Maithripala Sirisena

**Pallewatte Gamaralalage Maithripala Yapa Sirisena **  (; ; ; born 3 September 1951) is a Sri Lankan politician and the 7th President of Sri Lanka from January 2015 through November 2019.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **honorific-prefix**: Excellency, His Excellency
- **name**: Maithripala Sirisena
- **native name**:
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- **image**: Maithripala- Russia (cropped).jpg
- **image size**: 250px
- **order1**: 7th
- **office1**: President of Sri Lanka
- **term start1**: 9 January 2015
- **term end1**: 18 November 2019
- **predecessor1**: Mahinda Rajapaksa
- **successor1**: Gotabaya Rajapaksa
- **primeminister1**: Ranil Wickremesinghe
- **office2**: Leader of the House (Sri Lanka), Leader of the House
- **term start2**: 3 May 2004
- **term end2**: 9 August 2005
- **predecessor2**: W. J. M. Lokubandara
- **successor2**: Nimal Siripala de Silva
- **president2**: Chandrika Kumaratunga
- **primeminister2**: Mahinda Rajapaksa
- **office3**: Minister of Defence (Sri Lanka), Minister of Defence
- **president3**: Himself
- **term start3**: 12 January 2015
- **term end3**: 18 November 2019
- **predecessor3**: Mahinda Rajapaksa
- **successor3**: Gotabaya Rajapaksa
- **primeminister3**: Ranil Wickremesinghe
- **office4**: Minister of Mahaweli Development and Environment
- **term start4**: 12 January 2015
- **term end4**: 18 November 2019
- **predecessor4**: Susil Premajayantha
- **president4**: Himself
- **primeminister4**: Ranil Wickremesinghe
- **term start5**: 23 November 2005
- **term end5**: 23 April 2010
- **successor5**: Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena
- **president5**: Mahinda Rajapaksa
- **primeminister5**: Ratnasiri Wickremanayake
- **office6**: Minister of Health (Sri Lanka), Minister of Health
- **term start6**: 23 April 2010
- **term end6**: 21 November 2014
- **predecessor6**: Nimal Siripala de Silva
- **successor6**: Tissa Attanayake
- **president6**: Mahinda Rajapaksa
- **primeminister6**: D. M. Jayaratne
- **office7**: Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resources Management, Minister of Irrigation, Mahaweli and Rajarata Development
- **term start7**: 10 April 2004
- **term end7**: 23 November 2005
- **president7**: Chandrika Kumaratunga
- **primeminister7**: Mahinda Rajapaksa
- **office8**: Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs (Sri Lanka), Minister of Mahaweli Development and Parliamentary Affairs
- **term start8**: 1997
- **term end8**: 2001
- **predecessor8**: S. B. Dissanayake
- **successor8**: A. H. M. Azwer
- **president8**: Chandrika Kumaratunga
- **primeminister8**: Ratnasiri Wickremanayake
 Sirimavo Bandaranaike
- **office9**: Chairman of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party
- **term start9**: 15 January 2015
- **term end9**: 18 November 2019
- **predecessor9**: Mahinda Rajapaksa
- **office10**: Commonwealth Chairperson-in-Office, 12th Chairperson-in-office of the Commonwealth of Nations
- **term start10**: 9 January 2015
- **term end10**: 27 November 2015
- **predecessor10**: Mahinda Rajapaksa
- **successor10**: Joseph Muscat
- **1blankname10**: Head of the Commonwealth, Head
- **1namedata10**: Elizabeth II
- **constituency mp11**: Polonnaruwa Electoral District, Polonnaruwa District
- **parliament11**: Sri Lankan
- **term start11**: 9 March 1989
- **term end11**: 9 January 2015
- **successor11**: Jayasinghe Bandara
- **birth name**: Pallewatte Gamaralalage Maithripala Yapa Sirisena
- **birth place**: Yagoda, Sri Lanka, Yagoda, Dominion of Ceylon
- **nationality**: Sri Lanka
- **party**: Sri Lanka Freedom Party

Communist Party of Ceylon

- **otherparty**: United People's Freedom Alliance

New Democratic Front (Sri Lanka), New Democratic Front

People's Alliance (Sri Lanka), People's Alliance

- **spouse**: Jayanthi Pushpa Kumari
- **children**: Chathurika
Daham
Dharani
- **alma mater**: Royal Central College, Polonnaruwa
Agriculture School, Kundasale
Maxim Gorky Literature Institute
- **occupation**: Politician
- **signature**: Signature of Maithripala Sirisena.svg