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Russell Fairbrother

Politician

Russell Fairbrother 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	Russell Fairbrother				[sources]
Alias	Elwin Russell Fairbrother · Fairbrother, Russell				[sources]
Birth date	not available				[sources]
Place of birth	Carterton				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	New Zealand				[sources]
Country	New Zealand				[sources]
Citizenship	New Zealand				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Elwin · Russell				[sources]
Last name	Fairbrother				[sources]
Political association	New Zealand Labour Party				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q7381499				[sources]
Position	Member of the New Zealand Parliament · New Zealand Parliament (member, 2005-2008)				[sources]
Education	Victoria University of Wellington				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-20	Last processed	2025-12-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

New Zealand politician and barrister

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

Relationships

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators57,728

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 Persons316,647

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories384,022

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,358

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata343,483

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

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