Academics

• Christie Jayaratnam Eliezer
  Christie Jayaratnam Eliezer
  Christie Jayaratnam Eliezer, AM , known as C.J. Eliezer, was a Sri Lanka-born Australian academic of Sri Lankan Tamil origin who held positions in mathematics faculties in universities in Colombo, Kuala Lumpur, and Melbourne, Australia.After his undergraduate education in Sri Lanka, he studied...
  
   - academic
• Sisira Jayasuriya
  Sisira Jayasuriya
  Sisira Jayasuriya, is professor of Economics at La Trobe University, Melbourne. He has extensive experience with research and policy advisory activities on agricultural and trade...
  
   - professor of Economics
  Economics
  Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
  
   at La Trobe University
  La Trobe University
  La Trobe University is a multi-campus university in Victoria, Australia. It was established in 1964 by an Act of Parliament to become the third oldest university in the state of Victoria. The main campus of La Trobe is located in the Melbourne suburb of Bundoora; two other major campuses are...
  
  
• Christopher Weeramantry
  Christopher Weeramantry
  Sri Lankabhimanya Christopher Gregory Weeramantry was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka from 1967 to 1972. He was a Judge of the International Court of Justice from 1991 to 2000, and was Vice-President of the ICJ from 1997 to 2000...
  
   - Emeritus Professor at Monash University
  Monash University
  Monash University is a public university based in Melbourne, Victoria. It was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. Monash is a member of Australia's Group of Eight and the ASAIHL....
  
  
• Jananie Balendran - Medical Researcher and Academic at UNSW

Business people

• Maha Sinnathamby
  Maha Sinnathamby
  Maha Sinnathamby is a Malaysian Australian businessman and property developer of Tamil ancestry. He lived in a rubber estate Rantau before moving to Australia and becoming an entrepreneur with a vision to build an entire city....
  
   property developer and is the man behind Australia's largest real estate project. Frequently listed in BRW's annual list of the 200 richest Australians.
• Shanaka Fernando - founder of Melbourne not-for-profit restaurant
  Restaurant
  A restaurant is an establishment which prepares and serves food and drink to customers in return for money. Meals are generally served and eaten on premises, but many restaurants also offer take-out and food delivery services...
  
   group 'Lentil
  Lentil
  The lentil is an edible pulse. It is a bushy annual plant of the legume family, grown for its lens-shaped seeds...
  
   As Anything' (joke on rock group Mental as Anything
  Mental As Anything
  Mental As Anything are an Australian New Wave–rock music band formed at an art school in Sydney in 1976. Their most popular line-up was Martin Plaza on vocals and guitar; Reg Mombassa on lead guitar and vocals; his brother Peter "Yoga Dog" O'Doherty on bass guitar and vocals; Wayne "Bird"...
  
  ). 2007 Australian Local Hero Award recipient.

Media

• Vernon Abeysekera
  Vernon Abeysekera
  Vernon Abeysekera, CCS was a Sri Lankan civil servant. He was the former Postmaster General, Director of Radio Ceylon and Government Agent.He was educated at Royal College Colombo and went to the University College Colombo, then an affiliated University of London. Thereafter he joined the...
  
   - Director of Radio Ceylon and civil servant
• Jamie Durie
  Jamie Durie
  Jamie Durie is an Australian landscaper and television personality. Formerly a prominent personality for the Nine Network, Durie has hosted a variety of programs for them, mostly "lifestyle" shows, such as Backyard Blitz, Renovation Rescue and The Block.Jamie previously was the host of the Seven...
  
   - Seven Network media personality
• Pria Viswalingam
  Pria Viswalingam
  Pria Viswalingam is a prominent Australian documentary and filmmaker. He is of Tamil Sri Lankan ancestry and was born in 1962 in Malaysia. He was schooled there, as well as in Britain, Singapore and Australia...
  
   - SBS Journalist

Musicians

• Alston Koch
  Alston Koch
  Alston Koch, is a Sri Lankan-born singer-songwriter, record producer, international recording and television star, and the Ambassador for Tourism for Sri Lanka...
  
   - Australian musician
• Guy Sebastian
  Guy Sebastian
  Guy Theodore Sebastian is an Australian pop, R&B, and soul singer-songwriter who was the first winner of Australian Idol in 2003. He is currently a judge on the Australian version of The X Factor. Sebastian has released six top ten platinum/multi platinum albums, including a number-one and...
  
   - The first winner of Australian Idol
  Australian Idol
  Australian Idol is a Logie Award-winning Australian singing competition, which began its first season on July 2003 and ended its run in November 2009. As part of the Idol franchise, Australian Idol originated from the reality program Pop Idol, which was created by British entertainment executive...
  
  
• Keith Potger
  Keith Potger
  Keith Potger is one of the founding members of the Australian pop-folk group The Seekers. He was born in Ceylon and is of Burgher descent. In the Seekers, he played twelve string guitar and banjo, and sang...
  
   - musician, founding member of The Seekers
  The Seekers
  The Seekers are an Australian folk-influenced pop music group which were originally formed in 1962. They were the first Australian popular music group to achieve major chart and sales success in the United Kingdom and the United States...
  
  
• Cliff Foenander
  Cliff Foenander
  Cliff Foenander was a Sri Lankan musician who performed in South East Asia and Las Vegas. Cliff died 21 November 2000.-Career:Cliff grew up in Colombo, and in the 1950s he started performing in clubs and dances around Ceylon....
  
  - leading musician with The Fabulous Echoes
• Kamahl
  Kamahl
  Kamahl is the stage name of Kandiah Kamalesvaran , an Australian singer and recording artist, perhaps best known for "The Elephant Song", and his repertoire of popular music.-Early life:...
  
   - singer and actor (born Malaysia)
• Candy Devine
  Candy Devine
  Candy Devine is an Australian born broadcaster, singer, and actress. Her real name is Faye McLeod . She is presently a radio broadcaster and singer in Northern Ireland, and lives in Belfast with her husband, Donald McLeod....
  
   - musician and actress
• Desmond Kelly
  Desmond Kelly
  Desmond Kelly is a Ceylonese musician who has entertained in Sri Lanka and in Australia. He was born in Colombo in 1936.-Songs on Radio Ceylon:...
  
   - musician and actor
• Amali Ward – Australian Idol
  Australian Idol
  Australian Idol is a Logie Award-winning Australian singing competition, which began its first season on July 2003 and ended its run in November 2009. As part of the Idol franchise, Australian Idol originated from the reality program Pop Idol, which was created by British entertainment executive...
  
  contestant/singer

Politics

• David de Kretser
  David de Kretser
  David Morritz de Kretser, AC is an Australian medical researcher and a former Governor of Victoria from 2006 to 2011.-Biography:...
  
   - Governor of Victoria
• Palitha Kohona
  Palitha Kohona
  Palitha T. B. Kohona is a Sri Lankan born diplomat. He is the current the Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the UN. Until August 2009 he was the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Sri Lanka and was the former Secretary-General of the Secretariat for...
  
   - Former Permanent Secretary to the Sri Lankan Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Anton Muttukumaru
  Anton Muttukumaru
  Major General Anton M. Muttukumaru, OBE, ED, ADC, CLI was the first Ceylonese Army officer to serve as Commander of the Ceylon Army , a post he held from 1955 to 1959. He also served as Ceylon's High Commissioner to Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan and Ambassador to Egypt.-Early life and...
  
   - ex Army Commander of Ceylon and high Commissioner to Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan and Ambassador to Egypt
• Siva Pasupathy - Former Attorney General of Sri Lanka
• Jude Perera
  Jude Perera
  Jude Perera is the State Member for Cranbourne District in the Victorian Legislative Assembly.Perera was born in Sri Lanka, and received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Jaffna...
  
   - State Member for Cranbourne District
  Electoral district of Cranbourne
  The Electoral District of Cranbourne is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It is located south-east of Melbourne and is based around the suburbs of Cranbourne, Carrum Downs, Langwarrin, Seaford, Skye, and Frankston North...
  
   in the Victorian Legislative Assembly
  Victorian Legislative Assembly
  The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the Parliament of Victoria in Australia. Together with the Victorian Legislative Council, the upper house, it sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Melbourne.-History:...
  
  

Religion

• Ameer Ali
  Ameer Ali
  Ameer Ali is the ex-President of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, an umbrella group for various Islamic groups or councils in Australia...
  
   - ex-President of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils
  Australian Federation of Islamic Councils
  The Australian Federation of Islamic Councils was founded in 1964 as an umbrella group for various Islamic groups or councils, and is considered Australia's most important Islamic organisation. The mission of AFIC is to provide service to the community in a manner that is in accordance with the...
  
  
• Gangodawila Soma Thero
  Gangodawila Soma Thero
  Gangodawila Soma Thero was a pioneer Buddhist monk from Sri Lanka. Following tradition, he used the name of his birthplace, Gangodawila, in front of his name...
  
   - Chief incumbent of Buddhist Temple Victoria
• Roger Herft
  Roger Herft
  Roger Adrian Herft is a bishop in the Anglican Church of Australia. He has been the Archbishop of Perth since 2005.Born in Wattegama, Sri Lanka, Herft studied at the Royal College in Colombo, later training for the ministry at United Theological College of Lanka in Pilimatalawe, receiving a B.Th....
  
   - Archbishop of Perth
• Danny Nalliah
  Danny Nalliah
  Danny Nalliah is an Australian Christian evangelist pastor and young earth creationist. He is the leader of Rise Up Australia, a prayer organisation, and the President of Catch the Fire Ministries. Danny Nalliah successfully defended a law suit commenced by the Islamic Council of Victoria under...
  
   - Christian evangelist pastor

Sports People

• Asanka Gurusinha
  Asanka Gurusinha
  Asanka Pradeep Gurusinha is a former Sri Lankan cricketer who enjoyed an 11-year international career, playing 41 Tests and 147 One Day Internationals for Sri Lanka. He was a specialist batsman who helped win the 1996 World Cup final with 65 in a partnership of 125 with the final's Man of the...
  
   - cricketer
• Athula Samarasekera
  Athula Samarasekera
  Maitipage Athula Rohitha Samarasekera is a former Sri Lankan cricketer who played four Tests and 39 ODIs between 1983 to 1994....
  
   - cricketer
• Roshan Mahanama
  Roshan Mahanama
  Roshan Siriwardene Mahanama is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and currently an ICC match referee.Although he averaged less than 30 at Test cricket, he did score four centuries, including a top score of 225 for the Sri Lankan cricket team against India at Colombo, where he shared a then world record...
  
   - cricketer
• Saliya Ahangama
  Saliya Ahangama
  Franklyn Saliya Ahangama is a former Sri Lankan cricketer who played in 3 Tests and one ODI in 1985. He would have played more tests, having a bowling average of 19, but retired due to constant injury. He then became a comentator. Saliya is now a cricket coach at the Melbourne Sports Stadium,...
  
   - cricketer and coach
• Chandika Hathurusingha
  Chandika Hathurusingha
  Upul Chandika Hathurusingha is a former Sri Lankan cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler....
  
   - cricketer and coach
• Gamini Goonesena
  Gamini Goonesena
  Gamini Goonesena , born in Colombo, was a Sri Lankan first-class cricketer prior to his country being granted Test status...
  
   - cricketer
• Dav Whatmore
  Dav Whatmore
  Davenell Frederick Whatmore is a former international cricketer who represented Australia. He had a very short international career from March 1979 to January 1980 in which he played just 7 Test matches and 1 One Day International...
  
   - coach of the Sri Lanka
  Sri Lanka
  Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...
  
   and Bangladesh
  Bangladesh
  Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...
  
   cricket teams
• Ravi Ratnayeke
  Ravi Ratnayeke
  Joseph Ravindran 'Ravi' Ratnayeke is a former Sri Lankan cricketer who batted right-handed and bowled medium pace. Ratnayeke played 22 Tests and 78 ODIs from 1982 to 1990, his Test best bowling performance of eight wickets for 83 runs at Jinnah Stadium Pakistan was a Sri Lankan Test record at the...
  
   - cricketer
• Suresh Joachim
  Suresh Joachim
  Suresh Joachim Arulanantham is a Tamil Canadian film actor, producer, and multiple-Guinness World Record holder who has broken 60 world records set in several countries in attempts to benefit underprivileged children around the world.-World records:...
  
   - Guinness World Record holder
• Prashanth Sellathurai
  Prashanth Sellathurai
  Prashanth Sellathurai is an Australian gymnast. His Tamil parents migrated to Australia in 1983 from Sri Lanka.He was part of the Australian men's squad which won its first team gold medal in Commonwealth Games at the 2010 event in New Delhi, which was sealed by his performance on the rings...
  
  - Australian professional gymnast who competed in New Delhi Commonwealth Games