Category
page 1Female heads of state
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović
Croatian politician and diplomat
Zuzana Čaputová
Slovak lawyer, environmental activist and politician
Maia Sandu
President of Moldova since 2020
Kersti Kaljulaid
Estonian politician and president of Estonia (born 1969)
Claudia Sheinbaum
Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo is a Mexican politician, energy and climate change scientist, and academic who has been serving as the 66th president of Mexico since 2024. She is the first woman and the first Jewish person to hold the office. A member of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), she previously served as Head of Government of Mexico City from 2018 to 2023. In 2025, Forbes ranked Sheinbaum as the fifth most powerful woman in the world.
Salome Zourabichvili
President of Georgia and former diplomat
Dalia Grybauskaitė
President of Lithuania fom 2009 to 2019 (born 1956)
Bidya Devi Bhandari
president of Nepal
Mary Robinson
former President of Ireland and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
Icelandic politician, 4th President of Iceland
Katerina Sakellaropoulou
Greek judge, former president of the Hellenic Republic
Katalin Novák
President of Hungary from 2022 to 2024
Mary McAleese
8th President of Ireland
Vjosa Osmani
President of the Republic of Kosovo since 2021
Atifete Jahjaga
President of Kosovo from 2011 to 2016
Soong Ching-ling
former Vice President of the People's Republic of China and third wife of Sun Yat-sen (1893–1981)
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca
Maltese politician
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga
6th President of Latvia
Nataša Pirc Musar
President of Slovenia since 2022
Simonetta Sommaruga
politician and former member of the Swiss Federal Council
Agatha Barbara
Maltese politician (1923-2002)
Doris Leuthard
lawyer, politician and former member of the Swiss Federal Council (2006-2018)
Nino Burjanadze
Georgian politician and lawyer
Sabine Bergmann-Pohl
German politician, last leader of East Germany
Halla Tómasdóttir
President of Iceland
Biljana Plavšić
president of Republika Srpska (1996-1998)
Carmen Pereira
Guinea-Bissauan politician (1937-2016)
Dalia Itzik
Israeli politician
Slavica Đukić Dejanović
Serbian politician
Khertek Anchimaa-Toka
Tuvan politician, first non-royal female head of state
Rosario Murillo
co-president of Nicaragua since 2025
Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa
Mongolian politician (1894-1962)
Claudia Juana Rodríguez de Guevara
designated president of El Salvador since 2023
Maria Luisa Berti
Captain Regent of San Marino
Antonella Mularoni
Sammarinese politician and judge
Dzeliwe of Eswatini
Inkhosikati LaShongwe (born Dzeliwe Shongwe; 1927 – 2003) was queen regent of Eswatini between 1982 and 1983. She was a wife of King Sobhuza II of Eswatini, and with him had one child, Prince Khuzulwandle Dlamini.
Meyan Khatun
Yazidi princess (1874–1957)
Teniku Talesi Honolulu
governor-General of Tuvalu (2010–present)
list of female Muslim head of Government and State
Wikimedia list article
Tatjana Ljujić-Mijatović
Bosnian politician
Emmanuelle Mignon
French politician
list of elected or appointed female deputy heads of state
Wikimedia list article