List of spouses of national leaders born abroad explained
This is a list of spouses of national leaders born abroad. Spouses or partners using the title of "First lady" or "First gentleman" of a nation are included, whether they be a spouse of a president, prime minister, or other national leader. Some countries which have a president and prime minister have only included the spouse considered that of the national leader.
Spouses are not included if they were born in a colony that would become an independent state (e.g. New Spain forming independent nations in Latin America), countries that changed names (Upper Volta to Burkina Faso), or countries that broke apart (spouses of former Soviet countries born in another Soviet republic). Regal consorts and spouses of viceregal representatives (governors-general) are not included.
| Name | Country | Spouse | Office | Birth Country | Term Length |
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| Rula Ghani | | Ashraf Ghani | President | | 2014–2021 |
| Juana del Pino y Vera Mujica | | Bernardino Rivadavia | President | | 1826–1827 |
| Cipriana de Saenz | | Luis Sáenz Peña | President | | 1892–1895 |
| Emily Henry de la Plaza | | Victorino de la Plaza | President | | 1914–1916[1] |
| Regina Pacini | | Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear | President | | 1922–1928[2] |
| Bettina Gorton | | John Gorton | Prime Minister | | 1968–1971 |
| Annita van Iersel | | Paul Keating | Prime Minister | | 1991–1996 |
| Margie Abbott | | Tony Abbott | Prime Minister | | 2013–2015 |
| Margit Fischer | | Heinz Fischer | President | | 2004–2016 |
| Carolyn Plaskett | | Errol Barrow | Prime Minister | | 1966–1976, 1986–1987 |
| Mara Thompson | | David Thompson | Prime Minister | | 2008–2010 |
| Celie Verbeke | | Jean-Luc Dehaene | Prime Minister | | 1992–1999[3] |
| Chris Stone | | Sophie Wilmès | Prime Minister | | 2019–2020 |
| Virginia Gillum | | Jorge Quiroga | President | | 2001–2002[4] |
| Héctor Hincapié Carvajal | | Jeanine Áñez | President | | 2019–2020[5] |
| Ruth Williams Khama | | Seretse Khama | President | | 1966–1980 |
| Gladys Olebile Masire | | Quett Masire | President | (modern day) | 1980–1998 |
| Chantal Compaoré | | Blaise Compaoré | President | | 1987–2014 |
| Sika Bella Kaboré | | Roch Marc Christian Kaboré | President | | 2015–2022 |
| Lígia Fonseca | | Jorge Carlos Fonseca | President | (modern day) | 2011–2021 |
| Mila Mulroney |  Canada | Brian Mulroney | Prime Minister | (modern day  Bosnia and Herzegovina) | 1984–1993 |
| Luisa Garmendia | | Francisco Antonio Pinto | President | (Modern day) | 1827-1829 |
| Manuela Warnes | | Joaquín Prieto | President | | 1931-1941 |
| Enriqueta Pinto | | Manuel Bulnes | President | | 1841–1851 |
| Cecilia Arboleda Mosquera | | Jorge Holguín | President | | 1909, 1921–1922 |
| Bertha Puga Martínez | | Alberto Lleras Camargo | President | | 1958–1962 |
| Cecilia de la Fuente Cortés | | Carlos Lleras Restrepo | President | | 1966–1970 |
| Carolina Isakson Proctor | | Virgilio Barco Vargas | President | | 1986–1990 |
| Clotilde Ngouabi | | Marien Ngouabi | President | | 1969–1972 |
| Sofía Matilde Joy Redman | | José María Castro Madriz | President | | 1859–1863 |
| Elena Gallegos Rosales | | Julio Acosta García | President | | 1920–1924 |
| Yvonne Clays Spoelders | | Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia | President | | 1940–1944 |
| Henrietta Boggs | | José Figueres Ferrer | President | | 1948–1949 |
| Karen Olsen Beck | | José Figueres Ferrer | President | | 1970–1974 |
| Marjorie Elliott Sypher | | Daniel Oduber Quirós | President | | 1974–1978 |
| Gloria Bejarano Almada | | Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier | President | | 1990–1994 |
| José María Rico | | Laura Chinchilla | President | | 2010–2014 |
| Mercedes Peñas Domingo | | Luis Guillermo Solís | President | | 2014–2018 |
| Signe Zeicate | | Rodrigo Chaves Robles | President | (modern day) | 2022–present |
| Lila Irene Clerides | | Glafcos Clerides | President | (modern day) | 1974, 1993–2003 |
| Mimi Kyprianou | | Spyros Kyprianou | President | | 1977–1988 |
| Stephen Kinnock | | Helle Thorning-Schmidt | Prime Minister | | 2011–2015 |
| Sólrun Løkke Rasmussen | | Lars Løkke Rasmussen | Prime Minister | (constituent county of) | 2009–2011, 2015–2019 |
| Carmen Quidiello | | Juan Bosch | President | | 1963 |
| Renée Klang de Guzmán | | Antonio Guzmán Fernández | President | | 1978–1982 |
| Kirsty Sword Gusmão | | Xanana Gusmão | President | | 2002–2007 |
| Joy Aquino Siapno | | Fernando de Araújo | President | | 2008 |
| Ana Paredes Arosemena | | Eloy Alfaro | President | (modern day) | 1906–1911 |
| Corina del Parral | | José María Velasco Ibarra | President | | 1944–1947, 1952–1956, 1960–1961, 1968–1972 |
| Alicia Pizzimbono | | Alfredo Poveda | President | | 1976–1979 |
| María Eugenia Cordovez | | León Febres Cordero | President | | 1984–1988 |
| Josefina Villalobos | | Sixto Durán Ballén | President | | 1992–1996 |
| Anne Malherbe Gosselin | | Rafael Correa | President | | 2007–2017 |
| Vanda Pignato | | Mauricio Funes | President | | 2009–2014 |
| Regina Abelt | | Negasso Gidada | President | (modern day) | 1995–2001 |
| Penelope Fillon | | François Fillon | Prime Minister | | 2007–2012 |
| Carla Bruni | | Nicolas Sarkozy | President | | 2008–2012 |
| Edith Lucie Bongo | | Omar Bongo | President | | 1989–2009 |
| Sylvia Bongo Ondimba | | Ali Bongo Ondimba | President | | 2009–2023 |
| Sandra Roelofs | | Mikheil Saakashvili | President | | 2008–2013 |
| Rut Brandt | | Willy Brandt | Chancellor | | 1969–1974 |
| Fathia Nkrumah | | Kwame Nkrumah | President | | 1960–1966 |
| Mildred Christina Akosiwor Fugar | | Joseph Arthur Ankrah | President | (modern day) | 1966–1969 |
| Mary Stuart, Countess of Bute | | John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute | Prime Minister | (modern day) | 1762–1763 |
| Algeria Benton de Reyna | | José María Reina Barrios | President | | 1892–1898 |
| Elisa Martínez Contreras | | Juan José Arévalo | President | | 1945–1951 |
| Maria Cristina Vilanova | | Jacobo Árbenz | President | | 1951–1954 |
| Elsa Cirigliano | | Fernando Romeo Lucas García | President | | 1978–1982 |
| Patricia Escobar | | Álvaro Arzú | President | | 1996–2000 |
| Lauriane Doumbouya | | Mamady Doumbouya | President | | 2021–present |
| Janet Jagan | | Cheddi Jagan | President | | 1992–1997 |
| Mildred Trouillot | | Jean-Bertrand Aristide | President | | 2001–2004 |
| Sophia Martelly | | Michel Martelly | President | | 2011–2016 |
| Bessie Watson | | Carlos Roberto Reina | President | | 1994–1998[6] |
| Mary Flake de Flores | | Carlos Roberto Flores | President | | 1998–2002 |
| Aguas Santas Ocaña Navarro | | Ricardo Maduro | President | | 2002–2006 |
| Georgia Björnsson | | Sveinn Björnsson | President | | 1944–1952 |
| Dorrit Moussaieff | | Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson | President | | 2003–2016 |
| Eliza Reid | | Guðni Th. Jóhannesson | President | | 2016–present |
| Lucy Kurtz | | Douglas Hyde | President | (modern day) | 1938–1945 |
| Máirín Uí Dhálaigh | | Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh | President | (modern day) | 1974–1976 |
| Joan O'Farrell | | Garret FitzGerald | Taoiseach | | 1981–1982, 1982–1987 |
| Nicholas Robinson | | Mary Robinson | President | | 1990–1997 |
| Martin McAleese | | Mary McAleese | President | | 1997–2011 |
| Janaki Venkataraman | | Ramaswamy Venkataraman | President | (modern day) | 1987–1992 |
| Sonia Gandhi | | Rajiv Gandhi | Prime Minister | | 1984–1989 |
| Usha Narayanan | | K. R. Narayanan | President | (modern day) | 1997–2002 |
| Vera Weizmann | | Chaim Weizmann | President | (modern day) | 1949–1952 |
| Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi | | Yitzhak Ben-Zvi | President | (modern day) | 1952–1963 |
| Rachel Katznelson-Shazar | | Zalman Shazar | President | (modern day) | 1963–1973 |
| Nina Katzir | | Ephraim Katzir | President | | 1973–1978 |
| Aura Herzog | | Chaim Herzog | President | | 1983–1993 |
| Reuma Weizman | | Ezer Weizman | President | | 1993–2000 |
| Sonia Peres | | Shimon Peres | President | (modern day) | 2007–2011 |
| Dominique Ouattara | | Alassane Ouattara | President | (modern day) | 2011–present |
| Kayoko Hosowaka | | Morihiro Hosokawa | Prime Minister | (modern day) | 1993–1994 |
| Miyuki Hatoyama | | Yukio Hatoyama | Prime Minister | | 2009–2010 |
| Andra Levite | | Egils Levits | President of Latvia | (modern day) | 2019–present |
| Rosé Rene Poitieux | | Fouad Chehab | President | | 1952, 1958–1964[7] |
| Iris Handaly | | Suleiman Frangieh | President | | 1970–1976 |
| Clar Weah | | George Weah | President of Liberia | | 2018–2024 |
| Ethel Mutharika | | Bingu wa Mutharika | President | (modern day) | 2004–2007 |
| Richard Banda | | Joyce Banda | President | (modern day) | 2012–2014 |
| Iris Falcam | | Leo Falcam | President | | 1999–2003 |
| Georgeta Snegur | | Mircea Snegur | President | | 1990–1997 |
| Anastasia Filatova | | Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal | Chairman | (modern day) | 1952–1984 |
| Christina Massey | | William Massey | Prime Minister | | 1912–1925 |
| Janet Fraser | | Peter Fraser | Prime Minister | | 1940–1945 |
| Peter Davis | | Helen Clark | Prime Minister | | 1999–2008 |
| Isabel Urcuyo | | Luis Somoza Debayle | President | | 1956–1963 |
| Hope Portocarrero | | Anastasio Somoza Debayle | President | | 1974–1979 |
| Nahid Mirza | | Iskander Mirza | President | | 1956–1958 |
| Nusrat Bhutto | | Zulfikar Ali Bhutto | President | | 1971–1973 |
| Shafiq Zia | | Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq | President | | 1977–1988 |
| Viqar-un-Nisa Noon | | Feroz Khan Noon | Prime Minister | | 1957–1958 |
| Adela Ruiz de Royo | | Aristides Royo | President | | 1978–1982 |
| Yazmín Colón de Cortizo | | Laurentino Cortizo | President | | 2019–present |
| Eliza Lynch | | Francisco Solano López | President | (modern day) | 1862–1870 |
| Eliane Karp | | Alejandro Toledo | President | | 2001–2006 |
| Pilar Nores de García | | Alan García | President | | 1985–1990, 2006–2011 |
| Nancy Lange | | Pedro Pablo Kuczynski | President | | 2016–2018 |
| Maria Piłsudska | | Józef Piłsudski | President | | 1918–1921 |
| Maria Kaczyńska | | Lech Kaczyński | President | controlled Reichskommissariat Ostland (modern day) | 2005-2010 |
| Elzira Dantas Machado | | Bernardino Machado | President | (modern day) | 1915–1917, 1925–1926 |
| Jeannette Kagame | | Paul Kagame | President | | 2000–present |
| Colette Senghor | | Léopold Sédar Senghor | President | | 1960–1980 |
| Viviane Wade | | Abdoulaye Wade | President | | 2000–2012 |
| Noor Aishah Mohammad Salim | | Yusof Ishak | President | | 1965–1970 |
| Graça Machel | | Nelson Mandela | President | (modern day) | 1998–1999 |
| Franziska Donner | | Syngman Rhee | President | (modern day) | 1948–1960 |
| Rose-Marie Belle Antoine | | Kenny Anthony | Prime Minister | | 1997–2006, 2011–2016 |
| Patricia Mae Mitchell | | James Fitz-Allen Mitchell | Prime Minister | | 1984–2000[8] |
| Eloise Harris | | Ralph Gonsalves | Prime Minister | | 2001–present[9] |
| Asma al-Assad | | Bashar al-Assad | President | | 2000–present |
| Oei Hui-lan | | Wellington Koo | President | (modern day) | 1926–1927 |
| Chiang Fang-liang | | Chiang Ching-kuo | President | (modern day) | 1978–1988 |
| Christine Chow Ma | | Ma Ying-jeou | President | | 2008–2016 |
| Reema Harrysingh-Carmona | | Anthony Carmona | President | | 2013–2018 |
| Moufida Bourguiba | | Habib Bourguiba | President | | 1957–1961 |
| Beatrix Marzouki | | Moncef Marzouki | President | | 2011–2014 |
| Siren Ennaceur | | Mohamed Ennaceur | President | | 2019 |
| Kateryna Yushchenko | | Viktor Yushchenko | President | | 2005–2010 |
| Marina Wheeler | | Boris Johnson | Prime Minister | (modern day) | 2019–2020 |
| Akshata Murty | | Rishi Sunak | Prime Minister | | 2022–2024 |
| Louisa Adams | | John Quincy Adams | President | | 1825–1829 |
| Melania Trump | | Donald Trump | President | (modern day) | 2017–2021 |
| Matilde Ibáñez Tálice | | Luis Batlle Berres | President | | 1947–1951 |
| Charlotte Harland Scott | | Guy Scott | President | | 2014–2015 |
| Sally Mugabe | | Robert Mugabe | President | (modern day) | 1987–1992 |
| Grace Mugabe | | Robert Mugabe | President | (modern day) | 1996–2017 | |
Notes and References
- Web site: Emily Henry . 2022-04-22 . geni_family_tree . 9 December 2014 . en-US.
- Web site: Regina Pacini, la soprano portuguesa que abrazó y protegió a la cultura argentina . 2022-04-22 . www.cultura.gob.ar . es.
- Web site: Celie: steun voor Jean-Luc, moeder en grootmoeder . 2022-04-26 . Het Belang van Limburg . 15 May 2014 . nl-BE.
- Web site: Bolivia's 1st Lady to Meet Laura Bush . 2022-04-22 . AP NEWS . en.
- Web site: FM . La . 2019-11-13 . El colombiano que se robó el corazón de la presidenta (e) de Bolivia . 2022-04-22 . www.lafm.com.co . spanish.
- News: Associated Press . 2003-08-21 . Carlos Roberto Reina, 77, President of Honduras in the 1990's . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-04-22 . 0362-4331.
- Web site: Fouad Chehab-Poor, But... . 2022-04-22 . monthlymagazine.com . en-US.
- Web site: Eulogy- Pat Mitchell . 2022-04-22 . thevincentian.com.
- Web site: About the Prime Minister . 2022-04-22 . pmoffice.gov.vc.
