1916 - 2008
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 157,299 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Dingiri Banda Wijetunga is the 14,199th most popular politician (down from 13,396th in 2019), the 23rd most popular biography from Sri Lanka (up from 25th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Sri Lankan Politician.
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Among politicians, Dingiri Banda Wijetunga ranks 14,199 out of 15,577. Before him are Anna Kéthly, John Negroponte, Jeff Sessions, Juan Alberto Melgar Castro, Gudrun Schyman, and Aryeh Deri. After him are Lazarus Salii, Ahmad Massoud, Simon Guggenheim, Atef Sedky, Liang Guanglie, and Jaime de Marichalar.
1889 - 1976
HPI: 45.20
Rank: 14,193
1939 - Present
HPI: 45.20
Rank: 14,194
1946 - Present
HPI: 45.19
Rank: 14,195
1930 - 1987
HPI: 45.19
Rank: 14,196
1948 - Present
HPI: 45.19
Rank: 14,197
1959 - Present
HPI: 45.19
Rank: 14,198
1916 - 2008
HPI: 45.18
Rank: 14,199
1936 - 1988
HPI: 45.18
Rank: 14,200
1989 - Present
HPI: 45.18
Rank: 14,201
1867 - 1941
HPI: 45.18
Rank: 14,202
1930 - 2005
HPI: 45.18
Rank: 14,203
1940 - Present
HPI: 45.18
Rank: 14,204
1963 - Present
HPI: 45.17
Rank: 14,205
Among people born in 1916, Dingiri Banda Wijetunga ranks 222. Before him are Damián Iguacén Borau, Milton Babbitt, S. Yizhar, Guy Lapébie, Ettore Puricelli, and Arie van Vliet. After him are Dorothy Cheney, Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Ignacio Trelles, Jean Margéot, Lidia Wysocka, and Ken Curtis. Among people deceased in 2008, Dingiri Banda Wijetunga ranks 248. Before him are Gennadi Volnov, Béatrix Beck, Thomas M. Disch, Kurt Furgler, Paulos Faraj Rahho, and Giovanni Viola. After him are Marilyn Ferguson, Cecilia Colledge, Eugenio Montejo, Sandy Allen, Halszka Osmólska, and Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada.
1916 - 2020
HPI: 45.91
Rank: 216
1916 - 2011
HPI: 45.76
Rank: 217
1916 - 2006
HPI: 45.44
Rank: 218
1916 - 2010
HPI: 45.41
Rank: 219
1916 - 2001
HPI: 45.37
Rank: 220
1916 - 2001
HPI: 45.35
Rank: 221
1916 - 2008
HPI: 45.18
Rank: 222
1916 - 2014
HPI: 45.09
Rank: 223
1916 - 1968
HPI: 45.06
Rank: 224
1916 - 2020
HPI: 44.85
Rank: 225
1916 - 2009
HPI: 44.78
Rank: 226
1916 - 2006
HPI: 44.76
Rank: 227
1916 - 1991
HPI: 44.70
Rank: 228
1939 - 2008
HPI: 45.43
Rank: 242
1914 - 2008
HPI: 45.41
Rank: 243
1940 - 2008
HPI: 45.36
Rank: 244
1924 - 2008
HPI: 45.34
Rank: 245
1942 - 2008
HPI: 45.30
Rank: 246
1926 - 2008
HPI: 45.27
Rank: 247
1916 - 2008
HPI: 45.18
Rank: 248
1938 - 2008
HPI: 45.15
Rank: 249
1920 - 2008
HPI: 45.06
Rank: 250
1938 - 2008
HPI: 45.06
Rank: 251
1955 - 2008
HPI: 44.98
Rank: 252
1930 - 2008
HPI: 44.95
Rank: 253
1919 - 2008
HPI: 44.90
Rank: 254
Among people born in Sri Lanka, Dingiri Banda Wijetunga ranks 23 out of 44. Before him are John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (1841), Maithripala Sirisena (1951), M. G. Ramachandran (1917), William Gopallawa (1896), D. S. Senanayake (1883), and Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924). After him are Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933), Frederick G. Donnan (1870), Malcolm Ranjith (1947), Ranil Wickremesinghe (1949), Dudley Senanayake (1911), and Duncan White (1918).
1841 - 1920
HPI: 50.34
Rank: 17
1951 - Present
HPI: 49.66
Rank: 18
1917 - 1987
HPI: 49.62
Rank: 19
1896 - 1981
HPI: 48.16
Rank: 20
1883 - 1952
HPI: 47.66
Rank: 21
1924 - 1993
HPI: 45.99
Rank: 22
1916 - 2008
HPI: 45.18
Rank: 23
1933 - 2016
HPI: 44.65
Rank: 24
1870 - 1956
HPI: 44.62
Rank: 25
1947 - Present
HPI: 44.44
Rank: 26
1949 - Present
HPI: 42.98
Rank: 27
1911 - 1973
HPI: 42.61
Rank: 28
1918 - 1998
HPI: 42.09
Rank: 29
Among politicians born in Sri Lanka, Dingiri Banda Wijetunga ranks 11. Before him are J. R. Jayewardene (1906), S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (1899), Maithripala Sirisena (1951), William Gopallawa (1896), D. S. Senanayake (1883), and Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924). After him are Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933), Ranil Wickremesinghe (1949), Dudley Senanayake (1911), D. M. Jayaratne (1931), and Alexander Khloponin (1965).
1906 - 1996
HPI: 52.57
Rank: 5
1899 - 1959
HPI: 52.01
Rank: 6
1951 - Present
HPI: 49.66
Rank: 7
1896 - 1981
HPI: 48.16
Rank: 8
1883 - 1952
HPI: 47.66
Rank: 9
1924 - 1993
HPI: 45.99
Rank: 10
1916 - 2008
HPI: 45.18
Rank: 11
1933 - 2016
HPI: 44.65
Rank: 12
1949 - Present
HPI: 42.98
Rank: 13
1911 - 1973
HPI: 42.61
Rank: 14
1931 - 2019
HPI: 42.03
Rank: 15
1965 - Present
HPI: 36.10
Rank: 16