leading political figures in the twentieth century of Sri Lanka. S. A. Wickramasinghe was born in Nasnaranketiya Walawwa, Athuraliya in the Matara district...
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Don Martin Wickramasinghe, MBE (commonly known as Martin Wickramasinghe) (Sinhala: මාර්ටින් වික්රමසිංහ) (29 May 1890 – 23 July 1976) was a Sri Lankan...
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Wickremasinghe (redirect from Wickramasinghe)
Wickremasinghe, Wickremesinghe or Wickramasinghe is a Sinhalese surname. Notable people with the name include: Surname Chandra Wickramasinghe (born 1939), British...
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was initially led by Dr. S. A. Wickramasinghe. In 1952 Wickremesinghe's wife, the English-born Doreen Young Wickremasinghe, a former leader of the Suriya-Mal...
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Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe MBE (born 20 January 1939) is a Sri Lankan-born British mathematician, astronomer and astrobiologist of Sinhalese ethnicity...
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formation in 1946 as a founder member, he was reelected from the Kelaniya electorate in the 1st parliamentary election and was appointed by D. S. Senanayake as...
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various social programmes before marrying and raising a family. Playing hostess to her husband S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, who founded the socialist SLFP...
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a breakaway party of the United National Party his father once led. The 1993 Indian Tamil-language film Gentleman was rewritten by the director S. Shankar...
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Following D. S. Senanayake's sudden death and the elections that followed, Bandaranaike was elected leader of the opposition. Mustering a powerful coalition...
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N. M. Perera (category Alumni of S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia)
the English section. From there he spent a year at the Cathedral Boys' School, Mutwal a branch school of S. Thomas' College, Mutwal, then known as Cathedral...
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