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S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike

1899 - 1959

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Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike (8 January 1899 – 26 September 1959), also known as "The Silver Bell of Asia" (ආසියාවේ රිදී සීනුව), was a Ceylonese statesman who served as the fourth Prime Minister of the Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), serving from 1956 until his assassination. The founder of the left-wing and Sinhalese nationalist Sri Lanka Freedom Party, his tenure saw the country's first left-wing reforms. Born to a wealthy, political family, he studied philosophy, politics, and economics at Christ Church, Oxford, and was called to the bar at the Inner Temple. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike has received more than 511,572 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike is the 10,105th most popular politician (down from 9,446th in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from Sri Lanka (down from 14th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Sri Lankan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike ranks 10,105 out of 15,577. Before him are Luigi Luzzatti, Andrew Moray, Konstantin Jireček, Dariga Nazarbayeva, F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, and Khawaja Nazimuddin. After him are Saigō Jūdō, Kiyoura Keigo, Sandro Rosell, Georgios Rallis, Scott Morrison, and Cleombrotus II.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike ranks 127. Before him are Francis Ponge, Oscar Zariski, Zhang Daqian, František Tomášek, Harold Abrahams, and Zaki al-Arsuzi. After him are Anita Berber, Alexander Tcherepnin, Yaakov Dori, Qu Qiubai, Carlos Chávez, and Richard Hartshorne. Among people deceased in 1959, S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike ranks 75. Before him are Laxmi Prasad Devkota, Ki Hajar Dewantara, The Big Bopper, Luigi Sturzo, Ingrid Vang Nyman, and Ramón Fonst. After him are Eduard van Beinum, Georges Lefebvre, Reuven Shiloah, José Vasconcelos, Bak Jungyang, and George Albert Smith.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike ranks 16 out of 44. Before him are Gotabaya Rajapaksa (1949), William Chester Minor (1834), Chandrika Kumaratunga (1945), Michael Ondaatje (1943), St John Philby (1885), and J. R. Jayewardene (1906). After him are John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (1841), Maithripala Sirisena (1951), M. G. Ramachandran (1917), William Gopallawa (1896), D. S. Senanayake (1883), and Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924).

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Among POLITICIANS In Sri Lanka

Among politicians born in Sri Lanka, S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike ranks 6. Before him are Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916), Mahinda Rajapaksa (1945), Gotabaya Rajapaksa (1949), Chandrika Kumaratunga (1945), and J. R. Jayewardene (1906). After him are Maithripala Sirisena (1951), William Gopallawa (1896), D. S. Senanayake (1883), Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916), and Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933).

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