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Abdul Halim of Kedah
Sultan of Kedah
Abdurrahman Wahid
President of Indonesia from 1999 to 2001
Ahmad Shah of Pahang
Yang di-Pertuan Agong from 1979 to 1984
Anwar Ibrahim
Prime Minister of Malaysia since 2022
Ba U
Former President of Burma
Bảo Đại
Emperor of Vietnam from 1926 to 1945
Benigno Aquino III
15th President of the Philippines
Bhumibol Adulyadej
King of Thailand
Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum
Cambodian politician
Corazon Aquino
President of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992
Diosdado Macapagal
9th President of the Philippines
Elpidio Quirino
President of the Philippines from 1948 to 1953
Ferdinand Marcos
President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986
Fidel V. Ramos
President of the Philippines from 1992 to 1998
Francisco Xavier do Amaral
Timorese (1937-2012)
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
President of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010
Goh Chok Tong
2nd Prime Minister of Singapore
Hassanal Bolkiah
Sultan of Brunei
Ho Chi Minh
Leader of North Vietnam from 1945 to 1969
Hun Sen
Prime Minister of Cambodia (1985–1993, 1998–2023)
Imelda Marcos
10th First Lady of the Philippines
Joko Widodo
President of Indonesia from 2014 to 2024
José Ramos-Horta
4th President of East Timor (2007-2012)
Kaysone Phomvihane
First General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (r. 1955-1992)
Kukrit Pramoj
Thai politician (1911-1995)
Lê Đức Thọ
Vietnamese diplomat (1911–1990)
Lee Hsien Loong
3rd Prime Minister of Singapore
Lee Kuan Yew
Prime Minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990
Mahathir Mohamad
Prime Minister of Malaysia (1981–2003, 2018–2020)
Manuel Roxas
First President of the Philippines
Megawati Sukarnoputri
President of Indonesia from 2001 to 2004
Najib Razak
Prime Minister of Malaysia from 2009 to 2018
Ne Win
20th-century Burmese politician and general
Ngo Dinh Diem
20th-century President of the Republic of Vietnam
Nguyễn Khánh
20th-century South Vietnamese military officer
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu
President of South Vietnam from 1965–75
Nicolau dos Reis Lobato
Prime Minister of East Timor
Ninoy Aquino
Filipino Senator and a former Governor of Tarlac
Norodom Sihamoni
King of Cambodia since 2004
Norodom Sihanouk
King of Cambodia (1941–1955; 1993–2004)
Omar Ali Saifuddien III
Sultan of Brunei from 1950 to 1967
Pol Pot
20th-century Cambodian Communist revolutionary and politician
Prayut Chan-o-cha
Thai politician, current Prime Minister of Thailand
Prem Tinsulanonda
Prime Minister of Thailand from 1980 to 1988
Ramon Magsaysay
7th President of the Philippines
Rodrigo Duterte
President of the Philippines from 2016 to 2022
Sao Shwe Thaik
First President of Burma and Last Saopha of Yawnghwe
Sisavang Vatthana
Last monarch of the Kingdom of Laos (reigned 1959-75)
Souphanouvong
Laotian politician
Sukarno
President of Indonesia from 1945 to 1967
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
President of Indonesia from 2004 to 2014
Thaksin Shinawatra
Prime Minister of Thailand from 2001 to 2006
Than Shwe
Burmese senior general, commander in chief of all armed forces and Prime Minister
Thein Sein
Thein Sein, the 8th President of Myanmar from 2011 to 2016
Tôn Đức Thắng
President of North Vietnam (1888-1980)
Tunku Abdul Rahman
Prime Minister of Malaysia from 1957 to 1970
U Thant
Third Secretary-General of the United Nations
Vajiralongkorn
King of Thailand
Yingluck Shinawatra
Prime Minister of Thailand from 2011 to 2014