Ratnasiri Wickremanayake

Prime Minister of Sri Lanka

5 May 1933 British Ceylon

27 December 2016 (aged 83) Colombo, Sri Lanka

19 November 2005 – 21 April 2010

Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (Sinhala: රත්නසිරි වික්‍රමනායක , Tamil: ரத்னசிறி விக்கிரமநாயக்க ; 5 May 1933 – 27 December 2016) was a Sri Lankan politician who was Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 2000 to 2001 and again from 2005 to 2010. He was a Member of Parliament representing Horana electorate and later Kalutara District. Wickremanayake held many ministerial positions in the Sri Lankan government, beginning in 1970.