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David Hamilton

PEP · Politician

David Hamilton 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	David Hamilton · Дэвид Хэмилтон · ديفيد هاميلتون · دیوید همیلتون · ডেভিড হ্যামিল্টন				[sources]
Alias	Sir David Hamilton · Дэвид Хэмилтон · ديفيد هاميلتون · دیوید همیلتون				[sources]
Birth date	1950-10-24				[sources]
Place of birth	Dalkeith				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Country	United Kingdom				[sources]
Citizenship	United Kingdom				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	David				[sources]
Last name	Hamilton				[sources]
Political association	Labour Party				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q392524				[sources]
Position	House of Commons (member, 2005-2010) · House of Commons (member, 2010-2015) · member of the 53rd Parliament of the United Kingdom (2001-2005) · member of the 54th Parliament of the United Kingdom (2005-2010) · member of the 55th Parliament of the United Kingdom (2010-2015)				[sources]
Last change	2026-03-16	Last processed	2026-03-25	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

British politician (born 1950)

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

Relationships

Data sources

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

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons272,208

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories340,414

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata328,063

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions500,331

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

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