Secretaries-general of the United Nations
Table
Secretaries-general of the United Nations
name country of origin period of service
Trygve Lie (Lie, Trygve (Halvdan)) Norway Feb. 1, 1946–April 10, 1953 
Dag Hammarskjöld (Hammarskjöld, Dag) Sweden April 10, 1953–Sept. 18, 1961 
U Thant* (Thant, U) Myanmar (Burma) Nov. 30, 1962–Dec. 31, 1971 
Kurt Waldheim (Waldheim, Kurt) Austria Jan. 1, 1972–Dec. 31, 1981 
Javier Pérez de Cuellar (Pérez de Cuéllar, Javier) Peru Jan. 1, 1982–Dec. 31, 1991 
Boutros Boutros-Ghali (Boutros-Ghali, Boutros) Egypt Jan. 1, 1992–Dec. 31, 1996 
Kofi Annan (Annan, Kofi) Ghana Jan. 1, 1997–Dec. 31, 2006 
Ban Ki-moon South Korea Jan. 1, 2007– *Acting secretary-general from Nov. 3, 1961.
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- African arts
- African Cup of Nations
- African dance
- African Development Bank
- African Games
- African Greek Orthodox Church
- African horse sickness
- African hunting dog
- African lily
- African literature
- African Methodist Episcopal Church
- African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
- African music
- African National Congress
- African popular music
- African pouched rat
- African religions
- African spiny mouse
- African swine fever
- African theatre
- African Trade Union Unity, Organization of
- African Union
- Africanus, Sextus Julius
- African violet
- Afrikaans language