# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ananda-samarakoon
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:16:03.164Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ananda-samarakoon"
name: "Ananda Samarakoon"
slug: "ananda-samarakoon"
description: "Egodahage George Wilfred Alwis Samarakoon known as Ananda Samarakoon was a Sri Lankan (Sinhalese) composer and musician. He composed the Sri Lankan national anthem \"Namo Namo Matha\" and is considered the father of artistic Sinhala music and founder of the modern Sri Lankan Sinhala Geeta Sahitya."
tagline: "Sri Lankan musician (1911–1962)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a5/Ananda_Samarakoon.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1911-01-13"
deathDate: "1962-04-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.23
  momentum:             10.83069657615112
  historical:           11.036684
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "اناندا ساماراكون"
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    title: "Ananda Samarakone"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ananda_Samarakone"
    title: "Ananda Samarakone"
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    title: "Ananda Samarakoon"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ananda Samarakone"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump