Dinesh Gunawardena

**Dinesh Chandra Rupasinghe Gunawardena** (, ; born 2 March 1949) is a Sri Lankan politician who was the 15th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 2022 to 2024. He has served as a member of parliament, cabinet minister, and Leader of the House in the Parliament of Sri Lanka.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **honorific-prefix**: The Honourable, Hon.
- **name**: Dinesh Gunawardena
- **native name**:

- **honorific-suffix**: Member of Parliament, MP
- **image**: Dinesh Gunawardena (cropped).jpg
- **caption**: Gunawardena in 2020
- **office**: 15th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
- **president**: Ranil Wickremesinghe
- **term start**: 22 July 2022
- **term end**: 23 September 2024
- **predecessor**: Ranil Wickremesinghe
- **successor**: Harini Amarasuriya
- **office1**: Minister of Home Affairs (Sri Lanka), Minister of Public Administration, Home Affairs, Provincial Councils and Local Government
- **president1**: Gotabaya Rajapaksa

Ranil Wickremesinghe
- **primeminister1**: Mahinda Rajapaksa
Ranil Wickremesinghe
_Himself_
- **term start1**: 18 April 2022
- **predecessor1**: Janaka Bandara Tennakoon
- **office2**: Minister of Education (Sri Lanka), Minister of Education
- **president2**: Gotabaya Rajapaksa
- **primeminister2**: Mahinda Rajapaksa
- **term start2**: 16 August 2021
- **term end2**: 18 April 2022
- **predecessor2**: G. L. Peiris
- **successor2**: Ramesh Pathirana
- **office3**: Minister of Foreign Relations (Sri Lanka), Minister of Foreign Affairs
- **president3**: Gotabaya Rajapaksa
- **primeminister3**: Mahinda Rajapaksa
- **term start3**: 22 November 2019
- **term end3**: 16 August 2021
- **predecessor3**: Tilak Marapana
- **successor3**: G. L. Peiris
- **office4**: Minister of Water Supply and Drainage (Sri Lanka), Minister of Water Supply and Drainage
- **term start4**: April 2010
- **term end4**: 12 January 2015
- **predecessor4**: A. L. M. Athaullah
- **successor4**: Rauff Hakeem
- **office5**: Minister of Urban Development and Water Supply (Sri Lanka), Minister of Urban Development and Water Supply
- **term start5**: April 2004
- **term end5**: April 2010
- **predecessor5**: Gamini Atukorale
- **successor5**: Mahinda Rajapaksa
- **office6**: Deputy Minister of Education of Sri Lanka
- **term start6**: April 2004
- **term end6**: January 2007
- **successor6**: M. Satchithanandan
- **office7**: Minister of Transport (Sri Lanka), Minister of Transport of Sri Lanka
- **term start7**: October 2000
- **term end7**: December 2001
- **predecessor7**: Srimani Athulathmudali
- **successor7**: Gamini Atukorale
- **office8**: Leader of the House (Sri Lanka), Leader of the House
- **president8**: Gotabaya Rajapaksa
- **primeminister8**: Mahinda Rajapaksa
 Ranil Wickremesinghe
 _Himself_
- **term start8**: 20 August 2020
- **term end8**: 27 July 2022
- **predecessor8**: Lakshman Kiriella
- **successor8**: Susil Premajayantha
- **office9**: Chief Government Whip (Sri Lanka), Chief Government Whip
- **term start9**: 17 June 2008
- **term end9**: 20 January 2015
- **predecessor9**: Jeyaraj Fernandopulle
- **successor9**: Gayantha Karunathilaka
- **office10**: President of Mahajana Eksath Peramuna
- **term start10**: 1972
- **predecessor10**: Philip Gunawardena
- **office11**: Leader of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna
- **term start11**: July 2022
- **term end11**: 15 December 2023
- **predecessor11**: Mahinda Rajapaksa
- **successor11**: Mahinda Rajapaksa
- **office12**: Member of Parliament (Sri Lanka), Member of Parliament
- **term start12**: 10 October 2000
- **constituency12**: Colombo Electoral District, Colombo
- **term start13**: 18 May 1983
- **term end13**: 16 August 1994
- **constituency13**: Maharagama Electoral District, Maharagama <small>(1983–1989)</small>
Colombo <small>(1989–1994)</small>
- **predecessor14**: Premarathne Gunasekera
- **birth place**: Colombo, Dominion of Ceylon
- **party**: Mahajana Eksath Peramuna
- **otherparty**: Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance
- **alma mater**: Royal College Colombo, University of Oregon
- **occupation**: Trade unionist