List of British Sri Lankans

This is a list of notable people of Sri Lankan descent living in the United Kingdom. The term "Sri Lankan Britons" refers to Sri Lankans of all ethnic groups.

Academic

 * Nishan Canagarajah - British Tamil academic and the current president and vice-chancellor of the University of Leicester.Abhaya Induruwa
 * Sunitha Wickramasinghe - Sri Lankan Born British former Deputy Dean of the Imperial College School of Medicine

Actors

 * Jai Akash
 * Tony Jayawardena
 * Amara Karan
 * Albert Moses
 * Romesh Ranganathan – stand-up comedian, actor, presenter
 * Nethra Tilakumara
 * Kim Vithana

Business

 * Subaskaran Allirajah – businessman, entrepreneur, founder of the Lycamobile; the world's largest MVNO based in the UK
 * Karunamoorthy – film producer, founder of Ayngaran International
 * Arjuna Sittampalam – financier
 * Ratheesan Yoganathan – entrepreneur, founder of the Lebara

Engineers

 * Cecil Balmond
 * Shini Somara
 * Kanagaratnam Sriskandan

Lawyers

 * Desmond Lorenz de Silva

Media

 * George Alagiah
 * Nigel Barker
 * Suranga Chandratillake
 * James Coomarasamy
 * Rasantha Cooray
 * Vernon Corea
 * Darshini David
 * Elmo Fernando
 * Christopher Greet
 * Rohan Jayasekera
 * Neville Jayaweera
 * Tim Kash
 * Calvin Chinthaka (fashion photographer)

Military

 * Jack Churchill
 * Cyril Nicholas

Musicians

 * Arjun Coomaraswamy
 * Beverley Craven
 * Rohan de Saram
 * Desmond de Silva
 * Tanya Ekanayaka – composer, pianist
 * Siva Kaneswaran
 * Lay Low
 * M.I.A.
 * Nimal Mendis
 * Andrew Nethsingha – choral conductor, organist
 * DJ Nihal
 * Ashan Pillai – violinist

Physicians

 * Sir Sabaratnam Arulkumaran
 * Henry Speldewinde de Boer
 * Ajith Kumar Siriwardena
 * Richard Lionel Spittel
 * Nihal Gurusinghe – OBE professor, neurosurgeon

Politicians

 * Desmond Lorenz de Silva
 * Nirj Deva
 * Jan Jananayagam
 * Ranil Jayawardena
 * Alexander Robert Johnston

Religion

 * Kamal Chunchie
 * Bogoda Seelawimala Nayaka Thera
 * Lakshman Wickremasinghe

Scientists

 * Suran Goonatilake
 * Cyril Ponnamperuma
 * Chandra Wickramasinghe

Cricket

 * Alistair Blair - Ceylonese Cricketer, Born in British Ceylon and represented the Ceylon National Cricket Team.
 * Jude Chaminda - Played First-class cricket in Wales.
 * Dimitri Mascarenhas - English Cricketer of Sri Lankan Descent and played Hampsire and represented the England Cricket Team.
 * Gehan Mendis - English and Sri Lankan Cricketer who played for Sussex and Lancashire.
 * Walter Philps - Ceylonese Cricketer who played for Buckinghamshire.
 * Glucka Wijesuriya - English and Sri Lankan Cricketer who played for Suffolk.

Football
See also: British Asians in association football
 * Dillon De Silva - winger for Sutton United and the Sri Lankan National Team.
 * Sam Durrant - plays as a winger for Dundalk.
 * Vimal Yoganathan - plays as a midfielder for Barnsley and Wales U19.
 * Nikki Ahmed - former midfielder who played for Chelsea and FSV Frankfurt.
 * Marvin Hamilton - midfielder for Hythe Town and the Sri Lanka National Team.

Other

 * Murugan Thiruchelvam - Chess Played
 * Duncan White - British Ceylon born Olympic Athlete who represented Ceylon at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, where he won a Silver Medal and became the first Ceylonese/Sri Lankan to win a medal in the Modern day Olympics.

Writers

 * Mahinda Deegalle
 * Rohan Jayasekera
 * Michael Ondaatje
 * Nadarajah Selvarajah
 * Ambalavaner Sivanandan

Others

 * Kali Arulpragasam
 * Peter Kuruvita
 * Sir Christopher Ondaatje
 * Ganesh Sittampalam
 * Anton Balasingham