Preet Kaur Gill – female British Sikh MP from UK
- born 21 November 1972) is a British Labour Co-operative politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Edgbaston since 2017.
- She is the first female British Sikh MP.
- Preet Kaur Gill was born on 21 November 1972 in Edgbaston, Birmingham, to Daljit Singh Shergill and Kuldeep Kaur Shergill.
- Her father was a foreman and later a bus driver and her mother worked as a seamstress.
- Daljit Singh was the longest serving president of the Guru Nanak Gurdwara Smethwick.
- She has six younger siblings.
- Her early education was at Lordswood Girls’ School and Bournville College.
- At the latter Gill was elected as student president.
- Gill graduated from the University of East London with a first class BSc. degree in Sociology and Social Work.[
- After graduating, she worked as a social worker in a kibbutz in Israel and with street children in India.
- She was elected as a councillor for Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council in 2012 and was re-elected in the 2016 local election. On the council she has served as the Cabinet Member for Public Health and Protection.
- Gill supported remaining within the European Union (EU) in the 2016 EU membership referendum.
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