Cissy Cooray

Cissy Cooray, OBE (8 June 1889 - 6 November 1965) was a Ceylonese social worker and the first woman to be appointed to the Senate of Ceylon.

She was a co-founder of the Lanka Mahila Samitiya in 1931, which has since become the country's largest women's voluntary organisation, where she was a member for 35 years and the president for ten years between 1943 and 1953. In 1941 she was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for her work in social welfare services in Ceylon. Cooray was also active in the Ceylon Social Service League and the Girl Guide movement. In 1948 she was appointed as a member of the Senate of Ceylon a position she retained until 1952.

Cooray died on 6 November 1965, at the age of 76.