# List of S. Thomas' College alumni

This is a list of alumni of S. Thomas' College, Mt. Lavinia Sri Lanka.
It also includes without distinction the alumni from its affiliated schools S. Thomas' College, Bandarawela, S. Thomas' College, Guruthalawa, and S. Thomas' Preparatory School.

## Politics

| Name | Notability |
| Tikiri Bandara Panabokke I | Kandyan Sinhalese member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon, Police Magistrate for Kandy, acting Diyawadana Nilame |
| Sir Solomon Dias Bandaranaika | Headmen, Head Mudaliyar of the British Ceylon |
| Maduwanwela Maha Disawe | Maha Dissava of British Ceylon (late1800s) |
| William Ellawala | Member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon (1856), Rate Mahatmaya |
| Donald Obeyesekere | Legislator, Member of State Council of Ceylon, Legislative Council of Ceylon, President of National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka |
| D. S. Senanayake | Member of Parliament (Mirigama) (1947 – 1952), Prime Minister of Ceylon (1947 – 1952) |
| Dudley Senanayake | Member of Parliament (Dedigama) (1947 – 1956, 1957 – 1970), Prime Minister of Ceylon (1952 – 1953, 1960, 1965 – 1970) |
| Solomon Bandaranaike | Member of Parliament (Attanagalla) (1947 – 1959), Prime Minister of Ceylon (1956 – 1959) |
| Sir Paul Pieris | Ceylon's Trade Commissioner, District Judge, Advocate, President of Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, Civil servant |
| Solomon Christoffel Obeyesekere | Lawyer, Legislator, Unofficial Member of Legislative Council of Ceylon (1900–1916) |
| Wijeyananda Dahanayake | Member of Parliament (Galle) (1947 – 1977, 1979 – 1988), Prime Minister of Ceylon (1959 – 1960) |
| Tuan Burhanudeen Jayah | Member of Legislative Council (1924–1931), member of State Council (1936–1947), member of Parliament - Colombo Central (1947–1950) |
| Arthur Wijewardena | Governor-General of Ceylon (1953-1953), Chief Justice of Ceylon(1949–1950), Solicitor General of Ceylon(1936–1939) |
| Chanaka Amaratunga | founder of the Liberal Party of Sri Lanka |
| S. J. V. Chelvanayagam | Member of Parliament (Kankesanthurai) (1947 – 1952, 1956 – 1972, 1975 – 1977) |
| K. N. Choksy | Member of Parliament (National List) (1989 – 2010) |
| S. L. Gunasekara | Senior Lawyer and Member of Parliament |
| Ronnie de Mel | Member of Parliament (Matara) (1965 – 2004) |
| C. P. de Silva | Member of Parliament (Minneriya) (1952 – 1970) |
| A. J. R. de Soysa | Member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon (1911–?) |
| K. Ganeshalingam | Mayor of Colombo (1996 – 1997) |
| Leslie Goonewardene | Member of Parliament (Panadura) (1956 – 1977) |
| Wilfred Miller Vincent Koch | Member of Legislative Council of Hong Kong |
| Sir Alfred Francis Molamure | Member of Parliament (Balangoda) (1947 – 1951) |
| G. L. Peiris | Member of Parliament (Colombo) (1994 – 2001) (National List) (2001 – 2015) |
| N. M. Perera | Member of Parliament |
| Sajith Premadasa | Member of Parliament (Hambantota) (2000 – present) |
| Shashindra Rajapaksa | Chief Minister of Uva Province (2009 – 2015) |
| Shelton Ranaraja | Member of Parliament (1960-1965-SLFP) and (1978-1988-UNP); |
| Sir Ratnasothy Saravanamuttu | Mayor of Colombo (1937, 1941 – 1942) |
| Rukman Senanayake | Member of Parliament (Kegalle) (1973 – 1977), (Polonnaruwa) (1994 – 2001), (Kegalle) (2001 – present) |
| F. R. Senanayake | Member of Legislative Council (?–1926) |
| Wasantha Senanayake | Member of Parliament (Gampaha) (2010 – 2015), (Polonnaruwa) (2015 – present) |
| Murugeysen Tiruchelvam | Member of Parliament |
| Kumara Welgama | Member of Parliament (Kalutara) (1994 – present) |
| E. B. Wikramanayake | Senator, Minister of Justice (1953–1956) |
| Ranjan Wijeratne | Member of Parliament (National List) (1989 – 1991) |
| Rajiva Wijesinha | Member of Parliament (National List) (2010 – 2015) |

## Members of the Independence Movement

| Name | Notability | Reference |
| Gratien Fernando | Leader of Cocos Islands mutiny | |
| Henry Pedris | Ceylonese militia officer and a prominent socialite | |

## Civil servants

| Name | Notability |
| Vijaya Corea | Former Director General of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation |
| Uthum Herat | Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (2009) |
| Palitha Kohona | Sri Lankan Permanent Representative to the United Nations (2009 – 2015) |
| Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu | Commissioner of Tea Control and Rubber Control (1946) |
| Bernard Tilakaratna | Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1989 – 1994) |
| Bradman Weerakoon | Secretary to the Prime Minister (1955 – 1970) |
| Arittha R Wikramanayake | Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka (? – 1997) |
| Elanga Wikramanayake | Solicitor General (1977) |
| Shantha Kottegoda | Secretary to the Ministry of Defence (2018– ) |

## Judiciary

| Name | Notability |
| Arjuna Obeyesekere | Puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka (2021–present) |
| Gihan Kulatunga | Judge of the Court of Appeal of Sri Lanka (2024–present) |
| Mahen Gopallawa | Judge of the Court of Appeal of Sri Lanka (2024–present) |

## Military
### Air Force

| Name | Notability |
| Paddy Mendis | Air Chief Marshal - Commander of the Air Force (1971 – 1976) |
| Donald Perera | Air Chief Marshal - Commander of the Air Force (2002 – 2006) |
| P. B. Premachandra | Air Vice Marshal - Chief of Staff of the Air Force (2006 – ?) |

### Army

| Name | Notability |
| Shantha Kottegoda | General - Commander of the Army (2004 – 2005) |
| Srilal Weerasooriya | General - Commander of the Army (1988 – 2000) |
| M.C. Mendaka. P. Samarasinghe | Major General - Chief of Staff of the Army (2009 – present) |
| Gratian Silva | Major General - Military Secretary |
| Basil Horsfall | Second Lieutenant - Victoria Cross recipient (1918) |

### Navy

| Name | Notability | Reference |
| H. A. Silva | Admiral - Commander of the Navy (1986 – 1991) | |

### Police

| Name | Notability | Reference |
| Aleric Abeygunawardena | Inspector General of Police (1967 – 1970) | |
| Osmund De Silva | Inspector General of Police (1955 – 1959) | |

## Academia

| Name | Notability |
| Arjuna P. de Silva | Head of Department of Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya (2013 – present) |
| Devaka Fernando | Foundation Professor of Medicine, University of Sri Jayawardanapura |
| R. D. Gunaratne | Director, National Science and Technology Commission |
| Rajan Hoole | Mathematician; author; human rights activist |
| Stanley Kalpage | Chairman of University Grants Commission (1977 – 1989) |
| R. S. de Saram | co-founder of S Thomas College Gurutalawa |
| Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah | Professor (Emeritus) of Anthropology at Harvard University, |
| Douglas Walatara | Professor of Education (University of Colombo), |
| Dayantha Wijeyesekera | Vice Chancellor (Moratuwa University, Open University), chairman, Tertiary and Vocational Education Commission |
| Paul R. Mather | Professor of Accounting and Finance, School of Accounting, La Trobe University |

## Sports

| Name | Notability |
| Kaushik Amalean | International test cricket player (1986 – 1988) |
| Saliya Ahangama | International test cricket player (1985) |
| Niroshan Wijekoon | Sri Lankan Olympian and the first badminton player to represent Sri Lanka. Held the Sri Lankan National Badminton Championships singles title for nine years (1983–1987 and 1989–1992). |
| Guy de Alwis | International test cricket player (1983 – 1988) |
| Fredrick de Saram | First-class cricket player |
| Michael Jayasekera | Rugby union player |
| Wasim Thajudeen | Rugby union player |
| Duleep Mendis | International test cricket player (1982 – 1988) |
| Jeevan Mendis | One Day International, Twenty20 International cricketer (2010 – 2018) |
| P. L. Munasinghe | Rugby union player |
| Mano Ponniah | First-class cricket player (1964 – 1969) |
| Ishak Sahabdeen | One Day International cricket player (1983 – 1984); International hockey player (1985 – 1986) |
| Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu | Sports administrator |
| Kaushal Silva | International test cricket player (2011 – 2016) |
| Ray Wijewardene | Olympic sailor (1968) |
| Anura Tennekoon | One Day International cricket player (1975 – 1979) |
| Michael Tissera | One Day International cricket player (1975) |
| Kapila Wijegunawardene | International test cricket player (1991 – 1992) |

## Business

| Name | Notability |
| Rajpal Abeynayake | Editor-in-Chief of the Daily News; former Chief Editor of the Sunday Observer; founder and Chief Editor of Sunday Lakbima News |
| Nihal Sri Ameresekere | Fraud and corruption investigator; author |
| Sir Charles Henry de Soysa | Tea planter, entrepreneur and philanthropist |
| Sir Henry De Mel | industrialist; lawyer; philanthropist; member of the Legislative Council (1921 – 1936) |
| Sir Christopher Ondaatje | Stockbroker; publisher; philanthropist |
| Chandra Schaffter | Founder of Janashakthi Insurance (1994) |
| Hans Wijayasuriya | Chief executive officer of Dialog Axiata |
| D. R. Wijewardena | Publisher, founder of Lake House Group & Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd |

### NGO

| Name | Notability |
| Jeevan Thiagarajah | Executive Director of the Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies |
| Ivan Corea (Autism Campaign and Journalist) | Founder of Autism Awareness Campaign UK and Autism Sunday |
| Kamaj Silva | Founder of Sneakertub |

## Arts

| Name | Notability |
| Gamini Fonseka | Actor, director, Member of Parliament (Matara) (1989 – 1970), Governor of North Eastern Province (1995 – 1998) |
| Pradeep Rangana | Singer (Sirasa Superstar winner - 2007) |
| Richard de Zoysa | Journalist, author, actor |
| Michael Ondaatje | Author (Booker Prize winner - 1992) |
| Lakdasa Wikkramasinha | Poet |

## Religion

| Name | Notability | Reference |
| Dushantha Lakshman Rodrigo | 16th Anglican Bishop of Colombo (2020 to present) | |