Legally Mononymous People

Photo from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:U_Nu_portrait.jpg This work formerly was copyrighted in Myanmar but is now in the public domain because its term of copyright has expired (details). According to the Law No. 15/2019 of May 24, 2019 of Myanmar (English translation from the Myanmar Law Information System): This is an audio-visual and cinematographic work, and 50 years have passed since the year of its creation (that is, the work was made before 1974) This is an anonymous or pseudonymous work, and 50 years have passed since the year of its creation or publication (that is, the relevant action was done before 1974) This is a work of the government and 50 years have passed since the date when the work was published or first made available to public (that is, the relevant action was done before 1974) This is a work of applied art and 25 years have passed since the year of its creation (that is, the work was made before 1999) This is another kind of work, and 50 years have passed since the year of the author's death or last-surviving author's death (that is, the death occurred before 1974)

Photo from the Official Directory of the Senate and of the House of Representatives (1917): https://hdl.handle.net/2027/miun.akd7849.0001.001?urlappend=%3Bseq=196 Original file: https://ibb.co/pbDwQZc or https://imgbox.com/VJQNy997 or https://pixhost.to/show/869/445704559_datu-benito.jpg Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Datu_Benito.jpg This work is in the public domain in the Philippines and possibly other jurisdictions because it is a work created by an officer or employee of the Government of the Philippines or any of its subdivisions and instrumentalities, including government-owned and/or controlled corporations, as part of their regularly prescribed official duties; consequently, any work is ineligible for copyright under the terms of Part IV, Chapter I, Section 171.11 and Part IV, Chapter IV, Section 176 of Republic Act No. 8293 and Republic Act No. 10372, as amended, unless otherwise noted. However, in some instances, the use of this work in the Philippines or elsewhere may be regulated by this law or other laws. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

Photo from the Official Directory of the House of Representatives (1921, p. 73): https://archive.org/details/directoriooficia5319phil/page/74/mode/2up Original file: https://ibb.co/8bJ2DKc or https://imgbox.com/T28D62Qh or https://pixhost.to/show/857/445514208_directoriooficia5319phil_orig_0097.jpg Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Datu_Tampugaw.jpg This work is in the public domain in the Philippines and possibly other jurisdictions because it is a work created by an officer or employee of the Government of the Philippines or any of its subdivisions and instrumentalities, including government-owned and/or controlled corporations, as part of their regularly prescribed official duties; consequently, any work is ineligible for copyright under the terms of Part IV, Chapter I, Section 171.11 and Part IV, Chapter IV, Section 176 of Republic Act No. 8293 and Republic Act No. 10372, as amended, unless otherwise noted. However, in some instances, the use of this work in the Philippines or elsewhere may be regulated by this law or other laws. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

Photo by Ben Wittick. Public domain.