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Ranasinghe Premadasa

1924 - 1993

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Sri Lankabhimanya Ranasinghe Premadasa (Sinhala: රණසිංහ ප්‍රේමදාස Raṇasiṃha Premadāsa; Tamil: ரணசிங்க பிரேமதாசா Raṇaciṅka Pirēmatācā; 23 June 1924 – 1 May 1993) was the third President of Sri Lanka from 2 January 1989 until his assassination in 1993. He also served as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 6 February 1978 to 2 January 1989. This makes Premadasa the longest-serving uninterrupted Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, having served in the post for nearly 11 years. He was the first person to be conferred with Sri Lanka's highest civilian award, the Sri Lankabhimanya in 1986 by President J. R. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ranasinghe Premadasa has received more than 781,558 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Ranasinghe Premadasa is the 13,877th most popular politician (down from 13,822nd in 2019), the 23rd most popular biography from Sri Lanka (down from 22nd in 2019) and the 11th most popular Sri Lankan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ranasinghe Premadasa ranks 13,877 out of 19,576. Before him are Mazie Hirono, Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, Georg von Habsburg, Youcef Yousfi, Prosper Poullet, and Iccho Itoh. After him are Bahlul Lodi, Rong Yiren, Iván Duque Márquez, Chris Hani, Nanfadima Magassouba, and Ahmose Inhapy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Ranasinghe Premadasa ranks 304. Before him are Renia Spiegel, Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Valerio Bacigalupo, Kenny Dorham, Kurt Furgler, and Heinz Müller. After him are Don Knotts, Roger Marche, Val Avery, Attilio Giovannini, János Starker, and Rafael Iglesias. Among people deceased in 1993, Ranasinghe Premadasa ranks 183. Before him are Janet Margolin, Andrée Brunet, Szymon Goldberg, Norman Vincent Peale, Heinz Kubsch, and Dumitru Stăniloae. After him are Chris Hani, Alexander Mackendrick, Rudolf Wetzer, Mirza Ibrahimov, James Donald, and Štefan Uher.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, Ranasinghe Premadasa ranks 23 out of 51. Before him are Michael Ondaatje (1943), M. G. Ramachandran (1917), Maithripala Sirisena (1951), John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (1841), William Gopallawa (1896), and D. S. Senanayake (1883). After him are Dinesh Gunawardena (1949), Malcolm Ranjith (1947), Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933), Dudley Senanayake (1911), D. M. Jayaratne (1931), and Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916).

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Among POLITICIANS In Sri Lanka

Among politicians born in Sri Lanka, Ranasinghe Premadasa ranks 11. Before him are Chandrika Kumaratunga (1945), J. R. Jayewardene (1906), Gotabaya Rajapaksa (1949), Maithripala Sirisena (1951), William Gopallawa (1896), and D. S. Senanayake (1883). After him are Dinesh Gunawardena (1949), Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933), Dudley Senanayake (1911), D. M. Jayaratne (1931), Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916), and John Kotelawala (1897).

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