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List Of Sri Lankan Britons
This is a list of notable people of Sri Lankan descent living in the United Kingdom. " Sri Lankan Britons" refers to all Sri Lankan ethnic groups. Business and Industry Most of the Srilankan Britons are doing businesses such as cornershops , petrol stationss , restaurants, jewellery stores, textiles, etc. * Subaskaran Allirajah, businessman and entrepreneur, founder of the Lycamobile, world's largest MVNO based in UK. * Karunamoorthy, film producer and founder of Ayngaran International. * Arjuna Sittampalam, financier. * Ratheesan Yoganathan, British entrepreneur, and founder of the Lebara. Academic * Nishan Canagarajah * Abhaya Induruwa * Sunitha Wickramasinghe Actors * Jai Akash * Tony Jayawardena * Amara Karan * Albert Moses * Romesh Ranganathan, British stand-up comedian, actor and presenter. * Kim Vithana Engineers * Cecil Balmond * Shini Somara * Kanagaratnam Sriskandan Lawyers * Desmond Lorenz de Silva Media Tamil media like IBC Tamil, Deepam TV are headquartered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Sri Lankans
British Sri Lankans ( si, බ්රිතාන්ය ශ්රී ලාංකිකයන්, , ta, பிரித்தானிய இலங்கையர்) are an ethnic group referring to British people who can trace their ancestry to Sri Lanka. It can refer to a variety of ethnicities and races, including Sinhalese, Tamils, Moors/Muslims and Burghers. History Pre-Independent Ceylon Since the times of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, Sri Lanka historically had contact with Western Europe by being a stop on the highly profitable trade routes between the West and the East, whether through Arabic traders or directly through Western European traders. The term "serendipity" comes from the Latin word used by Romans for the island. There may have contacts between Anglo-Saxon England and Sri Lanka as the rulers of East Anglia were part of an international culture stretching to the Baltic and far beyond. The objects discovered at Sutton Hoo included garnets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nishan Canagarajah
Cedric Nishan Canagarajah (born 1966) is a British Tamil academic and the current president and vice-chancellor of the University of Leicester. He was previously one of the pro-vice-chancellors of the University of Bristol. Early life and family Canagarajah was born in 1966 in Sri Lanka. His mother was a teacher. He was educated at St. John's College, Jaffna. After school he joined the University of Cambridge from where he received a BA honours degree in electronics and information sciences in 1989 and a Ph.D. in digital signal processing in 1993. Canagarajah is married to Thabitha. They have a daughter (Aarabi) and two sons (Sujan and Dheeran). Career Canagarajah joined the University of Bristol in 1993 as a research assistant. He was promoted to lecturer in 1994, senior lecturer in 1999 and reader in 2001. He became professor of multimedia signal processing in 2004. He was promoted to research director at the university's Faculty of Engineering in 2006 and head of Department ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IBC Tamil
IBC Tamil (The International Broadcasting Corporation for Tamil) is a mass media company offering 24-hour television, radio and online services to the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora. Headquartered in London, the company is licensed and regulated under European media law. In 2015, the company announced that it invested £2 million in state-of-the-art digital studio equipment. The channel now produces nearly all its video content in High Definition (HD) through its studios in UK, India & Sri Lanka. IBC Tamil is available on several third party DTH satellite and OTT platforms around the world such as Asian Television Network, YuppTV and YouTube Lately in 2021, IBC Tamil is rebranded fully as International Broadcasting Corporation Limited (IBC) in London and appointed Aninda Bhowmik as its Chief Executive Officer. History IBC Tamil was launched as a radio station in London in 1997. Since then, the media institution has operated under different organizations. From 2014 onwards, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desmond Lorenz De Silva
Sir George Desmond Lorenz de Silva, (13 December 1939 – 2 June 2018) was a British criminal law barrister and international lawyer who served as the United Nations Chief War Crimes Prosecutor in Sierra Leone. Early life Desmond de Silva was of Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan, English, and Scottish descent, and comes from a family of lawyers. He was the son of Fredrick de Silva MBE, formerly Ceylon's ambassador to France and Switzerland, and his wife Esme Gregg de Silva; a grandson of George E. de Silva; and a second cousin of Lasantha Wickrematunge. Educated at Dulwich College Preparatory School, London, and Trinity College, Kandy, Sri Lanka, de Silva trained as a barrister at the Middle Temple, London. "De Silva, Rt Hon. Sir Desmond (George Lorenz)", in '' Who's Who and Who Was Who'', online edition, https://doi.org/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U13560 Published 01 December 2018: "De Silva, Rt Hon. Sir Desmond (George Lorenz) (13 Dec. 1939–2 June 2018), QC 1984; international lawye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanagaratnam Sriskandan
Kanagaratnam Sriskandan (12 August 1930 – 21 April 2010) was a Sri Lankan born British engineer and civil servant. He was the former Chief Highway Engineer, of Under Secretary Grade at the British Department for Transport Sriskandan received his primary education at Jaffna Central College, and went on S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia briefly and completed his secondary education at Royal College Colombo. His father was Dr Kanagaratnam. He joined the Ceylon Technical College to study civil engineering, when the engineering of the Technical College was transferred to the newly established University of Ceylon. Joining Public Works Department as an Assistant Engineer, he left Ceylon in 1956 and migrated to Britain to specialize in bridge engineering. He was a member of the team that assessed proposals for the channel tunnel, Anglo-French Safety Authority, Council member of the British Standards Institute, Council of the Institution of Civil Engineers The Institution of Civ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shini Somara
Shini Somara (born Shini Somarathne, on 30 July 1979) is a British mechanical engineer, media broadcaster, producer and author. She has presented '' TechKnow'' on Al Jazeera America and reporting for various BBC shows including ''The Health Show''. She has also hosted two educational series of physics and engineering videos on the '' Crash Course'' YouTube channel for PBS Digital Studios. She has been a presenter on BBC America, Sky Atlantic, BBC1, BBC2, and PBS. Early life and education Somara is the eldest of three daughters born to a Sri Lanka-born mechanical engineer and his wife (both studied at South Bank University, formerly Borough Polytechnic Institute). Somara's father runs a mechanical engineering consultancy for building services. Born and raised in London, Somara studied at Henrietta Barnett School, and began her mechanical engineering career at Brunel University London, completing a Bachelors of Engineering before moving on to an engineering doctorate (EngD), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecil Balmond
Cecil Balmond OBE is a Sri Lankan–British designer, artist, and writer. In 1968 Balmond joined Ove Arup & Partners, leading him to become deputy chairman. In 2000 he founded design and research group, the AGU (Advanced Geometry Unit). He currently holds the Paul Philippe Cret Chair at PennDesign as Professor of Architecture where he is also the founding director of the Non Linear Systems Organization, a material and structural research unit. He has also been Kenzo Tange Visiting Design Critic at Harvard Graduate School of Architecture (2000), Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor at Yale University School of Architecture (1997-2002) and visiting fellow at London School of Economics Urban Cities Programme (2002-2004). In 2010 Balmond set up his own practice, Balmond Studio, with offices in London and Colombo. The research led practice is involved with art, architecture, design and consulting. One current project is the Gretna Landmark, Star of Caledonia for which Cecil is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Vithana
Kim Vithana (born 4 June 1970) is a British actress. She had acted in television serials '' Family Pride'', '' Specials'' and '' Firm Friends'' when the filmmaker Gurinder Chadha took her in ''Bhaji on the Beach'' to play the role of Ginder, a girl of Punjabi origin in England. The film brought her much recognition. She has worked mainly in television production. Among other roles, she is known for playing an Oriental Princess in ''The Phoenix and the Carpet'' (1997), Rosie Sattar in the television series '' Holby City'' from 2003 to 2005, Mike Baldwin's feisty solicitor Frances (Frankie) Stillman (1997-1998) and Doctor Bannerjee/Saira Habeeb in ''Coronation Street'', and Yvonne in ''Always and Everyone''. She has also appeared in ''Casualty'', ''EastEnders'', '' Cracker'', ''Love Hurts'', '' Dangerfield'' and ''North Square''. In 2004 she played Beth Downing in “Multistorey”, a two part episode of '' Waking the Dead''. Vithana has also worked on the ''Silver Street'' rad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romesh Ranganathan
Jonathan Romesh Ranganathan (born 27 March 1978), is an English actor and comedian. He is known for his deadpan and often self-deprecating comedy. Ranganathan has made numerous appearances on television comedy panel shows, and in 2016 he co-presented '' It's Not Rocket Science'' on ITV, alongside Rachel Riley and Ben Miller. He has also been a regular panellist on '' The Apprentice: You're Fired!'', '' Play to the Whistle'', and ''The Museum of Curiosity''. He completed his first major tour, Irrational Live, in 2016 in which he performed in large venues such as the Hammersmith Apollo. In 2018, Ranganathan joined ''A League of Their Own'' as a regular panellist, replacing Jack Whitehall. He has presented comedy programmes ''Judge Romesh'' and '' The Ranganation'', as well as starring in the travel programme '' The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan''. His autobiography is entitled ''Straight Outta Crawley''. In December 2021, Ranganathan began hosting the revival of ''The Weak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Moses
Albert Moses, KStJ (19 December 1937 – 15 September 2017) was a Sri Lankan actor based in the United Kingdom. He is best known for playing the role of Ranjeet Singh, a student in Jeremy Brown's EFL class in the popular British sitcom ''Mind Your Language'' and one of four students (along with Giovanni Capello, Juan Cervantes, and Anna Schmidt) to appear in all four series. Personal life He was born on 19 December 1937 in Gampola, Kandy. He started to work at the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya. Then he moved to Africa for employment and finally to London to learn drama and theatre. He was fluent in English, Arabic, Tamil, Sinhalese, moderate German and Sanskrit and excellent in fencing, dancing, singing, motor-cycle stunts, karate and judo. Moses died in September 2017 in London at the age of 79. He was buried at St. Andrew's Church in his native Gampola, Sri Lanka. Career He had begun to act by the 1960s in India where he appeared in several Bollywood films, then produced a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amara Karan
Amara Karunakaran (born 1984), known professionally as Amara Karan, is an English actress who made her film début as Rita in Wes Anderson's ''The Darjeeling Limited''. The film premièred at the 2007 Venice Film Festival. Karan's second film role was as schoolgirl Peaches in the 2007 film ''St Trinian's''. She made her stage début in 2008 as Jessica in an RSC production of ''The Merchant of Venice'' and as Bianca in an RSC production of ''The Taming of the Shrew''. With the latter, she made her West End debut at the Novello Theatre. In 2016, she co-starred on the HBO crime drama mini-series, ''The Night Of''. In 2012 she co-starred in the film ''A Fantastic Fear of Everything''. Background Karan was born in Wimbledon, London in 1984 to Sri Lankan Tamil parents who had emigrated from Zambia to Britain two years before she was born. She was brought up in Wimbledon and attended Wimbledon High School. Karan went on to study at St Catherine's College, Oxford and while there began ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Jayawardena
Anthony Surath Jayawardena is a British actor, known for his roles as Mr Bhamra in the West End musical '' Bend It Like Beckham the Musical'' and for his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare's Globe and Royal National Theatre. In 2018, he began portraying the role of Rashid Hyatt in the Channel 4 drama ''Ackley Bridge''. Career Jayawardena appears on the original cast recording of '' Bend It Like Beckham the Musical'', performing the songs "People Like Us" and "The Engagement: Look At Us Now". He was the original Abdul Kareem in the play ''The Empress'' by Tanika Gupta, which tells the story of Queen Victoria's relationship with The Munshi, a young man brought over from India to be her servant in the final 15 years of her life. He played Stephano in the RSC's production of '' The Tempest'', which partnered with Intel Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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