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• Nicholas Attygalle
  Nicholas Attygalle
  Sir Nicholas Attygalle, FRCS was a Ceylonese academic, surgeon and a Senator. He was the President of the Senate of Ceylon from 1953 to 1960 and the first Ceylonese Vice Chancellor of the University of Ceylon, where he was known as the "Iron Vice Chancellor".-Early life and education:He was born...
  
  
• Sarath Amunugama
  Sarath Amunugama
  Sarath Amunugama, JP is a leading Sri Lankan academic, who is a professor of French and the founding Vice Chancellor of the University of the Visual & Performing Arts, Colombo...
  
  
• Arisen Ahubudu
  Arisen Ahubudu
  Kalasuri Arisen Ahubudu was a writer, orator, scholar, playwright, teacher , Sinhala lyricist, author and poet in Sri Lanka, born in Mudiyallagahawatta in Malalaga, Koggala. He is a member of the Hela Havula...
  
  
• Lalith Athulathmudali
  Lalith Athulathmudali
  Lalith William Samarasekera Athulathmudali , PC was a Sri Lankan politician of the United National Party and former Cabinet Minister of Trade, National Security, Agriculture, Education and deputy minister of defence.-Early life and teaching career:Born to a family of Lawyers, his...
  
  

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• William de Alwis
  William de Alwis
  William de Alwis was a Ceylonese artist and entomologist.With his brother George , William made a lasting contribution to the knowledge of the Lepidoptera, butterflies and moths of Ceylon....
  
  
• Malathi de Alwis
  Malathi de Alwis
  Malathi de Alwis is a feminist scholar and activist at the International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka. She also teaches in the MA Program in Women's Studies at the Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Colombo and was Visiting Associate Professor of Anthropology at the...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• Nalin de Silva
  Nalin de Silva
  Nalin de Silva is a Sri Lankan theoretical physicist, philosopher and a political analyst. He is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and the Dean of the faculty of Science at the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka.Prof...
  
  
• Colvin R. de Silva
  Colvin R. de Silva
  Colvin R. de Silva was a former Cabinet Minister of Plantation Industries and Constitutional Affairs, prominent member of parliament, Trotskyist leader and lawyer in Sri Lanka. He was one of the founders of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party – the first Marxist party in Sri Lanka.-Personal...
  
  
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• Chandre Dharma-wardana
  Chandre Dharma-wardana
  Chandre Dharma-wardana is a Sri Lankan-born academic and scientist. A former President of Vidyodaya Campus , he is currently a Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Université de Montréal.-Education:...
  
  
• J B Disanayake
  J B Disanayake
  Deshamanya Jayaratna Banda Dissanayake is an Emeritus Professor and one of the leading authorities of the Sinhala Language. He is currently Sri Lankan Ambassador to Thailand...
  
  
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• Lalith Gamage
  Lalith Gamage
  Lalith Gamage, MBCS, MIEE is a professor, founding CEO and the current president of the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology the largest Technology institute in Sri Lanka, he his also the Chairman of the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies...
  
  
• Brendon Gooneratne
  Brendon Gooneratne
  Brendon Gooneratne is a Sri Lankan scholar, physician, cricketer and author. He had authored several books and publications....
  
  
• Savitri Goonesekere
  Savitri Goonesekere
  Savitri Goonesekere is a jurist and academic from Sri Lanka. She is an international expert on the rights of children. A prolific writer, Goonasekere was instrumental in the evolution of modern legal education in Sri Lanka...
  
  
• Sarath Gunapala
  Sarath Gunapala
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• Osmund Jayaratne
  Osmund Jayaratne
  Vidya Jyothi Osmund Jayaratne was Sri Lankan academic and politician. He was the President of the Colombo Campus, University of Sri Lanka , Emeritus Professor of Physics....
  
  
• Chandana Jayarathne
  Chandana Jayarathne
  Dr Chandana Jayarathne is a Sri Lankan Physicists specialising in Physics . He is a Senior Lecturer in Physics at University of Colombo Sri Lanka and also current President of Institute of Physics, Sri Lanka.He is a product of Nalanda College Colombo and a graduate of University of Colombo with a...
  
  
• C. L. V. Jayathilake
  C. L. V. Jayathilake
  Emeritus Professor C.L.V Jayathilake, FIESL, JP is a Sri Lankan engineer and academic. He is the current Chancellor of Wayamba University of Sri Lanka and was a former Vice Chancellor of the University of Peradeniya.-Education:...
  
  
• K. N. Jayatilleke
  K. N. Jayatilleke
  Kulatissa Nanda Jayatilleke was an internationally recognized authority on Buddhist philosophy whose book "Early Buddhist theory of knowledge" has been described as "an outstanding philosophical interpretation of the Buddha's teaching" in the Encyclopedia of Philosophy -Biography:Jayatilleke, was...
  
  
• Kumari Jayawardena
  Kumari Jayawardena
  Kumari Jayawardena is a leading feminist figure and academic in Sri Lanka. Her work is part of the canon of third-world feminism which conceptualizes feminist philosophies that are indigenous and unique to non-Western societies and nations rather than mere off-shoots of Western...
  
  
• Amal Jayawardane
  Amal Jayawardane
  Amal Jayawardane is a Sri Lankan historian.Born in 1947, in the Western province of Sri Lanka. He had his early education at De Mazenod College, Kandana. He obtained his B.A. Honours degree from the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka and M.A. Ph.D. from the University of Washington,...
  
  
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• Kusuma Karunaratne
  Kusuma Karunaratne
  Kusuma Karunaratne nee Ediriweera Jayasooriya is a Sri Lankan academic, university administrator, Professor and scholar of Sinhalese language and literature.-Personal life:...
  
  
• Sam Karunaratne
  Sam Karunaratne
  Emeritus Professor Samarajeewa "Sam" Karunaratne, FIET, FIESL is an Professor of Engineering and a leading Sri Lankan academic who is the founding & current Chancellor of the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology and the former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Moratuwa...
  
  
• Karunasena Kodituwakku
  Karunasena Kodituwakku
  Karunasena Kodituwakku is a Sri Lankan politician and former academic and diplomat. He is a former government Cabinet Minister for Human Resource Development, Education, and Cultural Affairs and a former Governor of the North Western Province...
  
  
• Kollupitiye Mahinda Sangharakkhitha Thera
  Kollupitiye Mahinda Sangharakkhitha Thera
  Kollupitiye Mahinda Sangharakkhitha Thera is the Chief Incumbent of the Kelaniya Raja Maha Vihara and Head of the Buddhist and Pali Faculty of the University of Kelaniya.-Early life:...
  
  
• Sarath Kotagama
  Sarath Kotagama
  Sarath W. Kotagama is Head of the Department of Zoology, University of Colombo and has done extraordinary service to Sri Lanka as an ornithologist and Environmentalist...
  
  
• S.R. Kottegoda
  S.R. Kottegoda
  S.R. Kottegoda was a Sri Lankan academic and physician. He was the former Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, and later National Coordinator, Health Systems Research, Ministry of Health....
  
  
• Edward Frederick Kelaart
  Edward Frederick Kelaart
  Lieutenant Colonel Edward Frederick Kelaart was a Ceylonese-born physician and naturalist.Kelaart was of Dutch and German heritage, and served in the Ceylon Medical Service. He was a staff assistant surgeon in Gibraltar from 1843 to 1845, later transferred to Ceylon. He was an active member of the...
  
  
• W. S. Karunaratne
  W. S. Karunaratne
  Wijesinghe Sugathadasa Karunaratne was a well known Buddhist scholar and a fiercely independent thinker. He was affectionately known by the Sri Lankan masses as "W.S." and as "The Don" by the academia. W.S. was born on December 24, 1928 in Katugastota, a small village in the Kandy district, Sri...
  
  

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• Sunanda Mahendra
  Sunanda Mahendra
  Sunanda Mahendra’s Ogha Tharanaya won the State Literary Award for the bestSinhala poetry collection, 2006. Many poems from thecollection are now translated into English. He has won the State...
  
  
• Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera
  Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera
  Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera was a Sri Lankan professor, scholar and diplomat. He was the first Ceylon Ambassador to the Soviet Union,Ceylon High Commissioner in Canada, Ceylon High Commissioner to United Kingdom and Ceylon Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York.-Early life...
  
  
• Patrick Mendis
  Patrick Mendis
  Patrick Mendis is an educator, diplomat, author, and executive in government service. He taught MBA/MPA as well as international trade and American foreign policy courses at the University of Minnesota, University of Maryland University College, and Yale University before joining the U.S....
  
  
• Susirith Mendis
  Susirith Mendis
  Susirith Mendis is a Sri Lankan physician and academic. He is the current Vice-Chancellor of University of Ruhuna and was the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. He is a Professor of Medicine and founder Director of the Staff Development Centre.-External links:...
  
  
• Mohan Munasinghe
  Mohan Munasinghe
  Mohan Munasinghe is a Sri Lankan physicist and economist. With a focus on energy, sustainable development and climate change, he is the Chairman of the , the at the University of Manchester, UK, and the Vice Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , that shared the 2007 Nobel...
  
  

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• Senarath Paranavithana
  Senarath Paranavithana
  Senerath Paranavitana was a pioneering archeologist and epigraphist of Sri Lanka. His works dominated the middle-part of the 20th century. He became the archeological commissioner in 1939, following H. C. P. Bell, and D. M. de Z. Wickremasinghe in that position.He was born on 26 December 1896 at...
  
  
• Ajith C. S. Perera
  Ajith C. S. Perera
  Ajith Chrysantha Stephen Perera, JP, CChem., FRSC , is a Chartered Chemist by Profession, a scholar, a former senior manager in industry, a qualified training instructor and also a former test-match-panel Cricket Umpire....
  
  
• E.O.E. Pereira
  E.O.E. Pereira
  Vidya Jyothi E.O. Eustace Pereira was a Sri Lankan Engineer and Academic. He was the Vice Chancellor of the University of Ceylon...
  
  
• G. L. Peiris
  G. L. Peiris
  Gamini Lakshman Peiris is a Sri Lankan politician and academic...
  
  
• Malik Peiris
  Malik Peiris
  Joseph Malik Sriyal Peiris , FRS, Légion d'Honneur was born in Sri Lanka , a distinguished old boy of St. Anthony's College, Kandy and later studied medicine at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka...
  
  
• N. M. Perera
  N. M. Perera
  Nanayakkarapathirage Martin Perera, better known as Dr. N. M. Perera, was one of the leaders of the Sri Lankan Trotskyist Lanka Sama Samaja Party...
  
  

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• V. K. Samaranayake
  V. K. Samaranayake
  Vidya Jyothi V. K. Samaranayake MBCS, MCS, FNASSL, MIEEE pioneered computing & IT development industry and usage in Sri Lanka and thus considered as the "Father of Information Technology" in Sri Lanka. He was a Professor of Computer Science and former Dean of the Faculty of Science,...
  
  
• Ediriweera Sarachchandra
  Ediriweera Sarachchandra
  Ediriweera Sarachchandra was an Sri Lankan playwright, novelist, poet, literary critic, essayist and social commentator. Considered Sri Lanka's premier playwright, he was a senior lecturer at the University of Peradeniya for many years and served as Sri Lankan Ambassador to France .- Early...
  
  
• Regi Siriwardena
  Regi Siriwardena
  Regi Siriwardena was a Sri Lankan academic, journalist, poet, writer, playwright and writer of screenplays.- Early life & education :...
  
  
• Visvanatha Sastriyar
  Visvanatha Sastriyar
  Visvanatha Sastriyar was a Tamil poet and astronomer of Sri Lankan Tamil ancestry. Sir Emerson tennent called him "the most celebrated astronomer in Ceylon".- Early life :...
  
  
• Priyani Soysa
  Priyani Soysa
  Professor Priyani Elizabeth Soysa is an Emeritus Professor of Paediatrics of the University of Colombo and the first woman to be appointed to a professorial chair in Sri Lanka.- Education :...
  
  

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• Frank Wall
  Frank Wall
  Frank Wall was a physician and herpetologist who lived in Sri Lanka and India.Wall was born in Colombo, Ceylon . His father worked there and was responsible for initiating the study of natural history on the island. Wall studied medicine in London and joined the Indian Medical Service in 1893...
  
  
• Deepal Warakagoda
  Deepal Warakagoda
  Deepal Warakagoda 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....
  
  
• Wickrema Weerasooria
  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. Currently he is serving as Sri Lanka's first Insurance Ombudsman.Dr...
  
  
• Chandra Wickramasinghe
  Chandra Wickramasinghe
  Vidya Jothi Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe , FIMA, FRAS, FRSA is Professor at Cardiff University and Honorary Professor at the University of Buckingham. He is the Director of the Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology...
  
  
• Maitree Wickramasinghe
  Maitree Wickramasinghe
  Maithree Wickramasinghe is a Sri Lankan academic and senior lecturer at the Department of English of the University of Kelaniya and wife of Ranil Wickremasinghe former Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. She is also a visiting lecturer on gender and women's studies at other educational institutions...
  
  
• Nira 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 Colombo, Sri Lanka until 2009...
  
  
• Anton Wicky
  Anton Wicky
  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 teaching career has included Ohu and Reitaku Universities.He began his Nippon...
  
  
• M.J.S.Wijeratne
  M.J.S.Wijeratne
  M.J.S.Wijeratne was a Sri Lankan academic. He was the Vice-Chancellor of University of Kelaniya-External links:...
  
  
• Rajiva Wijesinha
  Rajiva Wijesinha
  Rajiva Wijesinha, MA, DPhil is a Sri Lankan writer in English, distinguished for his political analysis as well as creative and critical work...