# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rohana-wijeweera
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:34:40.687Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rohana-wijeweera"
name: "Rohana Wijeweera"
slug: "rohana-wijeweera"
description: "Patabendi Don Jinadasa Nandasiri Wijeweera, better known as Rohana Wijeweera, was a Sri Lankan Marxist–Leninist political activist, revolutionary, and founder of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna. Wijeweera led the party in two unsuccessful insurrections in Sri Lanka, in 1971 and 1987 until his assassination."
tagline: "Sri Lankan politician (1943-1989)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/02/Rohana_Wijeweera_%281943-1989%29.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1943-07-14"
deathDate: "1989-11-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.92
  momentum:             1.023535851122058
  historical:           6.405837333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.jvpsrilanka.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%BD%97%E6%B1%89%C2%B7%E7%BB%B4%E6%9D%B0%E9%9F%A6%E9%87%8C"
    title: "罗汉·维杰韦里"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7_%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "روحانا ويجاييرا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohana_Wijeweera"
    title: "Rohana Wijeweera"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0%2C_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Виджевира, Рохана"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B6%BB%E0%B7%9D%E0%B7%84%E0%B6%AB_%E0%B7%80%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%A2%E0%B7%9A%E0%B7%80%E0%B7%93%E0%B6%BB"
    title: "රෝහණ විජේවීර"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8B%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%A3_%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%9C%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%B5%E0%AF%80%E0%AE%B0"
    title: "ரோகண விஜயவீர"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohana_Wijeweera"
    title: "Rohana Wijeweera"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2033511"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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