Women legislative speakers

Filipino politician, president of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010

8th President of Singapore

President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia

Russian politician

Vice President of the European Parliament

Prime Minister of Namibia

President of Bolivia (1921-2011)

politician from Trinidad and Tobago

Lithuanian chess player and politician

American politician and 43rd Mayor of Los Angeles

Melissa Anne Hortman was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 61st speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives. A member of the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party, she represented northern parts of the Twin Cities metropolitan area in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 2005 to 2025, serving as the House minority leader from 2017 to 2019 and as speaker from 2019 to January 2025. During her tenure, she advocated for transportation, environmental rights, abortion rights, police reform, and gun control policies. She was also the chief author of the state's solar energy standard.

French politician (born 1970)

Spanish political activist and language teacher

Spanish politician

Prime Minister of Northern Cyprus (born 1960)

Ugandan lawyer and politician

British politician (1929–2023)

Italian politician (1920–1999)

Spanish politician

Spanish politician

Italian journalist and politician

American politician (1935-2020)

Latvian politician and journalist

Polish politician

South African politician

Dutch former politician, civil servant, educator and social worker

Bulgarian jurist and politician

Bengali politician

Spanish politician

Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Governor of Oregon since 2021

Italian lawyer and politician (born 1946)

poet and politician from Sao Tome and Principe (1926-2010)

Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (1940-2001)

Belgian politician (1949-2015)

Uzbek politician

Spanish politician

politician in Pakistan

Syrian politician

Mozambican politician

Indonesian politician

Italian politician, journalist and television presenter

South African politician

Ivorian politician

Albanian politician

Dutch former politician and LGBT rights activist

Chilean politician

Albanian politician

Chilean politician

Cypriot politician

Monegasque politician

Swedish politician (1937–2024)

Speaker of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus

American politician from California

Spanish politician

Turkmen politician

Governor of Tlaxcala, Mexico, and chairwoman of the PRI

Finnish politician

Rwandan politician

South African politician