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Gotabaya Rajapaksa

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Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa (Sinhala: නන්දසේන ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ; Tamil: நந்தசேன கோட்டாபய ராஜபக்ஷ; born 20 June 1949) is a Sri Lankan retired politician and military officer who served as the eighth President of Sri Lanka from 18 November 2019 until his resignation on 14 July 2022. Before his presidency, he served as Secretary to the Ministry of Defence and Urban Development from 2005 to 2015 during the regime of his brother, president Mahinda Rajapaksa, playing a central role in the final phase of the Sri Lankan Civil War. Born to a political family from the Southern Province, Rajapaksa was educated at Ananda College, Colombo and joined the Ceylon Army in April 1971. Following basic training at the Army Training Centre, Diyatalawa, he was commissioned as signals officer and later transferred to several infantry regiments. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gotabaya Rajapaksa is the 1,612th most popular politician (up from 9,627th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Sri Lanka (up from 16th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Sri Lankan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Gotabaya Rajapaksa ranks 1,612 out of 19,576. Before him are Emperor Wen of Sui, Berenice, Frederick II of Denmark, Al-Kamil, Marwan II, and Túpac Amaru. After him are Babrak Karmal, Lothair of France, Pauline Bonaparte, Liz Truss, Pachacuti, and Charles XI of Sweden.

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Among people born in 1949, Gotabaya Rajapaksa ranks 31. Before him are Ranil Wickremesinghe, Bruce Springsteen, Slavoj Žižek, Sandra Mason, Mohammed Shahabuddin, and Jessica Lange. After him are Jeff Bridges, Thaksin Shinawatra, Ken Follett, Han Duck-soo, Alla Pugacheva, and Thomas Sankara.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa ranks 2 out of 51. Before him are Ranil Wickremesinghe (1949). After him are Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916), Velupillai Prabhakaran (1954), J. R. Jayewardene (1906), Chandrika Kumaratunga (1945), 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, Gotabaya Rajapaksa ranks 2. Before him are Ranil Wickremesinghe (1949). After him are Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916), J. R. Jayewardene (1906), Chandrika Kumaratunga (1945), 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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