Since the 1951 general election, the party system has been dominated by the personalist Antigua Labour Party ( ALP ), dominated by the Bird family, particularly Prime Ministers Vere and Lester Bird.

* 1872 – Kijūrō Shidehara, Japanese politician, 44th Prime Minister of Japan ( d. 1951 )

* 1951 – Ivanoe Bonomi, Italian politician and statesman, Prime Minister of Italy ( b. 1873 )

* 1951 – Jóannes Eidesgaard, Faroese educator and politician, Finance Minister and Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands

Liaquat Ali Khan, the first Prime Minister of Pakistan, was assassinated by Saad Akbar, a lone assassin, in 1951.

Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS ( 3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967 ) was a British Labour politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and as the Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955.

* 1951 – Andranik Margaryan, Armenian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Armenia ( d. 2007 )

Nehru was elected by the Indian National Congress to assume office as independent India's first Prime Minister in 1947, and re-elected when the Congress party won India's first general election in 1951.

St-Laurent was the first Prime Minister to live in the present official residence of the Prime Minister of Canada: 24 Sussex Drive, from 1951 to the end of his term in office.

* 1869 – António Óscar Carmona, 97th Prime Minister of Portugal and 11th President of Portugal ( d. 1951 )

* 1951 – The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.

From 1949 to 1951 Trudeau worked briefly in Ottawa, in the Privy Council Office of the Liberal Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent as an economic policy advisor.

Other portrayals include Malcolm Keen ( Sixty Glorious Years, 1938 ), Stephen Murray ( The Prime Minister, 1941 ), Arthur Young ( The Lady with the Lamp, 1951 ), Ralph Richardson ( Khartoum, 1966 ), Graham Chapman ( Monty Python's Flying Circus, 1969 ), Michael Hordern ( Edward the Seventh, 1975 ) and Martin Wady ( Queen Victoria's Empire, 2001 ).

* September 22 – Ben Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia ( d. 1951 )

He was capable and ambitious, and in 1951 Prime Minister Robert Menzies made him Minister for Air and Minister for the Navy.

In both instances where those circumstances arose prior to the Whitlam Government, in 1914 and 1951, the Governor-General dissolved Parliament for a " double dissolution " election on the advice of the Prime Minister.

* Clement Attlee, UK Prime Minister 1945 – 1951, Labour Prime Minister

Following independence in 1947, he joined the latter's government and became one of Prime Minister Nehru's principal lieutenants, first as Railways Minister ( 1951 – 56 ), and then in a variety of other functions, including Home Minister.

In 1951, Shastri was made the General Secretary of the All-India Congress Committee, with Jawaharlal Nehru as the Prime Minister.

Mohammad Mosaddegh: was the Prime Minister of Iran from 1951 until being overthrown in a coup d ' état in 1953. His administration introduced a wide range of social and political reforms but is most notable for its nationalization of the Iranian oil industry, which had been under British control since 1913 through the Anglo-Persian Oil Company ( APOC / AIOC ) ( later British Petroleum or BP ). Mosaddegh received his Licence en Droit as well as his Doctor of law from the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.

Neo-colonialism: U. S. President Harry Truman and Mohammad Mosaddeq, the Iranian Prime Minister in 1951.

The Conservative Party, in office since 1951, had lost standing as a result of a sexual scandal involving a senior minister in 1963, and at the time of Home's appointment as Prime Minister seemed headed for heavy electoral defeat.

Throughout Churchill's second term as Prime Minister ( 1951 – 55 ) Home remained at the Scottish Office, although both Eden at the Foreign Office and Lord Salisbury at the Commonwealth Relations Office invited him to join their ministerial teams.

* 15 March 1951 – Konrad Adenauer becomes Minister of Foreign Affairs as well as Chancellor when the Allies allow this post to be revived.

In 1951, British Health Minister Aneurin Bevan expressed the view that, " It is probably true that Western Europe would have gone socialist after the war if Soviet behaviour had not given it too grim a visage.

* Job Tausinga ( born 1951 ), Minister for Education and Human Resources Development of the Solomon Islands

From 1946 to 1948, he served as Minister of Defense, then Minister of the Interior from 1949 to 1951.

Bevan was appointed Minister of Labour ( during which he helped to secure a deal for railwaymen which provided them with a big pay increase ) in 1951 but soon resigned in protest at Hugh Gaitskell's introduction of prescription charges for dental care and spectacles — created in order to meet the financial demands imposed by the Korean War.

: Bahrain ( 1996 – 2000 ); Iran ( 1948 – 1951, 1953 – 1979 ); Iraq ; Kuwait ; Lebanon ; Oman ( 1996 – 2000 ); Qatar ( 1996 – 2009 ); Saudi Arabia ; Syria ; United Arab Emirates ; and Yemen.

Mohammad Mosaddegh or Mosaddeq (, *), also Mossadegh, Mossadeq, Mosadeck, or Musaddiq ( 16 June 1882 – 5 March 1967 ), was the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953 when he was overthrown in a coup d ' état orchestrated by the British MI6 and the United States CIA.

An author, administrator, lawyer, prominent parliamentarian, he became the prime minister of Iran in 1951.

On 3 March 1951 he appeared before the Majlis ( parliament ) in an attempt to persuade the deputies against " full nationalization on the grounds that Iran could not override its international obligations and lacked the capacity to run the oil industry on its own.

On 28 April 1951, the Majlis ( Parliament of Iran ) named Mosaddegh as new prime minister by a vote of 79 – 12.

* Her Imperial Majesty The Queen of Iran ( 1951 – 1958 )

In 1951 Iran nationalised its oil industry, then controlled by the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company ( now BP ), and Iranian oil was subjected to an international embargo.

Angered by the fact that the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company paid Iran much less than it did the British, he organized a movement against it and was the " virtually alone among the leading mujtahids in joining " nationalist Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddeq, in his campaign to nationalize the Iranian oil industry in 1951.

In 1951, the Majlis ( Parliament of Iran ) named Mohammad Mossadegh as new prime minister by a vote of 79 – 12, who shortly after nationalized the British-owned oil industry ( see Abadan Crisis ).

* Haj Ali Razmara ( 1901 – 1951 ): Prime Minister of Iran 1950-51

General Jalal Zandi ( 1951 – 2001 ) was an ace fighter pilot in the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force, serving for the full duration of the Iran-Iraq War.

* Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari, Queen of Iran ( 1951 – 58 )

Mossadeq broke off negotiations with AIOC in July 1951 when the AIOC threatened to pull its employees out of Iran and warned tanker owners that " the receipts from the Iranian government would not be accepted on the world market.

In 1951, however, the situation changed dramatically, when the Iranian oil industry was nationalised, and the APOC removed all its staff from Iran.

In 1951, Mohammad Mosaddeq, head of the nationalist movement known as the National Front of Iran, led parliament in the nationalization of AIOC, and shortly after was appointed prime minister by the Shah.

The Abadan Crisis occurred from 1951 to 1954, after Iran nationalised the Iranian assets of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company ( AIOC ) and expelled Western companies from oil refineries in the city of Abadan ( see Abadan Refinery ).

Yusef Azizi Bani-Torof ( b. 1951 in Hoveizeh, Iran ) is an Iranian journalist and activist living in exile in London.

Iran ’ s cumulative oil production has reached to by the end of 2007, most of these volume produced after 1951, under the supervision of NIOC.

In March 1951, Ali Razmara was assassinated ; and Mohammed Mossadeq, a nationalist, was elected as the new prime minister by the Majlis of Iran ( parliament ).

According to Ali Razmjoo in Hezb-e-Pan-Iranist ( also see links here ), he was one of the founding members of the original Pan-Iranist Party of Iran in 1951 with Mohsen Pezeshkpour.

From 1951 to 1952, he worked at the British Embassy in Tehran, Iran.

He returned briefly to Iran during 1951 to perform government service.

Thus Zaehner became engaged in the failed 1951 British effort to topple the government of Iran and return oil production to an entity controlled by the British government, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, which had been in effect nationalized by Mossadegh.