This is a list of former and current heads of state and heads of government of the sovereign countries who were/are of Jewish or have a largely Jewish heritage, other than the heads of state and government of Israel. This list includes de facto heads of state and government but does not include acting, caretaker, interim, representative, transitional or temporary heads of state and government.

S.No.	Image	Head of state or government	Title	Country	In office from	In office until	Born in	Jewish ancestry
1		Juan Lindo	President of El Salvador	El Salvador	28 June 1841	1 February 1842	Tegucigalpa, Honduras	Sephardic Jewish[1][2]
			President of Honduras	Honduras	2 February 1847	1 February 1852
2		Benjamin Disraeli	Prime Minister of the United Kingdom	United Kingdom	27 February 1868	1 December 1868	Bloomsbury, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom	British Jewish, Italian Jewish[3]
					20 February 1874	21 April 1880
3		Julius Vogel	Premier of New Zealand	New Zealand	8 April 1873	6 July 1875	London, United Kingdom	English Jewish[4]
					15 February 1876	1 September 1876
4		Alessandro Fortis	Prime Minister of Italy	Italy	28 March 1905	8 February 1906	Forlì, Papal States	Italian Jewish[5]
5		Sidney Sonnino	Prime Minister of Italy	Italy	8 February 1906	29 May 1906	Pisa, Grand Duchy of Tuscany	Italian Jewish[6] father, raised Christian
					11 December 1909	31 March 1910
6		Luigi Luzzatti	Prime Minister of Italy	Italy	31 March 1910	30 March 1911	Venice, Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia	Italian Jewish[7]
7		Francisco Henríquez y Carvajal	President of the Dominican Republic	Dominican Republic	31 July 1916	29 November 1916	Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	Dutch Jewish, Sephardic Jewish[8]
8		Yakov Sverdlov	Chairman of All-Russian Central Executive Committee	Soviet Russia	21 November 1917	16 March 1919	Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire	Russian Jewish[9]
9		Béla Kun	De facto leader People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs	Hungary	21 March 1919	1 August 1919	Lele, Austria-Hungary	Hungarian Jewish[10]
10		Alexandre Millerand	Prime Minister of France	France	20 January 1920	24 September 1920	Paris, France	Alsatian Jewish[11][12]
			President of France		23 September 1920	11 June 1924
11		Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics	Prime Minister of Latvia	Latvia	19 June 1921	26 January 1923	Durbe, Latvia	Latvian Jewish[13][14][15]
					28 June 1923	26 January 1924
12		Francis Bell	Prime Minister of New Zealand	New Zealand	14 May 1925	30 May 1925	Nelson, New Zealand	New Zealand Jew[16]
13		Léon Blum	Prime Minister of France	France	4 June 1936	22 June 1937	Paris, France	French Jewish, Alsatian Jewish[17]
					13 March 1938	10 April 1938
					16 December 1946	22 January 1947
14		Mátyás Rákosi	General Secretary of the MKP/MDP	Hungary	23 February 1945	18 July 1956	Ada, Austria-Hungary	Hungarian Jewish[18]
			Prime Minister of Hungary		14 August 1952	4 July 1953
15		René Mayer	Prime Minister of France	France	8 January 1953	28 June 1953	Paris, France	French Jewish[19] father
16		Pierre Mendès France	Prime Minister of France	France	18 June 1954	23 February 1955	Paris, France	French Jewish, Portuguese Jewish[20]
17		Ernő Gerő	General Secretary of the Hungarian Working People's Party	Hungary	18 July 1956	25 October 1956	Terbegec, Austria-Hungary	Hungarian Jewish[21]
18		Michel Debré	Prime Minister of France	France	8 January 1959	14 April 1962	Paris, France	Alsatian Jewish,[22] raised Catholic[23][24]
19		Bruno Kreisky	Chancellor of Austria	Austria	21 April 1970	24 May 1983	Vienna, Austria-Hungary	Austrian Jewish[25]
20		Léon Kengo wa Dondo	Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo	Democratic Republic of the Congo	5 November 1982	31 October 1986	Libenge, Belgian Congo	Polish Jewish[26] father
					26 November 1988	4 May 1990
					6 July 1994	2 April 1997
21		Laurent Fabius	Prime Minister of France	France	17 July 1984	20 March 1986	Paris, France	French Jewish,[27][28] parents converted to Catholicism and was raised Catholic[29]
22		Eric Arturo Delvalle	President of Panama	Panama	28 September 1985	26 February 1988	Panama City, Panama	Panamanian Jewish, Portuguese Jewish[30]
23		Petre Roman	Prime Minister of Romania	Romania	20 June 1990	1 October 1991	Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania	Hungarian Jewish father,[31] showed no interest in Jewish affairs and was married in a Romanian Orthodox wedding ceremony[32]
24		József Antall	Prime Minister of Hungary	Hungary	23 May 1990	12 December 1993	Budapest, Hungary	Hungarian Jewish[33]
25		Ruth Dreifuss	Member of Swiss Federal Council	Switzerland	10 March 1993	31 December 2002	St. Gallen, Switzerland	Swiss Jewish[34]
			President of Switzerland		1 January 1999	31 December 1999
26		Gyula Horn	Prime Minister of Hungary	Hungary	15 July 1994	6 July 1998	Budapest, Hungary	Hungarian Jewish[35]
27		Janet Jagan	President of Guyana	Guyana	19 December 1997	11 August 1999	Chicago, Illinois, United States	Guyanese Jewish, American Jewish[36]
28		Sergey Kiriyenko	Prime Minister of Russia	Russia	23 March 1998	23 August 1998	Sukhumi, Abkhaz ASSR, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union	Russian Jewish, Georgian Jewish[37]
29		Yevgeny Primakov	Prime Minister of Russia	Russia	11 September 1998	12 May 1999	Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union	Russian Jewish[38]
30		Ricardo Maduro	President of Honduras	Honduras	27 January 2002	27 January 2006	Panama	Honduran Jewish, Portuguese Jewish[39]
31		Zurab Zhvania	Prime Minister of Georgia	Georgia	17 February 2004	3 February 2005	Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union	Armenian Jewish[40][41][15]
32		Mikhail Fradkov	Prime Minister of Russia	Russia	5 March 2004	14 September 2007	Samara, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union	Russian Jewish[42]
33		Pedro Pablo Kuczynski	President of Peru	Peru	28 July 2016	23 March 2018	Lima, Peru	German Jewish, Peruvian Jewish[43][41][15]
34		John Key	Prime Minister of New Zealand	New Zealand	19 November 2008	12 December 2016	Auckland, New Zealand	Austrian Jewish[13][41][15][44] mother, he is agnostic and regularly attended church[45]
35		Jan Fischer	Prime Minister of the Czech Republic	Czech Republic	8 May 2009	13 July 2010	Prague, Czechoslovakia	Czech Jewish[46]
36		Volodymyr Groysman	Prime Minister of Ukraine	Ukraine	14 April 2016	29 August 2019	Vinnytsia, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union	Ukrainian Jewish[47][48]
37		Volodymyr Zelenskyy	President of Ukraine	Ukraine	20 May 2019	Incumbent	Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union	Ukrainian Jewish[47][49]
38		Laurentino Cortizo	President of Panama	Panama	1 July 2019	1 July 2024	Panama City, Panama	Greek Jewish[50] mother, but is a devout Roman Catholic[51][52]
39		Egils Levits	President of Latvia	Latvia	8 July 2019	8 July 2023	Riga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union	Latvian Jewish[53] father, does not identify as Jewish[54]
40		Sophie Wilmès	Prime Minister of Belgium	Belgium	27 October 2019	1 October 2020	Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium	Belgian Jewish[55]
41		Mikhail Mishustin	Prime Minister of Russia	Russia	16 January 2020	Incumbent	Lobnya, Russian SFSR	Russian Jewish[56]
42		Élisabeth Borne	Prime Minister of France	France	16 May 2022	9 January 2024	Paris, France	French Jewish, Belgian Jewish, Polish Jewish[57]
43		Aleksandr Rozenberg	Prime Minister of Transnistria	Transnistria	30 May 2022	Incumbent	Ladyzhyn, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union	Ukrainian Jewish[58]
44		Gabriel Attal	Prime Minister of France	France	9 January 2024	5 September 2024	Clamart, France	French Jewish, Tunisian Jewish[59]
45		Claudia Sheinbaum	President of Mexico	Mexico	1 October 2024	Incumbent	Mexico City, Mexico	Lithuanian Jewish, Bulgarian Jewish[60]

Some former head of states and government have smaller amounts of Jewish heritage. Boris Johnson, a former prime minister of the United Kingdom whose maternal great-grandfather, Elias Avery Lowe, was a Moscow-born Jew born to a textile merchant,^[61] said in a 2007 interview for the Jewish Chronicle, “I feel Jewish when I feel the Jewish people are threatened or under attack, that’s when it sort of comes out”.^[61] David Cameron, another former prime minister of the United Kingdom, has referenced the German Jewish ancestry of one of his great-grandfathers, Arthur Levita, a descendant of the Yiddish author Elia Levita.^[62][63]

Another recent head of state of Jewish heritage is Nicolas Sarkozy, a former president of France. Sarkozy has a Greek Jewish grandfather who converted to Catholicism to marry his French Catholic maternal grandmother.^[64][65] He referred publicly to his Jewish grandfather.^[66] Jorge Sampaio is a former president of Portugal whose maternal grandmother was a Sephardi Jew from Morocco.^[67] Sampaio said that he is proud of his Jewish ancestry.^[67] Xavier Bettel who has served as the prime minister of Luxembourg since 2013 said he has a Polish Jewish grandfather.^[68]

Helmut Schmidt, a former chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982 had Jewish ancestry.^[69] His father was born to a German Jewish banker, Ludwig Gumpel, and a Christian waitress, Friederike Wenzel,^[70] and then covertly adopted, although this was kept a family secret for many years.^[71] Schmidt served in Hitler’s Wehrmacht, while managing to hide his Jewish roots from the Nazi regime.^[72] Árpád Göncz, a former president of Hungary from 1990 to 2000, had a Jewish maternal grandfather.^[73]

Although most head of states with Jewish ancestry come from Europe and Latin America, some are from other regions of the World. Laisenia Qarase, a former prime minister of Fiji, has Jewish ancestry.^[74] Qarase's mother is the daughter of John Herman Ma’afu Bowman, who had Jewish parents, Alexander Bowman and Sara Annette.^[75][76] Another example is Carlos Veiga, a former prime minister of Cape Verde. He said in a 2018 interview: “my grandfather on my mother’s side was Jewish, who came to Cape Verde from Gibraltar in the mid-1840s. He died before I was born and his grave was lost”.^[77]

Some heads of state claim to have Jewish ancestry, although this is not confirmed. Mexican President Francisco I. Madero's family was widely thought to have been of Portuguese-Jewish heritage.^[78] Nicolás Maduro who has served as the president of Venezuela since 2013 said that his "grandparents were Jewish, from a [Sephardic] Moorish background, and converted to Catholicism in Venezuela".^[79] Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa who has served as the president of Portugal since 2016 claimed that his mother had Jewish ancestry.^[80]

• Lists of Jews in politics
• Jewish diaspora
• Aliyah
• Yerida
• List of presidents of Israel: the heads of state of Israel
• List of prime ministers of Israel: the heads of government of Israel
• List of Jewish states and dynasties
• List of heads of state and government of Chinese descent
• List of heads of state and government of Indian origin
• List of current heads of state and government