Wyclef Jean
The Haitian rapper, whose family moved to the USA when he was 9, tried to run for president of his native country in 2010, eight months after a devastating earthquake that killed 316,000 people. “I feel like I’m being drafted by the population right now to give them a different face, a different voice,” Jean told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that August. But his bid was swiftly rejected by Haiti’s provisional electoral council for not meeting the requirement that presidential candidates must live in the country for at least five consecutive years before running.