Bandaranaike family

**The Bandaranaike family**
Current region	Colombo
Place of origin	Atthanagalla
Members	Solomon Dias Bandaranaike S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike Sirimavo Bandaranaike Chandrika Bandaranaike Anura Bandaranaike
Connected members	Vijaya Kumaranatunga Jeewan Kumaranatunga Ranjan Ramanayake
Traditions	Theravada Buddhism
Estate	Horagolla Walauwa

The Bandaranaike family ^[1] is a Sri Lankan family that is prominent in politics. Along with many members who have been successful politician across generations, the family includes three Prime Ministers and one President of Sri Lanka.

Horagolla Walauwa, Atthanagalla. family seat of the Bandaranaike family

Family Tree

S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon

Don Francisco Dias Wijetunga Bandaranaike (born 1720), Mudaliyar Hewagam Korale + Dona MarKumarathunga
- Conrad Pieter Dias Wijewardena Bandaranaike, Maha Mudliyar
  - Jacabus Dias Wijewardena Bandaranaike (born 1780), Mudaliyar of Governor Gate & Translator of Supreme Court + Liyanage Catherine Philipsz Panditharatne
    - Rev Canon Samuel William Dias Bandaranaike + Cornelia Susanna Elizabeth Dias Bandaranaike
      - Felix Reginold Dias Bandaranaike (1861–1947) + Annie Lucy (Florence) de Alwis (1864–1920)
        Reginald Felix Dias Bandaranaike (1891–1951), Judge of the Supreme Court + Freda Dias Abeysinghe
        Felix Dias Bandaranaike (1930–1985), Government Minister, Member of Parliament
- Don Daniel Dias Banaranaike + Dona Clara Amarasekere
  - Don Solomon Dias Bandaranaike (-1859), Mudaliyar of Siyane Korale, 1st Udagaha Mudaliyar + Cornelia Philipsz Panditharatne de Saram
    - Don Christoffel Henricus Dias Abeywickrema Jayatilake Seneviratne Bandaranaike (born 1826), Mudaliyar Governors Gate and 2nd Udagaha Mudaliyar + Anna Florentina Philipsz Panditharatne
      - Sir Solomon Dias Bandaranaike JP (1862–1946), Maha Mudaliyar + Daisy Ezline Obeyesekere
        S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (1899–1959), Prime Minister of Ceylon, Government Minister, Member of Parliament, Member of State Council + Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916–2000), Prime Minister of Ceylon, Member of Parliament, Senator
        Sunethra Bandaranaike (born c. 1943), politician and socialite
        
        Chandrika Bandaranaike (born 1945), President of Sri Lanka, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Member of Parliament, Chief Minister of Western Province, Provincial Councillor + Vijaya Kumaratunga (1945–1988), actor and politician
        Yashodara Sirimavo Kumarathunga Walker
        
        Vimukthi Kumaratunga
        
        Anura Bandaranaike (1949–2008); Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka, Government Minister, Member of Parliament

Other members of the family include;

(also related to Ratwatte family, William Gopallawa, A.R. Udugama, Hector Kobbekaduwa, Jeewan Kumaranatunga)

See alao

List of political families in Sri Lanka

References

↑ "Bandaranaike family". Retrieved 19 September 2015.

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