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Ratnasiri Wickremanayake

1933 - 2016

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Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (Sinhala: රත්නසිරි වික්‍රමනායක, Tamil: ரத்னசிறி விக்கிரமநாயக்க; 5 May 1933 – 27 December 2016) was a Sri Lankan politician who served as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 2000 to 2001 and again from 2005 to 2010, and also served as the Leader of the Opposition from 2001 to 2002. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ratnasiri Wickremanayake has received more than 165,114 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Ratnasiri Wickremanayake is the 14,405th most popular politician (down from 13,156th in 2019), the 24th most popular biography from Sri Lanka and the 12th most popular Sri Lankan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ratnasiri Wickremanayake ranks 14,405 out of 15,577Before him are Constantine Lekapenos, Athanasios Miaoulis, Farid Simaika, Ferdinand Oyono, Dedumose II, and Yacouba Isaac Zida. After him are Marco Aurelio Soto, Matija Ljubek, Dimitrij Rupel, Renato Ruggiero, Jerónimo Méndez, and Bridei III.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Ratnasiri Wickremanayake ranks 366Before him are Tim Conway, Judah Folkman, Pedro Cubilla, Severino Poletto, Johnny Unitas, and Michael Frayn. After him are Valentina Rastvorova, Neale Fraser, Scotty Bowman, Peter Arundell, Mike Larrabee, and Jerry Falwell. Among people deceased in 2016, Ratnasiri Wickremanayake ranks 375Before him are Raúl Cárdenas, Fernando Cardenal, Mose Allison, Larry Drake, Nick Menza, and Carlo Monti. After him are Rita Barberá, Ken Howard, Joe Alaskey, Alexis Arquette, Christina Grimmie, and Angus Scrimm.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, Ratnasiri Wickremanayake ranks 24 out of 44Before him are Maithripala Sirisena (1951), M. G. Ramachandran (1917), William Gopallawa (1896), D. S. Senanayake (1883), Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), and Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916). After him are Frederick G. Donnan (1870), Malcolm Ranjith (1947), Ranil Wickremesinghe (1949), Dudley Senanayake (1911), Duncan White (1918), and D. M. Jayaratne (1931).

Among POLITICIANS In Sri Lanka

Among politicians born in Sri Lanka, Ratnasiri Wickremanayake ranks 12Before him are S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (1899), Maithripala Sirisena (1951), William Gopallawa (1896), D. S. Senanayake (1883), Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), and Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916). After him are Ranil Wickremesinghe (1949), Dudley Senanayake (1911), D. M. Jayaratne (1931), and Alexander Khloponin (1965).