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Bandaranaike family

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Current region
  
Colombo

Traditions
  
Theravada Buddhism

Place of origin
  
Atthanagalla

Estate
  
Horagolla Walauwa

Bandaranaike family

Members
  
Solomon Dias Bandaranaike S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike Sirimavo Bandaranaike Chandrika Bandaranaike Anura Bandaranaike

Connected members
  
Vijaya Kumaranatunga Jeewan Kumaranatunga Ranjan Ramanayake

The Bandaranaike family is a Sri Lankan family that is prominent in politics. Along with many members who have been successful politician across generations, the family includes three Prime Ministers and one President of Sri Lanka.

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Family Tree

  • Don Francisco Dias Wijetunga Bandaranaike (born 1720), Mudaliyar Hewagam Korale + Dona MarKumarathunga
  • Conrad Pieter Dias Wijewardena Bandaranaike, Maha Mudliyar
  • Jacabus Dias Wijewardena Bandaranaike (born 1780), Mudaliyar of Governor Gate & Translator of Supreme Court + Liyanage Catherine Philipsz Panditharatne
  • Rev Canon Samuel William Dias Bandaranaike + Cornelia Susanna Elizabeth Dias Bandaranaike
  • Felix Reginold Dias Bandaranaike (1861–1947) + Annie Lucy (Florence) de Alwis (1864–1920)
  • Reginald Felix Dias Bandaranaike (1891–1951), Judge of the Supreme Court + Freda Dias Abeysinghe
  • Felix Dias Bandaranaike (1930–1985), Government Minister, Member of Parliament
  • Don Daniel Dias Banaranaike + Dona Clara Amarasekere
  • Don Solomon Dias Bandaranaike (-1859), Mudaliyar of Siyane Korale, 1st Udagaha Mudaliyar + Cornelia Philipsz Panditharatne de Saram
  • Don Christoffel Henricus Dias Abeywickrema Jayatilake Seneviratne Bandaranaike (born 1826), Mudaliyar Governors Gate and 2nd Udagaha Mudaliyar + Anna Florentina Philipsz Panditharatne
  • Sir Solomon Dias Bandaranaike JP (1862–1946), Maha Mudaliyar + Daisy Ezline Obeyesekere
  • S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (1899–1959), Prime Minister of Ceylon, Government Minister, Member of Parliament, Member of State Council + Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916–2000), Prime Minister of Ceylon, Member of Parliament, Senator
  • Sunethra Bandaranaike (born c. 1943), politician and socialite
  • Chandrika Bandaranaike (born 1945), President of Sri Lanka, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Member of Parliament, Chief Minister of Western Province, Provincial Councillor + Vijaya Kumaratunga (1945–1988), actor and politician
  • Yashodara Sirimavo Kumarathunga Walker
  • Vimukthi Kumaratunga
  • Anura Bandaranaike (1949–2008); Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka, Government Minister, Member of Parliament
  • (also related to Ratwatte family, William Gopallawa, A.R. Udugama, Hector Kobbekaduwa, Jeewan Kumaranatunga, Ranjan Ramanayake)

    See alao

  • List of political families in Sri Lanka
  • References

    Bandaranaike family Wikipedia