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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 101,858 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). D. M. Jayaratne is the 15,323rd most popular politician (down from 13,803rd in 2019), the 30th most popular biography from Sri Lanka (down from 29th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Sri Lankan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, D. M. Jayaratne ranks 15,323 out of 15,577Before him are Ted Stevens, Zambiya, Albino Jara, George Read, Murat Zyazikov, and Amina J. Mohammed. After him are Ulrich Wehling, Asashōryū Akinori, Assimi Goïta, Norbert Röttgen, Tomio Okamura, and Liberato Marcial Rojas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, D. M. Jayaratne ranks 454Before him are Enrique Hormazábal, Janice Rule, Nirupa Roy, Ursula Donath, Luciano Tesi, and Gordon Pirie. After him are Teresa Brewer, Ernest Schultz, Algis Budrys, Ronald Drever, Mark Midler, and Marla Gibbs. Among people deceased in 2019, D. M. Jayaratne ranks 431Before him are Norma Croker, Roky Erickson, Pernell Whitaker, Eddie Money, Therese Zenz, and Borka Pavićević. After him are Vasil Metodiev, Heather Harper, Antal Bolvári, Gianfranco Leoncini, Bruno Nicolè, and Guy François.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, D. M. Jayaratne ranks 30 out of 44Before him are Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933), Frederick G. Donnan (1870), Malcolm Ranjith (1947), Ranil Wickremesinghe (1949), Dudley Senanayake (1911), and Duncan White (1918). After him are Thomas Cooray (1901), Bob Tisdall (1907), Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala (1810), Heather Armitage (1933), Alexander Khloponin (1965), and Beverley Craven (1963).

Among POLITICIANS In Sri Lanka

Among politicians born in Sri Lanka, D. M. Jayaratne ranks 15Before him are D. S. Senanayake (1883), Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916), Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933), Ranil Wickremesinghe (1949), and Dudley Senanayake (1911). After him are Alexander Khloponin (1965).