1949 - Today
Ranil Wickremesinghe (born March 24, 1949) is a Sri Lankan politician who is the 9th and current President of Sri Lanka. He also holds several ministerial positions, including the Minister of Finance, Minister of Defence, Minister of Technology and Minister of Women, Child Affairs and Social Empowerment. Wickremesinghe has led the United National Party since 1994. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ranil Wickremesinghe has received more than 1,958,643 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Ranil Wickremesinghe is the 15,029th most popular politician (down from 13,547th in 2019), the 27th most popular biography from Sri Lanka (down from 26th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Sri Lankan Politician.
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Among politicians, Ranil Wickremesinghe ranks 15,029 out of 15,577. Before him are Han Pil-hwa, Æthelric of Bernicia, Eevi Huttunen, Xhafer Ypi, Františka Plamínková, and Santeri Alkio. After him are Francisco Lagos Cházaro, Aristides Royo, Rana Bahadur Shah, Otto Scheff, Élie Doté, and Pablo Arosemena.
1942 - Present
HPI: 42.99
Rank: 15,023
600 - 572
HPI: 42.99
Rank: 15,024
1922 - 2015
HPI: 42.99
Rank: 15,025
1880 - 1940
HPI: 42.99
Rank: 15,026
1875 - 1942
HPI: 42.98
Rank: 15,027
1862 - 1930
HPI: 42.98
Rank: 15,028
1949 - Present
HPI: 42.98
Rank: 15,029
1878 - 1932
HPI: 42.97
Rank: 15,030
1940 - Present
HPI: 42.97
Rank: 15,031
1775 - 1806
HPI: 42.97
Rank: 15,032
1889 - 1956
HPI: 42.97
Rank: 15,033
1948 - Present
HPI: 42.96
Rank: 15,034
1836 - 1920
HPI: 42.96
Rank: 15,035
Among people born in 1949, Ranil Wickremesinghe ranks 519. Before him are Dan Ar Braz, Toller Cranston, Claude Papi, Aleksandar Tomov, Kęstutis Šapka, and Alberto Cardaccio. After him are Spencer Haywood, Karel Lismont, Micky Arison, Christos Papadimitriou, Boris Plotnikov, and Joseph Pilato.
1949 - Present
HPI: 43.09
Rank: 513
1949 - 2015
HPI: 43.07
Rank: 514
1949 - 1983
HPI: 43.04
Rank: 515
1949 - Present
HPI: 43.03
Rank: 516
1949 - Present
HPI: 43.03
Rank: 517
1949 - 2015
HPI: 42.99
Rank: 518
1949 - Present
HPI: 42.98
Rank: 519
1949 - Present
HPI: 42.91
Rank: 520
1949 - Present
HPI: 42.90
Rank: 521
1949 - Present
HPI: 42.83
Rank: 522
1949 - Present
HPI: 42.82
Rank: 523
1949 - 2020
HPI: 42.78
Rank: 524
1949 - 2019
HPI: 42.74
Rank: 525
Among people born in Sri Lanka, Ranil Wickremesinghe ranks 27 out of 44. Before him are D. S. Senanayake (1883), Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916), Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933), Frederick G. Donnan (1870), and Malcolm Ranjith (1947). After him are Dudley Senanayake (1911), Duncan White (1918), D. M. Jayaratne (1931), Thomas Cooray (1901), Bob Tisdall (1907), and Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala (1810).
1883 - 1952
HPI: 47.66
Rank: 21
1924 - 1993
HPI: 45.99
Rank: 22
1916 - 2008
HPI: 45.18
Rank: 23
1933 - 2016
HPI: 44.65
Rank: 24
1870 - 1956
HPI: 44.62
Rank: 25
1947 - Present
HPI: 44.44
Rank: 26
1949 - Present
HPI: 42.98
Rank: 27
1911 - 1973
HPI: 42.61
Rank: 28
1918 - 1998
HPI: 42.09
Rank: 29
1931 - 2019
HPI: 42.03
Rank: 30
1901 - 1988
HPI: 41.25
Rank: 31
1907 - 2004
HPI: 39.25
Rank: 32
1810 - 1890
HPI: 38.91
Rank: 33
Among politicians born in Sri Lanka, Ranil Wickremesinghe ranks 13. Before him are Maithripala Sirisena (1951), William Gopallawa (1896), D. S. Senanayake (1883), Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916), and Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933). After him are Dudley Senanayake (1911), D. M. Jayaratne (1931), and Alexander Khloponin (1965).
1951 - Present
HPI: 49.66
Rank: 7
1896 - 1981
HPI: 48.16
Rank: 8
1883 - 1952
HPI: 47.66
Rank: 9
1924 - 1993
HPI: 45.99
Rank: 10
1916 - 2008
HPI: 45.18
Rank: 11
1933 - 2016
HPI: 44.65
Rank: 12
1949 - Present
HPI: 42.98
Rank: 13
1911 - 1973
HPI: 42.61
Rank: 14
1931 - 2019
HPI: 42.03
Rank: 15
1965 - Present
HPI: 36.10
Rank: 16