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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 fifth 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 956,579 page views. Her biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Chandrika Kumaratunga is the 8,066th most popular politician (up from 9,138th in 2019), the 12th most popular biography from Sri Lanka and the 5th most popular Sri Lankan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Chandrika Kumaratunga ranks 8,066 out of 19,576. Before her are Grand Duke Nicholas Konstantinovich of Russia, William I of Provence, Giorgi Margvelashvili, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Baden-Durlach, Francis I Rákóczi, and Tostig Godwinson. After her are Manolis Glezos, Ottone Visconti, Masaharu Homma, Princess Joséphine Caroline of Belgium, Titus Flavius Clemens, and Louis Armand I, Prince of Conti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Chandrika Kumaratunga ranks 178. Before her are Jarno Saarinen, David Purley, Hugh Fraser, David A. Granger, Mahinda Rajapaksa, and Daniel Davis. After her are Marianne Sägebrecht, Lasse Berghagen, Marek Grechuta, Billy Drago, Michael Nouri, and Frans Janssens.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, Chandrika Kumaratunga ranks 12 out of 51. Before her are William Chester Minor (1834), Tony Hoare (1934), Aryadeva (200), St John Philby (1885), Mahinda Rajapaksa (1945), and S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (1899). After her are Jack Churchill (1906), Heather Armitage (1933), J. R. Jayewardene (1906), Gotabaya Rajapaksa (1949), Michael Ondaatje (1943), and M. G. Ramachandran (1917).

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Among POLITICIANS In Sri Lanka

Among politicians born in Sri Lanka, Chandrika Kumaratunga ranks 5. Before her are Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916), Ranil Wickremesinghe (1949), Mahinda Rajapaksa (1945), and S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (1899). After her are J. R. Jayewardene (1906), Gotabaya Rajapaksa (1949), Maithripala Sirisena (1951), William Gopallawa (1896), D. S. Senanayake (1883), Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), and Dinesh Gunawardena (1949).

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