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José Eduardo dos Santos

Politician · Sanction-linked entity

José Eduardo dos Santos 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	José Eduardo dos Santos · Joze Eduardu duş Santuş · Žuzē Eduardu duš Santušs · Ζοζέ Εντουάρντο ντος Σάντος · Жазэ Эдуарду душ Сантуш · 16 more...				[sources]
Other name	Jose Eduardo Van-Dúnem dos Santos · Jose Eduardo dos Santos · José Eduardo Van Dunen · José Eduardo Van-Dúnem dos Santos · Santos, Jose Eduardo · 17 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	JES · ジョゼ・エドゥアルド・ドスサントス · ジョゼ・ドス・サントス · 若泽·爱德华多·多斯·桑托斯				[sources]
Birth date	1942-08-28				[sources]
Place of birth	Luanda				[sources]
Death date	2022-07-08				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	Angola				[sources]
Citizenship	Angola				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	José Eduardo				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q57313				[sources]
Position	Member of the National Assembly of Angola · Minister of External Relations (1975-1977) · President of Angola (1979-2017)				[sources]
Education	Azerbaijan State Oil and Industrial University				[sources]
Religion	Catholicism				[sources]
Last change	2025-07-01	Last processed	2025-11-12	First seen	2023-07-18

Descriptions

President of Angola from 1979 to 2017

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

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Isabel dos Santos Disqualified · Sanctioned entity	child · father	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
President of Angola	1979-09-21	2017-09-26
Member of the National Assembly of Angola	2008-10-17

Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons276,163

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Wikidata334,882

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Graph-based entity tagging80,993

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions551,700

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