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Joe Byrne

Politician

Joe Byrne 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	Joe Byrne · Джо Бирн · Джо Бірн · ג'ו ביירנה · جو بيرن				[sources]
Alias	Джо Бирн · ג'ו ביירנה · جو بيرن				[sources]
Birth date	1953-11-29				[sources]
Death date	2025-12-30				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Northern Ireland				[sources]
Country	Northern Ireland				[sources]
Citizenship	United Kingdom				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Joe				[sources]
Last name	Byrne				[sources]
Political association	Social Democratic and Labour Party				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q6208911				[sources]
Position	Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party · Member of the 1st Northern Ireland Assembly (1998-2003) · Member of the 4th Northern Ireland Assembly (2011-2015) · Northern Ireland Assembly (member, 2011-2015)				[sources]
Education	Queen's University Belfast				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-19	Last processed	2026-01-22	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Northern Irish politician

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

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly	-	-
Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party	-	-

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators40,653

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 Persons316,372

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata334,618

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 OpenSanctions526,101

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

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