List of first ladies

This is a list of current first ladies by the U.S. definition: the spouse of the president or other non-monarch head of state. Not all use the title "first lady".

Africa

• Ana Paula dos Santos (Angola)
• Barbara Mogae (Botswana)
• Chantal Compaoré (Burkina Faso)
• Chantal Biya (Cameroon)
• Adélcia Pires (Cape Verde)
• Monique Bozizé (Central African Republic)
• Hinda Déby Itno (Chad)
  • Note: President Idriss Déby has multiple wives
• Olive Lembe Di Sita Kabila (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
• Antoinette Sassou-Nguesso (Republic of the Congo)
• Simone Gbagbo (Côte d'Ivoire)
• Kadra Mahamoud Haid (Djibouti)
• Suzanne Mubarak (Egypt)
• Constancia Mangue de Obiang (Equatorial Guinea)
• Saba Haile (Eritrea)
• Edith Bongo (Gabon)
• Zineb Jammeh (The Gambia)
• Theresa Kufuor (Ghana)
• Henriette Conté (Guinea)
• Lucy Kibaki (Kenya)
• Lalao Ravalomanana (Madagascar)
• Ethel Mutharika (Malawi)
• Touré Lobbo Traoré (Mali)
• Sarojini Jugnauth (Mauritius)
• Maria da Luz Guebuza (Mozambique)
• Penexupifo Pohamba (Namibia)
• Laraba Tandja (Niger)
• Jeannette Kagame (Rwanda)
• Viviane Wade (Senegal)
• Zanele Mbeki (South Africa)
• Salma Kikwete (Tanzania)
• Janet Museveni (Uganda)
• Maureen Mwanawasa (Zambia)
• Grace Mugabe (Zimbabwe)

Asia

• Zinat Karzai (Afghanistan)
• Anwara Begum (Bangladesh)
• Liu Yongqing (China)
• Kirsty Sword Gusmão (East Timor)
• Adi Salaseini Kavunono (Fiji)
• Kristiani Herawati (Indonesia)
• Akie Abe (Japan)
• Sara Nazarbayeva (Kazakhstan)
• Kwon Yang-suk (Republic of Korea)
• Nasreena Gayoom (Maldives)
• Mary Note (Marshall Islands)
• Onongiyn Tsolmon (Mongolia)
• Kyaing Kyaing (Myanmar [Burma])
• Sehba Musharraf (Pakistan)
• Debbie Remengesau (Palau)
• Urmila Nathan (Singapore)
• Wu Shu-chen (Taiwan)
• Azizmo Asadullaeva (Tajikistan)
• Tatyana Karimova (Uzbekistan)
• Hanson Matas Kelekele (Vanuatu)

Central American and the Caribbean

• Margarita Cedeño de Fernández (Dominican Republic)
• Ana Ligia de Saca (El Salvador)
• Wendy Widmann de Berger (Guatemala)
• Xiomara Castro de Zelaya (Honduras)
• Lila Abaúnza de Bolaños (Nicaragua)
• Vivian Fernández de Torrijos (Panama)
• Jean Ramjohn-Richards (Trinidad and Tobago)

Middle East

• Gila Katsav (Israel)
• Andrée Lahoud (Lebanon)
• Asma al-Assad (Syria)
• Leïla Ben Ali (Tunisia)
• Semra Sezer (Turkey)

Europe

• Bella Kocharian (Armenia)
• Margit Fischer (Austria)
• Mehriban Aliyeva (Azerbaijan)
• Galina Lukashenka (Belarus; separated from Alyaksandr Lukashenka)
• Zorka Parvanova (Bulgaria)
• Milka Mesić (Croatia)
• Fotini Papadopoulou (Cyprus)
• Livia Klausová (Czech Republic)
• Evelin Ilves (Estonia)
• Bernadette Chirac (France)
• Sandra Roelofs (Georgia)
• Eva Köhler (Germany)
• Maria Panou (Greece)
• Erzsébet Sólyom (Hungary)
• Dorrit Moussaieff (Iceland)
• Clio Napolitano (Italy)
• Alma Adamkus (Lithuania)
• Jasmina Crvenkovska (Macedonia)
• Mary Fenech Adami (Malta)
• Maria Kaczyńska (Poland)
• Maria Cavaco Silva (Portugal)
• Maria Băsescu (Romania)
• Liudmila Putina (Russia)
• Silvia Gašparovičová (Slovakia)
• Gret Loewensberg (Switzerland)
• Kateryna Yushchenko-Chumachenko (Ukraine)

North America

• Marta Sahagún de Fox (Mexico)
• Laura Bush (United States)

South America

• Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (Argentina)
• Marisa Letícia da Silva (Brazil)
• Lina Moreno de Uribe (Colombia)
• María Paret de Palacio (Ecuador)
• Varshnie Jagdeo (Guyana)
• Gloria Penayo de Duarte (Paraguay)
• Pilar Nores de García (Peru)
• Liesbeth Venetiaan-Vanenburg (Suriname)
• María Auxiliadora Delgado de Vázquez (Uruguay)
• Marisabel Rodríguez de Chávez (Venezuela; separated from Hugo Chávez)