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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 1,590,155 page views. Her biography is available in 72 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 65 in 2019). Sirimavo Bandaranaike is the 1,954th most popular politician (up from 3,006th in 2019), the most popular biography from Sri Lanka (up from 2nd in 2019) 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 1,954 out of 19,576. Before her are Nicolas Fouquet, Lapu-Lapu, Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus, Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy, Britannicus, and Sophia Palaiologina. After her are Cleopatra V of Egypt, Claudia Octavia, Francisco Solano López, Gülnuş Sultan, Jean Jaurès, and Anne Neville.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Sirimavo Bandaranaike ranks 24. Before her are Harold Wilson, Yehudi Menuhin, Herbert A. Simon, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Hans Eysenck, and Maurice Wilkins. After her are Alexander Prokhorov, Camilo José Cela, Jack Vance, Robert McNamara, Frederick Chapman Robbins, and Natalia Ginzburg. Among people deceased in 2000, Sirimavo Bandaranaike ranks 14. Before her are Victor Borge, Alec Guinness, Stanley Matthews, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Vittorio Gassman, and Abulfaz Elchibey. After her are Louis Néel, Lída Baarová, Gherman Titov, Konrad Emil Bloch, Giovanna of Italy, and Erich Mielke.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, Sirimavo Bandaranaike ranks 1 out of 51. After her are Velupillai Prabhakaran (1954), Ananda Coomaraswamy (1877), Ranil Wickremesinghe (1949), Anagarika Dharmapala (1864), William Chester Minor (1834), Tony Hoare (1934), Aryadeva (200), St John Philby (1885), Mahinda Rajapaksa (1945), S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (1899), 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 Ranil Wickremesinghe (1949), Mahinda Rajapaksa (1945), S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (1899), Chandrika Kumaratunga (1945), J. R. Jayewardene (1906), Gotabaya Rajapaksa (1949), Maithripala Sirisena (1951), William Gopallawa (1896), D. S. Senanayake (1883), Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), and Dinesh Gunawardena (1949).

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