Female foreign ministers

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat. She was the 67th United States secretary of state in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, a U.S. senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, and the first lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001 as the wife of Bill Clinton. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the party's nominee in the 2016 presidential election, becoming the first woman to win a presidential nomination by a major U.S. political party and the only woman to win the popular vote for U.S. president. Clinton lost the United States Electoral College vote to Republican Party nominee Donald Trump. She is the only first lady of the United States to have run for elected office.

former State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National League for Democracy

Prime Minister of India (1966-1977; 1980-1984)

Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 2022

American diplomat and political scientist (born 1954)

United States Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001

Croatian politician and diplomat

President of Finland from 2000 to 2012 (born 1943)

President of Georgia and former diplomat

Prime Minister of Ceylon (later Sri Lanka) from 1960–65, 1970–77, 1994–2000

Filipino politician, president of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010

Turkish politician, who has been the first female and 22nd prime minister of the country

President of Kyrgyzstan

4th President of Malawi

Israeli politician, former Israeli Foreign Minister and former leader of the Coalition: Zionist Union together with Isaac Herzog from 2015 to 2019

Director-General of the World Trade Organization

German politician (born 1980)

Belgian politician

Delcy Eloína Rodríguez Gómez is a Venezuelan lawyer, diplomat, and politician who is currently the acting president of Venezuela since January 2026, after the United States captured then-president Nicolás Maduro and extracted him from the country along with his wife, then-first lady Cilia Flores, de facto removing him from power. She is the first woman in Venezuelan history to perform the duties of the presidency. A member of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Rodríguez served as the 24th vice president under Maduro's regime from 2018 to 2026.

Italian politician, former High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs

British politician (born 1956)

Indian politician

Swedish politician (1957-2003)

member of the Swiss Federal Council

Namibian politician

South African politician

Swedish politician

politician in Pakistan

Prime Minister of Dominica

British politician (born 1943)

Romanian politician (1893-1960)

Swedish politician

Prime Minister of Samoa from 2021 to 2025

Latvian politician (born 1952)

Austrian diplomat, journalist and politician

Indonesian ambassador, minister

Italian politician

Greek politician 1954-

Bulgarian politician, ex-EU Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth (-May 2023)

French politician

Canadian politician and journalist (born 1968)

Dutch diplomat and politician

Croatian politician

Australian politician

Austrian diplomat and politician

politician of Croatia

British politician

French diplomat and politician

Norwegian politician

Italian politician, businesswoman and writer (1922–2009)

politician from Moldova

Sierra Leonean politician

South African politician

Libyan politician and lawyer

European Commissioner and former Deputy PM and minister in Bulgaria

Tanzanian politician and UN Deputy-Secretary General

Ecuadorian politician and poet

Georgian politician

Slovenian politician