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John Kotelawala

1897 - 1980

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General Sir John Lionel Kotelawala (Sinhala: ශ්‍රිමත් ජෝන් ලයනල් කොතලාවල; 4 April 1897 – 2 October 1980) was a Sri Lankan statesman, who served as the 3rd Prime Minister of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) from 1953 to 1956. Born to a wealthy landholding and mining family, Kotelawala had a difficult childhood with the suicide of his father and the financial difficulties that followed. He was educated at Royal College, Colombo, and Christ's College, Cambridge, before returning to become a planter and run the family estates and mines. Kotelawala joined the Ceylon Defense Force as a volunteer officer in 1922. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Kotelawala is the 17,007th most popular politician (down from 16,583rd in 2019), the 36th most popular biography from Sri Lanka (down from 35th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Sri Lankan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, John Kotelawala ranks 17,007 out of 19,576. Before him are Seiji Maehara, Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, Renate Künast, Nicole Bricq, Tom Vilsack, and Osbald of Northumbria. After him are Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, André Nzapayeké, C. Douglas Dillon, Shalva Natelashvili, Maxime Verhagen, and Francisco Álvarez-Cascos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, John Kotelawala ranks 300. Before him are Charles Kingsford Smith, Harald Strøm, Sigurd Moen, Walter Winchell, Kenneth Burke, and Shidzue Katō. After him are Viola Dana, Margaret Chase Smith, Monty Banks, Cecil Parker, William Gott, and Hermione Gingold. Among people deceased in 1980, John Kotelawala ranks 285. Before him are David Marr, Ahmet Berman, Frank Saker, Rachel Fuller Brown, Nelson López, and Emily Hood Westacott. After him are Tryggve Gran, Hans Wetterström, Barney Bigard, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Elliott Nugent, and Pietro Genovesi.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, John Kotelawala ranks 36 out of 51. Before him are Dinesh Gunawardena (1949), Dudley Senanayake (1911), Bob Tisdall (1907), Duncan White (1918), Joyce Cooper (1909), and Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala (1810). After him are Kumar Sangakkara (1977), Heather Armitage (1933), Lakshman Kadirgamar (1932), Beverley Craven (1963), Alexander Khloponin (1965), and Susanthika Jayasinghe (1975).

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Among POLITICIANS In Sri Lanka

Among politicians born in Sri Lanka, John Kotelawala ranks 17. Before him are William Gopallawa (1896), D. M. Jayaratne (1931), Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916), Dinesh Gunawardena (1949), and Dudley Senanayake (1911). After him are Lakshman Kadirgamar (1932), and Alexander Khloponin (1965).

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