Government and politics
Intergovernmental organisations
Sarath Amunugama - Founder Director of the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) at the Paris-based UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) (See also Cabinet Ministers.)
Jayantha Dhanapala - Senior Special Advisor to both Presidents Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga and Mahinda Rajapakse; UN Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs; the Government of Sri Lanka's nominee for the office of United Nations Secretary General in 2006; Trinity Ryde gold medalist of 1956 (See also Diplomatic Service.)
Lakshman Kadirgamar - founder Director of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO); advisor to 36 Foreign Governments; advisor to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) (See also Diplomats, Ministers and Sportsmen.)
Jayantha Kelegama - Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of External and Internal Trade; during 1977–1990 he pursued a career outside Sri Lanka, serving in various international organizations such as UNCTAD, FAO, and ESCAP as an economic consultant
Diplomatic service
Sir V. Coomaraswamy - former Ceylonese High Commissioner to Canada, Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Defense and External Affairs, and Senior Civil Servant
Jayantha Dhanapala - former High Commissioner to New Delhi, London and Ambassador to Washington (with accreditation to the United Nations and Geneva)
Faisz Musthapha - former High Commissioner to the UK
Theodore Braybrooke Panabokke - High Commissioner to New Delhi, India
Sarath Amunugama - Sri Lankan Cabinet Minister (Min. of Public Administration and Home Affairs), Minister of Irrigation prior to becoming independent Sri Lanka’s 16th Finance Minister in the Chandrika Kumaratunga Government, Minister of Public Administration in the Mahinda Rajapaksa Government, Deputy Minister of Finance and now Senior Minister for International Monetary Cooperation and Kandy District MP
Lionel Gamini Dissanayake PC – presidential candidate, United National Party; Leader of the Opposition, Minister of Lands, Land Development and Mahaweli Development, in the JR Jayawardene Government of 1977; Minister of Plantation Industries in the Ranasinghe Premadasa Government of 1989; first MP for Nuwara Eliya in 1970 and 1977; President of the Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka; founder President of the Cricket Foundation of Sri Lanka
Kabir Hashim - Minister of Tertiary Education in the abridged Ranil Wickremesinghe Government of 2001-2003 and MP for Kegalle District
Edwin Loku Banda Hurulle – Cabinet Minister of Communications and Cultural Affairs
Lakshman Jayakody - Deputy Minister of Defence in the Sirimavo Bandaranaike Government of 1970-1977 and Minister of Cultural and Religious Affairs in the Chandrika Kumaratunga Government of 1994, MP for Divulapitiya and Kurunegala District MP
Lakshman Kadirgamar - former Minister of Foreign Affairs at the time of his assassination on August 12, 2005l President of the Oxford Union; Honorary Master of the Inner Temple in 1996 (only the second Asian to have this after Malaysian Prime Minister Tungku Abdul Rahaman in 1974); Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford
Sir Tikiri Bandara Panabokke - Ceylonese Cabinet Minister and Member of the Legislative Council
Anuruddha Ratwatte - former Minister of Power and Energy and Deputy Minister of Defence and MP for Kandy District
Edward Lionel Senanayake - Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka
Provincial governors
Edwin Loku Banda Hurulle - Governor, Central Province and North Central Province
Edward Lionel Senanayake - Governor of North Central Province
Members of municipal councils
Sanjeewa Hulangamuwa - Councillor, Kandy Municipal Council
Senior civil servants and heads of government departments
W. T. I. Alagaratnam – Director of Irrigation
Sarath Amunugama - government agent, Ratnapura and Hambantota (See also under International Civil Servants, Ministers and Media.)
Atma Jayaram - former Chief of the Indian Intelligence Bureau; personal advisor to Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
Faisz Musthapha, PC - Chairman of the Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission, 2000-2003
Sir Cuda Ratwatte - first Kandyan Knight; first Mayor of Kandy
Fredrick de Silva - former Mayor of Kandy
Harindra Dunuwille - former Mayor of Kandy, MP and State Minister for Constitutional Affairs
Gamini Dissanayake - Democratic United National Front (DUNF)
Tissa Vitharana - the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP)
George Keyt - Sri Lankan artist
David Paynter RA, OBE - Sri Lankan artist
Judges and senior counsel
Supreme Court justices
Neville Samarakoon - former Chief Justice, Sri Lanka
Sarath Nanda Silva - Chief Justice, Sri Lanka
Justices and attorneys
R. R. Crossette-Thambiah - former Solicitor General of Ceylon, Commissioner of Assize and Barrister
Sir Desmond Lorenz de Silva - head of one of the foremost and longest established barristers' chambers in the UK; former Chief Prosecutor of the International War Crimes Tribunal for Sierra Leone, with rank of United Nations Under-Secretary-General; knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in the 2007 Honours List; 2 Paper Buildings; married to Princess Katarina of Yugoslavia)
Saliya Aladeniya (KIA) - first recipient of the Parama Were Vibhushanaya
Denzil Lakshman Kobbekaduwa (KIA) - General Officer Commanding Northern Province
Parami Kulatunga (KIA) - former Deputy Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka Army, Security Forces Commander - Vanni and General Officer Commanding 22 Division; assassinated on June 26, 2006
Anuruddha Ratwatte - Deputy Minister of Defence
Richard Udugama - former Commander of the Army, Ceylon; Trinity Rugby Lion in 1932
Ajit Rudra - Southern Command of the Indian Army
Sir Richard Aluwihare - first Ceylonese Inspector General of Police and later High Commissioner to India
John Attygalle - former Inspector General of Police, Sri Lanka
Rudra Rajasingham - former Inspector General of Police, Sri Lanka
Sportsmen and administrators
Rugby
Quentin Israel - rugby player, coach, school master
Denzil Lakshman Kobbekaduwa - former Sri Lanka Rugby Captain and Secretary General of the Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union
Cricket
Narendra Ekanayake - captain of Bahamas national cricket team
Kumar Sangakkara - Sri Lankan cricket captain
Lakshman Kadirgamar - Oxford University Cricket Blue
Graeme Labrooy - former Sri Lanka National Cricketer; represented Maris Stella College, Negombo at first eleven level
Ranjan Senarath Madugalle - former Sri Lankan Cricket Captain; presently Chief Match Referee of the International Cricket Council
Joseph Ravindran (Ravi) Ratnayeke - former Sri Lanka Vice Captain of Cricket
N.L.K. (Nilantha) Ratnayake - former Sri Lanka national cricketer
Kumar Choksanada Sangakkara - former captain of Sri Lankan National Cricket Team
Kaushalya Weeraratne - Sri Lanka national cricketer
Sachith Pathirana - Sri Lanka limited over cricketer
Lahiru Kumara - Sri Lanka Test cricketer
Athletics
Lakshman Kadirgamar - holder of the All India Inter University hurdles record both at Ahmedabad and Allahabad
Duncan White - Olympic silver medalist
Seneka Bibile - former Professor of Pharmacology, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and founder of the State Pharmaceuticals Corporation
Stanley Wijesundera - former Professor of Bio-Chemistry and Vice Chancellor, University of Colombo
Gishan Dissanaike - financial economist; Robert Monks Professorial Chair in Corporate Governance at Cambridge University and Head of the Finance Department; first graduate of a Sri Lankan university to be given a chair at either Oxford or Cambridge
Louis Edmund Blaze - founder and first Principal of Kingswood College, Kandy
Cecil Balmond - Chairman of Arup (Europe)
Susantha Ratnayake - youngest ever Group Chairman of John Keells Holdings PLC
Sarath Amunugama - Chairman of Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd during the D.B. Wijetunga Presidency; former Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of State under Hon. Anandatissa De Alwis in the Dudley Senanayake government of 1965-70
