MILITARY PERSONNELS from Chad

1. Mahamat Déby (b. 1984)

With an HPI of 57.23, Mahamat Déby is the most famous Chadian Military Personnel.  His biography has been translated into 41 different languages on wikipedia.

Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno (Arabic: محمد إدريس ديبي إتنو; born 4 April 1984), widely known in Chad as Kaka, is a Chadian politician and military officer who has been the seventh president of Chad since 2024, having previously served in this role in a transitional capacity from 2022 and was also Chad's de facto head of state and president of the Transitional Military Council from 2023 until his appointment as transitional president. Déby also previously served as the second in-command of the military for the Chadian Intervention in Northern Mali (FATIM). He is the son of Idriss Déby, who ruled Chad from 1990 to 2021. Born in N'Djamena, Déby was sent to military training in France and where in 2006, he fought his first combat. In 2013, Déby went Mali where he was appointed second in command of the Chadian special forces in the country under general Oumar Bikimo. Déby led the army in February against rebels in the Adrar des Ifoghas mountains in northern Mali leading to the Battle of Ifoghas, where they eliminated a rebel base. After returning to Chad, Déby was appointed the director of the General Directorate of the Security Services of State Institutions (DGSSIE). In April 2021 shortly after his victory in the presidential election, Déby's father, Idriss Déby, was killed by the Front for Change and Concord in Chad (FACT) in the Northern Chad offensive. Mahamat was immediately proclaimed the new leader of Chad and the president of the Transitional Military Council wher he promised a transition to a civilian government within the next 18 months. However, in October 2022, Déby extended his rule was sworn in as transitional president after dissolving the Transitional Military Council. This caused protests, which became one of the most violent in Chadian history. The protests however, were suppressed with several opposition parties being banned by the government. In 2024, after a constitutional referendum, Déby announced his candidacy for the presidential elections held on 6 May, with his biggest challenger being his prime minister, Succès Masra, whom Déby appointed prime minister on 1 January after Marsa returned to the country before the referendum. Déby won the votes with 61% of the vote, though the results were disputed according to Marsa and other opposition leaders. Marsa eventually resigned as prime minister and Déby was subsequently sworn in as president on 23 May, officially extending his family's 34 year rule over the country, which began with Déby's father taking power in the 1990 coup.