1949 - Today
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 due to months of public anger. 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 1,749,748 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Gotabaya Rajapaksa is the 8,353rd most popular politician (up from 11,344th in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Sri Lanka (up from 18th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Sri Lankan Politician.
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Among politicians, Gotabaya Rajapaksa ranks 8,353 out of 15,577. Before him are James III of Cyprus, Jorge Ubico, Peter Högl, Asin of Baekje, Shao Kang, and Bohemond V of Antioch. After him are William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Alejandro Lerroux, King An of Zhou, Louise Julie de Mailly-Nesle, Yahya Jammeh, and Ninurta-apal-Ekur.
1473 - Present
HPI: 54.13
Rank: 8,347
1878 - 1946
HPI: 54.13
Rank: 8,348
1897 - 1945
HPI: 54.13
Rank: 8,349
450 - 405
HPI: 54.13
Rank: 8,350
HPI: 54.13
Rank: 8,351
1199 - 1252
HPI: 54.13
Rank: 8,352
1949 - Present
HPI: 54.13
Rank: 8,353
1738 - 1809
HPI: 54.13
Rank: 8,354
1864 - 1949
HPI: 54.12
Rank: 8,355
450 BC - 376 BC
HPI: 54.12
Rank: 8,356
1710 - 1751
HPI: 54.12
Rank: 8,357
1965 - Present
HPI: 54.12
Rank: 8,358
1300 BC - 1200 BC
HPI: 54.11
Rank: 8,359
Among people born in 1949, Gotabaya Rajapaksa ranks 167. Before him are Clodoaldo, Trương Tấn Sang, John Wetton, Walid Jumblatt, Judith Resnik, and Jeremy Corbyn. After him are Nebojša Radmanović, Phil Lynott, Massimo D'Alema, Slavenka Drakulić, George Friedman, and Brent Spiner.
1949 - Present
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 161
1949 - Present
HPI: 54.43
Rank: 162
1949 - 2017
HPI: 54.39
Rank: 163
1949 - Present
HPI: 54.23
Rank: 164
1949 - 1986
HPI: 54.16
Rank: 165
1949 - Present
HPI: 54.15
Rank: 166
1949 - Present
HPI: 54.13
Rank: 167
1949 - Present
HPI: 53.88
Rank: 168
1949 - 1986
HPI: 53.82
Rank: 169
1949 - Present
HPI: 53.72
Rank: 170
1949 - Present
HPI: 53.66
Rank: 171
1949 - Present
HPI: 53.60
Rank: 172
1949 - Present
HPI: 53.60
Rank: 173
Among people born in Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa ranks 10 out of 44. Before him are Ananda Coomaraswamy (1877), Anagarika Dharmapala (1864), Tony Hoare (1934), Jack Churchill (1906), Aryadeva (200), and Mahinda Rajapaksa (1945). After him are William Chester Minor (1834), Chandrika Kumaratunga (1945), Michael Ondaatje (1943), St John Philby (1885), J. R. Jayewardene (1906), and S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (1899).
1877 - 1947
HPI: 57.73
Rank: 4
1864 - 1933
HPI: 57.59
Rank: 5
1934 - Present
HPI: 56.76
Rank: 6
1906 - 1996
HPI: 56.53
Rank: 7
200 - 250
HPI: 56.48
Rank: 8
1945 - Present
HPI: 56.25
Rank: 9
1949 - Present
HPI: 54.13
Rank: 10
1834 - 1920
HPI: 53.70
Rank: 11
1945 - Present
HPI: 53.19
Rank: 12
1943 - Present
HPI: 52.77
Rank: 13
1885 - 1960
HPI: 52.58
Rank: 14
1906 - 1996
HPI: 52.57
Rank: 15
1899 - 1959
HPI: 52.01
Rank: 16
Among politicians born in Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa ranks 3. Before him are Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916) and Mahinda Rajapaksa (1945). After him are Chandrika Kumaratunga (1945), J. R. Jayewardene (1906), S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (1899), Maithripala Sirisena (1951), William Gopallawa (1896), D. S. Senanayake (1883), Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916), and Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933).
1916 - 2000
HPI: 62.24
Rank: 1
1945 - Present
HPI: 56.25
Rank: 2
1949 - Present
HPI: 54.13
Rank: 3
1945 - Present
HPI: 53.19
Rank: 4
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