List of members of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party

This following article is a list of prominent members of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party.

Members of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP), a Marxist, Trotskyist, socialist party in Sri Lanka. Some of the people listed below may only briefly have been in the LSSP.

A large proportion of the leadership of the Left in Sri Lanka started their political lives in the LSSP. This is even true of the political right; for example, Esmond Wickremesinghe (the father of Ranil Wickremasinghe) was a leading member of the party before he married the daughter of the wealthy press baron D.R Wijewardena and being appointed editor-in-chief of Lake House.

Founder Members

 * Colvin R de Silva
 * Leslie Goonewardene
 * Philip Gunawardena, later Viplavakari Lanka Sama Samaja Party, later Mahajana Eksath Peramuna
 * N. M. Perera
 * Selina Perera

Other Prominent Members

 * Tissa Abeysekara
 * Hector Abhayavardhana
 * Kusala Abhayavardhana
 * S. C. C. Anthony Pillai (Toni)
 * Seneka Bibile
 * Mark Anthony Bracegirdle
 * Doric de Souza
 * Carlo Fonseka
 * Cholomondeley Goonewardene, later Sri Lanka Sama Samaja Party later Sri Lanka Freedom Party
 * Vivienne Goonewardena
 * Robert Gunawardena, later Mahajana Eksath Peramuna
 * Jeanne Hoban, later Sri Lanka Sama Samaja Party
 * Osmund Jayaratne
 * Siritunga Jayasuriya later Nava Sama Samaja Party, later United Socialist Party
 * V. Karalasingham (Carlo)
 * Wickremabahu Karunaratne, later Nava Sama Samaja Party
 * Vijaya Kumaratunga, later Sri Lanka Freedom Party, later Sri Lanka Mahajana Party
 * M. G. Mendis
 * Anil Moonesinghe, later Sri Lanka Sama Samaja Party later Sri Lanka Freedom Party
 * Vasudeva Nanayakkara, later Nava Sama Samaja Party, later Democratic Left Front
 * Edmund Samarakkody, later Lanka Sama Samaja Party (Revolutionary), later Revolutionary Workers Party
 * Wilfred Senanayake, later Sri Lanka Sama Samaja Party later Sri Lanka Freedom Party
 * Regi Siriwardena (Hamid or Hameed)
 * Tikiri Banda Subasinghe
 * Tissa Vitharana
 * Batty Weerakoon
 * S. A. Wickramasinghe, later Communist Party of Sri Lanka
 * I. J. Wickrema
 * Percy Wickremasekera, later Sri Lanka Sama Samaja Party
 * Doreen Young Wickremasinghe, later Communist Party of Sri Lanka