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List of elected and appointed female state leaders
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female leaders of independent states
- Three former sovereign states had a female head of state or government in the 20th century: East Germany, Tannu Tuva and Yugoslavia.
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).
Khertek Anchimaa, 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. Vigdís was also the first woman to win a presidential election where the second place candidate was another woman: she defeated Sigrún Thorsteinsdóttir in the 1988 presidential election.
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, Iceland and Trinidad and Tobago are the only republics where both the serving head of state and head of government are women. The Marshall Islands, Mexico, Namibia, Suriname, Tanzania, and Venezuela 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.
| Name | Portrait | Country | Office | Mandate start | Mandate | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| end | Term length | Head of state | |||||||||||
| or government | Executive | ||||||||||||
| or non-executive | [[File:Claudette Werleigh 1993 (cropped).jpg | frameless | 91x91px]] | ||||||||||
| Khertek Anchimaa | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Tuvan People's Republic | Chairwoman of the Presidium | |||||||
| of the Little Khural | Head of state | ||||||||||||
| Sirimavo Bandaranaike | [[File:Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon 1960 (cropped).PNG | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Ceylon/ | ||||||||
| Sri Lanka | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | ||||||||||
| (Total Term: 11 years, 304 days) | |||||||||||||
| Indira Gandhi | [[File:IndiraGandhi.png | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | India | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| (assassinated) | (Total Term: 16 years, 15 days) | ||||||||||||
| Golda Meir | [[File:Golda Meir (1964) cropped.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Israel | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Isabel Perón | [[File:María Estela Martínez Cartas de Perón.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Argentina | President | Head of state | ||||||
| and government | Executive | ||||||||||||
| Elisabeth Domitien | [[File:Elisabeth Domitien.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Central African Republic | Prime Minister | Head of government | ||||||
| Margaret Thatcher | [[File:Margaret Thatcher (1983).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | United Kingdom | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo | [[File:Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo 1986 (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Portugal | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Lidia Gueiler Tejada | *[[File:Lidia Gueiler Tejada (Recorte).png | frameless | center | upright=0.3]]* | Bolivia | President | ** | ** | ** | Head of state | Executive | ||
| Eugenia Charles | [[File:Eugenia Charles.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Dominica | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Vigdís Finnbogadóttir | [[File:Vigdis Finnbogadottir (1985).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Iceland | President | Head of state | ||||||
| Gro Harlem Brundtland | [[File:Gro Harlem Brundtland (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Norway | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| (Total Term: 10 years, 39 days) | |||||||||||||
| Soong Ching-ling | *[[File:Soong Ching-ling 1937.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]]* | China | Honorary President | ** | ** | ** | Head of state | |||
| Agatha Barbara | [[File:Agatha Barbara.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Malta | President | Head of state | ||||||
| Milka Planinc | [[File:Milka Planinc.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Yugoslavia | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Corazon Aquino | [[File:Corazon Aquino 1986.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Philippines | President | Head of state | ||||||
| and government | Executive | ||||||||||||
| Stella Sigcau | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Transkei | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Benazir Bhutto | [[File:Oliver Mark - Benazir Bhutto, Dubai 2006 (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Pakistan | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| (Total term: 4 years, 233 days) | |||||||||||||
| Ertha Pascal-Trouillot | [[File:Ertha Pascal-Trouillot on January 7, 1991.png | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Haiti | President | Head of state | ||||||
| Kazimira Prunskienė | [[File:Kazimiera Prunskiene1.2008-05-23.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Lithuania | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Sabine Bergmann-Pohl | *[[File:Sabine Bergmann-Pohl.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]]* | East Germany | President of the People's Chamber | ** | ** | ** | Head of state | |||
| Violeta Chamorro | [[File:Violeta Chamorro 1993.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Nicaragua | President | Head of state | ||||||
| and government | Executive | ||||||||||||
| Mary Robinson | [[File:Mary Robinson (2014).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Ireland | President | Head of state | ||||||
| Khaleda Zia | [[File:Begum Zia Book-opening Ceremony, 1 Mar, 2010.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Bangladesh | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| (Total Term: 10 years, 29 days) | |||||||||||||
| Édith Cresson | [[File:Édith Cresson, Member of the EC (1997) (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | France | Prime Minister | Head of government | ||||||
| Hanna Suchocka | [[File:Hanna Suchocka, Prime Minister of Poland 1992-1993.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Poland | Prime Minister | Head of government | ||||||
| Tansu Çiller | [[File:Turkish prime minister Tansu Çiller in Brussels.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Turkey | Prime Minister | Head of government | ||||||
| Kim Campbell | [[File:Kim Campbell.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Canada | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Sylvie Kinigi | [[File:Sylvie Kinigi at Bujumbura airport, 1993.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Burundi | Prime Minister | Head of government | ||||||
| Agathe Uwilingiyimana | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Rwanda | Prime Minister | |||||||
| (assassinated) | Head of government | ||||||||||||
| Chandrika Kumaratunga | [[File:Chandrika Kumaratunga with PM Modi (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Sri Lanka | President | Head of state | ||||||
| and government | Executive | ||||||||||||
| Claudette Werleigh | Haiti | Prime Minister | Head of government | ||||||||||
| Sheikh Hasina | [[File:Sheikh Hasina - 2009.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Bangladesh | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| (Total Term: 20 years, 234 days) | |||||||||||||
| Ruth Perry | *[[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]]* | Liberia | Chairwoman of the Council of State | ** | ** | ** | *Head of state | |||
| and government* | Executive | ||||||||||||
| Rosalía Arteaga | [[File:Conversatorio Mujeres en Negociaciones Internacionales (46589651644) (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Ecuador | President | Head of state | ||||||
| and government | Executive | ||||||||||||
| Mary McAleese | [[File:Mary McAleese.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Ireland | President | Head of state | ||||||
| Jenny Shipley | [[File:Jenny Shipley 2013 (crop).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | New Zealand | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Janet Jagan | [[File:Janet Jagan.png | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Guyana | President | Head of state | ||||||
| and government | Executive | ||||||||||||
| Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga | [[File:Vaira Vike-Freiberga 13062007.JPG | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Latvia | President | Head of state | ||||||
| Mireya Moscoso | [[File:Mireya Moscoso.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Panama | President | Head of state | ||||||
| and government | Executive | ||||||||||||
| Helen Clark | [[File:Helen Clark official photo (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | New Zealand | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Tarja Halonen | [[File:Tarja Halonen 1c389 8827-2.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Finland | President | Head of state | ||||||
| Gloria Macapagal Arroyo | [[File:President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (cropped).jpg | center | frameless | 127x127px]] | Philippines | President | Head of state | ||||||
| and government | Executive | ||||||||||||
| Mame Madior Boye | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Senegal | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Megawati Sukarnoputri | [[File:President_Megawati_Sukarnoputri_-_Indonesia.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Indonesia | President | Head of state | ||||||
| and government | Executive | ||||||||||||
| Maria das Neves | [[File:Maria das Neves (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | São Tomé and Príncipe | Prime Minister | Head of government | ||||||
| Anneli Jäätteenmäki | [[File:Jäätteenmäki Anneli 2014-02-06 1.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Finland | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Yulia Tymoshenko | [[File:Yulia Tymoshenko 2011.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Ukraine | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| (Total Term: 2 years, 300 days) | |||||||||||||
| Maria do Carmo Silveira | [[File:Reunião da Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa 03 (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | São Tomé and Príncipe | Prime Minister | Head of government | ||||||
| Angela Merkel | [[File:Angela Merkel (2008)-2.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Germany | Chancellor | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Ellen Johnson Sirleaf | [[File:Ellen Johnson Sirleaf February 2015.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Liberia | President | Head of state | ||||||
| and government | Executive | ||||||||||||
| Michelle Bachelet | [[File:Portrait Michelle Bachelet.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Chile | President | Head of state | ||||||
| and government | Executive | ||||||||||||
| (Total Term: 8 years) | |||||||||||||
| Portia Simpson-Miller | [[File:Portia Miller Shoot.Jpeg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Jamaica | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| (Total Term: 5 years, 223 days) | |||||||||||||
| Pratibha Devisingh Patil | [[File:The President of India, Smt. Pratibha Patil.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | India | President | Head of state | ||||||
| Cristina Fernández de Kirchner | [[File:Cristinakirchnermensaje2010.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Argentina | President | Head of state | ||||||
| and government | Executive | ||||||||||||
| Zinaida Greceanîi | [[File:Zinaida Greceanîi.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Moldova | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Michèle Pierre-Louis | [[File:Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis of Haiti - 2009 (cropped).JPG | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Haiti | Prime Minister | Head of government | ||||||
| Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir | [[File:Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir Jan 2011 (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Iceland | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Jadranka Kosor | [[File:Jadranka Kosor 26052011 crop.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Croatia | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Dalia Grybauskaitė | [[File:Dalia Grybauskaitė.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Lithuania | President | Head of state | ||||||
| Roza Otunbayeva | [[File:Roza Otunbayeva - Kyrgyzstan - 2011 International Women of Courage awards.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Kyrgyzstan | President | Head of state | ||||||
| Laura Chinchilla | [[File:Laura Chinchilla Miranda with Hillary Rodham Clinton (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Costa Rica | President | Head of state | ||||||
| and government | Executive | ||||||||||||
| Kamla Persad-Bissessar | [[File:Kamla Persad-Bissesar 2013.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Trinidad and Tobago | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Incumbent | |||||||||||||
| Mari Kiviniemi | [[File:Mari Kiviniemi 2010-11-02 (2).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Finland | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Julia Gillard | [[File:Julia-gillard-official-portrait-pmc.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Australia | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Iveta Radičová | [[File:Iveta Radičová (jan. 2012).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Slovakia | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Dilma Rousseff | [[File:Dilma Rousseff - foto oficial 2011-01-09.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Brazil | President | |||||||
| Suspended 12 May 2016 | |||||||||||||
| ** | Head of state | ||||||||||||
| and government | Executive | ||||||||||||
| Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé | [[File:Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Mali | Prime Minister | Head of government | ||||||
| Atifete Jahjaga | [[File:Atifete Jahjaga 2011.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Kosovo | President | Head of state | ||||||
| Yingluck Shinawatra | [[File:9153ri-Yingluck Shinawatra.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Thailand | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Helle Thorning-Schmidt | [[File:Helle Thorning-Schmidt portrait.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Denmark | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Joyce Banda | [[File:Joyce Banda 2013-03-28.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Malawi | President | Head of state | ||||||
| and government | Executive | ||||||||||||
| Park Geun-hye | [[File:Park Geun-hye presidential portrait.png | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | South Korea | President | |||||||
| Suspended 9 December 2016 | |||||||||||||
| ** | Head of state | ||||||||||||
| and government | Executive | ||||||||||||
| Alenka Bratušek | [[File:Alenka Bratušek 2013-06-10.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Slovenia | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Tatiana Turanskaya | [[File:Татьяна Туранская.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Transnistria | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| (Total Term: 2 years, 127 days) | |||||||||||||
| Sibel Siber | [[File:Sibel Siber (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Northern Cyprus | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Aminata Touré | [[File:Aminata Touré (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Senegal | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Erna Solberg | [[File:Erna Solberg (Red carpet) - Global Citizen Festival Hamburg 04.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Norway | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Laimdota Straujuma | [[File:Laimdota Straujuma in Oct, 2014.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Latvia | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Catherine Samba-Panza | *[[File:Catherine Samba-Panza 2014-09-26.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]]* | Central African Republic | President | ** | ** | ** | Head of state | Executive | ||
| Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca | [[File:Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Malta | President | Head of state | ||||||
| Ewa Kopacz | [[File:Ewa Kopacz - Konwencja PO (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Poland | Prime Minister | Head of government | ||||||
| Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović | [[File:Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Croatia | President | Head of state | ||||||
| Ameenah Gurib-Fakim | [[File:Ameenah Gurib-Fakim.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Mauritius | President | Head of state | ||||||
| Bidya Devi Bhandari | [[File:Shinzo Abe and Bidhya Devi Bhandari at the Enthronement of Naruhito (1) cropped.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Nepal | President | Head of state | ||||||
| Beata Szydło | [[File:Premier RP Beata Szydło w Parlamencie UE.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Poland | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Hilda Heine | [[File:Hilda Heine 20171030.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Marshall Islands | President | Head of state | ||||||
| and government | Executive | ||||||||||||
| Incumbent | |||||||||||||
| Aung San Suu Kyi | [[File:Aung San Suu Kyi at the Enthronement of Naruhito (1).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Myanmar | State Counsellor | De facto head | ||||||
| of government | De facto Executive | ||||||||||||
| Tsai Ing-wen | [[File:蔡英文官方元首肖像照.png | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Taiwan | President | Head of state | Executive | |||||
| Theresa May | [[File:Theresa May (2016) (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | United Kingdom | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Kersti Kaljulaid | [[File:Kersti Kaljulaid - 2018.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Estonia | President | Head of state | ||||||
| Ana Brnabić | [[File:Ana Brnabic, July 3, 2018.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Serbia | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Halimah Yacob | [[File:President Halimah Yacob in 2019.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Singapore | President | Head of state | ||||||
| Jacinda Ardern | [[File:New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in 2018.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | New Zealand | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Katrín Jakobsdóttir | [[File:Katrín Jakobsdóttir (24539871465) (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Iceland | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Viorica Dăncilă | [[File:Viorica Dăncilă June 2019.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Romania | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Paula-Mae Weekes | [[File:Paula-Mae Weekes 2019.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Trinidad and Tobago | President | Head of state | ||||||
| Mia Mottley | [[File:Mia Mottley (2021) (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Barbados | Prime Minister | Incumbent | Head of government | Executive | ||||
| Sahle-Work Zewde | [[File:Sahle-Work Zewde in 2016.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Ethiopia | President | Head of state | ||||||
| Salome Zourabichvili | [[File:Victory Day - Europe Day 2020 Address Photo of Salome Zourabichvili (cropped) 2.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Georgia | President | |||||||
| Disputed | Head of state | ||||||||||||
| Brigitte Bierlein | [[File:Europaforum Wachau-2019 1188 (cropped).JPG | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Austria | Chancellor | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Maia Sandu | [[File:Sergio Mattarella e Maia Sandu al Quirinale 2021 (8) (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Moldova | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| President | Incumbent | Head of state | |||||||||||
| Zuzana Čaputová | [[File:Зузана Чапутова (02-11-2021).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Slovakia | President | Head of state | ||||||
| Mette Frederiksen | [[File:Mette Frederiksen by Christian Ursilva (2025).jpg | center | frameless | upright=0.3]] | Denmark | Prime Minister | Incumbent | Head of government | Executive | ||||
| Sophie Wilmès | [[File:Sophie Wilmès 2020 (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Belgium | Prime Minister | 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 | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Bolivia | President | Head of state | ||||||
| and government | Executive | ||||||||||||
| Sanna Marin | [[File:Prime Minister of Finland Sanna Marin 2019 (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Finland | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Katerina Sakellaropoulou | [[File:Katerina Sakellaropoulou, October 2022 (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Greece | President | Head of state | ||||||
| Rose Christiane Raponda | [[File:Rose Raponda 2015.png | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Gabon | Prime Minister | Head of government | ||||||
| Victoire Tomegah Dogbé | [[File:Victoire Tomégah-Dogbé - P060895-274846.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Togo | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Ingrida Šimonytė | [[File:Ingrida Simonyte 2019 crop 2.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Lithuania | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Kaja Kallas | [[File:Kaja Kallas (crop).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Estonia | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Samia Suluhu Hassan | [[File:International leaders sign joint statement at COP26 (51649202102) (Suluhu crop).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Tanzania | President | Incumbent | Head of state | |||||
| and government | Executive | ||||||||||||
| Vjosa Osmani | [[File:Vjosa Osmani1.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Kosovo | President | Incumbent | Head of state | |||||
| Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa | [[File:Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa 2 June 2022.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Samoa | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Natalia Gavrilița | [[File:Secretary Blinken Meets with Moldovan Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita (52227531626) (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Moldova | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Najla Bouden | [[File:الرئيس تبون يستقبل رئيسة الحكومة التونسية 0-24 screenshot (cropped).png | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Tunisia | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Sandra Mason | [[File:Sandra of Barbados.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Barbados | President | Head of state | ||||||
| Magdalena Andersson | [[File:Magdalena Andersson 2017 (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Sweden | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Xiomara Castro | [[File:Xiomara Castro 2023.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Honduras | President | 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 | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Hungary | President | Head of state | ||||||
| Élisabeth Borne | [[File:Elisabeth Borne November 2022 close-up.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | France | Prime Minister | Head of government | ||||||
| Droupadi Murmu | [[File:Droupadi Murmu POI official portrait.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | India | President | Incumbent | Head of state | |||||
| Liz Truss | [[File:Official portrait of Liz Truss (3x4 cropped b).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | United Kingdom | Prime Minister | Head of government | Executive | |||||
| Giorgia Meloni | [[File:Giorgia Meloni Official 2024 (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Italy | Prime Minister | Incumbent | Head of government | Executive | ||||
| Dina Boluarte | [[File:Presidenta Boluarte 2024.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Peru | President | Head of state | ||||||
| and government | Executive | ||||||||||||
| Nataša Pirc Musar | [[File:Nataša Pirc Musar (2023-05-19).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Slovenia | President | Incumbent | Head of state | |||||
| Borjana Krišto | [[File:Borjana Krišto (2025-06-11).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Chairwoman of the Council of Ministers | Incumbent | Head of government | |||||
| Christine Kangaloo | [[File:Prime Minister of Bharat, Shri Narendra Damodardas Modi receives ‘The Order of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago’ (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Trinidad and Tobago | President | Incumbent | Head of state | |||||
| Evika Siliņa | [[File:Evika Siliņa (2023-09-15, cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Latvia | Prime Minister | Incumbent | Head of government | Executive | ||||
| Sylvanie Burton | [[File:Sylvanie Burton (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Dominica | President | Incumbent | Head of state | |||||
| Myriam Spiteri Debono | [[File:Myriam Spiteri Debono on April 20, 2024 (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Malta | President | Incumbent | Head of state | |||||
| Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova | [[File:MK presidential office handover 2024 - Cropped.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | North Macedonia | President | Incumbent | Head of state | |||||
| Judith Suminwa | [[File:Prime Minister of DRC Judith Suminwa Tuluka (2025) (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Prime Minister | Incumbent | Head of government | |||||
| Halla Tómasdóttir | [[File:Halla Tómasdóttir at Arctic Circle 2024 cropped.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Iceland | President | Incumbent | Head of state | |||||
| Paetongtarn Shinawatra | [[File:Paetongtarn Shinawatra June 2025.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Thailand | Prime Minister | |||||||
| Suspended 1 July 2025 | |||||||||||||
| ** | Head of government | Executive | |||||||||||
| Claudia Sheinbaum | [[File:Claudia Sheinbaum (2025) (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Mexico | President | Incumbent | Head of state | |||||
| and government | Executive | ||||||||||||
| Kristrún Frostadóttir | [[File:Kristrún Frostadóttir 2021.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Iceland | Prime Minister | Incumbent | Head of government | Executive | ||||
| Ilza Amado Vaz | [[File:Ilza Amado Vaz (14-01-2025).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | São Tomé and Príncipe | Prime Minister | Head of government | ||||||
| Raffaella Petrini | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Vatican City | President of the Governatore | Incumbent | Head of government | |||||
| Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah | [[File:Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah 2025.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Namibia | President | Incumbent | Head of state | |||||
| and government | Executive | ||||||||||||
| Sara Zaafarani | [[File:Sara Zaafarani (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Tunisia | Prime Minister | Incumbent | Head of government | |||||
| Brigitte Haas | [[File:Brigitte Haas 2025 (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Liechtenstein | Prime Minister | Incumbent | Head of government | |||||
| Jennifer Geerlings-Simons | [[File:Jennifer Geerlings-Simons, November 2025.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Suriname | President | Incumbent | Head of state | |||||
| and government | Executive | ||||||||||||
| Yulia Svyrydenko | [[File:СВИРИДЕНКО Юлія Анатоліївна (cropped 3.4).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Ukraine | Prime Minister | Incumbent | Head of government | |||||
| Inga Ruginienė | [[File:Inga Ruginienė 1025 (cropped).jpeg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Lithuania | Prime Minister | Incumbent | Head of government | Executive | ||||
| Sanae Takaichi | [[File:Sanae Takaichi 20251021 (cropped) 1.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Japan | Prime Minister | Incumbent | Head of government | Executive | ||||
| Catherine Connolly | [[File:Inauguration of Catherine Connolly, 11 November 2025 15 (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Ireland | President | Incumbent | Head of state | |||||
| Iliana Iotova | [[File:President Iliyana Yotova (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Bulgaria | President | Incumbent | Head of state |
Elected or appointed acting/interim female chief executives
This list includes women elected or appointed in an acting capacity, wherein they assumed a vacated office on a temporary basis.
| Name | Portrait | Country | Office | Mandate start | Mandate end | Term length | Head of state | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| or government | ||||||||||
| Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa | [[File:YanjmaaSükhbaataryn.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Mongolian People's Republic | Acting Chairman of the Presidium | ||||
| of the State Great Khural | Head of state | |||||||||
| Soong Ching-ling | [[File:Soong Ching-ling 1937.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | China | Acting Co-Chairperson | Head of state | |||
| Acting Chairperson | ||||||||||
| Carmen Pereira | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Guinea-Bissau | Acting President | Head of state | |||
| Sylvie Kinigi | [[File:Sylvie Kinigi at Bujumbura airport, 1993.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Burundi | Acting President | Head of state | |||
| Reneta Indzhova | [[File:Reneta Indzhova 2020 (cropped).png | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Bulgaria | Acting Prime Minister | Head of government | |||
| Irena Degutienė | [[File:Ministru prezidents tiekas ar Lietuvas Seima priekšsēdētāju (4367873226).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Lithuania | Acting Prime Minister | Head of government | |||
| (Total Term: 21 days) | ||||||||||
| Nyam-Osoryn Tuyaa | [[File:Nyam-Osoryn Tuyaa.png | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Mongolia | Acting Prime Minister | Head of government | |||
| Nino Burjanadze | [[File:Nino Burjanadze (Tbilisi, December 5, 2003).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Georgia (country) Georgia | Acting President | Head of state | |||
| Georgia (country) | ||||||||||
| Barbara Prammer | [[File:Mag.a. Barbara Prammer (14316641697).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Austria | Co-Acting President | Head of state | |||
| Radmila Šekerinska | [[File:Radmila Sekerinska (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | North Macedonia | Acting Prime Minister | Head of government | |||
| (Total Term: 73 days) | ||||||||||
| Dalia Itzik | [[File:Dalya Itzik 1.png | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Israel | Acting President | Head of state | |||
| Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | South Africa | Acting President | 14 hours | Head of state | ||
| and government | ||||||||||
| Rose Francine Rogombé | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Gabon | Acting President | Head of state | |||
| Cécile Manorohanta | [[File:Cécile Manorohanta (2014).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Madagascar | Acting Prime Minister | Head of government | |||
| Adiato Djaló Nandigna | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Guinea-Bissau | Acting Prime Minister | Head of government | |||
| Monique Ohsan Bellepeau | [[File:Monique Ohsan Bellepeau (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Mauritius | Acting President | Head of state | |||
| (Total Term: 119 days) | ||||||||||
| Slavica Đukić Dejanović | [[File:Slavica Đukić Dejanović.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Serbia | Acting President | Head of state | |||
| Natalia Gherman | [[File:NataliaGherman̠Wien.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Moldova | Acting Prime Minister | Head of government | |||
| Vassiliki Thanou | [[File:Vassiliki Thanou retouched.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Greece | Acting Prime Minister | Head of government | |||
| Maya Parnas | [[File:Майя Парнас.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Transnistria | Acting Prime Minister | Head of government | |||
| (Total Term: 69 days) | ||||||||||
| Doris Bures | [[File:Doris Bures Eröffnung Bahnhof Sankt Pölten 2010.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Austria | Co-Acting President of the National Council | Head of state | |||
| Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh | [[File:Mrs. Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Vietnam | Acting President | Head of state | |||
| Vjosa Osmani | [[File:Vjosa Osmani1.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Kosovo | Acting President | Head of state | |||
| Maya Tskitishvili | [[File:Майя Цкитишвили (21-11-2019).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Georgia (country) | Acting Prime Minister | 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 | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Vietnam | Acting President | Head of state | |||
| (Total Term: 105 days) | ||||||||||
| Claudia Rodríguez de Guevara | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | El Salvador | Acting President | Head of state | |||
| Isabelle Berro-Amadeï | [[File:Isabelle Berro-Amadeï (Isabelle Berro), 17 April 2024 (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Monaco | Acting Minister of State | Head of government | |||
| Sushila Karki | [[File:Hon. Sushila Karki (profile).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Nepal | Interim Prime Minister | Incumbent | Head of government | ||
| Delcy Rodríguez | [[File: Delcy Rodríguez portrait.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Venezuela | Acting President | Incumbent | Head of state and government |
Female members of collective head-of-state bodies
| Name | Portrait | Country | Office | Mandate start | Mandate end | Term length | Head of state or government | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexandra Kollontai | [[File:Aleksandra Kollontai.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Soviet Russia | Member of the Council of People's Commissars | Member of the collective head of state | |||
| Nadezhda Krupskaya | [[File:KrupskayaY 1922PorMariaUlyanova (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Soviet Union | Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet | ||||
| Klavdiya Nikolayeva | [[File:Nikolaeva KI.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet | |||||
| Anna Pankratova | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet | |||||
| Yekaterina Furtseva | [[File:Yekaterina Furtseva 1964b.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet | |||||
| Alicja Musiałowa-Afanasjew | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Polish People's Republic | Member of the Council of State | Member of the collective head of state | |||
| Yadgar Nasriddinova | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Soviet Union | Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet | Member of the collective head of state | |||
| Luise Ermisch | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | East Germany | Member of the State Council | Member of the collective head of state | |||
| Irmgard Neumann | [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-83285-0002, Irmgard Neumann.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | ||||||
| Tursunoy Akhunova | [[File:Турсуной Махмудовна Ахунова.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Soviet Union | Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet | Member of the collective head of state | |||
| Lieselott Herforth | [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-J0619-0208-001, Berlin, 25. DDR-Staatsratsitzung.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | East Germany | Member of the State Council | Member of the collective head of state | |||
| Else Merke | [[File:Else Merke (Bundesarchiv Bild 183-H0613-0002-009, cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | ||||||
| Brunhilde Hanke | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | ||||||
| Anni Neumann | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | ||||||
| Eugenia Krassowska-Jodłowska | [[File:Eugenia Krassowska-Jodłowska.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Polish People's Republic | Member of the Council of State | Member of the collective head of state | |||
| Zoya Pukhova | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Soviet Union | Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet | Member of the collective head of state | |||
| Maria Schneider | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | East Germany | Member of the State Council | Member of the collective head of state | |||
| Margarete Müller | [[File:Müller, Margarete cropped, Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1988-0205-028.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | ||||||
| Ilse Thiele | [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1987-0305-114, Berlin, XII. DFD-Kongress.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | ||||||
| Rosel Walther | [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1989-0608-026, Rosel Walther.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | ||||||
| Halina Koźniewska | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Polish People's Republic | Member of the Council of State | Member of the collective head of state | |||
| Valentina Tereshkova | [[File:Valentina Tereshkova (2017-03-06).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | 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 | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | ||||||
| Kamshat Donenbaeva | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | ||||||
| Eugenia Kempara | [[File:Eugenia Kempara.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Poland Poland | Member of the Council of State | Member of the collective head of state | |||
| Yekaterina Mukhina | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Soviet Union | Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet | Member of the collective head of state | |||
| Violeta Chamorro | [[File:Violeta Chamorro 1993.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Nicaragua | Member of the Junta of National Reconstruction | Member of the collective head of state and government | |||
| Krystyna Marszałek-Młyńczyk | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Poland Poland | Member of the Council of State | Member of the collective head of state | |||
| Maria Lea Pedini-Angelini | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | San Marino | Captain Regent | Member of the collective head of state | |||
| Johanna Töpfer | [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1986-0617-036, Prof. Dr. Johanna Töpfer.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | East Germany | Member of the State Council | Member of the collective head of state | |||
| Gloriana Ranocchini | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | San Marino | Captain Regent | Member of the collective head of state | |||
| Elisabeth Kopp | [[File:Elisabeth Kopp.gif | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Switzerland | Member of the Swiss Federal Council | Member of the collective head of state and government | |||
| Elżbieta Gacek | [[File:Elżbieta Łucja Gacek.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Poland Poland | Member of the Council of State | Member of the collective head of state | |||
| Monika Werner | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | East Germany | Member of the State Council | Member of the collective head of state | |||
| Eveline Klett | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | ||||||
| Edda Ceccoli | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | San Marino | Captain Regent | Member of the collective head of state | |||
| Biljana Plavšić | [[File:Biljana Plavsic.JPG | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | SR Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina | Serb Member of the Presidency | Member of the collective head of state | |||
| Tatjana Ljujić-Mijatović | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Serb Member of the Presidency | Member of the collective head of state | |||
| Ruth Dreifuss | [[File:Ruth Dreifuss, President of Switzerland (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Switzerland | Member of the Swiss Federal Council | Member of the collective head of state and government | |||
| Patrizia Busignani | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | San Marino | Captain Regent | Member of the collective head of state | |||
| Ruth Metzler | [[File:Ruth Metzler.gif | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Switzerland | Member of the Swiss Federal Council | Member of the collective head of state and government | |||
| Rosa Zafferani | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | San Marino | Captain Regent | Member of the collective head of state | |||
| Maria Domenica Michelotti | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | ||||||
| Micheline Calmy-Rey | [[File:Micheline Calmy-Rey 2011.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Switzerland | Member of the Swiss Federal Council | Member of the collective head of state and government | |||
| Valeria Ciavatta | [[File:Valeria Ciavatta (cropped) (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | San Marino | Captain Regent | Member of the collective head of state | |||
| Fausta Morganti | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | ||||||
| Doris Leuthard | [[File:Doris Leuthard 2011.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Switzerland | Member of the Swiss Federal Council | Member of the collective head of state and government | |||
| Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf | [[File:Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf 2011.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | ||||||
| Assunta Meloni | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | San Marino | Captain Regent | Member of the collective head of state | |||
| Simonetta Sommaruga | [[File:Simonetta Sommaruga (2022).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Switzerland | Member of the Swiss Federal Council | Member of the collective head of state and government | |||
| Maria Luisa Berti | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | San Marino | Captain Regent | Member of the collective head of state | |||
| Denise Bronzetti | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | ||||||
| Antonella Mularoni | [[File:Antonella Mularoni.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Member of the collective head of state | |||||
| Anna Maria Muccioli | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Member of the collective head of state | |||||
| Lorella Stefanelli | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Member of the collective head of state | |||||
| Mimma Zavoli | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Member of the collective head of state | |||||
| Vanessa D'Ambrosio | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Member of the collective head of state | |||||
| Karin Keller-Sutter | [[File:Karin Keller-Sutter (2022).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Switzerland | Member of the Swiss Federal Council | Incumbent | Member of the collective head of state and government | ||
| Viola Amherd | [[File:Viola Amherd (2022).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Switzerland | Member of the Swiss Federal Council | Member of the collective head of state and government | |||
| Aisha Musa el-Said | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Sudan | Member of the Sovereignty Council | Member of the collective head of state | |||
| Raja Nicola | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Sudan | Member of the Sovereignty Council | Incumbent | Member of the collective head of state | ||
| Mariella Mularoni | [[File:Mariella Mularoni.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | San Marino | Captain Regent | Member of the collective head of state | |||
| Grazia Zafferani | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Member of the collective head of state | |||||
| Željka Cvijanović | [[File:Željka Cvijanović (2024-12-18).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Serb Member of the Presidency | Incumbent | Member of the collective head of state | ||
| Élisabeth Baume-Schneider | [[File:Élisabeth Baume-Schneider (2023).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Switzerland | Member of the Swiss Federal Council | Incumbent | Member of the collective head of state and government | ||
| Adele Tonnini | [[File:Adele Tonnini.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | San Marino | Captain Regent | Member of the collective head of state | |||
| Milena Gasperoni | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Member of the collective head of state | |||||
| Francesca Civerchia | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Member of the collective head of state | |||||
| Rosario Murillo | [[File:2017 Rosario Murillo (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Nicaragua | Co-President | Incumbent | 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 ) 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.
| Name | Portrait | Country | Office | Mandate start | Mandate end | Term length | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elmira Minita Gordon | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Belize | Governor-General | ||||
| Jeanne Sauvé | [[File:Jeanne Sauvé 1984 Ottawa Canada (crop).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Canada | Governor General | ||||
| Nita Barrow | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Barbados | Governor-General | ||||
| Catherine Tizard | [[File:Governor-General Catherine Tizard.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | New Zealand | Governor-General | ||||
| Pearlette Louisy | [[File:Dame Pearlette Louisy at her desk at Government House in Castries, St. Lucia.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Saint Lucia | Governor-General | ||||
| Adrienne Clarkson | [[File:GG-Adrienne Clarkson2.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Canada | Governor General | ||||
| Silvia Cartwright | [[File:Governor-General Silvia Cartwright.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | New Zealand | Governor-General | ||||
| Ivy Dumont | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | The Bahamas | Governor-General | ||||
| Michaëlle Jean | [[File:Michaëlle Jean 1 11072007.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Canada | Governor General | ||||
| Emmanuelle Mignon | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Andorra | Representative of the French Co-Prince | ||||
| Louise Lake-Tack | [[File:DameLouiseLake-Tack.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Antigua and Barbuda | Governor-General | ||||
| Quentin Bryce | [[File:Quentin Bryce No.1 (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Australia | Governor-General | ||||
| Sylvie Hubac | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Andorra | Representative of the French Co-Prince | ||||
| Cécile La Grenade | [[File:Dame Cecile La Grenade 01 (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Grenada | Governor-General | Incumbent | |||
| Marguerite Pindling | [[File:Marguerite Pindling (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | The Bahamas | Governor-General | ||||
| Patsy Reddy | [[File:Patsy Reddy official portrait (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | New Zealand | Governor-General | ||||
| Julie Payette | [[File:Julie Payette 2017.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Canada | Governor General | ||||
| Sandra Mason | [[File:Sandra Mason at Remembrance Day Parade and Service 20191110.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Barbados | Governor-General | ||||
| (became inaugural president) | ||||||||||
| Susan Dougan | [[File:Susan Dougan 2019.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Governor-General | ||||
| Froyla Tzalam | [[File:Dame Froyla Tzalam.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Belize | Governor-General | 27 May 2021 | Incumbent | ||
| Mary Simon | [[File:Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Canada | Governor General | 26 July 2021 | Incumbent | ||
| Cindy Kiro | [[File:Cindy Kiro official portrait October 2021 (cropped).jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | New Zealand | Governor-General | 21 October 2021 | Incumbent | ||
| Marcella Liburd | [[File:Marcella Liburd 2023.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Saint Kitts and Nevis | Governor-General | 1 February 2023 | Incumbent | ||
| Cynthia A. Pratt | [[File:No image.svg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | The Bahamas | Governor-General | 1 September 2023 | Incumbent | ||
| Sam Mostyn | [[File:Sam Mostyn 2024.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Australia | Governor-General | 1 July 2024 | Incumbent |
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.
| Name | Portrait | Country | Office | Mandate start | Mandate end | Term length | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sian Elias | [[File:Sian Elias.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | New Zealand | Administrator of the Government | |||
| (Acting Governor-General) | |||||||||
| Monica Dacon | [[File:Dame Monica Dacon (cropped).JPG | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Acting Governor-General | |||
| Sandra Mason | [[File:Sandra Mason at Remembrance Day Parade and Service 20191110.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Barbados | Acting Governor-General | |||
| Teniku Talesi Honolulu | [[File:Teniku Talesi.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | Tuvalu | Acting Governor-General | |||
| Helen Winkelmann | [[File:Helen Winkelmann 151sm.jpg | frameless | center | upright=0.3]] | New Zealand | Administrator of the Government | |||
| (Acting Governor-General) |
Notes
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