- Ehud Barak
Ehud Barak is an Israeli politician, former Prime Minster, and current Minister of Defense, deputy prime minister and leader of Israel's Labor Party. Barak served as the 10th Prime Minister of Israel from 1999 to 2001. After losing the 2001 election, Barak embarked on a business career. On June 12, 2007, he completed a political comeback by winning election to the Labor Party leadership. He was appointed as Israeli Minister of Defence, …
- Angel Acebes
Angel Acebes (b. July 3 1958 in Pajares de Adaja - Avila) is a spanish politician. Married Acebes is Doctor and University professor of Chemistry, although he has been a member of parliament for the People's Party for the past 14 years. Acebes played a key role in securing the support of minority parties and so making it possible for the People's Party to form a government.
- Yazid Zerhouni
Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni (b. 1937) is the interior minister of Algeria.
- Vano Merabishvili
Vano Merabishvili (born 15 April 1968 in Ude, Adigeni Region) is the Interior Minister of Georgia. He speaks English. He has a wife and a son. Merabishvili graduated from the Technical University of Georgia in 1992 with a degree from the Faculty of Mining. After his schooling he held several positions at the Technical University of Georgia before co-founding the Liberty Institute in 1996.
- Charles Pasqua
Charles Pasqua is a French businessman and Gaullist politician. He was Interior Minister from 1986 to 1988, under Jacques Chirac's "cohabitation" government, and also from 1993 to 1995, under the government of Edouard Balladur. He was first elected deputy of the UDR Gaullist party in 1968, a decenny after having founded the "Service d'Action Civique" (SAC) organisation.
- Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi
Hojatoll-Islam Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi (born in Qom circa 1959) is an important mullah and politician in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In 2005, he was appointed as the new interior minister of the country by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with the approval of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He is reportedly implicated in the 1988 Massacre of Iranian Prisoners based on the orders of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and other key Islamic scholars.
- Chakib Benmoussa
Chakib Benmoussa (born in 1958) is the current Interior Minister of Morocco.
- Ghazi Kanaan
Ghazi Kanaan was Syria's Interior Minister from 2004 to 2005, and long-time head of Syria's security apparatus in Lebanon. His violent death during an investigation into the assassination of Rafik al-Hariri drew international attention.
- Sergei Stepashin
Sergei Vadimovich Stepashin is a Russian politician. He was appointed federal security minister by President Boris Yeltsin in 1994, and served in that position until 1995. He later became justice minister, serving from 1997 to March 1998, and interior minister, holding that office from March 1998 to May 1999, when he was appointed and confirmed by parliament as prime minister.
- Vladimir Rushailo
Vladimir Rushailo (born 1953 in Tambov) is a Russian politician. From 1999 to 2001, he was the Interior Minister of Russia. Since June 14 2004 he has been the Executive Secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States. In 2001, seeking to address concerns about rising corruption, he said, "You should not confuse corruption with bribe taking."
- Santiago Creel
Santiago Creel Miranda is a Mexican politician. He is a member of the conservative National Action Party (PAN). He earned a Law degree from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). His career highlights include running for Head of Government of the Federal District in 2000 (a race he lost to Andrés Manuel López Obrador). After that he was appointed to the cabinet by President Vicente Fox to serve as Secretary of the Interior, …
- Ophir Pines-Paz
Ophir Pines-Paz (born 11 July 1961) is an Israeli politician and former Interior Minister. He is currently a Member of the Knesset for Labour.
- Pascal Couchepin
Pascal Couchepin (born April 5, 1942) is a Swiss politician who has been a member of the Swiss Federal Council since 1998. He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on March 11, 1998 as a member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP/PRD) and French speaking Valais. During his office time he has held the following departments: *Federal Department of Economic Affairs (1998 - 2002) *Federal Department of Home Affairs (Swiss interior minister, …
- Sar Kheng
Sar Kheng is the Cambodian Minister of the Interior. In this capacity he also holds the rank of Deputy Prime Minister. He is a member of the Cambodian People's Party and is one of the highest ranking members of that party. Sar has been the Minister of the Interior since 1998. Until March 2006 he was the co-interior minister along with a member of another party, but he then became sole interior minister in a cabinet reshuffle.
- Driss Basri
Driss Basri is a Moroccan politician. Basri was born in Settat in 1938. He began his career as a police officer in Rabat and in 1974 he was appointed as secretary of state for interior affairs. In 1979, Driss Basri was promoted to the post of interior minister in the government of Ahmed Osman, a post he held in all successive governments until [1999]. He later held the post of minister of communication as well. He won the confidence of King Hassan II, and in his term, …
- Günther Beckstein
Günther Beckstein is a Bavarian politician from the CSU party, the designated Minister-President of Bavaria. He is quite well known outside Bavaria for his outspoken views on law and order.
- Naseerullah Babar
Major General Naseerullah Babar (born 1928) was born in Peshawar, Pakistan. His family is from the Babar tribe of Pashtuns and hails from the village of Pirpai district Nowshera. Babar is a former Pakistan army general and former Insprector General FC. He served as Governor NWFP briefly under Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto's government as well as interior minister during Benazir Bhutto's second government from 1993-1996.
- Ivars Godmanis
Ivars Godmanis (born November 27 1951) is a Latvian economist and politician, best known as the first prime minister of Latvia after the country restored its independence from the Soviet Union. He is the current interior minister of Latvia. He was born in Riga. Godmanis served as prime minister from 1990 to 1993, focusing primarily on Latvia's difficult economic transition from a communist to a capitalist economy. He later served as finance minister from 1998 to 1999.
- Michel Murr
Michel Murr is a Lebanese politician and businessman. He occupied the post of Minister of the Interior in the 1990s and early 2000s. He was born in Bteghrine, Lebanon in 1932. His son, Elias Murr, is the outgoing Lebanese Deputy Prime Minister and the Defence Minister.
- Daniel Vaillant
Daniel Vaillant (born July 19, 1949) is a French Socialist politician. Deputy and mayor of the 18th district of Paris, he is close to Lionel Jospin. When this one led the cabinet, he was Minister of the Relations with Parliament from 1997 to 2000, then Interior Minister from 2000 to 2002. He called, in vain, a Lionel Jospin's come back for the 2007 presidential election.
- Zarar Ahmad Moqbel
Zarar Ahmad Moqbel is an Afghan politician. Moqbel served as the deputy Interior Minister. When his predecessor Ali Ahmad Jalali resigned, on September 28 2005, Moqbel was appointed the acting minister. Moqbel's acting appointment was eventually made permanent.
- Aníbal Fernández
Aníbal Domingo Fernández (b. Quilmes, 1957-01-09 is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician, currently Interior Minister in the government of President Néstor Kirchner. Born in Buenos Aires Province, Fernández studied to become an accountant and lawyer. He entered public service, working for the municipalities of Quilmes Partido and Florencio Varela Partido from 1983.
- František Bublan
František Bublan is a former Czech dissident, in 2004 named interior minister for Stanislav Gross's Social Democratic Party government. After Stanislav Gross had been forced to leave the government, Bublan remained in the government of Jiří Paroubek. He studied at Charles University, faculty of Catholic Theology. He briefly worked as clerical, but after signing Charter 77, he had to work in menial jobs.
- Jean-Jacques Le Chenadec
Jean-Jacques Le Chenadec was a retired Renault employee who was the only fatality of the 2005 civil unrest in France. He died in a coma while in hospital on November 7 after fracturing his skull, when he hit the ground after being struck by a hooded youth on November 4, whilst he was attending to a burning trash can outside his apartment building in Stains. Jean-Jacques Le Chenadec had a wife, Nicole, and a daughter.
- Bassam Abdel Majeed
Major General Bassam Abdel Majeed (born 1950) is the current interior minister of Syria. He was appointed on February 11, 2006. Abdel Majeed was born in 1950 in Bi'r al `Ajam (Bir Ajam), a town in Quneitra Governorate. He attended Syria's Air Force Academy, graduating in 1970. He was commander of the military police from 2003 to 2006. He is married, and has two daughters and one son.
- Boris Gromov
Boris Vsevolodovich Gromov, (born November 7, 1943 in Saratov, Russia), prominent military and political figure, Colonel-General. He graduated from a Suvorov military cadet school, the Leningrad Military Commanders School and later from the Frunze Military Academy in Moscow, as well as the General Staff Academy. During the Soviet war in Afghanistan, Gromov did three tours of duty (1980-1982, 1985-1986, 1987-1989), …
- Karen Jespersen
Karen Moustgaard Jespersen (born 17 January 1947 in Copenhagen) is a Danish politician, a member of the Venstre. Previously she was Social Minister 25 January 1993 to 28 January 1994 in the Cabinet of Poul Nyrup Rasmussen I, and 27 September 1994 to 23 February 2000 in the Cabinet of Poul Nyrup Rasmussen II, III and IV. She was Interior Minister 23 February 2000 to 27 November 2001 in the Cabinet of Poul Nyrup Rasmussen IV.
- Jawad Bulani
Jawad al-Bulani (also spelled Al-Bolani; born in 1960) has served as head of the Interior Ministry and in the Council of Ministers of Iraq since Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki appointed him on 8 June 2006. Bulani is a Shi'a independent member of the United Iraqi Alliance. Bulani's family is originally came from the Diwaniyah region. He grew up in Al-Amarah and graduated with a degree in either mechanical engineering or aeronautical engineering.
- Ahmed Wali Karzai
Ahmad Wali Khan Karzai, younger brother of Hamid Karzai, president of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is the representative for southern Afghanistan in Kandahar. Ahmad Wali Khan Karzai was chosen as a representative of Kandahar province for the 2002 Loya jirga and also the 2004 Constitutional Loya Jirga. Karzai is also an elder of the Popalzai, a pashtun clan. It has been alleged that he is a prominent figure in the global drug trade, …
- Samir Sumaidaie
Samir Shakir Mahmoud al-Sumayda'i (Samir Sumaidaie) is an Iraqi politician and the Iraqi ambassador to the United States. He was born in Baghdad and left Iraq to study electrical engineering at Durham University in the United Kingdom in 1973. He returned to Iraq in 1977 but left again for the UK in 1979 after Saddam Hussein seized power. He was appointed as Iraq's ambassador to the United States in May 2006, …
- Jules Moch
Jules Salvador Moch, a French politician, was born in Paris on March 15, 1893 and died on August 1, 1985 in Cabris (Alpes-Maritimes). An engineer ("polytechnicien") who took part in the X-Crise Group, he was a socialist member of Parliament for Drôme and then Hérault from 1928 to 1936 and from 1937 to 1940. Under-secretary of State in prime minister Léon Blum's office (1937), he became Minister of Public Works in 1938. He rallied to de Gaulle in 1942.
- Albano Harguindeguy
Albano Eduardo Harguindeguy was a general of the Argentine Army, and the interior minister of Argentina under dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, during the National Reorganization Process (1976–1983). Harguindeguy, allegedly involved in human rights abuses, benefitted from the pardon of President Carlos Menem in 1989, along with other members of the dictatorship. In 2004 he refused to testify before a judge investigating illegal detentions and killings under Operation Condor, …
- Louis Tobback
Louis Marie Joseph Tobback (born May 3 1938) is a Belgian politician. Tobback is a Flemish socialist and member of the political party SP.a (formerly known as SP). He is currently the mayor of Leuven. He graduated in roman philology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
- Macky Sall
Chérif Macky Sall (born December 11, 1961) was the Prime Minister of Senegal from April 2004 to June 2007. He was appointed to the position by President Abdoulaye Wade on April 21, 2004, when his predecessor, Idrissa Seck, was dismissed. Sall was previously Minister of Mines, Energy and Hydraulics from May 2001 to August 2003 (becoming a minister of state in November 2002) and then Interior Minister from August 2003 until he became prime minister.
- Guillermo Stirling
Guillermo Stirling is a Uruguayan political figure. He was the unsuccessful Colorado Party candidate in the 2004 Presidential elections. He was previously Interior Minister under the Presidencies of Julio María Sanguinetti (2nd Presidency) and Jorge Batlle.
- Baurzhan Mukhamedzhanov
Baurzhan Mukhamedzhanov serves as the Interior Minister in the Government of Kazakhstan. Minister Mukhamedzhanov announced on 20 February, 2006 that six suspects had been arrested for kidnapping and murdering Altynbek Sarsenbayev, the then co-chairman of the Naghyz Ak Zhol opposition political party and former Information Minister, after the suspects confessed.
- Ali Akbar Mohtashami-Pur
Hojatoleslam Ali Akbar Mohtashami-Pur is a former interior minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran who held his office sometime before 1996. As of June 2000, he was an advisor to Mohammad Khatami. He has held a conference on the Palestinian Intifada and is an avowed opponent of the nationhood of Israel.
- Fernando Da Piedade Dias dos Santos
Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos, known as Nandó, is the Prime Minister of Angola. He was appointed in November 2002, and took office on December 6 2002, filling the office which had been unoccupied since 1999. He had previously been Interior Minister.
- Raymond Marcellin
Raymond Marcellin was a French politician. A member of the National Center of Independents and Peasants (CNIP) and then of the Center of Social Democrats (CDS), he served as Interior minister of France from May 30, 1968 to February 27, 1974. He was forced to resign after policemen of the Directorate of Territorial Security were caught red-handed planting microphones in the offices of "Le Canard Enchaîné", an investigating newspaper.
- Wilhelm Stuckart
Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart (November 16, 1902 - November 15, 1953) was a Nazi Party lawyer and official, and a state secretary in the German Interior Ministry. Stuckart was born in Wiesbaden. He joined the Nazi Party in 1922. He was heavily involved in the early Nazi approach towards Jews, co-writing the anti-Jewish "Nuremberg Laws" imposed by the Nazi-controlled Reichstag in 1935. Stuckart later represented Wilhelm Frick, the Interior Minister, …