Sirimavo Bandaranaike

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Sri Lankan human politician prime minister stateswoman

Sirimavo Bandaranaike was a Sri Lankan stateswoman who became the world’s first female prime minister and a long-serving leader of her country.

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Sri Lankan → human → politician → prime minister → stateswoman →
birthDate	1916-04-17 →
birthPlace	Ratnapura, British Ceylon →
causeOfDeath	heart attack →
child	Anura Bandaranaike → Chandrika Kumaratunga →
countryOfCitizenship	Ceylon → Sri Lanka →
deathDate	2000-10-10 →
educatedAt	St. Bridget’s Convent, Colombo →
ethnicGroup	Sinhalese →
familyName	Bandaranaike →
fullName	Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike →
gender	female →
givenName	Sirimavo →
headOfGovernmentOf	Ceylon → Sri Lanka →
honorificPrefix	Sirima Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike →
motherTongue	Sinhala →
movement	non-aligned movement →
notableFor	being the first female head of government in the modern world → being the world’s first female prime minister →
numberOfChildren	3 →
officeEnd	Prime Minister of Ceylon, 1965-03-25 → Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, 1977-07-23 → Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, 2000-08-10 →
officeStart	Prime Minister of Ceylon, 1960-07-21 → Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, 1970-05-29 → Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, 1994-11-14 →
participatedIn	Non-Aligned Movement summits →
placeOfDeath	Colombo, Sri Lanka →
politicalParty	Sri Lanka Freedom Party →
positionHeld	Leader of the Opposition (Sri Lanka) → Minister of Defence of Sri Lanka → Minister of Finance of Sri Lanka → Prime Minister of Ceylon → Prime Minister of Sri Lanka →
precededBy	Chandrika Kumaratunga (as Prime Minister in 1994) → Dudley Senanayake (as Prime Minister in 1960) → Dudley Senanayake (as Prime Minister in 1970) →
religion	Buddhism →
residence	Horagolla Walauwa, Sri Lanka →
spouse	S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike →
succeededBy	Dudley Senanayake (as Prime Minister in 1965) → J. R. Jayewardene (as Prime Minister in 1977) → Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (as Prime Minister in 2000) →

Referenced by (5)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Dominion of Ceylon →	headOfGovernment
Dominion of Ceylon →	lastPrimeMinister
Dudley Senanayake →	precededBy
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike →	spouse
Dudley Senanayake →	succeededBy