List of Asian politicians in non-Asian states
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Heads of State
- Julio César Turbay Ayala, President of Colombia (1978–1982), was of Lebanese descent.
- Abdalá Jaime Bucaram Ortiz, President of Ecuador (1996–1997), is of Lebanese descent.
- Arthur Raymond Chung (鍾亞瑟, Pinyin: Zhōng Yāsè; born 10 January 1918), former president of Guyana from 1970 to 1980. An ethnic Hakka Chinese, he is the first ethnic Chinese president in a non-Asian country.
- Alberto Ken'ya Fujimori (藤森 謙也) - former President of Peru, an ethnic Japanese.
- Cheddi Berret Jagan, former chief minister (1957–1964) and president (1992–1997) of Guyana, an ethnic Indian.
- Jorge Jamil Mahuad Witt, President of Ecuador (1998–2000), is of German and Lebanese descent.
- Kuniwo Nakamura (中村 國雄), President of Palau, an ethic Japanese.
- Tosiwo Nakayama, President of the Federated States of Micronesia, Japanese father.
- Anote Tong (湯安諾; Pinyin: Tāng Ānnuò), president of Kiribati, Chinese father.
- Carlos Saúl Menem Akil, President of Argentina of Syrian origin
- Solomon Hochoy, ethnic Hakka Chinese. Last British Governor, 1960–1962; First non-white Governor in the whole of the British Empire, 1960; First Governor-General, 1962–1972, when Trinidad and Tobago obtained independence, 1962
Heads of Government
- Sir Julius Chan (陳仲民, Pinyin: Chén Zhòngmín), Cantonese-Chinese, former Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea.
- Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, (शिवसागर रामगुलाम) Prime Minister "Father of the Nation" (1968-1982) and later Governor of Mauritius was of Indian descent
- Yuriy Ivanovych Yekhanurov (Ukrainian: Юрій Іванович Єхануров), former Prime Minister of Ukraine, an ethnic Buryat.
- Hendrick Chin A Sen, President and Prime Minister of Suriname, 1980-1982; Chin paternal side is Hakka Chinese and maternal side is mixed Creole
- António Costa, Prime Minister of Portugal (2015-) is the son of Goan writer Orlando da Costa
Others
- Peter Aduja, first Filipino American elected to public office in the United States.
- Edward Spencer Abraham, US Secretary of Energy (2001-), is of Lebanese descent.
- Anthony Alexander Alam, Australian political leader, member of the Australian Labor Party, is of Lebanese descent.
- George Ryoichi Ariyoshi (Japanese: 有吉 良一), third Governor of Hawaiʻi, first Asian American to be elected governor of a state of the United States.
- Marie Roslyn, Lady Shehadie, Governor of New South Wales, Australia (2001-), is of Lebanese descent.
- Ibrahim Baylan, Swedish Social Democratic politician and Minister for Schools in the Swedish government 2004-2006. Born in southeastern Turkey, to Syriac-Assyrian parents.
- Robert Bunda, first Filipino American to attain the presidency of any state legislature in the United States.
- Benjamin Jerome "Ben" Cayetano, first Filipino American to serve as a state governor in the United States.
- Elaine Lan Chao (趙小蘭; Pinyin: Zhào Xiǎolán; Wade-Giles: Chao Hsiao-lan), first Chinese American American Secretary of Labor.
- Viet D. Dinh (Vietnamese: Đinh Đồng Việt Phụng), former Assistant Attorney General of the United States under the presidency of George W. Bush. He was the chief architect of the USA PATRIOT Act.
- Hiram Leong Fong (鄺友良; Pinyin: Kuàng Yǒuliáng; formerly Yau Leong Fong), first Chinese American United States Senator.
- Chang-jun "Jay" Kim (김창준), first Korean American elected to the United States Congress.
- Harry Kim, the mayor of Hawaii County, first Korean American mayor elected in the United States.
- Gary Faye Locke (駱家輝; pingyin: Luò Jiāhuī), United States ambassador to China, former U.S. Secretary of Commerce, former Chinese-American governor of Washington.
- Norman Yoshio Mineta (Japanese: 峰田 児玉), United States Secretary of Transportation, the only Democratic Cabinet Secretary in the Republican George W. Bush Administration.
- Mee Moua, a Hmong American politician and member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.
- Michiaki Nagatani Morishita, MNR politician and 2005 presidential candidate in Bolivia, is of Japanese descent.
- Sang Minh Nguyen (Vietnamese: Nguyễn Minh Sang), an Australian Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council since 1996, representing Melbourne West Province.
- Vivienne Poy (née 利德蕙; Cantonese Yale: Ley6 Dak1-way6; Mandarin Pinyin: Lì Déhuì), first Canadian senator of Asian ancestry.
- Philipp Rösler, German Federal Minister of Economics and Technology and Vice-Chancellor of Germany, born in Vietnam and adopted by a German family.
- Julio Teodoro Salem, Ecuadorian leader of the 1944 Revolution.
- Donna Edna Shalala, US Secretary of Health (1993–2001), is of Lebanese descent.
- Van Thai Tran (Vietnamese: Trần Thái Văn), Republican member of the California State Assembly, representing portions of Orange County.
- David Wu (吳振偉; Pinyin: Wú Zhènwěi), a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives for Oregon.
- Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (Hindi: पीयूष " बॉबी " जिंदल), former U.S. Congressman and current Governor of US state of Louisiana. Indian American.
- Dalip Singh Saund, first Indian-American US congressman.
- Hieu Van Le (Lê Văn Hiếu), Lieutenant Governor of South Australia, is of Vietnamese descent.
- Mina Nguyen, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Business affairs by United States Department of the Hank Paulson.
- Hubert Vo, member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 149, first Vietnamese American to be elected to the Texas legislature.
- Anand Satyanand The former Governor General of New Zealand is of Indian descent.
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Asian Politicians of Federal-Level in the Russian Federation
- Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov (Russian: Кирса́н Никола́евич Илюмжи́нов), the President of the Republic of Kalmykia of the Russian Federation, is a Kalmyk. He is also the head of the FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation), the preeminent international chess organization, since 1995.
- Sergei Kuzhugetovich Shoigu (Russian: Серге́й Кужуге́тович Шойгу́), was the Minister of State Emergencies of the Russian Federation, is an ethnic Tuvan, and is now the Minister of Defence.