Patricia Scotland

Patricia Janet Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal,, is a British diplomat, barrister and politician, serving as the sixth secretary-general of the Commonwealth of Nations. She was elected at the 2015 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and took office on 1 April 2016. She is the first woman to hold the post. She was elevated to the House of Lords in 1997 and, as a British Labour Party politician, served in ministerial positions within the UK Government, most notably as the Attorney General for England and Wales and Advocate General for Northern Ireland. She is a dual citizen of the United Kingdom and Dominica, where she was born.

19 August 1955

Born on the same birth date (19 August 1955): Mary-Anne Fahey • Ned Yost • Peter Gallagher

Born on the same birth day (19 August): Bettina Cirone • Craig Frawley • George Shepherd, 1st Baron Shepherd • Gerald McRaney • Gustavo Santaolalla • Kyra Sedgwick • Lothar Meyer • Malcolm Forbes • Morten Andersen • Nelly Vuksic • Peter Kemp (writer) • Sid Going • Sotiris Balafas

Born in the same month (August 1955): Agnes Chan • Diana Scarwid • Greg Nickels • Herbert Prohaska • Hideo Fukuyama • Ian Dejardin • Jamie Moses • Jim Mees • John E. Sweeney • John McGeoch • Mel Tiangco • Mike Huckabee • Robert Richardson (cinematographer) • Sylvia Hermon • Thomas Kidd (illustrator)