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Dingiri Banda Wijetunga

1916 - 2008

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Sri Lankabhimanya Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (Sinhala: ඩිංගිරි බණ්ඩා විජේතුංග; Tamil: டிங்கிரி பண்ட விஜேதுங்க; 15 February 1916 – 21 September 2008) was the fourth President of Sri Lanka from 7 May 1993 to 12 November 1994, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 3 March 1989 to 7 May 1993 and the Governor of North Western province, Sri Lanka from 1988 to 1989. He was awarded Sri Lankabhimanya, Sri Lanka's highest civilian award in 1993 by President Ranasinghe Premadasa. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dingiri Banda Wijetunga is the 15,252nd most popular politician (up from 15,711th in 2019), the 27th most popular biography from Sri Lanka (up from 30th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Sri Lankan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Dingiri Banda Wijetunga ranks 15,252 out of 19,576. Before him are François Asselineau, Jacob van Zuylen van Nijevelt, Nicola Mancino, Abdulhashim Mutalov, Iván Duque Márquez, and Viktor Khristenko. After him are Zia ol Din Tabatabaee, William Deane, Angélica Rivera, Hilla Limann, Paul Warburg, and Pedro Rodríguez, Count of Campomanes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Dingiri Banda Wijetunga ranks 235. Before him are Robert Parrish, Mary Stewart, Bernard Binlin Dadié, Edward Platt, Ľudmila Pajdušáková, and Jean Margéot. After him are Yvon Petra, David Douglas Duncan, Karen Lachmann, Helene Hanff, Ondina Valla, and Milton Babbitt. Among people deceased in 2008, Dingiri Banda Wijetunga ranks 267. Before him are Natalia Bekhtereva, Sam Manekshaw, Walter Haummer, Nunzio Gallo, Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada, and Béatrix Beck. After him are Neil Aspinall, Tsvetanka Khristova, Brad Renfro, Johnny Griffin, Gustaw Holoubek, and Elizabeth Spriggs.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, Dingiri Banda Wijetunga ranks 27 out of 51. Before him are John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (1841), Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933), William Gopallawa (1896), Natalia (null), D. M. Jayaratne (1931), and Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924). 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, Dingiri Banda Wijetunga ranks 14. Before him are Maithripala Sirisena (1951), D. S. Senanayake (1883), Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933), William Gopallawa (1896), D. M. Jayaratne (1931), and Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924). After him are Dinesh Gunawardena (1949), Dudley Senanayake (1911), John Kotelawala (1897), Lakshman Kadirgamar (1932), and Alexander Khloponin (1965).

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