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Ian Paisley

Politician

Ian Paisley 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	Ian Paisley · Ίαν Πέσλεϊ · Іан Пейслі · Иан Пейсли · Ијан Пејсли · 7 more...				[sources]
Alias	Baron Bannside · Ian R.K. Paisley · Ian Richard Kyle · Ian Richard Kyle Paisley · Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, Baron Bannside · 27 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	Paisley · 伊恩·佩斯利，班塞爾男爵 · 班塞爾勳爵				[sources]
Birth date	1926-04-06				[sources]
Place of birth	Armagh				[sources]
Death date	2014-09-12				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Northern Ireland				[sources]
Country	Northern Ireland				[sources]
Citizenship	United Kingdom				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Ian				[sources]
Last name	Paisley				[sources]
Political association	Democratic Unionist Party				[sources]
Website	twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q296597				[sources]
Position	First Minister of Northern Ireland (2007-2008) · Leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (1971-2008) · Member of the 1982–1986 Northern Ireland Assembly · Member of the 1st Northern Ireland Assembly (1998-2003) · Member of the 2nd Northern Ireland Assembly (2003-2007) · 24 more...				[sources]
Education	Union School of Theology				[sources]
Religion	Presbyterianism				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-19	Last processed	2026-01-20	First seen	2023-07-18

Descriptions

politician and former church minister (1926-2014)

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

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly	2003-11-26	2007-01-30
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly

Relatives
Person	Relationship	Start date	End date
Eileen Paisley, Baroness Paisley of St George's Politician	spouse	1956	-
Ian Paisley Jr Politician	father	-	-

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators40,660

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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Wikidata334,489

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions525,917

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

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