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Shiranthi Rajapaksa

Politician · Close Associate · Sanction-linked entity

Shiranthi 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	Shiranthi Rajapaksa · Ширанти Раджапакса · シラーンティ・ラージャパクサ · 希兰蒂·拉贾帕克萨				[sources]
Alias	Shiranthi Wickremesinghe · Shiranthi Wickremesinghe Rajapaksa · Раджапаксе, Ширанти · Ширанти Раджапаксе				[sources]
Birth date	1953-11-24				[sources]
Place of birth	Badulla				[sources]
Gender	female				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	Sri Lanka				[sources]
Citizenship	Sri Lanka				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Shiranthi				[sources]
Last name	Rajapaksa				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q7498270				[sources]
Position	First Lady of Sri Lanka (2005-2015)				[sources]
Education	Holy Family Convent, Bambalapitiya				[sources]
Last change	2025-07-01	Last processed	2025-11-20	First seen	2023-07-18

Descriptions

Sri Lankan model, former First and Second Lady of Sri Lanka

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

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Mahinda Rajapaksa Politician · Sanctioned entity	spouse	1983	-
Nishantha Wickramasinghe Close Associate	sibling	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
First Lady of Sri Lanka	2005-11-19	2015-01-09

Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons277,151

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External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,442

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Wikidata353,726

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Graph-based entity tagging81,163

Automatically generated graph-based topic annotations

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

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