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Jo Cox

Politician

Jo Cox 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	Jo Cox · Jo Coxová · Τζο Κοξ · Џо Кокс · Джо Кокс · 8 more...				[sources]
Alias	Helen Joanne "Jo" Cox · Helen Joanne Cox · Helen Joanne Leadbeater · Ioanna Cox · Jo Coxová · 19 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	ヘレン・ジョアンヌ・"ジョー"・コックス				[sources]
Birth date	1974-06-22				[sources]
Place of birth	Batley				[sources]
Death date	2016-06-16				[sources]
Gender	female				[sources]
Nationality	United Kingdom				[sources]
Country	United Kingdom				[sources]
Citizenship	United Kingdom				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Helen · Joanne				[sources]
Last name	Cox · Leadbeater				[sources]
Political association	Labour Party				[sources]
Website	jocox.co.uk · www.jocox.org.uk · facebook.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q19872361				[sources]
Position	House of Commons (member, 2015-2016) · member of the 56th Parliament of the United Kingdom (2015-2016)				[sources]
Education	Heckmondwike Grammar School · London School of Economics and Political Science · Pembroke College (-1995)				[sources]
Ethnicity	English people				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-21	Last processed	2026-01-22	First seen	2023-07-18

Descriptions

British politician (1974–2016)

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

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Brendan Cox Close Associate	spouse	-	2016-06-16

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the House of Commons	-	-

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

External databases

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Wikidata334,594

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions526,278

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

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