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Sirimavo Bandaranaike

1916 - 2000

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Sirima Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike (Sinhala: සිරිමා රත්වත්තේ ඩයස් බණ්ඩාරනායක; Tamil: சிறிமா ரத்வத்தே டயஸ் பண்டாரநாயக்கே; 17 April 1916 – 10 October 2000), commonly known as Sirimavo Bandaranaike, was a Sri Lankan politician. She was the world's first female prime minister when she became Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (then the Dominion of Ceylon) in 1960. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sirimavo Bandaranaike has received more than 1,468,687 page views. Her biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Sirimavo Bandaranaike is the 3,015th most popular politician (down from 1,793rd in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Sri Lanka and the most popular Sri Lankan Politician.

Sirimavo Bandaranaike is most famous for being the first female prime minister of Sri Lanka.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Sirimavo Bandaranaike ranks 3,015 out of 15,577. Before her are Bardiya, Emperor Sakuramachi, Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse, Henry II the Pious, Abdul Rahman Arif, and Sancho II of Portugal. After her are Chiyou, Antonio José de Sucre, Nikolai Tikhonov, Jacques Santer, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, and Alfonso I of Asturias.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Sirimavo Bandaranaike ranks 35. Before her are Jean Dausset, Christian B. Anfinsen, Virginia Satir, Bernard Lewis, C. Wright Mills, and Abdul Rahman Arif. After her are Vitaly Ginzburg, Emil Gilels, Raf Vallone, Alexander Prokhorov, Robert F. Furchgott, and Paul Keres. Among people deceased in 2000, Sirimavo Bandaranaike ranks 27. Before her are Erich Mielke, Tommaso Buscetta, Louis Néel, Jason Robards, Empress Kōjun, and Steve Reeves. After her are Frederick Herzberg, Arkan, Lila Kedrova, Anatoly Sobchak, Gino Bartali, and Ofra Haza.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, Sirimavo Bandaranaike ranks 2 out of 44. Before her are Patanjali (-200). After her are Velupillai Prabhakaran (1954), Ananda Coomaraswamy (1877), Anagarika Dharmapala (1864), Tony Hoare (1934), Jack Churchill (1906), Aryadeva (200), Mahinda Rajapaksa (1945), Gotabaya Rajapaksa (1949), William Chester Minor (1834), and Chandrika Kumaratunga (1945).

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Among POLITICIANS In Sri Lanka

Among politicians born in Sri Lanka, Sirimavo Bandaranaike ranks 1. After her are Mahinda Rajapaksa (1945), Gotabaya Rajapaksa (1949), Chandrika Kumaratunga (1945), J. R. Jayewardene (1906), S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (1899), 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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