Lithuanian Presidents and Prime Ministers

This list is comprised of Presidents, Prime Ministers and other leaders of Lithuania. The modern country of Lithuania came into being in 1918 after World War I. The head of state is the President (Prezidentas), while the head of the government is the Prime Minister (Ministras Pirmininkas). From 1944 to 1990 Lithuania was part of the Soviet Union and was led by the First Secretary and the Chairman of the Presidium.

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Name	Years	Type	Other Names
Justas Paleckis	1940-1967	chairman
Antanas Barkauskas	1975-1985	chairman
Vytautas Astrauskas	1987-1990	chairman
Vytautas Landsbergis	1990-1992	chairman
Antanas Sniečkus	1940-1974	first secretary
Petras Griškevičius	1974-1987	first secretary
Algirdas Brazauskas	1988-1989; 1992-1998; 2001-2006	first secretary; president; prime minister	(Mykolas)
Antanas Smetona	1919-1920; 1926-1940	president
Aleksandras Stulginskis	1920-1926	president
Jonas Staugaitis	1926	president
Jonas Žemaitis	1949-1954	president
Valdas Adamkus	1998-2003; 2004-2009	president
Artūras Paulauskas	2004	president
Dalia Grybauskaitė	2009-2019	president
Gitanas Nausėda	2019-	president
Augustinas Voldemaras	1918; 1926-1929	prime minister
Mykolas Sleževičius	1918-1919; 1919; 1926	prime minister
Pranas Dovydaitis	1919	prime minister
Ernestas Galvanauskas	1919-1920; 1922-1924	prime minister
Antanas Tumėnas	1924-1925	prime minister
Vytautas Petrulis	1925	prime minister
Leonas Bistras	1925-1926	prime minister
Juozas Tūbelis	1929-1938	prime minister
Vladas Mironas	1938-1939	prime minister
Jonas Černius	1939	prime minister
Mečislovas Gedvilas	1940-1956	prime minister	(Mečys)
Juozas Maniušis	1967-1981	prime minister
Vytautas Sakalauskas	1985-1990	prime minister
Kazimira Prunskienė	1990-1991	prime minister	(Danutė)
Albertas Šimėnas	1991	prime minister
Gediminas Vagnorius	1991-1992; 1996-1999	prime minister
Aleksandras Abišala	1992	prime minister
Bronislovas Lubys	1992-1993	prime minister
Adolfas Šleževičius	1993-1996	prime minister
Laurynas Stankevičius	1996	prime minister
Irena Degutienė	1999	prime minister
Andrius Kubilius	1999-2000; 2008-2012	prime minister
Eugenijus Gentvilas	2001	prime minister
Zigmantas Balčytis	2006	prime minister
Gediminas Kirkilas	2006-2008	prime minister
Algirdas Butkevičius	2012-2016	prime minister
Saulius Skvernelis	2016-2020	prime minister
Ingrida Šimonytė	2020-2024	prime minister
Gintautas Paluckas	2024-	prime minister
Motiejus Šumauskas	1956-1967; 1967-1975	prime minister; chairman
Ringaudas Songaila	1981-1985; 1985-1987; 1987-1988	prime minister; chairman; first secretary	(Bronislovas)
Kazys Grinius	1920-1922; 1926	prime minister; president
Antanas Merkys	1939-1940; 1940	prime minister; president
Rolandas Paksas	1999; 2000-2001; 2003-2004	prime minister; president