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D. M. Jayaratne

1931 - 2019

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Dissanayaka Mudiyanselage Jayaratne (Sinhala: දිසානායක මුදියන්සේලාගේ ජයරත්න, Tamil: திசாநாயக்க முதியன்சேலாகே ஜயரத்ன; 4 June 1931 – 19 November 2019), commonly known as D. M. "Di Mu" Jayaratne, was a Sri Lankan politician who served as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 2010 to 2015. A founding member of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, Jayaratne was first elected to parliament in 1970. He was sworn in as prime minister on 21 April 2010. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. D. M. Jayaratne is the 15,100th most popular politician (up from 15,668th in 2024), the 24th most popular biography from Sri Lanka (up from 28th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Sri Lankan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, D. M. Jayaratne ranks 15,102 out of 19,576. Before him are Pany Yathotou, Ali Al-Naimi, Miguel Uribe Turbay, Paul Keating, Abel Goumba, Steponas Kairys, Aristides Gomes, and Alaa Hussein Ali. After him are Oleh Tyahnybok, Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau, Helene Lange, and Ranasinghe Premadasa.

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Among people born in 1931, D. M. Jayaratne ranks 414. Before him are Regis Philbin, David Cherkassky, Thorvald Strömberg, Paul Halla, Mirja Hietamies, and Lev Durov. After him are Richard Murphy, Kiki Dimoula, Walter Taibo, Roger Planchon, Viktor Tsaryov, and Rupert Hollaus. Among people deceased in 2019, D. M. Jayaratne ranks 371. Before him are Pedro Morales, Zvonimir Vujin, Vitaliy Khmelnytskyi, Gjermund Eggen, Inger Berggren, and Carol Channing. After him are Charlie Whiting, Stig Sollander, Bernard Binlin Dadié, Siegmar Wätzlich, Koldo Aguirre, and Verna Bloom.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, D. M. Jayaratne ranks 24 out of 51. Before him are D. S. Senanayake (1883), William Chester Minor (1834), M. G. Ramachandran (1917), John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (1841), Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933), and William Gopallawa (1896). After him are Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916), Anura Kumara Dissanayake (1968), Frederick G. Donnan (1870), Thomas Cooray (1901), and Dinesh Gunawardena (1949).

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Among POLITICIANS In Sri Lanka

Among politicians born in Sri Lanka, D. M. Jayaratne ranks 12. Before him are Mahinda Rajapaksa (1945), S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (1899), Maithripala Sirisena (1951), D. S. Senanayake (1883), Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933), and William Gopallawa (1896). After him are Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916), Anura Kumara Dissanayake (1968), Dinesh Gunawardena (1949), Dudley Senanayake (1911), and John Kotelawala (1897).

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