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Maithripala Sirisena

1951 - Today

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Maithripala Yapa Sirisena (Sinhala: පල්ලෙවත්‍ත ගමරාළලාගේ මෛත්‍රීපාල යාපා සිරිසේන; Tamil: பல்லேவத்த கமராளலாகே மைத்திரிபால யாப்பா சிறிசேன; born 3 September 1951) is a Sri Lankan politician who served as the seventh president of Sri Lanka from 9 January 2015 to 18 November 2019. Sirisena is Sri Lanka's first president from the North Central Province of the country and does not belong to the traditional Sri Lankan political elite. He entered as a member of parliament from Polonnaruwa back in 2020 and ended his tenure in 2024. Sirisena joined mainstream politics in 1989 as a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and has held several ministries since 1994. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maithripala Sirisena is the 11,497th most popular politician (up from 12,587th in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Sri Lanka (up from 19th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Sri Lankan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Maithripala Sirisena ranks 11,497 out of 19,576. Before him are Nawruz Beg, Gaius Popillius Laenas, Prince Wolfgang of Hesse, Gnaeus Cornelius Dolabella, Trần Đại Quang, and Gabi Ashkenazi. After him are Cleombrotus II, Boris Pankin, Mattan I, Ladislav Adamec, Leonid Pasechnik, and Suro of Geumgwan Gaya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Maithripala Sirisena ranks 212. Before him are Sulejman Tihić, Timo Salonen, Kazuo Saito, Migueli, John Stagliano, and Shigeru Umebayashi. After him are Gustav Thöni, Gérard Jugnot, Joe Jordan, Dan McKee, Jacques Villeret, and Larry Black.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, Maithripala Sirisena ranks 17 out of 51. Before him are Aryadeva (200), Malcolm Ranjith (1947), St John Philby (1885), Michael Ondaatje (1943), S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (1899), and Jack Churchill (1906). After him are D. S. Senanayake (1883), William Chester Minor (1834), M. G. Ramachandran (1917), John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (1841), Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933), and William Gopallawa (1896).

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Among POLITICIANS In Sri Lanka

Among politicians born in Sri Lanka, Maithripala Sirisena ranks 8. Before him are Gotabaya Rajapaksa (1949), Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916), J. R. Jayewardene (1906), Chandrika Kumaratunga (1945), Mahinda Rajapaksa (1945), and S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (1899). After him are D. S. Senanayake (1883), Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933), William Gopallawa (1896), D. M. Jayaratne (1931), Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), and Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916).

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