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Ross Lightfoot

Politician

Ross Lightfoot 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	Ross Lightfoot				[sources]
Alias	Lightfoot, Ross · Philip Ross Lightfoot				[sources]
Birth date	1936-08-11				[sources]
Place of birth	Port Lincoln				[sources]
Death date	2024-01-11				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Australia				[sources]
Country	Australia				[sources]
Citizenship	Australia				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Ross				[sources]
Last name	Lightfoot				[sources]
Political association	Liberal Party of Australia				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q7369472				[sources]
Position	Member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly (1986-1989) · Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council · Senate (member, 2004-2007) · Senate (member, 2007-2008) · member of the Australian Senate (1997-2008)				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-18	Last processed	2026-01-18	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Australian politician

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

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the Senate	2007-11-24	2008-06-30
Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council

Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons316,576

Profiles of politically exposed persons 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

External databases

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Wikidata334,490

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 OpenSanctions525,938

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-f0b6c70a-64cb-4040-bfd6-9fe6ddc09b58

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