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Dudley Senanayake

1911 - 1973

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Dudley Shelton Senanayake (Sinhala: ඩඩ්ලි ශෙල්ටන් සේනානායක: Tamil: டட்லி சேனநாயக்கா; 19 June 1911 – 13 April 1973), was a Sri Lankan statesman who thrice served as Prime Minister of Ceylon, from 1952 to 1953 (as the second prime minister of Ceylon), in 1960, and from 1965 to 1970 , and Leader of the Opposition from 1960 to 1964. Senanayake's tenures as prime minister were associated with democratic policies focused on agricultural and educational reforms with a pro-western alignment. Born to a political family, he was the eldest son of D. S. Senanayake, who lead the independence movement that gained self-rule for Ceylon in 1948, with D. S. Senanayake becoming the prime minister of Ceylon. Dudley Senanayake, who was educated at S. Thomas' College and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, qualified as a barrister before entering national politics in 1936 when he was elected to the State Council and succeeded his father as minister of agriculture and lands in 1946. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dudley Senanayake is the 16,229th most popular politician (down from 15,268th in 2019), the 31st most popular biography from Sri Lanka (down from 28th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Sri Lankan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Dudley Senanayake ranks 16,229 out of 19,576. Before him are Stephan Weil, Surendranath Banerjee, Takashi Yokoyama, Roland Burris, Ștefan Golescu, and Aristides Royo. After him are Owain Gwynedd, Lucina Hagman, Hani Mulki, Oxyntes, Hasan Muratović, and Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Dudley Senanayake ranks 347. Before him are Artur Knautz, Bas Paauwe, Héctor Freschi, Rıfat Ilgaz, Helmut Berthold, and Müfide İlhan. After him are Helmut Braselmann, Wilbert Awdry, Gusztáv Juhász, Garrett Birkhoff, Charles Walters, and Sonny Terry. Among people deceased in 1973, Dudley Senanayake ranks 247. Before him are Émile Reuter, Tim Holt, Konstantinos Dovas, Henrique da Silveira, Sidney Blackmer, and William Haines. After him are Umberto Zanolini, Arthur Fadden, Eddie Rickenbacker, Gustav Freij, Mário de Noronha, and Steve Seymour.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, Dudley Senanayake ranks 31 out of 51. Before him are D. M. Jayaratne (1931), Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916), Frederick G. Donnan (1870), Thomas Cooray (1901), and Dinesh Gunawardena (1949). After him are Bob Tisdall (1907), Duncan White (1918), Joyce Cooper (1909), Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala (1810), John Kotelawala (1897), and Kumar Sangakkara (1977).

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Among POLITICIANS In Sri Lanka

Among politicians born in Sri Lanka, Dudley Senanayake ranks 16. Before him are Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933), William Gopallawa (1896), D. M. Jayaratne (1931), Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916), and Dinesh Gunawardena (1949). After him are John Kotelawala (1897), Lakshman Kadirgamar (1932), and Alexander Khloponin (1965).

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