List of state leaders in 1530

This is a list of heads of state, government leaders, and other rulers in the year 1530.

Africa

• Kingdom of Baguirmi – Birni Besse (1522–1536)
• Ethiopian Empire – Dawit II (1508–1540)
• Kingdom of Kongo – Alfonso I, Manikongo (1509–1542)
• Morocco – Ahmad al-Araj (1517–1544)
• Sennar Sultanate – Amara Dunqas (1503–1533/4)
• Songhai Empire – Askia Musa, Askia of the Songhai Empire (1529–1539)

Americas

• Inca Empire – Huáscar (1527–1532)
• Muisca Confederation
  • zipa - Tisquesusa (1514–1537)
  • zaque - Quemuenchatocha (1490–1538)

Asia

• Ahmadnagar Sultanate – Burhan Shah I (1510–1553)
• Ahom Kingdom – Suhungmung (1497–1539)
• Bengal Sultanate – Nasiruddin Nasrat Shah (1519–1533)
• Berar Sultanate – Aladdin Imad Shah (1504–1529)
• Bijapur Sultanate – Ismail Adil Shah (1510–1534)
• China (Ming dynasty) - Jiajing Emperor (1521–1567)
• Kingdom of Cochin – Unniraman Koyikal II (1503–1537)
• Japan (Sengoku period)
  • Monarch – Emperor Go-Nara (1526–1557)
  • Ashikaga shogunate - Ashikaga Yoshiharu (1521–1546)
• Kengtung – Hpaya Kiao, ruled (1523–1560)
• Joseon (Korea) – Jungjong (1506–1544)
• Mahra Sultanate –
• Moghulistan – Sultan Said Khan (1514–1533)
• Sultanate of Maguindanao – Sharif Kabungsuwan (1520–1543)
• Mughal Empire –
  1. Babur (1526–1530)
  2. Humayun (1530–1540)
• Persia (Safavid Empire) - Tahmasp I (1525–1576)
• Ryukyu Kingdom – Shō Sei (1527–1555)
• Khanate of Sibir – Kuluk (1502–1530)
• Sultanate of Sulu – Muizzul-Mutawadi-in (1527–1548)
• Tibet (Phagmodrupa dynasty) – Ngawang Tashi Drakpa (1499–1564)
• Vijayanagara Empire – Achyuta Deva Raya (1529–1542)

Europe

• Astrakhan Khanate – Qasim II (1504–1532)
• Crimean Khanate – Saadet I Giray (1524–1532)
• Kingdom of Bohemia – Ferdinand I (1526–1564)
• Kingdom of Denmark–Norway – Frederick I (1523–1533)
  • Duchy of Schleswig – Christian III (1523–1559) and Frederick I (1490–1533) in condominial rule
• Kingdom of England – Henry VIII (1509–1547)
• Kingdom of France – Francis I (1515–1547)
• Holy Roman Empire – Charles V (1519–1556)
  • Duchy of Holstein – Christian III (1523–1559) and Frederick I (1490–1533) in condominial rule
  • Margravate of Mantua – Federico II (1500–1540)
  • Duchy of Milan - Francesco II Sforza (1525–1535)
  • Duchy of Modena – Alfonso I (1505–1534)
• Hungary -
  • Royal Hungary – Ferdinand I (1526–1564)
  • Eastern Hungarian Kingdom – John Zápolya (1526–1540)
• Khanate of Kazan – Safa Giray (1525–1532)
• Moldavia – Petru Rareş, Voivode of Moldavia (1526–1538, 1540–1546)
• Grand Duchy of Moscow – Vasili III, Grand Prince of Moscow (1505–1533) then Tsar of Russia (1547–1584)
• Kingdom of Naples – Charles I (1516–1556)
• Ottoman (Turkish) Empire – Suleiman the Magnificent (1520–1566)
• Duchy of the Archipelago – John IV Crispo (1517–1564)
• Papal States – Pope Clement VII (1523–1534)
• Polish–Lithuanian union – Sigismund I the Old, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland (1506–1548)
• Kingdom of Portugal and the Algarves – John III (1521–1557)
• Qasim Khanate – Canghali (1519–1531)
• Kingdom of Scotland – James V (1513–1542)
• Kingdom of Spain – Charles I (1516–1556)
• Kingdom of Sweden – Gustav I Vasa (1521–1560)
• Republic of Venice – Andrea Gritti, Doge of Venice (1523–1538)