List of Jews in politics

A list of Jewish politicians by country:

Jewish politicians by country

• Austria
• Canada
• France
• Germany
• Great Britain
• Israel (Includes non-Jewish politicians)
• Poland
• Russia
• South-east European
• United States

Jewish heads of state

All Presidents of Israel have been Jewish (see list).

• Sir Matthew Nathan (1862–1939), Governor of the Gold Coast from 1900 to 1904, Governor of Hong Kong from 1904 to 1907, Governor of Natal from 1907 to 1909
• Lev Kamenev (1883–1936), Chairman of All-Russian Central Executive Committee in November 1917
• Yakov Sverdlov (1885–1919), Chairman of All-Russian Central Executive Committee from 1917 to 1919
• Eugen Leviné (1883–1919), Leader of the Bavarian Soviet Republic in 1919
• Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading (1860–1935), Viceroy of India from 1921 to 1926
• Sir Isaac Isaacs (1855–1948), Governor-General of Australia from 1931 to 1936
• Léon Blum (1872–1950), Chairman of the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1946 to 1947
• Ralph Moses Paiewonsky (1907–1991), Governor of the United States Virgin Islands from 1961 to 1969
• Max Delvalle (1911–1979), President of Panama in 1967
• Sir Zelman Cowen (1919–2011), Governor-General of Australia from 1977 to 1982
• Eric Arturo Delvalle (born 1937), President of Panama from 1985 to 1988
• Ruth Dreifuss (born 1940), President of the Swiss Confederation in 1999
• Janet Jagan (née Rosenberg, 1920–2009), President of Guyana from 1997 to 1999, atheist

Non-Jews with Jewish descent

• Sir Edward Brampton (1440–1508), Governor of Guernsey from 1482 to 1485
• Juan Lindo y Zelaya (1790–1857), President of El Salvador from 1841 to 1842 and President of Honduras from 1847 to 1852, raised Roman Catholic
• Francisco Henríquez y Carvajal (1859–1935), President of the Dominican Republic in 1916
• Ricardo Maduro (born 1946), President of Honduras from 2002 to 2006, raised Roman Catholic
• Nicolas Sarkozy (born 1955), President of France from 2007 to 2012, Jewish grandfather, raised Roman Catholic
• Nicolás Maduro (born 1962), President of Venezuela from 2013 onwards, raised Roman Catholic

Jewish heads of government

All Prime Ministers of Israel have been Jewish (see list).

• Juan Álvarez Mendizábal (1790–1853), Prime Minister of Spain from 1835 to 1836, raised Roman Catholic
• Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804–1881), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1868 and from 1874 to 1880, convert to Anglicanism
• Sir Julius Vogel (1835–1899), Premier of New Zealand from 1873 to 1875 and in 1876
• Alessandro Fortis (1842–1909), Prime Minister of Italy from 1905 to 1906
• Sidney Sonnino (1847–1922), Prime Minister of Italy in 1906 and from 1909 to 1910, raised Anglican
• Luigi Luzzatti (1841–1927), Prime Minister of Italy from 1910 to 1911
• Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924), Chairman of Council of People's Commissars of Russia from 1917 to 1924 and Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924, Jewish grandfather, raised Russian Orthodox
• Kurt Eisner (1867–1919), Minister-President of Bavaria from 1918 to 1919
• Paul Hirsch (1868–1940), Minister-President of Prussia from 1918 to 1920
• Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics (1887–1925), Prime Minister of Latvia from 1921 to 1923 and from 1923 to 1924
• Sir Francis Bell (1851–1936), Prime Minister of New Zealand in 1925, Jewish mother, raised Anglican
• Léon Blum (1872–1950), Prime Minister of France from 1936 to 1937, in 1938 and from 1946 to 1947
• Mátyás Rákosi (1892–1971), Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Hungarian People's Republic from 1952 to 1953, atheist
• René Mayer (1895–1972), Prime Minister of France in 1953
• Pierre Mendès France (1907–1982), Prime Minister of France from 1954 to 1955
• David Marshall (1908–1995), Chief Minister of Singapore from 1955 to 1956
• Sir Roy Welensky (1907–1991), Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland from 1956 to 1963, raised Anglican
• Michel Debré (1912–1996), Prime Minister of France from 1959 to 1962, convert to Catholicism
• Sir Joshua Hassan (1915–1997), Chief Minister of Gibraltar from 1964 to 1969 and 1972 to 1987
• Bruno Kreisky (1911–1990), Chancellor of Austria from 1970 to 1983, agnostic
• Laurent Fabius (born 1946), Prime Minister of France from 1984 to 1986, raised Roman Catholic
• Henny Eman (born 1948), Prime Minister of Aruba from 1986 to 1989 and 1994 to 2001
• Petre Roman (born 1946), Prime Minister of Romania from 1989 to 1991, convert to Romanian Orthodox
• Efraín Goldenberg Schreiber (born 1929), Prime Minister of Peru from 1994 to 1995
• Janet Jagan (née Rosenberg, 1920–2009), Prime Minister of Guyana in 1997, atheist
• Yevgeny Primakov (1929–2015), Prime Minister of Russia from 1998 to 1999, raised Russian Orthodox
• Zurab Zhvania (1963–2005), Prime Minister of Georgia from 2004 to 2005, Jewish grandmother, raised Georgian Orthodox
• Mikhail Fradkov (born 1950), Prime Minister of Russia from 2004 to 2007, raised Russian Orthodox
• Yehude Simon Munaro (born 1947), Prime Minister of Peru from 2008 to 2009
• Mike Eman (born 1961), Prime Minister of Aruba from 2009 onwards
• Jan Fischer (born 1951), Prime Minister of the Czech Republic from 2009 to 2010
• John Key (born 1961), Prime Minister of New Zealand from 2008 onwards, agnostic
• Salomón Lerner Ghitis (born 1946), Prime Minister of Peru in 2011
• Volodymyr Groysman (born 1978), Prime Minister of Ukraine in 2016

See also

• Jewish people from Scandinavia and the Baltics
• Jewish people from Eastern Europe
• Jewish people from Western Europe
• Jewish people from Latin America