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Lester Bird

Politician

Lester Bird 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	Lester Bird · Lester Bryant BIRD · Λέστερ Μπερντ · Лестер Берд · لستر برد · 5 more...				[sources]
Alias	Baby Bird · Lester Blyant Bird · Lester Bryant Bird · Sir Lester Bryant Bird				[sources]
Birth date	1938-02-21				[sources]
Place of birth	New York City				[sources]
Death date	2021-08-09				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Antigua and Barbuda				[sources]
Country	Antigua and Barbuda				[sources]
Citizenship	Antigua and Barbuda · United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Lester				[sources]
Last name	Bird				[sources]
Political association	Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party				[sources]
Website	facebook.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q365451				[sources]
Position	House of Representatives (member, 2009-2014) · House of Representatives (member, 2014-) · Member of the Senate of Antigua and Barbuda · Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda (1994-2004)				[sources]
Education	University of Michigan				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-20	Last processed	2025-12-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda (1938-2021)

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

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Vere Bird, Jr. Politician	sibling	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the House of Representatives	2014-06-25	-
Member of the Senate of Antigua and Barbuda	-

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators57,731

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 Persons275,232

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:

Wikidata355,584

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 OpenSanctions552,331

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

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