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Also Known As Duṭugümuṇu
Died 77 BCE • Anuradhapura • Sri Lanka
Title / Office king (101BC-77BC), Sri Lanka
Parākramabāhu I
king of Sri Lanka
Mahinda Rajapaksa
Mahinda Rajapaksa
prime minister of Sri Lanka
Gotabaya Rajapaksa
Gotabaya Rajapaksa
president of Sri Lanka
Anura Kumara Dissanayake
Anura Kumara Dissanayake
president of Sri Lanka
The world's first woman prime minister
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
prime minister of Sri Lanka
Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga
Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga
president of Sri Lanka
Susan Lincoln Tolman Mills.
Susan Lincoln Tolman Mills
American missionary and educator
C.G. Seligman
British anthropologist
J.R. Jayewardene
president of Sri Lanka
D. S. Senanayake
prime minister of Ceylon
S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike
prime minister of Sri Lanka
Mahendra
Buddhist missionary

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