List of foreign politicians of Indian origin

Countries with heads of state or government of Indian descent (past or present) as of 2017

This article contains a list of Wikipedia articles about politicians in countries outside of the Indian subcontinent who are of Indian origin.

Australia

Federal parliament

State and territory parliaments

Canada

Federal

Provincial/Territorial

Municipal

Fiji

Germany

Guyana

Indonesia

Ireland

Jamaica

Japan

Kenya

Malaysia

Mauritius

Netherlands

New Zealand

Papua New Guinea

Philippines

Portugal

Puerto Rico

Singapore

  • Vivian Balakrishnan – Minister of Community Development, Youth and Sports; former CEO of Singapore General Hospital
  • S. Dhanabalan – Chairman of Temasek Holdings and DBS Bank, former Minister of National Development, Trade and Industry and Foreign Affairs; tipped by Singapore's first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew as one of the four men he considered as a possible successor
  • James Gomez – senior leader in the main opposition party (the Workers Party); founder of Think Centre, a political NGO
  • S. Iswaran – Minister for Communications and Information, former Managing Director of Temasek Holdings
  • S. Jayakumar – Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Law and co-ordinating Minister for Security; former Foreign Minister and ambassador to the United Nations, and Dean of the Law School in Singapore
  • J. B. Jeyaretnam – former Leader of the Opposition; former MP; first person to break the PAP monopoly in parliament in 1984; former magistrate
  • Devan Nair – third President of Singapore (1981–1985), father of the modern trades union movement in Singapore
  • Hri Kumar Nair – former MP
  • S. R. Nathan – 6th President of Singapore (1999-2011)
  • Murali Pillai – MP
  • Indranee Rajah – Minister in Prime minister's Office, Senior Counsel of Supreme Court of Singapore
  • S. Rajaratnam – former Senior Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Labour and Culture; co-founder of the Peoples Action Party and Association of South East Asian Nations; author of the Singapore Pledge; one of the pioneer leaders of modern Singapore
  • Balaji Sadasivan – Junior Minister
  • K. Shanmugam – Minister for Home Affairs, former Senior Counsel of Supreme Court of Singapore
  • Pritam Singh – Leader of the Opposition and MP
  • Halimah Yacob – 8th President of Singapore (2017–2023)

Seychelles

South Africa

Pravin Gordan - Minister of Finance; Minister of Public Works

Spain

Suriname

Switzerland

  • Nik Gugger – adopted from Karnataka; first Indian-origin members of the Swiss parliament[3]

Tanzania

Thailand

Trinidad and Tobago

United Kingdom

United States

See also

References