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Dingiri Banda Wijetunga

1916 - 2008

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Sri Lankabhimanya Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (Sinhala: ඩිංගිරි බණ්ඩා විජේතුංග; Tamil: டிங்கிரி பண்ட விஜேதுங்க; 15 February 1916 – 21 September 2008) was the fourth President of Sri Lanka from 7 May 1993 to 12 November 1994, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 3 March 1989 to 7 May 1993 and the Governor of North Western province, Sri Lanka from 1988 to 1989. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dingiri Banda Wijetunga has received more than 179,841 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Dingiri Banda Wijetunga is the 15,714th most popular politician (down from 14,150th in 2019), the 29th most popular biography from Sri Lanka (down from 23rd in 2019) and the 16th most popular Sri Lankan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Dingiri Banda Wijetunga ranks 15,714 out of 19,576. Before him are Bezalel Smotrich, Galina Shamrai, Volker Bouffier, Dmytro Firtash, Pandurang Vaman Kane, and Kari Lake. After him are Vladimir Konstantinov, Zenonis, George-Étienne Cartier, Francisco Mendes, Dean Barrow, and Corine Mauch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Dingiri Banda Wijetunga ranks 248. Before him are Toni Branca, Krystyna Feldman, Lidia Wysocka, Kazimierz Brandys, Ignacio Trelles, and Karl-Birger Blomdahl. After him are Blas de Otero, Margaret Lockwood, Guy Lapébie, I. J. Good, Iva Toguri D'Aquino, and Yvon Petra. Among people deceased in 2008, Dingiri Banda Wijetunga ranks 295. Before him are Marilyn Ferguson, Don McKenzie, Finn Haunstoft, Laurus Škurla, Antonio José González Zumárraga, and Árpád Orbán. After him are Ruslana Korshunova, Igor Dmitriev, Douglas Bennett, Neil Bartlett, Alexander Courage, and Benoît Lamy.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, Dingiri Banda Wijetunga ranks 29 out of 51. Before him are Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), Dinesh Gunawardena (1949), Malcolm Ranjith (1947), Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933), Dudley Senanayake (1911), and D. M. Jayaratne (1931). After him are Frederick G. Donnan (1870), Thomas Cooray (1901), Duncan White (1918), Joyce Cooper (1909), John Kotelawala (1897), and Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala (1810).

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Among POLITICIANS In Sri Lanka

Among politicians born in Sri Lanka, Dingiri Banda Wijetunga ranks 16. Before him are D. S. Senanayake (1883), Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), Dinesh Gunawardena (1949), Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933), Dudley Senanayake (1911), and D. M. Jayaratne (1931). After him are John Kotelawala (1897), Lakshman Kadirgamar (1932), and Alexander Khloponin (1965).

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