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Chris Ellison

Politician

Chris Ellison 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	Chris Ellison · كريس إليسون · كريس اليسون · 크리스 엘리슨				[sources]
Other name	Christopher Martin Ellison · Ellison, Chris · كريس إليسون · 크리스토퍼 마틴 엘리슨				[sources]
Birth date	1954-06-15				[sources]
Place of birth	Bulawayo				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Australia				[sources]
Country	Australia				[sources]
Citizenship	Australia				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Chris				[sources]
Last name	Ellison				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q5106492				[sources]
Position	Minister for Education (1997-1998) · Minister for Human Services (2007-2007) · Minister for Justice (2001-2007) · Senate (member, 2004-2007) · Senate (member, 2007-2009) · 2 more...				[sources]
Education	Trinity College · University of Western Australia				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-13	Last processed	2025-10-21	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Australian politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2025-06-27

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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

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons274,430

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories376,059

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions549,033

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata350,162

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

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