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D. S. Senanayake

1883 - 1952

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Don Stephen Senanayake (Sinhala: දොන් ස්ටෙෆන් සේනානායක; Tamil: டி. எஸ். சேனநாயக்கா; 20 October 1884 – 22 March 1952) was a Ceylonese statesman. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of D. S. Senanayake has received more than 422,689 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). D. S. Senanayake is the 13,483rd most popular politician (down from 12,998th in 2019), the 22nd most popular biography from Sri Lanka (down from 21st in 2019) and the 10th most popular Sri Lankan Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 420k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of D. S. Senanayakes by language

Over the past year D. S. Senanayake has had the most page views in the with 55,320 views, followed by Sinhalese (24,372), and Tamil (5,568). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ido (74.36%), Sinhalese (40.29%), and Odia (37.61%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, D. S. Senanayake ranks 13,483 out of 19,576. Before him are Dawud Pasha of Baghdad, Nguyễn Thị Bình, José Bové, Refik Saydam, V. J. Sukselainen, and Mariano Ignacio Prado. After him are Mariano Moreno, Aulus Atilius Serranus, René Goblet, Ashur-nadin-apli, Vince Lombardi, and Pyotr Durnovo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, D. S. Senanayake ranks 177. Before him are Paul Götz, Ahmet Ali Çelikten, Fred Pentland, Joachim Ringelnatz, Rube Goldberg, and Huang Fu. After him are Feodor Gladkov, Élie Lescot, Tom Moore, Gheorghe Argeșanu, Toivo Kuula, and Olaf Bull. Among people deceased in 1952, D. S. Senanayake ranks 120. Before him are Petros Persakis, Yakov Frenkel, Paul Neményi, Solomon Lozovsky, Fletcher Henderson, and Sunao Tawara. After him are Antti Tulenheimo, Jonas Staugaitis, Filippos Karvelas, Joseph Avenol, Manuel Portela Valladares, and Itzik Feffer.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, D. S. Senanayake ranks 22 out of 51. Before him are Gotabaya Rajapaksa (1949), Michael Ondaatje (1943), M. G. Ramachandran (1917), Maithripala Sirisena (1951), John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (1841), and William Gopallawa (1896). After him are Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), Dinesh Gunawardena (1949), Malcolm Ranjith (1947), Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933), Dudley Senanayake (1911), and D. M. Jayaratne (1931).

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Among POLITICIANS In Sri Lanka

Among politicians born in Sri Lanka, D. S. Senanayake ranks 10. Before him are S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (1899), Chandrika Kumaratunga (1945), J. R. Jayewardene (1906), Gotabaya Rajapaksa (1949), Maithripala Sirisena (1951), and William Gopallawa (1896). After him are Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), Dinesh Gunawardena (1949), Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933), Dudley Senanayake (1911), D. M. Jayaratne (1931), and Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916).

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