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List of foreign politicians of Indian origin

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

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

Australia

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See also: List of Asian Australian politicians

Federal parliament

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State and territory parliaments

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Canada

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Fiji

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Germany

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Guyana

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Indonesia

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Ireland

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Jamaica

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Japan

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Kenya

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Malaysia

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See also: List of Malaysian politicians of Indian descent

Mauritius

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Netherlands

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New Zealand

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Papua New Guinea

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Philippines

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Portugal

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Singapore

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  • 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

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South Africa

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Spain

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Suriname

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Switzerland

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

Tanzania

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Main article: List of Tanzanian politicians of Indian descent

Thailand

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Trinidad and Tobago

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United Kingdom

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See also: British Asians in politics of the United Kingdom

United States

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Devirupa Mitra. "Interview: 'Not in Favour of Any Foreign Military Base': Seychelles' First Hindu MP Sathya Naidu". The Wire. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  2. ^ "Live blog: Verkiezing president en vicepresident Suriname". De Ware Tijd (in Dutch). Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  3. ^ Man adopted from Karnataka becomes first Indian-origin MP in Switzerland, Hindustan Times, 18 Jan 2018.
  4. ^ Hefler, Jan. "Race-baiting ads backfired, says Sikh who broke barriers in South Jersey freeholder race", The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 8, 2017. Accessed December 2, 2017.
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