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Raul Ruiz

Politician · Counter-sanctioned entity

Raul Ruiz 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	Raul Ruiz · Рауль РУИС · Рауль Руїс · ראול רואיז · راؤول رويز · 2 more...				[sources]
Other name	Ruiz, Raul · رائول رویز · 勞爾·魯斯				[sources]
Birth date	1972-08-25				[sources]
Place of birth	Zacatecas				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	United States				[sources]
Country	United States				[sources]
Citizenship	United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
First name	Raul				[sources]
Last name	Ruiz				[sources]
Phone	+12022255330				[sources]
Title	Mr.				[sources]
Website	ruiz.house.gov · facebook.com · ruiz.house.gov · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q3701994				[sources]
Position	House of Representatives (member, 2013-2015) · House of Representatives (member, 2015-2017) · House of Representatives (member, 2017-2019) · House of Representatives (member, 2019-) · member of the United States House of Representatives · 6 more...				[sources]
Education	Coachella Valley High School (-1990) · Harvard Medical School · Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health · Harvard University (-2001) · Harvard University (-2007) · 2 more...				[sources]
Last change	2025-11-05	Last processed	2025-11-12	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

U.S. Representative from California

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

Relationships

Sanctions
Country	Authority	Program	Start date	End date
Iran	Iran Ministry of Foreign Affairs		-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
United States representative	2019-01-03	2021-01-03

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Data sources

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

Iran Sanctions List405

Individuals and entities in the sanctions list of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Iran · MFA

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons276,153

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Russia Personal Sanctions Targeting US Citizens2,169

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

Russia · MFA

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories361,763

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

US Members of the Congress1,334

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 OpenSanctions551,775

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata335,470

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: ru-mfa-6d38643455eadbbd19d79708cc6720ddd0e34a4d · ir-san-ebedb1c5f32c876e620f005618b62101378866ac · evpo-ebe3ca19-3f26-4403-8356-69442d66aa3e · us-congress-128d40f57cafc87410c88316aa88ef8525be92de

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