Who are famous people in Sri Lanka?

Answer 1

Maithripala Sirisena is the current president of Sri Lanka (as of October 2015), and has been the president since January 9, 2015.

Answer 2

Quite a vague question! However, if a poll was conducted in the whole of Sri Lanka, the most well known non-political people are probably cricketers such as:

Sanath Jayasuriya

Muttiah Muralitharan

Aravinda de Silva

Mahela Jayewardene

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Prof. Cyril Ponnamperuma - NASA Scientist

Vernon Corea - The legendary Radio Ceylon, BBC broadcaster

Sir Christopher Ondaatje - Philanthropist

Michael Ondaatje - Booker Prize Winner

Prof. Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe - Professor of Applied Mathematics and Astronomy at Cardiff University

Sir Desmond De Silva QC - Eminent British barrister

M.G. Ramachandran - Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (Born and Bred in Nawalapitiya, Kandy)

Niranjan Deva Aditya - Member of the European Parliament

Sirimavo Bandaranayake - Worlds first female Prime minister

SWRD Bandaranayake - Secretary of the Oxford Union and Prime Minister

Lakshman Kadirgama - President of the Oxford Union and Minister of Foreign Affairs and eminent Lawyer

Lalith Athulathmudali - President of the Oxford Union and Minister of Defence/ Education and eminent Lawyer

Clarence Wijewardena - Sri Lanka's King of Pop Music

Karunaratne Abeysekera - lyricist and broadcaster

Nimal Mendis - singer/songwriter

Answer 3

Srilankais famous for cricket. Sangakkara is the famous one.

Answer 4

D.S. Senanayake, Anagarika Dharmapala.

Answer 5

Jacqueline fernandez

Answer 6

prabhakaran is not sri lanka tamil eelam

Answer 7

Mahela Jayawardene