Citing the previous government's failure to successfully negotiate acceptable commercial loans or bond sales to cover its budget deficit, the government formed by Sir Mekere Morauta in July 1999 successfully requested emergency assistance from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

Sir Mekere was born in 1946 in Kukipi, a coastal village east of Kerema in the Gulf Province of Papua New Guinea.

Sir Mekere was a member of the so-called " Gang of Four ", a group of influential young civil service chiefs who played a leading role in holding together public administration and public policy in the formative decade or so after Papua New Guinea's independence in 1975.

O ' Neill appointed Sir Mekere as his Minister for Public Enterprises.

Sir Mekere is married to Lady Roslyn Morauta, and has two sons from a previous marriage.

Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, PC, KCMG, QC ( March 12, 1821 – October 30, 1893 ) was the third Prime Minister of Canada.

* Sir Richard Gozney, KCMG, CVO, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Bermuda

* Captain Sir Richard Burton KCMG FRGS ( sent down )

* Sir Edward Gent KCMG DSO OBE MC

Sir Benjamin Baker KCB KCMG FRS FRSE ( 31 March 1840 – 19 May 1907 ) was an eminent English civil engineer who worked in mid to late Victorian era.

Sir Redmond Barry, KCMG, Kt., QC ( 7 June 1813 – 23 November 1880 ), was an Irish colonial judge in Victoria, Australia.

* 1909 – 1923: Sir Mansfield Smith-Cumming, KCMG, CB

* 1939 – 1952: Major General Sir Stewart Menzies, KCB, KCMG, DSO, MC

* 1953 – 1956: Sir John Alexander Sinclair, KCMG, CB, OBE

* 1956 – 1968: Sir Richard White, KCMG, KBE

* 1968 – 1973: Sir John Rennie, KCMG

* 1979 – 1982: Sir Dick Franks, KCMG

* 1982 – 1985: Sir Colin Figures, KCMG, OBE

* 1985 – 1989: Sir Christopher Curwen, KCMG

* 1989 – 1994: Sir Colin McColl, KCMG

* 1994 – 1999: Sir David Spedding, KCMG, CVO, OBE

* 1999 – 2004: Sir Richard Dearlove, KCMG, OBE

* 2004 – 2009: Sir John Scarlett, KCMG, OBE

* 2009 – present: Sir John Sawers, KCMG

Sir Julius Vogel, KCMG ( 24 February 1835 – 12 March 1899 ) was the eighth Premier of New Zealand.

Captain Sir George Mansfield Smith-Cumming, KCMG, CB ( 1 April 1859 – 14 June 1923 ) was the first director of what would become the Secret Intelligence Service ( SIS ), also known as MI6.

Sir Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine ( or La Fontaine, or LaFontaine ), 1st Baronet, KCMG ( October 4, 1807 – February 26, 1864 ) was the first Canadian to become Prime Minister of the United Province of Canada and the first head of a responsible government in Canada .< ref > He was born in Boucherville, Lower Canada in 1807.

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Frederick Charles Doveton Sturdee, 1st Baronet, GCB, KCMG, CVO ( 9 June 1859 – 7 May 1925 ) was a British admiral.

Sir William Mulock, PC, KCMG, MP, QC, LL. D ( January 19, 1843 – October 1, 1944 ) was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, educator, farmer, politician, judge, and philanthropist.

Sir Lynden Oscar Pindling, KCMG, OM, PC, JP ( 22 March 193026 August 2000 ), is regarded as the " Father of the Nation " of the Bahamas, having led it to Majority Rule on 10 January 1967 and to independence on 10 July 1973.

Sir Alan Ayckbourn CBE ( born 12 April 1939 ) is a prolific English playwright.

Sir Andrew John Wiles, KBE, FRS ( born 11 April 1953 ) is a British mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at Oxford University, specializing in number theory.

Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins, CBE ( born 31 December 1937 ), best known as Anthony Hopkins, is a Welsh | deadurl = no

Sir Robert " Bobby " Charlton CBE ( born 11 October 1937 ) is an English former football player.

The 7th Duke of Marlborough was the paternal grandfather of the British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill ( who was born at Blenheim Palace on 30 November 1874 ).

* Sir Henry Worth Thornton, Major General, British Army ( American born )

Donald Campbell was born in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, the son of Malcolm, later Sir Malcolm Campbell, holder of 13 world speed records in the 1920s and 30s in the famous Bluebird cars and boats, and his second wife, Dorothy Evelyn née Whittall.

Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

a satirical attack on the traditions of the European society, of the Catholic Church and popular superstitions, written in 1509, published in 1511, dedicated to his friend, Sir Thomas More, and inspired by De triumpho stultitiae, written by Italian humanist Faustino Perisauli born at Tredozio, near Forlì.

The only notable person known to have both been born and died on February 29 was Sir James Wilson ( 1812 – 1880 ), Premier of Tasmania.

Bacon was born on 22 January 1561 at York House near the Strand in London, the son of Sir Nicholas Bacon by his second wife Anne ( Cooke ) Bacon, the daughter of noted humanist Anthony Cooke.

Bronze statue of Sir Francis Drake in Tavistock, in the parish of which he was born.

In 1585, Drake married Elizabeth Sydenham — born circa 1562, the only child of Sir George Sydenham, of Combe Sydenham, who was the High Sheriff of Somerset.

Sir Geoffrey Charles Hurst MBE ( born 8 December 1941 in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire ) is a retired England footballer best remembered for making his mark in history as the only player to score a hat-trick in a World Cup final.

However, as Northcott was born in Victoria, it was not until Sir Eric Woodward's appointment by Queen Elizabeth II in 1957 that the position was filled by a New South Wales-born individual ; this practice continued until 1996, when Queen Elizabeth II commissioned as her representative Gordon Samuels, a London-born immigrant to Australia.

The first Australian-( and Victorian -) born Governor of Victoria was Sir Henry Winneke ( appointed 1974 ).

Sir Harold ( Harry ) Walter Kroto, FRS ( born 7 October 1939 as Harold Walter Krotoschiner ), is a British chemist and one of the three recipients to share the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley.

Sir Ian Terence Botham OBE ( born 24 November 1955 ) is a former England Test cricketer and Test team captain, and current cricket commentator.

* Sir John Ford ( born 1922 ), British Foreign Office official who served in Canada from 1978 to 1981 ( List of High Commissioners from the United Kingdom to Canada )

* 1815 – Sir John A. Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada is born.

Sir John Major, ( born 29 March 1943 ) is a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1990 to 1997.

Sir John Arthur " Jack " Brabham, AO, OBE ( born 2 April 1926 ) is an Australian former racing driver who was Formula One champion in, and.

Inasmuch as I am concerned, Most Excellent Sir, the effusion of my gratitude is inexplicable, at having had the unique satisfaction capable of filling the human heart, as is to deserve the public confidence in circumstances so critical to govern the independent Isthmus ; and I can only correspond to such high distinction with the sacrifices I am willing to make since I devoted myself, as it wished, to the mother country that has seen me be born and to who I owe all that I own ...

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