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George Reid

Politician

George Reid 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	George Reid · Джордж Рейд · جورج ريد · জর্জ রিড · ジョージ・リード · 2 more...				[sources]
Alias	Sir George Reid · Джордж Рейд · جورج ريد				[sources]
Weak alias	Reid · ジョージ・レイド				[sources]
Birth date	1939-06-04				[sources]
Place of birth	Tullibody				[sources]
Death date	2025-08-12				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Scotland				[sources]
Country	Scotland				[sources]
Citizenship	United Kingdom				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	George				[sources]
Last name	Reid				[sources]
Political association	Labour Party · Scottish National Party				[sources]
Title	The Right Honourable				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q334480				[sources]
Position	Member of the 1st Scottish Parliament (1999-2003) · Member of the 2nd Scottish Parliament (2003-2003) · Member of the 2nd Scottish Parliament (2003-2007) · Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom (2004-2025) · Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament (2003-2007) · 4 more...				[sources]
Education	Dollar Academy · Union College · University of St Andrews				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-18	Last processed	2026-01-22	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Scottish politician (1939–2025)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2025-08-16

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Catherine Stott Close Associate	spouse	1963	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the Scottish Parliament	2003-05-07	2007-04-02

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 Persons316,316

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:

Wikidata334,608

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 OpenSanctions526,062

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

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