appointed principal advisor to Karnataka's chief minister in July 2026.