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John Kotelawala

1897 - 1980

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General Sir John Lionel Kotelawala (Sinhala: ශ්‍රිමත් ජෝන් ලයනල් කොතලාවල; 4 April 1897 – 2 October 1980) was a Sri Lankan statesman, who served as the 3rd Prime Minister of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) from 1953 to 1956. Born to a wealthy landholding and mining family, Kotelawala had a difficult childhood with the suicide of his father and the financial difficulties that followed. He was educated at Royal College, Colombo, and Christ's College, Cambridge, before returning to become a planter and run the family estates and mines. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Kotelawala has received more than 198,019 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. John Kotelawala is the 16,586th most popular politician, the 34th most popular biography from Sri Lanka and the 17th most popular Sri Lankan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, John Kotelawala ranks 16,586 out of 19,576. Before him are Said Mohamed Jaffar, Nouri Abusahmain, Jack Lew, Dominique Baudis, Akejan Kajegeldin, and Albertas Šimėnas. After him are Berthold Englisch, Santiago Abascal, Ján Figeľ, Anton Siluanov, Viktor Kuzkin, and Elizabeth Dole.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, John Kotelawala ranks 295. Before him are Walter Winchell, Charles Kingsford Smith, Charles Hartshorne, Silverio Izaguirre, Józef Lange, and Sabino Bilbao. After him are Henri Dulieux, Alphonse Lacroix, Hope Emerson, Émile Albrecht, Tilly Edinger, and Hermione Gingold. Among people deceased in 1980, John Kotelawala ranks 274. Before him are William Hood Simpson, Ahmet Berman, Bette Nesmith Graham, Dorothy Stratten, Nelson López, and Zakaria Chihab. After him are Nikolay Bogolyubov, John McEwen, William Gemmell Cochran, Shohachi Ishii, Gumercindo Gómez, and Rachel Fuller Brown.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, John Kotelawala ranks 34 out of 51. Before him are D. M. Jayaratne (1931), Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916), Frederick G. Donnan (1870), Thomas Cooray (1901), Duncan White (1918), and Joyce Cooper (1909). After him are Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala (1810), Bob Tisdall (1907), Lakshman Kadirgamar (1932), Muttiah Muralitharan (1972), Beverley Craven (1963), and Alexander Khloponin (1965).

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Among POLITICIANS In Sri Lanka

Among politicians born in Sri Lanka, John Kotelawala ranks 17. Before him are Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), Dinesh Gunawardena (1949), Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933), Dudley Senanayake (1911), D. M. Jayaratne (1931), and Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916). After him are Lakshman Kadirgamar (1932), and Alexander Khloponin (1965).

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