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Khaleda Zia

Politician

Khaleda Zia 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	Begum Khaleda Zia · Chaleda Zia · Chálida Zijáová · Halide Ziya · Jaleda Zia · 20 more...				[sources]
Alias	Begum Jaleda Zia · Begum Khalida Zia · Begum Zia · Begüm Halide Ziya · Begüm Ziya · 43 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	Зиа · 卡莉达·齐亚				[sources]
Birth date	1945-08-15 · 1946-08-15				[sources]
Place of birth	Jalpaiguri				[sources]
Death date	2025-12-30				[sources]
Gender	female				[sources]
Nationality	Bangladesh				[sources]
Country	Bangladesh				[sources]
Citizenship	Bangladesh · United Kingdom · Pakistan				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
Political association	Bangladesh Nationalist Party				[sources]
Website	www.parliament.gov.bd				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q234814				[sources]
Position	First Lady of Bangladesh (1977-1981) · Jatiyo Sangshad (member, 2009-2014) · Leader of the House (1991-1995) · Leader of the House (1996-1996) · Leader of the House (2001-2006) · 9 more...				[sources]
Religion	Islam				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-19	Last processed	2026-01-22	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1991–1996, 2001–2006)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2025-11-20

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Arafat Rahman Close Associate	child	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the Jatiyo Sangshad	2009-01-25	-
Prime Minister of Bangladesh	1991-03-20

Relatives
Person	Relationship	Start date	End date
Tarique Rahman Politician	child · mother	-	-

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

External databases

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

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

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions526,270

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-1f98f52d-23fd-4ec9-b24f-9bb80b613c74

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