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UN Secretaries-General
All secretaries-general of the United Nations.
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No.↕ | Portrait↕ | Name(born–died)↕ | Term of office↕ | Country↕ | UN Regional Group↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | — | — | — |
| Acting | Gladwyn Jebb(1900–1996) | 24 October 1945 | 2 February 1946 | 101 days | |
| 1 | Trygve Lie(1896–1968) | 2 February 1946 | 10 November 1952 | 6 years, 282 days | |
| 2 | Dag Hammarskjöld(1905–1961) | 10 April 1953 | 18 September 1961 † | 8 years, 161 days | |
| Acting | U Thant(1909–1974) | 3 November 1961 | 30 November 1962 | 1 year, 27 days | |
| 3 | 30 November 1962 | 31 December 1971 | 9 years, 31 days | — | — |
| 4 | Kurt Waldheim(1918–2007) | 1 January 1972 | 31 December 1981 | 10 years | |
| 5 | Javier Pérez de Cuéllar(1920–2020) | 1 January 1982 | 31 December 1991 | 10 years | |
| 6 | Boutros Boutros-Ghali(1922–2016) | 1 January 1992 | 31 December 1996 | 5 years | |
| 7 | Kofi Annan(1938–2018) | 1 January 1997 | 31 December 2006 | 10 years | |
| 8 | Ban Ki-moon(b. 1944) | 1 January 2007 | 31 December 2016 | 10 years | |
| 9 | António Guterres(b. 1949) | 1 January 2017 | Incumbent | 9 years, 52 days |
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