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People who stutter include British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, orator Demosthenes, King George VI, actor James Earl Jones, US President Joe Biden, and country singer Mel Tillis. Churchill, whose stutter was particularly apparent to 1920s writers, [5] was one of the 30% of people who stutter who have an associated speech disorder—a lisp ...
Bhutto was also the first of only two non-hereditary female world leaders who gave birth to a child while serving in office, the other being Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand. [7] The longest-tenured female non-hereditary head of government is Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh. She served as the country's prime minister from June 1996 to July 2001 and ...
Sandra Mason, Barbados (2021–present): The first time that a country's first president was female (Barbados has not had a male president to date). Giorgia Meloni, Italy (2022–present): The first woman to be elected in Italy as Head of government. Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico (2024–present): The first woman to be elected President.
Zuzana Caputova rose to the Slovak president’s office on a wave of outrage over corruption and her historic win signaled hope for millions of her country-folk. Five years after the 2019 win ...
This is a list of political offices which have been held by a woman, with details of the first woman holder of each office. It is ordered by the countries in Europe and by dates of appointment. Please observe that this list is meant to contain only the first woman to hold of a political office, and not all the female holders of that office.
Category listing female national presidents in Europe. In the border regions of the continent there may be instances of transcontinental countries. Subcategories
She was the country's first female president. Robinson had previously served as a senator in Seanad Éireann from 1969 to 1989, and as a councillor on Dublin Corporation from 1979 to 1983. Although she had been briefly affiliated with the Labour Party during her time as a senator, she became the first independent candidate to win the presidency ...
Category listing the first female national presidents in Europe. In the border regions of the continent there may be instances of transcontinental countries. Pages in category "First women presidents in Europe"