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9. Madeline Albright

Madeline Albright is best known as the first woman to become the United States Secretary of State. She was nominated by U.S. President Bill Clinton in 1996 and was unanimously confirmed by a U.S. Senate vote and was sworn in on January 23, 1997. But Albright was not actually born in the US. Born Marie Jana Korbelová, she grew up in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic). Albright’s parents converted from Judaism to Roman Catholicism before they fled to London in 1941, ahead of World War II. As a child, Albright even starred in a wartime film as a child refugee aimed at “promoting sympathy for all war refugees in London.”

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