# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nimal-siripala-de-silva
# Generated: 2026-08-15T16:28:19.348Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nimal-siripala-de-silva"
name: "Nimal Siripala de Silva"
slug: "nimal-siripala-de-silva"
description: "Nilenthi Nimal Siripala de Silva is a Sri Lankan politician who held a number of senior cabinet portfolios. He currently serves as the disputed chairman of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party. He served as the Leader of the Opposition for a few months in 2015, and has served in several other ministerial posts: he is the former Cabinet Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation in 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka, former Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources Management, the Minister of Ports, Shipping and Aviation and former Leader of the House."
tagline: "Sri Lankan politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nimal_Siripala_de_Silva.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1944-09-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.25
  momentum:             0.6514657980456027
  historical:           5.078438666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "නිමල් සිරිපාල ද සිල්වා"
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    title: "நிமல் சிறிபால டி சில்வா"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump