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Dudley Senanayake

1911 - 1973

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Dudley Shelton Senanayake (Sinhala: ඩඩ්ලි ශෙල්ටන් සේනානායක: Tamil: டட்லி சேனநாயக்கா; 19 June 1911 – 13 April 1973), was a Sri Lankan statesman who thrice served as Prime Minister of Ceylon, from 1952 to 1953 (as the second prime minister of Ceylon), in 1960, and from 1965 to 1970 , and Leader of the Opposition from 1960 to 1964. Senanayake's tenures as prime minister were associated with democratic policies focused on agricultural and educational reforms with a pro-western alignment. Born to a political family, he was the eldest son of D. S. Senanayake, who lead the independence movement that gained self-rule for Ceylon in 1948, with D. S. Senanayake becoming the prime minister of Ceylon. Dudley Senanayake, who was educated at S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dudley Senanayake has received more than 223,932 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Dudley Senanayake is the 15,271st most popular politician (down from 15,096th in 2019), the 27th most popular biography from Sri Lanka (up from 28th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Sri Lankan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Dudley Senanayake ranks 15,271 out of 19,576. Before him are Abuzed Omar Dorda, DeWitt Clinton, Donduk Kuular, Jhala Nath Khanal, Dritan Abazović, and Leopold Skulski. After him are Erhard Keller, Jerónimo de Sousa, Jeff Sessions, Zaman Shah Durrani, Michael Häupl, and Julian Castro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Dudley Senanayake ranks 298. Before him are Martha Genenger, Ekrem Akurgal, Ji Xianlin, Charles Mathiesen, Nils Eriksen, and Ashok Kumar. After him are Bruno Heim, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Adam Kozłowiecki, Jeanette Nolan, Georg Dascher, and Bruno Venturini. Among people deceased in 1973, Dudley Senanayake ranks 220. Before him are Émile Reuter, Alfred Romer, Cecil Kellaway, Romeo Bertini, Earl Browder, and Grigore Moisil. After him are Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz, Jane Bowles, Oliver Macdonald, Roland Dorgelès, Mikhail Somov, and Arthur Freed.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, Dudley Senanayake ranks 27 out of 51. Before him are William Gopallawa (1896), D. S. Senanayake (1883), Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), Dinesh Gunawardena (1949), Malcolm Ranjith (1947), and Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933). After him are D. M. Jayaratne (1931), Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916), Frederick G. Donnan (1870), Thomas Cooray (1901), Duncan White (1918), and Joyce Cooper (1909).

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Among POLITICIANS In Sri Lanka

Among politicians born in Sri Lanka, Dudley Senanayake ranks 14. Before him are Maithripala Sirisena (1951), William Gopallawa (1896), D. S. Senanayake (1883), Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), Dinesh Gunawardena (1949), and Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933). After him are D. M. Jayaratne (1931), Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916), John Kotelawala (1897), Lakshman Kadirgamar (1932), and Alexander Khloponin (1965).

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