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Professor Maithree Wickremesinghe (Sinhala: මෛත්රී වික්රමසිංහ; born 11 August 1964) is the former First Lady of Sri Lanka as the wife of President Ranil Wickremesinghe. She is a Sri Lankan academic, writer, and professor of English at the University of Kelaniya. [1] She specialises in gender and women's ...
The current First Lady of Sri Lanka is Mallika Dissanayaka, wife of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who has held the position since 23 September 2024. [2] [3] There have been no first gentlemen of Sri Lanka to date, since former President Chandrika Kumaratunga, the country's only female head of state, was a widow while in office.
In 2010, on the 50th anniversary of Bandaranaike's election as the world's first female prime minister, Sri Lankan parliamentarian Rosy Senanayake told the press that Sri Lanka had not made significant progress towards gender equality in politics: only 4.5 per cent of parliamentarians were women.
Here, see the most memorable royal photos of 2024: January 7, 2024 For his first public appearance of 2024, King Charles went to Sunday services at the Church of St Mary Magdalene on the ...
Elina Jayewardene (née Bandara Rupasinghe; 15 December 1913 – 17 November 2007) was a Sri Lankan heiress and social worker, who was the wife of the second President of Sri Lanka, J. R. Jayewardene and was the First Lady of Sri Lanka from 1978 to 1988.
Seelawathie Rambukwella Gopallawa (died October 4, 1977) was a Sri Lankan public figure, First Lady of Sri Lanka from 1972 to 1977, and wife of then-President William Gopallawa when she died. Gopallawa served as the country's inaugural first lady following her husband's assumption of the presidency in 1972.
The set features three photos from the Sharmans' wedding, which took place in Enderby, B.C., on a July afternoon 56 years ago: one of the wedding party, one of the newlyweds and a third image of ...
Pages in category "First ladies and gentlemen of Sri Lanka" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .