Search OpenSanctions

Simon Harris

Politician

Simon Harris 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	Saimons Heriss · Simon Harris · Σάιμον Χάρις · Саймон Гарріс · Саймон Харрис · 10 more...				[sources]
Alias	Harris, Simon · Саймон Харрис · سيمون هاريس · 賽門·哈里斯				[sources]
Birth date	1986-10-17 · 1986-12-17				[sources]
Place of birth	Greystones				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Ireland				[sources]
Country	Ireland				[sources]
Citizenship	Ireland				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Simon				[sources]
Last name	Harris				[sources]
Political association	Fine Gael				[sources]
Website	www.simonharris.ie · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q7518922				[sources]
Position	Dáil Éireann (member, 2011-2016) · Dáil Éireann (member, 2016-) · Minister for Defence (Ireland) (2025-) · Minister for Foreign Affairs (Ireland) (2025-) · Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (2020-2024) · 9 more...				[sources]
Education	Ardee Community School · Dublin Institute of Technology · St David's Holy Faith Secondary School, Greystones				[sources]
Source link	www.cia.gov				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-15	Last processed	2026-01-16	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Tánaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) of Ireland (born 1986)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2025-03-29

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Teachta Dála	2020-02-08	2024-11-08

Show more (16)

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories384,022

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

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

US CIA World Leaders11,000

An index of most national-level cabinet members in world governments that is publicly maintained by the CIA.

United States · CIA

External databases

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

Wikidata335,233

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 OpenSanctions540,381

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: unprot-0ee6857a2025708da1577c43dc76bc2dfbbe6595 · unprot-0d4b1e8681e03aeafd706da94fa1770525928c0f · us-cia-ireland-simon-harris-tanaiste-deputy-prime-minister-minister-for-finance · us-cia-ireland-simon-harris-tanaiste-deputy-prime-minister-minister-for-foreign-affairs-and-trade-minister-for-defense · evpo-57c2f1f2-f73b-4155-8284-5b4fe0f9a545

For experts: raw data explorer

Factsheet Descriptions Data sources

OpenSanctions is free for non-commercial users. Businesses must acquire a data license to use the dataset.

Use the API License in bulk