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Antonio Di Pietro

Italian jurist and politician

Oscar Luigi Scalfaro

president of Italy

Roberto Farinacci

Italian politician

Azzone Dei Porci

Italian jurist

Montgomery Blair

United States government official

Archibald Cox

American lawyer

William H. Webster

United States government official

Kurt Schmoke

American politician

Emily Murphy

Canadian lawyer and writer

Gu Kailai

Chinese lawyer

Ted Sorensen

American lawyer and presidential speechwriter

Elliot Lee Richardson

American lawyer

Abraham Lincoln

president of United States

Francis Bacon

British author, philosopher, and statesman

Mahatma Gandhi

Indian social activist, lawyer, and politician

Clarence Thomas

United States jurist

John G. Roberts, Jr.

chief justice of United States

Yoon Suk-Yeol

president of South Korea

Cicero

Roman statesman, scholar, and writer

Hillary Clinton

United States senator, first lady, and secretary of state