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Countries with heads of state or government of Indian descent (past or present)
This article contains a list of Wikipedia articles about politicians in countries outside of
Indian subcontinent who are of
Indian origin .
Australia
Federal parliament
State and territory parliaments
Canada
Fiji
Germany
Guyana
Indonesia
Ireland
Jamaica
Japan
Kenya
Malaysia
Mauritius
Netherlands
New Zealand
Papua New Guinea
Philippines
Portugal
Singapore
Vivian Balakrishnan – Minister of Community Development, Youth and Sports; former CEO of Singapore General Hospital
S. Dhanabalan – Chairman of Temasek Holdings and DBS Bank, former Minister of National Development, Trade and Industry and Foreign Affairs; tipped by Singapore's first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew as one of the four men he considered as a possible successor
James Gomez – senior leader in the main opposition party (the Workers Party); founder of Think Centre, a political NGO
S. Iswaran – Minister for Communications and Information, former Managing Director of Temasek Holdings
S. Jayakumar – Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Law and co-ordinating Minister for Security; former Foreign Minister and ambassador to the United Nations, and Dean of the Law School in Singapore
J. B. Jeyaretnam – former Leader of the Opposition; former MP; first person to break the PAP monopoly in parliament in 1984; former magistrate
Devan Nair – third
President of Singapore (1981–1985), father of the modern
trades union movement in Singapore
Hri Kumar Nair – former MP
S. R. Nathan – 6th President of Singapore (1999-2011)
Murali Pillai – MP
Indranee Rajah – Minister in Prime minister's Office, Senior Counsel of
Supreme Court of Singapore
S. Rajaratnam – former Senior Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Labour and Culture; co-founder of the Peoples Action Party and Association of South East Asian Nations; author of the Singapore Pledge; one of the pioneer leaders of modern Singapore
Balaji Sadasivan – Junior Minister
K. Shanmugam – Minister for Home Affairs, former Senior Counsel of Supreme Court of Singapore
Tharman Shanmugaratnam – 9th and current President of Singapore. Former Minister of Education and former head of Singapore's de facto central bank
Pritam Singh – Leader of the Opposition and MP
Halimah Yacob – 8th President of Singapore (2017–2023)
Seychelles
South Africa
Spain
Suriname
Switzerland
Nik Gugger – adopted from Karnataka; first Indian-origin members of the Swiss parliament
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Tanzania
Thailand
Trinidad and Tobago
United Kingdom
United States
Nimi McConigley – Republican member of the
Wyoming House of Representatives was the first Indian born person and the first Indian American women to serve in any State legislature.
Harry Anand – mayor of Laurel Hollow, New York; first Indian-American mayor in New York
Neel Kashkari – Republican politician and former Gubernatorial candidate in California
Niraj J. Antani – Republican member of
Ohio House of Representatives from Ohio's 42nd District; first Indian American Republican elected to the Ohio House
Sam Arora – former Democratic member of the
Maryland House of Delegates
Kumar P. Barve – Democratic member (and former
Majority Leader ) of the
Maryland
House of Delegates from Maryland's 17th Legislative District in
Montgomery County ; first Indian American to be elected to any state legislature
Ami Bera – Democratic member of the
U.S. House of Representatives from
California's 7th congressional district – former Chief Medical Officer for Sacramento County
Raj Peter Bhakta – entrepreneur, former
The Apprentice contestant, and 2006 Republican U.S. House nominee in
Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district
Ravinder S. Bhalla – mayor of
Hoboken, New Jersey , first Sikh mayor in NJ
Satveer Chaudhary – former state senator and representative in
Minnesota Senate and
Minnesota House of Representatives
Joy Cherian – first Asian and
Indian American head of the EEOC
Upendra Chivukula – Commissioner on the
New Jersey Board of Public Utilities ; former Democratic member and Deputy Speaker of the
New Jersey General Assembly (first Indian-American elected to the NJ state legislature)
Swati Dandekar – member of
Iowa House of Representatives
Bhagwan Dashairya – 2006 nominee for
Governor of Michigan of the U.S. Taxpayers Party
Manka Dhingra – Democratic member of the
Washington State Senate from
Washington 's
45th legislative district
Kashmir Gill – mayor of Yuba City, California; first Indian-American mayor in CA and first Sikh mayor in the US
Vin Gopal – Democratic member of the
New Jersey Senate from New Jersey's
11th Legislative District , which covers portions of
Monmouth County ; third Indian American elected to NJ state legislature and first Indian American NJ state senator; former Chairman of the
Monmouth County
Democratic Party
Raj Goyle – former Democratic member of the
Kansas House of Representatives from
Kansas ' 87th District; first Indian American elected official in that state
Nikki Haley – former
U.S. Ambassador to the
United Nations and
Governor of
South Carolina ; first Indian American to hold both offices and first female Governor of South Carolina
Kamala Harris – 49th
Vice President of the United States (first Indian American; first African American; and first female Vice President of the U.S.); former
United States Senator from the
State of California (first Indian American in the
U.S. Senate and first African American senator from California); 32nd
Attorney General of California (first Indian American
attorney general in the U.S.) and the 27th
District Attorney of San Francisco (first
district attorney in the U.S. of Indian descent)
Satish Hiremath – mayor of Oro Valley, Arizona; second Indian-American mayor in the US
Pramila Jayapal – Democratic member of the
U.S. House of Representatives from
Washington 's
7th Congressional District ; former member of the
Washington State Senate ; first Indian American woman in both offices; founder of OneAmerica, a pro-immigration advocacy group
Bobby Jindal – former Republican
Governor of
Louisiana (first Indian American governor in US history); former member of
U.S. House of Representatives ; former
U.S. presidential candidate
Ro Khanna – Democratic member of the
U.S. House of Representatives from
California 's
17th Congressional District , former Deputy Assistant at the
U.S. Department of Commerce
Kris Kolluri –
New Jersey Commissioner of Transportation
Raja Krishnamoorthi – Democratic Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives from
Illinois' 8th Congressional District
Aruna Miller –
Lieutenant Governor of Maryland , former member of the
Maryland House of Delegates
Raj Mukherji – Majority Whip and Democratic member of the
New Jersey General Assembly from New Jersey's
33rd Legislative District covering portions of
Hudson County (second Indian American elected to NJ state legislature); former Deputy Mayor of
Jersey City, NJ ; former Commissioner and Chairman of the
Jersey City Housing Authority (then the youngest to serve in that position)
Ajit Pai –
Chairman of the
FCC and first Indian American to hold that position
Rachel Paulose – first woman to become a
U.S. Attorney in
Minnesota ; US Attorney for the
District of Minnesota
Kesha Ram – four-term member of the
Vermont House of Representatives ; candidate for
Lieutenant Governor
Harpreet Singh Sandhu – former Richmond City Council member
Reshma Saujani – first Indian woman to run for Congress
Amish Shah – member of the
Arizona House of Representatives
Balvir Singh – on the
Burlington County
Board of Chosen Freeholders ,
New Jersey ; first Asian-American to win a countywide election in Burlington County; first
Sikh-American to win a countywide election in NJ
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Dalip Singh Saund – first Indian-American congressman;
Democratic member of the
U.S. House of Representatives from California
Kshama Sawant –
Seattle City Council member; first socialist to win a city-wide election in Seattle since the radical progressive
Anna Louise Strong was elected to the school board in 1916
Kevin Thomas – first Indian-American member of the
New York State Senate
Seema Verma – first Indian-American female administrator of the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Sara Gideon - Speaker of the
Maine House of Representatives
Suhas Subramanyam - first Indian-American elected to the
Virginia General Assembly and former
Obama Administration White House official
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