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Ratnasiri Wickremanayake

1933 - 2016

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Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (Sinhala: රත්නසිරි වික්‍රමනායක, Tamil: ரத்னசிறி விக்கிரமநாயக்க; 5 May 1933 – 27 December 2016) was a Sri Lankan politician who served as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 2000 to 2001 and again from 2005 to 2010, and also served as the Leader of the Opposition from 2001 to 2002. He was a Member of Parliament representing the Horana electorate and later the Kalutara District. Wickremanayake held many ministerial positions in the Sri Lankan government, beginning in 1970. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ratnasiri Wickremanayake is the 13,832nd most popular politician (up from 15,136th in 2019), the 22nd most popular biography from Sri Lanka (up from 27th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Sri Lankan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ratnasiri Wickremanayake ranks 13,832 out of 19,576. Before him are Géza Fejérváry, Ugo Mifsud Bonnici, Black Kettle, Henry Lee III, Domenico Morosini, and Princess Marie Alexandrine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. After him are Danny Davis, Charles Pasqua, Spurius Postumius Albinus Magnus, John Adair, Publius Licinius Crassus Dives, and Gottlieb von Jagow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Ratnasiri Wickremanayake ranks 309. Before him are Ayako Wakao, William Kahan, József Bencsics, Giuliano Sarti, Lucian Pintilie, and Peter Post. After him are Tamás Vásáry, José Sasía, Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, Stanislav Lyubshin, Sergio Valdés, and Valentina Ponomaryova. Among people deceased in 2016, Ratnasiri Wickremanayake ranks 295. Before him are Harry Wu, Doreen Massey, Tarık Akan, Leon Russell, Joseph Keller, and Robert Fano. After him are Phyllis Schlafly, Miriam Defensor Santiago, Charmian Carr, Alan Young, Alcindo, and Arturo Pomar.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, Ratnasiri Wickremanayake ranks 22 out of 51. Before him are Jack Churchill (1906), Maithripala Sirisena (1951), D. S. Senanayake (1883), William Chester Minor (1834), M. G. Ramachandran (1917), and John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (1841). After him are William Gopallawa (1896), Natalia (null), D. M. Jayaratne (1931), Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916), and Frederick G. Donnan (1870).

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Among POLITICIANS In Sri Lanka

Among politicians born in Sri Lanka, Ratnasiri Wickremanayake ranks 10. Before him are J. R. Jayewardene (1906), Chandrika Kumaratunga (1945), Mahinda Rajapaksa (1945), S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (1899), Maithripala Sirisena (1951), and D. S. Senanayake (1883). After him are William Gopallawa (1896), D. M. Jayaratne (1931), Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916), Dinesh Gunawardena (1949), and Dudley Senanayake (1911).

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