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Chandrika Kumaratunga

1945 - Today

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Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga (Sinhala: චන්ද්‍රිකා බණ්ඩාරනායක කුමාරතුංග; Tamil: சந்திரிகா பண்டாரநாயக்க குமாரதுங்க; born 29 June 1945), commonly referred to by her initials CBK, is a Sri Lankan politician who served as the fourth executive president of Sri Lanka, from 12 November 1994 to 19 November 2005. She previously served as the prime minister from August to November 1994 and the chief minister of the Western Province from 1993 to 1994. She is the country's first and only female president to date and the country's second female prime minister. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chandrika Kumaratunga has received more than 850,132 page views. Her biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Chandrika Kumaratunga is the 9,165th most popular politician (down from 8,132nd in 2019), the 12th most popular biography from Sri Lanka (up from 13th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Sri Lankan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Chandrika Kumaratunga ranks 9,165 out of 15,577. Before her are Abdallah ibn Tahir al-Khurasani, Eugène Schneider, Mallobaudes, Princess Marie of Baden, Kaleb of Axum, and Iveta Radičová. After her are Dingane kaSenzangakhona, Thrasybulus of Syracuse, Vsevolod Merkulov, Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus, Helen of Bosnia, and Agesilaus I.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Chandrika Kumaratunga ranks 193. Before her are Mimsy Farmer, Svetlana Gerasimenko, Eric Roth, Baghdadi Mahmudi, Panagiotis Pikrammenos, and Bob Peck. After her are Pirri, Steve Gadd, Pat Riley, Barbara Kruger, Golden State Killer, and Neophyte of Bulgaria.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, Chandrika Kumaratunga ranks 12 out of 44. Before her are Tony Hoare (1934), Jack Churchill (1906), Aryadeva (200), Mahinda Rajapaksa (1945), Gotabaya Rajapaksa (1949), and William Chester Minor (1834). After her are Michael Ondaatje (1943), St John Philby (1885), J. R. Jayewardene (1906), S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (1899), John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (1841), and Maithripala Sirisena (1951).

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Among POLITICIANS In Sri Lanka

Among politicians born in Sri Lanka, Chandrika Kumaratunga ranks 4. Before her are Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916), Mahinda Rajapaksa (1945), and Gotabaya Rajapaksa (1949). After her are J. R. Jayewardene (1906), S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (1899), Maithripala Sirisena (1951), William Gopallawa (1896), D. S. Senanayake (1883), Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916), and Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933).

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