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Bill Frist

PEP · Politician

Bill Frist 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	Bill Frist · William H. Frist · Μπιλ Φριστ · Билл Фрист · Білл Фріст · 6 more...				[sources]
Alias	Frist, William · William Harrison "Bill" Frist, Sr. · William Harrison Frist · Μπιλ Φριστ · Білл Фріст · 6 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	比尔·弗里斯特				[sources]
Birth date	1952-02-22				[sources]
Place of birth	Nashville				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Country	United States				[sources]
Citizenship	United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Bill · William				[sources]
Last name	Frist				[sources]
Middle name	H.				[sources]
Political association	Republican Party				[sources]
Website	billfrist.com · frist.senate.gov				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q31112				[sources]
Wikipedia Article	en.wikipedia.org				[sources]
Position	Senate (member, 2005-2007) · United States senator (1995-1997) · United States senator (1997-1999) · United States senator (1999-2001) · United States senator (2001-2003) · 2 more...				[sources]
Education	Harvard Medical School (-1978) · Montgomery Bell Academy · Princeton School of Public and International Affairs · Princeton University (-1974) · Stanford University School of Medicine				[sources]
Religion	Presbyterian Church				[sources]
Last change	2026-04-07	Last processed	2026-04-07	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

American physician, businessman, and politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2024-02-18

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Thomas F. Frist, Jr. Close Associate	sibling	-	-
Patricia C. Frist Close Associate	sibling	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
United States senator	2005-01-06	2007-01-03

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories341,348

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

US Members of the Congress1,321

Current and recent members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives

United States · Congress

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,554

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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Wikidata330,012

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions500,442

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: us-congress-b10ee18b183ce9253352c415ef954e4b4f4378fb · evpo-c120e232-6bc0-496c-b256-6722304dc837

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