List of heads of state 1533

Africa

( Abdalwadiden ) (in what is now western Algeria, capital Tlemcen )
- Sultan : Abu Muhammad Abdallah II (1528-1540)

Bornu (in present-day Niger ) Sefuwa dynasty
- King / May: Mohammed V (1515–1538)

Ifriqiya (East Algeria, Tunisia) ( Hafsiden )
- Caliph : Al Hassan (1526-1534) (1539-1543)

Jolof (in what is now Senegal )
- Buur-ba Jolof : Birayma Dyeme-Kumba (1527–1543)

Morocco
- Wattasids (in the north)
  - Sultan : Abu l-Abbas Ahmad (1524–1549)
- Saadier (in the south)
  - Sultan : Ahmad al-Arudsch (1517–1540)

Sultanate of Sannar (in what is now Sudan )
- Sultan : Amara Dunqas (1503–1533 / 34)
- Sultan: Nayil (1533 / 34–1550 / 51)

Inca Empire
- Inca : Atahualpa (1532-1533)
- Inca: Túpac Huallpa (1533)
- Inca: Manco Cápac II. (1533–1544)

India
- Ahom (Assam)
  - King : Suhungmung (1497–1539)
- Dekkan Sultanates (in Central India)
  - Ahmadnagar
    - Sultan: Burhan Shah I (1510–1553)
  - Berar
    - Sultan: Darya Imad Shah (1529–1562)
  - Bidar
    - Sultan: Amir Barid I (1504–1542)
  - Bijapur
    - Sultan : Ismail Adil Shah (1510–1534)
  - Golkonda
    - Sultan: Quli Qutb Mulk (1518–1543)
- Mughal Empire
  - Mughal Mughal : Humayun (1530–1540) (1555–1556)
- Vijayanagar (in South India)
  - King : Achyuta Raya (1529–1542)

Japan
- Emperor : Go-Nara (1526–1557)
- Shogun ( Ashikaga ): Ashikaga Yoshiharu (1521–1546)

Vietnam
- North ( Mạc dynasty )
  - King: Mạc Thái Tông (1530–1540)
- South ( Hậu Lê Dynasty )
  - King: Lê Cung Hoàng (1533–1548)

Andorra
- Co-princes :
  - King of Navarre : Henry II (1516–1555)
  - Bishop of Urgell : Pedro Jordà de Urríe (1532–1533)

Denmark (1523–1814 personal union with Norway)
- King : Friedrich I (1523–1533)

Holy Roman Empire
- King : Charles V (1519–1556) emperor from 1520
- Electorates
  
  Archbishopric of Cologne
  Archbishop : Hermann V. von Wied (1515–1547) (1532–1547 administrator of Paderborn)
  
  Archbishopric Mainz
  Archbishop : Albrecht von Brandenburg (1514–1545) (1513–1545 Archbishop of Magdeburg, 1513–1543 Administrator of Halberstadt)
  
  Archbishopric Trier
  Archbishop : Johann III. von Metzenhausen (1531–1540)
  
  Bohemia
  King : Ferdinand I (1526–1564)
  
  Brandenburg
  Elector : Joachim I. Nestor (1499–1535)
  
  Electoral Palatinate
  Elector : Ludwig V (1508–1544)
  
  Saxony ( Ernestiner )
  Elector : Johann Friedrich I. (1532–1547/54) (from 1547 electorate to Albertine line)

Italian states
- Ferrara , Modena and Reggio
  - Duke : Alfonso I d'Este (1505–1534)
- Genoa
  - Doge : Battista Spinola (1531-1533)
  - Doge: Battista Lomellini (1533-1535)
- Papal States
  - Pope : Clement VII (1523–1534)
- Milan
  - Duke : Francesco II. Sforza (1521–1524) (1525) (1529–1535)
- Mantua ( Gonzaga )
  - Duke : Federico II Gonzaga (1519–1540) (until 1530 margrave)
- Massa and Carrara
  - Margravine : Ricciarda Cybo-Malaspina (1519–1546) (1547–1553)
- Montferrat (1533–1708 personal union with Mantua)
  - Margrave : Johann Georg (1530–1533)
  - Margrave: Federico II Gonzaga (1533–1540)
- Naples (1503–1707 / 14 to Aragon or Spain )
  - King: Charles I of Spain (1516–1556)
    - Viceroy : Pedro Álvarez de Toledo (1532–1553)
- Saluzzo
  - Margrave : Franz (1529–1537)
- Savoy
  - Duke : Charles III. (1504–1553)
- Sicily (1412–1713 to Aragon or Spain )
  - King: Charles I of Spain (1516–1556)
    - Viceroy : Ettore I. Pignatelli Duke of Monteleone (1517–1534)
- Tuscany
  - Duke : Alessandro de 'Medici (1532–1537)
- Urbino
  - Duke : Francesco Maria I della Rovere (1508–1516) (1521–1538)
- Venice
  - Doge : Andrea Gritti (1523–1538)

Order of St. John in Malta
- Grand Master : Philippe de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (1521–1534)

Moscow
- Grand Duke : Wassili III. (1505–1533)
- Grand Duke: Ivan IV the Terrible (1533–1584) (from 1547 Tsar )

Norway (1523-1814 personal union with Denmark)
- King : Friedrich I (1523–1533)

Hungary (rule disputed)
- King : Ferdinand I (1526–1564)
- King: Johann Zápolya (1526–1540)