Deshamanya
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Deshamanya (Pride of the Nation) is a Sri Lankan national honour awarded by the Government of Sri Lanka as a civil honour. It is conventionally used as a title or prefix to the awardee's name.
[edit] Awardees
Awardees include:
- Geoffrey Bawa
- General D. S. Attygalle
- Air Chief Marshal Paddy Mendis
- General Denis Perera
- Radhika Coomaraswamy
- Pandith Amaradeva
- Professor Nandadasa Kodagoda
- Dr.Aruna Shantha Abeygoonewardana
- Dr.Nissanka Wijeyeratne
- Harry Jayawardena
- Ken Balendra
- Dr.Lalith Kotelawala
- Doreen Wickremasinghe
- Mahesh Amalean
- Sohli Captain
- Manoharan Selvanathan