Includes all state leaders who have served for more than 15 years.

Note

^† Assassinated or died in office

#	Name	Portrait	State	Title/Position	From	To	Term	Total length
1	Fidel Castro		Cuba	Prime Minister	16 February 1959	2 December 1976	17 years, 290 days	52 years, 62 days
				First Secretary of the Communist Party	3 October 1965	19 April 2011	45 years, 198 days
				President of the Council of State	2 December 1976	24 February 2008	31 years, 84 days
				President of the Council of Ministers
2	Paul Biya		Cameroon	Prime Minister	30 June 1975	6 November 1982	7 years, 129 days	49 years, 181 days
				Prime Minister	6 November 1982	Incumbent	42 years, 52 days
3	Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasago		Equatorial Guinea	Chairman of the Supreme Military Council	3 August 1979	12 October 1982	3 years, 70 days	48 years, 217 days
				President	3 August 1979	Incumbent	45 years, 147 days
4	Chiang Kai-shek		Republic of China	Chairman of the Nationalist Government	10 October 1928	15 December 1931	3 years, 66 days	46 years, 177 days
				Premier	4 December 1930	15 December 1931	1 year, 11 days
				Chairman of the Military Affairs Commission	15 December 1931	31 May 1946	14 years, 167 days
				Premier	9 December 1935	1 January 1938	2 years, 23 days
					20 November 1939	31 May 1945	5 years, 192 days
				Chairman of the Nationalist Government (Acting until 10 October 1943)	1 August 1943	20 May 1948	4 years, 293 days
				President	20 May 1948	21 January 1949	246 days
					1 March 1950	5 April 1975[†]	25 years, 35 days
5	Malietoa Tanumafili II		Samoa	O le Ao o le Malo	1 January 1962	11 May 2007		45 years, 130 days
6	Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal		Mongolia	General Secretary of the Central Committee of the People's Revolutionary Party	8 April 1940	4 April 1954	13 years, 361 days	44 years, 137 days
				Chairman of the Council of Ministers	26 January 1952	11 June 1974	22 years, 136 days
				General Secretary of the Central Committee of the People's Revolutionary Party (First Secretary until 30 May 1981)	22 November 1958	24 August 1984	25 years, 276 days
				Chairman of the Presidium of the People's Great Khural	11 June 1974	23 August 1984	10 years, 73 days
7	Enver Hoxha		Albania	First Secretary of the Party of Labour	8 November 1941	11 April 1985[†]	43 years, 154 days	43 years, 154 days
				Prime Minister	23 October 1944	19 July 1954	9 years, 269 days
8	Ali Khamenei		Iran	President	9 October 1981	16 August 1989	7 years, 311 days	43 years, 80 days
				Supreme Leader	4 June 1989	Incumbent	35 years, 207 days
9	Omar Bongo		Gabon	President	2 December 1967	8 June 2009[†]		41 years, 188 days
10	Denis Sassou Nguesso		Republic of the Congo	President	8 February 1979	31 August 1992	13 years, 205 days	40 years, 269 days
					25 October 1997	Incumbent	27 years, 64 days
11	Mohamed Abdelaziz		Sahrawi Republic	President	30 August 1976	31 May 2016[†]		39 years, 275 days
12	Francisco Franco		Spain	Head of State	1 October 1936	20 November 1975[†]	39 years, 50 days	39 years, 50 days
				Prime Minister	30 January 1938	9 June 1973	35 years, 130 days
	Yoweri Museveni		Uganda	President	26 January 1986	Incumbent		38 years, 337 days
	Hun Sen		Cambodia	Prime Minister	14 January 1985	2 July 1993	8 years, 169 days	38 years, 136 days
				Second Prime Minister	24 September 1993	30 November 1998	5 years, 67 days
				Prime Minister	30 November 1998	22 August 2023	24 years, 265 days
	José Eduardo dos Santos		Angola	President	21 September 1979	25 September 2017		38 years, 4 days
	Gnassingbé Eyadéma		Togo	President	14 April 1967	5 February 2005[†]		37 years, 297 days
	Nursultan Nazarbayev		Kazakh SSR	Chairman of the Council of Ministers	22 March 1984	27 July 1989	5 years, 127 days	37 years, 289 days
				First Secretary of the Communist Party	22 June 1989	7 September 1991	2 years, 77 days
				Chairman of the Supreme Soviet	22 February 1990	24 April 1990	61 days
				President	24 April 1990	16 December 1991	1 year, 236 days
			Kazakhstan	President	16 December 1991	20 March 2019	27 years, 94 days
				Chairman of the Security Council	21 August 1991	5 January 2022	30 years, 137 days
	Kaysone Phomvihane		Laos	General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (Chairman from 1991)	22 March 1955	21 November 1992[†]	37 years, 244 days	37 years, 244 days
				Prime Minister	8 December 1975	15 August 1991	15 years, 250 days
				President	15 August 1991	21 November 1992[†]	1 year, 98 days
	Robert Mugabe		Zimbabwe	Prime Minister	18 April 1980	31 December 1987	7 years, 257 days	37 years, 217 days
				President	31 December 1987	21 November 2017	29 years, 325 days
	Todor Zhivkov		Bulgaria	General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (First Secretary until 4 April 1981)	4 March 1954	10 November 1989	35 years, 251 days	35 years, 251 days
				Prime Minister	19 November 1962	7 July 1971	8 years, 230 days
				Chairman of the State Council	7 July 1971	17 November 1989	18 years, 133 days
	Josip Broz Tito		Yugoslavia	Prime Minister	2 November 1944	29 June 1963	18 years, 239 days	35 years, 184 days
				President	14 January 1953	4 May 1980[†]	27 years, 111 days
	Isaias Afwerki		Eritrea	Secretary-General of the Provisional Government	27 April 1991	24 May 1993	2 years, 27 days	33 years, 245 days
				President	24 May 1993	Incumbent	31 years, 218 days
	Ali Abdullah Saleh		North Yemen	President	18 July 1978	22 May 1990	11 years, 308 days	33 years, 224 days
			Yemen	President	22 May 1990	27 February 2012	21 years, 281 days
	Félix Houphouët-Boigny		Ivory Coast	Prime Minister	7 August 1960	27 November 1970	10 years, 112 days	33 years, 122 days
				President	3 November 1960	7 December 1993[†]	33 years, 34 days
	Emomali Rahmon		Tajikistan	Chairman of the Supreme Assembly	20 November 1992	16 November 1994	1 year, 361 days	32 years, 38 days
				President	16 November 1994	Incumbent	30 years, 42 days
	Habib Bourguiba		Tunisia	Prime Minister	11 April 1956	25 July 1957	1 year, 105 days	31 years, 210 days
				President (Acting until 8 November 1959)	25 July 1957	7 November 1987	30 years, 105 days
	Lee Kuan Yew		Singapore	Prime Minister	5 June 1959	28 November 1990		31 years, 176 days
	Mobutu Sese Seko		Republic of the Congo	President	24 November 1965	27 October 1971	5 years, 337 days	31 years, 173 days
			Zaire	President	27 October 1971	16 May 1997	25 years, 201 days
	Urho Kekkonen		Finland	Prime Minister	17 March 1950	17 November 1953	3 years, 245 days	30 years, 344 days
					20 October 1954	3 March 1956	1 year, 135 days
				President	1 March 1956	27 January 1982	25 years, 332 days
	Alexander Lukashenko		Belarus	President	20 July 1994	Incumbent		30 years, 161 days
	Idriss Déby		Chad	President	2 December 1990	20 April 2021[†]		30 years, 139 days
	Abdou Diouf		Senegal	Prime Minister	26 February 1970	31 December 1980	10 years, 309 days	30 years, 35 days
				President	1 January 1981	1 April 2000	19 years, 91 days
	Maumoon Abdul Gayoom		Maldives	President	11 November 1978	11 November 2008		30 years, 0 days
	Hastings Banda		Malawi	Prime Minister	6 July 1964	6 July 1966	2 years, 0 days	29 years, 322 days
				President	6 July 1966	24 May 1994	27 years, 322 days
	Omar al-Bashir		Sudan	Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council for National Salvation	30 June 1989	16 October 1993	4 years, 108 days	29 years, 285 days
				President	16 October 1993	11 April 2019	25 years, 177 days
	Hafez al-Assad		Syria	Prime Minister	21 November 1970	3 April 1971	133 days	29 years, 202 days
				President	12 March 1971	10 June 2000[†]	29 years, 92 days
	Hosni Mubarak		Egypt	Prime Minister	7 October 1981	2 January 1982	87 days	29 years, 127 days
				President	14 October 1981	11 February 2011	29 years, 120 days
	Haxhi Lleshi		Albania	Chairman of the Presidium of the People's Assembly	1 August 1953	22 November 1982		29 years, 113 days
	Mahathir Mohamad		Malaysia	Prime Minister	16 July 1981	31 October 2008	27 years, 107 days	29 years, 38 days
					10 May 2018	1 March 2020	1 year, 296 days
	Daniel Ortega		Nicaragua	Coordinator of the Junta of National Reconstruction	18 July 1979	10 January 1985	5 years, 176 days	28 years, 268 days
				President	10 January 1985	25 April 1990	5 years, 105 days
					10 January 2007	Incumbent	17 years, 353 days
	William Tubman		Liberia	President	3 January 1944	23 July 1971		27 years, 201 days
	Kamisese Mara		Fiji	Prime Minister	10 October 1970	13 April 1987	16 years, 185 days	27 years, 165 days
					5 December 1987	2 June 1992	4 years, 180 days
				President	16 December 1993	29 May 2000	6 years, 165 days
	Colville Young		Belize	Governor-General	17 November 1993	30 April 2021		27 years, 164 days
	Islam Karimov		Uzbek SSR	First Secretary of the Communist Party	23 June 1989	1 September 1991	2 years, 70 days	27 years, 71 days
				President	24 March 1990	1 September 1991	1 year, 161 days
			Uzbekistan	President	1 September 1991	2 September 2016	25 years, 1 day
	Kenneth Kaunda		Zambia	President	24 October 1964	2 November 1991		27 years, 9 days
	Ismaïl Omar Guelleh		Djibouti	President	8 May 1999	Incumbent		25 years, 234 days
	Ahmed Sékou Touré		Guinea	President	2 October 1958	26 March 1984		25 years, 176 days
	Vladimir Putin		Russia	Prime Minister	9 August 1999	7 May 2000	272 days	25 years, 141 days
					8 May 2008	7 May 2012	3 years, 365 days
				Acting President	31 December 1999	7 May 2000	128 days
				President	7 May 2000	7 May 2008	8 years, 0 days
					7 May 2012	Incumbent	12 years, 235 days
	Nicolae Ceaușescu		Romania	General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party	22 March 1965	22 December 1989	24 years, 275 days	24 years, 275 days
				President of the State Council	9 December 1967	22 December 1989	22 years, 13 days
				President	28 March 1974	22 December 1989	15 years, 269 days
	Paul Kagame		Rwanda	President	22 April 2000	Incumbent		24 years, 250 days
	Bashar al-Assad		Syria	President	17 July 2000	Incumbent		24 years, 164 days
	Daniel arap Moi		Kenya	President	22 August 1978	30 December 2002		24 years, 130 days
	João Bernardo Vieira		Guinea-Bissau	Guinea-Bissau	28 September 1978	14 November 1980	2 years, 47 days	24 years, 7 days
				President	14 November 1980	14 May 1984	3 years, 182 days
					16 May 1984	7 May 1999	14 years, 356 days
					1 October 2005	2 March 2009[†]	3 years, 152 days
	Ralph Gonsalves		Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Prime Minister	28 March 2001	Incumbent		23 years, 275 days
	Julius Nyerere		Tanganyika	Prime Minister	1 May 1961	22 January 1962	266 days	23 years, 233 days
				President	9 December 1962	26 April 1964	1 year, 139 days
			Tanganyika and Zanzibar	President	26 April 1964	29 October 1964	186 days
			Tanzania	President	29 October 1964	5 November 1985	21 years, 7 days
	Heydar Aliyev		Azerbaijan SSR	First Secretary of the Communist Party	14 July 1969	3 December 1982	13 years, 81 days	23 years, 210 days
			Azerbaijan	President	24 June 1993	31 October 2003	10 years, 129 days
	Zine El Abidine Ben Ali		Tunisia	Prime Minister	2 October 1987	7 November 1987	36 days	23 years, 104 days
				President	7 November 1987	14 January 2011	23 years, 68 days
	Didier Ratsiraka		Madagascar	Chairman of the Supreme Revolutionary Council	15 June 1975	4 January 1976	203 days	23 years, 66 days
				President	4 January 1976	27 March 1993	17 years, 82 days
					9 February 1997	5 July 2002	5 years, 146 days
	Anerood Jugnauth		Mauritius	Prime Minister	30 June 1982	20 December 1985	3 years, 173 days	23 years, 39 days
					12 September 2000	30 September 2003	3 years, 18 days
					17 December 2014	23 January 2017	2 years, 37 days
				President	7 October 2003	31 March 2012	8 years, 176 days
	Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi		Samoa	Prime Minister	23 November 1998	24 May 2021		22 years, 182 days
	Yahya Jammeh		The Gambia	Chairman of the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council	22 July 1994	6 November 1996	2 years, 107 days	22 years, 181 days
				President	6 November 1996	19 January 2017	20 years, 74 days
	Barkat Gourad Hamadou		Djibouti	Prime Minister	2 October 1978	7 March 2001		22 years, 156 days
	Artur Rasizade		Azerbaijan	Prime Minister	20 July 1996	4 August 2003	7 years, 15 days	21 years, 187 days
					31 October 2003	21 April 2018	14 years, 172 days
	Hassan Gouled Aptidon		Djibouti	President	27 June 1977	8 May 1999	21 years, 315 days	21 years, 315 days
				Prime Minister	27 June 1977	12 July 1977	15 days
	Saparmurat Niyazov		Turkmen SSR	First Secretary of the Communist Party	21 December 1985	16 December 1991	5 years, 360 days	21 years, 0 days
			Turkmenistan	President	2 November 1990	21 December 2006[†]	16 years, 49 days
	Hage Geingob		Namibia	Prime Minister	21 March 1990	28 August 2002	12 years, 160 days	21 years, 298 days
					4 December 2012	20 March 2015	2 years, 106 days
				President	26 November 2017	4 February 2024[†]	6 years, 70 days
	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan		Turkey	Prime Minister	14 March 2003	28 August 2014	11 years, 167 days	21 years, 289 days
				President	28 August 2014	Incumbent	10 years, 122 days
	Ilham Aliyev		Azerbaijan	Prime Minister	4 August 2003	31 October 2003	88 days	21 years, 146 days
				President	31 October 2003	Incumbent	21 years, 58 days
	Shavkat Mirziyoyev		Uzbekistan	Prime Minister	12 December 2003	14 December 2016	13 years, 2 days	21 years, 16 days
				President (Acting until 14 December 2016)	8 September 2016	Incumbent	8 years, 111 days
	Juvénal Habyarimana		Rwanda	President	5 July 1973	6 April 1994[†]		20 years, 275 days
	Sheikh Hasina		Bangladesh	Prime Minister	23 June 1996	15 July 2001	5 years, 22 days	20 years, 234 days
					6 January 2009	5 August 2024	15 years, 212 days
	Léopold Sédar Senghor		Senegal	President	6 September 1960	31 December 1980		20 years, 116 days
	Pearlette Louisy		Saint Lucia	Governor-General	19 September 1997	31 December 2017		20 years, 103 days
	Pál Losonczi		Hungary	Chairman of the Presidential Council	14 April 1967	25 June 1987		20 years, 72 days
	Ferdinand Marcos		Philippines	President	30 December 1965	25 February 1986	20 years, 57 days	20 years, 57 days
				Prime Minister	12 June 1978	30 June 1981	3 years, 18 days
	Roosevelt Skerrit		Dominica	Prime Minister	8 January 2004	Incumbent		20 years, 355 days
	Eddie Fenech Adami		Malta	Prime Minister	12 May 1987	28 October 1996	9 years, 169 days	20 years, 3 days
					6 September 1998	23 March 2004	5 years, 199 days
				President	4 April 2004	4 April 2009	5 years, 0 days
	Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson		Iceland	President	1 August 1996	1 August 2016		20 years, 0 days
	Abdelaziz Bouteflika		Algeria	President	27 April 1999	2 April 2019		19 years, 340 days
	Denzil Douglas		Saint Kitts and Nevis	Prime Minister	6 July 1995	18 February 2015		19 years, 227 days
	Mahmoud Abbas		Palestine	Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority	19 March 2003	6 September 2003	171 days	20 years, 153 days
				President of the Palestinian National Authority	15 January 2005	Incumbent	19 years, 348 days
				President of the State of Palestine (Acting until 23 November 2008)	8 May 2005	Incumbent	19 years, 234 days
	Lee Hsien Loong		Singapore	Prime Minister	12 August 2004	Incumbent		20 years, 138 days
	Than Shwe		Myanmar	Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council	23 April 1992	30 March 2011	18 years, 341 days	18 years, 341 days
				Prime Minister	23 April 1992	25 August 2003	11 years, 124 days
	Faure Gnassingbé		Togo	President	5 February 2005	25 February 2005	20 days	19 years, 258 days
					4 May 2005	Incumbent	19 years, 238 days
	Syngman Rhee		Korea	President of the Provisional Government	11 September 1919	23 March 1925	5 years, 193 days	18 years, 248 days
				Chairman of the State Council	3 March 1947	15 August 1948	1 year, 165 days
			South Korea	President	24 July 1948	26 April 1960	11 years, 277 days
	Park Chung Hee		South Korea	Chairman of the Supreme Council for National Reconstruction	3 July 1961	17 December 1963	2 years, 167 days	18 years, 115 days
				Prime Minister (Acting)	16 June 1962	10 July 1962	24 days
				President (Acting until 17 December 1963)	24 March 1962	26 October 1979[†]	17 years, 216 days
	Joaquim Chissano		Mozambique	President	6 November 1986	2 February 2005		18 years, 88 days
	Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow		Turkmenistan	President (Acting until 14 February 2007)	21 December 2006	19 March 2022	15 years, 88 days	18 years, 347 days
				Chairman of the People's Council	14 April 2021	Incumbent	3 years, 258 days
	Florizel Glasspole		Jamaica	Governor-General	27 June 1973	31 March 1991		17 years, 277 days
	Quett Masire		Botswana	President	13 July 1980	31 March 1998		17 years, 261 days
	Viktor Orbán		Hungary	Prime Minister	6 July 1998	27 May 2002	3 years, 325 days	18 years, 173 days
					29 May 2010	Incumbent	14 years, 213 days
	Sirimavo Bandaranaike		Ceylon	Prime Minister	21 July 1960	27 March 1965	4 years, 249 days	17 years, 209 days
					29 May 1970	22 May 1972	1 year, 359 days
			Sri Lanka		22 May 1972	23 July 1977	5 years, 62 days
					14 November 1994	9 August 2000	5 years, 269 days
	Frederick Ballantyne		Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Governor-General	22 June 2002	31 July 2019		17 years, 39 days
	Cuthbert Sebastian		Saint Kitts and Nevis	Governor-General	1 January 1996	1 January 2013		17 years, 0 days
	Mauno Koivisto		Finland	Prime Minister	22 March 1968	14 May 1970	2 years, 53 days	16 years, 331 days
					26 May 1979	26 January 1982	2 years, 245 days
				President	27 January 1982	1 March 1994	12 years, 33 days
	Jawaharlal Nehru		India	Prime Minister	15 August 1947	27 May 1964[†]		16 years, 286 days
	Dom Mintoff		Malta	Prime Minister	11 March 1955	26 April 1958	3 years, 46 days	16 years, 230 days
					21 June 1971	22 December 1984	13 years, 184 days
	Tui Ātua Tupua Tamasese Efi		Samoa	Prime Minister	24 March 1976	13 April 1982	6 years, 20 days	16 years, 195 days
					18 September 1982	31 December 1982	104 days
				O le Ao o le Malo	11 May 2007	21 July 2017	10 years, 71 days
	Augusto Pinochet		Chile	President of the Government Junta	11 September 1973	11 March 1981	7 years, 181 days	16 years, 181 days
				President	17 December 1974	11 March 1990	15 years, 84 days
	Jacques Chirac		France	Prime Minister	27 May 1974	25 August 1976	2 years, 90 days	16 years, 140 days
					20 March 1986	10 May 1988	2 years, 51 days
				President	17 May 1995	16 May 2007	11 years, 364 days
	Alassane Ouattara		Ivory Coast	Prime Minister	7 November 1990	9 December 1993	3 years, 32 days	17 years, 56 days
				President	4 December 2010	Incumbent	14 years, 24 days
	Seewoosagur Ramgoolam		Mauritius	Prime Minister	12 March 1968	30 June 1982	14 years, 110 days	16 years, 97 days
				Governor-General	28 December 1983	15 December 1985[†]	1 year, 352 days
	Frank Bainimarama		Fiji	Head of Interim Military Government	29 May 2000	13 July 2000	45 days	16 years, 63 days
					5 December 2006	4 January 2007	30 days
				Prime Minister (Acting until 22 September 2014)	5 January 2007	24 December 2022	15 years, 353 days
	Janez Drnovšek		Yugoslavia	President of the Presidency	15 May 1989	15 May 1990	1 year, 0 days	16 years, 44 days
			Slovenia	Prime Minister	14 May 1992	7 June 2000	8 years, 24 days
					30 November 2000	19 December 2002	2 years, 19 days
				President	22 December 2002	23 December 2007	5 years, 1 day
	Angela Merkel		Germany	Chancellor	22 November 2005	8 December 2021		16 years, 16 days
	Vigdís Finnbogadóttir		Iceland	President	1 August 1980	1 August 1996		16 years, 0 days
	Indira Gandhi		India	Prime Minister	24 January 1966	24 March 1977	11 years, 59 days	15 years, 350 days
					14 January 1980	31 October 1984[†]	4 years, 291 days
	William Gopallawa		Ceylon	Governor-General	2 March 1962	22 May 1972	10 years, 81 days	15 years, 339 days
			Sri Lanka	President	22 May 1972	4 February 1978	5 years, 258 days
	Gaafar Nimeiry		Sudan	Chairman of the National Revolutionary Command Council	25 May 1969	12 October 1971	2 years, 140 days	15 years, 316 days
				President	12 October 1971	6 April 1985	13 years, 176 days
	Jiang Zemin		China	General Secretary of the Communist Party	24 June 1989	15 November 2002	13 years, 144 days	15 years, 257 days
				Chairman of the Central Military Commission	19 March 1990	8 March 2005	14 years, 354 days
				President	27 March 1993	15 March 2003	9 years, 353 days
	Clifford Husbands		Barbados	Governor-General	1 June 1996	31 October 2011		15 years, 152 days
	Seretse Khama		Botswana	Prime Minister	3 March 1965	30 September 1966	1 year, 211 days	15 years, 132 days
				President	30 September 1966	13 July 1980[†]	13 years, 287 days
	Ranasinghe Premadasa		Sri Lanka	Prime Minister	6 February 1978	2 January 1989	10 years, 331 days	15 years, 85 days
				President	2 January 1989	1 May 1993[†]	4 years, 119 days
	Jomo Kenyatta		Kenya	Prime Minister	1 June 1963	12 December 1964	1 year, 194 days	15 years, 82 days
				President	12 December 1964	22 August 1978[†]	13 years, 253 days
	Václav Klaus		Czech Republic	Prime Minister	1 January 1993	2 January 1998	5 years, 1 day	15 years, 1 day
				President	7 March 2003	7 March 2013	10 years, 0 days
	Sam Nujoma		Namibia	President	21 March 1990	21 March 2005		15 years, 0 days
	Lansana Conté		Guinea	President	5 April 1984	22 December 2008		24 years, 261 days

• Rafael Trujillo
• Joaquín Balaguer
• Leonel Fernández
• Chiang Ching-kuo
• Heng Samrin
• Plaek Phibunsongkhram
• Thanom Kittikachorn
• Bharrat Jagdeo
• Augusto B. Leguía
• Traian Băsescu
• Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej
• Chadli Bendjedid
• Bernard Dowiyogo
• Yasser Arafat
• John Compton
• Lansana Conté
• Kim Jong Il
• Kim Il Sung
• Amata Kabua
• Turgut Özal
• Robert Rex
• Errol Barrow
• Lê Duẩn
• Ahmed Sékou Touré
• Anote Tong
• Mengistu Haile Mariam
• Meles Zenawi
• Girma Wolde-Giorgis
• Makonnen Endelkachew
• Aklilu Habte-Wold
• Marc Forné Molné
• Lynden Pindling
• Hubert Ingraham
• Perry Christie
• Owen Arthur
• Keith Mitchell
• Siaka Stevens
• Ahmad Tejan Kabbah
• Ernest Bai Koroma
• Omar Torrijos
• Aníbal Cavaco Silva
• Mario Soares
• István Dobi
• János Kádár
• Árpád Göncz
• Jerry Rawlings
• Yahya Jammeh
• Muhammad az-Zanati
• Vere Bird
• Lester Bird
• John Howard
• Robert Menzies
• Dean Barrow
• P. J. Patterson
• Michael Somare
• Kennedy Simmonds
• Kenny Anthony
• James Fitz-Allen Mitchell
• Makarios III
• Spyros Kyprianou
• Glafcos Clerides
• Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini
• Leabua Jonathan
• Pakalitha Mosisili
• Olusegun Obasanjo

• excludes acting or caretaker heads of state; includes royal heads of state

#	Portrait	Name	Country	Position	Term start	Term ended	Length
		Bhumibol Adulyadej	Thailand	King	9 June 1946	13 October 2016	70 years, 126 days
		Margrethe II	Denmark	Queen	14 January 1972	14 January 2024	52 years, 0 days

List of all living and deceased royals above the age of 90.

No.	Portrait	Name	Country	Lifespan		Age
				From	To
		Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester	United Kingdom	25 December 1901	29 October 2004	102
		Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother	United Kingdom	4 August 1900	30 March 2002	101
		Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	10 June 1921	9 April 2021	99
		Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg	Luxembourg	5 January 1921	23 April 2019	98
		Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone	United Kingdom	25 February 1883	3 January 1981	97
		Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland	Sweden	30 August 1915	10 March 2013	97
		Queen Elizabeth II	United Kingdom	21 April 1926	8 September 2022	96
		Srinagarindra, Princess Mother of Thailand	Thailand	21 October 1900	18 July 1995	94
		Queen Juliana	The Netherlands	30 April 1909	20 March 2004	94
		Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands	The Netherlands	29 June 1911	1 December 2004	93
		Queen Sirikit	Thailand	12 August 1932	Living	92
		Princess Katharine, Duchess of Kent	United Kingdom	22 February 1933	Living	91

• excludes the Pope and the celibate leaders, but includes leaders who married after the conclusion of their reign/tenure.

Portrait	Name	Lifespan	Country	Position
	Marie-Adélaïde	1894–1924	Luxembourg	Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (1912–1919)
	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	1924–2018	India	Prime Minister of India (1996, 1998–2004)
	José Maria Neves	born 1960	Cape Verde	Prime Minister of Cape Verde (2001–2016) President of Cape Verde (since 2021)
	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam	1931–2015	India	President of India (2002–2007)
	Norodom Sihamoni	born 1953	Cambodia	King of Cambodia (since 2004)
	Mark Rutte	born 1967	Netherlands	Prime Minister of the Netherlands (since 2010)
	Park Geun-hye	born 1952	South Korea	President of South Korea (2013–2017)
	Sebastian Kurz	born 1986	Austria	Chancellor of Austria (2017–2019, 2020–2021)
	Sahle-Work Zewde	born 1950	Ethiopia	President of Ethiopia (since 2018)
	Gabriel Boric	born 1986	Chile	President of Chile (since 2022)
	Edgars Rinkēvičs	born 1973	Latvia	President of Latvia (since 2023)

#	Name	Portrait	Country	Date of birth	Age	Position serving	Since
1	Paul Biya		Cameroon	13 February 1933	91	President of Cameroon	6 November 1982
2	Mahmoud Abbas		Palestine	15 November 1935	89	President of the Palestinian National Authority	15 January 2005
3	Salman		Saudi Arabia	31 December 1935	88	King of Saudi Arabia	23 January 2015
4	Francis		Vatican City	17 December 1936	88	Sovereign of Vatican City	13 March 2013
5	Harald V		Norway	21 February 1937	87	King of Norway	17 January 1991
6	Ali Khamenei		Iran	19 April 1939	85	Supreme Leader of Iran	6 August 1989
7	Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah		Kuwait	27 September 1940	84	Emir of Kuwait	16 December 2023
8	Michael D. Higgins		Ireland	18 April 1941	83	President of Ireland	11 November 2011
9	Sergio Mattarella		Italy	23 July 1941	83	President of Italy	3 February 2015
10	Nangolo Mbumba		Namibia	15 August 1941	83	President of Namibia	4 February 2024
	Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo		Equatorial Guinea	5 June 1942	82	President of Equatorial Guinea	3 August 1979
	Joe Biden		United States	20 November 1942	82	President of the United States	20 January 2021
	Alexander Van der Bellen		Austria	18 January 1944	80	President of Austria	26 January 2017
	Nguyễn Phú Trọng		Vietnam	14 April 1944	80	General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam	19 January 2011
	Ram Chandra Poudel		Nepal	6 October 1944	80	President of Nepal	13 March 2023
	Joseph Boakai		Liberia	30 November 1944	80	President of Liberia	22 January 2024
	Hans-Adam II		Liechtenstein	14 February 1945	79	Prince of Liechtenstein	13 November 1989
	Cynthia A. Pratt		Bahamas	5 November 1945	79	Governor-General of the Bahamas	1 September 2023
	Thongloun Sisoulith		Laos	10 November 1945	79	President of Laos	22 March 2021
	Abdelmadjid Tebboune		Algeria	17 November 1945	79	President of Algeria	19 December 2019
	Carl XVI Gustaf		Sweden	30 April 1946	78	King of Sweden	15 September 1973
	Hassanal Bolkiah		Brunei	15 July 1946	78	Sultan of Brunei	5 October 1967
	Mary Simon		Canada	21 August 1947	77	Governor General of Canada	26 July 2021
	Sheikh Hasina		Bangladesh	28 September 1947	77	Prime Minister of Bangladesh[a]	6 January 2009
	Rodney Williams		Antigua and Barbuda	2 November 1947	77	Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda	14 August 2014
	Charles III		United Kingdom  Antigua and Barbuda  Australia  The Bahamas  Belize  Canada  Grenada  Jamaica  New Zealand  Papua New Guinea  Saint Kitts and Nevis  Saint Lucia  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines  Solomon Islands  Tuvalu	14 November 1948	76	King of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth Realms	8 September 2022
	Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa		Portugal	12 December 1948	76	President of Portugal	9 March 2016
	Arif Alvi		Pakistan	29 July 1949	75	President of Pakistan	9 September 2018
	Mohammed Shahabuddin		Bangladesh	10 December 1949	75	President of Bangladesh	24 April 2023
	Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa		Bahrain	28 January 1950	74	King of Bahrain[b]	14 February 2002
	Narendra Modi		India	17 September 1950	74	Prime Minister of India	26 May 2014
	Patrick Allen		Jamaica	7 February 1951	73	Governor-General of Jamaica	26 February 2009
	Philip Davis		Bahamas	7 June 1951	73	Prime Minister of the Bahamas	17 September 2021
	Vajiralongkorn		Thailand	28 July 1952	72	King of Thailand	13 October 2016
	Cécile La Grenade		Grenada	30 December 1952	71	Governor-General of Grenada	7 May 2013
	Norodom Sihamoni		Cambodia	14 May 1953	71	King of Cambodia	14 October 2004
	Xi Jinping		China	15 June 1953	71	President of China	14 March 2013
	David Hurley		Australia	26 August 1953	71	Governor-General of Australia	1 July 2019
	Pushpa Kamal Dahal		Nepal	11 December 1954	70	Prime Minister of Nepal[c]	26 December 2022
	Henri		Luxembourg	16 April 1955	69	Grand Duke of Luxembourg	7 October 2000
	Haitham bin Tariq		Oman	11 October 1955	69	Sultan of Oman	11 January 2020
	Ahmed Hachani		Tunisia	4 October 1956	68	Prime Minister of Tunisia	1 August 2023
	Paul Kagame		Rwanda	23 October 1957	67	President of Rwanda	22 April 2000
	Kais Saied		Tunisia	22 February 1958	66	President of Tunisia	23 October 2019
	Droupadi Murmu		India	20 June 1958	66	President of India	25 July 2022
	Vahagn Khachaturyan		Armenia	22 April 1959	65	President of Armenia	13 March 2022
	Li Qiang		China	July 1959	65	Premier of China	11 March 2023
	Johnny Briceño		Belize	17 July 1960	64	Prime Minister of Belize	12 November 2020
	Abdullah II		Jordan	30 January 1962	62	King of Jordan	7 February 1999
	Srettha Thavisin		Thailand	15 February 1962	62	Prime Minister of Thailand	22 August 2023
	Anthony Albanese		Australia	2 March 1963	61	Prime Minister of Australia	23 May 2022
	Letsie III		Lesotho	17 July 1963	61	King of Lesotho[d]	7 February 1996
	Mohammed VI		Morocco	21 August 1963	61	King of Morocco	23 July 1999
	Tshering Tobgay		Bhutan	19 September 1965	59	Prime Minister of Bhutan[e]	28 January 2024
	Sonexay Siphandone		Laos	26 January 1966	58	Prime Minister of Laos	30 December 2022
	Gaston Browne		Antigua and Barbuda	9 February 1967	57	Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda	13 June 2014
	Mark Rutte		Netherlands	14 February 1967	57	Prime Minister of the Netherlands	14 October 2010
	Bajram Begaj		Albania	20 March 1967	57	President of Albania	24 July 2022
	Willem-Alexander		Netherlands	27 April 1967	57	King of the Netherlands	30 April 2013
	Felipe VI		Spain	30 January 1968	56	King of Spain	19 June 2014
	Mswati III		Eswatini	19 April 1968	56	King of Eswatini	25 April 1986
	Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa		Bahrain	21 October 1969	55	Prime Minister of Bahrain	11 November 2020
	Võ Văn Thưởng		Vietnam	13 December 1970	54	President of Vietnam	2 March 2023
	Justin Trudeau		Canada	25 December 1971	53	Prime Minister of Canada	4 November 2015
	Pedro Sánchez		Spain	29 February 1972	52	Prime Minister of Spain	2 June 2018
	Andrew Holness		Jamaica	22 July 1972	52	Prime Minister of Jamaica[f]	3 March 2016
	Karl Nehammer		Austria	18 October 1972	52	Chancellor of Austria	6 December 2021
	Dickon Mitchell		Grenada	8 October 1977	47	Prime Minister of Grenada	24 June 2022
	Emmanuel Macron		France	21 December 1977	47	President of France	14 May 2017
	Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck		Bhutan	21 February 1980	44	King of Bhutan	9 December 2006
	Rishi Sunak		United Kingdom	12 May 1980	44	Prime Minister of the United Kingdom	25 October 2022
	Nayib Bukele		El Salvador	24 July 1981	43	President of El Salvador	1 June 2019
	Gabriel Attal		France	16 March 1989	35	Prime Minister of France	9 January 2024

Name	Portrait	Lifespan	Country(s)	Title	Reign start	Reign end	Reign length	Reason of end of reign
Victoria		1819–1901	United Kingdom	Queen	20 June 1837	22 January 1901	63 years, 216 days	Death
			India	Empress	1 May 1876	22 January 1901	24 years, 266 days
Wilhelmina		1880–1962	Netherlands	Queen	23 November 1890	4 September 1948	57 years, 286 days	Abdication
Liliʻuokalani		1838–1917	Hawaii	Queen	29 January 1891	17 January 1893	1 year, 354 days	Monarchy overthrown
Marie-Adélaïde		1894–1924	Luxembourg	Grand Duchess	25 February 1912	14 January 1919	6 years, 323 days	Abdication
Zewditu		1876–1930	Ethiopia	Empress	27 September 1916	2 April 1930	13 years, 187 days	Death
Sālote Tupou III		1900–1965	Tonga	Queen	5 April 1918	16 December 1965	47 years, 255 days	Death
Charlotte		1896–1985	Luxembourg	Grand Duchess	14 January 1919	12 November 1964	45 years, 303 days	Abdication
Juliana		1909–2004	Netherlands	Queen	4 September 1948	30 April 1980	31 years, 239 days	Abdication
Elizabeth II		1926–2022	United Kingdom  Australia  Canada  New Zealand	Queen	6 February 1952	8 September 2022	70 years, 214 days	Death
			Pakistan	Queen	6 February 1952	23 March 1956	4 years, 46 days	Country became republic
			South Africa	Queen	6 February 1952	31 May 1961	9 years, 114 days
			Ceylon	Queen	6 February 1952	22 May 1972	20 years, 106 days
			Ghana	Queen	6 March 1957	1 July 1960	3 years, 117 days
			Nigeria	Queen	1 October 1960	1 October 1963	3 years
			Sierra Leone	Queen	27 April 1961	19 April 1971	9 years, 357 days
			Tanganyika	Queen	9 December 1961	9 December 1962	1 year
			Jamaica	Queen	6 August 1962	8 September 2022	60 years, 33 days	Death
			Trinidad and Tobago	Queen	31 August 1962	1 August 1976	13 years, 336 days	Country became republic
			Uganda	Queen	9 October 1962	9 October 1963	1 year
			Kenya	Queen	12 December 1963	12 December 1964	1 year
			Malawi	Queen	6 July 1964	6 July 1966	2 years
			Malta	Queen	21 September 1964	13 December 1974	10 years, 83 days
			The Gambia	Queen	18 February 1965	24 April 1970	5 years, 65 days
			Guyana	Queen	26 May 1966	23 February 1970	3 years, 273 days
			Barbados	Queen	30 November 1966	30 November 2021	55 years
			Mauritius	Queen	12 March 1968	12 March 1992	24 years
			Fiji	Queen	10 October 1970	6 October 1987	16 years, 361 days
			The Bahamas	Queen	10 July 1973	8 September 2022	49 years, 60 days	Death
			Grenada	Grenada	7 February 1974	8 September 2022	48 years, 213 days
			Papua New Guinea	Queen	16 September 1975	8 September 2022	46 years, 357 days
			Solomon Islands	Queen	7 July 1978	8 September 2022	44 years, 63 days
			Tuvalu	Queen	1 October 1978	8 September 2022	43 years, 342 days
			Saint Lucia	Queen	22 February 1979	8 September 2022	43 years, 198 days
			Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Queen	27 October 1979	8 September 2022	42 years, 316 days
			Belize	Queen	21 September 1981	8 September 2022	40 years, 352 days
			Antigua and Barbuda	Queen	1 November 1981	8 September 2022	40 years, 311 days
			Saint Kitts and Nevis	Queen	19 September 1983	8 September 2022	38 years, 354 days
Margrethe II		born 1940	Denmark	Queen	14 January 1972	14 January 2024	52 years	Abdication
Beatrix		born 1938	Netherlands	Queen	30 April 1980	30 April 2013	33 years	Abdication

• Tharman Shanmugaratnam
• S. R. Nathan
• Devan Nair
• Seewoosagur Ramgoolam
• Anerood Jugnauth
• Navin Ramgoolam
• Pravind Jugnauth
• Dayendranath Burrenchobay
• Veerasamy Ringadoo
• Kailash Purryag
• Prithvirajsing Roopun
• Basdeo Panday
• Kamla Persad-Bissessar
• Cheddi Jagan
• Bharrat Jagdeo
• Donald Ramotar
• Fred Ramdat Misier
• Pretaap Radhakishun
• Ramsewak Shankar
• Mahendra Chaudhry
• Chan Santokhi
• Rishi Sunak

Portrait	Name	Country	Political party		Position	From	To
	Samy Vellu	Malaysia		MIC	Deputy Minister of Housing and Local Government	1978	1979
					Minister of Works and Public Amenities	15 September 1979	7 June 1983
					Minister of Works	8 June 1983	15 June 1989
					Minister of Energy, Telecommunications and Posts	15 June 1989	3 May 1995
					Minister of Works	8 May 1995	18 March 2008
	Priti Patel	United Kingdom		Conservative	Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury	15 July 2014	11 May 2015
					Minister of State for Employment	11 May 2015	14 July 2016
					Secretary of State for International Development	14 July 2016	8 November 2017
					Home Secretary	24 July 2019	6 September 2022
	Rishi Sunak	United Kingdom		Conservative	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Local Government	9 January 2018	24 July 2019
					Chief Secretary to the Treasury	24 July 2019	13 February 2020
					Chancellor of the Exchequer	13 February 2020	5 July 2022
					Prime Minister	25 October 2022	present
	M. Kulasegaran	Malaysia		DAP	Minister of Human Resources	21 May 2018	24 February 2020
					Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department (Law and Institutional Reforms)	12 December 2023	present
	Priyanca Radhakrishnan	New Zealand		Labour	Minister for Youth	6 November 2020	1 February 2023
					Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector Minister for Diversity, Inclusion and Ethnic Communities	6 November 2020	27 November 2023
					Minister for Disability Issues	1 February 2023	27 November 2023
	V. Sivakumar	Malaysia		DAP	Minister of Human Resources	3 December 2022	12 December 2023

• Samy Vellu
• Vigneswaran Sanasee
• Saravanan Murugan
• V. Sivakumar
• M. Kulasegaran
• V. T. Sambanthan
• V. Manickavasagam
• Subramaniam Sathasivam
• Edmund Santhara Kumar Ramanaidu
• P. Kamalanathan
• [[

#	Portrait	Name	Country(s)	Lifespan	Age	Title(s)
		Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester	United Kingdom	1901–2004	102
		Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother	United Kingdom	1900–2002	101	Queen consort of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth realms (1936–1952)
		Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg	Luxembourg	1921–2019	98

No.	Dominion(s)	Portrait	Name	Lifespan	Marriage	Became consort	Ceased to be consort	Cause	Tenure	Spouse to
1	United Kingdom  Australia  Canada  New Zealand  South Africa (1952–1961)  Pakistan (1952–1956)  Ceylon (1952–1972)  Nigeria (1954–1963)  Ghana (1957–1960)  Sierra Leone (1961–1971)  Tanganyika (1961–1964)  Jamaica (from 1962)  Trinidad and Tobago (1962–1976)  Uganda (1962–1963)  Kenya (1963–1964)  Malawi (1964–1966)  Malta (1964–1974)  The Gambia (1965–1970)  Guyana (1966–1970)  Barbados (from 1966)  Mauritius (1968–1992)  Fiji (1970–1987)  The Bahamas (from 1973)  Grenada (from 1974)  Papua New Guinea (from 1975)  Solomon Islands (from 1978)  Tuvalu (from 1978)  Saint Lucia (from 1979)  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (from 1979)  Belize (from 1981)  Antigua and Barbuda (from 1981)  Saint Kitts and Nevis (from 1983)		Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh	1921–2021 (lived 99 years)	20 November 1947	6 February 1952	9 April 2021	Death	69 years, 62 days	Elizabeth II
2	Thailand		Queen Sirikit	born 1932 (age 92) living	28 April 1950		13 October 2016	Spouse's death	66 years, 168 days	Bhumibol Adulyadej
3	Japan		Empress Kōjun	1903–2000 (living 97 years)	26 January 1924	25 December 1926	7 January 1989	Spouse's death	62 years, 13 days	Hirohito
4	Principality of Montenegro (until 1910)  Kingdom of Montenegro (from 1910)		Queen Milena	1847–1923 (lived 75 years)	8 November 1860		26 November 1918[g]	Monarchy abolished	58 years, 18 days	Nicholas I
5	Great Britain (1760–1800)  Ireland (1760–1800)  United Kingdom (1801–1820)		Queen Charlotte	1744–1818 (lived 74 years)	8 September 1761		17 November 1818	Death	57 years, 70 days	George III
6	Brunei		Pengiran Anak Saleha	born 1946 (age 78) living	29 July 1965	5 October 1967	Incumbent		57 years, 84 days	Hassanal Bolkiah
7	Sweden		Queen Silvia	(born 1943) (age 81 years) living	17 June 1976		Incumbent		48 years, 194 days	Carl XVI Gustaf
	Liechtenstein		Princess Georgina	1921–1989 (lived 67)	7 March 1943		18 October 1989	Death	46 years, 225 days	Franz Joseph II
	Brazil		Empress Teresa Cristina	1822–1889 (lived 67)	30 May 1843		15 November 1889	Monarchy abolished	46 years, 169 days	Pedro II
	Denmark		Prince Henrik	1934–2018 (lived 83 years)	10 June 1967	14 January 1972	13 February 2018	Death	46 years, 30 days	Margrethe II
	Austria-Hungary		Empress Elisabeth	1837–1898 (lived 60 years)	24 April 1854		10 September 1898	Death	44 years, 139 days	Franz Joseph I
	Japan		Empress Shōken	1849–1914 (lived 64 years)	11 January 1869		30 July 1912	Spouse's death	43 years, 201 days	Meiji
	Tonga		Queen Halaevalu Mataʻaho ʻAhomeʻe	1926–2017 (lived 90 years)	10 June 1947	16 December 1965	10 September 2006	Spouse's death	40 years, 268 days	Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV
	Luxembourg		Grand Duchess Joséphine-Charlotte	1927–2005 (lived 77 years)	9 April 1953	12 November 1964	7 October 2000	Spouse's abdication	35 years, 330 days	Jean
	Norway		Queen Sonja	born 1937 (age 87) living	29 August 1968	17 January 1991	Incumbent		33 years, 346 days	Harald V
	Belgium		Queen Fabiola	1928–2014 (lived 86 years)	15 December 1960		31 July 1993	Spouse's death	32 years, 228 days	Baudouin
	Netherlands		Prince Bernhard	1911–2004 (lived 93 years)	7 January 1937	6 September 1948	30 April 1980	Spouse's abdication	31 years, 237 days	Juliana
	Japan		Empress Michiko	born 1934 (age 90) living	10 April 1959	7 January 1989	30 April 2019	Spouse's abdication	30 years, 113 days	Akihito

No.	Dominion(s)	Portrait	Name	Lifespan	Marriage	Became consort	Ceased to be consort	Cause	Tenure	Spouse to
	Perlis (Malaysia)		Raja Perempuan Budriah	1924–2008 (lived 84 years)	1941	19 January 1946	16 April 2000	Spouse's death	54 years, 88 days	Putra
	Kedah (Malaysia)		Sultanah Bahiyah	1930–2003 (lived 73 years)	1955	15 July 1958	26 August 2003	Death	45 years, 42 days	Abdul Halim

  indicates reigning rulers.

#	State	Portrait	Name	Lifespan	Became ruler	Ceased to be ruler	Tenure
	Johor		Sultan Sir Ibrahim Al-Masyhur, Sultan of Johor	1873–1959 (lived 85 years)	7 September 1895	8 May 1959	63 years, 243 days
	Kedah		Sultan Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah, Sultan of Kedah[a]	1927–2017 (lived 89 years)	14 July 1958	11 September 2017	59 years, 59 days
	Perlis		Tuanku Sir Syed Harun Putra, Raja of Perlis[b]	1920–2000 (lived 79 years)	4 December 1945	16 April 2000	54 years, 134 days
	Pahang		Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah, Sultan of Pahang[c]	1930–2019 (lived 88 years)	7 May 1974	11 January 2019	44 years, 249 days
	Negeri Sembilan		Tuanku Ja'afar, Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan[d]	1922–2008 (lived 86 years)	18 April 1967	27 December 2008	41 years, 253 days
	Selangor		Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Al-Haj, Sultan of Selangor[e]	1926–2001 (lived 75 years)	3 September 1960	21 November 2001	41 years, 79 days
	Terengganu		Sultan Sir Ismail Nasiruddin Shah, Sultan of Terengganu[f]	1907–1979 (lived 72 years)	16 December 1945	20 September 1979	33 years, 278 days
	Johor		Sultan Sir Abu Bakar Al-Khalil Ibrahim Shah, Sultan of Johor	1833–1895 (lived 62 years)	2 February 1862[g]	4 June 1895	33 years, 122 days
	Kelantan		Sultan Ismail Petra, Sultan of Kelantan	1949–2019 (lived 69 years)	30 March 1979	13 September 2010[h]	31 years, 167 days
	Perak		Sultan Azlan Muhibbuddin Shah, Sultan of Perak	1928–2014 (lived 86 years)	3 February 1984	28 May 2014	30 years, 114 days
	Johor		Sultan Iskandar, Sultan of Johor	1932–2010 (lived 77 years)	11 May 1981	22 January 2010	28 years, 256 days
	Negeri Sembilan		Tuanku Sir Abdul Rahman, Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan	1895–1960 (lived 64 years)	3 August 1933	1 April 1960	26 years, 242 days
	Terengganu		Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin, Sultan of Terengganu	born 1962 (aged 62 years)	15 May 1998	Reigning	26 years, 227 days
	Perlis		Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin, Raja of Perlis	born 1943 (aged 81 years)	17 April 2000	Reigning	24 years, 255 days
	Selangor		Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah Al-Haj Sultan of Selangor	born 1945 (aged 79 years)	22 November 2001	Reigning	23 years, 36 days
	Johor		Sultan Sir Ismail Al Khalidi, Sultan of Johor	1894–1981 (lived 86 years)	8 May 1959	10 May 1981	22 years, 2 days
	Kelantan		Sultan Yahya Petra, Sultan of Kelantan	1917–1979 (lived 61 years)	10 July 1960	29 March 1979	18 years, 262 days
	Terengganu		Sultan Mahmud Al-Muktafi Billah Shah, Sultan of Terengganu	1930–1998 (lived 68 years)	21 September 1979	14 May 1998	18 years, 235 days
	Selangor		Sultan Sir Hisamuddin Alam Shah Al-Haj, Sultan of Selangor	1898–1960 (lived 62 years)	4 April 1938	15 January 1942	18 years, 274 days
					14 September 1945	1 September 1960
	Negeri Sembilan		Tuanku Muhriz, Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan	born 1948 (aged 76 years)	29 December 2008	Reigning	15 years, 365 days
	Johor		Sultan Ibrahim Ismail, Sultan of Johor	born 1958 (aged 66 years)	23 January 2010	Reigning	14 years, 340 days
	Kelantan		Sultan Muhammad V, Sultan of Kelantan	born 1969 (aged 55 years)	13 September 2010	Reigning	14 years, 106 days
	Perak		Sultan Nazrin Muizzuddin Shah, Sultan of Perak	born 1956 (aged 68 years)	29 May 2014	Reigning	10 years, 213 days
	Kedah		Sultan Sallehuddin, Sultan of Kedah	born 1942 (aged 82 years)	12 September 2017	Reigning	7 years, 107 days
	Pahang		Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri'ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah, Sultan of Pahang	born 1959 (aged 65 years)	11 January 2019	Reigning	5 years, 352 days

Name	Position (since)	Date of death	Age	Place of death	Cause of death
Nirmal Chandra Jain	Governor of Rajasthan (since 2003)	22 September 2003	75	Jaipur	Heart Attack
K. R. Malkani	Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry (since 2002)	27 October 2003	81	Puducherry
Govind Singh Gurjar	Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry (since 2008)	6 April 2009	77	New Delhi
Shiv Charan Mathur	Governor of Assam (since 2008)	25 June 2009	82	New Delhi	Cardiac arrest
Shilendra Kumar Singh	Governor of Rajasthan (since 2007)	1 December 2009	77	Delhi
Prabha Rau	Governor of Rajasthan (since 2009)	26 April 2010	75	New Delhi
Balram Das Tandon	Governor of Chhattisgarh (since 2014)	14 August 2018	90	Raipur	Heart attack
Lalji Tandon	Governor of Madhya Pradesh (since 2019)	21 July 2020	85	Lucknow

Includes governors who served as governor of one state for a full term (five years) or more.

Name	State	Term began	Term end	Term length
Bhishma Narain Singh	Assam	15 April 1984	10 May 1989	5 years, 25 days
Lokanath Misra	Assam	17 March 1991	1 September 1997	6 years, 168 days
M. M. Jacob	Meghalaya	19 June 1995	11 April 2007	1 year, 296 days
Lieutenant General Srinivas Kumar Sinha (Retd.)	Assam	1 September 1997	21 April 2003	5 years, 232 days
	Jammu and Kashmir	4 June 2003	25 June 2008	5 years, 21 days
Lieutenant General Ajai Singh (Retd.)	Assam	5 June 2003	4 July 2008	5 years, 29 days
Gopalkrishna Gandhi	West Bengal	14 December 2004	14 December 2009	5 years, 0 days
Ranjit Shekhar Mooshahary	Meghalaya	1 July 2008	6 July 2013	5 years, 5 days
Narinder Nath Vohra	Jammu and Kashmir	25 June 2008	23 August 2018	10 years, 59 days
Janaki Ballabh Patnaik	Assam	11 December 2009	11 December 2014	5 years, 0 days
E. S. L. Narasimhan	Andhra Pradesh	27 December 2009	23 July 2019	9 years, 208 days
Shivraj Patil	Punjab	22 January 2010	22 January 2015	5 years, 0 days
Urmila Singh	Himachal Pradesh	25 January 2010	25 January 2015	5 years, 0 days
Ram Naresh Yadav	Madhya Pradesh	8 September 2011	8 September 2016	5 years, 0 days
S. C. Jamir	Odisha	21 March 2013	21 March 2018	5 years, 0 days
Om Prakash Kohli	Gujarat	16 July 2014	16 July 2019	5 years, 0 days
Ram Naik	Uttar Pradesh	22 July 2014	28 July 2019	5 years, 6 days
Keshari Nath Tripathi	West Bengal	24 July 2014	29 July 2019	5 years, 5 days
Mridula Sinha	Goa	26 August 2014	23 October 2019	5 years, 58 days
C. Vidyasagar Rao	Maharashtra	30 August 2014	4 September 2019	5 years, 5 days
Vajubhai Vala	Karnataka	1 September 2014	10 July 2021	6 years, 312 days
V. P. Singh Badnore	Punjab	22 August 2016	30 August 2021	5 years, 8 days
Brigadier B. D. Mishra (Retd.)	Arunachal Pradesh	3 October 2017	15 February 2023	5 years, 135 days
Jagdish Mukhi	Assam	10 October 2017	20 February 2023	5 years, 133 days

Name	Position (since)	Date of death	Age	Place of death	Cause of death
Zakir Hussain	President of India (since 1967)	3 May 1969	72	New Delhi	Heart attack
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed	President of India (since 1974)	11 February 1977	71	New Delhi	Heart attack
G. M. C. Balayogi	Speaker of the Lok Sabha (since 1998)	3 March 2002	50	Kaikalur	Helicopter crash
Krishan Kant	Vice President of India (since 1997)	27 July 2002	75	New Delhi	Heart attack
Sunil Dutt	Union Cabinet Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports (since 2004)	25 May 2005	75	Mumbai	Heart attack
P. M. Sayeed	Union Cabinet Minister of Power (since 2004)	18 December 2005	64	Seoul, South Korea	Cardiac arrest
Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy	Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (since 2004)	2 September 2009	60	Nallamala Hills	Helicopter crash
Dorjee Khandu	Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh (since 2007)	30 April 2011	56	Lobotang	Helicopter crash
Vilasrao Deshmukh	Union Cabinet Minister of Science and Technology, Earth Sciences (since 2011), and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (since 2012)	14 August 2012	67	Chennai	Multi-organ failure
Sis Ram Ola	Union Cabinet Minister of Labour and Employment (since 2013)	15 December 2013	86	Gurgaon	Cardiac arrest
Gopinath Munde	Union Cabinet Minister of Rural Development, Panchayati Raj and Drinking Water and Sanitation (since 2014)	3 June 2014	64	New Delhi	Road accident
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed	Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir (since 2015)	7 January 2016	79	New Delhi	Multi-organ failure
J. Jayalalithaa	Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (since 2015)	5 December 2016	68	Chennai	Cardiac arrest
Vinod Khanna	Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha (since 2014)	27 April 2017	70	Mumbai	Bladder cancer
Anil Madhav Dave	Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (since 2016)	18 May 2017	60	New Delhi	Cardiac arrest
Ananth Kumar	Union Cabinet Minister of Parliamentary Affairs (since 2016) and Chemicals and Fertilizers (since 2014)	12 November 2018	59	Bangalore	Pancreatic cancer
Manohar Parrikar	Chief Minister of Goa (since 2017)	17 March 2019	63	Panaji	Pancreatic cancer
Suresh Angadi	Union Minister of State of Railways	23 September 2020	65	New Delhi	COVID-19
Ram Vilas Paswan	Union Cabinet Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution (since 2014)	8 October 2020	74	New Delhi	Complications from heart surgery
General Bipin Rawat	Chief of Defence Staff (since 2020)	8 December 2021	63	Bandishola	Helicopter crash

• 9 June 1999:
• 9 June 1999: João Celso da Rocha Cruise
• 9 June 1999: César de Oliveira, professor (posthumous)
• 9 June 1999: Alberto Martins, former Minister of Justice
• 25 August 1999: Emidio Warrior, teacher
• 7 December 1999: Cardinal Basílio do Nascimento, Bishop of Baucau
• 10 May 2000: Hermínio da Palma Inácio, revolutionary
• 9 June 2000: António Lopes Cardoso, former Minister of Agriculture and Fishing
• 9 June 2000: Adelino da Palma Carlos, former Prime Minister (posthumous)
• 9 June 2000: José Augusto da Silva Marques, former Governor of Leiria
• 9 June 2001: Jorge Miranda, jurist
• 25 April 2004: António Ramalho Eanes, former President of the Republic
• 25 April 2004: António de Almeida Santos, former President of Assembly of the Republic
• 9 June 2005: Jaime Gama, former President of Assembly of the Republic
• 9 June 2005: Edmundo Pedro, former Member of Assembly of the Republic
• 9 June 2005: José Pacheco Pereira, former Vice-President of European Parliament
• 9 June 2005: Helena Roseta, former Member of Assembly of the Republic
• 21 November 2005: Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos, poet and painter
• 30 January 2006: Teófilo da Silva Bento
• 30 January 2006: Carlos Cáceres Monteiro, journalist (posthumous)
• 30 January 2006: Rui Fernando da Costa Ferreira
• 9 June 2006: Óscar Lopes, former Member of Assembly of the Republic
• 5 December 2007: Mário Montalvão Machado, former Member of Council of State
• 25 April 2011: Francisco Pinto Balsemão, former Prime Minister
• 25 April 2011: António Barbosa de Melo, former President of the Assembly of the Republic
• 25 April 2011: Artur Santos Silva, former Vice-Governor of Bank of Portugal
• 9 June 2014: Eduardo Lourenço, philosopher and writer
• 2 February 2016: António Guterres, Secretary-General of United Nations and former Prime Minister
• 7 April 2016: António Arnaut, former Minister of Social Affairs
• 7 April 2016: João Lobo Antunes, neurosurgeon
• 22 September 2016: Aristides de Sousa Mendes, former Consul (posthumous)
• 5 October 2016: Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, former President of the Assembly of the Republic
• 1 May 2017: Miguel Portas, former Member of European Parliament (posthumous)
• 10 May 2017: Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, former Prime Minister (posthumous)
• 10 May 2017: António Barreto, former Minister of Commerce
• 10 May 2017: Manuel da Silva Martins, former Bishop of Setubal
• 27 September 2018: António Borges Coelho, historian and poet
• 29 August 2019: Fernando Namora, writer
• 28 September 2019: António Lobo Antunes, medical doctor and Nobel laureate
• 25 April 2020: José Fernandes Fafe, former Ambassador (posthumous)
• 6 July 2021: Mário Sacramento, physician (posthumous)
• 23 November 2021: Joana de Barros Baptista, gender rights activist
• 26 May 2022: Augusto Santos Silva, President of the Assembly of the Republic
• 11 November 2022: José Manuel Galvão Teles, former Member of Council of State
• 25 November 2022: António Pires Veloso, former Governor of Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe (posthumous)

• 16 July 1988: Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, abstract painter
• 30 June 1989: Andreas Papandreou, former Prime Minister of Greece
• 22 April 1991: Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa
• 25 January 1993: Árpád Göncz, former President of Hungary
• 9 June 1993: Xanana Gusmão, former President of East Timor
• 28 December 1994: Álvaro Lins, former Ambassador of Brazil
• 24 April 1995: Miguel Ángel Martínez Martínez, former Parliamentary Assembly President, Council of Europe
• 29 May 1995: José Francisco Peña Gómez, former Mayor of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
• 17 June 1995: Mikhail Gorbachev, former President of Soviet Union
• 1 March 1996: Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, former Secretary-General of United Nations
• 22 February 1996: Adolfo Suárez, former Prime Minister of Spain
• 9 June 1998: José Ramos-Horta, President of East Timor
• 23 July 2003: Marisa Letícia Lula da Silva, former First Lady of Brazil
• 22 March 2005: Lionel Jospin, former Prime Minister of France
• 5 January 2006: Albie Sachs, former Judge of Constitutional Court, South Africa
• 13 May 2016: Ban Ki-moon, former Secretary-General of United Nations
• 16 January 2017: Martin Schulz, former President of the European Parliament
• 19 July 2017: Shah Karim Aga Khan IV
• 15 April 2018: Queen Letizia of Spain
• 5 July 2018: Sir Peter Cosgrove, former Governor-General of Australia

24 October 2002	Johannes Bäckström	Head of Protocol of Finland
24 October 2002	Antti Satuli	State Secretary of Finland
24 October 2002	Risto Ihamuotila	Chancellor of Helsinki University
24 October 2002	Esko Kiuru	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Finland

31 January 2003	Dimitris Avramopoulos	Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece
31 January 2003	Constantinos Rallis	Greek diplomat
31 January 2003	Danae-Madeleine Koumanakou	Greek diplomat
31 January 2003	Theodoros Sotiropoulos	Greek diplomat
31 January 2003	Yannis-Alexios Zepos	Greek diplomat
31 January 2003	Dimitrios Kondoumas	Greek diplomat
31 January 2003	Vassilios Ikossipentarcho	Greek diplomat
31 January 2003	Haris Karabarounis	Greek diplomat
31 January 2003	Ioannis Beveratos	Greek diplomat

29 May 2003	Ingrīda Ūdre	Speaker of the Saeima
29 May 2003	Einars Repše	Prime Minister of Latvia
29 May 2003	Zigmantas Balčytis	Minister of Transport and Communications of Latvia
29 May 2003	Petras Čėsna	Minister of Economy of Lithuania
29 May 2003	Vytenis Andriukaitis	Member of Seimas of Lithuania
29 May 2003	Gediminas Kirkilas	Member of Seimas of Lithuania; later Prime Minister
29 May 2003	Vaclov Stankevič	Member of Seimas of Lithuania
29 May 2003	Alvydas Medalinskas	Advisor to the President of Lithuania
29 May 2003	Evaldas Ignatavičius	State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania
29 May 2003	Dalius Čekuolis	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Lithuania
29 May 2003	Aino Lepik von Wirén	State Secretary of Estonia
29 May 2003	Raul Mälk	Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia
23 July 2003	Celso Amorim	Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brazil
23 July 2003	Cássio Cunha Lima	Governor of Paraíba
23 July 2003	Ronaldo Lessa	Governor of Alagoas
6 November 2003	Michel Czetertynski	Former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belgium
13 February 2004	Kjell Magne Bondevik	Prime Minister of Norway
13 February 2004	Jan Petersen	Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway
13 February 2004	Lars Petter Forberg	Chief of the Royal Court of Norway
13 February 2004	Berit Tversland	Cabinet Secretary to the King of Norway
13 February 2004	Arnt Magne Rindal	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Norway
13 February 2004	Rolf Thomsen	Commander of the Royal Norwegian Army
13 February 2004	Svein-Erik Ovesen	Diplomat
13 February 2004	Anne Lund	Diplomat
13 February 2004	Ann Ollestad	Deputy Under-Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway
13 February 2004	Lise Harlem	Diplomat
13 February 2004	Wenche Rasch	Diplomat
13 February 2004	Ulf Erik Husebø	Chief of Adjutant Staff to the King of Norway

7 July 2004

Jolanta Kwaśniewska

First Lady of Poland

• 31 January 2005: Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff, former diplomat, Austria
• 31 January 2005: Markus von Lutterotti, Austria
• 31 January 2005: Joseph Mayer, Austria
• 31 January 2005: Giovanni Castellaneta, former diplomat, Italy
• 31 January 2005: Emilio Barbarani, former diplomat, Italy
• 15 February 2005: Teodor Baconschi, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Romania
• 9 March 2005: Lazhar Bououni, former Minister, Tunisia
• 9 March 2005: Lourdes Carlota Vallarino Pinilla, former Ambassador of Panama
• 22 March 2005: Ernest-Antoine Seillière, French entrepreneur
• 6 May 2005: Octavie Modert, former Secretary of State, Luxembourg
• 6 May 2005: Georges Santer, former diplomat, Luxembourg
• 6 May 2005: Alain de Muyser, former diplomat, Luxembourg
• 17 May 2005: Shoichiro Toyoda, former Chairman of Toyota Motors, Japan
• 20 June 2005: Theis Truelsen, former Ambassador of Denmark
• 15 July 2005: Manuel Matta, former Ambassador of Chile
• 15 July 2005: Francisco Marambio, former Ambassador of Chile
• 15 July 2005: José Luis Balmaceda, former Ambassador of Chile
• 30 August 2005: Mohammed Al-Rashidd, former Ambassador of Saudi Arabia
• 27 October 2005: Ramtane Lamamra, former Ambassador of Algeria
• 17 January 2006: Jacques Brodin, former Ambassador of France
• 8 March 2006: Ingrid Rüütel, former First Lady of Estonia
• 8 March 2006: Heiki Loot, former Secretary of State, Estonia
• 8 March 2006: Tarmo Kõuts, former Commander of Defence Forces, Estonia
• 8 March 2006: Armand De Decker, former President of the Senate, Belgium
• 8 March 2006: Paul Ponjaert, former Ambassador of Belgium
• 8 March 2006: Frank De Coninck, former Marshal of Royal Court, Belgium
• 8 March 2006: Jacques van Ypersele de Strihou, former Principal Private Secretary to King, Belgium
• 8 March 2006: Joseph Van den Put, former Military Head of Royal Household, Belgium
• 8 March 2006: Jan Grauls, former Secretary-General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Belgium
• 8 March 2006: Patrick Vercauteren Drubbel, former diplomat, Belgium
• 7 September 2006: Shim Yoon-Joe, former Ambassador of South Korea
• 25 September 2006: Miguel Sebastián Gascón, former Minister of Industry, Spain
• 25 September 2006: Francisco Fernández Fábregas, former Secretary-General of Foreign Affairs, Spain
• 25 September 2006: Raimundo Pérez-Hernández y Torra, former Chief of Protocol, Spain
• 25 September 2006: José Villegas, Spain
• 25 September 2006: Jaime Alfonsín, Head of the Royal Household, Spain
• 25 September 2006: Alfonso Sanz Portolés, former Secretary-General of Royal Household, Spain
• 25 September 2006: Domingo Martínez Palomo, Secretary-General of HM King, Spain
• 25 September 2006: Javier Sancho, former diplomat, Spain
• 25 September 2006: Manuel Cacho, former diplomat, Spain
• 25 September 2006: Yago Pico de Coaña, former diplomat, Spain
• 25 September 2006: José María Pons Irazazábal, former diplomat, Spain
• 25 September 2006: Juan Carlos Gafo, former diplomat, Spain
• 25 September 2006: Carlos Casajuana, diplomat, Spain
• 25 September 2006: José Cabrera, Spain
• 25 September 2006: Manuel Barros, Spain
• 31 May 2007: Vytautas Naudužas, former Vice Minister of Economy, Lithuania
• 31 May 2007: Valteris Baliukonis, former Head of Foreign Policy, Lithuania
• 31 May 2007: Algimantas Rimkūnas, former Ambassador of Lithuania
• 31 May 2007: Arvydas Vaitkus, former Communications Secretary, Lithuania
• 31 May 2007: Justinas Karosas, former Chairman of Foreign Affairs Committee, Lithuania
• 31 May 2007: Darius Gaidys, former Ambassador of Lithuania
• 26 June 2008: Salv Stelini, former Ambassador of Malta
• 1 September 2008: Waldemar Pawlak, former Prime Minister of Poland
• 1 September 2008: Bogdan Zdrojewski, former Minister of Culture, Poland
• 1 September 2008: Krzysztof Putra, former Deputy Marshal of Sejm, Poland
• 1 September 2008: Zbigniew Romaszewski, former Vice Marshal of Senate, Poland
• 1 September 2008: Katarzyna Skórzyńska, former Ambassador of Poland
• 1 September 2008: Paweł Kowal, Member of Sejm, Poland
• 1 September 2008: Elżbieta Jakubiak, former Member of Sejm, Poland
• 1 September 2008: Jan Ołdakowski, Member of Sejm, Poland
• 1 September 2008: Piotr Kownacki, former Head of Chancellery of President, Poland
• 1 September 2008: Władysław Stasiak, former Head of National Security Bureau, Poland
• 1 September 2008: Maciej Łopiński, former Chief of Presidential Cabinet, Poland
• 1 September 2008: Michał Kamiński, Deputy Marshal of Senate, Poland
• 1 September 2008: Ryszard Legutko, former Secretary of State, Presidential Chancellery, Poland
• 1 September 2008: Ewa Junczyk-Ziomecka, former Secretary of State, Presidential Chancellery, Poland
• 1 September 2008: Małgorzata Bocheńska, Poland
• 1 September 2008: Andrzej Duda, President of Poland (then Undersecretary of State)
• 1 September 2008: Grażyna Bernatowicz, former Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Poland
• 1 September 2008: Archbishop Józef Kowalczyk, Primate Emeritus of Poland
• 1 September 2008: Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz, Metropolitan Archbishop Emeritus of Kraków
• 1 September 2008: Franciszek Gągor, former Chief of General Staff, Poland
• 1 September 2008: Mariusz Kazana, former Director of Diplomatic Protocol, Poland
• 18 September 2008: Satoshi Hara, former Ambassador of Japan
• 11 December 2008: Mary Fenech Adami, former First Lady of Malta
• 2 March 2009: Hans-Gert Pöttering, former President of European Parliament
• 2 March 2009: Horst Seehofer, former Minister-President of Bavaria, Germany
• 2 March 2009: Klaus Wowereit, former Governing Mayor of Berlin, Germany
• 2 March 2009: Frank-Walter Steinmeier, President of Germany (then Minister)
• 2 March 2009: Thomas de Maizière, former Head of the Chancellery, Germany
• 2 March 2009: Gernot Erler, former Minister of State, Germany
• 2 March 2009: Günter Gloser, former Minister of State, Germany
• 2 March 2009: Gert Haller, former Head of President's Office, Germany
• 2 March 2009: Peter Ammon, former State Secretary for Foreign Office, Germany
• 2 March 2009: Reinhard Silberberg, former State Secretary for Foreign Office, Germany
• 2 March 2009: Joachim Broudré-Gröger, former Ambassador of Germany
• 16 March 2009: Jafar Hassan, former Minister of Planning, Jordan
• 16 March 2009: Mazen Tabbalat, Jordan
• 16 March 2009: Imad Abdin, former Assistant Chief of Protocol, Royal Household, Jordan
• 26 March 2009: Chung Eui-Min, former Ambassador of South Korea
• 27 March 2009: Luzmila Zanabria Ishikawa, former Ambassador of Peru
• 3 June 2009: Spyridon Theocharopoulos, former Ambassador of Greece
• 1 July 2009: Sauli Feodorow, former Ambassador of Finland
• 8 October 2009: Mohamed Salia Sokona, former Ambassador of Mali
• 1 December 2009: Rolando Drago, former Ambassador of Chile
• 1 December 2009: Patricio Torres, former Ambassador of Chile
• 1 December 2009: Roberto Ibarra, former Ambassador of Chile
• 1 December 2009: Fernando Ayala, former Ambassador of Chile
• 1 December 2009: Marcelo Tokman, former Minister of Energy, Chile
• 1 December 2009: Jean-Jacques Duhart, Chile
• 18 January 2010: Rudolf Huygelen, former Ambassador of Belgium
• 2 March 2010: Ewald Jager, former Ambassador of Austria
• 9 March 2010: Sadakazu Tanigaki, former Minister of Justice, Japan
• 8 June 2010: Edmund Ho, former Chief Executive of Macau
• 11 June 2010: Robert Jan van Houtoum, former Ambassador of the Netherlands
• 26 July 2010: Mart Tarmak, former Ambassador of Estonia
• 26 July 2010: Mohamed Ridha Farhat, former Ambassador of Tunisia
• 7 September 2010: Jean Asselborn, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Luxembourg
• 7 September 2010: Paul Dühr, Marshal of Grand Ducal Court, Luxembourg
• 7 September 2010: Jeannot Krecké, former Minister of Economy, Luxembourg
• 17 September 2010: Alberto José Navarro González, former Ambassador of Portugal
• 20 December 2010: Kasivat Paruggamanont, former Ambassador of Thailand
• 22 July 2011: Inga Magistad, former Ambassador of Norway
• 1 February 2012: Mohammed Jaham Al Kuwari, former Ambassador of Qatar
• 1 February 2012: Motohiko Nishimura, former Ambassador of Japan
• 19 April 2012: Anna Komorowska, former First Lady of Poland
• 26 April 2012: Alwi Shihab, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Indonesia
• 11 May 2012: Kang Dae-Hyun, former Ambassador of South Korea
• 26 July 2012: Jean-Michel Veranneman, former Ambassador of Belgium
• 5 September 2012: Bengt Lundborg, Sweden
• 14 November 2012: María Clemencia de Santos, former First Lady of Colombia
• 19 November 2012: Jorge Román, former Ambassador of Peru
• 19 November 2012: Alberto Salas, former Ambassador of Peru
• 19 November 2012: Néstor Popolizio, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Peru
• 13 May 2013: Vassilios Costis, former Ambassador of Greece
• 16 July 2013: Bernhard Wrabetz, former Ambassador of Austria
• 26 July 2013: Asko Numminen, former Ambassador of Finland
• 29 July 2013: Marta Linares de Martinelli, former First Lady of Panama
• 29 July 2013: Maymouna Diop Sy, former Ambassador of Senegal
• 30 September 2013: Nobutaka Shinomiya, former Ambassador of Japan
• 26 November 2013: Jorge Fernández Díaz, former Minister of Interior, Spain
• 4 March 2014: Pablo Martín Alonso, Spain
• 4 March 2014: Francisco Javier Velázquez, former Director-General of Police, Spain
• 6 May 2014: Archbishop Fouad Twal, Patriarch Emeritus of Jerusalem of the Latins
• 9 May 2014: Fernando Chui, former Chief Executive of Macau
• 14 July 2014: Hans Michael Kofoed-Hansen, former Ambassador of Denmark
• 28 January 2015: Gerardo Ruiz Esparza, former Secretary of Communications and Transportation, Mexico
• 28 January 2015: Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal, former Secretary of Economy, Mexico
• 28 January 2015: Luis Videgaray Caso, former Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Mexico
• 28 January 2015: Jesús Murillo Karam, former Attorney General, Mexico
• 29 January 2015: Claudia Ruiz Massieu, former Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Mexico
• 15 April 2015: Jung-hee Yoo, former Ambassador of South Korea
• 15 June 2015: Vasile Popovici, former Ambassador of Romania
• 23 June 2015: Eduardo Junco Bonet, former Ambassador of Spain
• 29 July 2015: Bernard Pierre, former Ambassador of Belgium
• 8 March 2016: José Manuel García-Margallo, former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Spain
• 23 April 2016: Jan Romeo Pawłowski, Titular Archbishop of Sejny
• 1 August 2016: Madalena Cepeda Neves, former Ambassador Cape Verde
• 8 September 2016: Jean-François Blarel, former Ambassador of France
• 28 November 2016: José Manuel Zuleta y Alejandro, Head of Secretariat to HM Queen, Spain
• 25 January 2017: Dragica Nikolić, former First Lady of Serbia
• 30 January 2017: Vlassia Pavlopoulou-Peltsemi, former First Lady of Greece
• 30 January 2017: Nikos Kotzias, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Greece
• 30 January 2017: Georges Yennimatas, Greece
• 14 April 2017: Ove Thorsheim, former Ambassador of Norway

23 May 2017	Stéphanie, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
23 May 2017	Corinne Cahen	Minister of Family and Integration of Luxembourg
23 May 2017	Félix Braz	Minister of Justice of Luxembourg
23 May 2017	Mars Di Bartolomeo	Former Minister of Health of Luxembourg
23 May 2017	Lucien Weiler	Former President of the Chamber of Deputies of Luxembourg
12 September 2017	Dominique Ouattara	First Lady of Ivory Coast
23 October 2017	Hiroshi Azuma	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan
30 January 2018	Andrew Parker	Director General of MI5
5 April 2018	Giuseppe Morabito	Former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Italy
15 April 2018	Alfonso Fernández Mañueco	Mayor of Salamanca
15 April 2018	María Teresa Sáenz de Heredia
15 April 2018	Manuela Carmena	Mayor of Madrid
15 April 2018	Juan Vicente Herrera	President of the Junta of Castile and León
15 April 2018	Eduardo Gutiérrez Sáenz de Buruaga	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Spain
15 April 2018	Camilo Villarino Marzo	Chief of Staff to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain
15 April 2018	Andrés Costilludo Gómez	Chief of Protocol of Spain
27 April 2018	Yukiya Amano	Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency
28 September 2018	German Guerrero Pavez	Former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Chile
25 February 2019	Maribel Díaz Cabello	First Lady of Peru
27 February 2019	Ekaterini Simopoulou	Former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Greece
16 April 2019	Georgi-Rene Maksimovski	First Gentleman of Estonia
20 May 2019	Christof Weil	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Germany
18 June 2019	Doris Schmidauer	First Lady of Austria
15 June 2020	Jean-Jacques Welfring	Former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Luxembourg
24 July 2020	Anders Erdal	Former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Norway
24 July 2020	Tarja Laitiainen	Former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Finland
13 August 2020	Jacek Junosza Kisielewski	Former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Poland
24 November 2020	K. Nandini Singla	Former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Portugal
27 September 2021	Mauricio Botton Carasso
27 September 2021	Charlotte Botton
19 October 2021	Koffi Fana Théodore	Former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ivory Coast
16 November 2021	Jaume Serra Serra	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Andorra
10 March 2021	Jun Niimi	Former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan
10 March 2022	Pedro Pablo Díaz	Former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Chile
5 May 2022	Florence Mangin	Former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of France
25 July 2022	Sheikh Fahad Salem Al-Sabah	Former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Kuwait
29 July 2022	Helena Pilsas Ahlin	Former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Sweden
29 July 2022	Geneviève Renaux	Former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belgium
29 July 2022	Ruth Lausma Luik	Former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Estonia
6 July 2023	Ioana Bivolaru	Former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Romania
18 July 2023	Blažka Kepic	Former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Slovenia
23 November 2023	Reinhold Würth	Businessman and art collector
3 January 2024	Marta Betanzos Roig	Former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Spain
4 January 2024	Chris Sainty	Former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United Kingdom

Date	Name	Notes
10 April 2002	Ingrid Rüütel	First Lady of Estonia
10 April 2002	Liina Tõnisson	Minister of Economy and Transport of Estonia
10 April 2002	Aino Lepik von Wirén	State Secretary of Estonia
10 April 2002	Peep Jahilo	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Estonia
10 April 2002	Indrek Tarand	Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia
10 April 2002	Tarmo Mänd	Director of the Presidential Office of Estonia
10 April 2002	Vice-Admiral Tarmo Kõuts	Commander of the Defence Forces of Estonia

• 1 July 2002: Luiz Antonio Jardim Gagliardi, former Ambassador of Brazil
• 1 July 2002: Marcelo Vargas Campos, former Ambassador of Mexico
• 1 July 2002: Magnus Vahlquist, former Ambassador of Sweden
• 1 July 2002: Kyung-tai Park, former Ambassador of South Korea
• 1 July 2002: Thakur Phanit, former Ambassador of Thailand
• 8 October 2002: Dalma Mádl, former First Lady of Hungary
• 8 October 2002: Péter Medgyessy, former Prime Minister of Hungary
• 8 October 2002: Katalin Szili, former Speaker of National Assembly, Hungary
• 8 October 2002: László Kovács, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hungary

20 May 2003	Princess Astrid of Belgium
20 May 2003	Prince Lorenz of Belgium
20 May 2003	Prince Laurent of Belgium
20 May 2003	Princess Claire of Belgium
20 May 2003	Princess Baudouin De Mérode	Lady-in-waiting to the Queen of the Belgians
20 May 2003	Guy Verhofstadt	Prime Minister of Belgium
20 May 2003	Armand De Decker	President of the Senate of Belgium
20 May 2003	Herman De Croo	President of the Chamber of Representatives of Belgium
20 May 2003	Louis Michel	Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belgium
20 May 2003	Frank De Coninck	Marshal of the Royal Household of Belgium
20 May 2003	François-Xavier de Donnea	Minister-President of Brussels
20 May 2003	Patrick Dewael	Minister-President of Flanders
20 May 2003	Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe	Minister-President of Wallonia
20 May 2003	Carlos De Wever	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belgium
20 May 2003	Jan Grauls	Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belgium
20 May 2003	Patrick Vercauteren Drubbel	Chief of Protocol of Belgium
20 May 2003	Admiral Pierre Warnauts	Chief of Defence of Belgium

1 July 2003

Kristinn F. Árnason

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Iceland

• 1 July 2003: Abdelouahab Bellouki, former Ambassador of Morocco
• 1 July 2003: Masao Kawai, former Ambassador of Japan
• 4 August 2003: Lourdes Molinos, former Ambassador of Venezuela
• 16 September 2003: Jolanta Kwaśniewska, former First Lady of Poland
• 7 October 2003: Marisa Letícia Lula da Silva, former First Lady of Brazil
• 7 October 2003: João Paulo Cunha, former President of Chamber of Deputies, Brazil
• 7 October 2003: Maurício Corrêa, former President of Supreme Court, Brazil
• 7 October 2003: Celso Amorim, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Brazil
• 7 October 2003: Luiz Fernando Furlan, former Minister of Development, Industry and Trade, Brazil
• 7 October 2003: Gilberto Gil, former Minister of Culture, Brazil
• 7 October 2003: Samuel Guimarães, former Secretary-General of Foreign Affairs, Brazil
• 28 October 2003: Andrzes Jaroszynski, former Ambassador of Poland
• 19 November 2003: Thomas Hajnoczi, former Ambassador of Austria
• 16 January 2004: José Luis Balmaceda Sergios, former Ambassador of Chile
• 2 March 2004: Maria José Ritta, former First Lady of Portugal
• 19 March 2004: Eduardo Garrigues Lopez-Chicheri, former Ambassador of Spain
• 28 April 2004: Yuri Kvitsinskiy, former Member of State Duma, Russia
• 24 June 2004: Inuns Braganca, Aide-de-Camp, Portugal
• 29 June 2004: José Filipe Moraes Cabral, former Chief of Staff to President, Portugal
• 29 June 2004: Eurico Paes, former Chief of Protocol, Portugal
• 29 June 2004: Joao Vasco Palmafinalo, former Advisor, Portugal
• 1 July 2004: [[Teresa Patrício de Gouveia], former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Portugal
• 15 July 2004: Luis Manuel Correia da Silva, former Minister of Tourism, Portugal
• 16 October 2004: Ionnais Boukouris, former Ambassador of Greece
• 28 October 2004: Uberto Pestalozza, former Ambassador of Italy
• 14 December 2004: Domedej Bunnag, former Ambassador of Thailand
• 16 February 2005: Byung-hyo Choi, former Ambassador of South Korea
• 29 June 2005: Horst Winkelmann, former Ambassador of Germany
• 30 June 2005: Sten Lilholt, former Ambassador of Denmark
• 2 November 2005: Björn von Sydow, former Speaker of Riksdag, Sweden
• 5 November 2005: John D. Ong, former Ambassador of the United States
• 6 December 2005: Orlando Ruben Rebagliati, former Ambassador of Germany
• 9 December 2005: Pekka Huthaniemi, former Ambassador of Finland
• 17 April 2007: Margit Fischer, former First Lady of Austria
• 17 April 2007: Martin Bartenstein, former Minister of Economy and Labour, Austria
• 17 April 2007: Ursula Plassnik, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Austria
• 17 April 2007: Rene Pollitzer, former Cabinet Director, Austria
• 17 April 2007: Anton Kozusnik, former Ambassador of Austria
• 17 April 2007: Heinz Anton Hafner, former Deputy Secretary-General, Austria
• 5 June 2007: Sauli Niinistö, President of Finland (then Speaker of Riksdag)
• 5 June 2007: Ilkka Kanerva, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Finland
• 5 June 2007: Astrid Thors, former Minister of Migration and European Affairs, Finland
• 5 June 2007: Jukka Paarma, Archbishop Emeritus of Finland
• 5 June 2007: Jarmo Viinanen, former Chief of Cabinet, Finland
• 5 June 2007: Pertti Torstila, former State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Finland
• 5 June 2007: Peter Stenlund, former Ambassador of Finland
• 13 September 2007: Miguel Jorge, former Minister of Development and Foreign Trade, Brazil
• 13 September 2007: Sergio Eduardo Moreira Lima, former Ambassador of Brazil
• 13 September 2007: Marco Aurélio Garcia, former Foreign Policy Advisor to the President, Brazil
• 15 October 2007: Angela Merkel, former Chancellor of Germany
• 15 October 2007: Frank-Walter Steinmeier, President of Germany (then Foreign Minister)
• 15 October 2007: Harald Ringstorff, former President of Bundesrat
• 15 October 2007: Klaus Wowereit, former Governing Mayor of Berlin
• 15 October 2007: Jürgen Rüttgers, former Minister-President of North-Rhine Westphalia
• 15 October 2007: Gert Haller, former State Secretary, Germany
• 15 October 2007: Gunter Gloser, former State Secretary, Germany
• 15 October 2007: Reinhard Silberberg, former State Secretary, Germany
• 15 October 2007: Roland Mauch, former Ambassador of Germany
• 15 October 2007: Thomas de Maizière, former Head of Chancellery, Germany
• 15 April 2009: Håkan Syrén, former Supreme Commander of Armed Forces, Sweden
• 28 May 2009: Ronald van Roeden, former Ambassador of the Netherlands
• 28 May 2009: Roberto Alonso Budge, former Ambassador of Chile
• 9 June 2009: Benson K. Whitney, former Ambassador of the United States
• 1 June 2010: Maxime Verhagen, former Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands
• 1 June 2010: Maria van der Hoeven, former Minister of Finance, Netherlands
• 1 June 2010: M. Hennis, former Chief Justice, Netherlands
• 1 June 2010: H. Morsink, former Chief of Staff, Netherlands
• 1 June 2010: R. van Rijssen, former Ambassador of the Netherlands
• 16 June 2010: Michael Sahlin, former Ambassador of Sweden
• 22 June 2010: Theis Truelsen, former Ambassador of Denmark
• 30 August 2010: Byung-koo Choi, former Ambassador of South Korea
• 6 September 2010: Hisao Yamaguchi, former Ambassador of Japan
• 20 January 2011: Sigridur Duna Kristmundsdottir, former Ambassador of Iceland
• 9 September 2011: Yahdih Bouchaab, former Ambassador of Morocco
• 20 September 2011: Dušan Rozbora, former Ambassador of Slovakia
• 21 September 2011: Christian Monnoyer, former Ambassador of Belgium
• 26 September 2011: Jullapong Nonsrichai, former Ambassador of Thailand
• 24 April 2012: Juan Léon Alvarado, former Ambassador of Guatemala
• 25 May 2013: Antonio Bandini, former Ambassador of Italy
• 28 May 2013: Hugo Østergaard-Andersen, former Ambassador of Denmark
• 30 September 2013: Byong-hyun Lee, former Ambassador of South Korea
• 9 December 2013: Barry B. White, former Ambassador of the United States
• 26 April 2014: Juan Aníbal Barria, former Ambassador of Chile
• 30 June 2014: José de Jésus Sojo Reyes, former Ambassador of Venezuela
• 25 September 2014: Akio Shirota, former Ambassador of Japan
• 25 October 2014: Antonios Vlavianos, former Ambassador of Greece
• 8 December 2014: Theerankun Niyom, former Ambassador of Thailand
• 18 March 2015: Dace Melbārde, former Minister of Culture, Latvia
• 18 March 2015: Dana Reizniece-Ozola, former Minister of Finance, Latvia
• 18 March 2015: Raimonds Vējonis, former President of Latvia (then Defence Minister)
• 18 March 2015: Gundars Daudze, former Vice-Chairman of the National Assembly, Latvia
• 18 April 2015: Lee Byung-hwa, former Ambassador of South Korea
• 18 April 2015: Edgars Rinkēvičs, President of Latvia (then Foreign Minister)
• 12 May 2015: Michel Godfrind, former Ambassador of Belgium
• 30 May 2015: Gunnar Pálsson, former Ambassador of Iceland
• 2 May 2016: Juan Manuel Ortiz de Rozas, former Ambassador of Argentina
• 15 September 2016: Sadia El Alaoui, former Ambassador of Morocco
• 13 October 2016: Antonio López Martínez, former Ambassador of Spain
• 19 October 2016: Flávio Helmold Macieira, former Ambassador of Brazil
• 25 January 2017: José Miguel Cruz Sánchez, former Ambassador of Chile
• 16 March 2017: Jukr Boon-Long, former Ambassador of Thailand
• 21 March 2017: Eliza Jean Reid, First Lady of Iceland
• 21 March 2017: Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Iceland
• 21 March 2017: Stefán Haukur Jóhannesson, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Iceland
• 21 March 2017: Örnólfur Thorsson, Chief of Cabinet, Iceland
• 21 March 2017: Hermann Ingólfsson, former Ambassador of Iceland
• 15 May 2017: Luis Javier Campuzano Piña, former Ambassador of Mexico
• 22 June 2017: Thomas Wunderbaldinger, former Ambassador of Austria
• 26 June 2017: Alvaro Sandoval Bernal, former Ambassador of Colombia
• 15 August 2017: Bea ten Tusscher, former Ambassador of the Netherlands
• 17 August 2017: Maria Clara Nunes dos Santos, former Ambassador of Portugal
• 6 March 2018: Juliana Awada, former First Lady of Argentina
• 24 January 2019: Hae-yun Park, former Ambassador of South Korea
• 27 March 2019: Cecilia Morel, former First Lady of Chile
• 12 June 2019: Kim Jung-sook, former First Lady of South Korea
• 28 August 2019: Nancy Rossignol, former Ambassador of Belgium
• 28 August 2019: Prasittiporn Wetprasit, former Ambassador of Thailand
• 2 March 2020: Princess Rym al-Ali of Jordan
• 2 March 2020: Prince Ghazi of Jordan
• 2 March 2020: Omar Razzaz, former Prime Minister of Jordan
• 2 March 2020: Faisal Al-Fayez, President of Senate of Jordan
• 2 March 2020: Ayman Safadi, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jordan
• 2 March 2020: Tarek Hamouri, Minister of Industry, Jordan
• 2 March 2020: Muthana Gharaibeh, Minister of State, Jordan
• 2 March 2020: Yousef Shawarbeh, Mayor of Amman
• 2 March 2020: Yousef Huneiti, Chief of Armed Forces, Jordan
• 2 March 2020: Mohammad Al Ghazu, Head of Legal Council, Jordan
• 2 March 2020: Janti Kalajoqa, Ambassador of Jordan
• 2 March 2020: Yousef Al Issawi, Chief of Royal Court, Jordan
• 2 March 2020: Bisher Khasawneh, Communications Advisor, Jordan
• 2 March 2020: Kemal Ennasser, Communications Advisor, Jordan
• 2 March 2020: Shereen Shwayhat, Private Secretary, Jordan
• 2 March 2020: Qais Abu Daieh, Chief of Protocol, Jordan
• 2 March 2020: Lama Alnabulsi, Head of Office, Jordan
• 25 September 2020: Masahiro Tauchi, former Ambassador of Japan
• 25 September 2020: Krister Bringeus, former Ambassador of Sweden
• 2 February 2021: George Monteiro Prata, former Ambassador of Brazil
• 2 February 2021: Waldemar E. Coutts Smart, former Ambassador of Chile
• 22 April 2021: Young-sook Nam, former Ambassador of South Korea
• 11 May 2021: Rami Ladi, former Ambassador of Morocco
• 26 May 2021: Tom van Oorschot, former Ambassador of the Netherlands
• 26 May 2021: Jarl Kåre Frijs-Madsen, former Ambassador of Denmark
• 21 October 2021: António Manuel do Amaral Quinteiro Lopes Nobre, former Ambassador of Portugal
• 21 October 2021: Alberto Colella, former Ambassador of Italy
• 9 November 2021: Ben Knapen, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands
• 9 November 2021: Christoffel Breedveld, former Chief of the Royal Court, Netherlands
• 9 November 2021: Ludgerus Hubertus Ignatius Brummelaar, Chief of Adjutant Staff, Netherlands
• 9 November 2021: John Groffen, Ambassador of the Netherlands
• 18 March 2022: Wilhelm Maximilian Donko, former Ambassador of Austria
• 25 March 2022: Mikael Kenneth Antell, former Ambassador of Finland
• 25 March 2022: Ingibjørg Davidsdottir, Ambassador of Iceland

11 May 2023	Antonio Tajani	Deputy Prime Minister of Italy
11 May 2023	Stefano Nicoletti	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Italy
27 June 2023	Frank Arnauts	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belgium
22 November 2023	Ulises Canchola Gutiérrez	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Mexico
13 December 2023	Ángela Montoya Holguín	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Colombia

• 2 January 1919: Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 4th Baron Kenyon, former peer, United Kingdom
• 6 March 1919: Thomas H. Birch, Colonel, United States
• 6 March 1919: Lancelot Carnegie, former Ambassador of Portugal
• 6 March 1919: Raymand Le Ghait, former Minister Plenipotentiary of Belgium
• 6 March 1919: Attilio Serra, former Minister Plenipotentiary of Italy
• 29 April 1919: Count of Velle, Spain
• 18 June 1919: João do Rio, Brazilian journalist
• 21 June 1919: Salvatore Contarini, former Senator, Italy
• 21 June 1919: João de Souza Laje, former diplomat, Brazil
• 26 June 1919: Cosme de la Torriente y Peraza, former President, League of Nations
• 27 June 1919: Miguel Gastão da Cunha, former Ambassador of Brazil

• 28 July 1999: Aziz Mekouar, former Ambassador of Morocco
• 13 December 1999: Queen Paola of Belgium
• 2 August 2000: Marcolino Moco, former Prime Minister of Angola
• 11 September 2000: Josep Piqué, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Spain
• 11 September 2000: Fernando Almansa, former Secretary-General, Royal Household, Spain
• 23 September 2002: José Rodríguez-Spiteri, former Ambassador of Spain
• 16 October 2002: Edoardo Rovida, Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Portugal
• 3 April 2003: Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland
• 19 November 2003: George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, former Secretary-General of NATO
• 6 May 2005: Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
• 6 May 2005: Jean-Claude Juncker, former Prime Minister of Luxembourg
• 1 June 2005: Carlos Carderera Soler, former Ambassador of Spain
• 19 December 2005: Prince Al-Karim Aga Khan IV, United Kingdom
• 3 January 2006: Jean-Pierre Raffarin, former Prime Minister of France
• 8 March 2006: King Philippe of Belgium (then Duke of Brabant)
• 8 March 2006: Queen Mathilde of Belgium (then Duchess of Brabant)
• 25 September 2006: Queen Letizia of Spain (then Princess of Asturias)
• 25 September 2006: José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, former Prime Minister of Spain
• 25 September 2006: María Teresa Fernández de la Vega, former First Deputy Prime Minister, Spain
• 25 September 2006: Pedro Solbes, former Second Deputy Prime Minister, Spain
• 25 September 2006: Manuel Marín, former President of Congress of Deputies, Spain
• 25 September 2006: Alberto Aza, former Secretary-General, Royal Household, Spain
• 5 March 2008: Marisa Letícia Lula da Silva, former First Lady of Brazil
• 26 May 2008: Queen Sonja of Norway
• 15 October 2008: Alfio Rapisarda, Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Portugal
• 1 December 2009: Michelle Bachelet, former President of Chile
• 19 January 2010: Javier Solana, former Secretary-General, NATO
• 5 March 2010: Joan Enric Vives i Sicília, Co-Prince of Andorra
• 11 May 2010: Rino Passigato, Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Portugal
• 11 May 2010: Fernando Filoni, Grand Master, Order of the Holy Sepulchre
• 19 July 2010: Alexandre do Nascimento, Archbishop Emeritus of Luanda

23 November 2010	Jean-Pierre Mazery	Grand Chancellor of Sovereign Military of Malta
23 November 2010	Albrecht von Boeselager	Grand Hospitaller of Sovereign Military of Malta

12 October 2016

Pietro Parolin

Cardinal Secretary of State of the Vatican City

28 November 2016	Alfonso Dastis	Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain
28 November 2016	Jaime Alfonsín	Chief of the Royal Household of Spain
28 November 2016	Juan Manuel de Barandica y Luxán	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Spain

15 April 2018	Mariano Rajoy	Prime Minister of Spain
15 April 2018	Pío García-Escudero	President of the Senate of Spain
15 April 2018	Ana Pastor	President of the Congress of Deputies of Spain

• 22 May 2009: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and 19 other cabinet ministers sworn-in into office.
• 23 May 2009: President allocates portfolios among six cabinet ministers. Pranab Mukherjee appointed finance minister, Sharad Pawar re-appointed agriculture minister with additional charge of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, A. K. Antony re-appointed defence minister, P. Chidambaram re-appointed home minister, Mamata Banerjee appointed railways minister while S. M. Krishna appointed external affairs minister.
• 28 May 2009: 14 cabinet ministers, 7 ministers of state (independent charge) and 38 ministers of state were sworn-in into office. Portfolios allocated among all remaining ministers.
• 19 January 2011: A cabinet expansion took place in which three ministers of state (independent charge) were promoted to cabinet rank, viz. Praful Patel, Shriprakash Jaiswal and Salman Khurshid; and three ministers of state were appointed. Portfolios of several ministers were changed.
• 19 May 2011: Mamata Banerjee resigned as Union Railways Minister after being elected as Chief Minister of West Bengal. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh assumed charge of the Minister of Railways while Mukul Roy assigned additional charge as Minister of State for Railways.
• 12 July 2011:
  • Five cabinet ministers (Dayanidhi Maran, Murli Deora, Bijoy Krishna Handique, M. S. Gill and Kantilal Bhuria) and two ministers of state (Sai Prathap Annayyagari and Arun Yadav) resigned from the council of ministers.
  • Three ministers of state (Beni Prasad Verma, Jairam Ramesh and Dinesh Trivedi) promoted to cabinet rank and one cabinet minister (V. Kishore Chandra Deo); two ministers of state (independent charge), viz. Jayanthi Natarajan and Paban Singh Ghatowar, and five ministers of state (Sudip Bandyopadhyay, Charan Das Mahant, Jitendra Singh, Milind Deora, Rajeev Shukla) were inducted. Portfolios of several ministers were changed.
• 13 July 2011: Drinking Water and Sanitation Minister of State (Independent Charge) Gurudas Kamat resigned from cabinet. Jairam Ramesh assigned additional duties.
• 20 July 2011: Paban Singh Ghatowar, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for DoNER assigned additional charge of Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs.
• 18 March 2012: Dinesh Trivedi resigned as Union Railways Minister.
• 20 March 2012: Mukul Roy, Minister of State for Shipping promoted to cabinet rank and appointed as Minister of Railways.

• 26 June 2012: Pranab Mukherjee resigned as Union Finance Minister after being nominated as the presidential candidate by the United Progressive Alliance; Prime Minister Manmohan Singh assigned additional duties of the Minister of Finance.
• 31 July 2012: A minor reshuffle took place. Home Minister P. Chidambaram was appointed as Finance Minister, Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde was appointed as Home Minister and Leader of the House in the Lok Sabha while Veerappa Moily was assigned additional duties as Minister of Power.
• 27 October 2012: Seven ministers - S. M. Krishna, Ambika Soni, Mukul Wasnik, Subodh Kant Sahay, Mahadeo Singh Khandela, Vincent Pala and Agatha Sangma resigned from the union council of ministers.
• 28 October 2012: Seven ministers of cabinet rank (including five ministers of state who were promoted), two ministers of state with independent charge and thirteen ministers of state were sworn-in into the council of ministers. Portfolios of several ministers were changed.
• 29 October 2012: Portfolios of [[Jitendra Singh (politician, born 1971) and Jitin Prasada were changed. Singh was assigned charge of Minister of State for Defence while Prasada was relieved of the duties as Minister of State for Defence.
• 31 October 2012: Portfolios of Milind Deora, Lalchand Kataria and Panabaka Lakshmi were changed. Deora was assigned the charge of Ministry of Communications and Information

• 11 May 2013: Railways Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal and Law Minister Ashwani Kumar resigned from cabinet. Road Transport and Highways Minister C. P. Joshi assigned additional charge of Railways ministry while Communications & IT Minister Kapil Sibal assigned additional charge of Law and Justice ministry.