| Abdel Fattah el-Sisi | Egypt (RSF 2026 rank: 169th of 180) |
| Abiy Ahmed | Ethiopia (RSF 2026 rank: 148th of 180) |
| Adly Mansour | Egypt (RSF 2026 rank: 169th of 180) |
| Adolf Hitler | Germany (RSF 2026 rank: 14th of 180) |
| Alberto Fujimori | Peru (RSF rank: not recorded) |
| Alejandro Giammattei | Guatemala (RSF 2026 rank: 128th of 180) |
| Aleksandar Vucic | Serbia (RSF 2026 rank: 104th of 180) |
| Alexander Dubček | Czechia (RSF 2026 rank: 11th of 180) |
| Alexander Lukashenko | Belarus (RSF 2026 rank: 165th of 180) |
| Alfred E. Smith | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) |
| Andries Cornelis Dirk de Graeff | Indonesia (RSF rank: not recorded) |
| António de Oliveira Salazar | Portugal (RSF 2026 rank: 10th of 180) |
| Artur da Costa e Silva | Brazil (RSF 2026 rank: 52nd of 180) |
| Augusto Pinochet | Chile (RSF 2026 rank: 70th of 180) |
| Aung San Suu Kyi | Myanmar (RSF 2026 rank: 166th of 180) |
| Balthazar Johannes Vorster | South Africa (RSF 2026 rank: 21st of 180) |
| Barack Obama | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) |
| Beata Szydlo | Poland (RSF 2026 rank: 27th of 180) |
| Benjamin Netanyahu | Israel (RSF 2026 rank: 116th of 180) |
| Bob Martinez | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) |
| Carrie Lam | Hong Kong (RSF 2026 rank: 140th of 180) |
| Chun Doo-hwan | South Korea (RSF 2026 rank: 47th of 180) |
| Daniel François Malan | South Africa (RSF 2026 rank: 21st of 180) |
| Daniel Ortega | Nicaragua (RSF 2026 rank: 168th of 180) |
| David Ben-Gurion | Israel (RSF 2026 rank: 116th of 180) |
| David Cameron | United Kingdom (RSF 2026 rank: 18th of 180) |
| Donald Trump | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) |
| Doug Ducey | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) |
| Ebrahim Raisi | Iran (RSF 2026 rank: 177th of 180) |
| Edward Heath | United Kingdom (RSF 2026 rank: 18th of 180) |
| Emmerson Mnangagwa | Zimbabwe (RSF 2026 rank: 124th of 180) |
| Enrique Pena Nieto | Mexico (RSF rank: not recorded) |
| Eurith D. Rivers | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) |
| Ferdinand Marcos | Philippines (RSF 2026 rank: 114th of 180) |
| Fidel Castro | Cuba (RSF rank: not recorded) |
| Francisco Franco | Spain (RSF 2026 rank: 29th of 180) |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) |
| Fumimaro Konoe | Japan (RSF rank: not recorded) |
| Gamal Abdel Nasser | Egypt (RSF 2026 rank: 169th of 180) |
| George H. W. Bush | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) |
| George W. Bush | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) |
| Georgios Tsolakoglou | Greece (RSF rank: not recorded) |
| Getúlio Vargas | Brazil (RSF 2026 rank: 52nd of 180) |
| Hassan Rouhani | Iran (RSF 2026 rank: 177th of 180) |
| Herbert Henry Asquith | United Kingdom (RSF 2026 rank: 18th of 180) |
| Hugh L. White | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) |
| Hugo Chavez | Venezuela (RSF 2026 rank: 159th of 180) |
| Hun Sen | Cambodia (RSF 2026 rank: 151st of 180) |
| Ilham Aliyev | Azerbaijan (RSF rank: not recorded) |
| Indira Gandhi | India (RSF 2026 rank: 157th of 180) |
| Irakli Kobakhidze | Georgia (RSF 2026 rank: 135th of 180) |
| Isaias Afwerki | Eritrea (RSF rank: not recorded) |
| J. James Exon | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) |
| Jacob Frey | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) |
| Javier Milei | Argentina (RSF 2026 rank: 98th of 180) |
| Jean-Claude Duvalier | Haiti (RSF 2026 rank: 107th of 180) |
| Jeff Landry | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) |
| Joe Biden | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) |
| John Curtin | Australia (RSF 2026 rank: 33rd of 180) |
| John Horgan | Canada (RSF 2026 rank: 20th of 180) |
| John Lee | Hong Kong (RSF 2026 rank: 140th of 180) |
| John Magufuli | Tanzania (RSF 2026 rank: 117th of 180) |
| John Patterson | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) |
| Jorge Rafael Videla | Argentina (RSF 2026 rank: 98th of 180) |
| Joseph Muscat | Malta (RSF rank: not recorded) |
| Juan Perón | Argentina (RSF 2026 rank: 98th of 180) |
| Kais Saied | Tunisia (RSF 2026 rank: 137th of 180) |
| Karen Bass | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) |
| Kassym-Jomart Tokayev | Kazakhstan (RSF rank: not recorded) |
| Kim Jong Il | North Korea (RSF rank: not recorded) |
| Konrad Adenauer | Germany (RSF 2026 rank: 14th of 180) |
| Laura Kelly | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) |
| Li Peng | China (RSF 2026 rank: 178th of 180) |
| Mahathir Mohamad | Malaysia (RSF 2026 rank: 95th of 180) |
| Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | Iran (RSF 2026 rank: 177th of 180) |
| Margaret Thatcher | United Kingdom (RSF 2026 rank: 18th of 180) |
| Mateusz Morawiecki | Poland (RSF 2026 rank: 27th of 180) |
| Mehmed V | Türkiye (RSF 2026 rank: 163rd of 180) |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | Russia (RSF 2026 rank: 172nd of 180) |
| Min Aung Hlaing | Myanmar (RSF 2026 rank: 166th of 180) |
| Muhammad Yunus | Bangladesh (RSF 2026 rank: 152nd of 180) |
| Narendra Modi | India (RSF 2026 rank: 157th of 180) |
| Nayib Bukele | El Salvador (RSF 2026 rank: 143rd of 180) |
| Nguyen Tan Dung | Viet Nam (RSF rank: not recorded) |
| Nguyen Xuan Phuc | Viet Nam (RSF rank: not recorded) |
| Nicolas Maduro | Venezuela (RSF 2026 rank: 159th of 180) |
| Oscar K. Allen | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) |
| P. W. Botha | South Africa (RSF 2026 rank: 21st of 180) |
| Price Daniel | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) |
| Rafael Correa | Ecuador (RSF 2026 rank: 125th of 180) |
| Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | Türkiye (RSF 2026 rank: 163rd of 180) |
| Richard Nixon | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) |
| Robert Fico | Slovakia (RSF 2026 rank: 37th of 180) |
| Robert Mugabe | Zimbabwe (RSF 2026 rank: 124th of 180) |
| Rodrigo Duterte | Philippines (RSF 2026 rank: 114th of 180) |
| Ron DeSantis | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) |
| Ronald Reagan | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) |
| Saadeddine Othmani | Morocco (RSF rank: not recorded) |
| Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud | Saudi Arabia (RSF 2026 rank: 176th of 180) |
| Samia Suluhu Hassan | Tanzania (RSF 2026 rank: 117th of 180) |
| Sani Abacha | Nigeria (RSF 2026 rank: 112th of 180) |
| Saw Maung | Myanmar (RSF 2026 rank: 166th of 180) |
| Scott Morrison | Australia (RSF 2026 rank: 33rd of 180) |
| Shehbaz Sharif | Pakistan (RSF 2026 rank: 153rd of 180) |
| Slobodan Milosevic | Serbia (RSF 2026 rank: 104th of 180) |
| Stanley Baldwin | United Kingdom (RSF 2026 rank: 18th of 180) |
| Theodore Christianson | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) |
| Theodore Roosevelt | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) |
| Tim Walz | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) |
| Viktor Orban | Hungary (RSF 2026 rank: 74th of 180) |
| Vladimir Lenin | Russia (RSF 2026 rank: 172nd of 180) |
| Vladimir Putin | Russia (RSF 2026 rank: 172nd of 180) |
| William Howard Taft | Philippines (RSF 2026 rank: 114th of 180) |
| William Lyon Mackenzie King | Canada (RSF 2026 rank: 20th of 180) |
| Wojciech Jaruzelski | Poland (RSF 2026 rank: 27th of 180) |
| Woodrow Wilson | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) |
| Xi Jinping | China (RSF 2026 rank: 178th of 180) |
| Yingluck Shinawatra | Thailand (RSF rank: not recorded) |
