List of people banned from entering the United Kingdom

The Home Office, a United Kingdom government department, has, from August 2005 to 31 March 2009, excluded 101 individuals from the UK for having "engaged in unacceptable behaviour". Of those, 22 were excluded by then Home Secretary Jacqui Smith between 28 October 2008 and 31 March 2009. On 5 May 2009 Smith publicly "named and shamed" 16 of those individuals.^[1] In addition to the sixteen, other people are or have been banned from the United Kingdom.

The individuals are not necessarily banned from the British overseas territories, which have their own immigration regulations.

Smith's successor as Home Secretary, Alan Johnson, ended the policy of naming people who are banned from entering Britain. Michael Savage was the focus of most media attention, as he threatened to sue Smith for libel, alleging that he, one of two Jews listed alongside the American-born Israeli Mike Guzovsky, had been banned from entering the UK "to counter-balance all the Arabs named on her list".^[2]

Home Office list

The following 16 names were published:

Nationality	Individual	Official Reason for Ban
Saudi Arabia /  Yemen	Abdullah Qadri Al Ahdal	"Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by seeking to foment, justify or glorify terrorist violence in furtherance of particular beliefs and fostering hatred that might lead to inter-community violence".[1]
Palestinian National Authority	Yunis Al Astal	"Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by seeking to foment, justify or glorify terrorist violence in furtherance of particular beliefs and to provoke others to terrorist acts".[1]
United States	Stephen Donald Black	"Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by promoting serious criminal activity and fostering hatred, which might lead to inter-community violence in the United Kingdom".[1]
Egypt	Wadgy Abd El Hamied Mohamed Ghoneim	"Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by seeking to foment, justify or glory terrorist violence in furtherance of particular beliefs and to provoke others to commit terrorist acts".[1]
United States	Erich Gliebe	"Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by justifying terrorist violence, provoking others to commit serious crime and fostering racial hatred".[1]
United States /  Israel	Mike Guzovsky	"Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by seeking to foment, justify or glorify terrorist violence in furtherance of particular beliefs and to provoke others to terrorist acts".[1]
Egypt	Safwat Hijazi	"Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by glorifying terrorist violence".[1]
Pakistan	Nasr Javed	"Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by seeking to foment, justify or glorify terrorist violence in furtherance of particular beliefs".[1]
Lebanon	Samir Kuntar (deceased)	"Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by seeking to foment, justify or glorify terrorist violence in furtherance of particular beliefs and to provoke others to terrorist acts".[1]
United States	Abdul Alim Musa	"Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by fomenting and glorifying terrorist violence in furtherance of his particular beliefs and seeking to provoke others to terrorist acts".[1]
United States	Shirley Phelps-Roper	"Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by fostering hatred which might lead to inter-community violence in the United Kingdom".[1]
Russia	Artur Ryno	"Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by fomenting serious criminal activity and seeking to provoke others to serious criminal acts".[1]
Pakistan	Amir Siddique	"Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by fomenting terrorist violence in furtherance of particular beliefs".[1]
Russia	Pavel Skachevsky	"Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by fomenting serious criminal activity and seeking to provoke others to serious criminal acts".[1]
United States	Michael Savage	"Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by seeking to provoke others to serious criminal acts and fostering hatred which might lead to inter-community violence".[1]

Other notable individuals banned or refused entry

The following individuals have at some point been temporarily or permanently refused entry into the United Kingdom. Of these individuals, some may be among the censored section of the Home Office list; CNSNews.com identifies Ibrahim Mousawi, listed below, as being "evidently one of the six" banned from entering the UK whose names were withheld by the Home Office.^[3]

Nationality	Individual	Source(s)
Iran	Gholam Reza Aghazadeh[nb 1]	[4]
United States	Thomas Hite
United States	Steven L. Anderson	[5]
Jamaica	Siccatune Alcock (aka Jah Cure)	[6][7]
Uzbekistan	Zakirjon Almatov[nb 1]	[8]
Iraq	Mohammed Al Deeni	[9]
Egypt /  Qatar	Yusuf al-Qaradawi	[10]
Syria	Omar Bakri	[11]
Belize	Moshe Levi Ben-David (aka Shyne)	[12]
Kazakhstan	Karipbek Kuyukov	[13]
Canada	Todd Bentley	[14]
Serbia	Vojislav Šešelj	[15]
Saudi Arabia	Omar bin Laden	[16]
United States	Chris Brown	[17]
Zimbabwe	Peter Chingoka[nb 1]	[18]
United States	Louis Farrakhan	[10][19]
Israel	Moshe Feiglin	[20]
United States	Don Francisco	[21]
United States	Pamela Geller	[22]
Zimbabwe	Gideon Gono[nb 1]	[23]
Dominican Republic	Joan Guzmán	[19]
Iran	Mohammad Ali Jafari[nb 1]	[4]
United States	Terry Jones	[24][25]
Turkey	Remzi Kartal[nb 1]	[26]
Zimbabwe	Thomas Mapfumo	[27]
France	Dieudonné M'bala M'bala	[28]
Lebanon	Ibrahim Mousawi	[29]
Zimbabwe	Grace Mugabe[nb 1]	[30]
Zimbabwe	Robert Mugabe[nb 1][nb 2]	[30][31]
India	Zakir Naik	[32]
Kenya	Abo Obama (aka Samson Obama)	[33]
United States	Terrance Quaites (aka TQ)	[34]
Thailand	Thaksin Shinawatra[nb 3]	[35]
United States	Trevor Smith (aka Busta Rhymes)	[36]
United States	Edward Snowden	[37]
United States	Richard Spencer	[38]
United States	Robert Spencer	[22]
United States	Stephen Anderson	[39]
United States	Martha Stewart	[40][41]
United States	Jerry Vlasak	[42]
United States	Gary Yourofsky	[43]
United States	Mike Tyson	[44]
United States	Duane "Dog" Chapman	[45]
United States	Julien Blanc	[46]
United States	Tyler Gregory Okonma (aka Tyler, the Creator)	[47]
United States	Ben Koca	[48]
Czech Republic	Dylan Wheeler	[49]
Ivory Coast	Serge Aurier	[50]

Individuals previously banned or refused entry

These individuals have at some point been banned from entering the United Kingdom, or at least temporarily refused entry; these individuals are either deceased or have eventually been allowed entry.

Nationality	Individual	Source(s)
Serbia and Montenegro /  Montenegro	Momir Bulatović[nb 1][nb 4]	[51]
Serbia and Montenegro /  Montenegro	Pavle Bulatović (deceased)	[51]
United States	Cordozar Calvin Broadus, Jr. (aka Snoop Dogg)	[52]
Serbia and Montenegro /  Serbia	Ivica Dačić	[15]
Serbia and Montenegro /  Serbia	Aleksandar Vučić	[15]
Serbia and Montenegro /  Serbia	Tomislav Nikolić	[15]
United States	L. Ron Hubbard (deceased)	[53]
Israel /  United States	Meir Kahane (deceased)	[54]
Belarus	Alexander Lukashenko[nb 1][nb 2]	[55][56]
Serbia and Montenegro /  Serbia	Mirjana Marković[nb 1]	[51][57]
Serbia and Montenegro /  Serbia	Slobodan Milošević[nb 1][nb 4] (deceased)	[51]
Serbia and Montenegro /  Serbia	Marko Milošević	[51]
Serbia and Montenegro /  Serbia	Borislav Milošević (deceased)	[51]
South Korea	Sun Myung Moon (deceased)	[19]
Israel	Menachem Begin (later allowed entry, deceased)	[58]
Chile	Pablo Neruda (deceased)	[19]
Australia	Philip Nitschke	[59]
India	Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (aka Osho; deceased)	[19]
United States	George Raft (deceased)
Soviet Union	Dmitri Shostakovich (deceased)	[19]
Germany	Albert Speer (deceased)	[60]
Netherlands	Geert Wilders (overturned on appeal)	[61][62]
United States	Fred Phelps (deceased)	[63]

Notes

1. This individual is or was also banned from entering any other country within the European Union
2. This individual is currently serving as head of state of his or her respective country
3. This individual was previously head of government of his or her respective country
4. This individual was previously head of state of his or her respective country

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External links

• Home Office statement