Dilma Vana Roussef, president of Brazil. Her story in Wikipedia is of a woman born to fight, born to win. Her father was a European Jew, who was lucky enough to be communist, which meant he was able to escape Bulgaria for Brazil ahead of the police long before being Jewish was deadly. He rapidly married a Brazilian and became a successful businessman in Brazil.
His daughter has lurched all her life between the pinnacle of respectability to wanted by police: the low points have to be when she was tortured by police for 3 weeks, and when she was diagnosed with cancer. Watch her, below.