Sirimavo Bandaranaike
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Prime Minister of Ceylon from 1960–65, 1970–77, and 1994–2000
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sirima Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike , 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 in 1960. She chaired the Sri Lanka Freedom Party from 1960 to 1994 and served three terms as prime minister, two times as the chief executive, 1960 to 1965 and 1970 to 1977, and once again in a presidential system from 1994 to 2000, governing under the presidency of her daughter Chandrika Kumaratunga.
