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Dinesh Gunawardena

1949 - Today

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Dinesh Chandra Rupasinghe Gunawardena (Sinhala: දිනේෂ් චන්ද්‍ර රූපසිංහ ගුණවර්ධන, Tamil: தினேஷ் சந்திர ரூபசிங்க குணவர்தன; born 2 March 1949) is a Sri Lankan politician who served as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 2022 to 2024. He also held the positions of Minister of Public Administration, Home Affairs, Provincial Councils and Local Government. Gunawardena has been leader of the left-wing Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP) party since 1983, was briefly the de facto leader of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna from 2022 to 2023, and has taken cabinet positions under several previous governments, including Leader of the House from 2020 until 2022. Born in a political family, the son of Philip Gunawardena and Kusumasiri Gunawardena, and nephew of Vivienne Goonewardene, he was educated at Royal College, Colombo and later at the University of Oregon, where he advocated pacifism in the Vietnam War. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Dinesh Gunawardena is the 15,852nd most popular politician (down from 14,637th in 2024), the 30th most popular biography from Sri Lanka (down from 24th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Sri Lankan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Dinesh Gunawardena ranks 15,855 out of 19,576. Before him are Martín Javier Mina y Larrea, Edith of Wessex, Osred II of Northumbria, Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter, Castinus, Yoshimasa Hayashi, Yōichi Masuzoe, Richard Henry Lee, and Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann. After him are Dimitar Stanchov, Jim McGovern, and Daniel Scioli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Dinesh Gunawardena ranks 537. Before him are Anthony Denison, Claudia Kolb, Toyokazu Nomura, Heini Hemmi, Alberto Cardaccio, and Richard Neal. After him are Shaukat Aziz, Gloria Hendry, Chang Wanquan, Shlomo Artzi, Scott Turow, and Michael Häupl.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, Dinesh Gunawardena ranks 30 out of 51. Before him are D. M. Jayaratne (1931), Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916), Anura Kumara Dissanayake (1968), Frederick G. Donnan (1870), and Thomas Cooray (1901). After him are Dudley Senanayake (1911), Bob Tisdall (1907), Duncan White (1918), Joyce Cooper (1909), Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala (1810), and John Kotelawala (1897).

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Among POLITICIANS In Sri Lanka

Among politicians born in Sri Lanka, Dinesh Gunawardena ranks 16. Before him are Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933), William Gopallawa (1896), D. M. Jayaratne (1931), Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916), and Anura Kumara Dissanayake (1968). After him are Dudley Senanayake (1911), John Kotelawala (1897), Lakshman Kadirgamar (1932), Alexander Khloponin (1965), and Harini Amarasuriya (1970).

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