List of alumni of Ananda College

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

Heads of state

 * Gotabaya Rajapaksa - 7th President of Sri Lanka

Heads of government

 * Ratnasiri Wickremanayake - Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (2000—2001, 2005—2010)

Current

 * Government benches


 * Opposition benches

Former

 * Ossie Abeygunasekara – former leader of Sri Lanka Mahajana Party
 * Thomas Amarasuriya – former Member of the State Council of Ceylon; 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; former Member of Parliament
 * General Sarath Fonseka – leader of Democratic Party; former Member of Parliament
 * Tudor Gunasekara – former Member of Parliament for Mahara Electorate, District Minister for Gampaha; 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
 * Indradasa Hettiarachchi – former Minister of Industries
 * I. M. R. A. Iriyagolla – former Minister of Education
 * D. D. Athulathmudali – former Senator
 * Prins Gunasekera – former Member of the Parliament
 * Lakshman Jayakody – former Sri Lankan Cabinet Minister; Presidential advisor
 * V. G. W. Ratnayake – former Sri Lankan MP
 * P. B. G. Kalugalla – former Minister of Finance
 * Wickremabahu Karunaratne – leader of the Nava Lanka Samasamaja Party; served as a Provincial Councillor representing Colombo District
 * P. Kumarasiri- former Member of the Parliament
 * Sanjeewa Kavirathna – former Member of Parliament; Member of Central Provincial council; Sri Lanka's first Green Awarded politician
 * Weerasinghe Mallimarachchi – former Colombo District Minister; 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
 * C. E. Attygalle – 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
 * V. Karalasingham – former lawyer, writer; politician
 * Basil Rajapaksa – former Minister of Economic Development; Member of Parliament
 * Prins Gunasekera former Member of the Sri Lankan Parliament
 * Suranimala Rajapaksha – former Minister of School Education
 * Lalitha Rajapakse – former Minister of Justice of Ceylon, elected Member of the Senate of Ceylon; former Sri Lankan Ambassador to France; High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
 * N. R. Rajavarothiam – Ceylon Tamil politician; former Member of Parliament
 * Bimal Rathnayaka – former Member of Parliament
 * Dharmasiri Senanayake – former Cabinet Minister of Media, Tourism and Civil Aviation; General Secretary of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party
 * William de Silva – former Cabinet Minister of Industries and Fisheries; former Ceylon High Commissioner to Canada
 * T. B. Subasinghe – former Speaker of the Parliament; Cabinet Minister of Industries and Scientific Affairs
 * Dingiri Bandara Welagedara – former Cabinet Minister of Plan Implementation; former Governor of North Central Province
 * S. A. Wickramasinghe – former senator; founder of the Communist Party of Sri Lanka
 * V. Yogeswaran – former Member of Parliament
 * S. K. K. Suriarachchi - former Member of Sri Lankan Parliament
 * G. K. W. Perera - Former Member of the Ceylon State Council
 * K. D. David Perera - Former Member of the Sri Lankan Parliament
 * Siri Andrahennady - Former Member of the Sri Lankan parliament
 * Bernard Soysa - Former Member of the Sri Lankan parliament
 * Noel Wimalasena - Former Member of the Sri Lankan parliament
 * Piyasena Tennakoon - Former Member of the Sri Lankan parliament
 * V. G. W. Ratnayake - Former Member of the Sri Lankan parliament
 * C. E. Attygalle - Former Member of the Sri Lankan parliament
 * S. A. Peeris - Former Member of the Sri Lankan parliament
 * Noel Wimalasena - Former Member of the Sri Lankan parliament from Kandy District
 * G. K. W. Perera - Former Member of the Sri Lankan Parliament
 * Sanjeeva Kaviratne - Former Member of the Sri Lankan Parliament
 * Dayasena Pasqual - Former Member of the Sri Lankan Parliament
 * K. D. David Perera - Former Member of the Sri Lankan Parliament
 * Noel Wimalasena - Former Member of the Sri Lankan Parliament
 * J. D. Weerasekera - Former Member of the Sri Lankan Parliament

Judiciary

 * Chief justice


 * G. P. S. de Silva - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka
 * Arthur Wijewardena - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka


 * Puisne justice of the Supreme Court


 * Chan Htoon - Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Burma, Attorney General of Burma, architect of the first Constitution of Burma in 1947
 * V. Sivasubramaniam - Former Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka
 * J. F. A. Soza - Former Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka
 * P. Sriskandarajah - Former Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka
 * Yasantha Kodagoda - Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka, former President of the Court of Appeal of Sri Lanka