Female interior ministers

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

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2016 to 2019

Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974

Sheikh Hasina Wazed is a Bangladeshi politician who served as Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2001 and again from 2009 to 2024. A daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the first president of Bangladesh, she is Bangladesh's longest-serving prime minister and one of the longest-serving female heads of government globally. She has also served as president of the Awami League since 1981.

Sanae Takaichi is a Japanese politician who has been Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) since October 2025. She is the first woman to hold either of these positions in Japanese history. A member of the House of Representatives from 1993 to 2003 and since 2005, she also held ministerial posts during the premierships of Shinzo Abe and Fumio Kishida.

President of Sri Lanka from 1994 to 2005

prime minister of Barbados since 2018

Kristi Lynn Arnold Noem is an American politician who served as the eighth United States secretary of homeland security from 2025 to 2026. A member of the Republican Party, she served from 2019 to 2025 as the 33rd governor of South Dakota and represented South Dakota's at-large congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2011 to 2019. During her tenure at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), her immigration policies generated controversies, particularly the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

South African politician

British politician (born 1972)

Danish politician

American politician, lawyer, and academic administrator (born 1957)

American politician (born 1960)

Swiss politician

UK lawyer and politician

British politician (born 1963)

Israeli politician, activist and engineer (born 1976)

Turkish historian, acafemic and politician

French politician

United States 6th Secretary of Homeland Security

British politician

British politician (born 1962)

South African politician

Finnish politician

German politician

Swedish politician

Shabana Mahmood is a British politician and barrister who has been serving as Home Secretary since 2025. She previously served as Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor from 2024 to 2025. A member of the Labour Party, she has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Ladywood since 2010. Mahmood identifies as belonging to the more socially conservative Blue Labour faction of the Labour Party.

Austrian pentathlete (1941-2006)

Swiss politician

Dutch politician

U.S. politician and former Secretary of the Interior

US politician, business executive and corporate director; former Secretary of the Interior and CEO of REI

Italian civil servant and prefect, Minister of the Interior in the Draghi government

Finnish politician

Austrian politician (ÖVP), former Member of National Council of Austria and former Federal Interior Minister of Austria

Dutch politician and military veteran

captain-regent of San Marino

Hungarian jurist, politician (1957–)

Japanese politician

Slovenian politician

Italian politician

British politician (born 1976)

Palauan politician

Finnish politician

South African politician

Danish politician (born 1969)

Italian minister

Danish politician

Greek politician

former Macedonian Interior Minister

Liechtenstein politician

Lebanese politician

Belgian federal Minister of the Interior

Finnish politician

Danish politician and journalist

Finnish politician

South African politician (1952–2021)

Lithuanian politician

Secretary of Government of Mexico

Slovak politician, Minister of the Interior of Slovakia