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* Speaking of heads of state, Obama isn't the only one -- King Abdullah II of Jordan is an acknowledged fan of ''Franchise/StarTrek'', and even guest-starred on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' when he was still a prince. Later, when MichaelBay was going to film ''[[Film/{{Transformers}} Revenge of the Fallen]]'' in Jordan, he ordered 38 military helicopters to transport the equipment to Petra, allowing the film crew those overhead shots of the same ruins that appeared in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade''. Turns out His Majesty is a big fan of ''{{Transformers}}'' and loves the franchise.
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* Rick Snyder, Republican candidate for governor of Michigan, is a huge fan of ''StarWars'', ''Series/MythBusters'', ''GoodEats'', and classic rock. Heck, he even calls himself a nerd in his own campaign tagline.
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* The current Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is a fan of classical HardRock (DeepPurple, Music/BlackSabbath, and LedZeppelin, among others), which is geeky nowadays... especially in [[MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong Mother Russia, where even geeks are badass]].
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** In a National News Conference about Health Care, Obama argued one of his points by talking about comparing costs for "[[TheMatrix A red pill and a blue pill]]."
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* Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont is a huge ''Comicbook/{{Batman}}'' fan. In fact, he lent his voice to an episode of ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', and had a cameo in ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'', ''Film/TheDarkKnight, and Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w96uPYrkAE#t=0m36s (here he is in TDK)]]. He gets props for donating the money he earned from those gigs to the Montpelier public library.
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* Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont is a huge ''Comicbook/{{Batman}}'' fan. In fact, he lent his voice to an episode of ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', and had a cameo in ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'', ''[[TheDarkKnightSaga The Dark Knight]], and [[TheDarkKnightSaga The Dark Knight Rises]]'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w96uPYrkAE#t=0m36s (here he is in TDK)]]. He gets props for donating the money he earned from those gigs to the Montpelier public library.
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** He is obsessed with dinosaurs. During his campaign for the republican nomination for president in the 2013 election, he said that those who would benefit from his policies were "people who like dinosaurs." [[http://gawker.com/5770683/newt-gingrich-reminisces-about-his-fake-loaned-t+rex-skull There was a cast was made from a T-Rex skull from the Smithsonian mounted in his office during his time as Speaker of the House.]]
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* Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont is a huge ''Comicbook/{{Batman}}'' fan. In fact, he lent his voice to an episode of ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', and had a cameo in ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'', ''[[TheDarkKnightSaga The Dark Knight, and the Dark Knight Rises]]'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w96uPYrkAE#t=0m36s (here it is in TDK)]]. He gets props for donating the money he earned from those gigs to the Montpelier public library.
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** His opponent and successor at the post, Yukio Hatoyama, [[http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/09/25/pm-hatoyama-huge-fan-of-ecchi-manga/ reportedly is quite the fan of manga and anime]], mentioning ''[[{{Ptitlekyguh9tt9sws}} I''s]]'' as a personal favorite.
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** And he is now going to show up in a ''{{MythBusters}}'' episode where they try to make the solar powered death ray work for the third time. The stated goal of the appearance is to encourage science and technology education.
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** More significant he is also a major fan of {{The Goon Show}} to the point of making [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfhC587Wiik fan film]] (and doing a very creditable Bluebottle impersonation).
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* American President BarackObama has demonstrated a deep familiarity with ''StarTrek'', joked [[http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/10/candidates_get.html at the Alfred E. Smith memorial dinner]] about [[{{Superman}} being sent by his father Jor-El to save the planet Earth]], apparently dressed as a wizard to take his daughters to a midnight release of a ''HarryPotter'' book, and according to [[http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog=8269#8273 a possibly apocryphal report on tor.com]] is familiar enough with Internet memes to make ''ZeroWing'' jokes. You just '''know''' if he ever gets in a war, something '''will''' be called "Operation All Your Base Are Belong To US." He also collects ''Comicbook/{{Spider-Man}}'' and ''{{Conan}}'' comics; in fact, he is reputedly a collector of the mylar-bag-and-backboard, never read'em stripe. This has been escalated and expanded on [[http://community.livejournal.com/metaquotes/6928399.html here]].
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* Speaking of heads of state, Obama isn't the only one -- King Abdullah II of Jordan is an acknowledged fan of ''StarTrek'', and even guest-starred on ''StarTrekVoyager'' when he was still a prince. Later, when MichaelBay was going to film ''[[Film/{{Transformers}} Revenge of the Fallen]]'' in Jordan, he ordered 38 military helicopters to transport the equipment to Petra, allowing the film crew those overhead shots of the same ruins that appeared in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade''. Turns out His Majesty is a big fan of ''{{Transformers}}'' and loves the franchise.
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* Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has [[http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/08/did_herman_cain_know_he_was_qu.html quoted]] ''Anime/{{Pokemon 2000}}'' in debates and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jV_11_q6Hc and his announcement of dropping out of the campaign]] (where he did actually mention it was from ''Pokémon''), and his 9-9-9 plan [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/13/herman-cain-999-sim-city_n_1008952.html?ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false may have been inspired by]] ''SimCity''. Whether he's a nerd or just has a nerd in the family he's soaked this stuff in from is uncertain, however, and an interview where he seemed to say that Superman used Kryptonite like Batman used gadgets would make the latter seem more probable.
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* Jens Stoltenberg, the current Prime minister of Norway, is a gamer. He specifically likes games like ''AgeOfEmpires'' and ''TotalWar'' because it involves building a society. It also involves killing lots of people. Should the Finns and the Swedes be watching their borders?
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* Kim Jong Il, according to rumors, loved all kind of genre movies. He even ordered a South Korean director kidnapped to make them. Okay, so he's half "one of us", half "one of the JamesBond villains". He actually loves all the Bond films, except (surprise, surprise) ''DieAnotherDay''.
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** And according to ''{{XKCD}}'' he has a zeppelin that he uses to duel with Cory Doctorow and can [[{{Pokemon}} evolve]] into [[{{Tron}} Tron Paul]] complete with light cycle [[http://xkcd.com/497/ .]]
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* Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont is a huge ''Comicbook/{{Batman}}'' fan. In fact, he lent his voice to an episode of ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', and had a cameo in both ''BatmanAndRobin'' and ''[[TheDarkKnightSaga The Dark Knight]]'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w96uPYrkAE#t=0m36s (here it is)]]. He gets props for donating the money he earned from those gigs to the Montpelier public library.
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* Congressman Jared Polis of Colorado not only fought SOPA / Protect IP, but is an avid ''LeagueOfLegends'' player who [[http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?p=19572246#post19572246 posts on the official forums]]. (He claims he's partial to Anivia and Maokai, for those who are curious.)
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* Speaking of heads of state, Obama isn't the only one -- King Abdullah II of Jordan is an acknowledged fan of ''StarTrek'', and even guest-starred on ''StarTrekVoyager'' when he was still a prince. Later, when MichaelBay was going to film ''[[Film/{{Transformers}} Revenge of the Fallen]]'' in Jordan, he ordered 38 military helicopters to transport the equipment to Petra, allowing the film crew those overhead shots of the same ruins that appeared in ''[[IndianaJones Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade]]''. Turns out His Majesty is a big fan of ''{{Transformers}}'' and loves the franchise.
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* Speaking of heads of state, Obama isn't the only one -- King Abdullah II of Jordan is an acknowledged fan of ''StarTrek'', and even guest-starred on ''StarTrekVoyager'' when he was still a prince. Later, when MichaelBay was going to film ''[[Film/{{Transformers}} Revenge of the Fallen]]'' in Jordan, he ordered 38 military helicopters to transport the equipment to Petra, allowing the film crew those overhead shots of the same ruins that appeared in ''[[IndianaJones Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade]]''.''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade''. Turns out His Majesty is a big fan of ''{{Transformers}}'' and loves the franchise.
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* The late former Senator Ted Stevens was known to be a huge comic book nerd and often wore a Hulk tie on the Senate floor.
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* Taro Aso, former Prime Minister of Japan, is a fan of ''RozenMaiden''. Otaku have nicknamed him "Rozen Aso" and claim him as one of their own, and this is referenced in ''SayonaraZetsubouSensei''.
** His opponent and successor at the post, Yukio Hatoyama, [[http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/09/25/pm-hatoyama-huge-fan-of-ecchi-manga/ reportedly is quite the fan of manga and anime]], mentioning ''[[{{Ptitlekyguh9tt9sws}} I''s]]'' as a personal favorite.
** During Takaaki Mitsuhashi's 2010 campaign for the House of Councillors, he cosplayed as Gendo Ikari.
** Junichiro Koizumi. Huge ElvisPresley and XJapan fanboy. To the degree of using "Forever Love" as background music for several political campaign ads for the Liberal Democratic Party during the 2001 elections.
*** And now [[TheLegendOfKoizumi he saves the world with MAHJONG!]]
*** He also voiced Ultraman King in the UltraSeries movie ''UltraGalaxyMegaMonsterBattle''. His son and successor of his position in the LDP, Shinjiro Koizumi also count, as he was the one who convinced his father to do the voicing. That is one awesome father-son combination.
** Considering the Japanese as a whole, it's likely that most positions in the government are filled with otaku of one level or another.
* American President BarackObama has demonstrated a deep familiarity with ''StarTrek'', joked [[http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/10/candidates_get.html at the Alfred E. Smith memorial dinner]] about [[{{Superman}} being sent by his father Jor-El to save the planet Earth]], apparently dressed as a wizard to take his daughters to a midnight release of a ''HarryPotter'' book, and according to [[http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog=8269#8273 a possibly apocryphal report on tor.com]] is familiar enough with Internet memes to make ''ZeroWing'' jokes. You just '''know''' if he ever gets in a war, something '''will''' be called "Operation All Your Base Are Belong To US." He also collects ''Comicbook/{{Spider-Man}}'' and ''{{Conan}}'' comics; in fact, he is reputedly a collector of the mylar-bag-and-backboard, never read'em stripe. This has been escalated and expanded on [[http://community.livejournal.com/metaquotes/6928399.html here]].
** [[http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2008/11/5-signs-preside.html Wired has several more examples.]]
** Don't forget the Spider-Man Obama crossover thing.
** It was also pretty well publicized that he and Michelle bought their daughters a {{Wii}} for Christmas. Poking fun at his failed attempt at bowling during the campaign, he joked that he was much better at Wii Sports Bowling than real life. Gamers everywhere rejoiced -- well, [[StopHavingFunGuys except those too-"hardcore"-for-Wii gamers]].
*** During Obama's visit to Poland at the end of May 2011, Prime Minister Donald Tusk gave him the collector's edition of ''VideoGame/TheWitcher2AssassinsOfKings'' as a gift.
** When he met LeonardNimoy, he greeted him with the [[StarTrek Vulcan hand salute]].
** In a National News Conference about Health Care, Obama argued one of his points by talking about comparing costs for "[[TheMatrix A red pill and a blue pill]]."
** John Hodgman had a whole [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW7OPByRGDY speech]] on this.
** There's also that [[http://www.newsweek.com/id/167755/page/6 Newsweek behind-the-scenes special]] (misquoted at the bottom of the first paragraph) where he was observed by one of their reporters making his wife roll her eyes at a joke about her belt having [[StarTrek dilithium crystals]] on it.
** And then there's him [[http://www.windycitizen.com/files/3926925767_76a554dc62.jpg wielding a frigging LIGHTSABER]] on the White House lawn in a photo-op for the Olympics.
** And he is now going to show up in a ''{{MythBusters}}'' episode where they try to make the solar powered death ray work for the third time. The stated goal of the appearance is to encourage science and technology education.
*** Speaking of death rays... Obama named Stephen Chu Secretary of Energy. Chu is known for his strong critic of fossil fuels, for the Nobel Prize he earned for cooling atoms with laser: basically, the US president hired the inventor of the [[{{Metroid}} Ice Beam]] to [[FunnyAneurysmMoment fight against Global Warming]]
** Not to mention Michelle herself; she was the salutatorian of her high school. Although she pales in comparison to Barack's nerdiness, that's still pretty damn nerdy.
* Speaking of heads of state, Obama isn't the only one -- King Abdullah II of Jordan is an acknowledged fan of ''StarTrek'', and even guest-starred on ''StarTrekVoyager'' when he was still a prince. Later, when MichaelBay was going to film ''[[Film/{{Transformers}} Revenge of the Fallen]]'' in Jordan, he ordered 38 military helicopters to transport the equipment to Petra, allowing the film crew those overhead shots of the same ruins that appeared in ''[[IndianaJones Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade]]''. Turns out His Majesty is a big fan of ''{{Transformers}}'' and loves the franchise.
** King Abdullah has recently announced the creation of a [[http://www.royaltyinthenews.com/2011/08/06/king-abdullah-ii-invests-in-star-trek-theme-park/ Star Trek theme park]] to be built in his country, which he will be funding.
* Jens Stoltenberg, the current Prime minister of Norway, is a gamer. He specifically likes games like ''AgeOfEmpires'' and ''TotalWar'' because it involves building a society. It also involves killing lots of people. Should the Finns and the Swedes be watching their borders?
* Although it's probably a stretch to describe her as a geek or a nerd, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is reportedly a big fan of ''Series/DoctorWho''. She's also a WrenchWench (or at least she was during WorldWarII).
** About the ''Doctor Who'' thing... SHE'S BRITISH! OF COURSE SHE'D BE A FAN!
*** To elaborate from that: Note that MichaelGrade was the only BBC controller to have never been knighted. Michael Grade is also the man most people consider to be responsible of the cancellation of the classic series. Take from that what you will.
** She's also a techie; at an age (born in ''1926'') where many people have long since stopped keeping pace with new technology, she is an avid [=BlackBerry=] user. Let the speculation as to whether she and Obama exchanged private numbers begin!
** And in the 1970s, she sent what's considered to be the first email in the UK...
*** Note that when Obama first met with her, he considered an iPod to be an appropriate gift for her -- and she already had one.
**** It's not just that: the iPod was ''her'' idea, as she had mentioned that hers was a generation or two out of date.
** She also enjoys [[http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2008/01/queen-elizabeth/ playing ''Wii Bowling'']].
** Not to mention that it was ''her'' idea to televise her coronation (television then having only one channel that went off the air by the evening and still not as popular as radio), which gained popularity by the coronation.
* Elizabeth's son and heir Charles is, if anything, an even bigger nerd than his mother. Among other things, he is, as Prince of Wales, the highest ranking noble MontyPython fan.
** More significant he is also a major fan of {{The Goon Show}} to the point of making [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfhC587Wiik fan film]] (and doing a very creditable Bluebottle impersonation).
* Queen Margrethe II of Denmark is a major ''LordOfTheRings'' fan, and has illustrated several editions of the Danish translation. She also studied archaeology when she went to uni, and remains an avid amateur archaeologist.
* Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont is a huge ''Comicbook/{{Batman}}'' fan. In fact, he lent his voice to an episode of ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', and had a cameo in both ''BatmanAndRobin'' and ''[[TheDarkKnightSaga The Dark Knight]]'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w96uPYrkAE#t=0m36s (here it is)]]. He gets props for donating the money he earned from those gigs to the Montpelier public library.
** To clarify, he ''requested'' the cameo spots.
* Kim Jong Il, according to rumors, loved all kind of genre movies. He even ordered a South Korean director kidnapped to make them. Okay, so he's half "one of us", half "one of the JamesBond villains". He actually loves all the Bond films, except (surprise, surprise) ''DieAnotherDay''.
** ''[[EvenEvilHasStandards Well, maybe the portrayal of Korea was the half of it but...]]''
** His son and sucessor, Kim Jong Un, [[http://www.nesn.com/2011/12/kim-jong-ils-son-and-likely-successor-kim-jong-un-loves-michael-jordan-and-basketball.html is a huge fan of basketball, Michael Jordan, and a video gamer]]. [[FlatWhat What?]]
* Former Vice President Al Gore is a member of the {{MST3k}} Information Club.
** And an avowed fan of Frank Zappa, stating so on the congressional record during the PMRC hearings, and a clip of the statement was used by Zappa himself in an audio collage on the hearings.
*** Oh, and he's also had a couple guest appearances on ''{{Futurama}}''. Although how much of that is nerdity and how much is the fact that his daughter is one of the writers is uncertain.
* Chuck Grassley, Republican Senator from Iowa, is a Japonophile who used GratuitousJapanese to imply that the people responsible for the mortgage crisis should [[SuicideIsPainless take the honourable samurai way out.]]
* Senator and former presidential candidate John [=McCain=] is a fan of ''[[TwentyFour 24]]'' and appeared in an uncredited split-second cameo as a CTU suit.
** He's also said on-record that his favorite superhero is {{Batman}}.
** In a speech on the floor of the Senate, [=McCain=] used a rather stiff reference to ''TheLordOfTheRings'' to criticize some fellow Republicans for, as he saw it, playing at being heroes. The kicker was when one that he named, former Senate candidate Sharon Angle, responded in kind and took being called a Hobbit as a badge of honor.
* Alan Grayson, in reference to Dick Cheney, [[http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/12/grayson-to-cheney-stfu.php recently said]] "On the Internet there's an acronym that's used to apply to situations like this. It's called STFU."
** He recently [[http://www.bigshinyrobot.com/reviews/archives/29059 sent out a fundraising email]] based entirely around how the recent ''GreenLantern'' film could have been better if it had included an iconic exchange from the Dennis O'Neil/Neal Adams run on the comic.
* The current Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is a fan of classical HardRock (DeepPurple, Music/BlackSabbath, and LedZeppelin, among others), which is geeky nowadays... especially in [[MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong Mother Russia, where even geeks are badass]].
* Radicial Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, best known for being a pain in the ass to the US in Iraq, received the derisive nickname "Mullah Atari" in seminary because he was gaming when he should have been studying.
* Martin Luther King, Jr. was a fan of ''StarTrek'', and [[http://scifiwire.com/2010/01/the-true-story-of-how-dr.php even convinced Nichelle "Uhura" Nichols not to quit the show.]]
* Walter Mondale is a fan of ''MontyPython''.
* Lee Teng-Hui, the first native Taiwanese to become president of said country and later its first democratically-elected leader, is quite the "Japanophile", along with ''many'' men and women of his generation, having graduated with honors from Kyoto University and volunteered for the Japanese Army in 1944. Geekier, he's a known otaku and after his retirement, cosplayed as the hawkish principal (with a similar military background to his own) from ''Sakigake!! Otokojuku'' to promote Japanese cinema and the show.
** By the way, this was [[WorldWarII one of many reasons]] why the Chinese and Taiwan mainlanders hated him.
* Libertarian leaning Republican congressman Ron Paul has compared neo-conservatives to Orcs for their aggressive foreign policy. He has also made references to a ''{{Batman}}'' comic book where Batman rescues the work of von Mises from the Nazis.
** And according to ''{{XKCD}}'' he has a zeppelin that he uses to duel with Cory Doctorow and can [[{{Pokemon}} evolve]] into [[{{Tron}} Tron Paul]] complete with light cycle [[http://xkcd.com/497/ .]]
* Rick Snyder, Republican candidate for governor of Michigan, is a huge fan of ''StarWars'', ''{{Mythbusters}}'', ''GoodEats'', and classic rock. Heck, he even calls himself a nerd in his own campaign tagline.
** With a resume like that, he naturally won the election.
* Uday and Qusay Hussein were apparently such huge ''StarWars'' fans that they based some of the helmets on Imperial helmets.
** On the American side, the military regularly makes ''StarWars'' allusions. There are projects codenamed "X-wing" and "Death Star." Many soldiers are [[RepublicCommando Fandalorians]], to the point of units getting tattoos that say "''vode an''".
*** Common in many western militaries. During the late 80s-early 90s, the one show guaranteed to fill a television lounge on a Canadian base? The newest episode of ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration''.
* Paul Deprat the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Delprat#The_Principality_of_Wy Prince of Wy]] [[http://principalityofwy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Principality-of-Wy-with-rabbit-and-brush2.jpg painted]] the MoeAnthropomorphism representing his "land" in AxisPowersHetalia.
** [[PromotedFanboy It's canon now.]] Guy must be happy as hell.
** Not only that... [[http://principalityofwy.com/principality-of-wy-promotes-world-peace/ "There is no line on the www that has made Wy more proud than 'One Of Us: Prince Paul Of Wy' on Axis Powers TV Tropes'."]] He's a Troper. And very, very awesome.
* Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper has shown his side for [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCbVw03zEyU singing and playing the piano.]] He's also a Trekkie.
** Note that a fair bit of that public display of artistry was done in response to Mr. Harper's public defamatory statements about Canadian artists during the 2008 campaign. In other words, he's trying his best to look like OneOfUs.
* The late Jack Layton, the former leader of the Canadian Official Opposition, as well as his wife and fellow member of parliament Olivia Chow, were both Trekkies. [[http://thestar.blogs.com/politics/2009/05/where-no-ndp-leader-has-gone-before.html Yes, that is indeed him at a Trekkie convention. In a custom-tailored Starfleet uniform.]]
* The First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond, a self-described Star Trek "obsessive," was awarded an honourary membership of the Starfleet fan organisation in 2010.
* Former U.S. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, arch-conservative politician, activist, pundit, and Presidential candidate, spends much of his free time [[http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/232ydhpo.asp reading spy novels and reviewing them on Amazon]]. A somewhat tame example, but a lot more than you'd expect from a 67-year-old Southerner. And never let it be said that his reviews are half-assed; at one point, he was an [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Amazon Top 500 Reviewer]].
** In addition to reviewing books, he also writes them. Not just the typical political punditry books, either, but best-selling [[http://www.amazon.com/Gettysburg-Novel-Civil-Newt-Gingrich/dp/0312987250/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_4 Civil War]] AlternateHistory novels. It's about as close to FanFiction as can be without quite going over.
** He is obsessed with dinosaurs. During his campaign for the republican nomination for president in the 2013 election, he said that those who would benefit from his policies were "people who like dinosaurs." [[http://gawker.com/5770683/newt-gingrich-reminisces-about-his-fake-loaned-t+rex-skull There was a cast was made from a T-Rex skull from the Smithsonian mounted in his office during his time as Speaker of the House.]]
* GaiusJuliusCaesar wrote fan fiction about Hercules (the Superman of his day) in his youth.
* Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has [[http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/08/did_herman_cain_know_he_was_qu.html quoted]] ''Anime/{{Pokemon 2000}}'' in debates and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jV_11_q6Hc and his announcement of dropping out of the campaign]] (where he did actually mention it was from ''Pokémon''), and his 9-9-9 plan [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/13/herman-cain-999-sim-city_n_1008952.html?ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false may have been inspired by]] ''SimCity''. Whether he's a nerd or just has a nerd in the family he's soaked this stuff in from is uncertain, however, and an interview where he seemed to say that Superman used Kryptonite like Batman used gadgets would make the latter seem more probable.
* AlfredTheGreat was a prince from a semi-civilized country where almost every noble was a JerkJock by inclination. He studied classical literature, wrote about theology, and sent many a savage plundering Northman to his doom. He was a [[BadassBookworm nerd with a sword]].
* NiccoloMachiavelli, best known for ''ThePrince'', used to [[{{Cosplay}} dress up in a toga]] and pretend to be a Roman, imagining himself in the Roman Senate and other surprisingly nerdy things for a man with a MagnificentBastard reputation.
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** His opponent and successor at the post, Yukio Hatoyama, [[http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/09/25/pm-hatoyama-huge-fan-of-ecchi-manga/ reportedly is quite the fan of manga and anime]], mentioning ''[[{{Ptitlekyguh9tt9sws}} I''s]]'' as a personal favorite.
** During Takaaki Mitsuhashi's 2010 campaign for the House of Councillors, he cosplayed as Gendo Ikari.
** Junichiro Koizumi. Huge ElvisPresley and XJapan fanboy. To the degree of using "Forever Love" as background music for several political campaign ads for the Liberal Democratic Party during the 2001 elections.
*** And now [[TheLegendOfKoizumi he saves the world with MAHJONG!]]
*** He also voiced Ultraman King in the UltraSeries movie ''UltraGalaxyMegaMonsterBattle''. His son and successor of his position in the LDP, Shinjiro Koizumi also count, as he was the one who convinced his father to do the voicing. That is one awesome father-son combination.
** Considering the Japanese as a whole, it's likely that most positions in the government are filled with otaku of one level or another.
* American President BarackObama has demonstrated a deep familiarity with ''StarTrek'', joked [[http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/10/candidates_get.html at the Alfred E. Smith memorial dinner]] about [[{{Superman}} being sent by his father Jor-El to save the planet Earth]], apparently dressed as a wizard to take his daughters to a midnight release of a ''HarryPotter'' book, and according to [[http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog=8269#8273 a possibly apocryphal report on tor.com]] is familiar enough with Internet memes to make ''ZeroWing'' jokes. You just '''know''' if he ever gets in a war, something '''will''' be called "Operation All Your Base Are Belong To US." He also collects ''Comicbook/{{Spider-Man}}'' and ''{{Conan}}'' comics; in fact, he is reputedly a collector of the mylar-bag-and-backboard, never read'em stripe. This has been escalated and expanded on [[http://community.livejournal.com/metaquotes/6928399.html here]].
** [[http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2008/11/5-signs-preside.html Wired has several more examples.]]
** Don't forget the Spider-Man Obama crossover thing.
** It was also pretty well publicized that he and Michelle bought their daughters a {{Wii}} for Christmas. Poking fun at his failed attempt at bowling during the campaign, he joked that he was much better at Wii Sports Bowling than real life. Gamers everywhere rejoiced -- well, [[StopHavingFunGuys except those too-"hardcore"-for-Wii gamers]].
*** During Obama's visit to Poland at the end of May 2011, Prime Minister Donald Tusk gave him the collector's edition of ''VideoGame/TheWitcher2AssassinsOfKings'' as a gift.
** When he met LeonardNimoy, he greeted him with the [[StarTrek Vulcan hand salute]].
** In a National News Conference about Health Care, Obama argued one of his points by talking about comparing costs for "[[TheMatrix A red pill and a blue pill]]."
** John Hodgman had a whole [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW7OPByRGDY speech]] on this.
** There's also that [[http://www.newsweek.com/id/167755/page/6 Newsweek behind-the-scenes special]] (misquoted at the bottom of the first paragraph) where he was observed by one of their reporters making his wife roll her eyes at a joke about her belt having [[StarTrek dilithium crystals]] on it.
** And then there's him [[http://www.windycitizen.com/files/3926925767_76a554dc62.jpg wielding a frigging LIGHTSABER]] on the White House lawn in a photo-op for the Olympics.
** And he is now going to show up in a ''{{MythBusters}}'' episode where they try to make the solar powered death ray work for the third time. The stated goal of the appearance is to encourage science and technology education.
*** Speaking of death rays... Obama named Stephen Chu Secretary of Energy. Chu is known for his strong critic of fossil fuels, for the Nobel Prize he earned for cooling atoms with laser: basically, the US president hired the inventor of the [[{{Metroid}} Ice Beam]] to [[FunnyAneurysmMoment fight against Global Warming]]
** Not to mention Michelle herself; she was the salutatorian of her high school. Although she pales in comparison to Barack's nerdiness, that's still pretty damn nerdy.
* Speaking of heads of state, Obama isn't the only one -- King Abdullah II of Jordan is an acknowledged fan of ''StarTrek'', and even guest-starred on ''StarTrekVoyager'' when he was still a prince. Later, when MichaelBay was going to film ''[[Film/{{Transformers}} Revenge of the Fallen]]'' in Jordan, he ordered 38 military helicopters to transport the equipment to Petra, allowing the film crew those overhead shots of the same ruins that appeared in ''[[IndianaJones Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade]]''. Turns out His Majesty is a big fan of ''{{Transformers}}'' and loves the franchise.
** King Abdullah has recently announced the creation of a [[http://www.royaltyinthenews.com/2011/08/06/king-abdullah-ii-invests-in-star-trek-theme-park/ Star Trek theme park]] to be built in his country, which he will be funding.
* Jens Stoltenberg, the current Prime minister of Norway, is a gamer. He specifically likes games like ''AgeOfEmpires'' and ''TotalWar'' because it involves building a society. It also involves killing lots of people. Should the Finns and the Swedes be watching their borders?
* Although it's probably a stretch to describe her as a geek or a nerd, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is reportedly a big fan of ''Series/DoctorWho''. She's also a WrenchWench (or at least she was during WorldWarII).
** About the ''Doctor Who'' thing... SHE'S BRITISH! OF COURSE SHE'D BE A FAN!
*** To elaborate from that: Note that MichaelGrade was the only BBC controller to have never been knighted. Michael Grade is also the man most people consider to be responsible of the cancellation of the classic series. Take from that what you will.
** She's also a techie; at an age (born in ''1926'') where many people have long since stopped keeping pace with new technology, she is an avid [=BlackBerry=] user. Let the speculation as to whether she and Obama exchanged private numbers begin!
** And in the 1970s, she sent what's considered to be the first email in the UK...
*** Note that when Obama first met with her, he considered an iPod to be an appropriate gift for her -- and she already had one.
**** It's not just that: the iPod was ''her'' idea, as she had mentioned that hers was a generation or two out of date.
** She also enjoys [[http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2008/01/queen-elizabeth/ playing ''Wii Bowling'']].
** Not to mention that it was ''her'' idea to televise her coronation (television then having only one channel that went off the air by the evening and still not as popular as radio), which gained popularity by the coronation.
* Elizabeth's son and heir Charles is, if anything, an even bigger nerd than his mother. Among other things, he is, as Prince of Wales, the highest ranking noble MontyPython fan.
** More significant he is also a major fan of {{The Goon Show}} to the point of making [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfhC587Wiik fan film]] (and doing a very creditable Bluebottle impersonation).
* Queen Margrethe II of Denmark is a major ''LordOfTheRings'' fan, and has illustrated several editions of the Danish translation. She also studied archaeology when she went to uni, and remains an avid amateur archaeologist.
* Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont is a huge ''Comicbook/{{Batman}}'' fan. In fact, he lent his voice to an episode of ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', and had a cameo in both ''BatmanAndRobin'' and ''[[TheDarkKnightSaga The Dark Knight]]'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w96uPYrkAE#t=0m36s (here it is)]]. He gets props for donating the money he earned from those gigs to the Montpelier public library.
** To clarify, he ''requested'' the cameo spots.
* Kim Jong Il, according to rumors, loved all kind of genre movies. He even ordered a South Korean director kidnapped to make them. Okay, so he's half "one of us", half "one of the JamesBond villains". He actually loves all the Bond films, except (surprise, surprise) ''DieAnotherDay''.
** ''[[EvenEvilHasStandards Well, maybe the portrayal of Korea was the half of it but...]]''
** His son and sucessor, Kim Jong Un, [[http://www.nesn.com/2011/12/kim-jong-ils-son-and-likely-successor-kim-jong-un-loves-michael-jordan-and-basketball.html is a huge fan of basketball, Michael Jordan, and a video gamer]]. [[FlatWhat What?]]
* Former Vice President Al Gore is a member of the {{MST3k}} Information Club.
** And an avowed fan of Frank Zappa, stating so on the congressional record during the PMRC hearings, and a clip of the statement was used by Zappa himself in an audio collage on the hearings.
*** Oh, and he's also had a couple guest appearances on ''{{Futurama}}''. Although how much of that is nerdity and how much is the fact that his daughter is one of the writers is uncertain.
* Chuck Grassley, Republican Senator from Iowa, is a Japonophile who used GratuitousJapanese to imply that the people responsible for the mortgage crisis should [[SuicideIsPainless take the honourable samurai way out.]]
* Senator and former presidential candidate John [=McCain=] is a fan of ''[[TwentyFour 24]]'' and appeared in an uncredited split-second cameo as a CTU suit.
** He's also said on-record that his favorite superhero is {{Batman}}.
** In a speech on the floor of the Senate, [=McCain=] used a rather stiff reference to ''TheLordOfTheRings'' to criticize some fellow Republicans for, as he saw it, playing at being heroes. The kicker was when one that he named, former Senate candidate Sharon Angle, responded in kind and took being called a Hobbit as a badge of honor.
* Alan Grayson, in reference to Dick Cheney, [[http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/12/grayson-to-cheney-stfu.php recently said]] "On the Internet there's an acronym that's used to apply to situations like this. It's called STFU."
** He recently [[http://www.bigshinyrobot.com/reviews/archives/29059 sent out a fundraising email]] based entirely around how the recent ''GreenLantern'' film could have been better if it had included an iconic exchange from the Dennis O'Neil/Neal Adams run on the comic.
* The current Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is a fan of classical HardRock (DeepPurple, Music/BlackSabbath, and LedZeppelin, among others), which is geeky nowadays... especially in [[MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong Mother Russia, where even geeks are badass]].
* Radicial Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, best known for being a pain in the ass to the US in Iraq, received the derisive nickname "Mullah Atari" in seminary because he was gaming when he should have been studying.
* Martin Luther King, Jr. was a fan of ''StarTrek'', and [[http://scifiwire.com/2010/01/the-true-story-of-how-dr.php even convinced Nichelle "Uhura" Nichols not to quit the show.]]
* Walter Mondale is a fan of ''MontyPython''.
* Lee Teng-Hui, the first native Taiwanese to become president of said country and later its first democratically-elected leader, is quite the "Japanophile", along with ''many'' men and women of his generation, having graduated with honors from Kyoto University and volunteered for the Japanese Army in 1944. Geekier, he's a known otaku and after his retirement, cosplayed as the hawkish principal (with a similar military background to his own) from ''Sakigake!! Otokojuku'' to promote Japanese cinema and the show.
** By the way, this was [[WorldWarII one of many reasons]] why the Chinese and Taiwan mainlanders hated him.
* Libertarian leaning Republican congressman Ron Paul has compared neo-conservatives to Orcs for their aggressive foreign policy. He has also made references to a ''{{Batman}}'' comic book where Batman rescues the work of von Mises from the Nazis.
** And according to ''{{XKCD}}'' he has a zeppelin that he uses to duel with Cory Doctorow and can [[{{Pokemon}} evolve]] into [[{{Tron}} Tron Paul]] complete with light cycle [[http://xkcd.com/497/ .]]
* Rick Snyder, Republican candidate for governor of Michigan, is a huge fan of ''StarWars'', ''{{Mythbusters}}'', ''GoodEats'', and classic rock. Heck, he even calls himself a nerd in his own campaign tagline.
** With a resume like that, he naturally won the election.
* Uday and Qusay Hussein were apparently such huge ''StarWars'' fans that they based some of the helmets on Imperial helmets.
** On the American side, the military regularly makes ''StarWars'' allusions. There are projects codenamed "X-wing" and "Death Star." Many soldiers are [[RepublicCommando Fandalorians]], to the point of units getting tattoos that say "''vode an''".
*** Common in many western militaries. During the late 80s-early 90s, the one show guaranteed to fill a television lounge on a Canadian base? The newest episode of ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration''.
* Paul Deprat the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Delprat#The_Principality_of_Wy Prince of Wy]] [[http://principalityofwy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Principality-of-Wy-with-rabbit-and-brush2.jpg painted]] the MoeAnthropomorphism representing his "land" in AxisPowersHetalia.
** [[PromotedFanboy It's canon now.]] Guy must be happy as hell.
** Not only that... [[http://principalityofwy.com/principality-of-wy-promotes-world-peace/ "There is no line on the www that has made Wy more proud than 'One Of Us: Prince Paul Of Wy' on Axis Powers TV Tropes'."]] He's a Troper. And very, very awesome.
* Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper has shown his side for [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCbVw03zEyU singing and playing the piano.]] He's also a Trekkie.
** Note that a fair bit of that public display of artistry was done in response to Mr. Harper's public defamatory statements about Canadian artists during the 2008 campaign. In other words, he's trying his best to look like OneOfUs.
* The late Jack Layton, the former leader of the Canadian Official Opposition, as well as his wife and fellow member of parliament Olivia Chow, were both Trekkies. [[http://thestar.blogs.com/politics/2009/05/where-no-ndp-leader-has-gone-before.html Yes, that is indeed him at a Trekkie convention. In a custom-tailored Starfleet uniform.]]
* The First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond, a self-described Star Trek "obsessive," was awarded an honourary membership of the Starfleet fan organisation in 2010.
* Former U.S. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, arch-conservative politician, activist, pundit, and Presidential candidate, spends much of his free time [[http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/232ydhpo.asp reading spy novels and reviewing them on Amazon]]. A somewhat tame example, but a lot more than you'd expect from a 67-year-old Southerner. And never let it be said that his reviews are half-assed; at one point, he was an [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Amazon Top 500 Reviewer]].
** In addition to reviewing books, he also writes them. Not just the typical political punditry books, either, but best-selling [[http://www.amazon.com/Gettysburg-Novel-Civil-Newt-Gingrich/dp/0312987250/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_4 Civil War]] AlternateHistory novels. It's about as close to FanFiction as can be without quite going over.
** He is obsessed with dinosaurs. During his campaign for the republican nomination for president in the 2013 election, he said that those who would benefit from his policies were "people who like dinosaurs." [[http://gawker.com/5770683/newt-gingrich-reminisces-about-his-fake-loaned-t+rex-skull There was a cast was made from a T-Rex skull from the Smithsonian mounted in his office during his time as Speaker of the House.]]
* GaiusJuliusCaesar wrote fan fiction about Hercules (the Superman of his day) in his youth.
* Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has [[http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/08/did_herman_cain_know_he_was_qu.html quoted]] ''Anime/{{Pokemon 2000}}'' in debates and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jV_11_q6Hc and his announcement of dropping out of the campaign]] (where he did actually mention it was from ''Pokémon''), and his 9-9-9 plan [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/13/herman-cain-999-sim-city_n_1008952.html?ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false may have been inspired by]] ''SimCity''. Whether he's a nerd or just has a nerd in the family he's soaked this stuff in from is uncertain, however, and an interview where he seemed to say that Superman used Kryptonite like Batman used gadgets would make the latter seem more probable.
* AlfredTheGreat was a prince from a semi-civilized country where almost every noble was a JerkJock by inclination. He studied classical literature, wrote about theology, and sent many a savage plundering Northman to his doom. He was a [[BadassBookworm nerd with a sword]].
* NiccoloMachiavelli, best known for ''ThePrince'', used to [[{{Cosplay}} dress up in a toga]] and pretend to be a Roman, imagining himself in the Roman Senate and other surprisingly nerdy things for a man with a MagnificentBastard reputation.
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