List of Ananda College alumni

This is a list of Anandians, alumni of the Ananda College, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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Religion

• Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa - former president of the Theosophical Society Adyar and author
• Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Thero - Sri Lankan scholar monk and a personality of Theravada Buddhism in the twentieth century

Heads of government

Prime Ministers

• Ratnasiri Wickremanayake, MP - former Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (note: also listed in "Legislators")^[1]

Ministers and legislators

Current

Government benches

• R. M. Ranjith Madduma Bandara - Minister Public Administration and Management
• Mohan Lal Grero, MP - State Minister of University Education and Member of Parliament (note: also listed in "Educationalists")
• Achala Jagodage - Member of Parliament
• Karu Jayasuriya - 20th Speaker of the Parliament
• Ajith Perera - Deputy Minister of Power and Renewable Energy
• Arjuna Ranatunga - Cabinet Minister of Ports, Shipping
• Rajitha Senaratne - Cabinet Minister of Health and Indigenous Medicine

Opposition benches

• Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena - current Member of Parliament
• Dullas Alahapperuma - current Member of Parliament
• P. Dayaratna - current Member of Parliament
• Mohan Lal Grero - chairman, Lyceum Group of Companies; Member of Parliament, Colombo District
• Gitanjana Gunawardena - current Member of Parliament
• Tissa Vitharana - current Member of Parliament, professor of microbiology and leader of the LSSP
• Ratnasiri Wickremanayake - current Member of Parliament, Kalutara District

Former

• Ossie Abeygunasekara - former leader of Sri Lanka Mahajana Party
• Thomas Amarasuriya - former Member of the State Council of Ceylon and President of the Senate of Ceylon
• D. P. Atapattu - former Member of Parliament for Beliatte, Secretary to the Minister of State, 1965–70
• R. M. Dharmadasa Banda - ex minister of Agriculture
• Rohitha Bogollagama - former minister of Foreign Affairs and ex Member of Parliament
• Anandatissa de Alwis - former Speaker of the National State Assembly in Sri Lanka; Cabinet Minister of State
• William de Silva - former Cabinet Minister of Industries and Fisheries; former Ceylon High Commissioner to Canada
• General Sarath Fonseka - leader of Democratic Party and former Member of Parliament
• Tudor Gunasekara - former Member of Parliament for Mahara Electorate, District Minister for Gampaha and the first Sri Lankan Ambassador to Poland, Bulgaria and Romania (note: also listed in "Diplomats")
• Philip Gunawardena - served as Minister of Agriculture in 1956 Cabinet; Minister of Fisheries
• Robert Gunawardena
• Indradasa Hettiarachchi - former Minister of Industries
• I. M. R. A. Iriyagolla - former Minister of Education
• Lakshman Jayakody - former Sri Lankan Cabinet Minister and Presidential advisor
• Wickremabahu Karunaratne - leader of the Nava Lanka Samasamaja Party; served as a Provincial Councillor representing Colombo District
• Weerasinghe Mallimarachchi - former Colombo District Minister and Member of Parliament (Kolonnawa)
• Imthiaz Bakeer Markar - former Cabinet Minister of Media, Postal and Telecommunications
• V. Navaratnam - former Member of Parliament
• Herbert Sri Nissanka - former Member of the Sri Lankan Parliament
• N. M. Perera - founder and leader of LSSP; former Minister of Finance
• Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra - former Member of Parliament
• Basil Rajapaksa - former Minister of Economic Development and Member of Parliament
• Gotabaya Rajapaksa - former Secretary of Defense
• Lalitha Rajapakse - former Minister of Justice of Ceylon, elected Member of the Senate of Ceylon; former Sri Lankan Ambassador to France and High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
• Suranimala Rajapaksha - former Minister of School Education
• N. R. Rajavarothiam - Ceylon Tamil politician and former Member of Parliament
• Bimal Rathnayaka - former Member of Parliament
• Dingiri Bandara Welagedara - former Cabinet Minister of Plan Implementation and former Governor of North Central Province
• S.A. Wickramasinghe - former senator and founder of the Sri Lanka Communist Party

Mayors

• Nimal Chandrasiri de Silva - former Mayor of Kurunegala
• Karu Jayasuriya - former Mayor of Colombo, former Minister, MP, and current deputy leader of the United National Party
• N. M. Perera - former Mayor of Colombo; founder and leader of LSSP; former Minister Of Finance

Diplomats

• Oshadhi Alahapperuma - former Sri Lankan Ambassador to Sweden
• Ravinath Ariyasinghe- Sri Lanka Ambassador to European Union
• Gunasena de Soyza, CMG, OBE, CCS - Civil Servant, former Sri Lankan High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
• J B Disanayake - writer, language specialist, former Head of the Department of Sinhala, University of Colombo, and Sri Lankan Ambassador to Thailand
• Tudor Gunasekara - former Member of Parliament for Mahara Electorate, District Minister for Gampaha and the first Sri Lankan Ambassador to Poland, Bulgaria and Romania (note: also listed in "Ministers" and "Legislators")
• Karu Jayasuriya - former Sri Lankan Ambassador to Germany
• Wasantha Karannagoda - Sri Lankan Ambassador to Japan, Secretary Ministry of Highways & Road Development, National Security Adviser, Commander of the Navy (note: also listed in "Military")
• Lalitha Rajapakse, KC - Ambassador to France and High Commissioner to the United Kingdom

Military

Sri Lankan Army

• General Hamilton Wanasinghe - former Defence Secretary of Sri Lanka, Commander of the Army
• General Lionel Balagalle - former Commander of the Sri Lankan Army
• General Rohan Daluwatte - former Commander of the Sri Lankan Army
• Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka - former Chief of Defence Staff of Sri Lanka Armed Forces, Commander of the Army^[2]
• Major General Lakshman Algama - VSV, USP, NDC, PSC (1940-1999) former Chief of Staff of the Sri Lankan Army
• Major General Asoka Jayawardena - Overall Operations Commander of Sri Lanka Army; former Governor of North Eastern Province
• Major General Jagath Dias
• Major General Chagi Gallage
• Major General Kamal Gunarathne
• Major General Prasanna Silva
• Lt. A.P.N.C. De S. Vaas Gunawardene - Sri Lankan commissioned officer
• Brigadier Nilantha Hettiarachchi
• Colonel Lucky Rajasinghe WWV, RWP, RSP, USP - Sri Lankan commissioned officer
• Major General Mahesh Senanayake RWP RSP USACGSC - Special Forces
• Major General CAMN Silva - former Chief of Staff of Sri Lanka Army/ First commandant of Kothalawala Defence University
• Lt. Col. Gotabhaya Rajapaksa - Defence Secretary, Ministry of Defence

Sri Lankan Navy

• Admiral Wasantha Karannagoda - Sri Lankan Ambassador to Japan, Secretary Ministry of Highways & Road Development, National Security Advisor, Commander of the Navy (note: also listed in "Diplomats")^[2]

Sri Lanka Police

• Mahinda Balasuriya - former Inspector General of Police, Sri Lanka^[3]
• Ruwan Gunasekara - police spokesman, Sri Lanka Police
• Sumith Liyanage - former Deputy Inspector General of Police, Sri Lanka
• Ajith Rohana - former police spokesman of Police, Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan Air Force

• Group Captain Harendra Perusinghe

Academics

• Stanley Wijesundera - former Professor of Chemistry; Vice Chancellor of the University of Colombo
• LH Sumanadasa - aviator, engineer, educator; former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ceylon; founder of the University of Moratuwa
• Chandratne Patuwathavithane - former Professor of Engineering & Vice Chancellor of the University of Moratuwa
• K. D. Arulpragasam - first Vice Chancellor of Eastern University, Sri Lanka
• Charles Dahanayake - Writer, Professor of Physics & Dean, Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
• Harendra de Silva - Professor of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama
• Chandre Dharma-wardana - scientist, Professor in Theoretical Physics at the Université de Montréal
• Sumedha Chandana Wirasinghe - Professor of Civil Engineering; Founding Dean (Emeritus), Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, Canada
• D. Shelton A. Gunaratne - Professor of Mass Communications Emeritus affiliated with Minnesota State University Moorhead, USA
• Nimal Rajapakshe - Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Dean, Faculty of Applied Sciences Simon Fraser University, Canada
• Kumaradasa Rajasuriya - former Professor of Medicine, University Of Ceylon
• M. P. Ranaweera - Professor of Civil Engineering; Dean, Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya
• V. K. Samaranayake - Professor of Computer Science and former Dean of the Faculty of Science, University of Colombo
• W.S. Karunaratne - late Professor in Buddhist Philosophy & Comparative Religion at Peradeniya University; Dean of the Faculty of Arts and a member of the Board of Regents of University of Sri Lanka
• Wickremabahu Karunaratne - Lecturer of Electronics at Peradeniya University; leader of Nava Samsamaja Party
• Ravindra Fernando - Professor of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine University of Colombo
• Karu Esselle - Professor of Electronic Engineering, Macquarie University, Australia
• Athula Ginige - Professor of Information Technology, University of Western Sydney, Australia
• Gemunu Herath Gunaratne - Professor of Physics, University of Houston, Texas, United States
• Bogoda Premaratne - author, former Principal of Royal College, Colombo
• Hiroshan Hettiarachchi - professor and academic officer, United Nations University, Dresden, Germany^[4]
• Indika Liyanage - Associate Professor in TESOL at Deakin University, Australia
• Shelton Peiris - Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics (Director of Statistics Teaching Program and Sub-Dean of Faculty of Science), University of Sydney, Australia
• L.P.N. Perera - Vice Chancellor and Professor of Pali Language (Emeritus) University of Sri Jayewardenepura
• Sunil J. Wimalawansa – physician; scientist; MD, PhD, MBA, DSC; Chief of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition; Director of Regional Osteoporosis Center, New Jersey, USA; originator of therapies for prevention and treatment of osteoporosis; recipient of many awards for innovation, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Sri Lanka Foundation, Los Angeles for his contributions to science, humanity, and society
• Srini De Mel - scientist and inventor, Wayne State University, Michigan, United States
• Unil Perera - Professor of Physics, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Georgia State University
• Saman Halgamuge - Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne
• Kamal Premaratne - Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Miami, Florida, United States
• Udaya Annakkage - Professor of Electrical Engineering and former Head of the Department, University of Manitoba, Canada
• Upul Senaratne - Professor of Physics, University of Toledo, Ohio, United States
• Amittha Wickrema - Associate Professor of Hematology, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Illinois, United States
• Saman Abeysekera - Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Gayanath Fernando - Professor, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut
• Anura Jayasumana - Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Colorado State University

Industrialists and corporate executives

• Dr Nalaka Godahewa - Chairman of Sri Lanka Tourism; former Managing Director of Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation
• Ananda Goonatilleke - former Director of Airport & Aviation Services (Sri Lanka) Ltd,; Director Operation of Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd; Director of Sri Lanka Telecom Ltd; Chairman of Common Amenities Board of Sri Lanka; Executive Director of Civil Aviation Authority of Sri Lanka and Working Director of Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation
• Ratnapala Samaraweera - Chairman and CEO of Maliban Biscuits, Maliban Milk and Little Lion Foods
• Thilan Wijesinghe - former Chief of BOI; CEO of Forbes & Walker Ltd.

Civil servants

• Anandatissa de Alwis - former Governor of North-North Western Province of Sri Lanka
• V. M. Panchalingam - former District Secretary for Jaffna

Sports

• Marvan Atapattu - former Sri Lanka Test cricket captain
• Dinesh Chandimal - Sri Lankan Test cricketer
• Ajit de Silva - former Sri Lanka Test cricketer
• Akalanka Ganegama - Sri Lanka ODI cricketer
• Avishka Gunawardene - Sri Lankan Test cricketer
• Chandika Hathurusingha - former Test cricketer and National Junior Coach
• Dinuka Hettiarachchi - former Sri Lankan Test cricketer
• Thilina Kandamby - Sri Lanka ODI cricketer
• Brendon Kuruppu - former Sri Lanka Test cricketer
• Muthumudalige Pushpakumara - Sri Lankan ODI cricketer
• Lt. Col. Daya Rajasinghe - rifle shooting - national champion, SAF Games gold medalist
• Col. Lucky Rajasinghe - rifle shooting - national champion, SAF, Asian and Commonwealth Games gold medalist
• Arjuna Ranatunga - former Sri Lanka Test cricket captain and Member of Parliament; 1996 World Cup-winning team captain
• Dammika Ranatunga - Sri Lanka Test cricketer
• Nishantha Ranatunga - former Sri Lanka ODI cricketer, Secretary Sri Lanka Cricket
• Sanjeeva Ranatunga - former Sri Lanka Test cricketer
• Dulip Samaraweera - Sri Lankan Test cricketer
• Thilan Samaraweera - Sri Lankan Test cricketer^[5]
• Charith Senanayake - Sri Lankan Test cricketer
• Sachithra Senanayake - Sri Lanka T20 and ODI cricketer
• Mahela Udawatte - Sri Lanka ODI cricketer
• Sanjeewa Weerasinghe - former Sri Lanka Test cricketer
• Mithra Wettimuny - former Sri Lankan Test cricketer
• Sidath Wettimuny - former Sri Lankan Test cricketer
• Sunil Wettimuny - former Sri Lankan Opening Batsman
• Hemantha Wickramaratne - former ODI Cricketer

Engineers and architects

• Oshadhi Alahapperuma - engineer in Telecommunications; General Manager at Mobitel (Pvt) Ltd, Sri Lanka
• Chandana Edirisooriya - chartered architect and past President of Sri Lanka Institute of Architects
• Devsiri P. Hewawidana - engineer, Rolls Royce Company of UK
• Prof. Anul Perera - engineer
• Jayantha Perera - chartered architect and past President of Sri Lanka Institute of Architects
• B. D. Rampala - engineer, former General Manager of Ceylon Railways
• Salinda Rathugama - chartered architect, architect of Sathmahala Project and Hony. Assistant Treasurer of Sri Lanka Institute of Architects
• S.M.J.S Samarasinghe - Superintendent of Surveys, Survey department of Sri Lanka
• L. H. Sumanadasa - aviator, engineer, educator; former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ceylon;founder of the University of Moratuwa
• Dr Narada Warakagoda - research scientist (telecommunication systems), SINTEF, Norway
• R. G. de S. Wettimuny - Buddhist writer and double chartered engineer (mechanical and civil)
• D. J. Wimalasurendra - engineer, Pioneer of hydro power in Sri Lanka

Judges and lawyers

• G.P.A de Silva - former Chief Justice of Sri Lanka
• Ananda Goonatilleke - senior lawyer and legal consultant
• Chan Htoon - Attorney General and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Burma, and the architect of the first constitution of Burma in 1947
• Ye Htoon - Burmese lawyer and entrepreneur
• Yasantha Kodagoda - Deputy Solicitor General
• Shiva Pasupati - former Solicitor General of Sri Lanka
• Gamini Perera - senior lawyer and legal consultant
• V. Sivasubramaniam - former Judge of the Supreme Court of Ceylon
• J. F. A. Soza - former judge of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka
• P. Sriskandarajah - former Judge of the Supreme Court of Ceylon
• Yuvanjana Wijayatilake - Attorney General of Sri Lanka
• Arthur Wijewardene - former Chief Justice of Sri Lanka

Medical professionals

• Dr. S. C. Abeysuriya - senior consultant neurosurgeon, first president and a founder member of Neurosurgeons Association of Sri Lanka (NSASL)
• Prof. N.A. De S. Amarathunga - Professor of Oral and Maxillo-Facial Surgery; former Dean, Faculty of Dental Sciences of the University of Peradeniya
• Dr. Upali Banagala - senior consultant orthopedic surgeon
• Prof. Harendra de Silva – Professor of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya
• Prof. W.A.S. de Silva - former Professor of Medicine of the University of Ruhuna
• Prof. Ravindra Fernando – Professor of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo
• Late Prof. M. N. T. Fonseka - the first Professor of Surgery in the Ruhuna Medical Faculty
• Late Dr. R. L. Jayakuru - the Head of the Sexual Transmitted Disease Unit of the Health Ministry
• Lt. Col. (Dr.) Senaka Goonetileke - consultant pediatrician; Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, Kotelawala Defence University
• Prof. K. Jayasena - the Professor of Pharmacology of the University of Peradeniya
• Prof. Saroj Jayasinghe - Professor in the Department of Clinical Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo
• Dr. A. T. W. P. Jayawardena - senior consultant anaesthetist
• Late Dr. Dammika Jayawickrama - consultant neurosurgeon, Teaching Hospital, Kandy
• Late Prof. M.T.M Jiffry - Professor of Physiology; founder Dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura
• Prof. Athula Kaluarachchi - senior lecturer in Faculty of Medicine, Colombo
• Dr. Himashi Kularatne - senior consultant neurosurgeon; head of neurosurgery, National Hospital of Sri Lanka; a founder member of Neurosurgeons Association of Sri Lanka
• Late Dr. E. H. Mirando - consultant paediatrician; has worked in both the curative and preventive branches of paediatrics
• Late Prof. P.S.S. Panditharathne - former Professor in Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo
• Dr. Rajeeva Peiris - senior cardiothoracic surgeon, Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Oman
• Dr. H.S. Perera - consultant cardiothoracic surgeon of the General Hospital; performed the now popular coronary artery bypass graft for the first time in Sri Lanka in 1984
• Dr. Sunil Perera - senior consultant neurosurgeon, former president and a founder member of Neurosurgeons Association of Sri Lanka; Visionary of Neurotrauma Unit, National Hospital of Sri Lanka
• Late Prof. D. A. Ranasinghe – Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo
• Professor E. K. Rodrigo - Professor of Psychiatry of the University of Peradeniya
• Prof. M.S.L. Salgado - the Chief Judicial Medical Officer, Colombo; Professor of Forensic Medicine in the North Colombo Medical College
• Late Prof. N. Saravanapavananthan - the first Professor of Forensic Medicine in the University of Jaffna
• Prof. Jayamini Senevirathne - Professor of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, Sri Jayawardanapura
• Prof. Harshalal Seneviratne – former Dean of the Faculty of Medicine Colombo.
• Dr. Hudson Silva - started the Eye Donation Society, has pioneered eye donation in Sri Lanka and abroad; his work received international fame and he has received awards from Japan and Bangladesh
• Prof. Jayantha Sirisena - former head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the University of Kelaniya
• C G Uragoda – physician, author, folklorist, historian and conservationist
• Prof. Tissa Vitarana - MP, a senior minister in the cabinet, leader of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party
• Dr. S. A Wickramasinghe - Member of Parliament; the founder leader of the Ceylon Communist Party
• Gamini Wickremasinghe – MD, Informatics Group
• Dr. Preethiraj Wijegoonawardena - past president of the SLMA and the College of General Practitioners; Regional President of World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA), South Asia
• Prof. Sunil Wimalawansa - Professor of Medicine in the New Jersey University of Medicine and Dentistry, USA
• Prof. Sunil J. Wimalawansa - physician, scientist; MD, PhD, MBA, DSC, Chief of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition; Director of the Regional Osteoporosis Center, New Jersey, USA; received a coveted Lifetime Achievement Award from the Sri Lanka Foundation, Los Angeles, California for his contributions to science, humanity, and society; the International Society for Clinical Densitometry recognized his contributions by awarding him the 2007 Dr. Oscar S. Gluck Humanitarian Award^[6]

Poets, novelists and academic writers

• Ananda Goonatilleke - poet and writer
• Sunanda Mahendra - author and critic
• G. B. Senanayake - Sinhala writer
• P. B. Senanayake - Sinhala writer

Media personalities and journalists

• Nimal Lakshapathiarachchi - former Director General, Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation and Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation; former Group Director, Maharaja Group/MTV-MBC; former Director, Hiru TV; Managing Director, OnAir World Ceylon Ltd.^[7]
• Sunil Madhawa Premathilaka - journalist and writer
• Nishantha Ranatunga - CEO of CSN TV
• Regi Siriwardena - Sri Lankan journalist, poet, writer, playwright and writer of screenplays
• Tarzie Vittachi - journalist and former UNICEF Deputy Executive Director of External Relations

Artists

• Dalton Alwis - songwriter
• Kularatne Ariyawansa - lyricist
• Vickrama Bogoda - actor
• Moris Dahanayake - singer
• Premakeerthi De Alwis - composer and narrator
• Malaka Dewapriya - video artist and short filmmaker
• Lucky Dias - TV and film actor
• Harshana Dissanayake - singer
• Nimantha Heshan Gamage - singer
• Dayananda Gunawardena - playwright, actor, lyricist, radio play producer, and Sinhala radio play writer
• Nalaka Gunawardene - journalist
• Bathiya Jayakodi - singer
• Bathiya Jayakody - singer, composer
• Isuru Jayarathne - singer
• Kasun Kalhara - music director, singer, composer
• Indrachapa Liyanage - singer
• Dr. D. B. Nihalsingha, film director; founding CEO and General Manager of the State Film Corporation; pioneer of Sri Lanka television production
• K.A.W. Perera - producer, film director and screenplay writer
• Meemana Premathilaka - poet and newspaper editor
• Sahan Ranwala - singer, composer, leader of Ranwala Balakaya^[8]
• K. M. Rathnapala - singer, composer, instructor, maestro violinist
• Titus Thotawatte - film director
• Wijeratne Warakagoda - veteran actor in stage, movie and tele-drama
• Jagath Wickramasinghe - singer

Designers

• Mohamed Zafferhullah Hussain - designer

References