- List of Asian politicians in non-Asian states
=Heads of State=
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Julio César Turbay Ayala , President of Colombia (1978-1982), was of Lebanese descent.
*Abdalá Bucaram , President of Ecuador (1996-1997), is of Lebanese descent.
*Adrienne Clarkson (Chinese: 伍冰枝;pinyin : Wǔ Bīngzhī, Hakka: Ńg Pên-kî)- formerGovernor-General ofCanada (1999-2005), an ethnicHakka .
*Arthur Chung (鍾亞瑟, pinyin: Zhōng Yāsè; born 10 January 1918), former president ofGuyana from 1970 to 1980. He was the first ethnic Chinese president in a non-Asian country.
*Alberto Fujimori (藤森 謙也 Fujimori Ken'ya) - formerPresident ofPeru , an ethnic Japanese.
*Cheddi Jagan or Cheddi Berret Jagan, former chief minister (1957-1964) and president (1992-1997) ofGuyana , an ethnicIndia n.
*Jamil Mahuad , President of Ecuador (1998-2000), is of Lebanese descent.
*Kuniwo Nakamura , President of Palau
*Tosiwo Nakayama , President of the Federated States of Micronesia
*Anote Tong (湯安諾; pinyin: Tāng Ānnuò), president ofKiribati .
*Carlos Menem ,President of Argentina of Syrian originHeads of Government
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Sir Julius Chan , (陳仲民), Cantonese-Chinese , formerPrime Minister ofPapua New Guinea .
*Yuriy Yekhanurov - the Prime Minister ofUkraine , an ethnic Buryat.Others
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Peter Aduja
*Spencer Abraham , US Secretary of Energy (2001-), is of Lebanese descent.
*Anthony Alexander Alam ,Australian political leader, member of theAustralian Labor Party , is of Lebanese descent.
*George R. Ariyoshi
*Marie Bashir , 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, toSyriac -Assyria n parents.
*Robert Bunda
*Benjamin J. Cayetano
*Elaine Chao , firstChinese American American Secretary of Labor
*Viet D. Dinh , also known as Đinh Đồng Việt Phụng, or Đinh Việt Phụng, formerAssistant Attorney General of theUnited States under the presidency of George W. Bush. He was the chief architect of theUSA PATRIOT Act .
*Hiram Fong , firstChinese American United States Senator
*Jay Kim , firstKorean American elected to theUnited States Congress
*Gary Locke, former Chinese-American governor of Washington
*Norman Mineta
*Mee Moua
*Michiaki Nagatani , MNR politician and 2005 presidential candidate inBolivia , is of Japanese descent
*Sang Minh Nguyen , anAustralian Labor Party member of theVictorian Legislative Council since 1996, representingMelbourne West Province .
*Vivienne Poy , née 利德蕙; Cantonese Yale: Ley6 Dak1-way6; Mandarin Pinyin: Lì Déhuì, is the firstCanadian senator of Asian ancestry.
*Julio T. Salem , Ecuadorian leader of the 1944 Revolution
*Donna Shalala , US Secretary of Health (1993-2001), is of Lebanese descent.
*Van Tran
*David Wu
*Bobby Jindal , former U.S. Congressman and current Governor of US state of Louisiana.Indian American
*Dalip Singh Saund , the firstIndian-American US congressman
*Hieu Van Le ,Lieutenant Governor ofSouth Australia , is a vietnamese descent
*Mina Nguyen
*Hubert Vo Asian Politicians of Federal-Level in the Russian Federation
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Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov (Russian: Кирса́н Никола́евич Илюмжи́нов), the president of theRepublic of Kalmykia of theRussian Federation , is aKalmyk . He is also the head of FIDE (a.k.a. the World Chess Federation), the preeminent international chess organization, since 1995.
*Sergei Shoigu (or Sergei Kuzhugetovich Shoigu/Tuvan: Серге́й Кужуге́тович Шойгу́), is the Minister of State Emergencies of the Russian Federation, is an ethnic Tuvan.
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