Hosni Mubarak

Hosni Mubarak was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the fourth president of Egypt from 1981 until his resignation in 2011 during the Egyptian revolution. He was previously the seventh vice president under Anwar Sadat from 1975 until Sadat's assassination, and briefly prime minister in 1981. Before entering politics he was a career officer in the Egyptian Air Force, serving as its commander from 1972 to 1975 and rising to the rank of air chief marshal.