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This is a list of spouses of national leaders born abroad. Spouses or partners using the title of "First lady" or "First gentleman" of a nation are included, whether they be a spouse of a president, prime minister, or other national leader. Some countries which have a president and prime minister have only included the spouse considered that of the national leader.

Spouses are not included if they were born in a colony that would become an independent state (e.g. New Spain forming independent nations in Latin America), countries that changed names (Upper Volta to Burkina Faso), or countries that broke apart (spouses of former Soviet countries born in another Soviet republic). Regal consorts and spouses of viceregal representatives (governors-general) are not included.

Name Country Spouse Office Birth Country Term Length
Rula Ghani  Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani President  Lebanon 2014–2021
Lidia Baez  Andorra Antoni Martí Prime Minister  Dominican Republic 2015-2019
Maria Eugénia Neto  Angola Agostinho Neto President  Portugal 1975-1979
Ruth Lara  Angola Lúcio Lara President  Portugal 1979-1979
Tatiana Kukanova  Angola José Eduardo dos Santos President  Soviet Union (modern day  Russia) 1979-1980
Juana del Pino y Vera Mujica  Argentina Bernardino Rivadavia President  Uruguay 1826–1827
Cipriana de Saenz  Argentina Luis Sáenz Peña President  Uruguay 1892–1895
Emily Henry de la Plaza  Argentina Victorino de la Plaza President  United Kingdom ( Scotland) 1914–1916[1]
Regina Pacini  Argentina Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear President  Kingdom of Portugal (modern day  Portugal) 1922–1928[2]
Jane Barton  Australia Edmund Barton Prime Minister  United Kingdom ( England) 1901-1903
Ada Watson  Australia Chris Watson Prime Minister  United Kingdom ( England) 1904-1904
Mary Cook  Australia Joseph Cook Prime Minister  United Kingdom ( England) 1913-1914
Bettina Gorton  Australia John Gorton Prime Minister  United States 1968–1971
Annita van Iersel  Australia Paul Keating Prime Minister  Netherlands 1991–1996
Margie Abbott  Australia Tony Abbott Prime Minister  New Zealand 2013–2015
Margit Fischer  Austria Heinz Fischer President  Sweden 2004–2016
Carolyn Plaskett  Barbados Errol Barrow Prime Minister  United States 1966–1976, 1986–1987
Mara Thompson  Barbados David Thompson Prime Minister  Saint Lucia 2008–2010
Elizabeth Bates  Belgium Sylvain Van de Weyer Prime Minister  United Kingdom ( England) 1845-1846
Celie Verbeke  Belgium Jean-Luc Dehaene Prime Minister  United States 1992–1999[3]
Chris Stone  Belgium Sophie Wilmès Prime Minister  Australia 2019–2020
Veerle Hegge  Belgium Bart De Wever Prime Minister  Netherlands 2025-present
Manuela Sáenz  Bolivia Simón Bolívar President  Spain Viceroyalty of New Granada (modern day  Ecuador) 1825-1825
Virginia Gillum  Bolivia Jorge Quiroga President  United States 2001–2002[4]
Héctor Hincapié Carvajal  Bolivia Jeanine Áñez President  Colombia 2019–2020[5]
Ruth Williams Khama  Botswana Seretse Khama President  United Kingdom ( England) 1966–1980
Gladys Olebile Masire  Botswana Quett Masire President  Union of South Africa (modern day  South Africa) 1980–1998
Azrinaz Mazhar Hakim  Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah Prime Minister  Malaysia 2005-2010
Chantal Compaoré  Burkina Faso Blaise Compaoré President  Ivory Coast 1987–2014
Sika Bella Kaboré  Burkina Faso Roch Marc Christian Kaboré President  Togo 2015–2022
Lígia Fonseca  Cabo Verde Jorge Carlos Fonseca President  Portuguese Mozambique (modern day  Mozambique) 2011–2021
Agnes Macdonald  Canada John A. Macdonald Prime Minister  Colony of Jamaica (modern day  Jamaica) 1867-1873, 1878-1891
Mila Mulroney  Canada Brian Mulroney Prime Minister  Yugoslavia (modern day  Bosnia and Herzegovina) 1984–1993
Diana Fox Carney  Canada Mark Carney Prime Minister  United Kingdom 2025–
Catherine Denguiadé  Central African Republic Jean-Bédel Bokassa President  French Chad (modern day  Chad) 1966-1977
Mireille Kolingba  Central African Republic André Kolingba President  Republic of the Congo 1981-1993
Angèle Patassé  Central African Republic Ange-Félix Patassé President  Togo 1993-2003
Chantal Djotodia  Central African Republic Michel Djotodia President  Benin 2013-2014
Amana Musa Hilal  Chad Idriss Déby President  Sudan 2012-2021[6]
Luisa Garmendia  Chile Francisco Antonio Pinto President  Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (Modern day  Argentina) 1827-1829
Manuela Warnes  Chile Joaquín Prieto President  Argentina 1931-1941
Enriqueta Pinto  Chile Manuel Bulnes President  Argentina 1841–1851
Cecilia Arboleda Mosquera  Colombia Jorge Holguín President  France 1909, 1921–1922
Bertha Puga Martínez  Colombia Alberto Lleras Camargo President  Chile 1958–1962
Cecilia de la Fuente Cortés  Colombia Carlos Lleras Restrepo President  Spain 1966–1970
Carolina Isakson Proctor  Colombia Virgilio Barco Vargas President  United States 1986–1990
Clotilde Ngouabi  Republic of Congo Marien Ngouabi President  France 1969–1972
Jocelyne Lissouba  Republic of Congo Pascal Lissouba President  France 1992-1997
Sofía Matilde Joy Redman  Costa Rica José María Castro Madriz President  United Kingdom ( England) 1859–1863
Elena Gallegos Rosales  Costa Rica Julio Acosta García President  El Salvador 1920–1924
Yvonne Clays Spoelders  Costa Rica Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia President  Belgium 1940–1944
Henrietta Boggs  Costa Rica José Figueres Ferrer President  United States 1948–1949
Karen Olsen Beck  Costa Rica José Figueres Ferrer President  Denmark 1970–1974
Marjorie Elliott Sypher  Costa Rica Daniel Oduber Quirós President  Canada 1974–1978
Gloria Bejarano Almada  Costa Rica Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier President  Mexico 1990–1994
José María Rico  Costa Rica Laura Chinchilla President  Spain 2010–2014
Mercedes Peñas Domingo  Costa Rica Luis Guillermo Solís President  Spain 2014–2018
Signe Zeicate  Costa Rica Rodrigo Chaves Robles President  Soviet Union (modern day  Latvia) 2022–present
Genoveva Guardiola de Estrada Palma  Cuba Tomás Estrada Palma President  Honduras 1902-1906
Laura Bertini y Alessandri  Cuba Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada President  Italy 1933-1933
Lila Irene Clerides  Cyprus Glafcos Clerides President  British India (modern day  India) 1974, 1993–2003
Mimi Kyprianou  Cyprus Spyros Kyprianou President  Greece 1977–1988
Stephen Kinnock  Denmark Helle Thorning-Schmidt Prime Minister  United Kingdom ( Wales) 2011–2015
Sólrun Løkke Rasmussen  Denmark Lars Løkke Rasmussen Prime Minister  Faroe Islands (constituent county of  Denmark) 2009–2011, 2015–2019
Carmen Quidiello  Dominican Republic Juan Bosch President  Cuba 1963
Renée Klang de Guzmán  Dominican Republic Antonio Guzmán Fernández President  Venezuela 1978–1982
Kirsty Sword Gusmão  East Timor Xanana Gusmão President  Australia 2002–2007
Joy Aquino Siapno  East Timor Fernando de Araújo President  Philippines 2008
Ana Paredes Arosemena  Ecuador Eloy Alfaro President  Republic of New Granada (modern day  Panama) 1906–1911
Corina del Parral  Ecuador José María Velasco Ibarra President  Argentina 1944–1947, 1952–1956, 1960–1961, 1968–1972
Alicia Pizzimbono  Ecuador Alfredo Poveda President  Argentina 1976–1979
María Eugenia Cordovez  Ecuador León Febres Cordero President  Peru 1984–1988
Josefina Villalobos  Ecuador Sixto Durán Ballén President  United States 1992–1996
Anne Malherbe Gosselin  Ecuador Rafael Correa President  Belgium 2007–2017
Vanda Pignato  El Salvador Mauricio Funes President  Brazil 2009–2014
Regina Abelt  Ethiopia Negasso Gidada President  West Germany (modern day  Germany) 1995–2001
Suzanne Innes-Stubb  Finland Alexander Stubb President  United Kingdom ( England) 2024-present
Penelope Fillon  France François Fillon Prime Minister  United Kingdom ( Wales) 2007–2012
Carla Bruni  France Nicolas Sarkozy President  Italy 2008–2012
Edith Lucie Bongo  Gabon Omar Bongo President  Republic of Congo 1989–2009
Sylvia Bongo Ondimba  Gabon Ali Bongo Ondimba President  France 2009–2023
Zeinab Jammeh  Gambia Yahya Jammeh President  Morocco 1999-2017
Sandra Roelofs  Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili President  Netherlands 2008–2013
Rut Brandt  Germany Willy Brandt Chancellor  Norway 1969–1974
Fathia Nkrumah  Ghana Kwame Nkrumah President  Egypt 1960–1966
Mildred Christina Akosiwor Fugar  Ghana Joseph Arthur Ankrah President  Belgian Congo (modern day  Democratic Republic of the Congo) 1966–1969
Algeria Benton de Reyna  Guatemala José María Reina Barrios President  United States 1892–1898
Elisa Martínez Contreras  Guatemala Juan José Arévalo President  Argentina 1945–1951
Maria Cristina Vilanova  Guatemala Jacobo Árbenz President  El Salvador 1951–1954
Elsa Cirigliano  Guatemala Fernando Romeo Lucas García President  Venezuela 1978–1982
Patricia Escobar  Guatemala Álvaro Arzú President  El Salvador 1996–2000
Lauriane Doumbouya  Guinea Mamady Doumbouya President  France 2021–present
Janet Jagan  Guyana Cheddi Jagan President  United States 1992–1997
Mildred Trouillot  Haiti Jean-Bertrand Aristide President  United States 2001–2004
Sophia Martelly  Haiti Michel Martelly President  United States 2011–2016
Bessie Watson  Honduras Carlos Roberto Reina President  United States 1994–1998[7]
Mary Flake de Flores  Honduras Carlos Roberto Flores President  United States 1998–2002
Aguas Santas Ocaña Navarro  Honduras Ricardo Maduro President  Spain 2002–2006
Georgia Björnsson  Iceland Sveinn Björnsson President  Denmark 1944–1952
Dorrit Moussaieff  Iceland Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson President  Israel 2003–2016
Eliza Reid  Iceland Guðni Th. Jóhannesson President  Canada 2016–2024
Lucy Kurtz  Ireland Douglas Hyde President  Prussia (modern day  Germany) 1938–1945
Máirín Uí Dhálaigh  Ireland Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh President  British India (modern day  India) 1974–1976
Joan O'Farrell  Ireland Garret FitzGerald Taoiseach  United Kingdom ( England) 1981–1982, 1982–1987
Nicholas Robinson  Ireland Mary Robinson President  Netherlands 1990–1997
Martin McAleese  Ireland Mary McAleese President  United Kingdom ( Northern Ireland) 1997–2011
Sonia Gandhi  India Rajiv Gandhi Prime Minister  Italy 1984–1989
Janaki Venkataraman  India Ramaswamy Venkataraman President  British Burma (modern day  Myanmar) 1987–1992
Usha Narayanan  India K. R. Narayanan President  British Burma (modern day  Myanmar) 1997–2002
Vera Weizmann  Israel Chaim Weizmann President  Russian Empire (modern day  Russia) 1949–1952
Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi  Israel Yitzhak Ben-Zvi President  Russian Empire (modern day  Ukraine) 1952–1963
Rachel Katznelson-Shazar  Israel Zalman Shazar President  Russian Empire (modern day  Belarus) 1963–1973
Nina Katzir  Israel Ephraim Katzir President  Poland 1973–1978
Aura Herzog  Israel Chaim Herzog President  Egypt 1983–1993
Reuma Weizman  Israel Ezer Weizman President  United Kingdom ( England) 1993–2000
Sonia Peres  Israel Shimon Peres President  Poland (modern day  Ukraine) 2007–2011
Dominique Ouattara  Ivory Coast Alassane Ouattara President  French Algeria (modern day  Algeria) 2011–present
Kayoko Hosowaka  Japan Morihiro Hosokawa Prime Minister  Manchukuo (modern day  China) 1993–1994
Miyuki Hatoyama  Japan Yukio Hatoyama Prime Minister  China 2009–2010
Andra Levite  Latvia Egils Levits President  West Germany (modern day  Germany) 2019–2023
Rosé Rene Poitieux  Lebanon Fouad Chehab President  France 1952, 1958–1964[8]
Iris Handaly  Lebanon Suleiman Frangieh President  Egypt 1970–1976
Jane Roberts  Liberia Joseph Jenkins Roberts President  United States 1848-1856, 1872-1876
Clar Weah  Liberia George Weah President  Jamaica 2018–2024
Gauthier Destenay  Luxembourg Xavier Bettel Prime Minister  Belgium 2015-2023
Marjolijne Droogleever Fortuyn  Luxembourg Luc Frieden Prime Minister  Netherlands 2023-present
Wan Azizah Wan Ismail  Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim Prime Minister  Colony of Singapore (modern day  Singapore) 2022-present
Ethel Mutharika  Malawi Bingu wa Mutharika President  Southern Rhodesia (modern day  Zimbabwe) 2004–2007
Richard Banda  Malawi Joyce Banda President  Northern Rhodesia (modern day  Zambia) 2012–2014
Iris Falcam  Micronesia Leo Falcam President  United States 1999–2003
Georgeta Snegur  Moldova Mircea Snegur President  Romania 1990–1997
Anastasia Filatova  Mongolia Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal Chairman  Soviet Union (modern day  Russia) 1952–1984
Christina Massey  New Zealand William Massey Prime Minister  Australia 1912–1925
Janet Fraser  New Zealand Peter Fraser Prime Minister  United Kingdom ( Scotland) 1940–1945
Peter Davis  New Zealand Helen Clark Prime Minister  United Kingdom ( England) 1999–2008
Isabel Urcuyo  Nicaragua Luis Somoza Debayle President  Costa Rica 1956–1963
Hope Portocarrero  Nicaragua Anastasio Somoza Debayle President  United States 1974–1979
Nahid Mirza  Pakistan Iskander Mirza President  Iran 1956–1958
Nusrat Bhutto  Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto President  Iran 1971–1973
Shafiq Zia  Pakistan Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq President  Uganda 1977–1988
Viqar-un-Nisa Noon  Pakistan Feroz Khan Noon Prime Minister  Austria 1957–1958
Adela Ruiz de Royo  Panama Aristides Royo President  Spain 1978–1982
Yazmín Colón de Cortizo  Panama Laurentino Cortizo President  Puerto Rico ( United States) 2019–2024
Eliza Lynch  Paraguay Francisco Solano López President  United Kingdom (modern day  Ireland) 1862–1870
Pilar Nores de García  Peru Alan García President  Argentina 1985–1990, 2006–2011
Eliane Karp  Peru Alejandro Toledo President  France 2001–2006
Nancy Lange  Peru Pedro Pablo Kuczynski President  United States 2016–2018
Maria Piłsudska  Poland Józef Piłsudski President  Lithuania 1918–1921
Maria Kaczyńska  Poland Lech Kaczyński President  Nazi Germany controlled Reichskommissariat Ostland (modern day  Belarus) 2005-2010
Elzira Dantas Machado  Portugal Bernardino Machado President  Empire of Brazil (modern day  Brazil) 1915–1917, 1925–1926
Jeannette Kagame  Rwanda Paul Kagame President  Burundi 2000–present
Colette Senghor  Senegal Léopold Sédar Senghor President  France 1960–1980
Viviane Wade  Senegal Abdoulaye Wade President  France 2000–2012
Noor Aishah Mohammad Salim  Singapore Yusof Ishak President  Malaysia 1965–1970
Graça Machel  South Africa Nelson Mandela President  Portuguese Mozambique (modern day  Mozambique) 1998–1999
Franziska Donner  South Korea Syngman Rhee President  Austria-Hungary (modern day  Austria) 1948–1960
Rose-Marie Belle Antoine  Saint Lucia Kenny Anthony Prime Minister  Trinidad and Tobago 1997–2006, 2011–2016
Patricia Mae Mitchell  St. Vincent and the Grenadines James Fitz-Allen Mitchell Prime Minister  Canada 1984–2000[9]
Eloise Harris  St. Vincent and the Grenadines Ralph Gonsalves Prime Minister  Trinidad and Tobago 2001–present[10]
Asma al-Assad  Syria Bashar al-Assad President  United Kingdom ( England) 2000–2024
Oei Hui-lan  Taiwan Wellington Koo President  Dutch East Indies (modern day  Indonesia) 1926–1927
Chiang Fang-liang  Taiwan Chiang Ching-kuo President  Russian Empire (modern day  Belarus) 1978–1988
Christine Chow Ma  Taiwan Ma Ying-jeou President  Hong Kong 2008–2016
Karen Anderson  Thailand Thanin Kraivichien Prime Minister  Denmark 1976–1977
Reema Harrysingh-Carmona  Trinidad and Tobago Anthony Carmona President  United States 2013–2018
Moufida Bourguiba  Tunisia Habib Bourguiba President  France 1957–1961
Beatrix Marzouki  Tunisia Moncef Marzouki President  France 2011–2014
Siren Ennaceur  Tunisia Mohamed Ennaceur President  Norway 2019
Kateryna Yushchenko  Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko President  United States 2005–2010
Mary Stuart  United Kingdom John Stuart Prime Minister  Ottoman Empire (modern day  Turkey) 1762-1763
Marina Wheeler  United Kingdom Boris Johnson Prime Minister  West Berlin (modern day  Germany) 2019–2020
Akshata Murty  United Kingdom Rishi Sunak Prime Minister  India 2022–2024
Louisa Adams  United States John Quincy Adams President  Kingdom of Great Britain ( England) 1825–1829
Melania Trump  United States Donald Trump President  Yugoslavia (modern day  Slovenia) 2017–2021, 2025-present
Matilde Ibáñez Tálice  Uruguay Luis Batlle Berres President  Argentina 1947–1951
Charlotte Harland Scott  Zambia Guy Scott President  United Kingdom ( England) 2014–2015
Sally Mugabe  Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe President  Gold Coast (modern day  Ghana) 1987–1992
Grace Mugabe  Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe President  Union of South Africa (modern day  South Africa) 1996–2017

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