List of Famous people with last name Samaraweera

Mangala Samaraweera

First Name Mangala
Last Name Samaraweera
Born on April 21, 1956
Died on August 24, 2021 (aged 65)

Mangala Pinsiri Samaraweera was a Sri Lankan politician. He was also the first openly gay politician from Sri Lanka. He was the Minister of Finance from 2017 to 2019, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, for two terms from 2005 to 2007 and 2015 to 2017. He created a stir in Sri Lankan politics when he was sacked as a minister by President Mahinda Rajapakse in 2007, after which he formed a new political party called the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (Mahajana) Wing, which later merged with the United National Party in 2010.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her
    index: 1x 0.022175788879395s
fmsppl-page-output: 1x 0.017375946044922s
t_/pages/list-of-people: 1x 0.017336845397949s
t_/common/header: 1x 0.0086238384246826s
t_/blocks/list-of-people: 1x 0.0043001174926758s
t_/blocks/person-card: 1x 0.0042190551757812s
router_page: 1x 0.0039350986480713s
headline: 2x 0.0031387805938721s
list-of-people-content: 1x 0.0027639865875244s
t_/common/footer: 1x 0.00045204162597656s
t_/common/head: 1x 0.00037503242492676s
head-facts: 1x 0.00034618377685547s
qids: 1.5x 2.2172927856445E-5s
t_/blocks/switcher: 1x 2.1219253540039E-5s
related: 1x 4.0531158447266E-6s
using-qids-cache: 1x 1.9073486328125E-6s
using-file-qids-cache: 1x 9.5367431640625E-7s
----- END OF DUMP (2024-11-05 12:20:11)  -----