11 Celebrities Who Should Run for President

10. Martin Sheen — 5 points

Actor Martin Sheen, whose real name is Ramón Estévez, may seem like a red herring on this list because he played our most beloved fictional president on the West Wing. But Sheen’s real life imitates his art: He is politically liberal and a devoted Catholic, with decades of stable family life and public service. Like Kal Penn, he was born to two first-generation immigrants.

In a recent interview with Krista Tippett for the radio show On Being, Sheen said, “Working as an actor on The West Wing, reflecting the most powerful office in the world, it seemed to me the most important thing was to project the humanity of that office, and that whoever occupied it had a responsibility to be more human than anyone else around him.”