The following is a list of

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

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* Nicholas Attygalle * Sarath Amunugama * Arisen Ahubudu * Lalith Athulathmudali *

Arthur C. Clarke Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (16 December 191719 March 2008) was an English science-fiction writer, science writer, futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host. He co-wrote the screenplay for the 1968 film '' 2001: A Spac ...

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Seneka Bibile Senaka Bibile ( Sinhala:සේනක බිබිලේ) (13 February 1920 – 29 September 1977) was a Sri Lankan pharmacologist. He was the founder of Sri Lanka's drug policy, which was used as a model for development of policies based on r ...

* Osmund Bopearachchi

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Cyril Ponnamperuma Dr. Cyril Andrew Ponnamperuma ( Sinhala: ආචාර්ය සිරිල් ඇන්ඩෘ පොන්නම්පෙරුම) (16 October 1923 – 20 December 1994) was a Sri Lankan scientist in the fields of chemical evolution and ...

* Muhammad Monty Cassim * Asantha Cooray

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* William de Alwis *

Malathi de Alwis Malathi de Alwis (6th Oct 1963-21 Jan 2021, also known as Mala de Alwis) was a Sri Lankan anthropologist. She taught at the International Centre for Ethnic Studies and the Faculty of Graduate Studies at the University of Colombo. She wrote about m ...

David de Kretser David Morritz de Kretser, (born 27 April 1939) is an Australian medical researcher who served as the 27th Governor of Victoria, from 2006 to 2011. Early life and medical career David de Kretser was born in British Ceylon (now known as Sri Lank ...

Nalin de Silva Thakurartha Devadithya Guardiyawasam Lindamulage Nalin Kumara de Silva ( Sinhala: නලින් ද සිල්වා; born 20 October 1944) is a Sri Lankan philosopher and a political analyst. He is the current Sri Lankan ambassador in Mya ...

* Mahinda Deegalle *

Colvin R. de Silva Colvin Reginald de Silva (1907 – 27 February 1989; commonly known as Colvin R. de Silva) was a Cabinet Minister of Plantation Industries and Constitutional Affairs, prominent member of parliament, Trotskyist leader and lawyer in Sri Lanka. ...

* Paules Edward Pieris Deraniyagala * Chandre Dharma-wardana * J B Disanayake * Siran Upendra Deraniyagala

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* Hema Ellawala

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Devaka Fernando Devaka Fernando is a Sri Lankan physician and academic. He was president of the Osteoporosis Society of Sri Lanka and the Founding Professor of Medicine at the University of Sri Jayawardanapura. Education Fernando was educated at Dean Row Sch ...

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Lalith Gamage Professor Lalith Gamage , MBCS, MIEE is a Sri Lankan academic. He is a professor, currently serving as the president and Chief Executive Officer of Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology, a position he has held since the beginning of th ...

Brendon Gooneratne Brendon Gooneratne (28 March 1938 – 21 June 2021) was a Sri Lankan scholarly method, scholar and physician. Educated at Royal College Colombo, Gooneratne gained his MBBS (Hons) from the University of Ceylon, Colombo and went on to gain a DAPE f ...

Savitri Goonesekere Savitri Goonesekere is a jurist and academic from Sri Lanka. She is an international expert on the rights of children. Education Goonesekere studied at Ladies' College, Colombo, and obtained arts and law degrees at the University of Peradeniy ...

Sarath Gunapala Sri Lanka Ranajana Dr Sarath Gunapala ( Sinhala:සරත් ගුණපාල) is a solid-state physicist, senior research scientist and group supervisor at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He works primarily in Quantum Well Infrared Photo ...

Ananda W.P. Guruge Ananda Wahihana Palliya Guruge (28 December 1928 – 6 August 2014), known as Ananda W.P. Guruge, was a Sri Lankan diplomat, Buddhist scholar and writer. Guruge was the former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Sri Lanka to UNESCO, ...

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* George Morrison Reid Henry

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Abhaya Induruwa Abhaya Induruwa ( si, අභය ඉඳුරුව) is the inaugural Professor V K Samaranayake Endowed Professor of Computing, University of Colombo School of Computing, Sri Lanka. Having served as the Director of Cyber Innovation Hub he rece ...

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* Osmund Jayaratne *

C. L. V. Jayathilake Emeritus Professor C.L.V Jayathilake, FIESL, JP is a Sri Lankan engineer and academic. He was the chancellor of Wayamba University and the former vice chancellor of the University of Peradeniya. Education Jayathilake was educated at the Roy ...

K. N. Jayatilleke Kulatissa Nanda Jayatilleke (1 November 1920 – 23 July 1970) was an internationally recognised authority on Buddhist philosophy whose book ''Early Buddhist Theory of Knowledge'' has been described as "an outstanding philosophical interpretatio ...

Kumari Jayawardena Kumari Jayawardena ( si, කුමාරි ජයවර්ධන; born 1931) is a leading feminist activist and academic in Sri Lanka. Her work is part of the canon of Third-world feminism which conceptualizes feminist philosophies as indigen ...

* Amal Jayawardane * Lal Jayawardane

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Kusuma Karunaratne Kusuma Karunaratne ''nee'' Ediriweera Jayasooriya (born November 21, 1940) is a Sri Lankan academic, university administrator, Professor and scholar of Sinhala language, Sinhalese language and literature. Personal life Kusuma Jayasooriya was born ...

Sam Karunaratne Samarajeewa "Sam" Karunaratne, FIET, FIEE, FIESL (born in 1937) is an emeritus professor of engineering and a leading Sri Lankan academic who is the founding chancellor and president of the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology and th ...

* Karunasena Kodituwakku *

Kollupitiye Mahinda Sangharakkhitha Thera Kollupitiye Mahinda Sangharakkhitha Thera is the Chief Incumbent (Chief Priest) of the Kelaniya Raja Maha Vihara and Head of the Buddhist and Pali Faculty of the University of Kelaniya. Early life Educated at the Royal College, Colombo, He was ...

* Sarath Kotagama * S.R. Kottegoda * Edward Frederick Kelaart * W. S. Karunaratne

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* Sunanda Mahendra * Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera *

Patrick Mendis Patrick Mendis (born 1960) is an educator, diplomat, author, and executive in government service in the United States. A former American diplomat and military professor during the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations, he held various positions ...

* Susirith Mendis *

Mohan Munasinghe Mohan Munasinghe is a Sri Lankan physicist, engineer and economist with a focus on energy, water resources, sustainable development and climate change. He was the 2021 Blue Planet Prize Laureate, and Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on ...

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* T. Nadaraja

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Gananath Obeyesekere Gananath Obeyesekere is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University and has done much work in his home country of Sri Lanka. His research focuses on psychoanalysis and anthropology and the ways in which personal symbolism is relat ...

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Senarath Paranavithana Senarath Paranavitana ( Sinhala:සෙනරත් පරණවිතාන) (26 December 1896 – 4 October 1972) was a pioneering archeologist and epigraphist of Sri Lanka. His works dominated Sri Lankan archaeology and history in the middl ...

* Ajith C. S. Perera *

E.O.E. Pereira Sri Lankan honours system, Vidya Jyothi E. O. Eustace Pereira (13 September 1907 – 1988) was a Sri Lankan Engineer and Academic. He was the Vice Chancellor of the University of Ceylon, where he founded the Faculty of Engineering. He was kno ...

* G. L. Peiris * Malik Peiris *

N. M. Perera Nanayakkarapathirage Martin Perera, commonly known as Dr. N. M. Perera ( Sinhala එන්.එම්.පෙරේරා ; 6 June 1904 – 14 August 1979), was one of the leaders of the Sri Lankan Trotskyist Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP). He w ...

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* Walpola Rahula * Suri Ratnapala * Kavan Ratnatunga

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* V. K. Samaranayake *

Ediriweera Sarachchandra Dr. Veditantirige Eustace Reginold de Silva (later became Veditantirige Ediriweera Ranjitha Sarachchandra) (3 June 1914 – 16 August 1996; Sinhala: මහාචාර්ය එදිරිවීර සරච්චන්ද්‍ර), popularly ...

Regi Siriwardena Kala Keerthi Regi Siriwardena (15 May 1922 – 15 December 2004) was a Sri Lankan academic, journalist, poet, writer, playwright and writer of screenplays. Early life and education Reginald Siriwardena (known as 'Reggie' until the 1980s) wa ...

Visvanatha Sastriyar Visvanatha Sastriyar (or Visvanathan) (1756–1845) was a Tamil poet and astronomer of Sri Lankan Tamil ancestry. Sir Emerson Tennent called him "the most celebrated astronomer in Ceylon". Early life Visvanatha Sastriyar was born in Araly in ...

* Priyani Soysa

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Deepika Udagama Dr. Deepika Udagama is a Sri Lankan professor, academic administrator, human rights activist and also served as the Head of the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka. She has served as the head of the Department of Law and at the University of Pera ...

Jayadeva Uyangoda Jayadeva Uyangoda is a political scientist and constitutional expert in Sri Lanka. Uyangoda Maha Radage Jamis as his name appeared in the birth certificate, Uyangoda was a leftist student leader and a member of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JV ...

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T. Varagunam T. Varagunam, FRCP was a Sri Lankan academic, physician. He was the Chancellor of the Eastern University of Sri Lanka The Eastern University Sri Lanka (abbreviated as EUSL) is a public university in Vantharumoolai, Eastern Province, Sri ...

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* Frank Wall *

Deepal Warakagoda Deepal Warakagoda (born 1965) is a prominent Sri Lankan ornithologist. His early working career was in electronics, but for many years he has studied birds and also works as a professional guide for birding tours of the island. He is mostly known ...

Wickrema Weerasooria Wickrema Weerasooria was a Sri Lankan lawyer, civil servant, diplomat and an academic. He was the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Plan Implementation, former Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Australia and New Zealand. He served as Sri ...

* Tilak Weerasooriya *

Chandra Wickramasinghe Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe (born 20 January 1939) is a Sri Lankan-born British mathematician, astronomer and astrobiologist of Sinhalese people, Sinhalese ethnicity. His research interests include the interstellar medium, infrared astronomy, ...

* Maitree Wickramasinghe *

Nira Wickramasinghe Nira Konjit Wickramasinghe is professor of modern South Asian studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands and a well known international academic. She was a professor in the department of history and international relations, University of Co ...

Anton Wicky (born September 26, 1936) is an educator and celebrity in Japan. His full name is Anton Wicky Ampalavanar. He was born in Ceylon and went to Japan in 1961 as a Mombusho scholar. In 1969 he earned a doctorate from the University of Tokyo. His t ...

* M.J.S.Wijeratne * Rajiva Wijesinha

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* A. P. de Zoysa

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