# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/colvin-r-de-silva
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:22:26.896Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/colvin-r-de-silva"
name: "Colvin R. de Silva"
slug: "colvin-r-de-silva"
description: "Colvin Reginald de Silva was a Sri Lankan Cabinet Minister of Plantation Industries and Constitutional Affairs, prominent member of parliament, Trotskyist leader and lawyer in Sri Lanka. He was one of the founders of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, the first Marxist party in Sri Lanka."
tagline: "Sri Lankan politician"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/82/Colvin_R._de_Silva.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1907"
deathDate: "1989-02-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.081966666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "கொல்வின் ஆர். டி சில்வா"
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    title: "Де Сильва, Колвин Р."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B6%9A%E0%B7%9C%E0%B6%BD%E0%B7%8A%E0%B7%80%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%B1%E0%B7%8A_%E0%B6%86%E0%B6%BB%E0%B7%8A._%E0%B6%AF_%E0%B7%83%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%BD%E0%B7%8A%E0%B7%80%E0%B7%8F"
    title: "කොල්වින් ආර්. ද සිල්වා"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump