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Mahinda Rajapaksa

1945 - Today

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Mahinda Rajapaksa (Sinhala: මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ; Tamil: மஹிந்த ராஜபக்ஷ; born Percy Mahendra Rajapaksa; 18 November 1945) is a Sri Lankan politician. He served as the sixth President of Sri Lanka from 2005 to 2015; the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 2004 to 2005, 2018, and 2019 to 2022; the Leader of the Opposition from 2002 to 2004 and 2018 to 2019, and the Minister of Finance from 2005 to 2015 and 2019 to 2021. Rajapaksa is a lawyer by profession and was first elected to the Parliament of Sri Lanka in 1970. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mahinda Rajapaksa has received more than 2,791,262 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Mahinda Rajapaksa is the 7,956th most popular politician (down from 6,651st in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Sri Lanka (down from 9th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Sri Lankan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mahinda Rajapaksa ranks 7,956 out of 19,576. Before him are Louis VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria, Semiz Ali Pasha, Ayub Khan, and Gotarzes I. After him are Mirwais Hotak, Tiridates II of Parthia, James II of Cyprus, Amir-Abbas Hoveyda, Eleanor of Naples, Duchess of Ferrara, and Dmitry Manuilsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Mahinda Rajapaksa ranks 176. Before him are Vladislav Ardzinba, Earl Boen, Jarno Saarinen, David Purley, Hugh Fraser, and David A. Granger. After him are Daniel Davis, Chandrika Kumaratunga, Marianne Sägebrecht, Lasse Berghagen, Marek Grechuta, and Billy Drago.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa ranks 10 out of 51. Before him are Ranil Wickremesinghe (1949), Anagarika Dharmapala (1864), William Chester Minor (1834), Tony Hoare (1934), Aryadeva (200), and St John Philby (1885). After him are S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (1899), Chandrika Kumaratunga (1945), Jack Churchill (1906), Heather Armitage (1933), J. R. Jayewardene (1906), and Gotabaya Rajapaksa (1949).

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Among POLITICIANS In Sri Lanka

Among politicians born in Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa ranks 3. Before him are Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916), and Ranil Wickremesinghe (1949). After him are S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (1899), Chandrika Kumaratunga (1945), J. R. Jayewardene (1906), Gotabaya Rajapaksa (1949), Maithripala Sirisena (1951), William Gopallawa (1896), D. S. Senanayake (1883), Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), and Dinesh Gunawardena (1949).

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