Mao Zedong (December 26, 1893 — September 9, 1976) was a Chinese Marxist-Leninist revolutionary who lead the Chinese people to their proletarian revolution and served as the supreme leader of the People's Republic of China from 1949 to 1976.
Comrade Mao's contributions to the development of Marxism-Leninism, military theory, and the theory of the Communist Party are known in China as Mao Zedong Thought. Besides being a proletarian revolutionary, Mao Zedong was also a poet and calligrapher.