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John Howard

PEP

John Howard 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	Džons Hauards · John Howard · John Winston Howard · Τζον Χάουαρντ · Џон Хауард · 14 more...				[sources]
Alias	Džons Hauards · Howard, John · Ioannes Howard · John Winston Howard · The Honourable John Howard · 20 more...				[sources]
Birth date	1939-07-26				[sources]
Place of birth	Earlwood				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Australia				[sources]
Country	Australia				[sources]
Citizenship	Australia				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	John · Winston				[sources]
Last name	Howard				[sources]
Political association	Liberal Party of Australia				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q51330				[sources]
Position	Delegate to the Australian Constitutional Convention, 1998 (1998-1998) · House of Representatives (member, 2004-2007) · Leader of the Opposition of Australia (1985-1989) · Leader of the Opposition of Australia (1995-1996) · Minister for Finance (Australia) (1979-1979) · 4 more...				[sources]
Education	Canterbury Boys' High School · University of Sydney				[sources]
Religion	Anglicanism				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-18	Last processed	2026-02-15	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Prime Minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007

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

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Bob Howard Close Associate	sibling	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Prime Minister of Australia	1996-03-11	2007-12-03

Relatives
Person	Relationship	Start date	End date
Janette Howard PEP	spouse	1971	-

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories339,636

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons271,769

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,633

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 OpenSanctions499,843

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata327,301

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-d8d13c39-6479-4290-956d-ce043ee8959e

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