Saddam Hussein has been played on 385 lists, including 44 lists in The 2006 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
He was the Chief Inspector in The Pink Panther movies, sure. But more importantly, he was the child of Karl ze Schluderpacheru and his spouse Olga née Gottlieb who were members of Austrian nobility. If that's not celebrity, then we don't know what is.
(d) September 27th, 2012