List of elected and appointed female heads of state and government

The following is a list of women who have been elected or appointed head of state or government of their respective countries since the interwar period (1918–1939). The first list includes female presidents who are heads of state and may also be heads of government, as well as female heads of government who are not concurrently head of state, such as prime ministers. The list does not include Queens regnant who are heads of state (but not of government).Template:Efn

Khertek Anchimaa-Toka, of the mostly unrecognized and now defunct Tuvan People's Republic, is regarded as the "first ever elected woman head of state in the world", although not in multiparty, free and fair elections. The wife of the nation's Supreme Leader, she is the first woman to be elected Chairman of a country. She became the chairwoman of the country's presidium in 1940.

The first woman to be elected as prime minister of a country was Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka), when she led her party to victory in the July 1960 general election.

The first woman to serve as president of a country was Isabel Perón of Argentina, who served as the country's vice president and succeeded to the presidency in July 1974 upon the death of her husband.

The first woman elected president of a country was Vigdís Finnbogadóttir of Iceland, who won the 1980 presidential election as well as three subsequent elections, remaining in office for a total of 16 years, which makes her the longest-serving non-hereditary female head of state in history.

The first democratically elected female prime minister of a Muslim majority country was Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan, who led her party to victory in the 1988 general election and later in 1993, making her the first woman democratically elected leader of any Muslim nation. Bhutto was also the first of only two non-hereditary female world leaders who gave birth to a child while serving in office, the other being Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand.

The longest-tenured female non-hereditary head of government is Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh. She served as the country's prime minister from June 1996 to July 2001 and again from January 2009 until August 2024, for a combined total of over 20 years.

The prime ministers of Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, Namibia, Peru, and Uganda are included in the list of elected or appointed female deputy heads of government but not in the list of elected or appointed female deputy heads of state, as they are neither heads of government, nor deputy heads of state due to the existence of the office of vice president in these countries, whereas the prime ministers of South Korea and Sri Lanka (post-1978) are included in both of those lists.

Currently, Barbados, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iceland, and Trinidad and Tobago are the only republics in the world where both the serving head of state and head of government are women. Honduras, the Marshall Islands, Mexico, Namibia, Peru, and Tanzania are republics where the female President is the combined head of state and government.

Elected or appointed female chief executives

This list includes women who were appointed by a governing committee or parliament where heads of state or government are not directly elected by citizens. The list does not include women chosen by a hereditary monarch. Interim heads of state or government are listed in italics.

  Incumbent

Name	Portrait	Country	Office	Mandate start	Mandate end	Term length	Head of state or government	Executive or non-executive
Khertek Anchimaa-Toka	File:No image.svg	Tannu TuvaTemplate:Efn	Chairwoman of the Presidium of the Little Khural			Template:Ayd	Head of state
Sirimavo Bandaranaike	File:Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon 1960 (cropped).PNG	Ceylon/ Sri Lanka	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	ExecutiveTemplate:Efn
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Indira Gandhi	File:IndiraGandhi.png	India	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
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Golda Meir	File:Golda Meir 03265u.jpg	Israel	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Isabel Perón	File:María Estela Martínez Cartas de Perón.jpg	Argentina	President			Template:Ayd	Head of state and government	Executive
Elisabeth Domitien	File:Elisabeth Domitien.jpg	Central African Republic	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government
Margaret Thatcher	File:Margaret Thatcher (1983).jpg	United Kingdom	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo	File:Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo 1986 (cropped).jpg	Portugal	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Lidia Gueiler Tejada	File:Lidia Gueiler Tejada.png	Bolivia	President			Template:Ayd	Head of state	Executive
Eugenia Charles	File:Eugenia Charles.jpg	Dominica	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir	File:Vigdis Finnbogadottir (1985).jpg	Iceland	President			Template:Ayd	Head of state
Gro Harlem Brundtland	File:Gro Harlem Brundtland (cropped).jpg	Norway	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
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Soong Ching-ling	File:Soong Ching-ling 1937.jpg	China	Honorary President			Template:Ayd	Head of state
Agatha Barbara	File:Agatha Barbara.jpg	Malta	President			5 years	Head of state
Milka Planinc	File:Milka Planinc.jpg	Yugoslavia	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Corazon Aquino	File:Corazon Aquino 1986.jpg	Philippines	President			Template:Ayd	Head of state and government	Executive
Stella Sigcau	File:No image.svg	TranskeiTemplate:Efn	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Benazir Bhutto	File:Oliver Mark - Benazir Bhutto, Dubai 2006 (cropped).jpg	Pakistan	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
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Ertha Pascal-Trouillot	File:Ertha Pascal-Trouillot on January 7, 1991.png	Haiti	President			Template:Ayd	Head of state
Kazimira Prunskienė	File:Kazimiera Prunskiene1.2008-05-23.jpg	Lithuania	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Sabine Bergmann-Pohl	File:Sabine Bergmann-Pohl.jpg	East Germany	President of the People's Chamber			Template:Ayd	Head of state
Violeta Chamorro	File:Violeta Chamorro 1993.jpg	Nicaragua	President			Template:Ayd	Head of state and government	Executive
Mary Robinson	File:Mary Robinson (2014).jpg	Ireland	President			Template:Ayd	Head of state
Khaleda Zia	File:Begum Zia Book-opening Ceremony, 1 Mar, 2010.jpg	Bangladesh	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
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Édith Cresson	File:Édith Cresson, Member of the EC (1997) (cropped).jpg	France	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government
Hanna Suchocka	File:Hanna Suchocka, Prime Minister of Poland 1992-1993.jpg	Poland	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government
Tansu Çiller	File:Turkish prime minister Tansu Çiller in Brussels.jpg	Turkey	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government
Kim Campbell	File:Kim Campbell.jpg	Canada	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Sylvie Kinigi	File:Sylvie Kinigi at Bujumbura airport, 1993.jpg	Burundi	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government
Agathe Uwilingiyimana	File:No image.svg	Rwanda	Prime Minister		(assassinated)	Template:Ayd	Head of government
Chandrika Kumaratunga	File:Chandrika Kumaratunga with PM Modi (cropped).jpg	Sri Lanka	President			Template:Ayd	Head of state and government	Executive
Claudette Werleigh	File:No image.svg	Haiti	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government
Sheikh Hasina	File:Sheikh Hasina - 2009.jpg	Bangladesh	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
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Ruth Perry	File:No image.svg	Liberia	Chairwoman of the Council of State			Template:Ayd	Head of state and government	Executive
Rosalía Arteaga	File:Conversatorio Mujeres en Negociaciones Internacionales (46589651644) (cropped).jpg	Ecuador	President			Template:Ayd	Head of state and government	Executive
Mary McAleese	File:Mary McAleese.jpg	Ireland	President			Template:Ayd	Head of state
Jenny Shipley	File:Jenny Shipley 2013 (crop).jpg	New Zealand	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Janet Jagan	File:Janet Jagan.png	Guyana	President			Template:Ayd	Head of state and government	Executive
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga	File:Vaira Vike-Freiberga 13062007.JPG	Latvia	President			Template:Ayd	Head of state
Mireya Moscoso	File:Mireya Moscoso.jpg	Panama	President			5 years	Head of state and government	Executive
Helen Clark	File:Helen Clark official photo (cropped).jpg	New Zealand	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Tarja Halonen	File:Tarja Halonen 1c389 8827-2.jpg	Finland	President			Template:Ayd	Head of state
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo	File:President Arroyo (06-14-2006) (cropped).jpg	Philippines	President			Template:Ayd	Head of state and government	Executive
Mame Madior Boye	File:No image.svg	Senegal	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Megawati Sukarnoputri	File:Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri - Indonesia (3x4 cropped).jpg	Indonesia	President			Template:Ayd	Head of state and government	Executive
Maria das Neves	File:Maria das Neves (cropped).jpg	São Tomé and Príncipe	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government
Anneli Jäätteenmäki	File:Jäätteenmäki Anneli 2014-02-06 1.jpg	Finland	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Yulia Tymoshenko	File:Yulia Tymoshenko 2011.jpg	Ukraine	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
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Maria do Carmo Silveira	File:Reunião da Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa 03 (cropped).jpg	São Tomé and Príncipe	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government
Angela Merkel	File:Angela Merkel (2008)-2.jpg	Germany	Chancellor			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf	File:Ellen Johnson Sirleaf February 2015.jpg	Liberia	President			Template:Ayd	Head of state and government	Executive
Michelle Bachelet	File:Portrait Michelle Bachelet.jpg	Chile	President			4 years	Head of state and government	Executive
						4 years
Portia Simpson-Miller	File:Portia Miller Shoot.Jpeg	Jamaica	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
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Pratibha Devisingh Patil	File:The President of India, Smt. Pratibha Patil.jpg	India	President			Template:Ayd	Head of state
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner	File:Cristinakirchnermensaje2010.jpg	Argentina	President			8 years	Head of state and government	Executive
Zinaida Greceanîi	File:Zinaida Greceanîi.jpg	Moldova	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Michèle Pierre-Louis	File:Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis of Haiti - 2009 (cropped).JPG	Haiti	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir	File:Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir Jan 2011 (cropped).jpg	Iceland	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Jadranka Kosor	File:Jadranka Kosor 26052011 crop.jpg	Croatia	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Dalia Grybauskaitė	File:Dalia Grybauskaitė.jpg	Lithuania	President			Template:Ayd	Head of state
Roza Otunbayeva	File:Roza Otunbayeva - Kyrgyzstan - 2011 International Women of Courage awards.jpg	Kyrgyzstan	President			Template:Ayd	Head of state
Laura Chinchilla	File:Laura Chinchilla Miranda with Hillary Rodham Clinton (cropped).jpg	Costa Rica	President			Template:Ayd	Head of state and government	Executive
Kamla Persad-Bissessar	File:Kamla Persad-Bissesar 2013.jpg	Trinidad and Tobago	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
					Incumbent	Template:Ayd
Mari Kiviniemi	File:Mari Kiviniemi 2010-11-02 (2).jpg	Finland	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Julia Gillard	File:Julia Gillard 2010.jpg	Australia	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Iveta Radičová	File:Iveta Radičová (jan. 2012).jpg	Slovakia	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Dilma Rousseff	File:Dilma Rousseff - foto oficial 2011-01-09.jpg	Brazil	President		Suspended 12 May 2016	Template:Ayd Template:Ayd	Head of state and government	Executive
Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé	File:No image.svg	Mali	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government
Atifete Jahjaga	File:Atifete Jahjaga 2011.jpg	Kosovo	President			Template:Ayd	Head of state
Yingluck Shinawatra	File:9153ri-Yingluck Shinawatra.jpg	Thailand	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Helle Thorning-Schmidt	File:Helle Thorning-Schmidt portrait.jpg	Denmark	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Joyce Banda	File:Joyce Banda 2013-03-28.jpg	Malawi	President			Template:Ayd	Head of state and government	Executive
Park Geun-hye	File:Park Geun-hye presidential portrait.png	South Korea	President		Suspended 9 December 2016	Template:Ayd Template:Ayd	Head of state and government	Executive
Alenka Bratušek	File:Alenka Bratušek 2013-06-10.jpg	Slovenia	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Tatiana Turanskaya	File:Татьяна Туранская.jpg	TransnistriaTemplate:Efn	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
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Sibel Siber	File:Sibel Siber (cropped).jpg	Northern CyprusTemplate:Efn	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Aminata Touré	File:Aminata Touré (cropped).jpg	Senegal	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Erna Solberg	File:Erna Solberg (Red carpet) - Global Citizen Festival Hamburg 04.jpg	Norway	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Laimdota Straujuma	File:Laimdota Straujuma in Oct, 2014.jpg	Latvia	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Catherine Samba-Panza	File:Catherine Samba-Panza 2014-09-26.jpg	Central African Republic	President			Template:Ayd	Head of state	Executive
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca	File:Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca.jpg	Malta	President			Template:Ayd	Head of state
Ewa Kopacz	File:Ewa Kopacz - Konwencja PO (cropped).jpg	Poland	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović	File:Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (cropped).jpg	Croatia	President			Template:Ayd	Head of state
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim	File:Ameenah Gurib-Fakim.jpg	Mauritius	President			Template:Ayd	Head of state
Bidya Devi Bhandari	File:Shinzo Abe and Bidhya Devi Bhandari at the Enthronement of Naruhito (1) cropped.jpg	Nepal	President			Template:Ayd	Head of state
Beata Szydło	File:Premier RP Beata Szydło w Parlamencie UE.jpg	Poland	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Hilda Heine	File:Hilda Heine 20171030.jpg	Marshall Islands	President			Template:Ayd	Head of state and government	Executive
					Incumbent	Template:Ayd
Aung San Suu Kyi	File:Aung San Suu Kyi at the Enthronement of Naruhito (1).jpg	Myanmar	State Counsellor			Template:Ayd	De facto head of government	De facto Executive
Tsai Ing-wen	File:蔡英文官方元首肖像照.png	Taiwan	President			Template:Ayd	Head of state	Executive
Theresa May	File:Theresa May (2016) (cropped).jpg	United Kingdom	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Kersti Kaljulaid	File:Kersti Kaljulaid - 2018.jpg	Estonia	President			Template:Ayd	Head of state
Ana Brnabić	File:Ana Brnabic, July 3, 2018.jpg	Serbia	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Halimah Yacob	File:Halimah Yacob at the Enthronement of Naruhito (1).jpg	Singapore	President			Template:Ayd	Head of state
Jacinda Ardern	File:New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in 2018.jpg	New Zealand	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Katrín Jakobsdóttir	File:Katrín Jakobsdóttir (24539871465) (cropped).jpg	Iceland	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Viorica Dăncilă	File:Viorica Dăncilă June 2019.jpg	Romania	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Paula-Mae Weekes	File:Paula-Mae Weekes 2019.jpg	Trinidad and Tobago	President			Template:Ayd	Head of state
Mia Mottley	File:Mia Mottley (2021) (cropped).jpg	Barbados	Prime Minister		Incumbent	Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Sahle-Work Zewde	File:Sahle-Work Zewde in 2016.jpg	Ethiopia	President			Template:Ayd	Head of state
Salome Zourabichvili	File:Victory Day - Europe Day 2020 Address Photo of Salome Zourabichvili (cropped) 2.jpg	Template:Country data Georgia	President		Disputed	Template:Ayd	Head of state
Brigitte Bierlein	File:Europaforum Wachau-2019 1188 (cropped).JPG	Austria	Chancellor			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Maia Sandu	File:Sergio Mattarella e Maia Sandu al Quirinale 2021 (8) (cropped).jpg	Moldova	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
			President		Incumbent	Template:Ayd	Head of state
Zuzana Čaputová	File:Зузана Чапутова (02-11-2021).jpg	Slovakia	President			Template:Ayd	Head of state
Mette Frederiksen	File:Mette Frederiksen Kööpenhaminassa 4.5.2022 (52049397038) (cropped).jpg	Denmark	Prime Minister		Incumbent	Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Sophie Wilmès	File:Sophie Wilmès 2020 (cropped).jpg	Belgium	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Jeanine Áñez	File:Jeanine Áñez at the 314th Anniversary of Reyes. 6 January 2020, Ministry of Communication, Reyes. Cropped (51907629988).jpg	Bolivia	President			Template:Ayd	Head of state and government	Executive
Sanna Marin	File:Prime Minister of Finland Sanna Marin 2019 (cropped).jpg	Finland	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Katerina Sakellaropoulou	File:Katerina Sakellaropoulou, October 2022 (cropped).jpg	Greece	President			Template:Ayd	Head of state
Rose Christiane Raponda	File:Rose Raponda 2015.png	Gabon	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government
Victoire Tomegah Dogbé	File:Victoire Tomégah-Dogbé - P060895-274846.jpg	Togo	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	ExecutiveTemplate:Efn
Ingrida Šimonytė	File:Ingrida Simonyte 2019 crop 2.jpg	Lithuania	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Kaja Kallas	File:Kaja Kallas (crop).jpg	Estonia	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Samia Suluhu Hassan	File:International leaders sign joint statement at COP26 (51649202102) (Suluhu crop).jpg	Tanzania	President		Incumbent	Template:Ayd	Head of state and government	Executive
Vjosa Osmani	File:Vjosa Osmani1.jpg	Kosovo	President		Incumbent	Template:Ayd	Head of state
Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa	File:Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa 2 June 2022.jpg	Samoa	Prime Minister		Incumbent	Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Natalia Gavrilița	File:Secretary Blinken Meets with Moldovan Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita (52227531626) (cropped).jpg	Moldova	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Najla Bouden	File:الرئيس تبون يستقبل رئيسة الحكومة التونسية 0-24 screenshot (cropped).png	Tunisia	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Sandra Mason	File:Sandra of Barbados.jpg	Barbados	President		Incumbent	Template:Ayd	Head of state
Magdalena Andersson	File:Magdalena Andersson 2017 (cropped).jpg	Sweden	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Xiomara Castro	File:Xiomara Castro 2023.jpg	Honduras	President		Incumbent	Template:Ayd	Head of state and government	Executive
Katalin Novák	File:20 06 2022 Cerimônia Oficial de chegada da Excelentíssima Senhora Katalin Novák, Presidente da Hungria (52209559483) (cropped).jpg	Hungary	President			Template:Ayd	Head of state
Élisabeth Borne	File:Elisabeth Borne November 2022 close-up.jpg	France	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government
Droupadi Murmu	File:President Droupadi Murmu official portrait higher version.jpg	India	President		Incumbent	Template:Ayd	Head of state
Liz Truss	File:Liz Truss announces her resignation (cropped) (cropped).jpg	United Kingdom	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Giorgia Meloni	File:Giorgia Meloni Official 2023 crop.jpg	Italy	Prime Minister		Incumbent	Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Dina Boluarte	File:Presidenta Boluarte 2024.jpg	Peru	President		Incumbent	Template:Ayd	Head of state and government	Executive
Nataša Pirc Musar	File:Nataša Pirc Musar (2023-05-19).jpg	Slovenia	President		Incumbent	Template:Ayd	Head of state
Borjana Krišto	File:Borjana Krišto (2025-06-11).jpg	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Chairwoman of the Council of Ministers		Incumbent	Template:Ayd	Head of government
Christine Kangaloo	File:The Hon Christine Kangaloo.jpg	Trinidad and Tobago	President		Incumbent	Template:Ayd	Head of state
Evika Siliņa	File:Evika Siliņa (2023-09-15, cropped).jpg	Latvia	Prime Minister		Incumbent	Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Sylvanie Burton	File:No image.svg	Dominica	President		Incumbent	Template:Ayd	Head of state
Myriam Spiteri Debono	File:Myriam Spiteri Debono on April 20, 2024 (cropped).jpg	Malta	President		Incumbent	Template:Ayd	Head of state
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova	File:MK presidential office handover 2024 - Cropped.jpg	Template:Country data North Macedonia	President		Incumbent	Template:Ayd	Head of state
Judith Suminwa	File:TULUKA 2023 (profile).jpg	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	Prime Minister		Incumbent	Template:Ayd	Head of government
Halla Tómasdóttir	File:Halla Tómasdóttir at Arctic Circle 2024 cropped.jpg	Iceland	President		Incumbent	Template:Ayd	Head of state
Paetongtarn Shinawatra	File:PM Paetongtarn of Thailand (2024) 01 (cropped) (cropped).jpg	Thailand	Prime Minister		Incumbent	Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Claudia Sheinbaum	File:Claudia Sheinbaum Feb. 2025 (2).jpg	Mexico	President		Incumbent	Template:Ayd	Head of state and government	Executive
Kristrún Frostadóttir	File:Kristrún Frostadóttir 2021.jpg	Iceland	Prime Minister		Incumbent	Template:Ayd	Head of government	Executive
Ilza Amado Vaz	File:Ilza Amado Vaz (14-01-2025).jpg	São Tomé and Príncipe	Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government
Raffaella Petrini		Vatican City	President		Incumbent	Template:Ayd	Head of government
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah	File:Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah(cropped).jpg	Namibia	President		Incumbent	Template:Ayd	Head of state and government	Executive
Sara Zaafarani	File:No image.svg	Tunisia	Prime Minister		Incumbent	Template:Ayd	Head of government
Brigitte Haas	File:Brigitte Haas 2025 (cropped).jpg	Liechtenstein	Prime Minister		Incumbent	Template:Ayd	Head of government
Jennifer Simons	File:No image.svg	Suriname	President		Elect	Template:Ayd	Head of state and government	Executive

Elected or appointed acting female chief executives

This list includes women elected or appointed in an acting capacity, wherein they assumed a vacated office on a temporary basis.

  Incumbent

Name	Portrait	Country	Office	Mandate start	Mandate end	Term length	Head of state or government
Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa	File:YanjmaaSükhbaataryn.jpg	Template:Flagcountry	Acting Chairman of the Presidium of the State Great Khural			Template:Ayd	Head of state
Soong Ching-ling	File:Soong Ching-ling 1937.jpg	China	Acting Co-Chairperson			Template:Ayd	Head of state
			Acting Chairperson			Template:Ayd
Carmen Pereira	File:No image.svg	Guinea-Bissau	Acting President			Template:Ayd	Head of state
Sylvie Kinigi	File:Sylvie Kinigi at Bujumbura airport, 1993.jpg	Burundi	Acting President			Template:Ayd	Head of state
Reneta Indzhova	File:Reneta Indzhova 2020 (cropped).png	Bulgaria	Acting Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government
Irena Degutienė	File:Ministru prezidents tiekas ar Lietuvas Seima priekšsēdētāju (4367873226).jpg	Lithuania	Acting Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government
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Nyam-Osoryn Tuyaa	File:No image.svg	Mongolia	Acting Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government
Nino Burjanadze	File:Nino Burjanadze (Tbilisi, December 5, 2003).jpg	Template:Flagdeco Georgia	Acting President			Template:Ayd	Head of state
		Georgia				Template:Ayd
Barbara Prammer	File:Mag.a. Barbara Prammer (14316641697).jpg	Austria	Co-Acting President			Template:Ayd	Head of state
Radmila Šekerinska	File:Radmila Sekerinska (cropped).jpg	Template:Country data North Macedonia	Acting Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government
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Dalia Itzik	File:Dalya Itzik 1.png	Israel	Acting President			Template:Ayd	Head of state
Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri	File:No image.svg	South Africa	Acting President			14 hours	Head of state and government
Rose Francine Rogombé	File:No image.svg	Gabon	Acting President			Template:Ayd	Head of state
Cécile Manorohanta	File:Président UNA.jpg	Madagascar	Acting Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government
Adiato Djaló Nandigna	File:No image.svg	Guinea-Bissau	Acting Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government
Monique Ohsan Bellepeau	File:Monique Ohsan Bellepeau (cropped).jpg	Mauritius	Acting President			Template:Ayd	Head of state
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Slavica Đukić Dejanović	File:Slavica Đukić Dejanović.jpg	Serbia	Acting President			Template:Ayd	Head of state
Julie Bishop	File:Portrait of Julie Bishop.jpg	Australia	Acting Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Deputy Prime Minister
Natalia Gherman	File:NataliaGherman̠Wien.jpg	Moldova	Acting Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government
Vassiliki Thanou	File:Vassiliki Thanou retouched.jpg	Greece	Acting Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government
Maya Parnas	File:Майя Парнас.jpg	TransnistriaTemplate:Efn	Acting Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government
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Doris Bures	File:Doris Bures Eröffnung Bahnhof Sankt Pölten 2010.jpg	Austria	Co-Acting President of the National Council			Template:Ayd	Head of state
Julie Bishop	File:Portrait of Julie Bishop.jpg	Australia	Acting Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Deputy Prime Minister
Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh	File:Mrs. Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh.jpg	Vietnam	Acting President			Template:Ayd	Head of state
Vjosa Osmani	File:Vjosa Osmani1.jpg	Kosovo	Acting President			Template:Ayd	Head of state
Maya Tskitishvili	File:Майя Цкитишвили (21-11-2019).jpg	Georgia	Acting Prime Minister			Template:Ayd	Head of government
Võ Thị Ánh Xuân	File:Courtesy Call of Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam 7 1 2022 0-18 screenshot.jpg	Vietnam	Acting President			Template:Ayd	Head of state
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Claudia Rodríguez de Guevara	File:No image.svg	El Salvador	Acting President			Template:Ayd	Head of state
Isabelle Berro-Amadeï	File:Isabelle Berro-Amadeï (Isabelle Berro), 17 April 2024 (cropped).jpg	Monaco	Acting Minister of State		Incumbent	Template:Ayd	Head of government

Female members of collective head-of-state bodies

  Incumbent

Name	Portrait	Country	Office	Mandate start	Mandate end	Term length	Head of state or government
Alexandra Kollontai	File:Aleksandra Kollontai.jpg	Template:Country data Soviet Russia	Member of the Council of People's Commissars			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Nadezhda Krupskaya	File:KrupskayaY 1922PorMariaUlyanova (cropped).jpg	Soviet Union	Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Klavdiya Nikolayeva	File:Nikolaeva KI.jpg	Soviet Union	Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Anna Pankratova	File:No image.svg	Soviet Union	Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Yekaterina Furtseva	File:Yekaterina Furtseva 1964b.jpg	Soviet Union	Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Alicja Musiałowa-Afanasjew	File:No image.svg	Template:Flagcountry	Member of the Council of State			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Yadgar Nasriddinova	File:No image.svg	Soviet Union	Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Luise Ermisch	File:No image.svg	East Germany	Member of the State Council			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Irmgard Neumann	File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-83285-0002, Irmgard Neumann.jpg	East Germany	Member of the State Council			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Tursunoy Akhunova	File:Турсуной Махмудовна Ахунова.jpg	Soviet Union	Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Lieselott Herforth	File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-J0619-0208-001, Berlin, 25. DDR-Staatsratsitzung.jpg	East Germany	Member of the State Council			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Else Merke	File:Else Merke (Bundesarchiv Bild 183-H0613-0002-009, cropped).jpg	East Germany	Member of the State Council			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Brunhilde Hanke	File:No image.svg	East Germany	Member of the State Council			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Anni Neumann	File:No image.svg	East Germany	Member of the State Council			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Eugenia Krassowska-Jodłowska	File:Eugenia Krassowska-Jodłowska.jpg	Template:Flagcountry	Member of the Council of State			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Zoya Pukhova	File:No image.svg	Soviet Union	Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Maria Schneider	File:No image.svg	East Germany	Member of the State Council			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Margarete Müller	File:Müller, Margarete cropped, Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1988-0205-028.jpg	East Germany	Member of the State Council			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Ilse Thiele	File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1987-0305-114, Berlin, XII. DFD-Kongress.jpg	East Germany	Member of the State Council			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Rosel Walther	File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1989-0608-026, Rosel Walther.jpg	East Germany	Member of the State Council			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Halina Koźniewska	File:No image.svg	Template:Flagcountry	Member of the Council of State			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Valentina Tereshkova	File:Valentina Tereshkova (2017-03-06).jpg	Soviet Union	Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet	June 1974	March or April 1989	c. 14 years	Member of the collective head of state
Rimma Gavrilova	File:No image.svg	Soviet Union	Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Kamshat Donenbaeva	File:No image.svg	Soviet Union	Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Eugenia Kempara	File:Eugenia Kempara.jpg	Template:Flagdeco Poland	Member of the Council of State			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Yekaterina Mukhina	File:No image.svg	Soviet Union	Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Violeta Chamorro	File:Violeta Chamorro 1993.jpg	Nicaragua	Member of the Junta of National Reconstruction			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state and government
Krystyna Marszałek-Młyńczyk	File:No image.svg	Template:Flagdeco Poland	Member of the Council of State			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Maria Lea Pedini-Angelini	File:No image.svg	San Marino	Captain Regent			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Johanna Töpfer	File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1986-0617-036, Prof. Dr. Johanna Töpfer.jpg	East Germany	Member of the State Council			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Gloriana Ranocchini	File:No image.svg	San Marino	Captain Regent			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
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Elisabeth Kopp	File:Elisabeth Kopp.gif	Switzerland	Member of the Swiss Federal Council			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state and government
Elżbieta Gacek	File:Elżbieta Łucja Gacek.jpg	Template:Flagdeco Poland	Member of the Council of State			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Monika Werner	File:No image.svg	East Germany	Member of the State Council			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Eveline Klett	File:No image.svg	East Germany	Member of the State Council			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Edda Ceccoli	File:No image.svg	San Marino	Captain Regent			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Biljana Plavšić	File:Biljana Plavsic.JPG	Template:Flagicon Bosnia and Herzegovina	Serb Member of the Presidency			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Tatjana Ljujić-Mijatović	File:No image.svg	Template:Flagcountry	Serb Member of the Presidency			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Ruth Dreifuss	File:Ruth Dreifuss, President of Switzerland (cropped).jpg	Switzerland	Member of the Swiss Federal Council			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state and government
Patrizia Busignani	File:No image.svg	San Marino	Captain Regent			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Ruth Metzler	File:Ruth Metzler.gif	Switzerland	Member of the Swiss Federal Council			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state and government
Rosa Zafferani	File:No image.svg	San Marino	Captain Regent			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
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Maria Domenica Michelotti	File:No image.svg	San Marino	Captain Regent			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state and government
Micheline Calmy-Rey	File:Micheline Calmy-Rey 2011.jpg	Switzerland	Member of the Swiss Federal Council			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state and government
Valeria Ciavatta	File:Valeria Ciavatta (cropped) (cropped).jpg	San Marino	Captain Regent			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
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Fausta Morganti	File:No image.svg	San Marino	Captain Regent			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Doris Leuthard	File:Doris Leuthard 2011.jpg	Switzerland	Member of the Swiss Federal Council			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state and government
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf	File:Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf 2011.jpg	Switzerland	Member of the Swiss Federal Council			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state and government
Assunta Meloni	File:No image.svg	San Marino	Captain Regent			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Simonetta Sommaruga	File:Simonetta Sommaruga (2022).jpg	Switzerland	Member of the Swiss Federal Council			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state and government
Maria Luisa Berti	File:No image.svg	San Marino	Captain Regent			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
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Denise Bronzetti	File:No image.svg	San Marino	Captain Regent			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
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Antonella Mularoni	File:Antonella Mularoni.jpg	San Marino	Captain Regent			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Anna Maria Muccioli	File:No image.svg	San Marino	Captain Regent			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Lorella Stefanelli	File:No image.svg	San Marino	Captain Regent			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Mimma Zavoli	File:No image.svg	San Marino	Captain Regent			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Vanessa D'Ambrosio	File:No image.svg	San Marino	Captain Regent			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Karin Keller-Sutter	File:Karin Keller-Sutter (2022).jpg	Switzerland	Member of the Swiss Federal Council		Incumbent	Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state and government
Viola Amherd	File:Viola Amherd (2022).jpg	Switzerland	Member of the Swiss Federal Council			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state and government
Aisha Musa el-Said	File:No image.svg	Sudan	Member of the Sovereignty Council			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Raja Nicola	File:No image.svg	Sudan	Member of the Sovereignty Council		Incumbent	Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Mariella Mularoni	File:Mariella Mularoni.jpg	San Marino	Captain Regent			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Grazia Zafferani	File:No image.svg	San Marino	Captain Regent			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Željka Cvijanović	File:Željka Cvijanović 2024 (cropped).jpg	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Serb Member of the Presidency		Incumbent	Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Élisabeth Baume-Schneider	File:Élisabeth Baume-Schneider (2023).jpg	Switzerland	Member of the Swiss Federal Council		Incumbent	Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state and government
Adele Tonnini	File:Adele Tonnini.jpg	San Marino	Captain Regent			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Milena Gasperoni	File:No image.svg	San Marino	Captain Regent			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Francesca Civerchia	File:No image.svg	San Marino	Captain Regent			Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state
Rosario Murillo	File:2017 Rosario Murillo (cropped).jpg	Nicaragua	Co-President		Incumbent	Template:Ayd	Member of the collective head of state

Female viceregal representatives

Below are women who have been appointed representatives of heads of state, such as female governors-general and French representatives of Andorra. As governors-general are appointed representatives of the monarch of the Commonwealth realms (currently Charles III) and the French Representatives of Andorra are appointed representatives of the French Co-Prince of Andorra (currently Emmanuel Macron), they act as heads of state and carry out on a regular basis the functions and duties associated with such a role in the Commonwealth realms (excluding the United Kingdom, which has no governor-general, as the monarch of the Commonwealth realms primarily resides there) and Andorra, respectively.

  Incumbent

Name	Portrait	Country	Office	Mandate start	Mandate end	Term length
Elmira Minita Gordon	File:No image.svg	Belize	Governor-General			Template:Ayd
Jeanne Sauvé	File:Jeanne Sauvé 1984 Ottawa Canada (crop).jpg	Canada	Governor General			Template:Ayd
Nita Barrow	File:No image.svg	Barbados	Governor-General			Template:Ayd
Catherine Tizard	File:Governor-General Catherine Tizard.jpg	New Zealand	Governor-General			Template:Ayd
Pearlette Louisy	File:Dame Pearlette Louisy at her desk at Government House in Castries, St. Lucia.jpg	Saint Lucia	Governor-General			Template:Ayd
Adrienne Clarkson	File:GG-Adrienne Clarkson2.jpg	Canada	Governor General			Template:Ayd
Silvia Cartwright	File:Governor-General Silvia Cartwright.jpg	New Zealand	Governor-General			Template:Ayd
Ivy Dumont	File:No image.svg	The Bahamas	Governor-General			Template:Ayd
Michaëlle Jean	File:Michaëlle Jean 1 11072007.jpg	Canada	Governor General			Template:Ayd
Emmanuelle Mignon	File:No image.svg	Andorra	Representative of the French Co-Prince			Template:Ayd
Louise Lake-Tack	File:DameLouiseLake-Tack.jpg	Antigua and Barbuda	Governor-General			Template:Ayd
Quentin Bryce	File:Quentin Bryce No.1 (cropped).jpg	Australia	Governor-General			Template:Ayd
Sylvie Hubac	File:No image.svg	Andorra	Representative of the French Co-Prince			Template:Ayd
Cécile La Grenade	File:Dame Cecile La Grenade 01 (cropped).jpg	Grenada	Governor-General		Incumbent	Template:Ayd
Marguerite Pindling	File:Marguerite Pindling (cropped).jpg	The Bahamas	Governor-General			Template:Ayd
Patsy Reddy	File:Patsy Reddy official portrait (cropped).jpg	New Zealand	Governor-General			Template:Ayd
Julie Payette	File:Julie Payette 2017.jpg	Canada	Governor General			Template:Ayd
Sandra Mason	File:Sandra Mason at Remembrance Day Parade and Service 20191110.jpg	Barbados	Governor-General		(became inaugural president)	Template:Ayd
Susan Dougan	File:Susan Dougan 2019.jpg	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Governor-General		Incumbent	Template:Ayd
Froyla Tzalam	File:Dame Froyla Tzalam.jpg	Belize	Governor-General	27 May 2021	Incumbent	Template:Ayd
Mary Simon	File:Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada.jpg	Canada	Governor General	26 July 2021	Incumbent	Template:Ayd
Cindy Kiro	File:Cindy Kiro official portrait October 2021 (cropped).jpg	New Zealand	Governor-General	21 October 2021	Incumbent	Template:Ayd
Marcella Liburd	File:Marcella Liburd 2023.jpg	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Governor-General	1 February 2023	Incumbent	Template:Ayd
Cynthia A. Pratt	File:No image.svg	The Bahamas	Governor-General	1 September 2023	Incumbent	Template:Ayd
Sam Mostyn	File:Sam Mostyn 2024.jpg	Australia	Governor-General	1 July 2024	Incumbent	Template:Ayd

Acting female viceregal representatives

This list includes women appointed as viceregal representatives in an acting capacity, wherein they assumed a vacated office on a temporary basis.

  Incumbent

Name	Portrait	Country	Office	Mandate start	Mandate end	Term length
Sian Elias	File:Sian Elias.jpg	New Zealand	Administrator of the Government (Acting Governor-General)			Template:Ayd
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Monica Dacon	File:Dame Monica Dacon (cropped).JPG	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Acting Governor-General			Template:Ayd
Sandra Mason	File:Sandra Mason at Remembrance Day Parade and Service 20191110.jpg	Barbados	Acting Governor-General			Template:Ayd
Teniku Talesi Honolulu	File:Teniku Talesi.jpg	Tuvalu	Acting Governor-General			Template:Ayd
Helen Winkelmann	File:Helen Winkelmann 151sm.jpg	New Zealand	Administrator of the Government (Acting Governor-General)			Template:Ayd

See also

• Women in government
• List of elected and appointed female deputy heads of state
• List of elected and appointed female deputy heads of government
• List of the first women heads of state and government in Muslim-majority countries
• List of Muslim women heads of state and government
• List of female monarchs

External links

• List of Current Women Heads of State
• Women Heads of State
• Women Presidents and Women Governors-General (Zárate's Political Collections)
• Council of Women World Leaders
• Female Presidents