Search OpenSanctions

Liz Cheney

Person of interest · Politician · Counter-sanctioned entity

Liz Cheney 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	Elizabeth Cheney · Elizabeth Lynne Cheney · Liz Cheney · Liz Cheneyová · Λιζ Τσέινι · 13 more...				[sources]
Other name	Cheney, Liz · Elizabeth Cheney · Elizabeth Lynne Cheney · Elizabeth Lynne Cheney Perry · Elizabeth Lynne Perry · 10 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	リズ・チェイニー				[sources]
Birth date	1966-07-28				[sources]
Place of birth	Madison				[sources]
Gender	female				[sources]
Nationality	United States				[sources]
Country	United States				[sources]
Citizenship	United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Elizabeth · Liz · Lynne				[sources]
Last name	Cheney · Perry				[sources]
Phone	+12022252311				[sources]
Title	Ms. · The Honourable				[sources]
Website	cheney.house.gov · cheneyforwyoming.com · facebook.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q5362573				[sources]
Position	Chair of the House Republican Conference (2019-2021) · House of Representatives (member, 2017-2019) · House of Representatives (member, 2019-) · member of the United States House of Representatives (2017-2019) · member of the United States House of Representatives (2019-2021) · 2 more...				[sources]
Education	Colorado College (-1988) · Juris Doctor · McLean High School (-1984) · University of Chicago Law School (-1996)				[sources]
Religion	United Methodist Church				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-13	Last processed	2025-11-12	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

United States Representative from Wyoming from 2017 to 2023

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-12-31

Relationships

Sanctions
Country	Authority	Program	Start date	End date
Russia	Министерство иностранных дел Российской Федерации		-	-

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Lynne Cheney Politician	mother	-	-
Dick Cheney Politician	father	-	-

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

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 Persons in Relevant Categories363,068

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

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons276,144

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

External databases

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

Wikidata335,609

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

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions551,777

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: ru-mfa-63331b8ca06c8ab6800b24aa6f183ba9ceda93dc · evpo-e8eedd87-951f-4bdd-b34f-0608ca32cef1 · us-congress-b5554631afa7ee32defeab539363335b6b31c9f6

For experts: raw data explorer

Factsheet Descriptions Data sources

OpenSanctions is free for non-commercial users. Businesses must acquire a data license to use the dataset.

Use the API License in bulk