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William Gopallawa

1896 - 1981

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William Gopallawa (Sinhala: විලියම් ගොපල්ලව, Tamil: வில்லியம் கோப்பல்லாவ; 17 September 1896 – 31 January 1981) was the last Governor-General of Ceylon from 1962 to 1972 and the first and only non-executive President of Sri Lanka from 1972 to 1978, when Ceylon declared itself a republic and changed its name to Sri Lanka. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Gopallawa has received more than 207,753 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). William Gopallawa is the 12,748th most popular politician (up from 13,040th in 2019), the 20th most popular biography from Sri Lanka (up from 22nd in 2019) and the 8th most popular Sri Lankan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, William Gopallawa ranks 12,748 out of 15,577. Before him are Youcef Yousfi, Alain Berset, Ernest Bai Koroma, Mohammed Fahim, Carl Johan Thyselius, and Eugen Bolz. After him are Phoolan Devi, Reino Ragnar Lehto, Gyula Kállai, Fatima Jinnah, Gunnar Thoroddsen, and Mikhail Katkov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, William Gopallawa ranks 164. Before him are Gerardo Diego, George Burns, Barbara La Marr, Yu Dafu, Lilia Skala, and Steponas Darius. After him are Ivan Merz, Jaromír Weinberger, Roger Sessions, Fritz Julius Kuhn, Frank Loomis, and Friedrich Waismann. Among people deceased in 1981, William Gopallawa ranks 145. Before him are Paco Bienzobas, Hoagy Carmichael, Francis Hunter, Benjamin Sheares, Yury Trifonov, and Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling. After him are Rudolf Krčil, Gerhard Marcks, Anita Loos, Paul Hörbiger, Mark Donskoy, and Tadeusz Kotarbiński.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, William Gopallawa ranks 20 out of 44. Before him are St John Philby (1885), J. R. Jayewardene (1906), S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (1899), John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (1841), Maithripala Sirisena (1951), and M. G. Ramachandran (1917). After him are D. S. Senanayake (1883), Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916), Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933), Frederick G. Donnan (1870), and Malcolm Ranjith (1947).

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Among POLITICIANS In Sri Lanka

Among politicians born in Sri Lanka, William Gopallawa ranks 8. Before him are Mahinda Rajapaksa (1945), Gotabaya Rajapaksa (1949), Chandrika Kumaratunga (1945), J. R. Jayewardene (1906), S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (1899), and Maithripala Sirisena (1951). After him are D. S. Senanayake (1883), Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916), Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933), Ranil Wickremesinghe (1949), and Dudley Senanayake (1911).

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