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premier / prime minister / CL: 個|个, ,
HSK 4
Zhou Enlai (1898-1976), Chinese communist leader, prime minister 1949-1976
prime minister (of Japan or UK etc)
HSK 6
Obuchi Keizo (1937-2000), Japanese politician, prime minister 1998-2000
HASHIMOTO Ryūtarō (1937-2006), Japanese politician, prime minister 1996-1998
Hatoyama, Japanese name and place name / Hatoyama Yukio (1947-), Japanese Democratic Party politician, prime minister 2009-2010
vice-premier / vice prime minister / deputy prime minister
Thatcher (name) / Baroness Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), British conservative politician, prime minister 1979-1990
Abe Shinzo (1954-2022), Japanese LDP politician, prime minister 2006-2007 and from 2012-2020
Zhuge Liang (181–234), military leader and prime minister of Shu Han 蜀漢|蜀汉 during the Three Kingdoms period / the main hero of the fictional Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义, where he is portrayed as a sage and military genius / (fig.) a mastermind
Lee Kuan Yew (1923-2015), founding father of modern Singapore, prime minister 1959-1990
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (1954–), Turkish politician, prime minister 2003–2014, president 2014–
Thaksin Shinawatra (1949-), Thai businessman and politician, prime minister 2001-2006
former prime minister
Castro (name) / Fidel Castro or Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (1926-2016), Cuban revolutionary leader, prime minister 1959-1976, president 1976-2008
Lee Hsien Loong (1952-), Singapore PAP politician, eldest son of Lee Kuan Yew 李光耀, prime minister from 2004
Koizumi (name) / KOIZUMI Jun'ichirō, Japanese LDP politician, prime minister 2001-2006
Mrs Thatcher / Baroness Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), British conservative politician, prime minister 1979-1990
Li Peng (1928-2019), leading PRC politician, prime minister 1987-1998, reportedly leader of the conservative faction advocating the June 1989 Tiananmen clampdown
Di Renjie (607-700), Tang dynasty politician, prime minister under Wu Zetian, subsequently hero of legends / master sleuth Judge Dee, aka Chinese Sherlock Holmes, in novel Three murder cases solved by Judge Dee 狄公案 translated by Dutch sinologist R.H. van Gulik 高羅珮|高罗佩
former prime minister
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964), Indian politician, first prime minister 1947-1964
Li Si (c. 280-208 BC), Legalist philosopher, calligrapher and prime minister of Qin kingdom and Qin dynasty from 246 to 208 BC
the most senior minister of many kingdoms or dynasties (with varying roles) / prime minister
Socrates (469-399 BC), Greek philosopher / José Sócrates (1957-), prime minister of Portugal (2005-2011)
Winston Churchill (1874–1965), UK politican and prime minister 1940–1945 and 1951–1955 / surname Churchill
Julia Gillard (1961–), Australian politician, prime minister 2010–2013
Zapatero (name) / José Luis Zapatero (1960-), Spanish PSOE politician, prime minister of Spain 2004-2011
Netanyahu (name) / Benjamin Netanyahu (1949-), Israeli Likud politician, prime minister 1996-1999 and from 2009
formal title of the Japanese prime minister
deputy prime minister
António Guterres (1949-), secretary-general of the United Nations (2017-), prime minister of Portugal (1995-2002)
Tomiichi Murayama (1924-), former prime minister of Japan
Pierre Trudeau (1919-2000), prime minister of Canada 1980-1984 and 1968-1979 / Justin Trudeau (1971-), prime minister of Canada from 2015
the Prime Minister of Shu (i.e. Zhuge Liang 諸葛亮|诸葛亮)
Silvio Berlusconi (1936–2023), Italian media magnate and right-wing politician, prime minister of Italy 1994–1995, 2001–2006, 2008–2011
Asō (name) / ASŌ Tarō (1940-), Japanese entrepreneur and LDP politician, prime minister 2008-2009
FUKUDA Yasuo (1936-), Japanese LDP politician, prime minister 2007-2008
to assist a ruler in governing a country / prime minister
MORI Yoshirō (1937-), Japanese rugby player and politician, prime minister 2000-2001, famous for numerous gaffes
KOIZUMI Jun'ichirō (1942-), Japanese LDP politician, prime minister 2001-2006
Benazir Bhutto (1953–2007), Pakistani politician, prime minister 1988–90 and 1993–96
Vincent C. Siew (1939-), Taiwanese diplomat and Kuomintang politician, prime minister 1997-2000, vice president 2008-2012
KAN Naoto (1946-), Japanese Democratic Party politician, prime minister 2010-2011
sagacious prime minister (in feudal China)
prime minister (in ancient China)
Itō Hirobumi (1841–1909), Japan's first prime minister (served four terms), key figure in Japan's colonial expansion into Korea
Sher Bahadur Deuba (1946-), former prime minister of Nepal
Noda Yoshihiko (1957-), prime minister of Japan 2011-2012
Charles Grey (1764-1845), prime minister of the United Kingdom 1830-34
(name) Gujral / Inder Kumar Gujral (1919–2012), Indian politician, prime minister 1997–1998
prime minister (in feudal China)
Brown (name) / Gordon Brown (1951-), UK politician, prime minister 2007-2010
Potsdam conference, July-August 1945, between Truman, Stalin and British prime ministers Churchill and Attlee
Hun Sen (1952-), prime minister of Cambodia since 1985
Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Japanese wartime slogan for their short-lived Pacific Empire, first enunciated by Prime Minister Prince KONOE Fumimaro 近衛文麿|近卫文麿 in 1938
Junker (German aristocracy) / Jean-Claude Juncker (1954-), Luxembourgish politician, prime minister of Luxembourg 1995-2013, president of the European Commission 2014-2019
ASŌ Tarō (1940-), Japanese entrepreneur and LDP politician, prime minister from 2008
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng (1949-), prime minister of Vietnam 2006-2016
Hatoyama Yukio (1947-), Japanese Democratic Party politician, prime minister 2009-2010
famous prime minister (in ancient China) / names and appearances (Buddhism)
Raffarin, prime minister of France under Jacques Chirac
Mohamed Naguib (1901–1984), first president of the Republic of Egypt / Najib Razak (1953–), Malaysian politician, prime minister 2009–2018
premier / prime minister
Chinese name adopted by Kevin Rudd (1957–), Australian politician proficient in Mandarin, prime minister 2007–2010 and 2013
KAIFU Toshiki (1931-), Japanese politician, prime minister 1989-1991
Benazir Bhutto (1953–2007), Pakistani politician, prime minister 1988–90 and 1993–96
Mahathir bin Mohamad (1925-), Malaysian politician, prime minister 1981-2003 and 2018-2020
Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani (1952-), Pakistan People's Party politician, prime minister 2008-2012
Ms Sheikh Hasina (1947-), Bangladesh politician, prime minister 1996-2001 and from 2009
Shimon Peres (1923-2016), Israel politician, prime minister in 1977, 1984-1986 and 1995-1996, president 2007-2014, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize 1994
Stephen Harper (1959-), Canadian politician, prime minister 2006-2015
José Manuel Durão Barroso (1956-), Portuguese politician, prime minister of Portugal 2002-04, president of EU Commission from 2004-2014
An Jung-geun or Ahn Joong-keun (1879-1910), Korean independence activist, famous as assassin of Japanese prime minister ITŌ Hirobumi 伊藤博文 in 1909
Maliki or Al-Maliki (name) / Nouri Kamel al-Maliki (1950-) prime minister of Iraq 2006-2014
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British conservative politician and novelist, prime minister 1868-1880
Wang Meng (325-375), prime minister to Fu Jian 苻堅|苻坚 of Former Qin 前秦
Toktoghan (1314-1355), Mongol politician during the Yuan dynasty, prime minister until 1345, compiled three dynastic histories of Song 宋史, Liao 遼史|辽史 and Jin 金史 / also written Tuoketuo 托克托
McMillan or MacMillan (name) / Harold Macmillan (1894-1986), UK conservative politician, prime minister 1957-1963
Kiichi Miyazawa (1919-2007), former Japanese prime minister
Tanaka Kakuei (1918-1993), Japanese politician, prime minister 1972-1974
surname Kostunica / Vojislav Kostunica (1944-), Serbian politician, last president of Yugoslavia 2000-2003, prime minister of Serbia 2004-2008
Goh Chok Tong (1941-), Singapore businessman and politician, prime minister 1990-2004
Jan Pieter Balkenende (1956-), prime minister of the Netherlands 2002-2010
Han Seung-soo (1936-), South Korean diplomat and politician, prime minister 2008-2009
(name) Anwar / Anwar Ibrahim (1947–), Malaysian politician, prime minister 2022–
Prince KONOE Fumimaro (1891-), Japanese nobleman and militarist politician, prime minister 1937-1939 and 1940-1941


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