List of state leaders in 1961
1960 state leaders - Events of 1961 - 1962 state leaders - State leaders by year
Africa
Asia
- Afghanistan - Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan (1933-1973)
- People's Republic of China
- Head of State - Liu Shaoqi, Chairman of China (1959-1968)
- Premier - Zhou Enlai, Premier of the State Council (1949-1976)
- Head of Communist Party - Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Communist Party of China (1935-1976)
- Taiwan (Republic of China)
- President - Chiang Kai-Shek, President of the Republic of China (1947-1975)
- Premier - Chen Cheng, President of the Executive Yuan (1958-1963)
Australia and Oceania
Europe
- France -
- President - Charles de Gaulle, President of France (1959-1969)
- Prime Minister - Michel Debré, Prime Minister of France (1959-1962)
- Federal Republic of Germany -
- President - Heinrich Lübke, President of the Federal Republic of Germany (1959-1969)
- Chancellor - Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (1949-1963)
- German Democratic Republic -
- Communist Party Leader - Walter Ulbricht, General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (1950-1971)
- Head of State - Walter Ulbricht, Chairman of the Council of State (1960-1973)
- Premier - Otto Grotewohl, Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1949-1964)
- United Kingdom -
- Monarch - Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom (1952-present)
- Prime Minister - Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1957-1963)
North America and the Caribbean
- Canada
- Monarch - Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada (1962-present)
- Governor General - Georges Vanier, Governor General (1959-1967)
- Prime Minister - John Diefenbaker, Prime Minister (1957-1963)
- United States -