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Gotabaya Rajapaksa

1949 - Today

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Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa, (Sinhala: නන්දසේන ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ; Tamil: நந்தசேன கோட்டாபய ராஜபக்ஷ; born 20 June 1949) is a former Sri Lankan politician and military officer, who served as the eighth president of Sri Lanka from 18 November 2019 until his resignation on 14 July 2022. He previously served as Secretary to the Ministry of Defence and Urban Development from 2005 to 2015 under the administration of his elder brother former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, during the final phase of the Sri Lankan Civil War. Born to a political family from the Southern Province, Rajapaksa was educated at Ananda College, Colombo and joined the Ceylon Army in April 1971. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gotabaya Rajapaksa has received more than 1,882,329 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Gotabaya Rajapaksa is the 9,628th most popular politician (down from 8,328th in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from Sri Lanka (down from 10th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Sri Lankan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Gotabaya Rajapaksa ranks 9,628 out of 19,576. Before him are Gilbert Horal, Pieter Both, Countess Albertine Agnes of Nassau, Ingvar of Kiev, Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, and Alan II, Duke of Brittany. After him are Sandra Day O'Connor, Kakha Kaladze, Eleanor of Arborea, Rabbel II Soter, Vladislaus III, Duke of Bohemia, and Máté Zalka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Gotabaya Rajapaksa ranks 202. Before him are Lois McMaster Bujold, George Dalaras, Rakesh Sharma, Paulo Cézar Caju, Judith Resnik, and Papa Wemba. After him are Roger Deakins, Ric Ocasek, Francis Rossi, Michel Djotodia, Philip Michael Thomas, and Leslie Easterbrook.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa ranks 16 out of 51. Before him are Mahinda Rajapaksa (1945), S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (1899), Chandrika Kumaratunga (1945), Jack Churchill (1906), Heather Armitage (1933), and J. R. Jayewardene (1906). After him are Michael Ondaatje (1943), M. G. Ramachandran (1917), Maithripala Sirisena (1951), John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (1841), William Gopallawa (1896), and Natalia (null).

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Among POLITICIANS In Sri Lanka

Among politicians born in Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa ranks 7. Before him are Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916), Ranil Wickremesinghe (1949), Mahinda Rajapaksa (1945), S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (1899), Chandrika Kumaratunga (1945), and J. R. Jayewardene (1906). After him are Maithripala Sirisena (1951), William Gopallawa (1896), D. S. Senanayake (1883), Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), Dinesh Gunawardena (1949), and Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933).

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