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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 abbreviated in Sri Lanka as J.R., was a Sri Lankan lawyer, Public official and a stateman 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) who 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 473,933 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). J. R. Jayewardene is the 9,676th most popular politician (down from 9,471st in 2019), the 15th most popular biography from Sri Lanka and the 5th most popular Sri Lankan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, J. R. Jayewardene ranks 9,676 out of 15,577. Before him are Mirko Cvetković, John Magufuli, Michał Kazimierz Ogiński, Charlie Whiting, Demetrius II of Georgia, and Al-Musta'in. After him are John I of Trebizond, Teimuraz I of Kakheti, Manuel Oribe, Aga of Kish, Agostino Depretis, and Vladimir Bakarić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, J. R. Jayewardene ranks 144. Before him are Virginia Hall, Missak Manouchian, Alec Issigonis, Eddie Albert, Ladislao Vajda, and Igor Moiseyev. After him are José Della Torre, Shigemaru Takenokoshi, Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia, Friz Freleng, Andrei Kirilenko, and Paolo Stoppa. Among people deceased in 1996, J. R. Jayewardene ranks 119. Before him are Shams Pahlavi, Brunó Ferenc Straub, Annabella, Petro Shelest, Alejandro Agustín Lanusse, and Koichi Oita. After him are Rob Hall, Jack Nance, Jamie Uys, Chas Chandler, Hervé Bazin, and Don Simpson.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, J. R. Jayewardene ranks 15 out of 44. Before him are Mahinda Rajapaksa (1945), Gotabaya Rajapaksa (1949), William Chester Minor (1834), Chandrika Kumaratunga (1945), Michael Ondaatje (1943), and St John Philby (1885). After him are S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (1899), John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (1841), Maithripala Sirisena (1951), M. G. Ramachandran (1917), William Gopallawa (1896), and D. S. Senanayake (1883).

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Among POLITICIANS In Sri Lanka

Among politicians born in Sri Lanka, J. R. Jayewardene ranks 5. Before him are Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916), Mahinda Rajapaksa (1945), Gotabaya Rajapaksa (1949), and Chandrika Kumaratunga (1945). After him are 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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