Sirimavo Bandaranaike

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Prime Minister of Ceylon (later Sri Lanka) from 1960-65, 1970-77, 1994-2000

PoliticiansLived 1916 to 2000 · aged 84

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Fame66.6

Momentum15.0

Languages32

Peak1970s

In century#3,207

Also inDeutsch

Photos 11

The Mahawalatenne family, including Mahawalatenne Rate Mahattaya (back row right) and Agnes Mahawalatenne (née Ellawala, front row right), the maternal grandparents of Sirima Ratwatte.

Horagolla Walawwa, the Bandaranaike ancestral manor

Bandaranaike, with her children Sunethra, Chandrika, and Anura

The Old Parliament Building in Colombo, where the House of Representatives met beginning in 1947

Bandaranaike praying in a 1962 photograph described as the "Praying Premier" by the Associated Press

Bandaranaike in 1961

Bandaranaike with Soviet Union Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin, Senior Advisor (Foreign Affairs) to the Prime Minister Tissa Wijeyeratne and Anura Bandaranaike

In their orbit 6

SpouseS. W. R. D. Bandaranaike

FatherBarnes Ratwatte

MotherRosalind Mahawelatenne

ChildAnura Bandaranaike

ChildChandrika Kumaratunga

ChildSunethra Bandaranaike

Politicians born in the 1910s 6

Konstantin Chernenko70.8

Konstantinos Mitsotakis64.7

Augusto Pinochet74.8

Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan63.6

Yuri Andropov74.8

Ahmed Ben Bella63.3

About this person

Sirima Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike, commonly known as Sirimavo Bandaranaike, was a Sri Lankan politician who served as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 1960 to 1965, from 1970 to 1977, and from 1994 to 2000. A chairperson of Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), she was the first woman in the world to be elected prime minister in 1960.