List of Sri Lankan Britons

This is a List of Sri Lankans in the United Kingdom, people who are of Sri Lankan heritage living in Britain. Sri Lankan Britons refers to all ethnic groups in Sri Lanka, but are mainly the Sinhalese, Sri Lankan Tamils and Burghers.

Contents 1 Academic 2 Actors 3 Engineers 4 Lawyer 5 Media 6 Military 7 Musicians 8 Physician 9 Politician 9.1 Rebels 10 Religion 11 Scientists 12 Sports 13 Writers 14 Other 15 See also 16 References

Academic

• Abhaya Induruwa
• Sunitha Wickramasinghe

Actors

• Albert Moses
• Amara Karan
• Danny Srisuriya
• Kim Vithana

Engineers

• Cecil Balmond
• Kanagaratnam Sriskandan

Lawyer

• Desmond Lorenz de Silva

Media

• Christopher Greet
• Darshini David
• Elmo Fernando
• George Alagiah
• James Coomarasamy
• Neville Jayaweera
• Nigel Barker
• Rasantha Cooray
• Rohan Jayasekera
• Suranga Chandratillake
• Tim Kash
• Vernon Corea

Military

• Christopher Hamilton
• Cyril Nicholas

Musicians

• Beverley Craven
• Desmond de Silva
• DJ Nihal
• Lay Low
• M.I.A.
• Nimal Mendis
• Rohan de Saram
• Som Wardner

Physician

• Henry Speldewinde de Boer
• Richard Lionel Spittel

Politician

• Alexander Robert Johnston
• Desmond Lorenz de Silva
• Jan Jananayagam
• Nirj Deva

Rebels

• Anton Balasingham
• Eliyathamby Ratnasabapathy

Religion

• Bogoda Seelawimala Nayaka Thera
• Kamal Chunchie
• Lakshman Wickremasinghe

Scientists

• Chandra Wickramasinghe
• Suran Goonatilake

Sports

• Alistair Blair
• Dimitri Mascarenhas
• Duncan White - Sri Lankan Olympian for 1948 Olympic Games
• Francis Bacon - English cricketer
• Glucka Wijesuriya
• Jude Chaminda
• Murugan Thiruchelvam
• Murugan Thiruchelvam
• Walter Philps

Writers

• Ambalavaner Sivanandan
• Mahinda Deegalle
• Nadarajah Selvarajah
• Rohan Jayasekera

Other

• Arjuna Sittampalam
• Ganesh Sittampalam
• Kali Arulpragasam
• Laura Shields
• Peter Kuruvita

See also

• List of Sri Lankans

References