List of heads of government who were later imprisoned
This is a list of heads of government who were later imprisoned. There have been several individuals throughout history who served as Head of State or Head of Government (such as President, Prime Minister or Monarch) of their respective nation states, who later became prisoners. Any serving or former Head of State or Head of Government who was placed under house arrest or became a prisoner of war is also included. Leaders who were kidnapped by insurgents, convicted in absentia while in exile or those who received an international arrest warrant that was not consummated are not included.
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| Name | Country | Date of birth[1] | Official positions | Later imprisonment | Date of death[1] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abdumalik Abdullajanov |  Tajikistan |
January 1, 1949 | Prime Minister (1992–1993) | 2013 | Living |
| Puyi |  Manchukuo |
February 7, 1906 | Emperor (1934–1945) Chief Executive (1932–1934) |
1945–1959 (prisoner of war) | October 17, 1967 |
| Alphonse Massamba-Débat |  Congo |
February 11, 1921 | President (1963–1968) | 1977 | March 25, 1977 (executed) |
| Arnoldo Alemán |  Nicaragua |
January 23, 1946 | President (1997–2002) | 2002–present | Living |
| Ali Osman Taha |  Sudan |
January 1, 1944 | Vice President (2011–2013, 1998–2005) | 2019–present | Living |
| Amado Boudou |  Argentina |
November 19, 1962 | Vice President (2011–2015) | 2014–present | Living |
| Miguel Ángel Rodríguez |  Costa Rica |
January 9, 1940 | President (1998–2002) Prime Minister (1966–1970) |
2004–2012 (conviction overturned) | Living |
| Jeanine Áñez |  Bolivia |
June 13, 1967 | President (2019–2020) | 2021–present | Living |
| Ion Antonescu |  Romania |
June 15, 1882 | Prime Minister (1940–1944) | 1944–1946 | June 1, 1946 (executed) |
| Antonio Saca |  El Salvador |
March 9, 1965 | President (2004–2009) | 2016–present | Living |
| Gloria Macapagal Arroyo |  Philippines |
April 5, 1947 | President (2001–2010) | 2011–2016 (hospital arrest; acquited) | Living |
| Aslan Abashidze |  Adjara |
July 20, 1938 | Chairman (1991–2004) | 2016–present | Living |
| Almazbek Atambayev |  Kyrgyzstan |
September 17, 1956 | President (2011–2017) Prime Minister (2007, 2010–2011, 2011) |
2019–present | Living |
| Alpha Condé |  Guinea |
March 4, 1938 | President (2010–2021) | 2021–present | Living |
| Arthur Seyss-Inquart |  Nazi Germany |
July 22, 1892 | Chancellor of Austria (1938) Reich Commissioner of Netherlands (1940–1945) Head of State of Austria (1940–1945) |
1945–1946 | October 16, 1946 |
| Ba Maw |  Burma |
February 8, 1893 | Prime Minister (1937–1939) | 1940–1942, 1945–1946, 1947 | May 29, 1977 |
| Baghdadi Mahmudi |  Libya |
1945 | Prime Minister (2006–2011) | 2011–present | Living |
| Canaan Banana |  Zimbabwe |
March 5, 1936 | President (1980–1987) | 1997–2001 | November 10, 2003 |
| László Bárdossy |  Hungary |
December 10, 1890 | Prime Minister (1941–1942) | 1945–1946 | January 10, 1946 (executed) |
| Basdeo Panday |  Trinidad and Tobago |
May 25, 1933 | Prime Minister (1995–2001) | 2005 | Living |
| Lajos Batthyány |  Hungary |
February 10, 1807 | Prime Minister (1848) | 1848–1849 | October 6, 1849 (executed) |
| Alexey Barinov |  Nenets Autonomous Okrug |
December 30, 1951 | Governor (2005–2006) | 2006–present | Living |
| Celâl Bayar |  Turkey |
May 16, 1883 | President (1950–1960) Prime Minister (1937–1939) |
1960–1964 (death sentence commuted) | August 22, 1986 |
| Bernard Coard |  Grenada |
August 10, 1945 | Prime Minister (1983) | 1983–2009 | Living |
| Ahmed Ben Bella |  Algeria |
December 25, 1916 | President (1963–1965) | 1965–1980 (house arrest) | April 11, 2012 |
| Silvio Berlusconi |  Italy |
September 29, 1936 | Prime Minister (1994–1995, 2001–2006, 2008–2011) | 2012–2013 (house arrest) | Living |
| István Bethlen | Hungary |
October 8, 1874 | Prime Minister (1921–1931) | 1945–1946 | October 5, 1946 (died in prison) |
| Biljana Plavšić |  Republika Srpska Bosnia and Herzegovina |
July 7, 1930 | President (1990–1992, 1996–1998) | 2001–2009 | Living |
| Maurice Bishop | Grenada |
May 29, 1944 | Prime Minister (1979–1983) | 1983 | October 19, 1983 |
| Zulfikar Ali Bhutto |  Pakistan |
January 5, 1928 | President (1971–1973) Prime Minister (1973–1977) |
1977–1979 | April 4, 1979 (executed) |
| Reynaldo Bignone | Argentina |
January 21, 1928 | President (de facto; 1982–1983) | 2007–2018 | March 7, 2018 |
| Jean-Bédel Bokassa |  Central African Republic |
February 22, 1921 | Emperor (1976–1979) President (1966–1976) |
1986–1993 (pardoned) | November 3, 1996 |
| Dobri Bozhilov |  Bulgaria |
June 13, 1884 | Prime Minister (1943–1944) | 1944–1945 | February 1, 1945 (executed) |
| Brian Burke |  Western Australia |
February 25, 1947 | Premier (1983–1988) | 1994 | Living |
| Caabi El-Yachroutu Mohamed |  Comoros |
1949 | President (1995–1996) Prime Minister (1995–1996) Vice President (2002–2006) |
2008–present | Living |
| Carlos Correia |  Guinea-Bissau |
November 6, 1933 | Prime Minister (1991–1994, 1997–1998, 2008–2009, 2015–2016) | 1999–2003 | Living |
| Adil Çarçani |  Albania |
May 15, 1922 | Prime Minister (1981–1991) | 1994–1997 (house arrest) | October 13, 1997 |
| Cassim Chilumpha |  Malawi |
November 29, 1959 | Vice President (2004–2009) | 2006–present | Living |
| Nicolae Ceaușescu |  Romania |
January 26, 1918 | President (1967–1989) | 1989 (detained) | December 25, 1989 (executed) |
| Celestine V |  Papal States |
1215 | Head of State (1294) | 1294–1296 | 1296 |
| Charles I |  England Scotland Ireland |
1600 | King (1625–1649) | 1649 | 1649 (executed) |
| Mahendra Chaudhry |  Fiji |
February 9, 1942 | Prime Minister (1999–2000) | 2000 (taken hostage in a coup) | Living |
| Chen Gongbo |  Collaborationist China |
1892 | President (1944–1945) | 1945–1946 | 1946 (executed) |
| Chen Shubao | China (Chen dynasty) | 553 | Emperor (582-589) | 589 (prisoner of war) | 604 |
| Chen Shui-bian |  Taiwan |
October 12, 1950 | President (2000–2008) | 2008,[2] 2008–2015[3] | Living |
| Chakufwa Chihana | Malawi |
April 23, 1939 | Vice President (2003–2004, 1994–1996) | 1970–1975, 1992–1993 | June 12, 2006 |
| Frederick Chiluba |  Zambia |
April 30, 1943 | President (1991–2002) | 2003–2009 | June 18, 2011 |
| Chimediin Saikhanbileg |  Mongolia |
February 19, 1969 | Prime Minister (2014–2016) | 2018–present | Living |
| Steve Christian |  Pitcairn Islands |
June 26, 1951 | Mayor (1999–2004) | 2004–2007 | Living |
| Chun Doo-hwan |  South Korea |
January 18, 1931 | President (1980–1988) | 1996–1997 (death sentence commuted) | November 23, 2021 |
| Álvaro Colom |  Guatemala |
June 15, 1951 | President (2008–2012) | 2018–present | Living |
| David Brandt |  Montserrat |
Unknown | Chief Minister (1997–2001) | September 22, 2015, November 23, 2018 | Living |
| Sher Bahadur Deuba |  Nepal |
June 13, 1946 | Prime Minister (1995–1997, 2001–2002, 2004–2005, 2021–present) | 2005–2006 | Living |
| Demchugdongrub |  Mengjiang |
February 8, 1902 | Chairman (1938–1945) | 1949–1962 | May 23, 1966 |
| Oladipo Diya |  Nigeria |
April 3, 1944 | Vice President (1993–1997) | 1997–1998 | Living |
| Mykhailo Dobkin |  Kharkiv Oblast |
October 26, 1970 | Governor (2010–2014) | 2014–2017 | Living |
| Jacques Drielsma |  Suriname |
October 14, 1886 | Prime Minister (1951) | 1957–1959[4] | July 31, 1974 |
| Dragan Čović | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
August 20, 1956 | President (2003–2004, 2015–2016, 2017–2018) Prime Minister (2001) |
2006–2012 | Living |
| Abuzed Omar Dorda | Libya |
April 4, 1944 | Prime Minister (1990–1994) | 2011–present | Living |
| Karl Dönitz | Nazi Germany |
September 16, 1891 | President (1945) | 1945–1956 | December 24, 1980 |
| Jean-Claude Duvalier |  Haiti |
March 7, 1951 | President (1971–1986) | 2011–2014 (house arrest) | October 4, 2014 |
| Atef Ebeid |  Egypt |
April 14, 1932 | Prime Minister (1999–2004) | 2012–2013 | September 12, 2014 |
| Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal |  Somali Republic |
August 15, 1928 | Prime Minister (1967–1969) | 1969–1976, 1978–1985 | May 3, 2003 |
| August Eigruber | Nazi Germany |
April 7, 1907 | Gauleiter of Reichsgau Oberdonau (1938–1945) | 1945–1947 | May 28, 1947 |
| Ephraïm Inoni |  Cameroon |
August 16, 1947 | Prime Minister (2004–2009) | 2012–present | Living |
| Erich Koch | Nazi Germany |
June 19, 1896 | Gauleiter of East Prussia (1928–1945) Oberpräsident of East Prussia (1933–1945) Reichskommissar of Ukraine (1941–1944) Reichskommissar of Ostland (1944–1945) Gauleiter of Bezirk Bialystok (1941–1945) |
1949–1986 | November 12, 1986 |
| Hussain Muhammad Ershad |  Bangladesh |
January 1, 1930 | President (1982–1990) | 1990–1997 | July 14, 2019 |
| Ernesto Pérez Balladares |  Panama |
June 29, 1946 | President (1994–1999) | 2009–present | Living |
| Móric Esterházy | Hungary |
April 27, 1881 | Prime Minister (1917) | 1944–1945 (prison) 1951–1956 (internment) |
June 28, 1960 |
| Joseph Estrada | Philippines |
April 19, 1937 | President (1998–2001) | 2001–2007 | Living |
| Eugene Koffi Adoboli |  Togo |
October 3, 1934 | Prime Minister (1999–2000) | 2011–2016 | Living |
| Fabián Alarcón |  Ecuador |
April 17, 1947 | President (1997–1998) | 1999 | Living |
| Faustino Imbali | Guinea-Bissau |
May 1, 1956 | Prime Minister (2001) | 2009–present | Living |
| Felix Kulov | Kyrgyzstan |
October 29, 1948 | Prime Minister (2005–2007) | 2000–2005, 2007–present | Living |
| Bogdan Filov | Bulgaria |
April 9, 1883 | Prime Minister (1940–1943) | 1944–1945 | February 2, 1945 (executed) |
| Raffaele Fitto |  Apulia |
August 28, 1969 | President (2000–2005) | 2009–2017 | Living |
| Foday Sankoh |  Sierra Leone |
October 17, 1937 | Vice President (1999–2000) | 2000–2003 | July 29, 2003 |
| Roberto Formigoni |  Lombardy |
April 30, 1947 | President (1995–2013) | 2012–present | Living |
| Formosus | Papal States |
816 | Head of State (891–896) | 897 | 896 |
| François Fillon |  France |
March 4, 1954 | Prime Minister (2007–2012) | 2017–present | Living |
| Franz Böhme | Nazi Germany |
April 15, 1885 | Reichskommissar of Reichskommissariat Norwegen (1945) | 1947 | May 29, 1947 |
| Frédéric Bamvuginyumvira |  Burundi |
June 24, 1961 | Vice President (1998–2001) | 2013 | Living |
| István Friedrich | Hungary |
July 1, 1883 | Prime Minister (1919) | 1951 | November 25, 1951 (died in prison) |
| Friedrich Karl Florian | Nazi Germany |
February 4, 1894 | Gauleiter of Düsseldorf (1930–1945) | 1945–1951 | October 24, 1975 |
| Mauricio Funes | El Salvador |
October 18, 1959 | President (2009–2014) | 2017–present | Living |
| Alberto Fujimori |  Peru |
July 28, 1938 | President (1990–2000) | 2005–2006 (bailed out in Chile) 2007–2017 (pardoned) 2018–present (pardon revoked) |
Living |
| Ollanta Humala | Peru |
July 27, 1966 | President (2011–2016) | 2017–present (serving preventive prison) | Living |
| Pedro Pablo Kuczynski | Peru |
October 3, 1938 | President (2016–2018) | 2019–present (house arrest)[5] | Living |
| Alejandro Toledo | Peru |
March 28, 1946 | President (2001–2006) | 2019–2020, 2021–present | Living |
| Francisco Morales-Bermúdez | Peru |
October 4, 1921 | President (1975–1980) | 2017–present (sentenced to life, not serving) | Living |
| Leopoldo Galtieri | Argentina |
July 15, 1926 | President (de facto; 1981–1982) | 1983–1991 (pardoned) | January 12, 2003 |
| Indira Gandhi |  India |
November 19, 1917 | Prime Minister (1966–1977, 1980–1984) | 1977 | October 31, 1984 |
| Sándor Garbai |  Hungary |
March 27, 1879 | Chairman of the Revolutionary Governing Council (1919) | 1919 | November 7, 1947 |
| Gaston Flosse |  French Polynesia |
June 24, 1931 | President (1984–1987, 1991–2004, 2004–2005, 2008, 2013–2014) | 2006–present | Living |
| Giancarlo Galan |  Veneto |
September 10, 1956 | President (1995–2010) | 2014–present | Living |
| Gilbert Aké |  Ivory Coast |
1956 | Prime Minister (2010–2011) | 2011–2012 | Living |
| Giuseppe Scopelliti |  Calabria |
November 21, 1966 | President (2010–2014) | 2014–present | Living |
| Grégoire Kayibanda |  Rwanda |
May 1, 1924 | President of Rwanda (1961–1973) | 1973–1976 (house arrest) | December 15, 1976 |
| Luis Ángel González Macchi |  Paraguay |
December 13, 1947 | President (1999–2003) | 2006–present | Living |
| George Matanzima |  Transkei |
December 26, 1918 | Prime Minister (1979–1987) | 1987–1990 | November 10, 2000 |
| Georgi Atanasov |  Bulgaria |
July 25, 1933 | Prime Minister (1986–1990) | 1992–1994 | Living |
| Georgios Papadopoulos |  Greece |
May 5, 1919 | President (1973) Prime Minister (1967–1973) |
1974–1999 | June 27, 1999 |
| Georgios Tsolakoglu |  Greece |
1886 | Prime Minister (1941–1942) | 1945–1948 | May 22, 1948 |
| Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada | Bolivia |
July 1, 1930 | President (1993–1997, 2002–2003) | 2004–present | Living |
| Goran Hadžić |  Serbian Krajina |
September 7, 1958 | President (1992–1994) | 2011–2016 | July 12, 2016 |
| Artúr Görgei |  Hungary |
January 30, 1818 | Dictator (1849) | 1849 | May 21, 1916 |
| Goujian | China (Yue) | Unknown | King (496–465 BCE) | 494 BCE (prisoner of war) | 465 BCE |
| Gregorio Conrado Álvarez |  Uruguay |
November 26, 1925 | President (1981–1985) | 2009–2016 | December 28, 2016 |
| Grisha Filipov | Bulgaria |
July 19, 1919 | Prime Minister (1981–1986) | 1992–1994 | November 2, 1994 |
| Pavel Gubarev |  Donetsk People's Republic |
February 10, 1983 | People's Governor (2014) | March–May 2014 | Living |
| Guilherme Posser da Costa |  São Tomé and Príncipe |
1953 | Prime Minister (1999–2001) | 2004–2007 | Living |
| Gustavo Noboa | Ecuador |
August 21, 1937 | President (2000–2003) Vice President (1998–2000) |
2005–2006 (house arrest) | Living |
| Gyude Bryant |  Liberia |
January 17, 1949 | President (2003–2006) | 2007–2009 | April 16, 2014 |
| Habib Bourguiba |  Tunisia |
August 3, 1903 | President (1957–1987) Prime Minister (1956–1957) |
1987–2000 (house arrest) | April 6, 2000 |
| János Hadik | Hungary |
November 23, 1863 | Prime Minister (1918) | 1919 | December 10, 1933 |
| Ahmed Haroun |  North Kurdufan |
1964 | Governor (2013–2019) | 2019–present | Living |
| Hastings Banda | Malawi |
February 15, 1898 | President (1966–1994) | 1995 | November 25, 1997 |
| Haile Selassie |  Ethiopia |
July 23, 1892 | Emperor (1930–1974) | 1974–1975 (house arrest) | August 27, 1975 |
| Hama Amadou |  Niger |
1949 | Prime Minister (1995–1996, 2000–2007) | 2008–present | Living |
| Seif Sharif Hamad |  Tanzania Zanzibar |
October 22, 1943 | Vice President (2010–2021) Chief Minister (1984–1988) |
1988–1991, 2000–2003 | February 17, 2021 |
| Han Myeong-sook | South Korea |
March 24, 1944 | Prime Minister (2006–2007) | 2015–2017 | Living |
| Richard Hatfield |  New Brunswick |
April 9, 1931 | Premier (1970–1987) | 1984–1985 | April 26, 1991 |
| Hinrich Lohse | Nazi Germany |
September 2, 1896 | Reichskommissar of Ostland (1941–1944) Oberpräsident of Province of Schleswig-Holstein (1933–1945) Gauleiter of Gau Schleswig-Holstein (1925–1945) |
1945–1951 | February 25, 1964 |
| Hissène Habré |  Chad |
September 13, 1942 | Prime Minister (1978–1979) President (1982–1990) |
2005–2013 (house arrest), 2013–present | Living |
| Geir Haarde |  Iceland |
April 8, 1951 | Prime Minister (2006–2009) | 2010–present | Living |
| Hamani Diori | Niger |
June 6, 1916 | President (1960–1974) | 1980–1987 (house arrest) | April 23, 1989 |
| Hans Frank | Nazi Germany |
May 23, 1900 | Head of General Government (1939–1945) | 1945–1946 | October 16, 1946 |
| Sheikh Hasina | Bangladesh |
September 28, 1947 | Prime Minister (2009–present, 1996–2001) | April–May 2007 | Living |
| Heorhiy Filipchuk |  Chernivtsi Oblast |
Unknown | Governor (1996–1998) | 2012–2013 | Living |
| Horst Sindermann |  East Germany |
September 5, 1915 | Chairman of Council of Ministers (1973–1976) | 1990 | April 20, 1990 |
| Hosni Mubarak | Egypt |
May 4, 1928 | President (1981–2011) | 2011–2017 | February 25, 2020 |
| Hiranuma Kiichirō |  Japan |
September 28, 1867 | Prime Minister (1939) | 1952 | August 22, 1952 |
| Erich Honecker | East Germany |
August 25, 1912 | General Secretary (1971–1989) Chairman of the Council of State (1976–1989) |
1992–1993 | May 29, 1994 |
| Miklós Horthy | Hungary |
June 18, 1868 | Regent (1920–1944) | 1944–1945 | February 9, 1957 |
| Amir-Abbas Hoveyda |  Iran |
February 18, 1919 | Prime Minister (1965–1977) | 1978–1979 | April 7, 1979 (executed) |
| Hudson Austin | Grenada |
April 26, 1938 | Military leader (1983) | 1983–2008 | Living |
| Ibrahim Biçakçiu |  Albania |
September 10, 1905 | Prime Minister (1944) Head of State (1943) |
1944–1962 | January 7, 1977 |
| Ibrahim Halidi | Comoros |
1954 | Prime Minister (1993) | 2008–present | Living |
| Tunde Idiagbon | Nigeria |
September 12, 1943 | Vice President (1983–1985) | 1985–1988 | March 24, 1999 |
| Idrissa Seck |  Senegal |
August 9, 1960 | Prime Minister (2002–2004) | 2005–2006 | Living |
| Béla Imrédy | Hungary |
December 29, 1891 | Prime Minister (1938–1939) | 1945–1946 | February 28, 1946 (executed) |
| Irwandi Yusuf |  Aceh |
August 2, 1960 | Governor (2007–2012, 2017–2018) | 2003–2004, 2018–present | Living |
| Isabel Perón | Argentina |
February 4, 1931 | President (1974–1976) Vice President (1973–1974) |
2007–present | Living |
| Sapar Isakov | Kyrgyzstan |
July 29, 1977 | Prime Minister (2017–2018) | 2018–present | Living |
| Ivan Bagryanov | Bulgaria |
October 17, 1891 | Prime Minister (1944) | 1944–1945 | February 1, 1945 |
| Janez Janša |  Slovenia |
September 17, 1958 | Prime Minister (2004–2008, 2012–2013, 2020–present) | 2014–2015 | Living |
| Jay Warren | Pitcairn Islands |
July 29, 1956 | Mayor (2005–2007) Chief Magistrate (1991–1999) |
2004 | Living |
| Jean-Baptiste Bagaza | Burundi |
August 29, 1946 | President (1976–1987) | 1997–2016 | May 4, 2016 |
| Jean Kambanda | Rwanda |
October 19, 1955 | Prime Minister (1994) | 1997–present | Living |
| Jean-Pierre Bemba |  Congo-Kinshasa |
November 4, 1962 | Vice President (2003–2006) | 2008–2018 | Living |
| Jefferson Davis |  Confederate States |
June 3, 1808 | President (1862–1865) | 1865–1869 | December 6, 1889 |
| Jeffery Nape |  Papua New Guinea |
1964 | Governor General (2004, 2010) | May–July 2012 | July 8, 2016 |
| Joachim Yhombi-Opango | Congo-Brazzaville |
January 12, 1939 | President (1977–1979) Prime Minister (1993–1996) |
1987–1990, 2001–2007 (house arrest) | March 30, 2020 |
| Joe Natuman |  Vanuatu |
November 24, 1952 | Prime Minister (2014–2015) | 2018–2021 | Living |
| Johan Wilhelm Rangell |  Finland |
October 25, 1894 | Prime Minister (1941–1943) | 1946–1949 | March 12, 1982 |
| Jorge Glas | Ecuador |
September 13, 1969 | Vice President (2013–2018) | 2018–present | Living |
| Josef Grohé | Nazi Germany |
November 6, 1902 | Gauleiter of Gau Cologne-Aachen (1931–1945) Reichskommissar for Belgium and Northern France (1944) |
1950 | December 27, 1987 |
| Jozef Tiso |  Slovakia |
October 13, 1887 | President (1938–1945) | 1945–1947 | April 18, 1947 |
| Juan María Bordaberry | Uruguay |
June 17, 1928 | President (1973–1976) | 2006–2011 (house arrest) | July 17, 2011 |
| Carlos Gomes Júnior | Guinea-Bissau |
1949-12-19}} | Prime Minister (2004–2005, 2009–2012) | 2012 | Living |
| Miklós Kállay | Hungary |
January 23, 1887 | Prime Minister (1942–1944) | 1944–1945 | January 14, 1967 |
| Radovan Karadžić | Republika Srpska |
1945-06-19}} | President (1992–1996) | 2008–present | Living |
| Karl Hermann Frank |  Bohemia and Moravia |
January 24, 1898 | Head of State (1942–1945) | 1945–1946 | May 22, 1946 |
| Mykhailo Dobkin | Kharkiv Oblast |
January 26, 1970 | Governor (2010–2014) | 2014–present | Living |
| Kenan Evren | Turkey |
July 17, 1917 | President (1980–1989) | 2012–2015 | May 9, 2015 |
| Kenneth Kaunda |  Zambia |
April 28, 1924 | President (1964–1991) | 1997–1998 | June 17, 2021 |
| Modibo Keïta |  Mali |
June 4, 1915 | President (1960–1968) | 1968–1977 (house arrest) | May 16, 1977 |
| Alphonse-Marie Kadege | Burundi |
Unknown | Vice President (2003–2004) | 2004–2007 | Living |
| Kakuei Tanaka | Japan |
May 4, 1918 | Prime Minister (1972–1976) | 1976–1985 | December 16, 1993 |
| Khaled Bahah |  Yemen |
January 1, 1965 | Prime Minister (2014–2016) | 2015 (house arrest) | Living |
| Aleksandr Kharitonov |  Luhansk People's Republic |
July 6, 1971 | People's Governor (2014) | 2014–present | Living |
| Khieu Samphan |  Democratic Kampuchea |
July 28, 1931 | Chairman of the State Presidium (1976–1979) Prime Minister (1976) |
2007–present | Living |
| Benedicto Kiwanuka |  Uganda |
May 8, 1922 | Prime Minister (1962) | 1968–1970 1972 | September 22, 1972 (murdered) |
| Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad | Bangladesh |
1918 | President (1975) | 1975–1978 | March 5, 1996 |
| Ahmad Husayn Khudayir as-Samarrai |  Iraq |
July 2, 1941 | Prime Minister (1993–1994) | 2003–2010 | Living |
| Agbéyomé Kodjo | Togo |
October 12, 1954 | Prime Minister (2000–2002) | 2002–present (international order of arrest issued) | Living |
| Ben Komproe |  Netherlands Antilles |
October 2, 1942 | Prime Minister (2003) | September–October 2004 | October 11, 2004 |
| Konstantin Muraviev | Kingdom of Bulgaria |
March 5, 1893 | Prime Minister (1944) | 1945–1961 | January 31, 1965 |
| Konstantin von Neurath | Bohemia and Moravia |
February 2, 1873 | Head of State (1939–1943) | 1945–1954 | August 14, 1956 |
| Kostaq Kotta |  Albania |
May 5, 1886 | Prime Minister (1928–1930, 1936–1939) | 1944–1947 | September 1, 1947 |
| Egon Krenz | East Germany |
March 19, 1937 | Chairman of the Council of State (1989) | 1997–2003 | Living |
| Kōki Hirota |  Japan |
February 14, 1878 | Prime Minister (1936–1937) | 1945–1948 | December 23, 1948 |
| Kumba Ialá | Guinea-Bissau |
March 15, 1953 | President (2000–2003) | 2003–2004 (house arrest) | April 4, 2014 |
| Béla Kun | Hungary |
February 20, 1886 | Leader (1919) | 1937–1938 | August 29, 1938 (executed) |
| Kuniaki Koiso | Japan |
March 22, 1880 | Prime Minister (1944–1945) | 1945–1950 | November 3, 1950 |
| Kurt Daluege | Bohemia and Moravia |
September 15, 1897 | Head of State (1942–1943) | 1945–1946 | October 24, 1946 |
| Choi Kyoung-hwan | South Korea |
June 22, 1955 | Prime Minister (2015) | 2018–present | Living |
| Lady Jane Grey | England Ireland |
1537 | Queen (1553) | 1553–1554 | 1554 (executed) |
| Géza Lakatos | Hungary |
April 30, 1890 | Prime Minister (1944) | 1944–1945 | May 21, 1967 |
| Laurent Gbagbo | Cote D'Ivoire |
May 31, 1945 | President (2000–2011) | 2011–2019 | Living |
| Jose P. Laurel |  Philippines |
March 9, 1891 | President (1943–1945) | 1945–1948 | November 6, 1959 |
| Aleksey Lebed |  Khakassia |
April 14, 1955 | President (1997–2009) | 2006–2019 (indictment) | April 27, 2019 |
| Lee Teng-hui | Taiwan |
January 15, 1923 | President (1988–2000) | 2011–2014 (indictment) | July 30, 2020 |
| Lee Wan-koo | South Korea |
July 16, 1950 | Prime Minister (2015) | 2016–present | Living |
| Aivars Lembergs |  Ventspils |
September 26, 1953 | Mayor (1988–2021) | 2021–present | Living |
| Lennox Sebe |  Ciskei |
July 26, 1926 | President (1981–1990) | 1990–1994 (indictment) | July 23, 1994 |
| Leon Rupnik | Slovenia |
August 10, 1880 | President of the Province of Ljubljana (1943–1945) | 1945–1946 | September 4, 1946 |
| Leonid Markelov |  Mari El |
June 23, 1963 | President (2001–2017) | 2017–present | Living |
| Li Si | China (Qin dynasty) | c. 280 BCE | Chancellor (? to 208 BCE) | 208 BCE | 208 BCE (executed) |
| Liang Hongzhi |  Collaborationist China |
1882 | Chairman (1938–1940) | 1945–1946 | November 1946 (executed) |
| Liu Shan | China (Shu Han) | 207 | Emperor (223-263) | 263 (prisoner of war) | 271 |
| Liu Shaoqi |  China |
November 24, 1898 | President (1959–1968) | 1967–1968 (house arrest) | November 12, 1969 |
| Lise Thibault |  Quebec |
April 2, 1939 | Lieutenant Governor (1997–2007) | 2007–2017 | Living |
| Louis XVI |  France |
August 23, 1754 | King (1774–1792) | 1792–1793 | January 21, 1793 (executed) |
| Ludwig Ruckdeschel | Nazi Germany |
March 15, 1907 | Gauleiter of Bayreuth (1945) | 1947–1952 | November 8, 1986 |
| Luis Echeverría |  Mexico |
January 17, 1922 | President (1970–1976) | 2006–2009 (house arrest) | Living |
| Luis García Meza | Bolivia |
August 8, 1929 | President (1980–1981) | 1995–2018 | April 28, 2018 |
| Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva |  Brazil |
October 27, 1945 | President (2003–2011) | 2018–2019 | Living |
| Patrice Lumumba |  Congo-Léopoldville |
July 2, 1925 | Prime Minister (1960) | 1960–1961 (detained) | January 17, 1961 |
| Georgy Lvov |  Russian Republic |
November 2, 1861[6] | Prime Minister (1917) | 1918 | March 7, 1925 |
| Pasteur Bizimungu | Rwanda |
1950 | President (1994–2000) | 2001–2004 (house arrest), 2004–2007 (prison) | Living |
| Andreas Papandreou |  Greece |
February 5, 1919 | Prime Minister (1981–1989, 1993–1996) | 1989–1992 (indictment) | June 24, 1996 |
| Darrell Pasloski |  Yukon |
December 2, 1960 | Premier (2011–2016) | 2004–2005 (indictment) | Living |
| Piero Marrazzo |  Lazio |
July 29, 1958 | President (2005–2009) | 2009–present | Living |
| P. W. Botha |  South Africa |
January 12, 1916 | President (1984–1989) Prime Minister (1978–1984) |
1998–1999 (suspended sentence; won appeal) | October 31, 2006 |
| Marc Ravalomanana |  Madagascar |
December 12, 1949 | President (2004–2009) | 2012–2014 | Living |
| Ricardo Martinelli | Panama |
March 11, 1951 | President (2009–2014) | 2017 | Living |
| Francisco Macías Nguema |  Equatorial Guinea |
January 1, 1924 | President (1968–1979) | 1979 | September 29, 1979 (executed) |
| Ferdinand Marcos |  Philippines |
September 11, 1917 | President (1965–1986) Prime Minister (1978–1981) |
1988 (indicted) | September 28, 1989 |
| Mary, Queen of Scots | Scotland |
1542 | Queen (1542–1567) | 1586–1587 | 1587 (executed) |
| Mame Madior Boye | Senegal |
1940 | Prime Minister (2001–2002) | 2008–2009 (order of arrest issued) | Living |
| Manuel Saturnino da Costa | Guinea-Bissau |
1942}} | Prime Minister (1994–1997) | 2000 | Living |
| Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi | Yemen |
September 1, 1945 | President (2012–present) | 2017–present (house arrest) | Living |
| Maria Rita Lorenzetti |  Umbria |
March 15, 1953 | President (2000–2010) | 2013–present | Living |
| Alphonse Massamba-Débat | Congo-Brazzaville |
1921 | President (1963–1968) Prime Minister (1963) |
1977 | March 25, 1977 (executed) |
| Maumoon Abdul Gayoom |  Maldives |
December 29, 1937 | President (1978–2008) | 2018 | Living |
| McKeeva Bush |  Cayman Islands |
January 20, 1955 | Premier (2009–2012) | 2012–2014 | Living |
| Adnan Menderes | Turkey |
1899 | Prime Minister (1950–1960) | 1960–1961 | September 17, 1961 (executed) |
| Carlos Menem | Argentina |
July 2, 1930 | President (1989–1999) | June–November 2001 (house arrest) | Living |
| Mesut Yılmaz | Turkey |
November 6, 1947 | Prime Minister (1997–1999, 1996, 1991) | 2006 (indictment) | October 30, 2020 |
| Michel Temer | Brazil |
September 30, 1940 | President (2016–2018), Vice President (2011–2016) | 2019–present | Living |
| Miguel Abia Biteo Boricó | Equatorial Guinea |
January 11, 1961 | Prime Minister (2004–2006) | 2007–2012 | December 6, 2012 |
| Mike Warren | Pitcairn Islands |
1964 | Mayor (2008–2013) | 2016–present | Living |
| Milan Babić | Serbian Krajina |
February 26, 1956 | Prime Minister (1995) President (1991–1992) |
2002–2006 | March 5, 2006 |
| Milan Martić | Serbian Krajina |
November 18, 1954 | President (1994–1995) | 1995–present | Living |
| Milan Milutinović |  Serbia |
December 19, 1942 | President (1997–2002) | 2003–2009 | Living |
| Slobodan Milošević | Serbia /  Yugoslavia |
August 20, 1941 | President (1989–2000) | 2001–2006 | March 11, 2006 |
| Michael Misick |  Turks and Caicos Islands |
February 2, 1966 | Premier (2003–2009) | 2012–present | Living |
| Michel Micombero | Burundi |
August 26, 1940 | President (1966–1976) Prime Minister (1966) |
1976–1977 | July 16, 1983 |
| Mir-Hossein Mousavi |  Iran |
March 2, 1942 | Prime Minister (1981–1989) | 2011–present (house arrest) | Living |
| Moana Carcasses Kalosil | Vanuatu |
January 27, 1963 | Prime Minister (2013–2014) | 2014–present | Living |
| Mohammad Reza Rahimi | Iran |
January 11, 1949 | Vice President (2009–2013) | 2015–present | Living |
| Mohamed Abu al-Qasim al-Zwai | Libya |
May 14, 1942 | President (2010–2011) | 2011–present | Living |
| Mohamed Bacar |  Anjouan |
May 5, 1962 | President (2001–2008) | 2008–present | Living |
| Comoros |
Unknown | Prime Minister (1994) | 2008–present | Living | |
| Mohammed Hamza Zubeidi | Iraq |
1938 | Prime Minister (1991–1993) | 2003–2005 | December 2, 2005 |
| Mohamed Morsi | Egypt |
August 8, 1951 | President (2012–2013) | 2013–2019 | June 17, 2019 |
| Mohamed Nasheed | Maldives |
May 17, 1967 | President (2008–2012) | 2012–2018 | Living |
| Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz |  Mauritania |
December 20, 1956 | President (2009–2019) Head of State (2008–2009) |
2021–present | Living |
| Mohamed Tahir Ayala | Sudan |
c. 1950 – c. 1951 | Prime Minister (2019) | 2019–present | Living |
| Abdi Mohamoud Omar |  Somali Region |
Unknown | President (2005–2018) | 2018―present | Living |
| Mohammed Omar |  Afghanistan |
1960 | Supreme Leader (1996–2001) | 2001–2015 (order of capture issued) | April 23, 2013 |
| Moktar Ould Daddah |  Mauritania |
December 25, 1924 | President (1960–1978) Prime Minister (1960–1961) |
1978–1979 | October 14, 2003 |
| Momčilo Krajišnik | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
January 20, 1945 | President (1996–1998) | 1992–2013 | Living |
| Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf | Mauritania |
1957 | Prime Minister (2008–2014) | 2021–present | Living |
| Robert Mugabe | Zimbabwe |
February 21, 1924 | President (1987–2017) Prime Minister (1980–1987) |
2017 (house arrest) | September 6, 2019 |
| Muhammad VIII al-Amin | Tunisia |
September 4, 1881 | King (1956–1957) Bey of Tunis (1943–1956) |
1961 | September 30, 1962 |
| Bakili Muluzi | Malawi |
March 17, 1942 | President (1994–2004) | May 2008, 2009–present (indictment) | Living |
| Benito Mussolini |  Italy |
July 29, 1883 | Prime Minister (1922–1943) | 1945 (detained) | April 28, 1945 (executed) |
| Mykola Azarov |  Ukraine |
December 17, 1947 | Prime Minister (2004, 2005, 2010–2014) | 2014–present (international arrest warrant issued) | Living |
| Imre Nagy |  Hungary |
June 7, 1896 | Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1953–1955, 1956) | 1956–1958 | June 16, 1958 (executed) |
| Mohammad Najibullah |  Afghanistan |
1947 | President (1987–1992) | 1992–1996 (virtual detention) | September 27, 1996 (executed) |
| Nambaryn Enkhbayar | Mongolia |
June 1, 1958 | President (2005–2009) Prime Minister (2000–2004) |
2012–2013 | Living |
| Nathaniel Francis | Turks and Caicos Islands |
1912 | Chief Minister (1985–1986) | 1986–2004 (indictment) | 2004 |
| Fatos Nano |  Albania |
September 16, 1952 | Prime Minister (1991, 1997–1998, 2002–2005) | 1992–1999 | Living |
| Ahmed Nazif | Egypt |
July 8, 1952 | Prime Minister (2004–2011) | 2011–2016 | Living |
| Ne Win |  Burma |
July 10, 1910 or May 14, 1911 or May 24, 1911 |
Chairman (1958–1988) | 2002 (house arrest) | December 5, 2002 |
| Necmettin Erbakan | Turkey |
October 26, 1926 | Prime Minister (1996–1997) | 1997–1999 | February 27, 2011 |
| Andrey Nelidov |  Karelia |
April 21, 1955 | President (2010–2012) | 2018–present | Living |
| Nicholas II | Russian Empire |
May 18, 1868[7] | Emperor (1894–1917) | 1917–1918 | July 17, 1918[8] (executed) |
| Nikola Šainović | Serbia |
December 7, 1954 | Prime Minister (1993–1994) | 1999–2015 | Living |
| Nobuyuki Abe | Japan |
November 24, 1875 | Prime Minister (1939–1940) | 1945 | September 7, 1953 |
| Manuel Noriega | Panama |
February 11, 1935 | Military leader (1983–1989) | 1990–2017 | May 29, 2017 |
| Norman Saunders | Turks and Caicos Islands |
1943 | Chief Minister (1985) | 1985–1993 | Living |
| Nur Bekri | China |
August 9, 1961 | Chairman of Xinjiang (2008–2014) | 2018–present | Living |
| Nuon Chea | Democratic Kampuchea |
July 7, 1926 | Prime Minister (1976) | 2007–2019 | August 4, 2019 |
| Khin Nyunt |  Burma |
October 11, 1939 | Prime Minister (2003–2004) | 2004–2012 | Living |
| Oleksandr Yefremov |  Luhansk Oblast |
August 22, 1954 | Governor (1998–2006) | 2015–present | Living |
| Olusegun Obasanjo | Nigeria |
March 7, 1937 | President (1976–1979, 1999–2007) Vice President (1975–1976) |
1993–1998 | Living |
| Omar al-Bashir | Sudan |
January 1, 1944 | President (1989–2019) | 2019–present | Living |
| Ehud Olmert |  Israel |
September 30, 1945 | Prime Minister (2006–2009) | 2016–2017 | Living |
| Oscar Temaru | French Polynesia |
November 1, 1944 | President (2004, 2005–2006, 2007–2008, 2009, 2011–2013) | 2007–present (indictment) | Living |
| Ottaviano Del Turco |  Abruzzo |
November 7, 1944 | President (2005–2008) | 2008–present | Living |
| Otto Pérez Molina | Guatemala |
December 1, 1950 | President (2012–15) | 2015–present | Living |
| Oupa Gqozo | Ciskei |
March 10, 1952 | Military Leader (1990–1994) | 1998–present (indictment) | Living |
| Ahmed Ouyahia | Algeria |
July 2, 1952 | Prime Minister (1995–1998, 2003–2006, 2008–2012, 2017–2019) | 2019–present | Living |
| Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla | Mauritania |
1940 | Chairman (1980–1984) Prime Minister (1979–1980, 1984) |
1984–1988, 2004–2005 | Living |
| Lee Myung-bak | South Korea |
December 19, 1941 | President (2008–13) | 2018–present | Living |
| Park Geun-hye | South Korea |
February 2, 1952 | President (2013–2017) | 2017–present | Living |
| Pascal Affi N'Guessan | Ivory Coast |
January 3, 1953 | Prime Minister (2000–2003) | 2011–2012 | Living |
| Pavlo Lazarenko | Ukraine Dnipropetrovsk Oblast |
January 23, 1953 | Prime Minister (1996–1997) Governor (1992–1994) |
1998–2012 | Living |
| Pervez Musharraf | Pakistan |
August 11, 1943 | President (2001–2008) | 2014–present | Living |
| Phaedon Gizikis | Greece |
June 16, 1917 | President (1973–1974) | 1974–1976 | July 27, 1999 |
| Philippe Pétain |  Vichy France |
April 24, 1856 | Head of State (1940–1944) | 1945–1951 (death sentence commuted to life imprisonment) | July 23, 1951 |
| Konstantin Päts |  Estonia |
February 23, 1874 | Prime Minister in the duties of the State Elder (1934–1937)[9] | 1940–1952 (prison), 1952–1956 (psychiatric hospital)[10] | January 18, 1956 |
| Pierre Laval | Vichy France |
June 28, 1883 | Prime Minister (1931–1932, 1935–1936) | 1944–1945 | October 15, 1945 (executed) |
| Augusto Pinochet |  Chile |
November 25, 1915 | President (de facto; 1973–1990) | 1998–2006 | December 10, 2006 |
| Marcello Pittella |  Basilicata |
June 4, 1962 | President (2013–2019) | 2018–2019 | Living |
| Pol Pot | Democratic Kampuchea |
May 19, 1925 | Prime Minister (1976–1979) | 1997–1998 (house arrest) | April 15, 1998 |
| Alfonso Portillo | Guatemala |
September 24, 1951 | President (2000–2004) | 2011–2015 | Living |
| P. V. Narasimha Rao | India |
June 21, 1921 | Prime Minister (1991–1996) | 2000–2002 | December 23, 2004 |
| Qaboos bin Said |  Oman |
November 10, 1940 | Sultan (1970–2020) | 1964–1970 (House Arrest) | January 10, 2020 |
| Laisenia Qarase | Fiji |
February 1, 1941 | Prime Minister (2000–2001, 2001–2006) | 2010–2013 | Living |
| Hesham Qandil | Egypt |
September 17, 1962 | Prime Minister (2012–2013) | 2013–2014 | Living |
| Vidkun Quisling |  Norway |
July 18, 1887 | Minister President (1942–1945) | 1945 | October 24, 1945 (executed) |
| Sitiveni Rabuka | Fiji |
September 13, 1948 | Prime Minister (1992–1999) | May–December 2006 | Living |
| Raffaele Lombardo |  Sicily |
October 29, 1950 | President (2008–2012) | 2014–present | Living |
| Taha Yassin Ramadan | Iraq |
February 23, 1938 | Vice President (1991–2003) | 2003–2007 | March 20, 2007 |
| Ramiz Alia | Albania |
October 18, 1924 | President (1991–1992) First Secretary (1985–1991) |
1992–1997 | October 2, 2011 |
| Ramush Haradinaj |  Kosovo |
July 3, 1968 | President (2017–2019, 2004–2005) | 2005–2017 | Living |
| Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier | Costa Rica |
March 14, 1949 | President (1990–1994) | 2004–present | Living |
| Raimundo Pereira | Guinea-Bissau |
August 28, 1956 | President (2012, 2009) | 2012 | Living |
| Raja Pervaiz Ashraf | Pakistan |
December 26, 1950 | Prime Minister (2012–2013) | 2013–present (order of arrest issued) | Living |
| Rashid Ali al-Gaylani |  Kingdom of Iraq |
1892 | Prime Minister (1933, 1940–1941) | 1959–1961 | August 26, 1965 |
| Ray O'Connor | Western Australia |
March 6, 1926 | Premier (1982–1983) | 1991 | February 25, 2013 |
| Renato Soru |  Sardinia |
August 6, 1957 | President (2004–2009) | 2016–2017 | Living |
| Richard Corkill |  Isle of Man |
1951 | Chief Minister (2001–2004) | 2004 | Living |
| Riek Machar | Sudan South Sudan |
1950 | Vice President (2005–2013, 2016) | 2017–2019 | Living |
| Efraín Ríos Montt | Guatemala |
June 16, 1926 | President (1982–1983) | 2014–2018 | April 1, 2018 |
| Roh Tae-woo | South Korea |
December 4, 1932 | President (1988–1993) | 1995–1998 | October 26, 2021 |
| Robert Wagner | Nazi Germany |
October 13, 1895 | Gauleiter of Gau Baden (1926–1945) | 1946 | August 14, 1946 |
| Robert Kocharyan |  Armenia Nagorno-Karabakh |
August 31, 1954 | President (1998–2008, 1994–1997) Prime Minister (1997–1998, 1992–1994) |
2018–present | Living |
| Rocco Salini | Abruzzo |
February 24, 1931 | President (1990–1992) | 1992–1994 | December 2, 2016 |
| Rouslan Bodelan |  Odessa Oblast |
April 4, 1946 | Governor (1995–1998) | 2004–present | Living |
| Roxana Baldetti | Guatemala |
May 13, 1962 | Vice President (2012–2015) | 2015–present | Living |
| Risto Ryti | Finland |
February 3, 1889 | President (1940–1944) | 1945–1949 | October 25, 1956 |
| Najib Razak |  Malaysia |
June 23, 1953 | Prime Minister (2009–2018) | Sentenced to 12 years of imprisonment, pending appeal | Living |
| Alexei Rykov |  Soviet Union |
February 25, 1881[11] | Prime Minister (1924–1930) | 1937–1938 | March 15, 1935 (executed) |
| Sa'dun Hammadi | Iraq |
June 22, 1930 | Prime Minister (1991) | February to November 2004 | March 14, 2007 |
| Mikheil Saakashvili |  Georgia Odessa Oblast |
December 21, 1967 | President (2004–2007, 2008–2013) Governor (2015–2016) |
2017–2018 | Living |
| Saddam Hussein | Iraq |
April 28, 1937 | President (1979–2003) | 2003–2006 | December 30, 2006 (executed) |
| Salvador Jorge Blanco |  Dominican Republic |
July 5, 1926 | President (1982–1986) | 1987–2001 | December 16, 2010 |
| Salvatore Cuffaro | Sicily |
February 28, 1958 | President (2001–2008) | 2007–2015 | Living |
| Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi |  Comoros |
1958-06-05}} | President (2006–2011) | 2018–present | Living |
| Ivo Sanader |  Croatia |
June 8, 1953 | Prime Minister (2003–2009) | 2012–present | Living |
| Artur Sanhá | Guinea-Bissau |
1965 | Prime Minister (2003–2004) | 2005–present | Living |
| Sanjaagiin Bayar | Mongolia |
March 4, 1956 | Prime Minister (2007–2009) | 2018–present | Living |
| Nicolas Sarkozy | France |
1955-01-28}} | President (2007–2012) | 2018–present (indictment) | Living |
| Christos Sartzetakis | Greece |
April 6, 1929 | President (1985–1990) | 1968–1971 | Living |
| Zhantoro Satybaldiyev | Kyrgyzstan |
January 6, 1966 | Prime Minister (2012–2014) | 2018–present | Living |
| Gerrit Schotte |  Curaçao |
September 4, 1974 | Prime Minister (2010–2012) | 2014–present | Living |
| Abdelmalek Sellal | Algeria |
August 1, 1948 | Prime Minister (2012–2014, 2014–2017) | 2019–present | Living |
| Serik Akhmetov |  Kazakhstan |
June 25, 1958 | Prime Minister (2012–2014) | 2015–2017 | Living |
| Serzh Sargsyan | Armenia |
June 30, 1954 | President (2008–2018), Prime Minister (2007–2008, 2018) | 2019–present (indictment) | Living |
| Seyni Oumarou | Niger |
August 1, 1951 | Prime Minister (2007–2009) | July 29–August 2, 2010 | Living |
| Serge Vohor | Vanuatu |
April 24, 1955 | Prime Minister (1995–1996, 1996–1998, 2004, 2009, 2011) | 2015–2021 | Living |
| Sergey Stanishev | Bulgaria |
May 5, 1966 | Prime Minister (2005–2009) | 2013–2016 | Living |
| Nawaz Sharif | Pakistan |
December 25, 1949 | Prime Minister (1990–1993, 1997–1999) | 1999–2000, 2018–present | Living |
| Shehu Musa Yar'Adua | Nigeria |
February 5, 1943 | Vice President (1976–1979) | 1995–1997 | December 8, 1997 |
| Yevgeny Shevchuk |  Transnistria |
June 19, 1968 | President (2011–2016) | 2017–present (order of arrest issued) | Living |
| Shi Chonggui | China (Later Jin) | 914 | Emperor (942-947) | 947 (prisoner of war) | 974 |
| Yingluck Shinawatra |  Thailand |
June 21, 1967 | Prime Minister (2011–2014) | 2014 (house arrest) | Living |
| Sialeʻataongo Tuʻivakanō |  Tonga |
January 15, 1952 | Prime Minister (2010–2014) | 2018–present | Living |
| Sidya Touré | Guinea |
1945 | Prime Minister (1996–1999) | 2004 | Living |
| Sima Chi | China (Western Jin) | 284 | Emperor (307–311) | 311–313 (prisoner of war) | 313 (executed) |
| Sima Ye | China (Western Jin) | 300 | Emperor (313–316) | 316 (prisoner of war) | 318 (executed) |
| Clement Sinyinda |  Barotseland |
January 2, 1952 | President (2012) | September–December 2013 | Living |
| Sisiku Julius Ayuk Tabe |  Ambazonia |
May 2, 1965 | President (2017–2018) | 2018–present | Living |
| Ali Soilih |  Comoros |
January 7, 1937 | Head of State (1976–1978) | 13–29 May 1978 | May 29, 1978 |
| José Sócrates |  Portugal |
September 6, 1957 | Prime Minister (2005–2011) | 2014–2015, 2017–present (indictment) | Living |
| Son Ngoc Thanh |  Cambodia |
December 7, 1908 | Prime Minister (1945, 1972) | 1973–1977 | August 8, 1977 |
| Ahmed Tidiane Souaré | Guinea |
1951 | Prime Minister (2008) | 2008–present | Living |
| Souley Abdoulaye | Niger |
1965 | Prime Minister (1994–1995) | May–August 1999 | Living |
| Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga | Mali |
June 8, 1954 | Prime Minister (2017–present) | 2012–2013 | Living |
| Stephen VI | Papal States |
Unknown | Head of State (896-897) | August 897 | 897 |
| Suharto |  Indonesia |
June 8, 1921 | President (1967–1998) | 2000 (house arrest) | January 27, 2008 |
| Sukarno | Indonesia |
June 6, 1901 | President (1945–1967) | 1967–1970 (house arrest) | June 21, 1970 |
| Sun Hao | China (Eastern Wu) | 243 | Emperor (264-280) | 280 (prisoner of war) | 284 |
| Aung San Suu Kyi |  Burma |
June 19, 1945 | State Counsellor (2016–2021) | 2021–present (house arrest) | Living |
| Svetozar Marović |  Serbia and Montenegro |
March 31, 1955 | President and Prime Minister (2003–2006) | 2015–present | Living |
| Árpád Szakasits |  Hungary |
December 6, 1888 | President (1948–1949) Chairman of the Presidential Council (1949–1950) |
1950–1956 | May 3, 1965 |
| Ferenc Szálasi | Hungary |
January 6, 1897 | Leader of the Nation (1944–1945) | 1945–1946 | March 12, 1946 (executed) |
| Döme Sztójay | Hungary |
January 5, 1883 | Prime Minister (1944) | 1945–1946 | August 22, 1946 (executed) |
| Taha Muhie-eldin Marouf |  Iraq |
1929 | Vice President (1974–2003) | 2003–2009 | August 7, 2009 |
| Charles Taylor | Liberia |
January 28, 1948 | President (1997–2003) | 2006–present | Living |
| Mamadou Tandja | Niger |
1938 | President (1999–2010) | January–May 2010 (House Arrest) | Living |
| Tajuddin Ahmad |  Bangladesh |
July 23, 1925 | Prime Minister (1971–1972) | August 22–November 2, 1975 | November 2, 1975 |
| Zoltán Tildy | Hungary |
November 18, 1889 | Prime Minister (1945–1946) President (1946–1948) |
1948–1956 (house arrest), 1956–1959 | August 4, 1961 |
| Todor Zhivkov | Bulgaria |
September 7, 1911 | General Secretary (1954–1989) Chairman of The Council of State (1971–1989) Prime Minister (1962–1971) |
1991–1997 (house arrest) | August 5, 1998 |
| Hideki Tojo | Japan |
December 30, 1884 | Prime Minister (1941–1944) | 1945–1948 | December 23, 1948 (executed) |
| Tom Thabane |  Lesotho |
May 28, 1939 | Prime Minister (2012–2015, 2017–2020) | 2020–present (indictment) | Living |
| Moussa Traoré | Mali |
September 25, 1936 | President (1968–1991) | 1992–2002 (death sentence commuted) | September 15, 2020 |
| Donald Tsang |  Hong Kong |
October 7, 1944 | Chief Executive (2005–2012) | 2017–2019 | Living |
| Bruno Tshibala |  Congo-Kinshasa |
February 20, 1956 | Prime Minister (2017–2019) | October–November 2016 | Living |
| Valerian |  Roman Empire |
c. 193 – c. 200 | Emperor (253–260) | 260 (prisoner of war) | c. 260 – c. 264 |
| Vano Merabishvili | Georgia |
April 15, 1968 | Prime Minister (2012) | 2013–present | Living |
| Vasco Errani |  Emilia-Romagna |
May 17, 1955 | President (1999–2014) | 2012 2012, 2014–2016 | Living |
| Jorge Rafael Videla | Argentina |
August 21, 1925 | President (de facto; 1976–1981) | 1985–1990 (pardoned), 2010–2013 | May 17, 2013 |
| Roberto Eduardo Viola | Argentina |
October 13, 1924 | President (de facto; 1981) | 1983–1990 (pardoned) | September 30, 1994 |
| Vira Ulianchenko |  Kyiv Oblast |
February 1, 1958 | Governor (2006–2009) | 2015–present (order of arrest issued) | Living |
| Vlad Filat |  Moldova |
May 6, 1969 | President (2010) Prime Minister (2009–2013) |
2015–present | Living |
| Vlad the Impaler |  Wallachia |
1428 or 1431 | Voivode (1448, 1456–1462, 1476–1477) | 1463–1475 | 1476 or 1477 |
| Vladimir Torlopov |  Komi Republic |
November 14, 1949 | President (2002–2010) | 2016–present (house arrest) | Living |
| Vlado Bučkovski |  North Macedonia |
December 2, 1962 | Prime Minister (2004–2006) | 2007–2010 | Living |
| Viktor Yanukovych | Ukraine Donetsk Oblast |
July 9, 1950 | President (2010–2014) Prime Minister (2002–2007) Governor (1997–2002) |
2014–present (international order of capture issued) | Living |
| Vyacheslav Gayzer | Komi Republic |
December 28, 1966 | President (2010–2015) | 2015–2017 | Living |
| Gennady Yanayev | Soviet Union |
August 26, 1937 | Acting President (1991) | 1991–1994 | September 24, 2010 |
| Wasim Sajjad | Pakistan |
March 30, 1941 | President (1993, 1997–1998) | 2002 (indictment) | Living |
| Sándor Wekerle | Hungary |
November 14, 1848 | Prime Minister (1892–1895, 1906–1910, 1917–1918) | 1919 | August 26, 1921 |
| Wen Tianxiang | China (Song dynasty) | 1236 | Chancellor (1275–78) | 1278–1283 (prisoner of war) | 1283 (executed) |
| Wilhelm Frick | Bohemia and Moravia |
March 12, 1877 | Head of State (1943–1945) | 1945–1946 | October 16, 1946 |
| Willi Stoph | East Germany |
July 9, 1914 | Chairman of the Council of State (1973–1976) Chairman of Council of Ministers (1976–1989, 1964–1973) |
1989–1990 | April 13, 1999 |
| Wojciech Jaruzelski |  Poland |
July 6, 1923 | President (1989–1990) First Secretary of Poland (1981–1989) Chairman of the Council of State (1985–1989) Prime Minister (1981–1985) |
2006–2014 (Indictment) | May 25, 2014 |
| Yahya Ould Hademine | Mauritania |
December 30, 1953 | Prime Minister (2014–2018) | 2021–present | Living |
| Abdulla Yameen | Maldives |
May 21, 1959 | President (2013–2018) | 2019–present | Living |
| Yelü Yanxi | China (Liao dynasty) | 1075 | Emperor (1101–25) | 1125 (prisoner of war) | 1128 or 1156 |
| Yevhen Kushnaryov | Kharkiv Oblast |
January 29, 1951 | Governor (2000–2004) | 2004 | January 17, 2007 |
| Ying Ziying | China (Qin dynasty) | Unknown | Emperor (207 BCE) | 207 BCE (prisoner of war) | 206 BCE (executed) |
| Youcef Yousfi | Algeria |
October 2, 1941 | Prime Minister (2014) | 2019–present | Living |
| Yousaf Raza Gillani | Pakistan |
July 9, 1952 | Prime Minister (2008–2012) | April–June 2012, 2015–present (order of arrest issued) | Living |
| Yulia Tymoshenko | Ukraine |
November 27, 1960 | Prime Minister (2007–2010, 2005) | 2011–2017 | Living |
| Yury Komarovsky | Nenets Autonomous Okrug |
May 18, 1952 | Governor (1991–1996, 1997–2005) | 1997–1998 | Living |
| You Si-kun | Taiwan |
April 25, 1948 | Premier (2002–2005) | 2007–present (indictment) | Living |
| Asif Ali Zardari | Pakistan |
July 26, 1955 | President (2008–2013) | 2019–present | Living |
| Zhao Gao | China (Qin dynasty) | Unknown | Chancellor (208 BCE–207 BCE) | 207 BCE | 207 (executed) |
| Zhao Huan | China (Song dynasty) | 1100 | Emperor (1126–27) | 1127 (prisoner of war) | 1161 |
| Zhao Ji | China (Song dynasty) | June 7, 1082 | Emperor (1100–26) | 1127 (prisoner of war) | 1135 |
| Zhao Xian | China (Song dynasty) | November 2, 1271 | Emperor (1274–76) | 1276 (prisoner of war) | 1323 (executed) |
| Zhao Ziyang | China |
October 17, 1919 | Premier (1983–1987) | 1989–2005 (house arrest) | January 17, 2005 |
| Zhu Qizhen | China (Ming dynasty) | 1427 | Emperor (1435–1449, 1457–1464) | 1449–1450 (prisoner of war), 1450–1457 (house arrest) | 1464 |
| Khaleda Zia | Bangladesh |
1945 | Prime Minister (1991–1996, 2001–2006) | 2018 | Living |
| Jacob Zuma |  South Africa |
April 12, 1942 | President (2009–2018) | 2021 | Living |
| Nguyen Duc Chung |  Vietnam |
August 3, 1967 | Chairman of Hanoi People's Committee (2015–2020) | 2021–Present | Living |
See also[]
- List of former heads of regimes who were sentenced to death
- List of former heads of regimes who were sentenced to death by hanging
References[]
- ^ a b ISO 8601 uses the Gregorian calendar and the proleptic Gregorian calendar, not the Julian calendar, so earlier dates not yet using the Gregorian calendar are hereby given in years only.
- ^ Formal arrest and detention.
- ^ Detained again, paroled for medical reasons.
- ^ "Verduistering". Amigoe di Curacao (in Dutch). 29 July 1957. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
- ^ "Kuczynski seguirá con arresto domiciliario pese al pedido de cárcel de un fiscal".
- ^ 21 October 1861 in Julian calendar
- ^ 6 May 1868 in the Julian calendar.
- ^ 4 July 1918 in the Julian calendar.
- ^ Was several times the Head of Government and Head of State before and after the regime.
- ^ Was imprisoned by Soviets during the occupation.
- ^ 13 February 1881 in Julian calendar.
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