Lech Walesa
Charismatic Polish politician and trade union official
Guntis Ulmanis
Latvian politician
Vytautas Landsbergis
Lithuanian politician and musicologist
Mart Laar
Estonian politician and historian
Vaclav Havel
Playwright, essayist, poet, former dissident and 1st President of the Czech Republic
Brian Crozier
British journalist and intelligence expert
Emil Constantinescu
Romanian politician
Yelena Bonner
Human rights activist in the former Soviet Union; wife of dissident Andrei Sakharov
Árpád Göncz
Hungarian writer, translator, agronomist, and liberal politician who served as President of Hungary from 2 May 1990 to 4 August 2000.