# List of people who have addressed both houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom

This is a list of people who have addressed both Houses of the United Kingdom Parliament at the same time. Although English and later British monarchs have jointly addressed the House of Commons and the House of Lords on several occasions since the 16th century, the first foreign dignitary to do so was French President Albert Lebrun in March 1939. The list excludes the speeches given by (or on behalf of) the Sovereign at the State Opening of Parliament and at the close of each parliamentary session.
Only four people besides the reigning monarch at the time have addressed both Houses together on more than one occasion. Nelson Mandela addressed Members of the Commons and the Lords in 1993 and in 1996 as President of South Africa. Mikhail Gorbachev addressed the Houses as a secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and a foreign delegate of the Soviet Union in 1984 and again, in 1993, on behalf of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. Shimon Peres addressed the Houses as Prime Minister of Israel in 1986 and as President in 2008. Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the Houses as President of Ukraine, the first to address in the Chamber (albeit via remote video link from Ukraine), in 2022 during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

## People who have addressed both houses of the United Kingdom Parliament

| Date | Visitor | Position | Location |
| 23 March 1939 | Albert Lebrun | President of France | Westminster Hall |
| 21 October 1942 | Jan Christiaan Smuts | Prime Minister of South Africa | Royal Gallery |
| 11 May 1944 | William Lyon Mackenzie King | Prime Minister of Canada | Royal Gallery |
| 17 May 1945 | George VI | King of the United Kingdom | Royal Gallery |
| 21 August 1945 | George VI | King of the United Kingdom | Royal Gallery |
| 9 March 1950 | Vincent Auriol | President of France | Royal Gallery |
| 26 October 1950 | George VI | King of the United Kingdom | Westminster Hall |
| 22 October 1954 | Haile Selassie I | Emperor of Ethiopia | Royal Gallery |
| 24 April 1956 | Nikolai Bulganin | Premier of the Soviet Union | Royal Gallery |
| 24 April 1956 | Nikita Khrushchev | First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union | Royal Gallery |
| 7 April 1960 | Charles de Gaulle | President of France | Westminster Hall |
| 22 June 1965 | Elizabeth II | Queen of the United Kingdom | Royal Gallery |
| 28 April 1966 | U Thant | Secretary-General of the United Nations | Royal Gallery |
| 9 February 1967 | Alexei Kosygin | Premier of the Soviet Union | Royal Gallery |
| 28 April 1969 | Giuseppe Saragat | President of Italy | Royal Gallery |
| 3 March 1970 | Willy Brandt | Chancellor of West Germany | Royal Gallery |
| 23 June 1976 | Valéry Giscard d'Estaing | President of France | Royal Gallery |
| 4 May 1977 | Elizabeth II | Queen of the United Kingdom | Westminster Hall |
| 8 June 1982 | Ronald Reagan | President of the United States | Royal Gallery |
| 24 October 1984 | François Mitterrand | President of France | Royal Gallery |
| 18 December 1984 | Mikhail Gorbachev | Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Foreign delegate of the Soviet Union | Grand Committee Room |
| 23 January 1986 | Shimon Peres | Prime Minister of Israel | Grand Committee Room |
| 28 April 1986 | Juan Carlos I | King of Spain | Royal Gallery |
| 2 July 1986 | Richard von Weizsäcker | President of West Germany | Royal Gallery |
| 20 July 1988 | Elizabeth II | Queen of the United Kingdom | Westminster Hall |
| 8 May 1989 | Daniel Ortega | President of Nicaragua | Committee Room 14 |
| 24 October 1990 | Francesco Cossiga | President of Italy | Royal Gallery |
| 10 November 1992 | Boris Yeltsin | President of Russia | Royal Gallery |
| 28 April 1993 | Mário Soares | President of Portugal | Grand Committee Room |
| 5 May 1993 | Nelson Mandela | President of the African National Congress | Grand Committee Room |
| 7 December 1993 | Mikhail Gorbachev | Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union | Grand Committee Room |
| 6 May 1995 | Elizabeth II | Queen of the United Kingdom | Westminster Hall |
| 29 November 1995 | Bill Clinton | President of the United States | Royal Gallery |
| 15 May 1996 | Jacques Chirac | President of France | Royal Gallery |
| 11 July 1996 | Nelson Mandela | President of South Africa | Westminster Hall |
| 16 July 1996 | Tenzin Gyatso | Dalai Lama | Grand Committee Room |
| 29 October 1998 | Carlos Menem | President of Argentina | Grand Committee Room |
| 6 July 2000 | John Howard | Prime Minister of Australia | Royal Gallery |
| 8 November 2001 | Abdullah II ibn al-Hussein | King of Jordan | Committee Room |
| 30 April 2002 | Elizabeth II | Queen of the United Kingdom | Westminster Hall |
| 16 March 2005 | Carlo Azeglio Ciampi | President of Italy | Queen's Robing Room |
| 26 October 2005 | Harald V | King of Norway | Queen's Robing Room |
| 9 November 2005 | Hu Jintao | General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party President of China | Queen's Robing Room |
| 8 March 2006 | Lula da Silva | President of Brazil | Queen's Robing Room |
| 14 March 2007 | John Kufuor | President of Ghana | Queen's Robing Room |
| 8 May 2007 | Kofi Annan | Former Secretary-General of the United Nations | Royal Gallery |
| 15 May 2007 | Bertie Ahern | Taoiseach of Ireland | Royal Gallery |
| 26 March 2008 | Nicolas Sarkozy | President of France | Royal Gallery |
| 19 November 2008 | Shimon Peres | President of Israel | Queen's Robing Room |
| 1 April 2009 | Felipe Calderón | President of Mexico | Queen's Robing Room |
| 17 September 2010 | Benedict XVI | Pope (state visit) | Westminster Hall |
| 25 May 2011 | Barack Obama | President of the United States | Westminster Hall |
| 20 March 2012 | Elizabeth II | Queen of the United Kingdom | Westminster Hall |
| 21 June 2012 | Aung San Suu Kyi | Burmese Opposition Leader | Westminster Hall |
| 1 November 2012 | Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono | President of Indonesia | Queen's Robing Room |
| 29 November 2012 | Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah | Emir of Kuwait | Queen's Robing Room |
| 20 March 2013 | Joyce Banda | President of Malawi | River Room |
| 13 June 2013 | Stephen Harper | Prime Minister of Canada | Queen's Robing Room |
| 5 November 2013 | Park Geun-hye | President of South Korea | Queen's Robing Room |
| 27 February 2014 | Angela Merkel | Chancellor of Germany | Royal Gallery |
| 8 April 2014 | Michael D. Higgins | President of Ireland | Royal Gallery |
| 21 October 2014 | Tony Tan Keng Yam | President of Singapore | Queen's Robing Room |
| 3 March 2015 | Enrique Peña Nieto | President of Mexico | Queen's Robing Room |
| 20 October 2015 | Xi Jinping | General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party President of China | Royal Gallery |
| 12 November 2015 | Narendra Modi | Prime Minister of India | Royal Gallery |
| 19 April 2016 | Joko Widodo | President of Indonesia | Queen's Robing Room |
| 1 November 2016 | Juan Manuel Santos Calderón | President of Colombia | Queen's Robing Room |
| 12 July 2017 | Felipe VI | King of Spain | Royal Gallery |
| 23 October 2018 | Willem-Alexander | King of the Netherlands | Royal Gallery |
| 8 March 2022 | Volodymyr Zelenskyy | President of Ukraine | Commons Chamber (by videolink) |
| 12 September 2022 | Charles III | King of the United Kingdom | Westminster Hall |
| 22 November 2022 | Cyril Ramaphosa | President of South Africa | Royal Gallery |
| 29 November 2022 | Olena Zelenska | First Lady of Ukraine | Committee Room 14 |
| 8 February 2023 | Volodymyr Zelenskyy | President of Ukraine | Westminster Hall |
| 21 November 2023 | Yoon Suk Yeol | President of South Korea | Royal Gallery |
| 3 December 2024 | Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani | Emir of Qatar | King's Robbing Room |