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Chamal Rajapaksa

PEP · Politician · Close Associate · Sanction-linked entity

Chamal Rajapaksa is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Chamal Rajapaksa · チャマル・ラージャパクサ · 沙马尔·拉贾帕克萨				[sources]
Alias	Chamal Jayantha Rajapaksa · சமல் ராஜபக்ச · චමල් රාජපක්ෂ · チャマル・ラージャパクサ				[sources]
Weak alias	查马尔·拉贾帕克萨				[sources]
Birth date	1942-10-30				[sources]
Place of birth	Matara District				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Country	Sri Lanka				[sources]
Citizenship	Sri Lanka				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
Email	rajapaksa_c@parliament.lk				[sources]
Political association	Sri Lanka Freedom Party				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q3529190				[sources]
Wikipedia Article	en.wikipedia.org				[sources]
Position	Member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka · Minister of Irrigation (2007-2010) · Minister of Irrigation (2020-2022) · Parliament (member, 2015-) · Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka (2010-2015)				[sources]
Education	Richmond College				[sources]
Religion	Buddhism				[sources]
Last change	2026-04-01	Last processed	2026-04-01	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Sri Lankan politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Shamindra Rajapaksa Close Associate	child	-	-
Gotabaya Rajapaksa PEP · Sanctioned entity	sibling

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Minister of Irrigation	2007-01-28	2010-04-23

Relatives
Person	Relationship	Start date	End date
Shasheendra Rajapaksa PEP	child · father	-	-
Mahinda Rajapaksa PEP ·

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,554

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons272,626

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories340,703

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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Graph-based entity tagging84,509

Automatically generated graph-based topic annotations

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata328,254

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions500,340

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

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