Lista de Personas Famosas nacidas en Sri Lanka
Rayappu Joseph
Rayappu Joseph fue un prelado católico esrilanqués. Fue Obispo de la Diócesis de Mannar entre 1992 y 2016.
Sawan Serasinghe
Sawan Serasinghe is a badminton player from Australia. He won seven Oceania Championships titles, five in the men's doubles and two in the mixed doubles. Serasinghe competed in the men's doubles event at the 2016 Summer Olympics alongside Matthew Chau.
Victor Gnanapragasam
Father Victor Gnanapragasam O.M.I. was the first prefect of the Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan.
Achini Nimeshika Ratnasiri
Sachin Dias
Sachin Premashan Dias Angodavidanalage is a Sri Lankan badminton player. He won two silver medals and a bronze in singles and doubles at the South Asian Games.
Kavindi Ishandika Sirimannage
Kavidi Ishadika Sirimannage is a Sri Lankan badminton player. In 2010, she won the mixed doubles title at the Sri Lanka Air Force Championships with Niluka Karunaratne. In 2015, she was crowned as the champion in the women's doubles, and the runner-up in the singles and mixed doubles. In 2016 she helped the Sri Lankan women's team win a silver medal at the South Asian Games, and also won a bronze in the singles and the mixed doubles event. She won the 2017 Summer Season Championships in the women's doubles event with Thilini Hendahewa, and was the runner-up in the singles. She won her first international title at the Lagos International tournament in the women's doubles event with Hendahewa. She competed at the 2017 Summer Universiade in Taipei, Taiwan, and at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast.
Thilini Jayasinghe
Thilini Sudhara Jayasinghe is a Sri Lankan badminton player. Born in Peradeniya, Jayasinghe started playing badminton at age of 9, and has joined the national team in 2000. She attended Mahamaya College and was named Best Sports Woman in 2004. In 2006 and 2010, she competed at the Asian and Commonwealth Games. Jayasinghe also competed for Sri Lanka at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's singles event. She is the first woman badminton player to have ever represented Sri Lanka at the Olympic Games.
Heather Armitage
Heather Armitage, también llamada Heather Young, fue una atleta británica, especializada en la prueba de 4 x 100 m en la que llegó a ser subcampeona olímpica en 1956.
Oswald Gomis
Oswald Thomas Colman Gomis is the former Roman Catholic Archbishop of Colombo and he is the current Chancellor of the University of Colombo. Msgr. Gomis' previous post was as the Bishop of Anuradhapura having been appointed in 1996. He was also the Auxiliary Bishop of Colombo from 1968 to 1996. He formally relinquished office and retired on 5 August 2009.
Niluka Karunaratne
Niluka Karunaratne is a Sri Lankan Olympic badminton player who compete in 2012 and 2016. He was selected to captain the Sri Lankan contingent to the 2012 Summer Olympics. Karunaratne competed in five consecutives Commonwealth Games from 2002–2018.