List of first ladies
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This is a list of current first ladies by the U.S. definition: the spouse of the president or other non-monarch head of state. Not all use the title "first lady".
Wives of prime ministers do not satisfy the above criteria.
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[edit] Africa
- Ana Paula dos Santos (Angola)
- Barbara Mogae (Botswana)
- Chantal Compaoré (Burkina Faso)
- Chantal Biya (Cameroon)
- Adélcia Pires (Cape Verde)
- Monique Bozizé (Central African Republic)
- Hinda Déby Itno (Chad)
- Note: President Idriss Déby has multiple wives
- Olive Lembe Di Sita Kabila (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
- Antoinette Sassou-Nguesso (Republic of the Congo)
- Simone Gbagbo (Côte d'Ivoire)
- Kadra Mahamoud Haid (Djibouti)
- Suzanne Mubarak (Egypt)
- Constancia Mangue de Obiang (Equatorial Guinea)
- Saba Haile (Eritrea)
- Edith Bongo (Gabon)
- Zineb Jammeh (The Gambia)
- Theresa Kufuor (Ghana)
- Henriette Conté (Guinea)
- Lucy Kibaki (Kenya)
- Lalao Ravalomanana (Madagascar)
- Ethel Mutharika (Malawi)
- Touré Lobbo Traoré (Mali)
- Sarojini Jugnauth (Mauritius)
- Maria da Luz Guebuza (Mozambique)
- Penexupifo Pohamba (Namibia)
- Laraba Tandja (Niger)
- Jeannette Kagame (Rwanda)
- Viviane Wade (Senegal)
- Zanele Mbeki (South Africa)
- Salma Kikwete (Tanzania)
- Janet Museveni (Uganda)
- Maureen Mwanawasa (Zambia)
- Grace Mugabe (Zimbabwe)
[edit] Asia
- Zinat Karzai (Afghanistan)
- Anwara Begum (Bangladesh)
- Liu Yongqing (China)
- Kirsty Sword Gusmão (East Timor)
- Adi Salaseini Kavunono (Fiji)
- Kristiani Herawati (Indonesia)
- Sara Nazarbayeva (Kazakhstan)
- Kwon Yang-suk (Republic of Korea)
- Nasreena Gayoom (Maldives)
- Mary Note (Marshall Islands)
- Onongiyn Tsolmon (Mongolia)
- Kyaing Kyaing (Myanmar [Burma])
- Sehba Musharraf (Pakistan)
- Debbie Remengesau (Palau)
- Urmila Nathan (Singapore)
- Wu Shu-chen (Taiwan)
- Azizmo Asadullaeva (Tajikistan)
- Tatyana Karimova (Uzbekistan)
- Hanson Matas Kelekele (Vanuatu)
[edit] Central American and the Caribbean
- Margarita Cedeño de Fernández (Dominican Republic)
- Ana Ligia de Saca (El Salvador)
- Wendy Widmann de Berger (Guatemala)
- Xiomara Castro de Zelaya (Honduras)
- Lila Abaúnza de Bolaños (Nicaragua)
- Vivian Fernández de Torrijos (Panama)
- Jean Ramjohn-Richards (Trinidad and Tobago)
[edit] Middle East
- Gila Katsav (Israel)
- Andrée Lahoud (Lebanon)
- Asma al-Assad (Syria)
- Leïla Ben Ali (Tunisia)
- Semra Sezer (Turkey)
[edit] Europe
- Bella Kocharian (Armenia)
- Margit Fischer (Austria)
- Mehriban Aliyeva (Azerbaijan)
- Galina Lukashenka (Belarus; separated from Alyaksandr Lukashenka)
- Zorka Parvanova (Bulgaria)
- Milka Mesić (Croatia)
- Fotini Papadopoulou (Cyprus)
- Livia Klausová (Czech Republic)
- Evelin Ilves (Estonia)
- Bernadette Chirac (France)
- Sandra Roelofs (Georgia)
- Eva Köhler (Germany)
- Maria Panou (Greece)
- Erzsébet Sólyom (Hungary)
- Dorrit Moussaieff (Iceland)
- Clio Napolitano (Italy)
- Alma Adamkus (Lithuania)
- Jasmina Crvenkovska (Macedonia)
- Mary Fenech Adami (Malta)
- Maria Kaczyńska (Poland)
- Maria Cavaco Silva (Portugal)
- Maria Băsescu (Romania)
- Liudmila Putina (Russia)
- Silvia Gašparovičová (Slovakia)
- Gret Loewensberg (Switzerland)
- Kateryna Yushchenko-Chumachenko (Ukraine)
[edit] North America
- Marta Sahagún de Fox (Mexico)
- Laura Bush (United States)
[edit] South America
- Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (Argentina)
- Marisa Letícia da Silva (Brazil)
- Lina Moreno de Uribe (Colombia)
- María Paret de Palacio (Ecuador)
- Varshnie Jagdeo (Guyana)
- Gloria Penayo de Duarte (Paraguay)
- Pilar Nores de García (Peru)
- Liesbeth Venetiaan-Vanenburg (Suriname)
- María Auxiliadora Delgado de Vázquez (Uruguay)
- Marisabel Rodríguez de Chávez (Venezuela; separated from Hugo Chávez)