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Ranil Wickremesinghe

1949 - Today

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Ranil Wickremesinghe (Sinhala: රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ; Tamil: ரணில் விக்கிரமசிங்க; born 24 March 1949) is a Sri Lankan politician who served as the ninth president of Sri Lanka from 2022 to 2024. He has also served as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 1993–1994, 2001–2004, 2015–2018, 2018-2019 and in 2022. Wickremesinghe has held several ministerial roles, including Minister of Finance, Minister of Defence, Minister of Technology and Minister of Women, Child Affairs and Social Empowerment. Wickremesinghe has led the United National Party (UNP) since 1994. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ranil Wickremesinghe is the 1,069th most popular politician (up from 5,834th in 2019), the most popular biography from Sri Lanka (up from 4th in 2019) and the most popular Sri Lankan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ranil Wickremesinghe ranks 1,069 out of 19,576. Before him are Gyula Andrássy, Cato the Younger, Frederick VI of Denmark, Henry Clay, Jozef Tiso, and Qutb al-Din Aibak. After him are Alberto Fujimori, Basil I, Ḫattušili III, Anne of Brittany, Attalus I, and Zachary Taylor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Ranil Wickremesinghe ranks 25. Before him are Arsène Wenger, Lech Kaczyński, Sigourney Weaver, André Rieu, Maurice Gibb, and Joan Enric Vives Sicília. After him are Bruce Springsteen, Slavoj Žižek, Sandra Mason, Mohammed Shahabuddin, Jessica Lange, and Gotabaya Rajapaksa.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, Ranil Wickremesinghe ranks 1 out of 51. After him are Gotabaya Rajapaksa (1949), Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916), Velupillai Prabhakaran (1954), J. R. Jayewardene (1906), 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, Ranil Wickremesinghe ranks 1. After him are Gotabaya Rajapaksa (1949), Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916), J. R. Jayewardene (1906), 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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