Category: First Ladies
Mercedes Lugo, First Lady of Paraguay

First Lady of Paraguay

Mercedes Lugo de Maidana, First Lady of Paraguay (Sister of President Lugo) According to Paraguayan law, the Office of the First Lady of the Nation depends structurally and financially on the Presidency of the Republic. The First Lady exercises her duties through the REPADEH (Red Paraguaya para el Desarrollo Humano) Foundation, focused mainly in...Read More »

Marta Linares, First Lady of Panama

First Lady of Panama

Marta Linares, First Lady of Panama Born in Panama City, Panama in 1956. Daughter of Francisco José Linares (political Panamenista), brother in turn Arias Ana Matilde Linares, the first wife of Dr. Arnulfo Arias. She studied primary and secondary education in the International College of Mary Immaculate. Admitted to the Trade in Saint Mary...Read More »

Benazir Bhutto, First Lady of Pakistan

First Lady of Pakistan

Benazir Bhutto, First Lady of Pakistan (killed in Dec 2007; wife of Asif Ali Zardari) Benazir Bhutto (Sindhi: بينظير ڀٽو; Urdu: بینظیر بھٹو, pronounced [beːnəˈziːr ˈbʱʊʈːoː]; 21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician who chaired the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), a centre-left political party in Pakistan. Bhutto was the first...Read More »

Ingrid Schulerud, First Lady of Norway

First Lady of Norway

Ingrid Schulerud, First Lady of Norway Ingrid Schulerud (born 8 July 1959) is a Norwegian diplomat. She is the Deputy Director General for Central Europe and EEA-financing in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She is also the wife of Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg. Schulerud is the daughter of Mentz Schulerud, an author and...Read More »

Kim Ok, First Lady of North Korea

First Lady of North Korea

Kim Ok, First Lady of North Korea Kim Ok is a North Korean, occasionally regarded (unofficially) as “North Korea’s first lady”, and has served as Kim Jong-il’s personal secretary since the 1980s. She is reported to have started living with Kim Jong-il at some point after the death of Kim’s third consort Ko Young-hee....Read More »

Laraba Tandja, First Lady, Niger

First Lady of Niger

Laraba Tandja, First Lady of Niger Her Excellency Mrs. Hadjia Laraba Tandja has been the First Lady of Niger since her husband President Tandja Mamadou took office in 1999. Mrs. Tandja is the Founder and President of the Fondation Magama, whose main objective is to fight poverty in Niger through the protection of women...Read More »

Bianca Hoogendijk, First Lady of Netherlands

First Lady of Netherlands

Bianca Hoogendijk, First Lady of Netherlands Bianca Hoogendijk (Emmen, 2 January 1960) is a Dutch lawyer and wife of Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende. Her nickname is “the quiet doctor”, because of her academic title and the fact that they hardly enter into the publicity. Hoogendijk studied law. She learned Balkenende in late 80s,...Read More »

Rosario Murillo, First Lady of Nicaragua

First Lady of Nicaragua

Rosario Murillo, First Lady of Nicaragua Rosario Murillo (born on June 22, 1951 in Managua, Nicaragua) is a Nicaraguan poet and revolutionary who fought in the Sandinista revolution in 1979. She is also the wife of current President Daniel Ortega and is the First Lady of Nicaragua, a title she also held in 1985...Read More »

Bronagh Key, First Lady of New Zealand

First Lady of New Zealand

Bronagh Key, First Lady of New Zealand (wife of Prime Minister) Born Bronagh Irene Dougan on November 14, 1963, John Key’s wife is the daughter of Northern Irish immigrants. Joseph, a Catholic, and Irene, a Protestant, were married in Christchurch in 1960 and worked in the Feltex shoe factory. “They were hard workers,” Bronagh...Read More »

Queen Komal of Nepal, First Lady of Nepal

First Lady of Nepal

Khin Khin Win, Former First Lady of Nepal (wife of President Thein Sein – took office on Feb 4, 2011) Queen Komal of Nepal Queen Komal Rajya Laxmi Devi Shah (born 18 February 1951) is the Queen Consort of King Gyanendra of Nepal. She was the last Queen Consort of Nepal before the Monarchy...Read More »

Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco

First Lady of Morocco

Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco, First Lady of Morocco Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco (Arabic: الأميرة للا سلمى‎), born Salma Bennani on May 10, 1978, is the Princess Consort of King Mohammed VI of Morocco and the first wife of a Moroccan ruler to have been publicly acknowledged and given a royal title. Salma...Read More »

BOLORMAA KHAJIDSUREN, First Lady of Mongolia

First Lady of Mongolia

BOLORMAA KHAJIDSUREN, First Lady of Mongolia Being a mother of five herself – four boys and a girl, the First Lady Bolormaa is a passionate advocate for children’s rights and wellbeing of Mongolian families. After her graduation from the Ukraine State University in Lvov in 1988 majoring in geochemistry, Mrs.Bolormaa worked as a mineralogical...Read More »

Margarita Zavala, First Lady of Mexico

First Lady of Mexico

Margarita Zavala, First Lady of Mexico Margarita Zavala (born Margarita Esther Zavala Gómez del Campo, July 25, 1967) is the wife of Mexican President Felipe Calderón and therefore the First Lady of Mexico. She was a PAN deputy in 2006 in the LIX Legislature of the Mexican Congress. In her earlier life, she was...Read More »

Sarojini Ballah, First Lady of Mauritius

First Lady of Mauritius

Sarojini Ballah, First Lady of Mauritius Sarojini Ballah, The Hon. Lady Jugnauth (born:सरोजिनि बल्लह) is the actual First Lady of Mauritius due to her marriage to the actual President Sir Anerood Jugnauth and also held the office of Premier’s Lady while her husband was in office of Prime Minister twice, once from 1982 to...Read More »