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Ranasinghe Premadasa

1924 - 1993

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Sri Lankabhimanya Ranasinghe Premadasa (Sinhala: රණසිංහ ප්‍රේමදාස Raṇasiṃha Premadāsa; Tamil: ரணசிங்க பிரேமதாசா Raṇaciṅka Pirēmatācā; 23 June 1924 – 1 May 1993) was a Sri Lankan politician and statesman who served as the third President of Sri Lanka from 2 January 1989 until his assassination in 1993. He previously served as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 6 February 1978 to 2 January 1989. Premadasa's tenure as prime minister made him the longest-serving uninterrupted Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, having served in the post for nearly 11 years. He was the first person to be conferred with Sri Lanka's highest civilian award, the Sri Lankabhimanya in 1986 by President J. R. Jayewardene. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ranasinghe Premadasa is the 15,081st most popular politician (down from 13,874th in 2019), the 25th most popular biography from Sri Lanka (down from 23rd in 2019) and the 13th most popular Sri Lankan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ranasinghe Premadasa ranks 15,081 out of 19,576. Before him are Aristides Gomes, Alaa Hussein Ali, D. M. Jayaratne, Oleh Tyahnybok, Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau, and Helene Lange. After him are Ervin Zádor, Fred Ramdat Misier, Gennady Voronov, Eduard Kukan, Gopinath Bordoloi, and Publius Aelius Paetus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Ranasinghe Premadasa ranks 368. Before him are Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, Rod Serling, Gunnar Johansson, Lia van Leer, Ingemar Johansson, and Susanna Amatuni. After him are Yulia Drunina, Val Avery, Silvano Piovanelli, Siiri Rantanen, Joan Aiken, and Natalia Bekhtereva. Among people deceased in 1993, Ranasinghe Premadasa ranks 204. Before him are Carlos Marcello, Anne Shirley, Hans Werner Richter, Edivaldo Martins Fonseca, Ian Stuart Donaldson, and Štefan Uher. After him are James Donald, Masaru Furukawa, Mario Cecchi Gori, Akio Kaminaga, Viola Myers, and Edwin Vásquez.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, Ranasinghe Premadasa ranks 25 out of 51. Before him are William Chester Minor (1834), M. G. Ramachandran (1917), John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (1841), Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933), William Gopallawa (1896), and D. M. Jayaratne (1931). After him are Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916), Frederick G. Donnan (1870), Thomas Cooray (1901), Dinesh Gunawardena (1949), Dudley Senanayake (1911), and Bob Tisdall (1907).

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Among POLITICIANS In Sri Lanka

Among politicians born in Sri Lanka, Ranasinghe Premadasa ranks 13. Before 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). After him are Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916), Dinesh Gunawardena (1949), Dudley Senanayake (1911), John Kotelawala (1897), Lakshman Kadirgamar (1932), and Alexander Khloponin (1965).

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