List of people on stamps of Sri Lanka
This is a list of people on the postage stamps of Sri Lanka, formerly known as Ceylon.
The list is complete through 1980.
Ceylon (through 1972)
- Victoria of the United Kingdom (1857)
- Edward VII of the United Kingdom (1903)
- George V of the United Kingdom (1912)
- George VI of the United Kingdom (1937)
- D. S. Senanayake, prime minister (1949, 1966, 1968)
- Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (1953)
- Sir John Kotelawala, prime minister (1956)
- Hikaduwe Sri Sumangala Nayaka Thero, educator (1959)
- Ratmalane Sri Dharmaloka Nayake Thero, educator (1959)
- Anagarika Dharmapala, Buddhist missionary (1964)
- Solomon Bandaranaike, prime minister (1961)
- Henry S. Olcott, Buddhist reformer (1967)
- D. B. Jayatilaka, Buddhist scholar (1968)
- E. W. Perera, legislator (1969)
- Alexander Ekanayake Goonesinha, trade unionist, politician (1969)
- Ananda Coomaraswamy (1971)
- Vladimir Lenin, Soviet leader (1971)
- Cumaratunga Munidasa (1971)
- Arumuga Navalar (1971)
- Edward Henry Pedris, patriot (1971)
- Anada Rajakaruna (1971)
- Charles Henry de Soysa, philanthropist (1971)
- S. Mahinda Thero (1971)
Sri Lanka (from 1972)
- Solomon Bandaranaike, prime minister (1973, 1974)
- Ponnambalam Ramanathan, lawyer, educator (1975)
- D.J. Wimalasurendra, engineer (1975)
- Sirimavo Bandaranaike, prime minister (1976)
- Alexander Graham Bell, inventor (1976)
- Ponnambalam Arunachalam, educator (1977)
- Rahula Thero, poet (1977)
- Mohammed Cassim Siddi Lebbe, lawyer, educator, journalist (1977)
- Veera Puran Appu, revolutionary (1978)
- Sir Ernest de Silva, Philanthropist
- D. S. Senanayake, prime minister (1979)
- Piyadasa Sirisena, patriot, writer (1979)
- Swami Vipulananda, philosopher (1979)
- Rowland Hill, postal reformer (1979)
- Henry S. Olcott, Buddhist reformer (1980)
- A. Ratnayake, educator (1980)
- George E. da Silva, politician (1980)