History OneOfUs / PoliticalGeeks

* Pope Francis is a huge fan of Creator/JRRTolkien (himself a devout Catholic). He has even used ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' in his theology writings. Pope Francis is also a HUGE soccer fan, and his favorite Argentinian team is San Lorenzo de Almagro -- they attributed their 2014 win in the UsefulNotes/CopaLibertadores to him, and later met up with them in the Vatican itself. In 2015 he also became the first Pope to release a ProgressiveRock album, called "Wake Up!" It's actually an album made by rock artist Tony Pagliuca which combines audio clips from speeches by Francisus with Gregorian chants and pop rock, but the record was officially approved by the Vatican.

* The current Russian Prime Minister (and former President) Dmitri Medvedev is a fan of classical HardRock (Music/DeepPurple, Music/BlackSabbath, and Music/LedZeppelin, among others), which is geeky nowadays... especially in [[MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong Mother Russia, where even geeks are badass]].

->''"Now that brings me to the [[UsefulNotes/BritishPoliticalSystem Liberal Party.]] During the last few days, I gather that there have been some ill-natured jokes about [[AnimalMotifs their new symbol]], a bird... Politics is a SeriousBusiness, and one should not lower the tone unduly, so I will say only this of the Liberal Democrats' new symbol and the party it symbolizes: [[Creator/MontyPython This is an ex-parrot...]] AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent."''

* US Republican and Senator of Alaska Ted Stevens was known to be a huge comic book nerd and often wore an Franchise/IncredibleHulk tie on the Senate floor.

* Chilean President Gabriel Boric is a ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' fan, and knows quite a bit about the game and its lore, although he is not currently an active player. Amusingly, when he ''was'' active, he usually playe Rakdos decks...

* Chilean President Gabriel Boric is a ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' fan, and knows quite a bit about the game and its lore, although he is not currently an active player. Amusingly, when he ''was'' active, he usually played [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Rakdos]] decks...

* UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar wrote fan fiction about Hercules (the Franchise/{{Superman}} of his day) in his youth.

* 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.]]

* US politician Misty Snow, and one of the first two trasgender for Democratic nominee, is a fan of ''Videogame/SonicTheHedgehog''. She is familiar with the drama involving Creator/KenPenders and the characters he took with a lawsuit towards ''Creator/ArchieComics''.

* Former US 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 [[https://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]] ''VideoGame/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.

** And according to ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' he has a zeppelin that he uses to duel with Creator/CoryDoctorow and can [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} evolve]] into [[{{Franchise/Tron}} Tron Paul]] -- [[http://xkcd.com/497/ complete with light cycle.]]

* US Democrat politician 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 ''Film/GreenLantern'' film could have been better if it had included an iconic exchange from the Dennis O'Neil/Neal Adams run on the comic.

* US Republican politician and former Vice President UsefulNotes/DanQuayle named ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'' his favorite movie, because "it reminded me of my time in school." Which is a strange thing to say considering Ferris actually skips school for most of the story.

** Newt is also known to be a huge Franchise/StarWars and sci-fi buff. So much so that when the History Channel did a documentary about the literary and mythical themes of Star Wars, Newt was one of the {{BigNameFan}}s who appeared throughout the documentary giving commentary about his favorite aspects of the saga. He also made the comment that ''"Star Wars proves that there is real evil in the world and that it can be defeated"'', which you can either consider to be funny, ironic, hypocritical or a tad disturbing.

* Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris admitted during an [[https://youtu.be/kKpf_mNAK4s?t=109 interview]] that she was a huge [[Franchise/StarWars Star Wars]] fan and was starstruck meeting Mark Hamill.

** He's also known to play ''VideoGame/MarioKart'' (or at least ''Mario Kart GP'') with his family, according to one of his granddaughters' Instagram page.

** He's also known to play ''VideoGame/MarioKart'' (or at least ''Mario Kart GP'') with his family, according to his granddaughter's Instagram feed.

* Nazi propagandist UsefulNotes/JosephGoebbels was a huge film fan and especially liked ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'' and Disney's ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs''. It has been said that Hitler himself also liked Disney cartoons and some supposedly hand drawn drawings of Disney characters by Hitler have surfaced, but their authenticity has not been confirmed. Also all American movies were banned in Nazi occupied Europe after the war started, so politics and ideology still came before everything else. Hitler and Goebbels' fondness for ''Literature/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'' can be easily explained though: it was a fairy tale that the German Creator/TheBrothersGrimm had collected.

* Current U.S. President UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump is (somewhat ironically) a big fan of musical theater and his favorite musical is Music/{{Evita}}, which has supposedly seen ''6 times.''

* UsefulNotes/HarrySTruman named ''Film/MyDarlingClementine" his favorite movie.

* Current Speaker of the House and former Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan is well known to be a huge nerd. He's an eager policy wonk who geeks out about policy details relating to the mathematics of the federal deficit and other issues, making him one of the best known math geeks in Congress. He is also on record calling ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' his favorite movie, and Music/{{Radiohead}} as his favorite band. He is also a fan of Music/RageAgainstTheMachine, which is odd given the left-leaning nature of their songs.
* US Republican and Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie (R) is an obsessive fan of Music/BruceSpringsteen. Like world's biggest fan level of obsessive. Since the two of them have opposite politics (Springsteen is a well-known liberal Democrat, and was a prominent supporter of Barack Obama's 2008 run), all of Christie's attempts to reach out to the Boss have sunk like a lead balloon. At least until Hurricane Sandy, when Springsteen gave a few shoutouts to the Governor for his efforts to get assistance for the devastated Jersey Shore.[[note]]This did show a degree of political courage on Christie's part--the national Republican Party at that time wasn't too keen on providing that assistance, and Christie, who clearly had his eyes on the 2016 presidential nomination already (and hadn't been fatally undermined by "Bridgegate" yet), was putting himself at risk of validating right-wing accusations of being a RINO by asking for federal appropriations.[[/note]] Reports have it that the squeeing could be heard from New York to Baltimore.

* Rick Snyder, US Republican and governor of Michigan, is a huge fan of ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''Series/MythBusters'', ''Series/GoodEats'', and classic rock. He even calls himself a nerd in his own campaign tagline. With a resume like that, he naturally won the election.

* US Senator-Elect Jon Ossoff of Georgia is an [[https://twitter.com/ossoff/status/1238945697426268162 admitted nerd]] with a well-preserved history on Twitter [[https://mashable.com/article/jon-ossoff-old-tweets/ nerdy ramblings ]] about everything from musical theater to speculating about the possiblity of Thrawn being in the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy.

* Both former US Secretary of State UsefulNotes/HenryKissinger and former US President UsefulNotes/GeraldFord and his wife Betty once appeared as a special guest in a 1983 episode of ''Series/{{Dynasty}}''.