# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/philip-gunawardena
# Generated: 2026-08-15T12:32:34.424Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/philip-gunawardena"
name: "Philip Gunawardena"
slug: "philip-gunawardena"
description: "Don Philip Rupasinghe Gunawardena was a Sri Lankan Marxist politician and leftist. A founder of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, the first political party in Ceylon which was known for having introduced Trotskyism, he later founded the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna and was called 'the Father of Socialism' and 'the Lion of Boralugoda'. A member of the State Council of Ceylon and the Parliament of Ceylon, he served as the Minister of Agriculture and food under S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike from 1956 to 1959 and as Minister of Industries and Fisheries in the national government under Dudley Senanayake from 1965 to 1970."
tagline: "Sri Lankan politician (1901–1972)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Philip_Gunawardana_(1901-1972).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1901-01-11"
deathDate: "1972-03-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0.6143344709897611
  historical:           5.744529333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "පිලිප් ගුණවර්ධන"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump