Ranil Wickremesinghe

**Ranil Wickremesinghe**, MP (, ; born 24 March 1949) is a Sri Lankan politician who was the 9th President of Sri Lanka from 2022 until 2024. He was the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 12 May 2022 until 20 July 2022. He was Prime Minister before from 1993 to 1994, 2001 to 2004 and 2015 to 2019.

Before, he was Prime Minister of Sri Lanka two times, from 7 May 1993 to 19 August 1994 and from 9 December 2001 to 6 April 2004. A member of the United National Party he was nominated as party leader in November 1994. He is also the leader of the United National Front having been nominated head of the organization in October 2009.

On 9 July 2022, Wickremesinghe announced he was ready to resign to make way for an all-party government as protesters stormed and burned his residence that day. Later in the evening, protesters broke into the Wickremesinghe's private residence in Colombo and set it on fire.

On 15 July 2022, Wickremesinghe was nominated as the United National Party's presidential nominee for the 2022 presidential election. He was elected president on 20 July 2022 and was sworn-in the next day.

Wickremesinghe lost his re-election in 2024, winning 17.2% of the vote.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **honorific prefix**: The Right Honourable
- **name**: Ranil Wickremesinghe
- **native name**:

- **image**: Prime Minister of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Mr. Ranil Wickremesinghe, at Hyderabad House, in New Delhi on November 23, 2017.jpg
- **office**: 9th President of Sri Lanka
- **primeminister**: Dinesh Gunawardena
- **predecessor**: Gotabaya Rajapaksa
- **successor**: Anura Kumara Dissanayake
- **term start**: 21 July 2022
- **term end**: 23 September 2024

- **office1**: Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
- **term start1**: 12 May 2022
- **term end1**: 20 July 2022
- **president1**: Gotabaya Rajapaksa
- **predecessor1**: Mahinda Rajapaksa
- **successor1**: Dinesh Gunawardena
- **term start2**: 15 December 2018
- **term end2**: 21 November 2019
- **president2**: Maithripala Sirisena
Gotabaya Rajapaksa
- **predecessor2**: Mahinda Rajapaksa
- **successor2**: Mahinda Rajapaksa
- **term start3**: 9 January 2015
- **term end3**: 26 October 2018
- **president3**: Maithripala Sirisena
- **predecessor3**: D. M. Jayaratne
- **successor3**: Mahinda Rajapaksa
- **term start4**: 9 December 2001
- **term end4**: 6 April 2004
- **president4**: Chandrika Kumaratunga
- **predecessor4**: Ratnasiri Wickremanayake
- **successor4**: Mahinda Rajapaksa
- **term start5**: 7 May 1993
- **term end5**: 18 August 1994
- **president5**: Dingiri Banda Wijetunga
- **predecessor5**: Dingiri Banda Wijetunga
- **successor5**: Chandrika Kumaratunga
- **office6**: 10th Leader of the Opposition (Sri Lanka), Leader of the Opposition
- **term start6**: 22 April 2004
- **term end6**: 9 January 2015
- **president6**: Chandrika Kumaratunga
Mahinda Rajapaksa
- **primeminister6**: Mahinda Rajapaksa
 Ratnasiri Wickremanayake
D. M. Jayaratne
- **predecessor6**: Mahinda Rajapaksa
- **successor6**: Nimal Siripala de Silva
- **term start7**: 28 October 1994
- **term end7**: 10 October 2001
- **president7**: Chandrika Kumaratunga
- **primeminister7**: Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake
- **predecessor7**: Gamini Dissanayake
- **successor7**: Ratnasiri Wickremanayake
- **birth name**: Ranil Wickremesinghe
- **birth place**: Colombo, Dominion of Ceylon
- **nationality**: Demographics of Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan
- **party**: United National Party
- **residence**: 115 Fifth Lane
- **alma mater**: University of Ceylon
- **profession**: Attorneys in Sri Lanka, Attorney at law