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Iain Smith

Politician

Iain Smith is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Iain Smith · Иэн Смит · إيان سميث				[sources]
Alias	Иэн Смит · لاين سميث				[sources]
Birth date	1960-05-01				[sources]
Place of birth	Gateside				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Scotland				[sources]
Country	Scotland				[sources]
Citizenship	United Kingdom				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Iain				[sources]
Last name	Smith				[sources]
Political association	Liberal Democrats · Scottish Liberal Democrats				[sources]
Website	www.iainsmith.org				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q1655380				[sources]
Position	Member of the 1st Scottish Parliament (1999-2003) · Member of the 2nd Scottish Parliament (2003-2007) · Member of the 3rd Scottish Parliament (2007-2011) · Scottish Parliament (member, 2003-2007) · Scottish Parliament (member, 2007-2011)				[sources]
Education	Bell Baxter High School · Newcastle University				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-19	Last processed	2026-01-22	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

British politician (born 1960)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators40,653

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons316,600

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories383,859

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions526,270

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata334,594

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

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