List of heads of state and government of Chinese descent

This is a list of former and current heads of state and heads of government of states or sovereign countries who were/are of full or partial Chinese descent where ethnic Chinese are a minority. 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.

Heads of state and heads of governments

  Denotes incumbent heads of state or government

  Denotes officer-elect/designated (presumptive)

S.No.	Name [a]	Portrait	Title	Country	Tenure	Descent
1	Emilio Aguinaldo 埃米利奧·阿奎納多		President of the Philippines	Philippine Republic	1899–1901	Chinese mestizo [1]
2	Phraya Manopakorn Nitithada 披耶·瑪奴巴功		Prime Minister of Siam	Thailand	1932–1933	Thai Chinese [2]
3	Phraya Phahonphonphayuhasena 披耶帕鳳·豐派育哈色納		Prime Minister of Thailand	Thailand	1933–1938	Thai Chinese [3] [4]
4	Manuel L. Quezon 曼努埃爾·奎松		President of the Philippines	Philippines Commonwealth	1935–1944	Chinese mestizo [5]
5	Plaek Phibunsongkhram 貝·鑾披汶頌堪		Prime Minister of Thailand	Thailand	1938–1944, 1948–1957	Thai Chinese [6]
6	Sergio Osmeña 塞爾吉奧·奧斯梅尼亞		President of the Philippines	Philippines Commonwealth	1944–1946	[7]
7	Son Ngoc Thanh 山玉成		Prime Minister of Cambodia	Kingdom of Kampuchea	1945, 1972	[8]
				Khmer Republic
8	Seni Pramoj 社尼·巴莫		Prime Minister of Thailand	Thailand	1945–1946, 1975, 1976	Thai Chinese [9]
9	Pridi Banomyong 比里·帕儂榮		Prime Minister of Thailand	Thailand	1946	Thai Chinese [10] [11]
10	Thawan Thamrongnawasawat 鑾探隆·那瓦沙瓦		Prime Minister of Thailand	Thailand	1946–1947	Thai Chinese [12] [13]
11	Pote Sarasin 乃朴·沙拉信		Prime Minister of Thailand	Thailand	1957	Thai Chinese [14]
12	Thanom Kittikachorn 他儂·吉滴卡宗		Prime Minister of Thailand	Thailand	1958, 1963–1973	Thai Chinese [15]
13	Ne Win 奈溫		Prime Minister of Myanmar	Burma	1958–1960, 1962–1974	Chinese Burmese [16]
			President of Myanmar		1974–1981
14	Sarit Thanarat 沙立·他那叻		Prime Minister of Thailand	Thailand	1959–1963	[17] [18] [19]
16	Peter Lo Su Yin		Chief Minister of Sabah	Sabah	1965-1967	Ethnic Chinese in the Dewan Rakyat [20]
17	Ferdinand Marcos 費迪南德·馬科斯		President of the Philippines	Philippines	1965–1986	[1] [21] [22] [23]
			Prime Minister of the Philippines		1978–1981
17	Lon Nol 朗諾		Prime Minister of Cambodia	Kingdom of Cambodia	1966–1967, 1969–1971	[24]
			President of Cambodia	Khmer Republic	1972–1975
18	Arthur Chung 鍾亞瑟		President of Guyana	Guyana	1970–1980	Chinese Guyanese [25] [26]
19	Cheng Heng 鄭興		President of Cambodia	Khmer Republic	1970–1972	[27]
21	Kukrit Pramoj 克立·巴莫		Prime Minister of Thailand	Thailand	1975–1976	Thai Chinese [9]
22	James Mancham 詹姆斯·曼卡姆		President of Seychelles	Seychelles	1976–1977	Chinese on paternal side [28]
23	Khieu Samphan 喬森潘		Head of State of Cambodia	Kampuchea	1976–1979	[29] [30]
24	Pol Pot 波爾布特		Prime Minister of Cambodia	Kampuchea	1976–1979	[31]
26	Thanin Kraivichien 他寧·蓋威遷		Prime Minister of Thailand	Thailand	1976–1977	Thai Chinese [32]
27	Kriangsak Chamanan 江薩·差瑪南		Prime Minister of Thailand	Thailand	1977–1980	Thai Chinese [33]
28	Julius Chan 陳仲民		Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea	Papua New Guinea	1980–1982, 1994–1997, 1997	Chinese Taishanese father [34]
29	Henk Chin A Sen 陳亞先		Prime Minister of Suriname	Suriname	1980–1982
			President of Suriname
30	San Yu 山友		President of Myanmar	Burma	1981–1988	Chinese Burmese [35] [36]
31	Chan Sy 姜西		Prime Minister of Cambodia	Kampuchea People's Republic	1982–1984	[37]
32	Hun Sen 洪森		Prime Minister of Cambodia	Kampuchea People's Republic	1984–2023	Teochew [38] [39]
				State of Cambodia
				Cambodia
34	Corazon Aquino 科拉松·阿基諾		President of the Philippines	Philippines	1986–1992	[21] [40]
35	Roh Tae-woo 盧泰愚		President of South Korea	South Korea	1988–1993	Shandong Peninsula [41] [42]
36	Chatichai Choonhavan 差猜·春哈旺		Prime Minister of Thailand	Thailand	1988–1991	[21] [43]
38	Anand Panyarachun 阿南·班雅拉春		Prime Minister of Thailand	Thailand	1991–1992	[44] [45]
39	Chea Sim 謝辛		Head of State of Cambodia	State of Cambodia	1992–1993	[46]
40	Suchinda Kraprayoon 蘇欽達·甲巴允		Prime Minister of Thailand	Thailand	1992-1992	[47] [48] [49]
41	Chuan Leekpai 川·立派		Prime Minister of Thailand	Thailand	1992–1995, 1997–2001	Thai Chinese Hokkien [50] [51]
43	Banharn Silpa-archa 班漢·西巴阿差		Prime Minister of Thailand	Thailand	1995–1996	Thai Chinese [52]
44	Chavalit Yongchaiyudh 差瓦立·永猜裕		Prime Minister of Thailand	Thailand	1996–1997	[53]
45	Abdurrahman Wahid 阿卜杜拉赫曼·瓦希德		President of Indonesia	Indonesia	1999–2001	[54] [55]
46	Thaksin Shinawatra 他信·西那瓦		Prime Minister of Thailand	Thailand	2001–2006	[56]
47	Abdullah Ahmad Badawi 阿都拉·阿末·巴達威		Prime Minister of Malaysia	Malaysia	2003–2009	Grandfather is Chinese Born Cham [57] [58]
48	Roh Moo-hyun 盧武鉉		President of South Korea	South Korea	2003–2008	[41] [59]
49	George Maxwell Richards 喬治·馬克斯韋爾·理查茲		President of Trinidad and Tobago	Trinidad and Tobago	2003–2013	[60] [61] [62]
50	Anote Tong 湯安諾		President of Kiribati	Kiribati	2003–2016	[63]
51	Khin Nyunt 欽紐		Prime Minister of Myanmar	Myanmar	2003–2004	Chinese Burmese [64] [65]
53	Samak Sundaravej 沙馬·順達衛		Prime Minister of Thailand	Thailand	2008	[14]
55	Abhisit Vejjajiva 阿披實·威差奇瓦		Prime Minister of Thailand	Thailand	2008–2011	Thai Chinese [66] [67]
56	Benigno Aquino III 貝尼格諾·阿基諾三世		President of the Philippines	Philippines	2010–2016	[68]
57	Dési Bouterse 德西·鮑特瑟		President of Suriname	Suriname	2010–2020	[69] [70]
58	Yingluck Shinawatra 英拉·西那瓦		Prime Minister of Thailand	Thailand	2011–2014	Thai Chinese [56]
61	Luis Guillermo Solís 路易斯·吉列爾莫·索利斯		President of Costa Rica	Costa Rica	2014–2018	[71]
62	Rodrigo Duterte 羅德里戈·杜特爾特		President of the Philippines	Philippines	2016–2022	[72]
63	Bongbong Marcos 小費迪南德·馬科斯		President of the Philippines	Philippines	2022–present	[1] [21] [22] [23]
64	Hun Manet 洪玛奈		Prime Minister of Cambodia	Cambodia	2023–present	[73]
65	Srettha Thavisin 賽塔·塔維辛		Prime Minister of Thailand	Thailand	2023–2024	[74]
67	Paetongtarn Shinawatra 貝東丹·欽那瓦		Prime Minister of Thailand	Thailand	2024–present	[75]
68	Stuart Young 斯圖爾特楊		Prime Minister-designate of Trinidad and Tobago	Trinidad and Tobago	TBD 2025	Chinese Trinidadian [76]

See also

• List of foreign politicians of Chinese descent
• European politicians of Chinese descent
• Chinese emigration
• Kapitan Cina
• List of Kapitan Cina
• Overseas Chinese
• List of overseas Chinese
• List of leaders of the People's Republic of China: the heads of state and government of China
• List of leaders of the Republic of China: the heads of state and government of Taiwan
• List of Confucian states and dynasties
• List of heads of state and government of Indian origin
• List of Jewish heads of state and government
• List of current heads of state and government

Notes

1. There may be different variants of Chinese transliteration for a non-Chinese name. For example, the Chinese name of Yingluck Shinawatra is rendered as "英拉·西那瓦" in mainland China, "英祿·西那瓦" in Hong Kong and Macau, "盈拉·欽那瓦" in Taiwan, "英叻·欽那瓦" in Malaysia and Singapore, and "英樂·秦那越" in Thailand.

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