Aung San Suu Kyi AC (Burmese ; MLCTS=aung hcan: cu. krany; IPA: ) (born 19 June 1945) is a Burmese opposition politician and General Secretary of the National League for Democracy.

In the 1990 general election, Suu Kyi was elected Prime Minister, as leader of the winning National League for Democracy party, which won 59% of the vote and 394 of 492 seats. Her subsequent detention by the military junta prevented her from assuming office. She has remained under house arrest in Myanmar for almost 14 out of the past 20 years.

Suu Kyi was the recipient of the Rafto Prize and the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 1990 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. In 1992 she was awarded the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding by the Government of India.