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First Lady Of Sri Lanka
First Lady of Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා ජනාධිපති ආර්යා Śrī Laṃkā Janādhipathi Aryā; Tamil: இலங்கை முதல் பெண்மணி Ilankai Mutal Peṇmaṇi) refers to the wife of the President of Sri Lanka. To date, there have been eight women who have served in the role. The current First Lady of Sri Lanka is Professor Maithree Wickremesinghe, wife of President Ranil Wickremasinghe, who has held the position since 20 July 2022. There have been no first gentlemen of Sri Lanka to date, since former President Chandrika Kumaratunga, the country's only female head of state, was a widow while in office. In recent years the holders of the title have been formally or informally referred to by the title First Lady or First Lady of Sri Lanka, though there are no provisions for such in the constitution. Origins The office of the president of Sri Lanka was created in 1972 when Sri Lanka became a republic. William Gop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ranil Wickramasinghe
Ranil Wickremesinghe ( si, රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ, ta, ரணில் விக்கிரமசிங்க; born 24 March 1949) is a Sri Lankan politician who is the current president of Sri Lanka since 21 July 2022. He also holds the position of Minister of Finance of Sri Lanka. He has been the leader of the United National Party since 1994. He served as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka in five separate stints, leading six governments, from 1993 to 1994, 2001 to 2004, 2015 to 2018, 2018 to 2019, and in 2022. He also served as Leader of the Opposition from 1994 to 2001 and from 2004 to 2015. Born to a wealthy political family, he graduated from University of Ceylon and qualified as an advocate from the Ceylon Law College in 1972. Entering active politics in the mid-1970s with the UNP, he was first elected to Parliament from the Biyagama electorate in the 1977 parliamentary elections and was appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, by his uncle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maitree Wickremesinghe At Hyderabad House 2016 (cropped)
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Gotabaya Rajapaksa
Lieutenant Colonel Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa ( si, නන්දසේන ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ; ta, நந்தசேன கோட்டாபய ராஜபக்ஷ; born 20 June 1949) is a former Sri Lankan military officer and politician, who served as the eighth President of Sri Lanka from 18 November 2019 until his resignation on 14 July 2022. He previously served as Secretary to the Ministry of Defence and Urban Development from 2005 to 2015 under the administration of his elder brother former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, during the final phase of the Sri Lankan Civil War. Born to a political family from the Southern Province, Rajapaksa was educated at Ananda College, Colombo and joined the Ceylon Army in April 1971. Following basic training at the Army Training Centre, Diyatalawa, he was commissioned as signals officer and later transferred to several infantry regiments. He saw active service in the early stages of the Sri Lankan Civil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maithripala Sirisena
Maithripala Yapa Sirisena ( si, පල්ලෙවත්ත ගමරාළලාගේ මෛත්රීපාල යාපා සිරිසේන; ta, பல்லேவத்த கமராளலாகே மைத்திரிபால யாப்பா சிறிசேன; born 3 September 1951) is a Sri Lankan politician who served as the seventh President of Sri Lanka from 9 January 2015 to 18 November 2019. Sirisena is Sri Lanka's first president from the North Central Province of the country and does not belong to the traditional Sri Lankan political elite. He is currently a member of parliament from Polonnaruwa. Sirisena joined mainstream politics in 1989 as a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and has held several ministries since 1994. He was the general-secretary of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and was Minister of Health until November 2014 when he announced his candidacy for the 2015 presidential election as the opposition coalition's "common ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jayanthi Pushpa Kumari
Jayanti or Jayanthi is a feminine ''Sanskrit'' word meaning "victorious". It may refer to: Places *Jayanti, Alipurduar, a small forest village within Buxa Tiger Reserve in Alipurduar district of West Bengal, India * Jayanti Devi Temple, Haryana, India * Jayanti Stadium, a multi-purpose stadium in Bhilai, India * Jayanti, Tangerang, a subdistrict of Tangerang Regency, Banten, Indonesia films *Jayanti (film) People ; Given name * Jayanti (Hinduism), a figure in Hindu mythology, a daughter of Indra * Jayanthi (actress) (born ), South Indian actress * Princess Jayanti of Nepal (1946-2001), member of the Nepalese royal family * Jayanthi Ballal (born 1972), Indian fashion entrepreneur and designer * Jayanti Dalal (1909-1970), Indian author, publisher, film maker and politician * Jayanthi Kumaresh (active from 1990), Indian musician (veena player) * Jayanthi Kuru-Utumpala (born 1979), the first Sri Lankan to summit Mount Everest * Jayanthi Kyle (born ), American gospel and soul singer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jayanthi Sirisena
Jayanti or Jayanthi is a feminine ''Sanskrit'' word meaning "victorious". It may refer to: Places *Jayanti, Alipurduar, a small forest village within Buxa Tiger Reserve in Alipurduar district of West Bengal, India *Jayanti Devi Temple, Haryana, India * Jayanti Stadium, a multi-purpose stadium in Bhilai, India * Jayanti, Tangerang, a subdistrict of Tangerang Regency, Banten, Indonesia films *Jayanti (film) People ; Given name * Jayanti (Hinduism), a figure in Hindu mythology, a daughter of Indra * Jayanthi (actress) (born ), South Indian actress * Princess Jayanti of Nepal (1946-2001), member of the Nepalese royal family * Jayanthi Ballal (born 1972), Indian fashion entrepreneur and designer * Jayanti Dalal (1909-1970), Indian author, publisher, film maker and politician * Jayanthi Kumaresh (active from 1990), Indian musician (veena player) * Jayanthi Kuru-Utumpala (born 1979), the first Sri Lankan to summit Mount Everest * Jayanthi Kyle (born ), American gospel and soul singer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga
Sri Lankabhimanya Dingiri Banda Wijetunga ( si, ඩිංගිරි බණ්ඩා විජේතුංග, ta, டிங்கிரி பண்ட விஜேதுங்க; 15 February 1916 – 21 September 2008) was the fourth President of Sri Lanka from 7 May 1993 to 12 November 1994, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 3 March 1989 to 7 May 1993 and the Governor of North Western province, Sri Lanka from 1988 to 1989. He was awarded Sri Lanka's most highest award to a civilian Sri Lankabhimanya in 1993 by President Ranasinghe Premadasa. Early life and education Wijetunga was born on 15 February 1916 to Wijethunga Mudiyanselage Delgahapitiya Arachchila and his wife Manamperi Mudiyanselage Palingumanike Manamperi, as the eldest in a middle class Sinhala Buddhist family living on the outskirts of the then Udunuwara parliamentary seat in the Kandy District of the Central Province in Sri Lanka. He completed his primary education at Waligalla Central College thereafter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hema Premadasa
Hema Premadasa (''née'' Wickramatunge) (born 27 October 1934) is a former First Lady of Sri Lanka. She was in the office of the first lady of Sri Lanka from 2 January 1989 to 1 May 1993. While she was married to a politician, she "carved a separate identity for herself through her Presidentship of the Seva Vanitha Movement." Premadasa is the mother of Sajith Premadasa (b 1967), Leader of the Opposition, and leader of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya. In 1991, even though the Sri Lankan government tried to ban the Mothers' Front rally, Premadasa held her own rally the same day. Later, she attempted to seek Presidency. She was forced to quit when the opposite party ran a "scurrilous poster campaign." As first lady, she visited accident sites and hospitals when Sri Lankans were injured. She was also a member of the Seva Vanitha Movement (SVM). Premadasa's husband Ranasinghe Premadasa Sri Lankabhimanya Ranasinghe Premadasa ( si, රණසිංහ ප්රේමදාස ''Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elina Jayewardene
Elina Jayewardene (''née'' Bandara Rupasinghe; 15 December 1913 – 17 November 2007) was a Sri Lankan heiress and social worker, who was the wife of the second President of Sri Lanka, J. R. Jayewardene and was the First Lady of Sri Lanka from 1978 to 1988. Elina Jayewardene was known for her social work; she was the founder of the ‘Seva Vanitha’ Movement. Born Elina Bandara Rupasinghe, to Gilbert Leonard Rupasinghe, a Notary Public who was a successful businessmen and his wife Nancy Margaret Suriyabandara. Educated at home, she married J. R. Jayewardene, who was an Advocate, on 28 February 1935. Ravindra "Ravi" Vimal Jayewardene, their only child, was born soon after. Elina and her Husband settled at Jayewardene's parents house Vaijantha, later the Jayewardene's moved to their own house Braemar in 1938, where they remained the rest of their lives, whenever they were not holidaying at their holiday home in Mirissa Mirissa ( si, මිරිස්ස, translit=Mirissa; t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Née
A birth name is the name of a person given upon birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name, or the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a birth certificate or birth register may by that fact alone become the person's legal name. The assumption in the Western world is often that the name from birth (or perhaps from baptism or '' brit milah'') will persist to adulthood in the normal course of affairs—either throughout life or until marriage. Some possible changes concern middle names, diminutive forms, changes relating to parental status (due to one's parents' divorce or adoption by different parents). Matters are very different in some cultures in which a birth name is for childhood only, rather than for life. Maiden and married names The French and English-adopted terms née and né (; , ) denote an original surname at birth. The term ''née'', having feminine grammatical gender, can be used ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
