List of Dharmaraja College alumni
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This is a list of Old Rajans, they being the alumni of Dharmaraja College, Kandy, Sri Lanka.
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Contents
Heads of state
- William Gopallawa, MBE - first President of Sri Lanka and last Governor-General of Ceylon[1]
Politicians
- Dimuthu Bandara Abayakoon - former Member of Parliament[2]
- Lalith Dissanayake, MP - Deputy Minister of Health
- A. E. Goonesinha - founder of the first labour party in Sri Lanka Ceylon Labour Party; first Ceylonese Mayor of Colombo; first Cabinet minister of State[3]
- Sir Bennet Soysa - former Mayor of Kandy and member of the State Council and the Senate of Ceylon[4]
- Janaka Bandara Tennakoon, MP - Cabinet Minister of Land and Land Development[5]
- Tilak Ratnayake - former Mayor of Kandy and 2nd Govenor of Uva Province
- Eric Prasanna Weerawardena - MP
Members of the defence services
Sri Lankan Army
- Lieutenant General Nalin Angammana (KIA) - former GOC, 3rd Division Sri Lanka Engineers; the highest ranking Sri Lanka Army officer who died on the battlefield[6][7]
- Rear Admiral Sarath Dissanayake - former Director General of Procurement & Services Naval Headquarters, Colombo; Chairman of the Sri Lankan Navy Hockey
Sri Lanka Police
Civil servants
- T.B. Dissanayake SLAS - President's Counsel; former Commissioner of Assizes[9]
- Wimalaratne Kumaragama
Academics
- Stanley Wijesundera - former Vice Chancellor, University of Colombo[10]
- J B Disanayake - Emeritus Professor, one of the leading authorities of the Sinhala Language, Sri Lankan Ambassador to Thailand[11]
- Ananda W.P. Guruge - Emeritus Professor of Religious studies, Dean of Academic Affairs and Director of the International Academy of Buddhism at University of the West, California; Vice President of the World Fellowship of Buddhists; Patron of the European Buddhist Union; Chairman of the World Buddhist University Council; former Senior Special Adviser to the Director General of UNESCO
- Anuradha Seneviratna - former Senior Professor in the Department of Sinhala, University of Peradeniya[12]
- W. S. Karunaratne - former senior lecturer of University of Kelaniya, and Former Sri Lankan Ambassador to USA
- Sunanda Mahendra - Department of Mass Communication, Kelaniya University
Poets, novelists, journalists and academic writers
- Chandrarathna Bandara - Sinhala author; winner of National Literary award and the D.R. Wijewardene commemoration award for the best Sinhala novel[13]
- Dharma Sri Munasinghe – award-winning radio play writer for SLBC (writer of Monarathenna and co-writer of Muvan Palassa) and teledrama/film screenwriter and director[14]
- Acharya Godwin Samararatne - one of the best known meditation teachers of Sri Lanka in recent times
Sports persons
- Chamara Kapugedera - former vice captain of the Sri Lanka Twenty20 cricket team and Sri Lanka test, ODI, T20I cricketer
- T.B. Kehelgamuwa - former Sri Lankan cricketer, former manager of the Sri Lankan cricket team and former chairman of the selection committee of Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka[15]
- Heshan Unamboowe - Sri Lankan swimmer
Film, theatre and television
- Amarasiri Kalansuriya - actor[16]
- Dharmasena Pathiraja - film director and screenwriter[17]
- Keerthi Pasquel - vocalist[18]
- Roshan Pilapitiya - actor and producer[19]
See also
References
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