List of spouses of heads of government explained

The following is a list of spouses or partners of current heads of government. In most cases, such as parliamentary systems, semi-presidential systems, and constitutional monarchies, the head of government is called a "prime minister"", "premier", or "president/chairman of the council of ministers". In presidential systems, the president may be simultaneously head of state and head of government.

Member and observer states of the United Nations

StateHead of governmentSpouse or partnerImage
Afghanistan
AlbaniaLinda Rama
Algeria
Andorra
AngolaAna Dias Lourenço
Antigua and BarbudaPrime Minister Gaston BrowneMaria Bird-Browne
ArgentinaPresident Alberto FernándezFabiola Yáñez (domestic partner)
ArmeniaPrime Minister Nikol PashinyanAnna Hakobyan
AustraliaPrime Minister Anthony AlbaneseJodie Haydon
AustriaFederal Chancellor Karl NehammerKatharina Nehammer
AzerbaijanPrime Minister Ali AsadovZamira Asadova
BahamasAnne-Marie Davis
BahrainDivorced
BangladeshWidowed
Formerly M. A. Wazed Miah (d. 2009)
Barbados
Belarus?
BelgiumAnnik Penders
BelizePrime Minister Johnny BriceñoRossana Maria Briceño
BeninPresident Patrice TalonClaudine Talon
BhutanUgyen Dema
Lourdes Brigida Durán Romero
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBranko Krišto
BotswanaNeo Masisi
BrazilRosângela Lula da Silva
Queen Saleha
BulgariaPrime Minister Kiril PetkovLinda McKenzie
Burkina Faso?
Burundi
CambodiaPich Chanmony
Cameroon
CanadaSophie Grégoire Trudeau
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
ChadJeanne Kebzabo
ChilePresident Gabriel BoricIrina Karamanos
ChinaPremier of the State Council Li QiangLin Huan
ColombiaVerónica Alcocer
ComorosAmbari Daroueche
Costa RicaClaudia Dobles Camargo
CroatiaAna Maslać Plenković
CubaPresident of the Council of Ministers Manuel Marrero Cruz
CyprusPresident Nikos ChristodoulidesPhilippa Karsera
Czech RepublicPrime Minister Petr FialaJana Fialová
DenmarkBo Tengberg
Djibouti
DominicaMelissa Poponne Skerrit
Dominican RepublicRaquel Arbaje
Isabel da Costa Ferreira
EcuadorMaría de Lourdes Alcívar
EgyptPrime Minister Mostafa Madbouly
El SalvadorPresident Nayib BukeleGabriela Rodríguez de Bukele
Equatorial Guinea
EritreaSaba Haile
EstoniaPrime Minister Kaja KallasArvo Hallik
Prime Minister Cleopas DlaminiLomvula Hlope
EthiopiaPrime Minister Abiy AhmedZinash Tayachew
FijiPrime Minister Sitiveni RabukaSuluweti Tuiloma
FinlandPrime Minister Petteri OrpoNiina Kanniainen-Orpo
FrancePrime Minister Jean CastexSandra Ribelaygue
GabonPrime Minister Alain Claude Bilie By Nze
President Adama BarrowFatou Bah
Sarjo Mballow
GeorgiaNunuka Tamazashvili
GermanyBritta Ernst
GhanaRebecca Akufo-Addo
GreeceMareva Grabowski-Mitsotakis
GrenadaMarietta Mitchell
GuatemalaDivorced
Formerly Rosana Cáceres (div. ?)
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
GuyanaPrime Minister Mark PhillipsMignon Bowen-Phillips
HaitiPrime Minister Ariel HenryAnnie Claude Massiau
HondurasPresident Xiomara CastroManuel Zelaya
HungaryPrime Minister Viktor OrbánAnikó Lévai
IcelandGunnar Örn Sigvaldason
IndiaJashodaben Modi (estranged)
IndonesiaPresident Prabowo SubiantoSeparated
Titiek Suharto (sep. 1998)
Jamileh Alamolhoda
Iraq
IrelandMary Martin
IsraelSara Netanyahu
Italy
JamaicaJuliet Holness
JapanYuko Kishida
JordanRana Sultan
KazakhstanAltynai Mamina
KenyaMargaret Kenyatta
KiribatiTeiraeng Tentoa Maamau
KuwaitShaikha Aida Salim Al Ali Al Sabah
Kyrgyzstan?
Vandala Siphandone
LatviaAnda Kariņa
Lebanon
LesothoPrime Minister Moeketsi Majoro'Masekoalane Majoro
LiberiaPresident George WeahClar Weah
LibyaPrime Minister Abdul Hamid DbeibehAmina el-Shawush
LiechtensteinHead of Government Daniel RischJasmin Schädler
LithuaniaPrime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė
LuxembourgPrime Minister Xavier BettelGauthier Destenay
MadagascarPrime Minister Christian Ntsay
MalawiPresident Lazarus ChakweraMonica Chakwera
MalaysiaWan Azizah Wan Ismail
MaldivesFazna Ahmed
Mali
MaltaLydia Abela Zerafa
Marshall IslandsGinger Kabua
Mauritania
MauritiusKobita Ramdanee
MexicoBeatriz Gutiérrez Müller
Micronesia, Federated States ofJanet Semes
Stela Recean
Monaco
MongoliaBoldyn Tuul
MontenegroJasminka Krivokapić
MoroccoSalwa Idrissi Akhannouch
Mozambique
MyanmarKyu Kyu Hla
Namibia9
Nauru
NepalSita Poudel
Netherlands
New ZealandAmanda Luxon
NicaraguaRosario Murillo
Niger
NigeriaAisha Buhari
Premier of the Cabinet Kim Tok-hun
President of the Government Zoran ZaevZorica Zaeva
NorwayMarit Slagsvold
OmanPrime Minister Sultan Haitham bin TariqSayyida Ahad bint Abdullah
PakistanPrime Minister Shehbaz SharifNusrat Shehbaz
Tehmina Durrani
PalauValerie Esang Remengesau
PanamaYazmín Colón de Cortizo
Papua New GuineaPrime Minister James MarapeRachael Marape
ParaguayPresident Mario Abdo BenítezSilvana López Moreira
PeruPresident of the Council of Ministers Alberto Otárola
PhilippinesPresident Bongbong MarcosLiza Araneta Marcos
PolandIwona Morawiecka
PortugalCarla Montenegro
Qatar
Romania?
Vladlena Mishustina
Rwanda?
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint LuciaPrime Minister Philip J. Pierre
Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesEloise Harris
SamoaPrime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa
San MarinoSecretary for Foreign and Political Affairs Luca Beccari
Clara Ferreira Bom Jesus
Saudi ArabiaFahda bint Falah Al Hithlain
SenegalMarieme Faye Sall
SerbiaMilica Đurđić (domestic partner)
SeychellesLinda Ramkalawan
Sierra Leone
SingaporeLoo Tze Lui
SlovakiaLucia Hegerová
SloveniaUrška Bačovnik
Solomon IslandsEmmy Sogavare
Somalia
South AfricaTshepo Motsepe
President Yoon Suk-yeolKim Keon-hee
President Salva Kiir MayarditMary Ayen Mayardit
Aluel William Nyuon Bany
SpainMaría Begoña Gómez Fernández
Sri Lanka
SudanPrime Minister Abdalla HamdokMuna Abdalla
SurinameMellisa Santokhi-Seenacherry
SwedenBirgitta Ed
SwitzerlandMuriel Zeender
Tajikistan
Mary
ThailandPakpilai Thavisin
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad and TobagoSharon Rowley
Tunisia
TurkeyEmine Erdoğan
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Uganda?
UkraineKateryna Shmyhal
United Arab EmiratesSheikha Hind bint Maktoum Al Maktoum
United KingdomPrime Minister Keir StarmerVictoria Starmer
United StatesPresident Joe BidenJill Biden
UruguayPresident Luis Lacalle PouLorena Ponce de León
UzbekistanPrime Minister Abdulla Aripov?
Vanuatu
President Nicolás Maduro
(disputed during the Venezuelan presidential crisis,
11 January 2019 – 5 January 2023)		Cilia Flores
Lê Thị Bích Trân
Yemen
ZambiaMutinta Hichilema
ZimbabweAuxillia Mnangagwa

Other states

The following states are in free association with another UN member state.

StateHead of governmentSpouseImage
Cook Islands
Niue

The following states control their territory and are recognised by at least one UN member state.

StateHead of governmentSpouseImage
Prime Minister Albin KurtiRita Augestad Knudsen
Lo Feng-ping

The following states control their territory, but are not recognised by any UN member states.

StateHead of governmentSpouseImage
Zahra Abdilahi Absia
Roda Ahmed Omar

See also

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