Fenomena selebriti atau artis terjun ke kancah politik bukanlah perkara baru, dan bukannya terhad di dunia ketiga seperti India, Indonesia dsb. tetapi turut melanda negara maju seperti UK, USA, Germany dan Italy.
Mungkin ada yang menyatakan dengan sinis bahawa artis yang terjun ke dunia politik hanyalah sebagai talian hayat setelah populariti mereka telah merudum di dunia seni. Ah....terpulanglah kepada andaian dan penilaian masing-masing.
Apapun sepanjang dekad, dunia artis sering mewarnai pentas politik di seluruh dunia seperti berikut:
Argentina
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| EVA PERON |
Canada
Andrée Champagne, (Conservative) (Member of Parliament, Minister of State, Senator)
Pierre Curzi, (Parti Québécois) (Assemblée nationale du Québec) de la province
Tina Keeper, (Liberal) (Member of Parliament)
Jean Lapointe, (Liberal) (Member of Parliament)
Viola Léger, (Liberal) (Member of Parliament)
Jean-Louis Roux (Liberal) (Member of Parliament, Lieutenant Governor of Quebec)
Lenore Zann (Nova Scotia New Democratic Party) (Member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly)
Germany
Peter Sodann (Left Party) (presidential candidate)
India
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| SHABANA AZMI |
Amitabh Bachchan (Ex-MP)
Jaya Bachchan (MP)
Jayalalithaa Jayaram (Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu)
M. Karunanidhi (Ex-Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu)
Late M.G. Ramachandran (Ex-Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu)
Late N. T. Rama Rao (Ex-Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh)
Dharmendra (MP)
Jayaprada (MP)
Govinda (MP)
Shatrughan Sinha (MP)
Vinod Khanna (MP)
Vijayakanth (Founder of DMDK)
Chiranjeevi (Founder Praja Rajyam, A New Political Party)
Sanjay Dutt (Samajwadi party-UP)
Late Sunil Dutt
Suresh Oberoi
R. Sarath Kumar
Raj Babbar
Kota Srinivasa Rao
K. B. Ganesh Kumar (Minister of Forests, Sports and Cinema, Kerala)
D. Napoleon
Italy
Gina Lollobrigida (I Democratici) (Unsuccessful candidate to be a Member of the European Parliament)
Alessandra Mussolini (Movimento Sociale Italiano & Azione Sociale) (Member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies & Member of the European Parliament)
Ilona Staller AKA la Cicciolina, (Lista del Sole, Partito Radicale & Partito dell'Amore) (Member of the Parliament of Italy)
Poland
Lech Kaczyński (formerly Law and Justice; later Independent) (President of Poland)
Jarosław Kaczyński (Law and Justice) (Prime Minister of Poland)
Philippines
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| JOSEPH ESTRADA |
Fernando Poe Jr. (Unsuccessful presidential candidate)
Vilma Santos (incumbent and first female Governor of Batangas)
Tito Sotto (Senator)
Lito Lapid (Senator)
Jinggoy Estrada (Senator)
Ramon Revilla Sr. (Senator)
Bong Revilla Jr. (Senator)
Herbert Bautista (incumbent Mayor of Quezon City; former Vice Mayor of Quezon City)
Isko Moreno (Vice Mayor of Manila)
George Estregan, Jr. (incumbent Governor of Laguna; former Mayor of Pagsanjan, Laguna)
Alfred Vargas (incumbent Councilor 2nd District QC)
Roderick Paulate (incumbent Councilor 2nd District QC)
Lucy Torres-Gomez (incumbent Representative Leyte 4th District)
Manny Pacquiao (incumbent Representative Sarangani District)
Daniel Fernando (incumbent Vice-Governor of Bulacan)
Angelica Jones (incumbent Board Member 3rd district of Laguna)
Richard Gomez (Unsuccessful senatorial candidate)
Nora Aunor (Unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate for Camarines Sur)
Aiko Melendez (Former Councilor of Quezon City)
Imelda Papin (Former Vice-Governor of Camarines Sur, Bicol)
Joey Marquez (Former Mayor of Paranaque)
Anjo Yllana (Former Vice Mayor of Paranaque)
Dan Fernandez (Former Representative 1st District of Laguna)
Dennis Roldan (Former Representative of Quezon City)
Sonny Parsons (Former Councilor of Marikina City)
Russia
Mikhail Yevdokimov (Governor of the Altai Krai region of Russia)
Sri Lanka
Gamini Fonseka (MP, Deputy Speaker)
TB Ilangaratne (MP, Cabinet Minister)
Vijaya Kumaratunga (Founder, Sri Lanka Mahajana Party)
Mahinda Rajapaksa (President)
NM Perera (MP, Cabinet Minister) - Sri Lanka's first star
Rohitha Abeygunawardena(MP, Cabinet Minister)
T. B. Ekanayake(MP, Cabinet Minister)
Malini Fonseka(MP)
UK
Michael Cashman (Labour) (Member of the European Parliament)
Andrew Faulds (Labour) (Member of Parliament)
Cheryl Hall (Labour)
Glenda Jackson (Labour) (Member of Parliament)
Richard Franklin (UKIP) (Stood in the 2001 General election for UKIP, has stood in 4 general elections for 4 different parties)
USA
Alan Autry (Republican) (Mayor of Fresno, California)
Raj Bhakta (Republican) (unsuccessful candidate for U.S. House of Representatives, Pennsylvania)
Sonny Bono (Republican) (U.S. Representative, 44th District of California)
Shirley Temple Black (Republican) (U.S. diplomat; Ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia, Chief of Protocol of the United States)
Clint Eastwood (Republican, but describes himself as libertarian) (Mayor of Carmel, California)
Al Franken (Democrat) (U.S. Senator, Minnesota; incumbent)
Helen Gahagan (Democrat) (U.S. Representative, 14th District of California)
John Gavin (Republican) (U.S. diplomat; Ambassador to Mexico)
Fred Grandy (Republican) (U.S. Representative, Iowa)
Ben Jones (Democrat) (U.S. Congressman, 4th District of Georgia)
Jack Kelly, mayor of Huntington Beach, Calif.
Sheila Kuehl (Democrat) (California State Senator)
Nancy Kulp (Democrat) (unsuccessful nominee for U.S. House of Representatives, Pennsylvania)
Robert Montgomery (Republican)
George Murphy (Republican) (U.S. Senator, California)
Stephen Peace (Democrat) (California State Senator)
Kal Penn (Democrat) (Associate Director in the White House Office of Public Engagement for the Barack Obama administration)
Ronald Reagan (Republican) (Governor of California, President of the United States)
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| Arnold Schwarzenegger |
Jerry Springer (Democrat) (Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio)
Ben Stein (Republican) (Speechwriter for Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford
Fred Thompson (Republican) (U.S. Senator, Tennessee and unsuccessful presidential candidate)
Jesse Ventura (formerly Reform; currently Independence Party of Minnesota) (Governor of Minnesota)
Ralph Waite (Democrat) (unsuccessful nominee for U.S. House of Representatives)
Frank Britton Wenzel (Mayor of Malverne, New York)
John Davis Lodge (Republican) (Governor of Connecticut)
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