Archive for May, 2009

Ingrid Schulerud, First Lady of Norway
Ingrid Schulerud (born 8 July 1959) is a Norwegian diplomat. She is the Deputy Director General for Central Europe and EEA-financing in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She is also the wife of Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg.
Schulerud is the daughter of Mentz Schulerud, an author and radio personality well [...]

Kim Ok, First Lady of North Korea
Kim Ok is a North Korean, occasionally regarded (unofficially) as “North Korea’s first lady”, and has served as Kim Jong-il’s personal secretary since the 1980s. She is reported to have started living with Kim Jong-il at some point after the death of Kim’s third consort Ko Young-hee.
Kim was previously [...]

Stella Obasanjo, First Lady of Nigeria (died on Oct 23, 2005)
Stella Obasanjo (14 November 1945 – 23 October 2005) was the First Lady of Nigeria from 1999 until her death. She was the wife of former president Olusegun Obasanjo. She was not the First Lady in 1976, when Obasanjo was military head of state. She [...]

Laraba Tandja, First Lady of Niger
Her Excellency Mrs. Hadjia Laraba Tandja has been the First Lady of Niger since her husband President Tandja Mamadou took office in 1999. Mrs. Tandja is the Founder and President of the Fondation Magama, whose main objective is to fight poverty in Niger through the protection of women and children. [...]

Bianca Hoogendijk, First Lady of Netherlands
Bianca Hoogendijk (Emmen, 2 January 1960) is a Dutch lawyer and wife of Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende. Her nickname is “the quiet doctor”, because of her academic title and the fact that they hardly enter into the publicity.
Hoogendijk studied law. She learned Balkenende in late 80s, when she worked [...]

Rosario Murillo, First Lady of Nicaragua
Rosario Murillo (born on June 22, 1951 in Managua, Nicaragua) is a Nicaraguan poet and revolutionary who fought in the Sandinista revolution in 1979. She is also the wife of current President Daniel Ortega and is the First Lady of Nicaragua, a title she also held in 1985 when her [...]