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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 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

Among politicians, Gotabaya Rajapaksa ranks 8,353 out of 15,577Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Gotabaya Rajapaksa ranks 167Before 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.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa ranks 10 out of 44Before 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).

Among POLITICIANS In Sri Lanka

Among politicians born in Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa ranks 3Before 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).

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