List of foreign politicians of Indian origin
Countries with heads of state or government of Indian descent (past or present) as of 2017[update]
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
Fiji
Germany
Guyana
Indonesia
Ireland
Jamaica
Japan
Kenya
Malaysia
Mauritius
Netherlands
New Zealand
Papua New Guinea
Philippines
Portugal
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
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
Nimi McConigley – Republican member of the Wyoming House of Representatives was the first Indian born person and the first Indian American women to serve in any State legislature.
Harry Anand – mayor of Laurel Hollow, New York; first Indian-American mayor in New York
Neel Kashkari – Republican politician and former Gubernatorial candidate in California
Niraj J. Antani – Republican member of Ohio House of Representatives from Ohio's 42nd District; first Indian American Republican elected to the Ohio House
Sam Arora – former Democratic member of the Maryland House of Delegates
Kumar P. Barve – Democratic member (and former Majority Leader ) of the Maryland House of Delegates from Maryland's 17th Legislative District in Montgomery County ; first Indian American to be elected to any state legislature
Ami Bera – Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 7th congressional district – former Chief Medical Officer for Sacramento County
Raj Peter Bhakta – entrepreneur, former The Apprentice contestant, and 2006 Republican U.S. House nominee in Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district
Ravinder S. Bhalla – mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey , first Sikh mayor in NJ
Satveer Chaudhary – former state senator and representative in Minnesota Senate and Minnesota House of Representatives
Joy Cherian – first Asian and Indian American head of the EEOC
Upendra Chivukula – Commissioner on the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities ; former Democratic member and Deputy Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly (first Indian-American elected to the NJ state legislature)
Swati Dandekar – member of Iowa House of Representatives
Bhagwan Dashairya – 2006 nominee for Governor of Michigan of the U.S. Taxpayers Party
Manka Dhingra – Democratic member of the Washington State Senate from Washington 's 45th legislative district
Kashmir Gill – mayor of Yuba City, California; first Indian-American mayor in CA and first Sikh mayor in the US
Vin Gopal – Democratic member of the New Jersey Senate from New Jersey's 11th Legislative District , which covers portions of Monmouth County ; third Indian American elected to NJ state legislature and first Indian American NJ state senator; former Chairman of the Monmouth County Democratic Party
Raj Goyle – former Democratic member of the Kansas House of Representatives from Kansas ' 87th District; first Indian American elected official in that state
Nikki Haley – former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Governor of South Carolina ; first Indian American to hold both offices and first female Governor of South Carolina
Kamala Harris – 49th Vice President of the United States (first Indian American; first African American; and first female Vice President of the U.S.); former United States Senator from the State of California (first Indian American in the U.S. Senate and first African American senator from California); 32nd Attorney General of California (first Indian American attorney general in the U.S.) and the 27th District Attorney of San Francisco (first district attorney in the U.S. of Indian descent)
Satish Hiremath – mayor of Oro Valley, Arizona; second Indian-American mayor in the US
Pramila Jayapal – Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Washington 's 7th Congressional District ; former member of the Washington State Senate ; first Indian American woman in both offices; founder of OneAmerica, a pro-immigration advocacy group
Bobby Jindal – former Republican Governor of Louisiana (first Indian American governor in US history); former member of U.S. House of Representatives ; former U.S. presidential candidate
Ro Khanna – Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California 's 17th Congressional District , former Deputy Assistant at the U.S. Department of Commerce
Kris Kolluri – New Jersey Commissioner of Transportation
Raja Krishnamoorthi – Democratic Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois' 8th Congressional District
Aruna Miller – Lieutenant Governor of Maryland , former member of the Maryland House of Delegates
Raj Mukherji – Majority Whip and Democratic member of the New Jersey General Assembly from New Jersey's 33rd Legislative District covering portions of Hudson County (second Indian American elected to NJ state legislature); former Deputy Mayor of Jersey City, NJ ; former Commissioner and Chairman of the Jersey City Housing Authority (then the youngest to serve in that position)
Ajit Pai – Chairman of the FCC and first Indian American to hold that position
Rachel Paulose – first woman to become a U.S. Attorney in Minnesota ; US Attorney for the District of Minnesota
Kesha Ram – four-term member of the Vermont House of Representatives ; candidate for Lieutenant Governor
Harpreet Singh Sandhu – former Richmond City Council member
Reshma Saujani – first Indian woman to run for Congress
Amish Shah – member of the Arizona House of Representatives
Balvir Singh – on the Burlington County Board of Chosen Freeholders , New Jersey ; first Asian-American to win a countywide election in Burlington County; first Sikh-American to win a countywide election in NJ[ 4]
Dalip Singh Saund – first Indian-American congressman; Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California
Kshama Sawant – Seattle City Council member; first socialist to win a city-wide election in Seattle since the radical progressive Anna Louise Strong was elected to the school board in 1916
Kevin Thomas – first Indian-American member of the New York State Senate
Seema Verma – first Indian-American female administrator of the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Sara Gideon - Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives
Suhas Subramanyam - first Indian-American elected to the Virginia General Assembly and former Obama Administration White House official
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