Chairman Mao

As a founding member of the CPC (Communist Party of China), Mao Zedong or as he is better known as Chairman Mao, led the Long March in 1934, fought against the Japanese in World War 2 and later on won the Chinese Civil war in 1949 which led to him declaring the People's Republic of China on 1st October 1949.
He industrialised China through the Great Leap Forward in 1957 but it caused a famine which cost the lives of up to 45 million lives. He built up his Cult of Personality through another successful but still disastrous event in Chinese history called the Cultural Revolution in 1966 which saw counter revolutionaries (people who were against him) being removed.
Before his 1976 death from a heart attack, he met US President, Richard Nixon. Like Vladimir Lenin, Mao was embalmed (his remains were preserved) and his body is in display in his own mausoleum in Beijing, China.