# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jayantha-dhanapala
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:24:40.222Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jayantha-dhanapala"
name: "Jayantha Dhanapala"
slug: "jayantha-dhanapala"
description: "Deshamanya Jayantha Dhanapala was a Sri Lankan diplomat. A career diplomat in the Sri Lanka Overseas Service, he served as the Under Secretary General to re-establish the Department of Disarmament from 1998 to 2003; Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the UN in Geneva from 1984 to 1987; and Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the United States from 1994 to 1997."
tagline: "Sri Lankan diplomat"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jayantha_Dhanapala.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1938-12-30"
deathDate: "2023-05-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.27
  momentum:             2.175889328063242
  historical:           4.141037333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.jayanthadhanapala.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayantha_Dhanapala"
    title: "Jayantha Dhanapala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayantha_Dhanapala"
    title: "Jayantha Dhanapala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%80%E3%83%8A%E3%83%91%E3%83%A9"
    title: "ジャヤンタ・ダナパラ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayantha_Dhanapala"
    title: "Jayantha Dhanapala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2373550"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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