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Maithripala Sirisena

1951 - Today

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Maithripala Yapa Sirisena (Sinhala: පල්ලෙවත්‍ත ගමරාළලාගේ මෛත්‍රීපාල යාපා සිරිසේන; Tamil: பல்லேவத்த கமராளலாகே மைத்திரிபால யாப்பா சிறிசேன; born 3 September 1951) is a Sri Lankan politician who served as the seventh president of Sri Lanka from 9 January 2015 to 18 November 2019. Sirisena is Sri Lanka's first president from the North Central Province of the country and does not belong to the traditional Sri Lankan political elite. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maithripala Sirisena has received more than 1,211,397 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Maithripala Sirisena is the 12,589th most popular politician (down from 11,802nd in 2019), the 19th most popular biography from Sri Lanka (down from 18th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Sri Lankan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Maithripala Sirisena ranks 12,589 out of 19,576. Before him are Iuput II, Princess Ida of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Ariobarzanes of Phrygia, Caenis, Domenico Flabanico, and Jean Asselborn. After him are Thubten Choekyi Nyima, 9th Panchen Lama, King Weilie of Zhou, Viggo Kampmann, William Camden, Fritz Manteuffel, and Ichirō Ozawa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Maithripala Sirisena ranks 247. Before him are John Gray, Tom Noonan, Evonne Goolagong Cawley, Biff Byford, Shigefumi Mori, and Dennis Frederiksen. After him are Jalil Zandi, Claudio Baglioni, Walter Meeuws, Martin Brest, Jakup Krasniqi, and Tonie Marshall.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, Maithripala Sirisena ranks 19 out of 51. Before him are Jack Churchill (1906), Heather Armitage (1933), J. R. Jayewardene (1906), Gotabaya Rajapaksa (1949), Michael Ondaatje (1943), and M. G. Ramachandran (1917). After him are John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (1841), William Gopallawa (1896), Natalia (null), D. S. Senanayake (1883), Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), and Dinesh Gunawardena (1949).

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Among POLITICIANS In Sri Lanka

Among politicians born in Sri Lanka, Maithripala Sirisena ranks 8. Before him are Ranil Wickremesinghe (1949), Mahinda Rajapaksa (1945), S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (1899), Chandrika Kumaratunga (1945), J. R. Jayewardene (1906), and Gotabaya Rajapaksa (1949). After him are William Gopallawa (1896), D. S. Senanayake (1883), Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), Dinesh Gunawardena (1949), Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933), and Dudley Senanayake (1911).

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