The numerology of leadership

We took every politician, business leader, royal and military figure in our records — 1,380 people who held power — and looked at their Life Path numbers. The most over-represented is Life Path 22 (The Master Builder), appearing 22% more often than its share of famous people overall.

An original LandNum data study · updated June 2026

Life Paths over-represented among leaders

Lift = a Life Path's share among leaders ÷ its share among all famous people.

LP 22 The Master Builder

1.22× · n=62

1.17× · n=101

1.13× · n=175

1.06× · n=36

1.05× · n=121

LP 9 The Humanitarian

1.02× · n=153

0.99× · n=150

0.97× · n=99

0.94× · n=152

0.90× · n=142

0.89× · n=134

LP 33 The Master Teacher

0.86× · n=55

The dominant number of each arena

Politics

LP 22 · The Master Builder leads (1.17×) · 995 people

Royalty

LP 6 · The Nurturer leads (2.12×) · 165 people

Business

LP 22 · The Master Builder leads (1.42×) · 153 people

Military

LP 6 · The Nurturer leads (1.90×) · 67 people

Leaders of the top Life Paths

LP 22 — The Master Builder · 1.22× over-represented

Margaret Thatcher Hu Jintao Octavio Paz John Kerry Charles K. Kao Carlos Menem Demi Moore

LP 6 — The Nurturer · 1.17× over-represented

J. R. R. Tolkien Pablo Neruda Charles de Gaulle Cary Grant Richard Nixon Dwight D. Eisenhower Eleanor Roosevelt

LP 5 — The Explorer · 1.13× over-represented

Bertrand Russell Marlon Brando Mario Vargas Llosa Muammar Gaddafi Narendra Modi Henry Dunant Adolf Hitler

ⓘ How this study was doneLast reviewed June 24, 2026

We defined "leaders" as everyone in our records whose primary field is Politics, Business, Royalty or Military, with a verified birth date. For each Life Path we computed its share among these leaders and divided by its share among all famous people to get a "lift" figure (above 1.0 = over-represented). Placeholder (January 1) birth dates are excluded.

Sources: Public biographical records (Wikipedia/Wikidata)

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