# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/d-m-dassanayake
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:02:28.186Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/d-m-dassanayake"
name: "D. M. Dassanayake"
slug: "d-m-dassanayake"
description: "Dassanayake Mudiyanselage Dassanayake was a Sri Lankan politician from the Puttalam District. He was serving as a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and non-cabinet Minister of Nation Building when he was assassinated in a roadside bomb attack on 8 January 2008 in Ja-Ela, twelve miles north of Colombo. The attack, which was blamed on the militant Tamil Tigers organization, killed three people and injured ten others."
tagline: "Sri Lankan politician (1953-2008)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1953-04-29"
deathDate: "2008-01-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.99
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.470914666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.M._Dassanayake"
    title: "D.M. Dassanayake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._M._Dassanayake"
    title: "D. M. Dassanayake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._M._Dassanayake"
    title: "D. M. Dassanayake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%BF._%E0%AE%8E%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D._%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%A8%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95"
    title: "டி. எம். தசநாயக்க"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B6%AF._%E0%B6%B8%E0%B7%94._%E0%B6%AF%E0%B7%83%E0%B6%B1%E0%B7%8F%E0%B6%BA%E0%B6%9A"
    title: "ද. මු. දසනායක"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.M._Dassanayake"
    title: "D.M. Dassanayake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q737097"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump