Search OpenSanctions

Michael Smith

Politician

Michael 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	Michael Smith · Μάικλ Σμιθ · Майкл Смит · مايكل سميث · মাইকেল স্মিথ				[sources]
Other name	Майкл Смит · مايكل سميث · মাইকেল স্মিথ				[sources]
Birth date	1940-11-08				[sources]
Place of birth	Roscrea				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Ireland				[sources]
Country	Ireland				[sources]
Citizenship	Ireland				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Michael				[sources]
Last name	Smith				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q1929419				[sources]
Position	Dáil Éireann (member, 2002-2007) · Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport (1988-1989) · Minister for Defence (Ireland) (1997-2004) · Minister for Education (Ireland) (1994-1994) · Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (1992-1994) · 10 more...				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-13	Last processed	2025-10-21	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Irish politician

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

Relationships

Data sources

Every Politician57,893

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 Persons274,442

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories376,104

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

Wikidata350,313

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

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions549,635

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-d6e28bdd-3e68-4a89-83ea-c988feb2757d

For experts: raw data explorer

Factsheet Descriptions Data sources

OpenSanctions is free for non-commercial users. Businesses must acquire a data license to use the dataset.

Use the API License in bulk

OpenSanctions · Data you can trust, on people you can’t
OpenSanctions Datenbanken GmbH · info@opensanctions.org · https://opensanctions.org/meeting