Polish Presidents and Prime Ministers

This list is comprised of Polish Presidents and Prime Ministers, starting from the establishment of the Republic of Poland in 1918. The President (Polish Prezydent) is the head of state, while the Prime Minister (Prezes Rady Ministrów) is the head of government. The position of President was abolished between 1952 and 1990, though there was a President-in-exile during that time.
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NameYearsTypeOther Names
Ignacy Daszyński1918prime minister
Jędrzej Moraczewski1918-1919prime minister
Józef Piłsudski1918-1922; 1926-1928; 1930president; prime minister
Ignacy Jan Paderewski1919prime minister
Leopold Skulski1919-1920prime minister
Władysław Grabski1920; 1923-1925prime minister
Wincenty Witos1920-1921; 1923; 1926prime minister
Antoni Ponikowski1921-1922prime minister
Artur Śliwiński1922prime minister
Julian Nowak1922prime minister
Gabriel Narutowicz1922president
Władysław Sikorski1922-1923prime minister
Stanisław Wojciechowski1922-1926president
Aleksander Skrzyński1925-1926prime minister
Kazimierz Bartel1926; 1928-1929; 1929-1930prime minister
Ignacy Mościcki1926-1939president
Kazimierz Świtalski1929prime minister
Walery Sławek1930; 1930-1931; 1935prime minister
Aleksander Prystor1931-1933prime minister
Janusz Jędrzejewicz1933-1934prime minister
Leon Kozłowski1934-1935prime minister
Marian Zyndram-Kościałkowski1935-1936prime minister
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski1936-1939prime minister
Władysław Raczkiewicz1939-1947president
Edward Osóbka-Morawski1944-1947prime minister
Bolesław Bierut1947-1952; 1952-1954president; prime minister
Józef Cyrankiewicz1947-1952; 1954-1970prime minister
August Zaleski1947-1972president
Piotr Jaroszewicz1970-1980prime minister
Stanisław Ostrowski1972-1979president
Edward Bernard Raczyński1979-1986president
Edward Babiuch1980prime minister
Józef Pińkowski1980-1981prime minister
Wojciech Jaruzelski1981-1985; 1989-1990prime minister; president
Zbigniew Messner1985-1988prime minister
Kazimierz Sabbat1986-1989president
Mieczysław Rakowski1988-1989prime minister
Ryszard Kaczorowski1989-1990president
Czesław Kiszczak1989prime minister
Tadeusz Mazowiecki1989-1991prime minister
Lech Wałęsa1990-1995president
Jan Krzysztof Bielecki1991prime minister
Jan Olszewski1991-1992prime minister
Waldemar Pawlak1992; 1993-1995prime minister
Hanna Suchocka1992-1993prime minister
Józef Oleksy1995-1996prime minister
Aleksander Kwaśniewski1995-2005president
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz1996-1997prime minister
Jerzy Buzek1997-2001prime minister
Leszek Miller2001-2004prime minister
Marek Belka2004-2005prime minister
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz2005-2006prime minister
Lech Kaczyński2005-2010president
Jarosław Kaczyński2006-2007prime minister
Donald Tusk2007-2014; 2023-prime minister
Bronisław Komorowski2010-2015president
Ewa Kopacz2014-2015prime minister(Lis)
Andrzej Duda2015-president
Beata Szydło2015-2017prime minister(Kusińska)
Mateusz Morawiecki2017-2023prime minister