List of Asian politicians in non-Asian states

Heads of State

• Julio César Turbay Ayala, President of Colombia (1978–1982), was of Lebanese descent.
• Abdalá Jaime Bucaram Ortiz, President of Ecuador (1996–1997), is of Lebanese descent.
• Arthur Raymond Chung (鍾亞瑟, Pinyin: Zhōng Yāsè; born 10 January 1918), former president of Guyana from 1970 to 1980. An ethnic Hakka Chinese, he is the first ethnic Chinese president in a non-Asian country.
• Alberto Ken'ya Fujimori (藤森 謙也) - former President of Peru, an ethnic Japanese.
• Cheddi Berret Jagan (छेदी भरत जगन), former chief minister (1957–1964) and president (1992–1997) of Guyana, an ethnic Indian.
• Jorge Jamil Mahuad Witt, President of Ecuador (1998–2000), is of German and Lebanese descent.
• Kuniwo Nakamura (中村 國雄), President of Palau, an ethic Japanese.
• Tosiwo Nakayama, President of the Federated States of Micronesia, Japanese father.
• Anote Tong (湯安諾; Pinyin: Tāng Ānnuò), president of Kiribati, Chinese father.
• Carlos Saúl Menem Akil, President of Argentina of Syrian origin
• Solomon Hochoy, ethnic Hakka Chinese. Last British Governor, 1960–1962; First non-white Governor in the whole of the British Empire, 1960; First Governor-General, 1962–1972, when Trinidad and Tobago obtained independence, 1962
• Noor Mohamed Hassanali (نور محمد حسن علی), Second (first Indian and first Muslim) President of Trinidad and Tobago

Heads of Government

• Sir Julius Chan (陳仲民, Pinyin: Chén Zhòngmín), Cantonese-Chinese, former Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea.
• Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, (शिवसागर रामगुलाम) Prime Minister "Father of the Nation" (1968-1982) and later Governor of Mauritius was of Indian descent
• Yuriy Ivanovych Yekhanurov (Ukrainian: Юрій Іванович Єхануров), former Prime Minister of Ukraine, an ethnic Buryat.
• Hendrick Chin A Sen, President and Prime Minister of Suriname, 1980-1982; Chin paternal side is Hakka Chinese and maternal side is mixed Creole
• António Costa, Prime Minister of Portugal (2015-) is the son of Goan writer Orlando da Costa
• Kamla Persad-Bissessar (कमला प्रसाद बिसेसर), Seventh (first women and first Indian women) Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (2010-2015)
• Basdeo Panday (बसडेओ पाण्डेय), Fifth (first Indian) Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (1995-2001)

Others

• Peter Aduja, first Filipino American elected to public office in the United States.
• Edward Spencer Abraham, US Secretary of Energy (2001-), is of Lebanese descent.
• Anthony Alexander Alam, Australian political leader, member of the Australian Labor Party, is of Lebanese descent.
• George Ryoichi Ariyoshi (Japanese: 有吉 良一), third Governor of Hawaiʻi, first Asian American to be elected governor of a state of the United States.
• Marie Roslyn, Lady Shehadie, Governor of New South Wales, Australia (2001-), is of Lebanese descent.
• Ibrahim Baylan, Swedish Social Democratic politician and Minister for Schools in the Swedish government 2004-2006. Born in southeastern Turkey, to Syriac-Assyrian parents.
• Robert Bunda, first Filipino American to attain the presidency of any state legislature in the United States.
• Benjamin Jerome "Ben" Cayetano, first Filipino American to serve as a state governor in the United States.
• Elaine Lan Chao (趙小蘭; Pinyin: Zhào Xiǎolán; Wade-Giles: Chao Hsiao-lan), first Chinese American American Secretary of Labor.
• Viet D. Dinh (Vietnamese: Đinh Đồng Việt Phụng), former Assistant Attorney General of the United States under the presidency of George W. Bush. He was the chief architect of the USA PATRIOT Act.
• Hiram Leong Fong (鄺友良; Pinyin: Kuàng Yǒuliáng; formerly Yau Leong Fong), first Chinese American United States Senator.
• Chang-jun "Jay" Kim (김창준), first Korean American elected to the United States Congress.
• Harry Kim, the mayor of Hawaii County, first Korean American mayor elected in the United States.
• Gary Faye Locke (駱家輝; pingyin: Luò Jiāhuī), United States ambassador to China, former U.S. Secretary of Commerce, former Chinese-American governor of Washington.
• Norman Yoshio Mineta (Japanese: 峯田 良雄), United States Secretary of Transportation, the only Democratic Cabinet Secretary in the Republican George W. Bush Administration.
• Mee Moua, a Hmong American politician and member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.
• Michiaki Nagatani Morishita, MNR politician and 2005 presidential candidate in Bolivia, is of Japanese descent.
• Sang Minh Nguyen (Vietnamese: Nguyễn Minh Sang), an Australian Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council since 1996, representing Melbourne West Province.
• Vivienne Poy (née 利德蕙; Cantonese Yale: Ley6 Dak1-way6; Mandarin Pinyin: Lì Déhuì), first Canadian senator of Asian ancestry.
• Philipp Rösler, German Federal Minister of Economics and Technology and Vice-Chancellor of Germany, born in Vietnam and adopted by a German family.
• Julio Teodoro Salem, Ecuadorian leader of the 1944 Revolution.
• Donna Edna Shalala, US Secretary of Health (1993–2001), is of Lebanese descent.
• M. Osman Siddique
• Van Thai Tran (Vietnamese: Trần Thái Văn), Republican member of the California State Assembly, representing portions of Orange County.
• David Wu (吳振偉; Pinyin: Wú Zhènwěi), a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives for Oregon.
• Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (Hindi: पीयूष " बॉबी " जिंदल), former U.S. Congressman and current Governor of US state of Louisiana. Indian American.
• Dalip Singh Saund, first Indian-American US congressman.
• Hieu Van Le (Lê Văn Hiếu), Governor of South Australia, is of Vietnamese descent.
• Mina Nguyen, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Business affairs by United States Department of the Hank Paulson.
• Hubert Vo, member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 149, first Vietnamese American to be elected to the Texas legislature.
• Anand Satyanand The former Governor General of New Zealand is of Indian descent.

Asian Politicians of Federal-Level in the Russian Federation

• Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov (Russian: Кирса́н Никола́евич Илюмжи́нов), the President of the Republic of Kalmykia of the Russian Federation, is a Kalmyk. He is also the head of the FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation), the preeminent international chess organization, since 1995.
• Sergei Kuzhugetovich Shoigu (Russian: Серге́й Кужуге́тович Шойгу́), was the Minister of State Emergencies of the Russian Federation, is an ethnic Tuvan, and is now the Minister of Defence.