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Owen Smith

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Owen Smith (born 2 May 1970) is a British lobbyist and former Labour Party politician. Smith was 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 different languages on Wikipedia. Owen Smith is the 17,790th most popular politician (up from 19,486th in 2019), the 6,079th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 8,311th in 2019) and the 671st most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Owen Smith ranks 17,790 out of 19,576. Before him are William Few, 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 463. Before him are Sharon Corr, Andrzej Juskowiak, Tibor Selymes, Amy Jo Johnson, Ghostface Killah, 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 6,081 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 671. 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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