# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-kotelawala
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:31:15.081Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-kotelawala"
name: "John Kotelawala"
slug: "john-kotelawala"
description: "General Sir John Lionel Kotelawala was a Sri Lankan statesman, who served as the 3rd Prime Minister of Ceylon from 1953 to 1956."
tagline: "Sri Lankan politician (1897–1980)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Kotelawala_(1951).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1897-04-04"
deathDate: "1980-10-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.48
  momentum:             2.6018857607894
  historical:           13.845756
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump