List of heads of state 1801

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Africa

Ethiopia
- Kaiser : Demetrios (1799–1800 and 1800–1801)
- Emperor: Egwala Seyon (1801–1818)

Burundi
- King: Ntare IV. Rugamba (approx. 1796 – approx. 1850)

Dahomey
- King: Adandozan (1797–1818)

Morocco ( Alawid Dynasty)
- Sultan: Mulai Sulaiman (1792–1822)

Tunisia ( Husainid dynasty)
- Sultan: Hammuda Bey (1782-1814)

America

Angloamerica

United States of America
- Head of State and Government:
  - President John Adams (1797– March 4, 1801)
  - President Thomas Jefferson (March 4, 1801-1809)

Latin America

Viceroyalty of Brazil
- Viceroy : José Luís de Castro (1790–1801)
- Viceroy: Fernando José de Portugal e Castro (1801–1806)

Viceroyalty of New Granada
- Viceroy : Pedro Mendinueta y Múzquiz (1797–1803)

Viceroyalty of New Spain
- Viceroy : Félix Berenguer de Marquina (1800–1803)

Viceroyalty of Peru
- Viceroy : Ambrosio O'Higgins (1796–1801)
- Viceroy: Manuel Arredondo y Pelegrín (1801)
- Viceroy: Gabriel de Avilés (1801–1806)

Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata
- Viceroy : Gabriel de Avilés (1799–1801)
- Viceroy: Joaquín del Pino Sánchez de Rojas (1801–1804)

Asia

Abu Dhabi
- Sheikh: Shakhbut bin Dhiyab (1793-1816)

Afghanistan
- King : Mahmud Shah Durrani (1801–1803) (1809–1818)

China ( Qing Dynasty )
- Emperor: Jia Qing (1796-1820)

Japan
- Emperor : Kokaku (1780–1817)
- Shogun ( Tokugawa ): Tokugawa Ienari (1786–1837)

Korea ( Joseon )
- King : Sunjo (1800–1834)

Persia ( Qajar dynasty)
- Shah : Fath Ali (1797–1834)

Thailand
- King : Rama I (1782–1809)

Europe

Andorra
- Co-princes :
  - King of France : vacant (1792–1804)
  - Bishop of Urgell : Francesc Antoni de la Dueña y Cisneros (1797–1816)

Denmark and Norway
- King : Christian VII. (1766–1808)

France
- 1st Consul : Napoléon Bonaparte (1799–1804) (1804–1814 Emperor)

Great Britain and Ireland (1801 unification of the Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland to form the United Kingdom)
- Head of State: King George III. (1760–1801) (1801–1820 King of the United Kingdom, 1760–1806 Elector of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, 1814–1820 King of Hanover)
- Head of Government:
  - Prime Minister Henry Addington (1801-1804)

Holy Roman Empire
- King and Emperor : Franz II. (1792–1806)
  - Bohemia and Austria
    - King and Archduke Franz Joseph Karl (1792–1835), emperor since 1804
  - Brandenburg
    - Elector Friedrich Wilhelm III. (1797-1840)
- spiritual imperial princes
  - Hochstift Augsburg
    - Bishop : Clemens Wenzeslaus of Saxony (1768–1803) (1768–1801 Archbishop of Trier, 1763–1768 Bishop of Freising, 1763–1768 Bishop of Regensburg, 1787–1802 Provost of Ellwangen, 1768–1794 Abbot of Prüm)
  - Bamberg Monastery
    - Bishop : Christoph Franz von Buseck (1795–1802)
  - Hochstift Basel
    - Bishop : Bishop: Franz Xaver von Neveu (1794–1803)
  - Prince Provost Berchtesgaden
    - Provost : Joseph Konrad von Schroffenberg-Mös (1780–1803) (1789–1802 / 03 Bishop of Freising, 1790–1802 / 03 Bishop of Regensburg)
  - Brixen monastery
    - Bishop : Karl Franz von Lodron (1791–1803)
  - Hochstift Chur (territory 1648 federal, bishop imperial class without immediate land)
    - Bishop : Karl Rudolf von Buol-Schauenstein (1793–1803)
  - Corvey Monastery
    - Bishop : Ferdinand von Lüninck (1794–1803)
  - Balleien of the Teutonic Order
    - Grand Master : Maximilian Franz of Austria (1780–1801) (1784–1801 Archbishop of Cologne, 1784–1801 Bishop of Münster)
    - Grand Master: Karl von Österreich-Teschen (1801–1803)
  - Eichstätt Monastery
    - Bishop : Joseph von Stubenberg (1790–1802)
  - Prince Provost Ellwangen
    - Provost : Clemens Wenzeslaus of Saxony (1787–1802) (1768–1801 Archbishop of Trier, 1763–1768 Bishop of Freising, 1763–1768 Bishop of Regensburg, 1768–1794 Abbot of Prüm)
  - Hochstift Freising
    - Bishop : Joseph Konrad von Schroffenberg-Mös (1789–1802 / 03) (1790–1802 / 03 Bishop of Regensburg, 1780–1803 provost of Berchtesgaden)
  - Fulda Abbey
    - Bishop : Adalbert von Harstall (1789–1802)
  - Hildesheim Monastery
    - Bishop : Franz Egon von Fürstenberg (1789–1802) (1789–1802 Bishop of Paderborn)
  - Prince Abbey of Kempten
    - Abbot : Castolus Reichlin von Meldegg (1793–1803)
  - Constance monastery
    - Bishop : Karl Theodor von Dalberg (1799–1803) (Grand Duke of Frankfurt 1810–1813, Prince of Aschaffenburg 1803–1810, Prince of Regensburg 1803–1810, Archbishop of Mainz 1802–1803, Bishop of Worms 1802–1803)
  - Hochstift Lübeck (1555–1803 Protestant administrators)
    - Bishop : Peter Friedrich Ludwig von Oldenburg (1785–1803) (1785–1823 Regent of Oldenburg, 1823–1829 Duke of Oldenburg)
  - Liège Monastery
    - Bishop : Franciscus-Antonius de Méan (1792–1801)
  - Monastery of Münster
    - Bishop : Maximilian Franz of Austria (1784–1801) (1784–1801 Archbishop of Cologne, 1780–1801 Grand Master of the Teutonic Order)
  - Hochstift Osnabrück (1662–1802 alternating between Catholic and Lutheran bishops)
    - Bishop : Friedrich August von Hannover and Albany (1764–1802)
  - Paderborn Monastery
    - Bishop : Franz Egon von Fürstenberg (1789–1802) (1789–1802 Bishop of Hildesheim)
  - Passau bishopric
    - Bishop : Leopold Leonhard von Thun and Hohenstein (1796–1803)
  - Regensburg Monastery
    - Bishop : Joseph Konrad von Schroffenberg-Mös (1790–1802 / 03) (1789–1802 / 03 Bishop of Freising, 1780–1803 provost of Berchtesgaden)
  - Archbishopric Salzburg
    - Archbishop : Hieronymus von Colloredo (1772–1803)
  - Speyer Monastery
    - Bishop : Philipp Franz Wilderich Nepomuk von Walderdorf (1797–1802)
  - Strasbourg Monastery
    - Bishop : Louis René Édouard de Rohan-Guéméné (1779–1803)
  - Hochstift Trento
    - Bishop : Emanuel Josef Maria Peter von Thun-Hohenstein (1800–1803)
  - Hochstift Worms
    - Bishop : Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal (1774–1802) (1774–1802 Archbishop of Mainz)
  - Würzburg Monastery
    - Bishop : Georg Karl von Fechenbach (1795–1802)
- secular imperial princes
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    - Anhalt-Bernburg
      - Prince : Alexius Friedrich Christian (Anhalt-Bernburg) (1796–1834) (from 1807 duke)
    - Principality of Anhalt-Dessau
      - Prince : Leopold III. Friedrich Franz (1751–1817) (1751–1758 under guardianship) (from 1807 duke)
    - Principality of Anhalt-Köthen
      - Prince : August Christian (1789–1812) (from 1806 Duke)
  - Arenberg
    - Duke : Ludwig Engelbert (1778–1803)
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    - Margrave : Karl Friedrich (1771–1803) (1738–1746 under guardianship) (1738–1771 Margrave of Baden-Durlach, 1803–1806 Elector of Baden, 1806–1811 Grand Duke of Baden)
  - Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
    - Duke : Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand (1780–1806)
  - Hessen-Darmstadt
    - Landgrave : Ludwig X. (1790–1830) (from 1806 Grand Duke)
  - Hessen-Kassel
    - Landgrave : Wilhelm IX. (1785–1806, 1814–1821) (elector from 1803)
  - Hohenzollern-Hechingen
    - Prince : Hermann (1798–1810)
  - Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
    - Prince : Anton Aloys (1785–1831)
  - Oldenburg
    - Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig (1785–1829)
  - Württemberg
    - Duke : Friedrich II. (1797–1816), elector since 1803, king since 1806

Italian states
- Papal States
  - Pope : Pius VII (1800–1823)
- Naples
  - King : Ferdinand IV. (1759-1806)
- San Marino
  - Capitani Reggenti : Giuseppe Mercuri and Pier Vincenzo Giannini (1800–1801)
  - Capitani Reggenti: Giuliano Belluzzi and Marino Bertoni (1801)
  - Capitani Reggenti: Mariano Begni and Antonio Capicchioni (1801–1802)
- Sardinia
  - King : Carlo Emanuele IV. (1796–1802)
- Savoy
  - Duke : Carlo Emanuele IV. (1796–1819)
- Sicily
  - King : Fernando I (1759-1825)
- Tuscany
  - Grand Duke : Ferdinand III. (1790-1801, 1814-1824 )

Montenegro (under Ottoman suzerainty)
- Prince-Bishop (Vladika) : Petar I. Petrović-Njegoš (1782–1830)

Ottoman Empire
- Sultan: Selim III. (1789–1807)

Portugal
- Queen : Maria I (1777–1816) (incapacitated in 1792) (1815–1816 Queen of Brazil)
- Regent: Johann Duke of Braganza (1792–1816) (1816–1826 King of Portugal, 1815–1816 Regent of Brazil, 1816–1822 King of Brazil)

Prussia
- King : Friedrich Wilhelm III. (1797–1840) (1797–1806 Elector of Brandenburg)

Russia
- Emperor : Paul I (1796–1801) (1762–1773 Duke of Holstein-Gottorf)
- Emperor: Alexander I (1801-1825)

Sweden
- King : Gustav IV Adolf (1792–1809)

Spain
- King : Charles IV (1788–1808)

Hungary
- King : Franz I (1792–1835) (1792–1806 Emperor, 1792–1835 King of Bohemia, 1815–1835 King of Lombardy-Veneto, 1792–1797 and 1799–1800 Duke of Milan, 1792–1804 Archduke of Austria, 1804–1835 Emperor of Austria)

Wallachia (under Ottoman rule)
- Prince : Alexandru Moruzi ( 1793–1796 , 1799–1801) (1792, 1802–1806, 1806–1807 Prince of Moldova)
- Prince: Mihai Șutu ( 1783–1786, 1791–1793 , 1801–1802) (1792–1795 Prince of Moldova)

United Kingdom
- Head of State: King George III. (1801–1820) (1760–1801 King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1760–1806 Elector of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, 1814–1820 King of Hanover)
- Head of Government:
  - Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger (1783-1801, 1804-1806 )
  - Prime Minister Henry Addington (1801-1804)

Oceania and Pacific

Hawaii
- King: Kamehameha I (1795–1819)