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Mike Pompeo

Military · Politician · Counter-sanctioned entity

Mike Pompeo 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	Maiks Pompeo · Mayk Pompeo · Michael R. Pompeo · Michael Richard Pompeo · Michael Richard Роmpео · 16 more...				[sources]
Alias	Mayk Pompeo · Michael Pompeo · Michael R. Pompeo · Michael Richard "Mike" Pompeo · Michael Richard Pompeo · 15 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	Pompeo · 蓬佩奥 · 麥克·蓬佩奧 · 麦克·蓬佩奥				[sources]
Birth date	1963-12-30				[sources]
Place of birth	Orange				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	United States				[sources]
Country	United States				[sources]
Citizenship	United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Michael · Mike · Richard				[sources]
Last name	Pompeo				[sources]
Political association	Republican Party				[sources]
Title	Mr.				[sources]
Website	pompeo.house.gov · facebook.com · twitter.com · www.whitehouse.gov				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q473239				[sources]
Position	Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (2017-2018) · Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and United States secretary of State (The Trump Administration) · House of Representatives (member, 2011-2013) · House of Representatives (member, 2013-2015) · House of Representatives (member, 2015-2017) · 8 more...				[sources]
Education	Harvard Law School (-1994) · Los Amigos High School · United States Military Academy (-1986)				[sources]
Religion	Presbyterianism				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-19	Last processed	2026-02-04	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Politician, Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

— China Sanctions Research non-official source, 2024-03-08

American politician (born 1963) and former United States Secretary of State (2018–2021)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2025-10-01

Relationships

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

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Susan Pompeo Close Associate	spouse	2000	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency	2017-01-23	2018-03-13

Data sources

US Members of the Congress1,320

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

United States · Congress

Russia Personal Sanctions Targeting US Citizens2,166

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

Russia · MFA

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons316,237

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

China Sanctions Research217

Individuals and organisations targeted by the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law, Counter-Measures List and the Unreliable Entities List (UEL).

China · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories383,800

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Iran Sanctions List405

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

Iran · MFA

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,649

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

Global · MySociety · non-official source

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions472,667

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata333,842

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

Source data IDs: evpo-adfbf462-b44d-4118-848e-137f152965aa · ru-mfa-1761f2951e92d3038e336e418e25d2a3b41c4e46 · us-congress-c3908cd38e1f6db6275c6b7195427dcb75f63535 · ir-san-a2ab59dea920d041ca22a9d1f8bca91c258a87f2

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