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This is a List of St. Joseph's College alumni,

Heads of State and Government

 * H.E. Ranasinghe Premadasa - Former President and Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
 * H.E. Mohamed Amin Didi - First President of Maldives

Prominent Figures of the Independence Movement

 * A. E. Gunasinghe
 * Sir (Dr) Lalitha Rajapakshe

Heads of Legislature

 * Sir (Dr) Lalitha Rajapakshe - First Leader of the Senate
 * Sir Albert F. Peiris- Speaker 1951-1956
 * Murugesu Sivasithamparam - Deputy Speaker 1968-1970

Ministers and Legislators

 * Sir (Dr) Lalitha Rajapakshe - First Minister of Justice
 * A. E. Gunasinghe - Father of the Labour Movement/Minister of State and Chief Government Whip in the First Parliament of Sri Lanka/First Ceylonese Mayor of Colombo
 * Chellappah Suntharalingam - Minister of Trade and Commerce 1947-1948
 * Sir Edwin Wijeyeratne - Former Cabinet Minister of Home Affairs and Rural Development 1948-1951
 * Niranjan Deva-Aditya - Conservative Party (UK) Conservative Member of the European Parliament
 * K. W. Devanayagam - Former Minister of Justice and Home Affairs, MP Kalkudah 1980
 * Harold Herat - Former Minister of Justice, Foreign Affairs and Finance 1991-1994
 * John Amarathunge - Former Cabinet Minister of Home Affairs and Main Opposition Whip at Present
 * Neomal Perera - Deputy Minister of External Affairs at Present
 * Sir Chittampalam Abraham Gardiner - Former Senator
 * Bernard Jayasuriya - Former Senator
 * Dr Hector Fernando - MP Negombo 1956
 * V. A. Kandiah - MP 1956-1963
 * Murugesu Sivasithamparam - MP 1960-2002
 * Harin Fernando - Current MP Badulla
 * Velusami Radhakrishnan - Current MP Nuwara Eliya

Provincial Councilors

 * Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka - Minister of Planning & Youth Affairs in the First North-East Provincial Council
 * Major General Janaka Perera - Former Opposition leader of the North Central Provincial Council

Prelates

 * Right Rev.Cardinal Thomas Cooray - First Sri Lankan Cardinal and Archbishop of Colombo
 * Right Rev.Oswald Thomas Colman Gomis - Former Archbishop of Colombo,Chancellor of the University of Colombo
 * Rev. Marcelline Jayakody - Musician, lyricist, author, journalist

Judges and Prominent Legal Practitioners

 * Andrew Ranjan Perera - Chief Justice of Seychelles
 * Nihal Jayasinghe - Acting Chief Justice 2002
 * Mark Damien Hugh Fernando - Judge of the Supreme Court
 * P. Ramanathan - Judge of the Supreme Court
 * A. W. H. Abeyesundere Q.C. - Judge of the Supreme Court (Only person to hold the offices of the Attorney General, Legal Draftsman and the Bribery Commissioner concurrently)
 * K. M. M. B. Kulatunge - Judge of the Supreme Court (Solicitor General 1982)
 * Raja Fernando - Judge of the Supreme Court
 * Priyasath Gerard Dep - Judge of the Supreme Court (Solicitor General/Attorney General)
 * O. S. M. Seneviratne - Judge of the Supreme Court
 * Mohan Peiris - Attorney General 2009-2011
 * Rohan Jayatilleke - Former Solicitor General

Diplomats

 * Sir (Dr) Lalitha Rajapakshe - Ambassador to France in 1965 and High Commissioner to U.K. in 1967
 * Major General Anton Muttukumaru OBE, ED, ADC, CLI - High Commissioner to Pakistan (with concurrent responsibility for Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq) in 1959, High Commissioner to Australia and New Zealand from 1963 to 1966. Later in 1966, Ambassador to Egypt, concurrently he was Ambassador to Jordan, the Sudan and Yugoslavia.
 * Nimalasiri Silva - Second Secretary to the Embassy in Washington DC. (He went on to serve as Chief of Protocol of the Ministry of External Affairs until he was seconded to the newly established Ceylon Tourist Board under the then Minister of State, J.R. Jayewardene).
 * Major General Janaka Perera - High Commissioner to Australia and Ambassador to Indonesia
 * Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka - Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the United Nations at Geneva from 2007 to 2009. Thereafter was the Consul General of Sri Lanka in Switzerland
 * Nihal Jayasinghe - High Commissioner to U.K.

Armed Force and Police

 * Major General Anton Muttukumaru OBE, ED, ADC, CLI - First Ceylonese Commander of the Ceylon Army
 * Rear Admiral G. R. M. De Mel, OBE - First Ceylonese Commander of the Navy
 * Major General H. W. G. Wijeyekoon O.B.E, E.D - Second Ceylonese Commander of the Army
 * Lieutenant General G.H. De Silva RWP VSV USP - Commander of the Army 1994-1996
 * Lucky Kodituwakku - Inspector General of Police 1998
 * Rear Admiral Frank Wickramaratne - Chief of Staff Sri Lanka Navy VSV
 * Major General Janaka Perera - Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka Army

Academics

 * Sir (Dr) Lalitha Rajapakshe K.C - Principal of the Law College and the First Ceylonese and probably the youngest academic to obtain the degree of Doctor of Laws in 1925
 * P. Ramanathan - Chancellor of Uva Wellasa University
 * Professor Nihal Perera - Professor of Urban Planning, Ball State University, Indiana, USA
 * Professor Kennedy Gunawardana - Former Head of the Department of Accounting, University of Sri Jayewardenepura
 * Professor J. Rohan Lucas - Former Head, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Moratuwa
 * Professor N. D. W. Lionel - Founder Secretary and President of the Ceylon College of Physicians, President of the Sri Lanka Medical Library and President-elect of the Sri Lanka Medical Association.

Scientists

 * Dr. Cyril Andrew Ponnamperuma - NASA Scientist in the Fields of Chemical Evolution and Origin of Life
 * Dr. Malcolm de Alwis - Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science