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Any person who has held or sought a position in a government.  The term "politician" may not be strictly accurate for some positions such as kings, but we have to call it something!  Suggestions for better names are welcome.   For more information on entering data about the...
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x Ann Widdecombe Ann Widdecombe Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Ann Noreen Widdecombe (born 4 October 1947) is a British Conservative Party politician and, more recently, television presenter and novelist. She is the Member of Parliament for Maidstone and The Weald and a Privy Counsellor. She is a member of the...
TV program guest
x Gerry Adams Gerry Adams at the Fermanagh Commemoration, reading aloud into a microphone. Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Gerard "Gerry" Adams, MLA, MP (Irish: Gearóid Mac Ádhaimh; born 6 October 1948) is an Irish Republican politician and abstentionist Westminster Member of Parliament for Belfast West. He is the president of Sinn Féin, which is the largest political...
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x Neil Turner   Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Neil Turner (born 16 September 1945, Carlisle) is a Labour Party Politician in the United Kingdom. He has been the member of Parliament for Wigan in the north-west of England since a 1999 by-election held on 23 September 1999. He went to Carlisle...
x Diane Abbott Diane Abbott Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Diane Julie Abbott (born 27 September 1953) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987, when she became the first black woman to be elected to the House of Commons. She...
x Nick Ainger   Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Nicholas Richard Ainger (born 24 October 1949) is a British Labour Member of Parliament for the constituency of Carmarthen West and Pembrokeshire South. Ainger was born in Sheffield in 1949, and was educated at the Netherthorpe Grammar in Staveley,...
x Peter Ainsworth   Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Peter Michael Ainsworth (born 16 November 1956) is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom. He is the Member of Parliament for East Surrey. The son of a naval officer, Ainsworth was educated at the Ludgrove School in Wokingham, Bradfield...
x Charlotte Atkins   Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Charlotte Jean Scott Atkins (born 24 September 1950) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. She is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Staffordshire Moorlands. The daughter of Ron Atkins, the former left wing Labour MP for Preston North,...
x Ian Paisley Ian Paisley Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Ian Richard Kyle Paisley (born 6 April 1926) is a veteran politician and church minister in Northern Ireland. As the then leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), the largest single grouping in the 2007 elections to the Northern Ireland...
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x Iain Duncan Smith Iain Duncan Smith Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 1, 1997 Person
George Iain Duncan Smith (born 9 April 1954) is a British politician, the Member of Parliament for the constituency of Chingford and Woodford Green. He was leader of the Conservative Party from 12 September 2001 to 6 November 2003. He lost a vote of...
Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005
x Michael Howard Michael Howard Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Michael Howard QC, MP (born 7 July 1941) is a British politician. He served as the leader of the Conservative Party from November 2003 to December 2005. Prior to that, he held a number of cabinet posts in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and...
Lawyer
x William Hague William Hague Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
William Jefferson Hague (born 26 March 1961) is a British politician. He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Richmond (Yorks), Shadow Foreign Secretary and Senior Member of the Shadow Cabinet (unofficial deputy to party leader David Cameron...
Author
x Glenda Jackson Glenda Jackson Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Glenda May Jackson, CBE (born 9 May 1936) is an English actress and politician, currently Labour Member of Parliament for the constituency of Hampstead and Highgate in the London Borough of Camden. She was born in Birkenhead on the Wirral, where her...
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x John Redwood   Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
John Alan Redwood (born 15 June 1951 in Dover, Kent) is a British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament for Wokingham. Formerly Secretary of State for Wales in John Major's Cabinet, he unsuccessfully challenged Major for the...
x Gerald Kaufman Gerald Kaufman Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Sir Gerald Bernard Kaufman (born in Leeds, 21 June 1930) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Manchester Gorton since 1983, and was both a government minister during the 1970s, and a member of the Shadow Cabinet...
x Stuart Bell Sir Stuart Bell MP black and white Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Sir Stuart Bell (born 16 May 1938) is a British Labour Party politician and Member of Parliament for Middlesbrough. Bell was born in County Durham in 1938, the son of a miner. He attended the Hookergate Grammar School (now known as Hookergate School...
x Sandra Gidley Sandra Gidleyconferance image Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Sandra Julia Gidley (born 26 March 1957) is a Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom. She is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Romsey in Hampshire. Born Sandra Julia Rawson in Rosset, Denbighshire in Wales, she was educated widely at the...
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x Lynne Jones   Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Lynne Mary Jones (born 26 April 1951) is a British Labour Party politician and the Member of Parliament for the Birmingham Selly Oak constituency. Born in Birmingham, Lynne Jones studied biochemistry at the University of Birmingham, eventually...
x John Prescott John Prescott Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
John Leslie Prescott (born 31 May 1938) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Hull East since 1970; from 1997 to 2007, he was the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, also serving as First Secretary of...
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x Gwyneth Dunwoody Gwyneth Dunwoody Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Gwyneth Patricia Dunwoody (née Phillips; 12 December 1930 – 17 April 2008) was the longest ever serving female Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, by both length of total and length of continuous service. A right-winger by the...
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x Clare Short Clare Short Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Clare Short (born 15 February 1946) is a British politician, and a member of the Labour Party. She is currently the Independent Member of Parliament for Birmingham Ladywood, having been elected as a Labour Party MP in 1983 but resigning the whip in...
Atheist
x Crispin Blunt   Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Crispin Jeremy Rupert Blunt (born 15 July 1960) is the Conservative Member of Parliament for the English constituency of Reigate. He replaced rebel Eurosceptic George Gardiner in 1997. Blunt was born in 1960. He was educated at Wellington College,...
x Ben Bradshaw   Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Benjamin Peter James Bradshaw (born 30 August 1960) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Exeter since 1997, and currently serves in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. The son of an...
x Margaret Beckett Margaret Beckett Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Margaret Mary Beckett (née Jackson; born 15 January 1943) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Derby South since 1983, rising to become the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party under John Smith, from 18 July 1992 to...
x Graham Allen Graham Allen is now the chairman of One Nottingham, formerly known as Once City Partnership. Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Graham William Allen (born 11 January 1953) is a British Labour politician, and is the current Member of Parliament for the Nottingham North constituency. Born in 1953 in Nottingham, he was educated at the local Robert Shaw Primary School in Aspley...
Atheist
x Hilary Armstrong Hilary Armstrong Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Hilary Jane Armstrong (born 30 November 1945, Sunderland) is a British Labour Party politician. She is the Member of Parliament for North West Durham. Armstrong was educated at Monkwearmouth Grammar School (her Who's Who entry lists Monkwearmouth...
x Stephen Byers   Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Stephen John Byers (born 13 April 1953) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Tyneside North since 1992 and has served in the Cabinet as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry...
x Peter Hain Peter Hain Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Peter Gerald Hain (born 16 February 1950, Nairobi, Kenya) is a British, Labour Party politician, who has served in the Cabinets of both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, firstly as Leader of the House of Commons under Blair and both Secretary of State...
x Chris Bryant   Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Christopher John Bryant (born 11 January 1962) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Rhondda since 2001. Bryant is currently the Minister of State for Europe and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign...
Film writer
x Alex Salmond Alex Salmond Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Alexander Elliot Anderson "Alex" Salmond (pronounced /ˈsæmənd/ born 31 December 1954) is the First Minister of Scotland, heading a minority Scottish Government. He is the leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), Member of Parliament for the...
x Jack Straw Jack Straw (politician) Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
John "Jack" Whitaker Straw (born 3 August 1946) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Blackburn since 1979. On 28 June 2007, he was appointed to the offices of Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice as...
x James Arbuthnot James Arbuthnot Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
James Norwich Arbuthnot (born 4 August 1952) is a British Conservative Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament for Hampshire North-East. Arbuthnot was born in Deal, Kent, the son of Sir John Arbuthnot, 1st Baronet and Margaret Jean Duff. He...
x Michael Ancram   Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Michael Andrew Foster Jude Kerr, 13th Marquess of Lothian PC, QC, MP (born 7 July 1945), known as Michael Ancram, is a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician. He is Member of Parliament for Devizes, and a former member of the Shadow Cabinet....
x Don Foster   Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Don Foster, MP (born Donald Michael Ellison Foster, 31 March 1947) is a British Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament, representing Bath in southwest England. Foster was born in Preston, Lancashire, and educated at the Lancaster Royal Grammar School...
x John Sinclair, 3rd Viscount Thurso John Thurso MP at Bournemouth 2009 Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
John Archibald Sinclair, 3rd Viscount Thurso (born 10 September 1953), known as John Thurso, is a Scottish businessman and Liberal Democrat politician, currently serving as the Liberal Democrat spokesman for Business, Innovation and Skills. He is...
x Peter Lilley   Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Peter Bruce Lilley (born 23 August 1943) is a British Conservative Party politician who has been a Member of Parliament MP since 1983. He currently represents the constituency of Hitchin and Harpenden and, prior to boundary changes, represented St...
x Charles Clarke   Home Secretary       Person
Charles Rodway Clarke (born 21 September 1950) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Norwich South since 1997, and served as Home Secretary from December 2004 until May 2006. The son of Civil Service Permanent...
Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Recreational drug user
x Tessa Jowell Tessa Jowell Jan 2007 Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Tessa Jane Helena Douglas Jowell (born 17 September 1947) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Dulwich and West Norwood since 1992. Since 2001, she has been a Cabinet Minister, and currently holds the positions...
x Hilary Benn HilaryBenn20050127 CopyrightKaihsuTai Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Hilary James Wedgwood Benn (born 26 November 1953) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Leeds Central since 1999, and is the current Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; he previously...
x Sarah Teather Sarah Teather Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Sarah Louise Teather (born 1 June 1974, London) is a British Liberal Democrat politician, Member of Parliament for Brent East, Liberal Democrat Shadow Housing Minister, and Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Guantanamo Bay. She was first...
x Oliver Letwin Oliver Letwin Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Oliver Letwin (born 19 May 1956, Hampstead) is a British Conservative Party politician. He is currently a Member of Parliament representing the constituency of West Dorset, and is the Chairman of the Conservative Research Department and Chairman of...
Recreational drug user
x Theresa May   Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Theresa Mary May MP, née Brasier (born on 1 October, 1956 in Eastbourne, Sussex) is a British politician, former chairman of the Conservative Party, and Member of Parliament for Maidenhead. She is currently the Shadow Secretary of State for Work and...
x Tim Yeo   Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Timothy Stephen Kenneth Yeo (born 20 March 1945, Lewisham, Kent) is a British Conservative politician, Member of Parliament for South Suffolk and the current Chairman of the Environmental Audit Select Committee. He was educated at Charterhouse...
Recreational drug user
x Alistair Darling   Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Alistair Maclean Darling (born 28 November 1953) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Edinburgh South West since 1987, and was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer on 28 June 2007. Prior to this, he held a...
x Andrew Rosindell Andrew Rosindell Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Andrew Richard Rosindell (born 17 March 1966) is a British Conservative politician. He is the Member of Parliament for the Romford constituency in Greater London. He is also international director of the European Foundation, chairman of the All...
x Keith Vaz   Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Nigel Keith Anthony Standish Vaz (born 26 November 1956) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Leicester East since 1987, and has been the Chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee since July 2007. He was...
x Simon Hughes Simon Hughes Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Simon Henry Ward Hughes (born 17 May 1951) is a British politician and Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for North Southwark and Bermondsey. He currently holds the Liberal Democrat Climate Change and Energy portfolio and was until recently...
x Harriet Harman   Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Harriet Ruth Harman (born 30 July 1950) is a British Labour politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Camberwell and Peckham since 1987. Since 24 June 2007, she has been both the Deputy Leader and Party Chair of the Labour Party. On 28...
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x Menzies Campbell Menzies Campbell at EIFF Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Sir Walter Menzies Campbell CBE PC QC (born 22 May 1941) is a British politician, advocate and retired sprinter. He is Member of Parliament for North East Fife and was Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2 March 2006 until 15 October 2007. "Menzies...
Olympic athlete
x Malcolm Rifkind Malcolm Rifkind Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Sir Malcolm Leslie Rifkind KCMG QC MP (born 21 June 1946) is a British Conservative politician and Member of Parliament for the constituency of Kensington and Chelsea. He served in various roles as a Cabinet Minister under both Margaret Thatcher and...
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TV Actor
x Nick Brown   Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Nicholas Hugh "Nick" Brown (born June 13, 1950) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend since 1983. He has served as Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Minister of...
x John Gummer John Gummer Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
John Selwyn Gummer MP, born 26 November 1939 (1939-11-26) (age 69), is a British politician, and Conservative MP for Suffolk Coastal. He is chairman of the environmental consultancy company Sancroft International. He is also a non-executive director...
x Liam Fox Liam Fox was a candidate for Leader of the Conservative Party. Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Liam Fox (born 22 September 1961) is a British Conservative politician, currently Shadow Defence Secretary and Member of Parliament for Woodspring. Fox was born and raised in East Kilbride, Scotland and brought up in a council house that his parents...
x Michael Meacher Michael Meacher Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Michael Hugh Meacher (born 4 November 1939) is a British Labour party politician, and Member of Parliament (MP) for Oldham West and Royton. On 22 February 2007 he declared that he would be standing for the Labour Leadership, challenging Gordon Brown...
       
x Bill Cash   Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
William Nigel Paul Cash, usually known as Bill Cash (born on 10 May 1940, in London), is a British Conservative politician and Member of Parliament for Stone. He was educated by the Jesuits at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire before going up to...
x Dennis Skinner Dennis Skinner Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Dennis Edward Skinner (born 11 February 1932) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Bolsover since 1970; he is nicknamed 'the Beast of Bolsover', because of his rebellious and curmudgeonly reputation. He was...
Atheist
x Roger Williams   Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Roger Hugh Williams (born 22 January 1948, Crickhowell, Wales) is a British Member of Parliament, a Liberal Democrat elected from Brecon and Radnorshire in 2001. Born in the town of Crickhowell, Roger Williams studied at Christ College, Brecon and...
x Jeffrey Donaldson Mervyn Storey Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Jeffrey Mark Donaldson, MP, MLA PC (born 7 December 1962) is a Northern Irish politician and Member of Parliament for Lagan Valley. He is best known for his opposition to Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) leader David Trimble during the Northern Ireland...
x Paul Murphy Paul Murphy (politician) Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Paul Peter Murphy (born 25 November 1948) is a British politician. He is Member of Parliament for Torfaen representing the Labour Party. He is the former Secretary of State for Wales, having been replaced by Peter Hain on June 5, 2009. Murphy...
x Andrew Smith Andrew Smith (politician) Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Andrew David Smith (born 1 February 1952) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Oxford East since 1987, and is a former member of the Cabinet. He went to Reading School, then went to St John's College, Oxford,...
x Ian McCartney   Member of Parliament British House of Commons   May 5, 2005 Person
Ian McCartney (born 25 April 1951) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Makerfield since 1987, and served in the Cabinet, from 2003 to 2007, when Gordon Brown became Prime Minister He was born in Kirkintilloch,...
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