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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 229,599 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. William Gopallawa is the 13,006th most popular politician (down from 12,705th in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from Sri Lanka (down from 20th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Sri Lankan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, William Gopallawa ranks 13,006 out of 19,576. Before him are Ducetius, Georgi Atanasov, Heinrich Lammasch, Dragan Tomić, Lucius Marcius Philippus, and Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou. After him are Suchinda Kraprayoon, Dénes Berinkey, Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, James III, Margrave of Baden-Hachberg, Dorin Recean, and Hakan Fidan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, William Gopallawa ranks 167. Before him are Ulises Saucedo, Joan Lindsay, Sao Shwe Thaik, Lilia Skala, Murray Leinster, and Edward Arthur Milne. After him are Robert Gerhard, Franz Blücher, Peter Cheyney, Lado Gudiashvili, J. Lawton Collins, and Steponas Darius. Among people deceased in 1981, William Gopallawa ranks 140. Before him are Werner Teske, Shovkat Mammadova, Rudolf Krčil, Lydia Lopokova, Evsei Liberman, and Beatrice Tinsley. After him are Karl Struss, Antonio Berni, Durgabai Deshmukh, Rino Gaetano, Gerhard Marcks, and Ross Martin.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, William Gopallawa ranks 21 out of 51. Before him are J. R. Jayewardene (1906), Gotabaya Rajapaksa (1949), Michael Ondaatje (1943), M. G. Ramachandran (1917), Maithripala Sirisena (1951), and John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (1841). After him are D. S. Senanayake (1883), Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), Dinesh Gunawardena (1949), Malcolm Ranjith (1947), Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933), and Dudley Senanayake (1911).

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Among POLITICIANS In Sri Lanka

Among politicians born in Sri Lanka, William Gopallawa ranks 9. Before him are Mahinda Rajapaksa (1945), S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (1899), Chandrika Kumaratunga (1945), J. R. Jayewardene (1906), Gotabaya Rajapaksa (1949), and Maithripala Sirisena (1951). After him are D. S. Senanayake (1883), Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), Dinesh Gunawardena (1949), Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933), Dudley Senanayake (1911), and D. M. Jayaratne (1931).

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