List of Jews in politics
A list of Jewish politicians by country:
Jewish politicians by country
- Austria
- Canada
- France
- Germany
- Great Britain
- Israel (Includes non-Jewish politicians)
- Poland
- Russia
- South-east European
- United States
Jewish heads of state
- All Presidents of Israel have been Jewish (see list).
- Sir Matthew Nathan (1862–1939), Governor of the Gold Coast from 1900 to 1904, Governor of Hong Kong from 1904 to 1907, Governor of Natal from 1907 to 1909, Governor of Queensland from 1920 to 1925
- Lev Kamenev (1883–1936), Chairman of All-Russian Central Executive Committee in November 1917
- Yakov Sverdlov (1885–1919), Chairman of All-Russian Central Executive Committee from 1917 to 1919
- Eugen Leviné (1883–1919), Leader of the Bavarian Soviet Republic in 1919
- Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading (1860–1935), Viceroy of India from 1921 to 1926
- Sir Isaac Isaacs (1855–1948), Governor-General of Australia from 1931 to 1936
- Léon Blum (1872–1950), Chairman of the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1946 to 1947
- Ralph Moses Paiewonsky (1907–1991), Governor of the United States Virgin Islands from 1961 to 1969
- Max Delvalle (1911–1979), President of Panama in 1967
- Sir Zelman Cowen (1919–2011), Governor-General of Australia from 1977 to 1982
- Eric Arturo Delvalle (born 1937), President of Panama from 1985 to 1988
- Ruth Dreifuss (born 1940), President of the Swiss Confederation in 1999
- Janet Jagan (née Rosenberg, 1920–2009), President of Guyana from 1997 to 1999, atheist
Non-Jews with Jewish descent
- Sir Edward Brampton (1440–1508), Governor of Guernsey from 1482 to 1485
- Juan Lindo y Zelaya (1790–1857), President of El Salvador from 1841 to 1842 and President of Honduras from 1847 to 1852, raised Roman Catholic
- Francisco Henríquez y Carvajal (1859–1935), President of the Dominican Republic in 1916
- Ricardo Maduro (born 1946), President of Honduras from 2002 to 2006, raised Roman Catholic
- Nicolas Sarkozy (born 1955), President of France from 2007 to 2012, Jewish grandfather, raised Roman Catholic
- Nicolás Maduro (born 1962), President of Venezuela from 2013 onwards, raised Roman Catholic
Jewish heads of government
- All Prime Ministers of Israel have been Jewish (see list).
- Juan Álvarez Mendizábal (1790–1853), Prime Minister of Spain from 1835 to 1836, raised Roman Catholic
- Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804–1881), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1868 and from 1874 to 1880, convert to Anglicanism
- Sir Julius Vogel (1835–1899), Premier of New Zealand from 1873 to 1875 and in 1876
- Vaiben Louis Solomon (1853–1908) Premier of South Australia in 1899
- Alessandro Fortis (1842–1909), Prime Minister of Italy from 1905 to 1906
- Sidney Sonnino (1847–1922), Prime Minister of Italy in 1906 and from 1909 to 1910, raised Anglican
- Luigi Luzzatti (1841–1927), Prime Minister of Italy from 1910 to 1911
- Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924), Chairman of Council of People's Commissars of Russia from 1917 to 1924 and Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924, Jewish grandfather, raised Russian Orthodox
- Kurt Eisner (1867–1919), Minister-President of Bavaria from 1918 to 1919
- Paul Hirsch (1868–1940), Minister-President of Prussia from 1918 to 1920
- Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics (1887–1925), Prime Minister of Latvia from 1921 to 1923 and from 1923 to 1924
- Sir Francis Bell (1851–1936), Prime Minister of New Zealand in 1925, Jewish mother, raised Anglican
- Léon Blum (1872–1950), Prime Minister of France from 1936 to 1937, in 1938 and from 1946 to 1947
- Mátyás Rákosi (1892–1971), Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Hungarian People's Republic from 1952 to 1953, atheist
- René Mayer (1895–1972), Prime Minister of France in 1953
- Pierre Mendès France (1907–1982), Prime Minister of France from 1954 to 1955
- David Marshall (1908–1995), Chief Minister of Singapore from 1955 to 1956
- Sir Roy Welensky (1907–1991), Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland from 1956 to 1963, raised Anglican
- Michel Debré (1912–1996), Prime Minister of France from 1959 to 1962, convert to Catholicism
- Sir Joshua Hassan (1915–1997), Chief Minister of Gibraltar from 1964 to 1969 and 1972 to 1987
- Bruno Kreisky (1911–1990), Chancellor of Austria from 1970 to 1983, agnostic
- Laurent Fabius (born 1946), Prime Minister of France from 1984 to 1986, raised Roman Catholic
- Petre Roman (born 1946), Prime Minister of Romania from 1989 to 1991, convert to Romanian Orthodox
- Efraín Goldenberg Schreiber (born 1929), Prime Minister of Peru from 1994 to 1995
- Janet Jagan (née Rosenberg, 1920–2009), Prime Minister of Guyana in 1997, atheist
- Yevgeny Primakov (born 1929), Prime Minister of Russia from 1998 to 1999, raised Russian Orthodox
- Zurab Zhvania (1963–2005), Prime Minister of Georgia from 2004 to 2005, Jewish grandmother, raised Georgian Orthodox
- Mikhail Fradkov (born 1950), Prime Minister of Russia from 2004 to 2007, raised Russian Orthodox
- Yehude Simon Munaro (born 1947), Prime Minister of Peru from 2008 to 2009
- Mike Eman (born 1961), Prime Minister of Aruba from 2009 onwards
- Jan Fischer (born 1951), Prime Minister of the Czech Republic from 2009 to 2010
- John Key (born 1961), Prime Minister of New Zealand from 2008 onwards, agnostic
- Salomón Lerner Ghitis (born 1946), Prime Minister of Peru in 2011
See also
- Jewish people from Scandinavia and the Baltics
- Jewish people from Eastern Europe
- Jewish people from Western Europe
- Jewish people from Latin America
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