List of state leaders in 1959

1958 state leaders - Events of 1959 - 1960 state leaders - State leaders by year----

See also:
*List of religious leaders in 1959
*List of international organization leaders in 1959

Africa

* Ethiopia
** Monarch - Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia (1930-1974)
** Prime Minister - Abebe Aragai, Prime Minister of Ethiopia (1957-1960)
* Ghana
** Monarch - Elizabeth II, Queen of Ghana (1957-1960)
** Governor-General - The Earl of Listowel, Governor-General of Ghana (1957-1960)
** Prime Minister - Kwame Nkrumah, Prime Minister of Ghana (1957-1960)
* Guinea - Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea (1958-1984)
*Liberia - William V.S. Tubman, President of Liberia (1944-1971)
* Libya -
** Monarch - Idris I, King of Libya (1951-1969)
** Prime Minister - Abdul Majid Kubar, Prime Minister of Libya (1957-1960)
* South Africa
** Monarch - Elizabeth II, Queen of South Africa (1952-1961)
** Governor-General -
**# Ernest George Jansen, Governor-General of South Africa (1951-1959)
**# Lucas Cornelius Steyn, Governor-General of South Africa (1959)
**# Charles Robberts Swart, Governor-General of South Africa (1959-1961)
** Prime Minister - Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa (1958-1966)
* Tunisia - Habib Bourguiba, President of Tunisia (1957-1987)

Asia

* Afghanistan
**Monarch - Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan (1933-1973)
**Prime Minister - Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan, Prime Minister of Afghanistan (1953-1963)
* Brunei - Omar Ali Saifuddin III, Sultan of Brunei (1950–1967)
* People's Republic of China
** Head of State -
**# Mao Zedong, Chairman of the People's Republic of China (1954-1959)
**# Liu Shaoqi, Chairman of the People's Republic of China (1959-1968)
** Premier - Zhou Enlai, Premier of the State Council (1949-1976)
** Head of Communist Party - Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Communist Party of China (1935-1976)
* India -
**President - Rajendra Prasad, President of India (1950-1962)
**Prime Minister - Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India (1947-1964)
*Indonesia -
**President - Sukarno, President of Indonesia (1945–1967)
**Prime Minister - Raden Djuanda Kartawidjaja, Prime Minister of Indonesia (1957-1959)
*Japan -
**Monarch - Showa Emperor, Emperor of Japan (1926-1989)
**Prime Minister - Nobusuke Kishi, Prime Minister of Japan (1957-1960)
* South Korea - Syngman Rhee, President of the Republic of Korea (1948-1960)
* Malaya -
**Tuanku Abdul Rahman ibni al-Marhum Yamtuan Muhammad, Yang di-Pertuan Agong (1957-1960)
**Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Alhaj, Prime Minister of Malaya (1957-1970)
* Pakistan - Muhammad Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan (1958-1969)
* Philippines - Carlos P. Garcia, President of the Philippines (1957 - 1961)
* Taiwan (Republic of China)
** President - Chiang Kai-Shek, President of the Republic of China (1947-1975)
** Premier - Chen Cheng, President of the Executive Yuan (1958-1963)

Australia and Oceania

*Australia
**Monarch - Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia (1953–present)
**Governor-General - Sir William Slim, Governor-General of Australia (1953-1960)
**Prime Minister - Sir Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia (1939-1941, 1949-1966)

*New Zealand
**Monarch - Elizabeth II, Queen of New Zealand (1952-present)
**Governor-General - Charles John Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, Governor-General of New Zealand (1957-1962)
**Prime Minister - Walter Nash, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1957-1960)
* Tonga
** Monarch - Salote Tupou III, Queen of Tonga (1918 – 1965)
** Prime Minister - Siaosi Taufa'ahau Tupoulahi, Prime Minister of Tonga, (1949 – 1965)

Europe

*Austria -
**President - Adolf Schärf, President of Austria (1957–1965)
**Chancellor - Julius Raab, Chancellor of Austria (1953–1961)
* Belgium
** King - Baldwin I, King of the Belgians (1951-1993)
** Prime Minister - Gaston Eyskens, Prime Minister of Belgium (1949-1950, 1958-1961, 1968-1973)
* Denmark
** Monarch - Frederick IX, King of Denmark (1947-1972)
** Prime Minister - Hans Christian Hansen, Prime Minister of Denmark (1955-1960)
* Finland
** President - Urho Kekkonen (1956-1982)
** Prime Minister -
**# Karl-August Fagerholm (1948-1950, 1956-1957, 1958-1959)
**# Jussi Sukselainen (1959-1961)
* France -
**President -
**# René Coty, President of France (1954-1959)
**# Charles de Gaulle, President of France (1959-1969)
**Prime Minister -
**# Charles de Gaulle, President of the Council (1958-1959)
**# Michel Debré, Prime Minister of France (1959-1962)
* Federal Republic of Germany -
**President -
**# Theodor Heuss, President of the Federal Republic of Germany (1949-1959)
**# Heinrich Lübke, President of the Federal Republic of Germany (1959-1969)
**Chancellor - Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (1949-1963)
* German Democratic Republic -
**Communist Party Leader - Walter Ulbricht, General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (1950-1971)
**President - Wilhelm Pieck, President of the German Democratic Republic (1949-1960)
**Premier - Otto Grotewohl, Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1949-1964)
* Ireland -
**President -
**# Seán T. O'Kelly, President of Ireland (1945-1959)
**# Éamon de Valera, President of Ireland (1959-1973)
**Prime Minister -
**# Éamon de Valera, Taoiseach (1957-1959)
**# Seán Lemass, Taoiseach (1959-1966)
* Italy -
**President - Giovanni Gronchi, President of the Italian Republic (1955-1962)
**Prime Minister -
**# Amintore Fanfani, Prime Minister of Italy (1958-1959)
**# Antonio Segni, Prime Minister of Italy (1959-1960)
* Liechtenstein -
**Monarch - Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1938-1989)
**Head of Government - Alexander Frick, Head of Government (1945-1962)
* Luxembourg
**Monarch - Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (1919-1964)
**Prime Minister -
**#Pierre Frieden, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (1958-1959)
**#Pierre Werner, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (1959-1974, 1979-1984)
* Netherlands
**Monarch - Queen Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands (1948-1980)
**Prime Minister -
**#Louis Beel, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1946-1948, 1958-1959)
**#Jan de Quay, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1959-1963)
* Norway -
**Monarch - Olav V of Norway, King of Norway (1957-1991)
**Prime Minister - Einar Gerhardsen, Prime Minister of Norway (1955-1963)
* Poland
**Communist Party Leader - Władysław Gomułka, First Secretary of the Central Committee of Polish United Workers' Party (1956-1970)
**Head of State - Council of State, Chairman - Aleksander Zawadzki (1952-1964)
**Premier - Józef Cyrankiewicz, President of the Council of Ministers (1954-1970)
* Portugal -
**President - Américo Thomaz, President of Portugal (1958-1974)
**Prime Minister - António de Oliveira Salazar, President of the Council of Ministers (1932-1968)
* Spain
**Generalísimo - Francisco Franco, Head of the Spanish State and President of the Government (1939-1975), (1939-1973)
*Sweden -
**Monarch - Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden, King of Sweden (1950-1973)
**Prime Minister - Tage Erlander, Prime Minister of Sweden (1946-1969)
* Turkey
** President - Celal Bayar, President of Turkey (1950-1960)
** Prime Minister - Adnan Menderes, Prime Minister of Turkey (1950-1960)
* United Kingdom -
**Monarch - Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom (1952-present)
**Prime Minister - Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1957-1963)
*Vatican City
** Pope - John XXIII, Bishop of Rome (1958-1963)
** Secretary of State - Domenico Cardinal Tardini, Cardinal Secretary of State (1952-1961)

Middle East

* Israel
**President - Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, President of Israel (1952-1963)
**Prime Minister - David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel (1955-1963)
* Oman - Said Bin Taimur, Sultan of Oman (1932-1970)
* United Arab Republic
**President - Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of the United Arab Republic (1958-1970)
**Prime Minister - Gamal Abdel Nasser, Prime Minister of the United Arab Republic (1958-1962)

North America and the Caribbean

*Canada
**Monarch - Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada (1952-present)
** Governor General -
**# Vincent Massey, Governor General (1952-1959)
**# Georges Vanier, Governor General (1959-1967)
**Prime Minister - John Diefenbaker, Prime Minister (1957-1963)
*Costa Rica - Mario Echandi Jiménez, President of Costa Rica (1958–1962)
* Cuba
** President
**# Fulgencio Batista, President of Cuba (1952-1959)
**# Anselmo Alliegro, acting President of Cuba (1959)
**# Carlos Manuel Piedra, interim President of Cuba (1959)
**# Manuel Urrutia Lleó, President of Cuba (1959)
**# Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, President of Cuba (1959-1976)
** Premier
**# Gonzalo Güell, Premier of Cuba (1958-1959)
**# José Miró Cardona, Premier of Cuba (1959)
**# Fidel Castro, Premier of Cuba (1959-1976)
*Dominican Republic - Héctor Trujillo, President of the Dominican Republic (1952–1960)
* El Salvador - José María Lemus, President of El Salvador (1956–1960)
* United States - Dwight Eisenhower, President of the United States (1953-1961)

outh America

* Bolivia - Hernán Siles Zuazo, President of Bolivia (1956-1960)
* Brazil - Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, President of Brazil (1956-1961)
* Ecuador - Camilo Ponce Enríquez, President of Ecuador (1956-1960)
* Paraguay - Alfredo Stroessner, President of Paraguay (1954-1989)
* Peru - Manuel Prado y Ugarteche, President of Peru (1956-1962)
*Uruguay -
*#Carlos Fischer, President of Uruguay (1958-1959)
*#Martín Echegoyen, President of Uruguay (1959-1960)
*Venezuela -
*#Edgar Sanabria, President of Venezuela (1958-1959)
*#Rómulo Betancourt, President of Venezuela (1959-1964)