List of Maliyadeva College alumni

The term Devans is being used to call the former/present pupils of Maliyadeva College (Sri Lanka).

This is a list of some illustrious Devans, they being alumni of Maliyadeva College, Kurunegala, Sri Lanka.

1 Ministers and parliamentarians
2 Legislators and officials
3 Senior Members of the Defence Services
- 3.1 Sri Lanka Army
- 3.2 Sri Lanka Air Force
4 Judges and lawyers
5 Artists
6 Sports men
- 6.1 Cricket
- 6.2 Rugby
7 Senior academics
8 Medicine & Engineering
9 Other prominent Alumni
10 See also
11 References

Ministers and parliamentarians

Hon. S.B Navinna - A Minister of Parliament.
Hon. salinda dissanayake - A Minister of parliament
Hon. T.B Ekanayaka - A Minister of Parliament.
Mr. Athula Wejesinghe - Chief Minister of the North Western Province Council
Mr Piumal Herath - Member of North Western Province Council
Mr Asanka Nawarathne - Member of North Western Province Council
Late Mr G.M. Premachandra - Former Cabinet minister of Labour
Geeth sharitha

Legislators and officials

Major General Sarath Munasinghe - Former Deputy Speaker of Parliament
Lakshman Hulugalle - Director General, Media Centre for National Security – Sri Lanka^[1]
E. Mahinda Medagoda - Commissioner of the Inland Revenue.
Niel Iddawela - Deputy Secretary General - Sri Lanka Parliament
Dr.P.B.Jayasundara -Secretary to the Ministry of Finance

Senior Members of the Defence Services

Sri Lanka Army

Major General Daya Rathnayake RWP, RSP, USP, NDU, PSC - Former Military Spokesman, Commander-Security Forces in Charge of Maintenance areas in Jaffna, present Chief of Defence Staff in sri lankan Army
Major General Sarath Munasinghe, RWP, RSP, USP- Former Deputy Speaker of Parliament and Former Commander Security Forces Headquarter Jaffna., Deputy Director position at the Military Intelligence, First military spokesman of the defence ministry^[2].
Major General Sunil Thennakoon - Former Commander Security Forces Headquarter Jaffna and Military Spokesman.
Major General Asoka Thoradeniya - Provost Marshal and Colonel Commandant of the Sri Lanka Corps of Military Police, Chairman of Sri Lanka Petrolium.
Major General V.R De Sliva RSP, USP, NDU, IG - Former Director-operations of Joint Operation Command, Prisons Commissioner at present^[3].
Major General Upali Edirisinghe - Commander Security Forces - Wanni.
Major General Ananda Hamangoda^[4] - Former Jaffna Military Commander, Brigadier Ananda Hamangoda was killed by an LTTE suicide attack on 4 July 1996 in Jaffna.
Major Neomal Palipana also killed by LTTE suicide attack on 4 July 1996 in Jaffna^[5].
SSP Ravi Vaidyalankara director of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Sri Lanka^[6].
Major Lalith Buddhadasa^[7], Former second in command of the Elephant Pass military base.
Major Sumedha Bandara Rangama RSP psc, Assistant Adjutant of Sir John Kotelawala Defense University
W.R.B. Ratnayake - The first Old Boy of Maliyadeva College to join as a cadet officer of the Army in 1966^[3].
Major General Kempitiya
Brigadier Sarath Embowa,RWP,RSP,USP,MSc. - Director, Senehasa Education Research Resource Information Centre

Sri Lanka Air Force

Air Commodore Vijitha Gunaratne, USP, psc, M.Sc (J'Pura), MA (USA), M.LS (Col), MA (OUSL), ctf-ndu (USA) FITD, FCPM--Commandant Sri Lanka Air Force Academy and Base Commander SLAF Base China Bay.
Group Captain Priyantha Gunasinghe RSP, MSC, PSC, QFI - Base Commander of Anuradhapura airbase, Sri Lanka Air Force.

Judges and lawyers

Hon. Nimal Gamini Amaratunga - Supreme Court judge.
Wimal Samarakoon - High Court judge.
Chandra Jayasekera - A Prominent civil lawyer and president of the Bar Association of Kurunegala.
G.B Senanayake - A senior Lawyer and current president of the Bar Association of Kurunegala.
Jayantha Jayasuriya - Deputy Solicitor-General
Chethiya Goonasekera - Senior State Counsel
Tissa Boyagoda. - Former Magistrate - Hulftsdorff, Senior Counsel - Canada

Artists

T.M. Jayarathne^[8] - A prominent singer.
Laksman Wijesekara^[9] - A prominent singer.
Mangala Jayakody^[10] - A prominent singer.
Thissa Wijerathne - A prominent musician

Sports men

Cricket

Ranjith Madurusinghe - An International Test cricket player.
Rangana Herath - An International Test cricket player.
Eric Upashantha - An International Test cricket player.
Jeewantha Kulatunga - An International cricketer.

Rugby

Nishantha Dias (Captain CH&FC)
Saranga Jayakody^[11] - An international rugby player.

Senior academics

Professor Nimal Ekanayake^[12] - Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
Professor Lalith Jayasinghe - Institute of Fundamental Studies (IFS), Kandy, Sri Lanka.
Dr. Assela Pathirana^[13] - Senior Lecturer in Urban Drainage and Sewerage, UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education (UNESCO-IHE), Delft, The Netherlands
Chaminda Hettiarachchi^[14] - Associate Director at Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (RCSS), Colombo, Sri Lanka

Medicine & Engineering

Dr.Anuruddha Padeniya consultant paediatric neurologist head ,GMOA

Other prominent Alumni

Professor Indrakeerthi Siraweera - Prominent historian and former Vice Chancellor of Rajarata University of Sri Lanka.
Venerable Madawala Seelawimala (known as Bhante Seelawimala)^[15]^[16] - Founder and current president of the American Buddhist seminary Temple at Sacramento, California.
Engineer P.G. Jayathilake (Ph.D.)(B.Sc. First Class Honours) - Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Moratuwa^[17].