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Sirimavo Bandaranaike

1916 - 2000

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Sirima Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike (; Sinhala: සිරිමා රත්වත්තේ ඩයස් බණ්ඩාරනායක; Tamil: சிறிமா ரத்வத்தே டயஸ் பண்டாரநாயக்கே; 17 April 1916 – 10 October 2000), commonly known as Sirimavo Bandaranaike, was a Sri Lankan politician. She was the world's first female prime minister when she became Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (then the Dominion of Ceylon) in 1960. She chaired the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) from 1960 to 1994 and served three terms as prime minister, two times as the chief executive, from 1960 to 1965 and from 1970 to 1977, and once again in a presidential system from 1994 to 2000, governing under the presidency of her daughter Chandrika Kumaratunga. Born into a Sinhalese Kandyan aristocratic family, Bandaranaike was educated in Catholic, English-medium schools, but remained a Buddhist and spoke Sinhala as well as English. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sirimavo Bandaranaike is the 2,319th most popular politician (down from 1,954th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Sri Lanka (down from 1st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Sri Lankan Politician.

Sirimavo Bandaranaike is most famous for being the first female prime minister of Sri Lanka.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Sirimavo Bandaranaike ranks 2,319 out of 19,576Before her are Henry II of Castile, Birger Jarl, Abbas II of Egypt, Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, Charles-Henri Sanson, and Pehr Evind Svinhufvud. After her are Valdas Adamkus, 1st Dalai Lama, Nikola Pašić, Nelson Rockefeller, Alfonso II of Aragon, and Megawati Sukarnoputri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Sirimavo Bandaranaike ranks 28Before her are Claude Shannon, Frederick Chapman Robbins, Hans Eysenck, Sune Bergström, Maurice Wilkins, and Harold Wilson. After her are Walt Whitman Rostow, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Alexander Prokhorov, Paul Keres, Vitaly Ginzburg, and Ruth Handler. Among people deceased in 2000, Sirimavo Bandaranaike ranks 19Before her are Roger Vadim, Konrad Emil Bloch, Charles M. Schulz, Pierre Trudeau, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, and Lída Baarová. After her are Stanley Matthews, Vittorio Gassman, Jason Robards, Abulfaz Elchibey, Giovanna of Italy, and Erich Mielke.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, Sirimavo Bandaranaike ranks 3 out of 51Before her are Ranil Wickremesinghe (1949), and Gotabaya Rajapaksa (1949). After her are 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).

Among POLITICIANS In Sri Lanka

Among politicians born in Sri Lanka, Sirimavo Bandaranaike ranks 3Before her are Ranil Wickremesinghe (1949), and Gotabaya Rajapaksa (1949). After her are 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).