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Chandrika Kumaratunga

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Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga (Sinhala: චන්ද්‍රිකා බණ්ඩාරනායක කුමාරතුංග; Tamil: சந்திரிகா பண்டாரநாயக்க குமாரதுங்க; born 29 June 1945), commonly referred to by her initials CBK, is a Sri Lankan politician who served as the fifth President of Sri Lanka from 12 November 1994 to 19 November 2005. She is the longest-serving president in Sri Lankan history. She led the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) from 1994 to 2005. Born in 1945 into a prominent Sri Lankan political family, she is the daughter of two former prime ministers, S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike and Sirimavo Bandaranaike. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Chandrika Kumaratunga is the 5,645th most popular politician (up from 8,065th in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Sri Lanka (up from 12th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Sri Lankan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Chandrika Kumaratunga ranks 5,645 out of 19,576. Before her are Lucía Topolansky, María de las Mercedes, Princess of Asturias, Martin Schulz, Rudolph I of Burgundy, Emperor Antoku, and László Tőkés. After her are Hwang Jang-yop, Mori Ranmaru, Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, 'Adud al-Dawla, James Brooke, and Anna Leopoldovna.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Chandrika Kumaratunga ranks 130. Before her are Momčilo Krajišnik, Alain Juppé, Jeremy Rifkin, Daniel Olbrychski, Viktor Saneyev, and Graça Machel. After her are Tammam Salam, Khaleda Zia, Muqrin bin Abdulaziz, Maud Adams, András Arató, and Jean-Pierre Kutwa.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, Chandrika Kumaratunga ranks 6 out of 51. Before her are Ranil Wickremesinghe (1949), Gotabaya Rajapaksa (1949), Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916), Velupillai Prabhakaran (1954), and J. R. Jayewardene (1906). After her are Ananda Coomaraswamy (1877), Tony Hoare (1934), Anagarika Dharmapala (1864), Mahinda Rajapaksa (1945), Aryadeva (200), and Malcolm Ranjith (1947).

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Among POLITICIANS In Sri Lanka

Among politicians born in Sri Lanka, Chandrika Kumaratunga ranks 5. Before her are Ranil Wickremesinghe (1949), Gotabaya Rajapaksa (1949), Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916), and J. R. Jayewardene (1906). After her are Mahinda Rajapaksa (1945), S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (1899), Maithripala Sirisena (1951), D. S. Senanayake (1883), Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933), William Gopallawa (1896), and D. M. Jayaratne (1931).

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