Random Famous People by Country

Can you name these five famous people from six randomly-changing countries?

Fictional characters are included

For the sake of this quiz, we separate the "countries" of the UK. Northern Ireland included in Ireland

You may think some of these people are from another country, rather than the other. Please keep that to yourself

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Argentina	Argentina
Six-time Ballon d'Or winner	Lionel Messi
Scored the "Goal of the Century"	Diego Maradona
Marxist revolutionary murdered in Bolivia in 1967	Che Guevara
Pope born in Argentina	Francis
Popular First Lady of the 1950s	Eva Perón

Saudi Arabia	Saudi Arabia
Prophet born in Mecca in 570 AD who founded Islam	Muhammad
His successor (to Shias)	Ali
He lost citizenship in 1994	Osama bin Laden
Monarch who died in 2015	Abdullah
Founder of Saudi Arabia	Ibn Saud

Finland	Finland
Linux operating system creator	Linus Torvalds
"Finlandia" composer	Jean Sibelius
F1 World Champion in 2007	Kimi Räikkönen
Creator of the "Moomins"	Tove Jansson
Hard rock band that won the 2006 Eurovision	Lordi

Kenya	Kenya
First President of Kenya	Jomo Kenyatta
"12 Years a Slave" actress	Lupita Nyong'o
World record holder in the marathon, with a time of 2:01:39	Eliud Kipchoge
Father of a U.S. President	Barack Obama Sr.
Child of Mufasa and Sarabi	Simba

Netherlands	Netherlands
Painter of "The Starry Night" who cut his ear off	Vincent van Gogh
WWII attic diarist	Anne Frank
"Discovered" New Zealand	Abel Tasman
Exotic dancer executed for spying	Mata Hari
"The Night Watch" painter	Rembrandt

South Korea	South Korea
"Gangnam Style" rapper	PSY
Self-proclaimed religious messiah who died in 2012	Sun Myung Moon
Today's most popular boy band	BTS
Former UN General-Secretary	Ban Ki-Moon
Figure skater called the “Queen”	Yuna Kim

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