List of longest ruling non-royal national leaders since 1870

This list details national leaders since 1870 who ruled for 30 years or more, and were not self-described royalty. It also combines all national leader level offices held concurrently or consecutively by each individual.

Rank	Name	Country	Title	Term began	Term ended	Term length
1.	Fidel Castro		First Secretary Prime Minister President
2.	Kim Il-sung		General Secretary Premier President Generalissimo
3.	Chiang Kai-shek		Chairman of the National Government Premier/Director-General Generalissimo President	(1st time) (2nd time) (3rd time)	(1st time) (2nd time) (3rd time)	45 years, 57 days{{#tag:ref\|For the first time Chiang Kai-shek stepped down in December 1931, his power was then shared by Hu Hanmin, Wang Jingwei, and Lin Sen among others. For the second time he left his state position in January 1949, Chiang was succeed by then Vice President Li Zongren.\|name=Chiang\|group="N"}}
4.	Muammar Gaddafi	Libyan Arab Republic	Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council Leader and Guide of the Revolution		{{#tag:ref\|The date given reflects the date of death of Muammar Gaddafi at the hands of National Transitional Council forces. Gaddafi had lost de facto control of the majority of Libya some time beforehand; however, he had not formally relinquished his position as Leader and Guide of the Revolution before his death and the state (The Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) still remained in existence. Between March 1979 and October 20, 2011, the position of "Secretary-General of the General People's Congress" referred to the nominal head of state of Libya, and was not held by Gaddafi who retained an informal position (in de facto control over the country) as per his Jamahiriya philosophy.\|name=Gaddafi-1\|group="N"}}
5.	Omar Bongo		President
6.	Enver Hoxha	Albania	Prime Minister First Secretary
7.	Francisco Franco	Spain	Generalísimo Head of State
8.	Gnassingbé Eyadéma	Togo	President
9.	*Paul Biya*		Prime Minister President		*present*
10.	*Mohamed Abdelaziz*		General Secretary President		*present*
11.	Josip Broz Tito		Prime Minister President Marshal
12.	António de Oliveira Salazar	Portugal	Prime Minister
13.	Todor Zhivkov	Bulgaria	General Secretary Prime Minister
14.	Alfredo Stroessner	Paraguay	President
15.	Ali Abdullah Saleh		President
16.	*Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo*		*President*		*present*
17.	Mao Zedong	Shaan-Gan-Ning, Republic of China	Party Chairman State Chairman Paramount Leader
18.	*José Eduardo dos Santos*	*People's Republic of Angola*	*President*		*present*
19.	Félix Houphouët-Boigny	Côte d'Ivoire	Prime Minister President
20.	*Robert Mugabe*		Prime Minister President		*present*
21.	Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal	Mongolia	Prime Minister General Secretary President
22.	Dawda Kairaba Jawara	Gambia	Prime Minister President
23.	Pham Van Dong		Prime Minister
24.	János Kádár	Hungary	General Secretary
25.	Habib Bourguiba	Tunisia	Prime Minister President
26.	Lee Kuan Yew		Prime Minister			{{#tag:ref\|After leaving office as Prime Minister, Lee was given the emeritus positions of Senior Minister (1990–2004) and Minister Mentor (2004–2011). The latter title, unique in world politics, maintained Lee's status as a "power behind the throne" in Singaporean politics.\|\|name=Lee-1\|group="N"}}
27.	Mobutu Sese Seko	Democratic Republic of the Congo	President
28.	*Sayyid Ali Khamenei*		President Supreme Leader		*present*
29.	Hastings Kamuzu Banda		Prime Minister President
30.	Suharto	Indonesia	President
31.	Joseph Stalin		General Secretary Premier Generalissimo
32.	Rafael Trujillo	Dominican Republic	President Generalísimo
33.	Porfirio Díaz		President	(1st time) (2nd time) (3rd time)	(1st time) (2nd time) (3rd time)	30 years, 106 days
34.	Abdou Diouf		Prime Minister President
35.	Maumoon Abdul Gayoom		President

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