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Can anyone add some names of other leaders or potential leaders of a country who had that country's name in their own names? (I don't think an "honorary" surname like Atatürk should count, and I would also like to exclude countries named after their ruling family, like Saudi Arabia.)

Well, there's a potential leader of Italy if Mussolini had died earlier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo_Balbo

And I suppose if she hadn't been killed in the Sparticist uprising, Rosa Luxemburg theoretically could have led a communist revolution in Luxembourg...

Also, besides U. S. Grant, there could have been another "U.S" as president--Upton Sinclair.

One other long-shot possibility:

"Montagu Douglas Scott was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford and had a military career commanding the 4th KOSBs. He was also Captain-General of the Royal Company of Archers.

"As Earl of Dalkeith, Scott was Scottish Unionist Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire from 1923 until 1935, when he succeeded as Duke of Buccleuch and Duke of Queensberry. He was succeeded as MP for the constituency by his brother, Lord William Scott. According to Cowling, he met German ambassador Joachim von Ribbentrop in London. Seen as pro-German, he was compelled to 'resign' as Lord Steward by King George VI.[1]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Montagu_Douglas_Scott,_8th_Duke_of_Buccleuch Maybe if there is a successful Sealion, Hitler makes him ruler of an "independent" Scotland?

Mark Cuban, alas, has no connection with Cuba.
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