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Martin Heydon

Politician

Martin Heydon 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	Martin Heydon · マーティン・ヘイドン				[sources]
Alias	Heydon, Martin				[sources]
Birth date	1978-08-09				[sources]
Place of birth	Kilcullen				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Ireland				[sources]
Country	Ireland				[sources]
Citizenship	Ireland				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Martin				[sources]
Last name	Heydon				[sources]
Political association	Fine Gael				[sources]
Website	www.martinheydon.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q6775671				[sources]
Position	Dáil Éireann (member, 2011-2016) · Dáil Éireann (member, 2016-) · Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2025-) · Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2020-2025) · Teachta Dála (2011-2016) · 3 more...				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-18	Last processed	2026-01-18	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Irish politician

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

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine	2020-07-01	2025-01-23

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories383,992

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators40,660

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 Persons316,648

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata335,225

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions540,249

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-cdec4278-4c6c-4e51-aa52-4f12b0822785 · us-cia-ireland-martin-heydon-minister-for-agriculture-food-fisheries-and-the-marine

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