SRI LANKA Prime minister Don Stephen Senanayake 1884-1952 Prime minister 1947-52 Dudley S Senanayake 1911-1973 Prime minister 1952-53 John Kotelawala 1897-1980 Prime minister 1953-56 Solomon Bandaranaike 1899-1959 Prime minister 1956-59 Vijayananda Dahanayake 1902-1997 Prime minister 1959-60 Dudley S Senanayake 1911-1973 Prime minister 1960 Sirimavo Bandaranaike 1916-2000 Prime minister 1960-65 Dudley S Senanayake 1911-1973 Prime minister 1965-70 Sirimavo Bandaranaike 1916-2000 Prime minister 1970-77 Junius Jayawardene 1906-1996 Prime minister 1977-78 Ranasinghe Premadasa 1924-1993 Prime minister 1978-89 Dingiri Banda Wijetunge 1922 Prime minister 1989-93 Ranil Wickremasinghe 1949 Prime minister 1993-94 Chandrika Kumaratunga 1945 Prime minister 1994 Sirimavo Bandaranaike 1916-2000 Prime minister 1994-2000 Ratnasiri Wickremanayake 1933 Prime minister 2000-01 Ranil Wickremasinghe 1949 Prime minister 2001-04 Mahinda Rajapakse 1945 Prime minister 2004-05 Ratnasiri Wickremanayake 1933 Prime minister 2005-