Comments on: Who are these guys?

Question: Who are these guys?

feelinglistless — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:39:16 -0800

Today The Guardian published the group photograph of delegates to the World Summit at the UN. There is a key to who all these smiling faces are which is useful, except two gentlemen are listed simply as 'unidentified'. Would anybody like to take a guess as to who they are? [images inside]

20 Unidenified

151 Unidentified

By: Ugandan Discussions

Ugandan Discussions — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:54:10 -0800

The first one's Spielberg.

By: brettski

brettski — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 14:19:25 -0800

You know I thought the same thing. Keep an I on the clarification and corrections column and I'm sure you'll fing out (btw I thought there were 3?)

By: brettski

brettski — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 14:19:43 -0800

eye.....

By: feelinglistless

feelinglistless — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 14:24:15 -0800

Lord, there are four ... the trouble is they seem to old to be secret service so they have to be the leader of some country or other ...

By: Brian James

Brian James — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 14:57:43 -0800

I have entirely too much work to do, but this has been a nice diversion.

Here you can see the original photo, with the names and IDs. Click on the link for a PDF. (This is helpful to eliminate countries)

151 looks Eastern Europe/Central Asia. 20 looks European, or maybe Latin American. I checked the Presidents/PMs of the countries not accounted for in the IDs (like Uruguay & Paraguay for 20, and Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan for 151), got nowhere.

Of course, they may not be Presidents or PMs, they may be cabinet officials of some kind (a lot of the guys in the 140's are foreign ministers, and standing near 151), or, as in the case of 29, 30, and 31, they may be officials of the UN.

Oh, and Alfred Moisiu of Albania needs to get his pants pressed. Notice how the tailoring the suits gets incrementally better as you go from the outside to the center of the front row. Bush looks like a Christmas tree ornament.

By: Brian James

Brian James — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:09:20 -0800

151 is Elmar Mammadyarov, Foreign Minister of Azeribaijan.

By: cillit bang

cillit bang — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 03:14:22 -0800

A quick computer-aided comparison with the 191 member countries says these countries aren't accounted for:

Argentina, Austria, Belarus, Bolivia, Cambodia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Germany, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Japan, Kiribati, North Korea, Libya, Liechtenstein, Malawi, Micronesia, New Zealand, Niger, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Poland, Saint Vincent, Samoa, Sao Tome, Seychelles, Somalia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Yemen.