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D. M. Jayaratne

1931 - 2019

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Dissanayaka Mudiyanselage Jayaratne (Sinhala: දිසානායක මුදියන්සේලාගේ ජයරත්න, Tamil: திசாநாயக்க முதியன்சேலாகே ஜயரத்ன; 4 June 1931 – 19 November 2019), known as D. M. "Di Mu" Jayaratne, was a Sri Lankan politician who was Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 2010 to 2015. A founding member of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, Jayaratne was first elected to parliament in 1970. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of D. M. Jayaratne has received more than 108,090 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). D. M. Jayaratne is the 15,679th most popular politician (down from 15,267th in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from Sri Lanka (up from 30th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Sri Lankan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, D. M. Jayaratne ranks 15,679 out of 19,576. Before him are Massasoit, Dolly Buster, Marco Rubio, Sükhbaataryn Batbold, Giorgi Gakharia, and Frans Andriessen. After him are Yi Gwang-sik, Pauline Marois, Michèle Pierre-Louis, Pantaleon, Guillermo Tell Villegas, and Apisai Ielemia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, D. M. Jayaratne ranks 463. Before him are Alfred W. Crosby, Pierre Chambon, Michael Hardie Boys, Georgi Naydenov, Giovanni Zucchi, and Della Reese. After him are Índio, Galina Shamrai, Thorvald Strömberg, Carlos Graça, Sergio Obeso Rivera, and Igor Maslennikov. Among people deceased in 2019, D. M. Jayaratne ranks 407. Before him are Kurt Armbruster, Lol Mahamat Choua, Aleksey Buldakov, Arturo Fernández Rodríguez, Ben Pon, and Frans Andriessen. After him are Raymond Bellot, Sara Danius, Judith Krantz, Yvette Williams, King Kong Bundy, and Klara Guseva.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, D. M. Jayaratne ranks 28 out of 51. Before him are D. S. Senanayake (1883), Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), Dinesh Gunawardena (1949), Malcolm Ranjith (1947), Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933), and Dudley Senanayake (1911). After him are Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916), Frederick G. Donnan (1870), Thomas Cooray (1901), Duncan White (1918), Joyce Cooper (1909), and John Kotelawala (1897).

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Among POLITICIANS In Sri Lanka

Among politicians born in Sri Lanka, D. M. Jayaratne ranks 15. Before him are William Gopallawa (1896), D. S. Senanayake (1883), Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), Dinesh Gunawardena (1949), Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933), and Dudley Senanayake (1911). After him are Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916), John Kotelawala (1897), Lakshman Kadirgamar (1932), and Alexander Khloponin (1965).

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