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Ranil Wickremesinghe

1949 - Today

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Ranil Wickremesinghe (Sinhala: රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ; Tamil: ரணில் விக்கிரமசிங்க; born 24 March 1949) is a Sri Lankan politician who served as the ninth president of Sri Lanka from 2022 to 2024. Previously, he served as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 1993–1994, 2001–2004, 2015–2018, 2018-2019 and in 2022. He held several ministerial roles, including Minister of Finance, Minister of Defence, Minister of Technology and Minister of Women, Child Affairs and Social Empowerment. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ranil Wickremesinghe has received more than 2,289,922 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Ranil Wickremesinghe is the 5,838th most popular politician (up from 14,976th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Sri Lanka (up from 27th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Sri Lankan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ranil Wickremesinghe ranks 5,838 out of 19,576. Before him are Danilo Türk, María Cayetana de Silva, 13th Duchess of Alba, Rahmon Nabiyev, Vyacheslav Menzhinsky, Joaquín Balaguer, and Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt. After him are Bai Chongxi, Az-Zahir, Mundzuk, Borrell II, Count of Barcelona, Trần Hưng Đạo, and Franz Xaver Schwarz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Ranil Wickremesinghe ranks 108. Before him are Gregg Popovich, Patrick Tambay, Carlos Bianchi, Hamida Djandoubi, Leopoldo Luque, and Andy Kaufman. After him are Fernando Collor de Mello, Victor Garber, Brad Davis, Brigitte Bierlein, Kgalema Motlanthe, and Sergei Bagapsh.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, Ranil Wickremesinghe ranks 4 out of 51. Before him are Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916), Velupillai Prabhakaran (1954), and Ananda Coomaraswamy (1877). After him are Anagarika Dharmapala (1864), William Chester Minor (1834), Tony Hoare (1934), Aryadeva (200), St John Philby (1885), Mahinda Rajapaksa (1945), S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (1899), and Chandrika Kumaratunga (1945).

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Among POLITICIANS In Sri Lanka

Among politicians born in Sri Lanka, Ranil Wickremesinghe ranks 2. Before him are Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916). After him are Mahinda Rajapaksa (1945), 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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