List of state leaders in 1945

1944 state leaders - Events of 1945 - 1946 state leaders - State leaders by year-----

See also:
*List of religious leaders in 1945
*List of international organization leaders in 1945

Africa

* Liberia - William V.S. Tubman, President of Liberia (1944-1971)
* South Africa -
** Monarch - George VI, King of South Africa (1936-1952)
** Governor-General - Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet, Governor-General of South Africa (1943-1946)
** Prime Minister - Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa (1939-1948)
* Zanzibar - Sayyid Khalifa bin Harub Al-Busaid, Sultan of Zanzibar (1911-1960)

Asia

*Afghanistan
**Monarch - Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan (1933-1973)
**Prime Minister - Sardar Mohammad Hashim Khan, Prime Minister of Afghanistan (1929-1946)
* Brunei - Ahmad Tajuddin, Sultan of Brunei (1924–1950)
* Republic of China
** Chongqing Government (pro-Allies)
*** President - Chiang Kai-Shek, Chairman of the National Government (1943-1947)
*** Premier -
***# Chiang Kai-shek, President of the Executive Yuan (1939-1945)
***# T. V. Soong, President of the Executive Yuan (1945-1947)
** Nanjing Government (pro-Japan)
*** Acting President - Chen Gongbo, Acting Chairman of the National Government (1944-1945)
*** "Disbanded on August 16 following Japanese surrender"
* India -
**British India
**Monarch - George VI, Emperor of India (1936-1947)
**Viceroy - The Viscount Wavell, Viceroy of India (1943-1947)
** Provisional Government of Free India
**Head of State and Prime Minister - Subhas Chandra Bose, (1943-1945)
***"Disbanded on August 16 following Japanese surrender"
*Indonesia -
**President - Sukarno, President of Indonesia (1945–1967)
**Prime Minister - Sutan Sjahrir, Prime Minister of Indonesia (1945-1947)
* Japan -
** Monarch - Showa Emperor, Emperor of Japan (1926-1989)
** Prime Minister -
**# Kuniaki Koiso, Prime Minister of Japan (1944-1945)
**# Kantaro Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan (1945)
**# Naruhiko Higashikuni, Prime Minister of Japan (1945)
**# Kijuro Shidehara, Prime Minister of Japan (1945-1946)

* Manchukuo -
** Aisin-Gioro Puyi, Emperor of Manchukuo (1934-1945)
** "part of China since end of World War II"
* Oman - Said Bin Taimur, Sultan of Oman (1932-1970)

Australia and Oceania

*Australia -
** Monarch - George VI, King of Australia (1936-1952)
** Governor-General -
**#Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Baron of Gowrie, Governor-General of Australia (1936-1945)
**#Sir Winston Dugan, (acting) Governor-General of Australia (1944-1945)
**#Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, Governor-General of Australia (1945-1947)
** Prime Minister -
**#John Curtin, Prime Minister of Australia (1941-1945)
**#Frank Forde, Prime Minister of Australia (1945-1945)
**#Ben Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia (1945-1949)

*New Zealand
** Monarch - George VI, King of the British Dominions Beyond the Seas (1936-1952)
**Governor-General - Sir Cyril Newall, Governor-General of New Zealand (1941-1946)
**Prime Minister -Peter Fraser, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1940-1949)

* Tonga
** Monarch - Salote Tupou III, Queen of Tonga (1918 – 1965)
** Prime Minister - S. Ata, Prime Minister of Tonga, (1941 – 1949)

Europe

*Albania -
**De-facto leader - Enver Hoxha, First Secretary of the Albanian Party of Labour (1944-1985)
**Head of state - Omer Nishani, Chairmen of the Presidium of the People's Assembly of Albania (1946-1953)
*Austria -
**President - Karl Renner, President of Austria (1945–1950)
**Chancellor -
**#Karl Renner, Chancellor of Austria (1945)
**#Leopold Figl, Chancellor of Austria (1945–1953)
* Belgium
** King - Léopold III, King of the Belgians (1934-1951)
** Prince Regent - Charles, King of the Belgians (1944-1950)
** Prime Minister -
**#Hubert Pierlot, Prime Minister of Belgium (1939-1945
**#Achille Van Acker, Prime Minister of Belgium (1945-1946, 1946, 1954-1958)
* Denmark
** Monarch - Christian X, King of Denmark (1912-1947)
** Prime Minister -
**# Erik Scavenius, Prime Minister of Denmark (1942-1945)
**# Vilhelm Buhl, Prime Minister of Denmark (5 May-8 November 1945)
**# Knud Kristensen, Prime Minister of Denmark (8 November 1945-1947)
** "German occupation in control of government (1943-5 May 1945)"
* Éire (Ireland) -
**Monarch - George VI, King of Ireland (1936-1949)
**President -
**# Douglas Hyde, President of Ireland (1938-1945)
**# Seán T. O'Kelly, President of Ireland (1945-1959)
**Prime Minister - Éamon de Valera, Taoiseach (1937-1948)
* France -
**Head of Government - Charles de Gaulle, Chairman of the Provisional Government (1944-1946)
* Germany -
**Head of State -
**# Adolf Hitler, Führer (1934-1945)
**# Karl Dönitz, Head of State (1945)
**Chancellor -
**# Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of Germany (1933-1945)
**# Joseph Goebbels, Chancellor of Germany (1945)
**# Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk, Chancellor of Germany (1945)
**"Administered by Allied Occupation Forces" (1945-1949)
* Hungary -
**Head of State -
**#Ferenc Szálasi, "Leader of the Nation" (16 October 1944 - 28 March 1945) (legitimacy not universally accepted)
**#Post vacant (16 October 1944 - 2 February 1946) (for those not accepting the legitimacy of the Szálasi régime)
**Prime Minister -
**#Ferenc Szálasi, "Leader of the Nation" (16 October 1944 - 28 March 1945) (legitimacy not universally accepted)
**#Béla Dálnoki Miklós, Prime Minister of the National Provisional Government (22 December 1944 - 15 November 1945)
**#Zoltán Tildy, Prime Minister of Hungary (15 November 1945 - 4 February 1946)
* Italy -
** Kingdom of Italy -
***Monarch -Vittorio Emanuele III, King of Italy (1900-1946)
***Prime Minister -
***# Ivanoe Bonomi, Prime Minister of Italy (1944-1945)
***# Ferruccio Parri, Prime Minister of Italy (1945)
***# Alcide De Gasperi, Prime Minister of Italy (1945-1946)
** Italian Social Republic - Benito Mussolini, Provisional Head of State (1943-1945)
*Liechtenstein -
**Monarch - Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1938-1989)
**Head of Government -
**#Josef Hoop, Head of Government (1928-1945)
**#Alexander Frick, Head of Government (1945-1962)
* Luxembourg
**Monarch - Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (1919-1964)
**Prime Minister - Pierre Dupong, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (1937-1953)
* Netherlands -
**Monarch - Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands (1890-1948)
**Prime Minister -
**#Pieter Gerbrandy, Chairman of the Dutch council of ministers "during the exile in London" (1940-1945)
**#Willem Schermerhorn, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1945-1946)
* Poland
** "'Government in exile
***President - Wadysaw Raczkiewicz, President of Poland (1939-1947)
***Prime Minister - Tomasz Arciszewski, President of the Council of Ministers (1944-1947)
** "'Communist dominated government
***Head of State - Bolesaw Bierut, President of the National Council (1944-1947)
***Premier - Edward Osóbka-Morawski, President of the Council of Ministers (1944-1947)
* Portugal -
**President - António Óscar Carmona, President of Portugal (1926-1951)
**Prime Minister - António de Oliveira Salazar, President of the Council of Ministers (1932-1968)
* Soviet Union -
**Communist Party Leader - Joseph Stalin, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922-1953)
**Head of State - Mikhail Kalinin, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1938-1946)
**Premier - Joseph Stalin, Chairman of the Council of People's Comissars (1941-1953)
* Spain -
**Generalísimo - Francisco Franco, Head of the Spanish State and President of the Government (1939-1975), (1939-1973)
*"'Sweden
**Monarch - Gustaf V, King of Sweden (1907-1950)
**Prime Minister - Per Albin Hansson, Prime Minister of Sweden (1936-1946)
* Turkey -
** President - İsmet İnönü, President of Turkey (1938-1950)
** Prime Minister - Şükrü Saracoğlu, Prime Minister of Turkey (1942-1946)
* United Kingdom -
**Monarch - George VI, King of the United Kingdom (1936-1952)
**Prime Minister -
**# Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1940-1945)
**# Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1945-1951)
*Vatican City
** Pope - Pius XII, Bishop of Rome (1939-1958)

North America and the Caribbean

*Canada
**Monarch - George VI, King of Canada (1936-1952)
** Governor General - The Earl of Athlone, Governor General of Canada (1940-1946)
** Prime Minister - William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada (1935-1948)
*Costa Rica - Teodoro Picado Michalski, President of Costa Rica (1944–1948)
* Cuba
** President - Ramón Grau, President of Cuba (1944-1948)
** Premier
*# Félix Lancís Sánchez, Premier of Cuba (1944-1945)
*# Carlos Prío Socarrás, Premier of Cuba (1945-1947)
*Dominican Republic - Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, President of the Dominican Republic (1942–1952)
* United States
*# Franklin Roosevelt, President of the United States (1933-1945)
*# Harry S. Truman, President of the United States (1945-1953)

outh America

* Brazil -
*# Getúlio Vargas, President of Brazil (1930-1945)
*# José Linhares, Provisional President of Brazil (1945-1946)
* Paraguay - Higinio Moriñigo, President of Paraguay (1940-1948)
* Peru -
*# Manuel Prado y Ugarteche, President of Peru (1939-1945)
*# José Luis Bustamante y Rivero, President of Peru (1945-1948)
*Uruguay - Juan José de Amézaga, President of Uruguay (1943-1947)
* Venezuela -
*# Isaías Medina Angarita, President of Venezuela (1941-1945)
*# Romulo Betancourt, President of Venezuela (1945-1948)