Media

• Christopher Greet
  Christopher Greet
  Christopher Greet was a hugely popular announcer and presenter of radio programs with Radio Ceylon, the oldest radio station in South Asia. Chris Greet enjoyed iconic status alongside other announcers of Radio Ceylon. Millions tuned into the radio station....
  
  
• Darshini David
• George Alagiah
  George Alagiah
  George Maxwell Alagiah OBE is a British newsreader, journalist and television news presenter.Since 3 December 2007, he has been the sole presenter of the BBC News at Six and has also been the main presenter of GMT on BBC World News since its launch on 1 February 2010...
  
  
• James Coomarasamy
  James Coomarasamy
  James Coomarasamy is the BBC World Service Europe Correspondent. He was formerly a BBC correspondent in Warsaw, followed by Paris and Washington, D.C....
  
  
• Neville Jayaweera
  Neville Jayaweera
  Neville Jayaweera is a distinguished civil servant of Sri Lanka. He was handpicked by the Prime Minister of Ceylon, Dudley Senanayake and the Cabinet Minister of Broadcasting, Ranasinghe Premadasa to be both Chairman and Director-General of Radio Ceylon and subsequently the Ceylon Broadcasting...
  
  
• Rohan Jayasekera
  Rohan Jayasekera (writer)
  Rohan Asoka Jayasekera is a British journalist, editor, web designer and occasionally controversial activist for free expression and media rights...
  
  
• Rasantha Cooray
• Tim Kash
  Tim Kash
  Tim Kash is a television presenter best known for formerly presenting Top of the Pops in the United Kingdom, and MTV News on MTV UK and Ireland. He appeared on the U.S. edition of MTV News, and as a guest presenter on E! Network's Daily 10...
  
  
• Vernon Corea
  Vernon Corea
  Vernon Corea was a pioneer radio broadcaster with 45 years of public service broadcasting both in Sri Lanka and the UK. He joined Radio Ceylon, South Asia's oldest radio station, in 1956 and later the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation...
  
  

Musicians

• Beverley Craven
  Beverley Craven
  Beverley Craven is a British singer-songwriter best known for her 1991 UK Top 5 hit single "Promise Me". Her most recent album, Close To Home, was released in 2009...
  
  
• Desmond de Silva
  Desmond de Silva
  Desmond de Silva is a Sri Lankan singer and entertainer, noted for his youthful voice that has changed little over four decades of performing, and regarded as the "King of Baila." Born in Matara in southern Sri Lanka, De Silva is now resident in Great Britain and has performed to packed concert...
  
  
• M.I.A.
  M.I.A. (artist)
  Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam , better known by her stage name M.I.A. , is an English singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, painter and director of Sri Lankan Tamil descent. Her compositions combine elements of hip hop, electronica, dance, alternative and world music. M.I.A...
  
  
• DJ Nihal
  DJ Nihal
  DJ Nihal is an English radio and TV presenter, as well as club night promoter and DJ, currently broadcasting on BBC Radio 1, BBC Asian Network and since August 6, 2010 BBC Radio 5 Live...
  
  
• Nimal Mendis
  Nimal Mendis
  Nimal Mendis is a Sri Lankan singer and songwriter. He is one of a handful of Sri Lankan musicians to make it to the BBC television programme Top of the Pops in 1968....
  
  
• Som Wardner
  Som Wardner
  Som Wardner is a Sri Lankan-born British musician and socialite, best known as the frontman of the band My Vitriol.Wardner was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka and raised as a Sinhalese Buddhist. Noted for artistic abilities from an early age, Wardner had one of his art exhibitions opened by the...
  
  
• Suthan Sivapathasuntharam
• Vernon G. Segaram

Sports

• Francis Bacon
  Francis Bacon (cricketer)
  Francis Hugh Bacon was an English cricketer. Bacon was a right-handed batsman who was a right-arm slow bowler.-Career:...
  
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• Dimitri Mascarenhas
  Dimitri Mascarenhas
  Adrian Dimitri Mascarenhas is an English cricketer of Sri Lankan Tamil heritage. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler. He currently plays county cricket for Hampshire County Cricket Club, in the Indian Premier League for the Kings XI Punjab and for the Otago Volts in New...
  
  
• Murugan Thiruchelvam
  Murugan Thiruchelvam
  Murugan Thirumurugan Thiruchelvam is an English chess player. He was England's youngest player ever to gain an international chess rating . Less than a week after his 10th birthday, he played against the then world champion Garry Kasparov in a simultaneous exhibition...
  
  
• Duncan White
  Duncan White
  Duncan White, MBE was the first Sri Lankan athlete to win a medal for his country in an Olympic event. He won a silver in the 400-metre hurdles at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, England...
  
   - Sri Lankan Olympian for 1948 Olympic Games
  1948 Summer Olympics
  The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was held in London, England, United Kingdom. After a 12-year hiatus because of World War II, these were the first Summer Olympics since the 1936 Games in Berlin...
  
  

Other

• Peter Kuruvita - Chef
• Arjuna Sittampalam
  Arjuna Sittampalam
  Arjuna Sittampalam is a financier in the United Kingdom. He is recently appointed as Research Associate at the EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre....
  
  
• Ganesh Sittampalam
  Ganesh Sittampalam
  Ganesh Sittampalam was the youngest person to pass an A-level in 1988 when he was nine years and four months old. However this feat has since been surpassed by a number of other children....
  
  
• Kali Arulpragasam
  Kali Arulpragasam
  Kali Arulpragasam is a jewellery designer based in London, UK. She is the founder and creative director of the jewellery company and label "Super Fertile," founded in 2006.-Super Fertile:...
  
  
• Kamal Chunchie
  Kamal Chunchie
  Kamal Chunchie was born in 1886 and died 1953. As a Methodist minister, he worked in race relations in Canning Town where he founded The Coloured Men's Institute.Kamal Chunchie was born in Sri Lanka and by 1920 was living in the East End of London...
  
  
• Nigel Barker