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Mahinda Rajapaksa

Politician · Sanctioned entity

Mahinda Rajapaksa is subject to sanctions. See the individual program listings below. They are also a politically exposed person.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Mahinda Racapaksa · Mahinda Radzsapaksza · Mahinda Radžapaksa · Mahinda Rajapaksa · Mahinda Rajapakse · 18 more...				[sources]
Alias	Don Percy Mahendra Rajapaksa · Mahendra Rājapakṣe · Mahinda Radzsapaksza · Mahinda Radžapaksa · Mahinda Radžapakse · 31 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	MR · Mahinda · Rajapaksa · Rajapaska · Раджапаксе · 4 more...				[sources]
Birth date	1945-11-18				[sources]
Place of birth	Weeraketiya				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Sri Lanka				[sources]
Country	Sri Lanka				[sources]
Citizenship	Sri Lanka				[sources]
Classification	International organization (past) · National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Mahinda				[sources]
Last name	RAJAPAKSA				[sources]
Website	www.mahindarajapaksa.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q57338				[sources]
Position	Commonwealth Chairperson-in-Office · Leader of the Opposition · Member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka · Minister of Buddhasasana, Religious & Cultural Affairs · Minister of Defence · 7 more...				[sources]
Education	Nalanda College · Richmond College				[sources]
Religion	Buddhism				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-01	Last processed	2025-12-02	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

President of Sri Lanka from 2005 to 2015

— Wikidata non-official source, 2024-09-30

Relationships

Sanctions
Country	Authority	Program	Start date	End date
Canada	Global Affairs Canada		-	-

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Rohitha Rajapaksa Politician	child	-	-
Dandina Samarasinghe Dissanayake Close Associate	mother	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Minister of Urban Development & Housing	2020-08-12	2022-05-12

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Relatives
Person	Relationship	Start date	End date
Shiranthi Rajapaksa Politician	spouse	-	-

Data sources

Every Politician57,742

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

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Canadian Consolidated Autonomous Sanctions List5,164

Sanctions imposed by Canada on specific countries, organizations, or individuals under the Special Economic Measures Act (SEMA) and JVCFOA

Canada · Global Affairs Canada

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons276,782

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories198,546

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions516,228

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata386,574

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

Source data IDs: us-cia-sri-lanka-mahinda-rajapaksa-prime-min · ca-sema-809bc1dbf7e7f6b349cd2f139b5fc098a5ba9478 · us-cia-sri-lanka-mahinda-rajapaksa-min-of-urban-development-housing · us-cia-sri-lanka-mahinda-rajapaksa-min-of-buddhasasana-religious-and-cultural-affairs · evpo-2ee4112c-ed43-4aa6-b298-8865208ee668 · us-cia-sri-lanka-mahinda-rajapaksa-min-of-finance · ca-sema-1-4-lk-mahinda-rajapaksa

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