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.
See as table:
- Patterson, John Henry
- Patterson, Joseph Medill
- Patti, Adelina
- Patti Smith
- Patton, Charley
- Patton, George Smith
- Patty Berg
- Patty Smith Hill
- Patuakhali
- Patuca River
- Patángoro
- Pau
- Paul
- Paul, Acts of
- Paul Adam
- Paula Gunn Allen
- Paul Alfred Weiss
- Paul, Alice
- Paula Modersohn-Becker
- Paul and Lloyd Waner
- Paul and Mary Peter
- Paula Radcliffe
- Paul Auster
- Paul, Baron Gautsch von Frankenthurn
- Paul Barth