List of actor politicians

Argentina

Eva Perón, (Justicialist Party and Female Peronist Party), (President of the Female Peronist Party)

Bangladesh

Kabori Sarwar

Brazil

Bete Mendes

Canada

Andrée Champagne, (Conservative) (Member of Parliament, Minister of State, Senator)

Jean Lapointe, (Liberal) (Member of Parliament)

Jean-Louis Roux (Liberal) (Member of Parliament, Lieutenant Governor of Quebec)

Lenore Zann, (Nova Scotia New Democratic Party) (Member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly)

Pierre Curzi, (Parti Québécois) (Assemblée nationale du Québec) de la province

Tina Keeper, (Liberal) (Member of Parliament)

Viola Léger, (Liberal) (Member of Parliament)

Germany

Peter Sodann (Left Party) (presidential candidate)

India

The alphabetical list is

Amitabh Bachchan (Ex-MP)

Arun Govil - played Ram in Ramanand Sagar's Ramayan, lost Lok Sabha elections for Congress in late 1980s

Nitish Bharadwaj - played Lord Krishna in Ramanand Sagar's Mahabharat was MP.

Arvind Trivedi - played Ravan in Ramanand Sagar's Ramayan, won Lok Sabha elections for Member of Parliament from Sabarkatha district in 1991 as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate.

Babu Mohan (MLA)

Bappi Lahiri BJP candidate as MP in 2014

Chiranjeevi (Founder Praja Rajyam, A New Political Party) Ex-Ministry of Tourism

Dara Singh nominated member of Rajya Sabha and elected president of the Jat Mahasabha

Deepika Chikhalia - played Sita in Ramanand Sagar's Ramayan, won Lok Sabha elections for Member of Parliament from Baroda constituency in 1991 as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate.

Dharmendra (MP)

Govinda (MP)(Indian National Congress)

Gul Panag (MP Candidate)

Hema Malini (MP)

Jaya Bachchan (MP)

Jayalalithaa Jayaram Late (Ex-Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu)

Jayaprada (MP)

Javed Jaffrey (MP Candidate)

K. B. Ganesh Kumar (Minister of Forests, Sports and Cinema, Kerala)

Karunas (MLA)

Kiran Kher (MP)

Kota Srinivasa Rao

Mahesh Manjrekar - lost as Maharashtra Navnirman Sena candidate for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections

M.G. Ramachandran Late (Ex-Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu)

Mithun Chakraborty (MP) - won election to Rajya Sabha as All India Trinamool Congress candidate in 2014

Mohan Babu (Ex-MP)

Moon Moon Sen - won 2014 Lok Sabha polls for Trinamool Congress

Napoleon (actor) ( Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment)(DMK-TN)

Nandamuri Balakrishna

N. T. Rama Rao Late(Ex-Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh)

Paresh Rawal (MP) - BJP

Pawan Kalyan (Founder of Jana Sena Party ]

S. S. Rajendran Former MLA, DMK and AIADMK, MP, Rajya Sabha. First actor to be elected to Legislative Assembly

R. Sarath Kumar

Raj Babbar

Rajesh Khanna - Congress Lok Sabha MP from 1992–96

Rakhi Sawant - lost her deposit as independent candidate in 2014 Lok Sabha elections

Ramya (MP, CONGRESS, MANDYA)

Rekha (MP, NOMINEE, CONGRESS)

Sanjay Dutt (Samajwadi party-UP)

Shabana Azmi (MP)

Shatrughan Sinha (MP) BJP

Shekhar Suman - lost elections to Lok Sabha in 2009 as Congress candidate

Smriti Irani (MP) BJP

Sunil Dutt Late ex-Member of Parliament Congress

Suresh Oberoi

Vijayakanth (Founder of DMDK)

Vinod Khanna (MP)

Italy

Gina Lollobrigida (I Democratici) (Unsuccessful candidate to be a Member of the European Parliament)

Alessandra Mussolini (Movimento Sociale Italiano & Azione Sociale) (Member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies & Member of the European Parliament)

Ilona Staller AKA la Cicciolina, (Lista del Sole, Partito Radicale & Partito dell'Amore) (Member of the Parliament of Italy)

México

Irma Serrano

Carmen Salinas

Netherlands

Boris van der Ham

Pakistan

Atiqa Odho

Fauzia Wahab

Poland

Lech Kaczyński (formerly Law and Justice; later Independent) (President of Poland)

Jarosław Kaczyński (Law and Justice) (Prime Minister of Poland)

Janusz Korwin-Mikke

Paweł Kukiz

Philippines

Aga Muhlach (Unsuccessful congressional candidate 4th dist. Cam Sur)

Aiko Melendez (Former Councilor of Quezon City)

Alfred Vargas (incumbent Representative for the 5th District of Quezon City; Former Councilor for the 2nd District of Quezon City)

Angelica Jones (incumbent Board Member 3rd district of Laguna)

Anjo Yllana (Former Vice Mayor of Paranaque)

Bong Revilla Jr. (Senator)

Cesar Montano (Unsuccessful senatorial candidate)

Cita Astals (Former Councillor of Manila)

Dan Fernandez (Former Representative 1st District of Laguna)

Daniel Fernando (incumbent Vice-Governor of Bulacan)

Dennis Roldan (Former Representative of Quezon City)

Edu Manzano (Former Vice-Mayor of Makati City)

Fernando Poe Jr. (Unsuccessful presidential candidate)

George Estregan, Jr. (former Governor of Laguna; former Mayor of Pagsanjan, Laguna)

Herbert Bautista (incumbent Mayor of Quezon City; former Vice Mayor of Quezon City)

Imelda Papin (Former Vice-Governor of Camarines Sur, Bicol)

Isko Moreno (Former Vice Mayor of Manila)

Jinggoy Estrada (Senator)

Joey Marquez (Former Mayor of Paranaque)

Joseph Estrada (13th President of the 2nd Republic; incumbent Mayor of Manila)

Lito Lapid (Senator)

Lou Veloso (former Councillor for the 6th District of Manila)

Lucy Torres-Gomez (incumbent Representative Leyte 4th District)

Manny Pacquiao (Former Representative Sarangani District; Incumbent Senator)

Nora Aunor (Unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate for Camarines Sur)

Ramon Revilla Sr. (Senator)

Richard Gomez (Unsuccessful senatorial candidate)

Roderick Paulate (incumbent Councilor 2nd District QC)

Rogelio de la Rosa (Former Senator)

Rudy Fernandez (Unsuccessful mayoral candidate for Quezon City)

Sonny Parsons (Former Councilor of Marikina City)

Tito Sotto (Senator)

Vilma Santos (Former Governor of Batangas; Incumbent Representative Batangas 6th District)

Russia

Mikhail Yevdokimov (Governor of the Altai Krai region of Russia)

Sri Lanka

Gerald Camilo III (MP, Deputy Speaker)

TB Ilangaratne (MP, Cabinet Minister)

Vijaya Kumaratunga (Founder, Sri Lanka Mahajana Party)

Mahinda Rajapaksa (President)

NM Perera (MP, Cabinet Minister) - Sri Lanka's first star

Rohitha Abeygunawardena(MP, Cabinet Minister)

T. B. Ekanayake(MP, Cabinet Minister)

Malini Fonseka(MP)

Jeewan Kumaranatunga (MP, Cabinet Minister)

Ranjan Ramanayake (MP)

Upeksha Swarnamali (MP)

Geetha Kumarasinghe (Provincial Councillor)

Anarkali Akarsha (Provincial Councillor)

UK

Tracy Brabin (Labour) (Member of Parliament)

Michael Cashman (Labour) (Member of the European Parliament)

Andrew Faulds (Labour) (Member of Parliament)

Richard Franklin (UKIP) (Stood in the 2001 General election for UKIP, has stood in 4 general elections for 4 different parties)

Cheryl Hall (Labour) (Prospective Parliamentary Candidate in 1997)

Glenda Jackson (Labour) (Member of Parliament)

Al Murray (Independent) (Prospective Parliamentary Candidate in 2015)

USA

Al Franken (Democrat) (U.S. Senator, Minnesota; incumbent)

Alan Autry (Republican) (Mayor of Fresno, California)

Arnold Schwarzenegger (Republican) (Governor of California)

Ben Jones (Democrat) (U.S. Congressman, 4th District of Georgia)

Clint Eastwood (Republican, but describes himself as libertarian) (Mayor of Carmel, California)

Donald Trump (Republican) (President of the United States)

Fred Grandy (Republican) (U.S. Representative, Iowa)

Fred Thompson (Republican) (U.S. Senator, Tennessee and unsuccessful presidential candidate)

George Murphy (Republican) (U.S. Senator, California)

Helen Gahagan (Democrat) (U.S. Representative, 14th District of California)

Jack Kelly, mayor of Huntington Beach, Calif.

Jerry Springer (Democrat) (Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio)

Jesse Ventura (formerly Reform; currently Independence Party of Minnesota) (Governor of Minnesota)

John Davis Lodge (Republican) (Governor of Connecticut)

John Gavin (Republican) (U.S. diplomat; Ambassador to Mexico)

Jon Runyan (Republican) (U.S. Representative of 3rd District of New Jersey)

Kal Penn (Democrat) (Associate Director in the White House Office of Public Engagement for the Barack Obama administration)

Melissa Gilbert (Democrat)

Nancy Kulp (Democrat) (unsuccessful nominee for U.S. House of Representatives, Pennsylvania)

Raj Bhakta (Republican) (unsuccessful candidate for U.S. House of Representatives, Pennsylvania)

Ralph Waite (Democrat) (unsuccessful nominee for U.S. House of Representatives)

Robert Montgomery (Republican)

Ronald Reagan (Republican) (Governor of California, President of the United States)

Sean Duffy (Republican) U.S. Representative, 7th District of Wisconsin

Sheila Kuehl (Democrat) (California State Senator)

Shirley Temple Black (Republican) (U.S. diplomat; Ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia, Chief of Protocol of the United States)

Sonny Bono (Republican) (U.S. Representative, 44th District of California)

Stephen Peace (Democrat) (California State Senator)

Wendell Corey (City councilman of Santa Monica, California), (Republican) (unsuccessful candidate for U.S. House of Representatives, California), 1966