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Leo Varadkar

Politician

Leo Varadkar 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	Leo Varadkar · Leo Varadkars · Λίο Βαράντκαρ · Леа Варадкар · Лео Варадкар · 9 more...				[sources]
Alias	Leo Eric Varadkar · Leo Varadkars · Leo de Varad · Varadkar, Leo · Λίο Βαράντκαρ · 16 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	リオ・バラッカー · レオ・ヴァラッカー · 李歐·瓦拉德卡 · 瓦拉德卡				[sources]
Birth date	1979-01-18				[sources]
Place of birth	Dublin				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Ireland				[sources]
Country	Ireland				[sources]
Citizenship	Ireland				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Leo				[sources]
Last name	Varadkar				[sources]
Website	www.leovaradkar.ie · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q1728820				[sources]
Position	Dáil Éireann (member, 2007-2011) · Dáil Éireann (member, 2011-2016) · Dáil Éireann (member, 2016-) · Leader of Fine Gael · Minister for Defence (Ireland) · 8 more...				[sources]
Education	School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin · The King's Hospital · Trinity College Dublin				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-01	Last processed	2025-12-01	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Taoiseach from 2017 to 2020, and from 2022 to 2024.

— Wikidata non-official source, 2024-04-22

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Dr Matthew Barrett Close Associate	unmarried partner	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Minister for Transport (Ireland)	2011-03-09	2014-07-11

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Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons277,128

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories198,581

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Every Politician57,742

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

Global · MySociety · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions515,989

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata386,962

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-5f8975ae-e8c9-4fd0-822c-ab2ecf9cc7c5 · us-cia-ireland-leo-varadkar-taoiseach-prime-minister

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