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List of University of Colombo people
The following people spent time at the University of Colombo as either teaching staff or students.
Heads of state and government
Civil servants
- Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe, CCS – former Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance & Treasury, Ministry of Health (also listed in Diplomats)
- Deshamanya C.A. Coorey, SLAS – former Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance & Treasury
- Deshamanya Dr Gamani Corea – former Secretary-General of the UNCTD (1974–1984); Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Planning and Economic Affairs; Senior Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Ceylon[1]
- Tissa Devendra – former Chairman of Public Service Commission; Chairman of Salaries Commission; first President of the Colombo University Alumni Association
- Hemasiri Fernando – former Secretary to the Prime Minister
- Bernard Peiris, OBE, JP – former Cabinet Secretary[2]
- M. J. Perera, CCS – first Chairman of the Rupavahini Corporation; former Permanent Secretary of the Education and Cultural Affairs Ministry; Vice-Chancellor of University of Peradeniya
- G.V.P. Samarasinghe, CCS – former Cabinet Secretary and Permanent Secretary of Defence and Foreign Affairs
- S.J. Walpita, CCS – former Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Industries & Fisheries; Vice-Chancellor of University of Ceylon, Peradeniya[3]
- Bradman Weerakoon, CCS – former Secretary to the Prime Minister
Diplomats
Military
Police
Academics
Vice Chancellors
Professors and scholars
- Professor Hithanadura Janaka De Silva – Foundation Professor of Medicine, University of Kelaniya; Dean of Faculty of Medicine Kelaniya (Student Faculty of Medicine 1977-1982)
- Professor Nalin de Silva – professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Kelaniya
- Professor Rangita de Silva de Alwis – adjunct professor of Global Leadership at the University of Pennsylvania Law School[8]
- Dr Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri – historian and Head of the Department of History, University of Colombo
- Professor Deshamanya J B Disanayake – professor and former Head of the Department of Sinhala, University of Colombo
- Professor Devaka Fernando – Foundation Professor of Medicine, University of Sri Jayawardanapura; Visiting Professor of Endocrinology University of Newcastle upon Tyne, University of Sheffield; Honorary Professor Sheffield Hallam University (Student Faculty of Medicine 1976-1981 and Senior Lecturer in Medicine 1994-1996)
- Dr. Brendon Gooneratne – Head and Senior Lecturer, Department of Parasitology, University of Ceylon, Peradeniya
- Professor Yasmine Gooneratne – poet, short story writer and essayist
- Professor Shan Ratnam – Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, National University Hospital of Singapore
- Professor A. Suri Ratnapala – Professor of Law, T.C. Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland
- Professor Ediriweera Sarachchandra – playwright, novelist and poet
- Professor K. N. Seneviratne – Professor of Medicine; founder director of Sri Lanka's Postgraduate Institute of Medicine [9][10]
- Professor Jayadeva Uyangoda – professor and former Head of the Department of Political Science, University of Colombo
- Dr Maitree Wickramasinghe – academic and senior lecturer at the Department of English of the University of Kelaniya
- Professor Nira Wickramasinghe – historian and Professor of Modern South Asian Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands
- Dr Gihan Wikramanayake – Head and Senior Lecturer, Department of Information Systems Engineering of the University of Colombo School of Computing
Artists
Novelists, poets and playwrights
Actors
Visual artists
- Malaka Dewapriya – filmmaker, short film director, video artist, radio play writer
Judges
Medicine
Journalists
Sportsmen
Lawyers
Engineers
Activists
Faculty
References
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