Anna Lo
Anna Lo | |||||||||||||
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Lo in 2014 | |||||||||||||
| Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Belfast South | |||||||||||||
| In office 7 March 2007 – 7 May 2016 | |||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Esmond Birnie | ||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Paula Bradshaw | ||||||||||||
| Personal details | |||||||||||||
| Born | Anna Manwah Lo 17 June 1950 North Point, British Hong Kong | ||||||||||||
| Died | 6 November 2024 (aged 74) Belfast, Northern Ireland | ||||||||||||
| Political party | Alliance | ||||||||||||
| Spouse(s) |
David Watson
(m. 1974; div. 2010)Gavin Millar
(m. 2010; sep. 2012) | ||||||||||||
| Children | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Ulster University | ||||||||||||
| Profession | Social worker | ||||||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 盧曼華 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 卢曼华 | ||||||||||||
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Anna Manwah Lo, or Anna Lo Man-wah, MBE (Married name: Anna Watson; 17 June 1950 – 6 November 2024) was a Northern Irish politician of the Alliance Party. She was a Member of the Legislative Assembly for Belfast South from 2007 to 2016 and was a former president of the Alliance Party.
She was the first parliamentarian of East Asian ethnicity to be elected to any parliament or national assembly in any part of the UK.