List of state leaders in 1943

1942 state leaders - Events of 1943 - 1944 state leaders - State leaders by year-----

See also:
*List of religious leaders in 1943
*List of international organization leaders in 1943

Africa

* Liberia - Edwin Barclay, President of Liberia (1930-1944)
* South Africa -
** Monarch - George VI, King of South Africa (1936-1952)
** Governor-General -
**# Sir Patrick Duncan, Governor-General of South Africa (1937-1943)
**# Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet, Governor-General of South Africa (1943-1946)
** Prime Minister - Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa (1939-1948)
* Zanzibar - Sayyid Khalifa bin Harub Al-Busaid, Sultan of Zanzibar (1911-1960)

Asia

*Afghanistan
**Monarch - Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan (1933-1973)
**Prime Minister - Sardar Mohammad Hashim Khan, Prime Minister of Afghanistan (1929-1946)
* Brunei - Ahmad Tajuddin, Sultan of Brunei (1924–1950)
* Republic of China
** Chongqing Government (pro-Allies)
*** President -
***# Lin Sen, Chairman of the National Government (1932-1943)
***# Chiang Kai-Shek, Chairman of the National Government (1943-1947)
*** Premier - Chiang Kai-shek, President of the Executive Yuan (1939-1945)
** Nanjing Government (pro-Japan)
*** President - Wang Jingwei, Chairman of the National Government (1940-1944)
* India -
**British India
**Monarch - George VI, Emperor of India (1936-1947)
**Viceroy -
**# The Marquess of Linlithgow, Viceroy of India (1936-1943)
**# The Viscount Wavell, Viceroy of India (1943-1947)
** Provisional Government of Free India
**Head of State and Prime Minister - Subhas Chandra Bose, (1943-1945)
*** "Declared on October 21, 1943"
* Japan -
** Monarch - Showa Emperor, Emperor of Japan (1926-1989)
** Prime Minister - Hideki Tojo, Prime Minister of Japan (1941-1944)
* Manchukuo - Aisin-Gioro Puyi, Emperor of Manchukuo (1934-1945)
* Oman - Said Bin Taimur, Sultan of Oman (1932-1970)
* Thailand -
** Monarch - Ananda Mahidol, King of Thailand (1935-1946)
** Prime Minister - Plaek Phibunsongkhram, Prime Minister of Thailand (1938-1944)

Australia and Oceania

*Australia -
** Monarch - George VI, King of Australia (1936-1952)
** Governor-General - Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Baron of Gowrie, Governor-General of Australia (1936-1952)
** Prime Minister - John Curtin, Prime Minister of Australia (1941-1945)

*New Zealand
** Monarch - George VI, King of the British Dominions Beyond the Seas (1936-1952)
**Governor-General - Sir Cyril Newall, Governor-General of New Zealand (1941-1946)
**Prime Minister -Peter Fraser, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1940-1949)

* Tonga
** Monarch - Salote Tupou III, Queen of Tonga (1918 – 1965)
** Prime Minister - S. Ata, Prime Minister of Tonga, (1941 – 1949)

Europe

* Albania - Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy and Albania (1939-1946)
* Belgium
** King - Léopold III, King of the Belgians (1934-1951)
** Prime Minister - Hubert Pierlot, Prime Minister of Belgium (1939-1945)
* Denmark
** Monarch - Christian X, King of Denmark (1912-1947)
** Prime Minister - Erik Scavenius, Prime Minister of Denmark (1942-1945)
** "German occupation in control of government (1943-1945)"
* Éire (Ireland) -
**Monarch - George VI, King of Ireland (1936-1949)
**President - Douglas Hyde, President of Ireland (1938-1945)
**Prime Minister - Éamon de Valera, Taoiseach (1937-1948)
* France -
**Head of State - Philippe Pétain, Head of State (1940-1944)
**Prime Minister - Pierre Laval, President of the Council (1942-1944)
* Germany -
**Head of State - Adolf Hitler, Führer (1934-1945)
**Chancellor - Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of Germany (1933-1945)
* Hungary -
**Regent - Miklós Horthy (1920-1944)
**Prime Minister - Miklós Kállay (1942-1944)
* Italy -
** Kingdom of Italy -
***Monarch -Vittorio Emanuele III, King of Italy (1900-1946)
***Prime Minister -
***# Benito Mussolini, Prime Minister of Italy (1922-1943)
***# Pietro Badoglio, Prime Minister of Italy (1943-1944)
** Italian Social Republic - Benito Mussolini, Provisional Head of State (1943-1945)
*Liechtenstein -
**Monarch - Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1938-1989)
**Head of Government - Josef Hoop, Head of Government (1928-1945)
*Netherlands (German and Japanese occupied, except for Curaçoa, Suriname and Southern Papoea)
**Monarch - Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands (1890-1948)
**Prime Minister - Pieter Gerbrandy, Chairman of the Dutch council of ministers (1940-1945)
* Poland (Government in exile)
**President - Wadysaw Raczkiewicz, President of Poland (1939-1947)
**Prime Minister -
**# Wadysaw Sikorski, President of the Council of Ministers (1939-1943)
**# Stanisaw Mikoajczyk, President of the Council of Ministers (1943-1944)
* Portugal -
**President - António Óscar Carmona, President of Portugal (1926-1951)
**Prime Minister - António de Oliveira Salazar, President of the Council of Ministers (1932-1968)
* Soviet Union -
**Communist Party Leader - Joseph Stalin, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922-1953)
**Head of State - Mikhail Kalinin, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1938-1946)
**Premier - Joseph Stalin, Chairman of the Council of People's Comissars (1941-1953)
* Spain -
**Generalísimo - Francisco Franco, Head of the Spanish State and President of the Government (1939-1975), (1939-1973)
*"'Sweden
**Monarch - Gustaf V, King of Sweden (1907-1950)
**Prime Minister - Per Albin Hansson, Prime Minister of Sweden (1936-1946)
* Turkey -
** President - İsmet İnönü, President of Turkey (1938-1950)
** Prime Minister - Şükrü Saracoğlu, Prime Minister of Turkey (1942-1946)
* United Kingdom -
**Monarch - George VI, King of the United Kingdom (1936-1952)
**Prime Minister - Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1940-1945)
*Vatican City
** Pope - Pius XII, Bishop of Rome (1939-1958)
** Secretary of State - Luigi Cardinal Maglione, Cardinal Secretary of State (1939-1944)

North America and the Caribbean

*Canada
**Monarch - George VI, King of Canada (1936-1952)
** Governor General - The Earl of Athlone, Governor General of Canada (1940-1946)
** Prime Minister - William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada (1935-1948)
*Costa Rica - Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia, President of Costa Rica (1940–1944)
* Cuba
** President - Fulgencio Batista, President of Cuba (1940-1944)
** Premier - Ramón Zaydín, Premier of Cuba (1942-1944)
*Dominican Republic - Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, President of the Dominican Republic (1942–1952)
* United States - Franklin Roosevelt, President of the United States (1933-1945)

outh America

* Brazil - Getúlio Vargas, President of Brazil (1930-1945)
* Ecuador - Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Río, Acting President of Ecuador (1939-1944)
* Paraguay - Higinio Moriñigo, President of Paraguay (1940-1948)
* Peru - Manuel Prado y Ugarteche, President of Peru (1939-1945)
*Uruguay -
*#Alfredo Baldomir, President of Uruguay (1938-1943)
*#Juan José de Amézaga, President of Uruguay (1943-1947)
*Venezuela - Isaías Medina Angarita, President of Venezuela (1941-1945)