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Bill Nelson

Person of interest · Politician · Counter-sanctioned entity

Bill Nelson is subject to counter-sanctions. Counter-sanctions are designations imposed by countries with weak democratic institutions. They are often punitive responses to foreign sanctions, or can be used to suppress domestic political opposition. See the individual program listings below. They are also a politically exposed person.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Bill Nelson · Clarence William Nelson · Μπιλ Νέλσον · Бил Нелсон · Бил Нелсън · 11 more...				[sources]
Other name	Clarence Gulielmus Nelson · Clarence Nelson · Clarence W. Nelson · Clarence William Nelson · Clarence William Nelson II · 16 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	Nelson · クラレンス・ウィリアム・ネルソン				[sources]
Birth date	1942-09-29				[sources]
Place of birth	Miami				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	United States				[sources]
Country	United States				[sources]
Citizenship	United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Bill · CLARENCE				[sources]
Last name	Nelson				[sources]
Middle name	WILLIAM				[sources]
Website	billnelson.senate.gov · twitter.com · www.billnelson.senate.gov				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q358437				[sources]
Position	Administrator of NASA (2021-) · Florida State Treasurer/Insurance Commissioner/Fire Marshal (1995-2001) · Senate (member, 2005-2007) · Senate (member, 2007-2009) · Senate (member, 2009-2011) · 23 more...				[sources]
Education	Bachelor of Arts · Melbourne High School (-1960) · University of Florida · University of Virginia · University of Virginia School of Law (-1968) · 2 more...				[sources]
Religion	Episcopal Church · Presbyterianism				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-16	Last processed	2025-11-03	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

American politician and attorney (born 1942)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2024-03-23

Relationships

Sanctions
Country	Authority	Program	Start date	End date
Russia	Министерство иностранных дел Российской Федерации		-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
United States senator	2015-01-06	2017-01-03
United States senator	2005-01-06

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Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons275,230

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories358,709

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Every Politician57,893

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Russia Personal Sanctions Targeting US Citizens2,169

A list of US citizens under personal sanctions by the Russian Federation.

Russia · MFA

US Members of the Congress1,333

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

United States · Congress

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions550,091

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata333,115

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: ru-mfa-e14ccac76cc3f098e04918837d208767924a35f9 · evpo-9c4a81c7-44bf-4e0d-bce7-683fdb21191e · evpo-460e722d-e6bd-4a1f-8fbe-aef53ab0145a · us-congress-11ad053ddab6819213473240c58ecf95504848b3

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