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Mahinda Rajapaksa

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Mahinda Rajapaksa (Sinhala: මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ; Tamil: மஹிந்த ராஜபக்ஷ; born Percy Mahendra Rajapaksa; 18 November 1945) is a Sri Lankan politician. He served as the sixth President of Sri Lanka from 2005 to 2015; the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 2004 to 2005, 2018, and 2019 to 2022; the Leader of the Opposition from 2002 to 2004 and 2018 to 2019, and the Minister of Finance from 2005 to 2015 and 2019 to 2021. Rajapaksa is a lawyer by profession and was first elected to the Parliament of Sri Lanka in 1970. He served as the leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party from 2005 to 2015. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mahinda Rajapaksa is the 7,908th most popular politician (up from 7,955th in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Sri Lanka and the 6th most popular Sri Lankan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mahinda Rajapaksa ranks 7,908 out of 19,576. Before him are Isa Boletini, Georgios Tsitas, Mesha, Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern, Osman Hussein, and Emperor Xuanzong of Tang. After him are Anne of Cyprus, Mikhail of Vladimir, Janusz Korwin-Mikke, Pythodorida of Pontus, Beatrice of Portugal, and Andrej Plenković.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Mahinda Rajapaksa ranks 184. Before him are John Banville, Baghdadi Mahmudi, Željko Bebek, Jarno Saarinen, Joseph Coutts, and Pirri. After him are Robert Cialdini, Charles Greene, Rhonda Byrne, Roland Joffé, Gunther von Hagens, and Jaclyn Smith.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa ranks 10 out of 51. Before him are Velupillai Prabhakaran (1954), J. R. Jayewardene (1906), Chandrika Kumaratunga (1945), Ananda Coomaraswamy (1877), Tony Hoare (1934), and Anagarika Dharmapala (1864). After him are Aryadeva (200), Malcolm Ranjith (1947), St John Philby (1885), Michael Ondaatje (1943), S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (1899), and Jack Churchill (1906).

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Among POLITICIANS In Sri Lanka

Among politicians born in Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa ranks 6. Before him are Ranil Wickremesinghe (1949), Gotabaya Rajapaksa (1949), Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916), J. R. Jayewardene (1906), and Chandrika Kumaratunga (1945). After him are 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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