The following is a list of Sri Lankan sportspeople.

Archery

* Shashikala Kumarasinghe * Dilhara Salgado

Badminton

Nadeesha Gayanthi Nadeesha Gayanthi Murukkuwadura (born 6 September 1984) is a Sri Lankan badminton player. She was included in the national badminton team in 2006 and got the opportunity to represent Sri Lanka at the 2006 Asian Games competing in the women's sin ...

Thilini Hendahewa Thilini Pramodika Hendahewa (born 18 September 1996) is a Sri Lankan badminton player. She competed at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China, also at the 2014 and 2018 Commonwealth Games. Hendahewa was the women' singles champion at t ...

Thilini Jayasinghe Thilini Sudhara Jayasinghe (Sinhalese: තිලිනි සුනාරි ජයසිංහ; Tamils: திலினி சுனாரி ஜயசிங்க; born 15 January 1985) is a Sri Lankan badminton player. Born in Peradeniya, Jay ...

Chamika Karunaratne Edirimuni Chamika Dinushan Perera Karunaratne (born 29 May 1996) is a professional Sri Lankan cricketer who plays all three formats as well as a national badminton player. He made his international debut for the Sri Lanka cricket team in Februa ...

Dinuka Karunaratne Edirimuni Dinuka Nishan Perera Karunaratne ( Sinhala: දිනුක කරුණාරත්න; Tamil: தினுக கருணாரத்ன; born 6 October 1987) is a Sri Lankan badminton player. Personal life His father Louie Karuna ...

Niluka Karunaratne Niluka Karunaratne ( Sinhala: නිලූක කරුණාරත්න; Tamil: நிலுக கருணாரத்ன) (born 13 February 1985) is a Sri Lankan badminton player who has competed at the Olympics in 2012, 2016 and 2020. His ...

* Oshadie Kuruppu *

Inoka Rohini de Silva Inoka Rohini de Silva also commonly known as Inoka Rohini (born around 1971) is a Sri Lankan former badminton player. De Silva was a national badminton champion at the women's doubles in 1995, 1996, 1998 partnering with Chandrika de Silva. Inoka ...

* Lekha Shehani *

Chandrika de Silva Chandrika de Silva (Sinhalese: චන්ද්‍රිකා ද සිල්වා; Tamils: சந்திரிகா த சில்வா; born 24 February 1974) also known as Renu Chandrika Hettiarachchige is a Sri Lankan badminton ...

Kavidi Sirimannage Kavidi Ishadika Sirimannage (born 27 September 1995) is a Sri Lankan badminton player. In 2010, she won the mixed doubles title at the Sri Lanka Air Force Championships with Niluka Karunaratne. In 2015, she was crowned as the champion in the w ...

* Niroshan Wijekoon

Basketball

Billiards

Muhammad Lafir Muhammad Junaid Muhammad Lafir (27 May 1930 - 26 April 1981) also known as either Mohammed Lafir or M J M Lafir was a Sri Lankan snooker player. He won the IBSF Amateur World Championship in 1973 and is regarded as the greatest snooker player ...

Boxing

Manju Wanniarachchi Manju Dinesh Kumara Wanniarachchi ( si, මංජු දිනේෂ් කුමාර වන්නිආරච්චි) (born 2 December 1979) is a Sri Lankan amateur boxer. He won a gold medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in the bantamwei ...

Carrom

Nishantha Fernando Nishantha Fernando (born 8 February 1970) was a Sri Lankan cricketer. He was a right-arm bowler who played for Moratuwa Sports Club Moratuwa Sports Club was a first-class cricket team in Sri Lanka. It competed in the Premier Trophy, Sri Lanka' ...

* Chamil Cooray

Cricket

Cycling

* Maurice Coomarawel

Football

Golf

Mithun Perera K. Mithun Chamika Udayanga Perera (born 26 December 1986) is a Sri Lankan golfer. His father, Nandasena Perera, is also a notable golfer. As an amateur, Perera won the Sri Lanka Amateur three times as well as other Asian amateur events. He rep ...

Nandasena Perera K Nandasena Perera (29 August 1954 – 14 February 2019) was a Sri Lankan professional golfer. Early life Perera grew up in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Perera left school early to work for his family. He later got into golf while working as a caddy at t ...

Anura Rohana Anura Rohana (born 11 September 1973) is a Sri Lankan professional golfer. He plays primarily on the Professional Golf Tour of India, where he has won three times. He also plays on the Asian Tour The Asian Tour is the principal men's prof ...

Gymnastics

* Achini Chamen * Anna-Marie Ondaatje

Karate

* Wasantha Soysa

Netball

* Deepika Abeykoon * Kasturi Chellaraja Wilson * Gayani Dissanayake *

Chathurangi Jayasooriya Chathurangi Jayasooriya also spelled as Chathurangi Jayasuriya (born 10 July 1990) is a Sri Lankan netball player and the current captain of the Sri Lanka national netball team who plays in the positions of goal defense or goal keeper. She has ...

* Nauchalee Rajapakse * Elilenthini Sethukavalar *

Tharjini Sivalingam Tharjini Sivalingam (born 30 December 1978) is a former Sri Lankan veteran netball player and former skipper of the Sri Lankan national netball team. With her staggering height of 206 cm or a fraction under 6 ft 9in, she has been reco ...

* Dulangi Wannithilake * Mellony Wijesinghe

Racing

Ananda Wedisinghe Ananda Wedisinghe ( si, ආනන්ද වෙඩිසිංහ) (1970 – 29 May 2017) was a Sri Lankan motor racing legend and eight time Diyatalawa#Sporting events, Fox Hill Supercross motorcycle national champion of Sri Lanka. He hailed fr ...

Dilantha Malagamuwa Dilantha Ranjula Bandara Malagamuwa (Sinhalese: ඩිලන්ත රන්ජුල බණ්ඩාර මාලගමුව, Tamil: டிலந்த ரஞ்சுல (B)பண்டார மாலகமுவ ) (born 24 June 1963) is a ...

Rugby

Swimming

* Mathew Abeysinghe *

Cherantha de Silva Cherantha De Silva (born 12 July 1996) is a Sri Lankan medal-winning swimming (sport), swimmer, who has represented his country at 6 World Aquatics Championships, 3 FINA World Cup's, 2 Commonwealth Games, 1 Asian Games as well as 1 South Asian ...

Kimiko Raheem Kimiko Shihara Raheem (born 28 January 1999) is a Sri Lankan national swimmer who has represented her country at several international competitions. She represented her country at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She won multip ...

Mayumi Raheem Mayumi Raheem (born 15 September 1991) is a swimmer from Sri Lanka who won 3 gold medals at the 2006 South Asian Games in the Women's 50 metres, 100 meters and 200 metres breaststroke. She also won 5 silver medals and 5 bronze medals, bringing he ...

Table Tennis

* Dr. Nimal Lucas

Track & field athletes

Sriyantha Dissanayake Deshabandu Sriyantha Dissanayake (also known as Sriyantha Subashan Abeysekara Dissanayake) is a Sri Lankan sprint athlete specializing in the 100 and 200 metres. Early life and education Sriyantha was a champion athlete during his school days at ...

Manjula Kumara Manjula Kumara Pathiranage Wijesekara (born 30 January 1984 in Morawaka) is a Sri Lankan high jumper. He has been regarded as one of the most experienced high jumpers to have represented the country mainly in the Asian Games and Commonwealth Gam ...

Himasha Eashan Himasha Eshan Waththakankanamge is a Sri Lankan sprint athlete specializing in the 200 and 100 metres. He studied at the Kalutara Vidyalaya. He held the South Asian and Sri Lankan records in the 100 m sprint with the time of 10.26 seconds, until ...

Sugath Thilakaratne Deshabandu Robosingho Arachchilage Don Sugath Thilakaratne (born July 30, 1973 in Norton Bridge, Sri Lanka), commonly as Sugath Thilakaratne, is a Sri Lankan athlete who competed in the 400 metres The 400 metres, or 400-meter dash, is a sprin ...

* Tharushi Karunarathna

Weightlifting

* Sudesh Peiris *

Chinthana Vidanage Chinthana Geetal Vidanage (born December 31, 1981) is a Sri Lankan weightlifter. He won a gold medal in the men's 62 kg category weightlifting; the first weightlifting gold medal for Sri Lanka in the 2006 Commonwealth Games held in Austra ...