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Mark Fisher

Politician

Mark Fisher 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	Mark Fisher · مارك فيشر · মার্ক ফিশার · マーク・フィッシャー				[sources]
Alias	Mark Nigel Thomas Vaughan Fisher · مارك فيشر · マーク・フィッシャー				[sources]
Birth date	1944-10-29				[sources]
Place of birth	Woking				[sources]
Death date	2025-11-18				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	United Kingdom				[sources]
Country	United Kingdom				[sources]
Citizenship	United Kingdom				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Mark · Nigel · Thomas · Vaughan				[sources]
Last name	Fisher				[sources]
Political association	Labour Party				[sources]
Title	The Right Honourable				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q6767617				[sources]
Position	House of Commons (member, 2005-2010) · Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries (1997-1998) · Minister of State for Digital and Culture (1997-1998) · member of the 49th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1983-1987) · member of the 50th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1987-1992) · 4 more...				[sources]
Education	Eton College · Trinity College (-1966)				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-19	Last processed	2026-02-14	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

British politician ( 1944-2025)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2025-12-01

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Ingrid Geach Close Associate	spouse	1971	1999
Philip Ronald Flower

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the House of Commons	2005-05-05	-
member of the 54th Parliament of the United Kingdom	2005-05-05

Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons271,310

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

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Wikidata326,007

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions503,126

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

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