WORLD leaders whose names are similar to those of their countries

Whether coincidental or intentional, there have been leaders whose name featured in their countries' names. 

You will find a list of some of those leaders under: 

• Saudi Arabia took its name from the founder of the Saud dynasty, Muhammad bin Saud, who ruled Saudi Arabia from 1726 to 1765 and was instrumental to the expansion of the dynasty through conquests. 

Although the dynasty suffered defeats intermittently, their kingdom expanded after the death of Muhammad bin Saud and with the rise of  Abdul Ibn Saud who recaptured control of Riyadh and entrenched the rule of the Sauds. 

The Saud Kingdom continued to expand despites external and internal conflicts until the formal unification of the different fiefs as the Saudi Arabia in 1932.

Ever since the establishment of the Saud Kingdom, the Saudi Arabia, all of its future kings have been from the House of Sauds, including the current King, Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.

• Kenyatta: The first president of Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta went by the surname Kenyatta. He in  fact took the surname in the 1930's when he was in London. Kenyatta Jomo was named Kamau (and later known as Kamau wa Ngengi) by his parents but later took the name Johnstone after adopting Christianity and receiving the sacrament of baptism.

Kenyatta means "light of Kenya."

His son, Uhuru Kenyatta is the current president of Kenya.

Others are:

• Pierre Mendes France: he was the president of France's Council of Ministers, the equivalent of a prime minister for 8 months from June 1954 to February 1955.
• Solomon Mamaloni: he played a significant role in the independence of the Solomon Islands. He ruled the island Caribbean country as its prime minister three time between 1981 and 1997 (30 August 1981 – 19 November 1984; 28 March 1989 – 18 June 1993; and 7 November 1994 – 27 August 1997.) 

• Madhav Kumar Nepal, the 34th prime minister of Nepal from 2009 to 2011. He voluntarily announced his resignation as prime minister on June 30, 2010;

• The current president of El Salvador, Salvador Sanchez Ceren;
• Petre Roman, the prime minister of Romania from 1989 until 1990. He was the first prime minister of Romania since the second world war who was not a communist or a traveler;
• Ashraf Ghani, the president of Afghanistan, who has held the position since 2014. The similarity is in the pronunciation of both his first and last names;
• Other leaders' name with such striking similarity in pronunciation are Indira Gandhi, the prime minister of India from 1980 until 1984 and Giorgi Margvelashvili, the fourth and current resident of Georgia. He has been the president of Georgia since 17 November 2013.