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Sirimavo Bandaranaike is a politician, diplomat born in Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka).
Sirima Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike (; Sinhala: සිරිමා රත්වත්තේ ඩයස් බණ්ඩාරනායක; Tamil: சிறிமா ரத்வத்தே டயஸ் பண்டாரநாயக்கே; 17 April 1916 – 10 October 2000), commonly known as Sirimavo Bandaranaike, was a Sri Lankan politician. She was the world's first female prime minister when she became Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (then the Dominion of Ceylon) in 1960. She chaired the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) from 1960 to 1994 and served three terms as prime minister, two times as the chief executive, from 1960 to 1965 and from 1970 to 1977, and once again in a presidential system from 1994 to 2000, governing under the presidency of her daughter Chandrika Kumaratunga. Born into a Sinhalese Kandyan aristocratic family, Bandaranaike was educated in Catholic, English-medium schools, but remained a Buddhist and spoke Sinhala as well as English.
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| Born | 17 April 1916, Sri Lanka |
| Profession | politician, diplomat |
| Nationality | Sri Lanka |
| Educated at | St Bridget's Convent, Colombo |
| Spouse | S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike |
| Children | Anura Bandaranaike, Chandrika Kumaratunga, Sunethra Bandaranaike |
| Moon Sign (Rashi) | Virgo |
| Nakshatra | Hasta (Pada 4) |
| Sun Sign | Aries |
| Ascendant (Lagna) | Gemini |
| Birth data reliability | Reference |
Birth details come from a published reference (source: Lagna Phal (Garg)) and have not been checked against a birth record, so the Moon sign is usually right but the Ascendant could differ.
Computed with Swiss Ephemeris (Lahiri ayanamsa).
Our library holds 385 politicians with a computed Vedic chart from reliable birth data. 34 of them (9%) have the Moon in Virgo, like Sirimavo Bandaranaike, and 16 (4%) share the Hasta Nakshatra — the #9 most common Moon Nakshatra among politicians, where Uttara Bhadrapada leads with 25 (6%).
For scale, an even spread would put about 3.7% in each of the 27 Nakshatras and 8.3% in each Moon sign. These are simple counts from our dataset, not a prediction.
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Sirimavo Bandaranaike was born on 17 April 1916 in Sri Lanka. Birth details come from a published reference (source: Lagna Phal (Garg)) and have not been checked against a birth record, so the Moon sign is usually right but the Ascendant could differ.
Sirimavo Bandaranaike's Moon sign (Rashi) is Virgo and the Nakshatra is Hasta, pada 4, computed with Swiss Ephemeris using the Lahiri ayanamsa.
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