minister

politician who holds significant civil public office in a national or regional government, generally heading a ministry
Thing type_of_position Q83307
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Summary

minister is a type of position[1]. minister draws 2,600 Wikipedia views per month (type of position category, ranking #7 of 12).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: position[3]
  • Subclass of: senior government officials[4], public office[5]
  • Commons category: Government ministers[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Government ministers[7]
  • ISCO-88 occupation class: 1110[8]
  • Topic has template: Q25734579[9]
  • Equivalent class: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85018567[10], http://reference.data.gov.uk/def/central-government/Minister[11]
  • Different from: Minister[12], priest[13], chief minister[14], board member[15]
  • Organization directed by the office or position: ministry[16]
  • Female form of label: ministryně[17], ministra[18], Ministerin[19], ministre[20], ministrino[21], שרה[22], Ministesch[23], وزيرة[24], міністарка[25], міністерка[26], ministrica[27], ministrė[28], jiministeran[29]
  • Male form of label: ministrulo[30], Minister[31], وزير[32], ministro[33], ministras[34], hiministeran[35]
  • ISCO-08 occupation class: 1111[36]

Why It Matters

minister has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[37] minister is known by 68 alternative names across languages and contexts.[38]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [37] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [38] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 17w ago · 解浪 · 2026-06-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Encyclopedia of korean culture id → E0048292
    "/* wbmergeitems-from:0||Q129073823 */"
  2. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → ['0345920-ministryne', '0271274-ministri']
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0345920-ministryne, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259547|batch #259547]]"
  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Organization directed by the office or position → ministry
    Instance of → —
    Subclass of → senior government officials, public office
    Instance of → type of position, position
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 4343, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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