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Ranil Wickremesinghe

1949 - Today

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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

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.

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Contemporaries

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.

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In Sri Lanka

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).

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Among POLITICIANS In Sri Lanka

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).

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