Nigel Keith Anthony Standish Vaz, known as Keith Vaz, was born 26 November 1956 in Aden, Yemen.

Keith Vaz is a British Labour Party politician a Member of Parliament for Leicester East and has been the Chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee since July 2007. He was appointed as a member of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council in June 2006.

Vaz was born in 1956 in Aden, Yemen, where his father (originally from Goa; hence the Portuguese surname) was a foreign correspondent for The Times of India. His family moved to Bradford in England in 1965.