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Anura Kumara Dissanayake

1968 - Today

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Anura Kumara Dissanayake (born 24 November 1968), commonly referred to by his initials AKD, is a Sri Lankan politician who has served as the tenth president of Sri Lanka since 2024. Dissanayake is the first Sri Lankan president to be elected in a second round of vote counting, and the first not to be a member of the traditional political parties of Sri Lanka. He is also the ninth executive president of Sri Lanka, a constitutional distinction that separates the executive presidency established in 1978 from the earlier non-executive presidency. Born on 24 November 1968 in the village of Galewela in the Central Province of Sri Lanka, Dissanayake moved with his family to the village of Thambuththegama in the North Central Province in 1972. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia. Anura Kumara Dissanayake is the 15,533rd most popular politician, the 27th most popular biography from Sri Lanka and the 15th most popular Sri Lankan Politician.

Anura Kumara Dissanayake is most famous for being a prominent Sri Lankan politician and the leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), a leftist political party. He has been a vocal advocate for social justice and economic reforms in Sri Lanka.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Anura Kumara Dissanayake ranks 15,533 out of 19,576. Before him are Zlatko Lagumdžija, Bülent Ulusu, León Cortés Castro, Giorgio La Pira, Eudemus, and José Manuel Marroquín. After him are Francesco Cornaro, Aleksandr Rozenberg, Thomas Mifflin, Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Panagiotis Pipinelis, and Sun Chunlan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Anura Kumara Dissanayake ranks 245. Before him are Pete Docter, Sebastian Bach, Andy Cohen, Gary Payton, Osamu Chiba, and Mike Patton. After him are Wajdi Mouawad, Megan Follows, Ray Wilson, Vano Merabishvili, Stephen Mangan, and Cătălin Predoiu.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, Anura Kumara Dissanayake ranks 27 out of 51. Before him are John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (1841), Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933), William Gopallawa (1896), D. M. Jayaratne (1931), Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), and Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916). After him are Frederick G. Donnan (1870), Thomas Cooray (1901), Dinesh Gunawardena (1949), Dudley Senanayake (1911), Bob Tisdall (1907), and Duncan White (1918).

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Among POLITICIANS In Sri Lanka

Among politicians born in Sri Lanka, Anura Kumara Dissanayake ranks 15. Before him are D. S. Senanayake (1883), Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933), William Gopallawa (1896), D. M. Jayaratne (1931), Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), and Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916). After him are Dinesh Gunawardena (1949), Dudley Senanayake (1911), John Kotelawala (1897), Lakshman Kadirgamar (1932), Alexander Khloponin (1965), and Harini Amarasuriya (1970).

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