List of state leaders in 1801

This is a list of heads of state, government leaders, and other rulers in the year 1801.

Africa

• Akwa Akpa (Old Calabar) - Ekpenyong Offiong Okoho, King of Akwa Akpa (1786–1805)
• Ashanti Confederacy – Osei Kwame Panyin, Asantehene (1777–1803)
• Kingdom of Buganda – Semakokiro (1771–1814)
• Bunyoro – Nyamutukura Kyebambe III, Omukama of Bunyoro (1786–1835)
• Kingdom of Burundi – Ntare IV Rugamba (1796–1852)
• Kingdom of Dahomey – Adandozan (1797–1818)
• Ethiopian Empire –
  • Demetros (1800–1801)
  • Egwale Seyon (1801–1818)
• Ketu – Ajibolu, Oba of Ketu (1795–1816)
• Sultanate of Ndzuwani – Alawi bin Husain (1796–1816)
• Kingdom of Rwanda – Yuhi III (1797–1830)
• Yauri Emirate – Muhammadu Dan Ayi dan Ahmadu Jerabana Albishir, Emir of Yauri (1799–1829)
• Zulu – Senzangakona, King of the Zulu (1781–1816)

Asia

• Afghanistan -
  • Kabul -
    1. Zaman Shah, King of Afghanistan (1793–1801)
    2. Mahmud Shah, King of Afghanistan (1801–1803)
  • Peshawar -
    1. Zaman Shah, King of Afghanistan (1793–1801)
    2. Peshawar secedes from Kabul control
    3. Shoja Shah, Padshah of Peshawar (1801)
    4. Peshawar returns to Kabul control
    5. Mahmud Shah, King of Afghanistan (1801–1803)
• China (Qing dynasty) - Jiaqing Emperor (1796–1820)
• Empire of Japan
  • Monarch – Kōkaku (1780–1817)
  • Tokugawa - Tokugawa Ienari (1786–1837)
  • Ryukyu Kingdom – Shō On (1796–1802)
• Khanate of Kokand – 'Alim Khan (1800–1809)
• Joseon (Korea) – Sunjo (1800–1834)
• Tonk – Muhammad Amir Khan, Nawab of Tonk (1798–1834)

Europe

• Principality of Abkhazia – Kelesh Begi (1747–1806)
• Andorra – Francesc Antoni de la Dueña y Cisneros, Bishop of Urgell (1797–1816)
• Batavian Republic –
  • Uitvoerend Bewind (1798–1801)
  • Staatsbewind (1801–1805)
• Kingdom of Denmark–Norway
  • Monarch – Christian VII (1766–1808)
  • Minister of State - Christian Gunther (1797–1810)
• Kingdom of Etruria – Louis (1801–1803)
• French First Republic – Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul (1799–1804)
• Holy Roman Empire – Franz II (1792–1806)
• Ottoman (Turkish) Empire
  • Sultan - Selim III (1789–1807)
  • Grand Vizier – Yusuf Ziyaüddin Pasha (1798–1805)
• Kingdom of Portugal and the Algarves – Maria I Francisca (1777–1816)
• Kingdom of Prussia – Frederick William III (1797–1840)
• Russian Empire –
  1. Paul I (1796–1801)
  2. Alexander I (1801–1825)
• Kingdom of Spain – Charles IV (1788–1808)
• Kingdom of Sweden – Gustav IV Adolf (1792–1809)
• Grand Duchy of Tuscany – Ferdinand III (1790–1801)
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
  • Monarch – George III (1760–1820)
  • Prime Minister -
    1. William Pitt (1783–1801)
    2. Henry Addington (1801–1804)

Middle East and North Africa

• Abu Dhabi – Shakhbut bin Dhiyab, Shaikh of Abu Dhabi (1793–1816)
• Sultanate of Morocco – Slimane (1792–1822)
• Persia (Qajar dynasty) – Fath Ali Shah (1797–1834)
• Beylik of Tunis –
  • Bey - Hammuda ibn Ali (1782–1814)
  • Grand Vizier – Yusuf Sahib al-Tabi (1800–1815)

North America and the Caribbean

• State of Muskogee - William Augustus Bowles, Director General
• United States
  • Head of State/Government -
    1. John Adams, President of the United States (1797–1801)
    2. Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States (1801–1809)

Oceania

• Kingdom of Tahiti – Pōmare I (1791–1803)