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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 to his assassination in 1993. Before that, he served as the Prime minister of Sri Lanka from 6 February 1978 to 2 January 1989. Premadasa is considered as the longest serving uninterrupted Prime Minister of Sri Lanka by serving in that post for nearly 11 years. He was the first person conferred Sri Lanka's highest civilian award 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 708,691 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Ranasinghe Premadasa is the 13,870th most popular politician (down from 13,118th in 2019), the 22nd most popular biography from Sri Lanka (up from 23rd in 2019) and the 10th most popular Sri Lankan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ranasinghe Premadasa ranks 13,870 out of 15,577. Before him are Dharanindravarman II, Bahriye Üçok, Jozef Moravčík, Fruto Chamorro, Emma Asson, and José Rondeau. After him are José María Carreño, Tom Thabane, Abdul Qadir al-Badri, Joseph Pholien, Franco Frattini, and Els Borst.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Ranasinghe Premadasa ranks 320. Before him are Billy Barty, Armand Gatti, Roger Marche, Thorbjørn Svenssen, Eugene Dynkin, and Lennart Samuelsson. After him are Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, Alime Abdenanova, Priscilla Pointer, Faith Domergue, Göran Malmqvist, and Emmanuel Scheffer. Among people deceased in 1993, Ranasinghe Premadasa ranks 186. Before him are Leslie Charteris, Hamo Sahyan, Claude Renoir, Roman Abelevich Kachanov, Bob Kiesel, and Lola Álvarez Bravo. After him are Joe Kelly, Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Innes Ireland, Zeno Colò, Vladimir Makogonov, and Alfred Mosher Butts.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, Ranasinghe Premadasa ranks 22 out of 44. Before 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). After him are Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916), Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933), Frederick G. Donnan (1870), Malcolm Ranjith (1947), Ranil Wickremesinghe (1949), and Dudley Senanayake (1911).

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Among POLITICIANS In Sri Lanka

Among politicians born in Sri Lanka, Ranasinghe Premadasa ranks 10. Before him are Chandrika Kumaratunga (1945), J. R. Jayewardene (1906), S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (1899), Maithripala Sirisena (1951), William Gopallawa (1896), and D. S. Senanayake (1883). After him are Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916), Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933), Ranil Wickremesinghe (1949), Dudley Senanayake (1911), D. M. Jayaratne (1931), and Alexander Khloponin (1965).

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