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J. R. Jayewardene

1906 - 1996

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Junius Richard Jayewardene (Sinhala: ජුනියස් රිචඩ් ජයවර්ධන; Tamil: ஜூனியஸ் ரிச்சட் ஜயவர்தனா; 17 September 1906 – 1 November 1996), commonly referred to by his initials JR, was a Sri Lankan lawyer, public official and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 1977 to 1978 and as the second President of Sri Lanka from 1978 to 1989. He was a leader of the nationalist movement in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and served in a variety of cabinet positions in the decades following independence. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. J. R. Jayewardene is the 4,051st most popular politician (up from 9,257th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Sri Lanka (up from 15th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Sri Lankan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, J. R. Jayewardene ranks 4,051 out of 19,576. Before him are Mentuhotep IV, Archduchess Maria Clementina of Austria, Gülçiçek Hatun, Guy, Count of Flanders, Przemysł II, and Adad-nirari I. After him are Oleg Gordievsky, Sverre of Norway, Elisabeth of the Palatinate, Vratislaus I, Duke of Bohemia, Cao Zhi, and Alfonso, Prince of Asturias.

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Among people born in 1906, J. R. Jayewardene ranks 63. Before him are Giuseppe Siri, Robert E. Howard, Marcel Carné, Edmond Debeaumarché, Bugsy Siegel, and Luis Federico Leloir. After him are James Hadley Chase, Vera Menchik, André Weil, John Dickson Carr, Markos Vafeiadis, and Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark. Among people deceased in 1996, J. R. Jayewardene ranks 48. Before him are António de Spínola, Helmut Schön, George Davis Snell, Alain Poher, Martin Balsam, and Marianne Bachmeier. After him are Max Manus, Ernesto Geisel, P. L. Travers, Nicu Ceaușescu, František Plánička, and Timothy Leary.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, J. R. Jayewardene ranks 5 out of 51. Before him are Ranil Wickremesinghe (1949), Gotabaya Rajapaksa (1949), Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916), and Velupillai Prabhakaran (1954). After him are 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, J. R. Jayewardene ranks 4. Before him are Ranil Wickremesinghe (1949), Gotabaya Rajapaksa (1949), and Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916). After him are 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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