death_date birth_place nationality article_title birth_date known_for image employer education name occupation
20 june 1994 pannipitiya , british ceylon sri lankan b. d. rampala
 14 november 1910 the of sri lanka railways first ceylonese chief mechanical engineer and general manager b. d. rampala.jpg sri lanka railways nalanda university of ceylon college , colombo ananda college , colombo , b.d rampala engineer
b. d. rampala

bamunusinghearachchige don rampala -lrb- 14 november 1910 -- 20 june 1994 -rrb- , mbe -lrb- popularly known as b. d. rampala -rrb- was chief mechanical engineer and later general manager of sri lanka railways .
he was the first native sri lankan to hold the post of chief mechanical engineer .
in 1956 , the institution of locomotive engineers in london recognised rampala as the finest diesel engineer in asia at the time .
