Which world leaders do average Americans know the best (or at all?)

[kyc0705]

Any major changes here?

I'm sure the list is:

-Putin
-Merkel
-Kim Jong Un
-Netanyahu
-Pope Francis
-Justin Trudeau
-Raul Castro
-Erdogan
-Assad
-Theresa May
-mayyyyybeee Xi, Duterte, Sisi

This seems pretty accurate. I think there also a few wildcards: Robert Mugabe, considering how long he's been in power and how notorious his rule has been, it's likely most people know at least a couple of things about him. Dilma Rousseff was probably temporarily well-known when she was finally kicked out of office last year. And if the number of gaffes between Trump and Malcolm Turnbull continue...

[SATW]

Pope Francis
Vladimir Putin
Justin Trudeau
Binyamin Netanyahu
Kin Jong Un
Angela Merkel
Raul Castro
Bashar al-Assad
maybe Theresa May? (she hasn't been in office long enough for most people to know her but at the same time she seems to have some name rec w/ some Americans)
Ayatollah Khamenei
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

I wonder what historical leaders have been known average Americans of the time? Let's see, postwar:

Canada: just the Trudeaus
Latin America: Castros, Pinochet, Peron?
Western Europe: Churchill, Thatcher, Blair, Dr Gaulle, Mitterrand, Chirac (during Iraq fracas), Sarkozy, Franco, Adenauer, Brandt, Kohl, Merkel
Eastern Europe: Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gorby, Yeltsin, Nagy, Dubcek, Tito, Ceausescu
Sub-saharan Africa: Mandela, De Klerk, Botha? Mugabe
MENA: gadaffi, Nasser, Mubarak (during the revolution), netanyahu, Sharon, Rabin, Hussein, Ayatollahs, Erdogan
Asia: Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Mao, Deng, Ho Chi Minh, Kims, Pol Pot, Suharto (?), Marcos, Cory Aquino (briefly), Duterte

[Kingpoleon]

1. Putin
2. Assad

3. Netanyahu
4. May
5. Trudeau

6. Merkel

[Bismarck]

1. Putin
2. Assad

3. Netanyahu
4. May
5. Trudeau

6. Merkel

This except flip Merkel and May.

[Zuza]

Ayatollahs

You mean both Khomeini and Khamenei? I don't think average American ever knew the latter one. But he probably knew Ahmadinejad (and, maybe, Mosaddegh?).