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J. R. Jayewardene

1906 - 1996

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Junius Richard Jayewardene (Sinhala: ජුනියස් රිචඩ් ජයවර්ධන; Tamil: ஜூனியஸ் ரிச்சட் ஜயவர்தனா; 17 September 1906 – 1 November 1996), commonly referred to by his initials JR, was a Sri Lankan lawyer, public official and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 1977 to 1978 and as the second President of Sri Lanka from 1978 to 1989. He was a leader of the nationalist movement in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and served in a variety of cabinet positions in the decades following independence. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of J. R. Jayewardene has received more than 552,320 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). J. R. Jayewardene is the 9,258th most popular politician (up from 9,649th in 2019), the 15th most popular biography from Sri Lanka and the 6th most popular Sri Lankan Politician.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, J. R. Jayewardene ranks 9,258 out of 19,576. Before him are Alix, Duchess of Brittany, Radu IV the Great, Valdemar the Young, Marián Čalfa, John Albert I, Duke of Mecklenburg, and Philip J. Pierre. After him are Alpaida, Stanisław Poniatowski, Isetnofret II, Michael Mayr, Pepin, Count of Vermandois, and Pyrrhus II of Epirus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, J. R. Jayewardene ranks 134. Before him are Mary Astor, Franz Waxman, Shigemaru Takenokoshi, Tekla Juniewicz, Alec Issigonis, and Zinka Milanov. After him are T. H. White, Lilian Harvey, Anton Karas, Paolo Stoppa, Jim Thompson, and Princess Anne of Orléans. Among people deceased in 1996, J. R. Jayewardene ranks 109. Before him are Shams Pahlavi, Petro Shelest, Hussein Kamel al-Majid, Yahya Ayyash, Juan Hohberg, and Antonín Mrkos. After him are Alejandro Agustín Lanusse, Koichi Oita, Brunó Ferenc Straub, Gerry Mulligan, Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho, and Károly Grósz.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, J. R. Jayewardene ranks 15 out of 51. Before him are St John Philby (1885), Mahinda Rajapaksa (1945), S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (1899), Chandrika Kumaratunga (1945), Jack Churchill (1906), and Heather Armitage (1933). After him are Gotabaya Rajapaksa (1949), Michael Ondaatje (1943), M. G. Ramachandran (1917), Maithripala Sirisena (1951), John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (1841), and William Gopallawa (1896).

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Among POLITICIANS In Sri Lanka

Among politicians born in Sri Lanka, J. R. Jayewardene ranks 6. Before him are Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916), Ranil Wickremesinghe (1949), Mahinda Rajapaksa (1945), S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (1899), and Chandrika Kumaratunga (1945). After him are Gotabaya Rajapaksa (1949), Maithripala Sirisena (1951), William Gopallawa (1896), D. S. Senanayake (1883), Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), and Dinesh Gunawardena (1949).

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