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Owen Smith

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Owen Smith (born 2 May 1970) is a British lobbyist and former politician. A member of the Labour Party, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Pontypridd from 2010 to 2019. After graduating from the University of Sussex, Smith worked as a radio and television producer for the BBC for a decade, then as a special adviser for Welsh Secretary Paul Murphy, and as a political lobbyist for Pfizer and Amgen before being elected to the House of Commons. Smith went on to serve as Shadow Welsh Secretary under Ed Miliband from 2012 until 2015, and then as Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary under Jeremy Corbyn from 2015 until he resigned in June 2016. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2024). Owen Smith is the 17,853rd most popular politician (up from 19,361st in 2024), the 6,089th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 8,309th in 2019) and the 668th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Owen Smith ranks 17,853 out of 19,576. Before him are Gibran Rakabuming Raka, Ricardo J. Alfaro, John M. Berrien, Sofia Sakorafa, Guillaume Soro, and Dana Rohrabacher. After him are Henry Grattan, María Dolores de Cospedal, John Sherman Cooper, Nellie Sengupta, Bernd Riexinger, and Ruth Metzler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1970, Owen Smith ranks 484. Before him are Andrzej Juskowiak, Tibor Selymes, Amy Jo Johnson, Ghostface Killah, Kim Hill, and Annika Sörenstam. After him are Wang Hee-kyung, Tony Hale, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Michael Trucco, Samantha Power, and Marco Mattiacci.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Owen Smith ranks 6,091 out of 8,785. Before him are William Collins (1721), Dorothy Mackaill (1903), Mary Forbes (1883), John Rennie the Elder (1761), Tim Parnell (1932), and Jack Huston (1982). After him are Ken Hughes (1922), Hans Matheson (1975), Nellie Sengupta (1886), Gillian Gilbert (1961), Steve Lillywhite (1955), and Richard Robarts (1944).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Owen Smith ranks 668. Before him are Shirley Williams (1930), Kemi Badenoch (1980), Nick Leeson (1967), John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair (1847), Abraham Beame (1906), and Dennis Skinner (1932). After him are Nellie Sengupta (1886), Michael Fallon (1952), David Davis (1948), Iain Duncan Smith (1954), Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch (1748), and David Amess (1952).

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