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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 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

Among politicians, Dingiri Banda Wijetunga ranks 14,199 out of 15,577Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Dingiri Banda Wijetunga ranks 222Before 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 248Before 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.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, Dingiri Banda Wijetunga ranks 23 out of 44Before 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).

Among POLITICIANS In Sri Lanka

Among politicians born in Sri Lanka, Dingiri Banda Wijetunga ranks 11Before 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).