List of Royal College Colombo alumni

Heads of State

Heads of Government

Royalty

Viceregal

Prominent figures in the Independence Movement

Politics

Heads of Legislature

Ministers and legislators

Current

• Dinesh Gunawardena MP – former Cabinet Minister of National Water Supply and current Member of Parliament
• Arumugam Thondaman MP – former Cabinet Minister of Livestock and Rural Community Development; current Member of Parliament
• Mahindananda Aluthgamage MP – former Cabinet Minister of Sports and current Member of Parliament
• Anuradha Jayaratne MP – current Member of Parliament
• Kanchana Wijesekera MP – current Member of Parliament
• M. A. Sumanthiran MP – current Member of Parliament

  Former

• Sir Frank Gunasekera – Deputy President of the Senate of Ceylon
• E.W.Perera – Senator, member of the State Council and the Legislative Council
• E. B. Wikramanayake – former Senator and Cabinet Minister of Justice
• A. P. Jayasuriya – former Senator, Cabinet Minister of Health and Member of Parliament
• Sarath Wijesinghe – former Senator, Cabinet Minister of Nationalised Services and Senator
• Justin Kotalawela – former Senator and Member of the State Council
• Somasundaram Nadesan – former Senator
• V.R. Schockman – former Senator
• R.S.V. Poulier CCS – former Senator and Member of Parliament
• L. L. Hunter - former Parliamentary Secretary, Senator and Member of Parliament
• C. Coomaraswamy CCS – former Senator
• Lalith Athulathmudali PC – former Cabinet Minister of National Security & Defence, Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Education, Member of Parliament
• Anura Bandaranaike – former Cabinet Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tourism, Industry, Investment & National Heritage, Leader of the Opposition, Member of Parliament
• Major E. A. Nugawela CLI – former Cabinet Minister of Education, Member of Parliament & State Council
• Cathiravelu Sittampalam CCS – former Cabinet Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, Member of Parliament
• Abeyratne Ratnayaka – former Cabinet Minister of Food and Cooperatives, Member of Parliament & State Council
• Felix R. Dias Bandaranaike – former Cabinet Minister of Finance, Public Administration, Local Government, Home Affairs, Justice, Member of Parliament
• Deshamanya Nissanka Wijeyeratne CCS – former Cabinet Minister of Education, Higher Education & Justice, Member of Parliament
• Colvin R de Silva – former Cabinet Minister of Plantation Industries and Constitutional Affairs, Member of Parliament
• Tyronne Fernando PC – former Cabinet Minister of Foreign Affairs, Member of Parliament
• Anil Moonesinghe – former Cabinet Minister of Communications, Deputy Speaker, Member of Parliament
• Pieter Keuneman – former Cabinet Minister of Housing and Local Government, Member of Parliament
• Cyril Mathew – former Cabinet Minister of Industries and Scientific Affairs, Member of Parliament
• Stanly de Zoysa – former Cabinet Minister of Finance, Member of Parliament
• Ranjit Atapattu – former Cabinet Minister of Health, Member of Parliament
• C.V. Gunaratne – former Cabinet Minister Industrial of Development, Member of Parliament
• R.G. Senanayake – former Cabinet Minister of Trade, Member of Parliament holding two concurrent seats from two continuances
• Sir Razik Fareed JP – former Cabinet Minister of Trade, Deputy Speaker, Member of Parliament, the Senate and the State Council
• P.B. Bulankulama Dissawa – former Minister of Lands, Member of Parliament
• Milinda Moragoda – former Cabinet Minister of Justice and Law Reforms, Member of Parliament
• Deshamanya J.P. Obeyesekere III – former Acting Cabinet Minister of Health, Finance, and Member of Parliament
• Gamini Jayasuriya – former Cabinet Minister of Health, Agriculture Development; Member of Parliament
• Indika Gunawardena – former Cabinet Minister of Fisheries, Member of Parliament
• George Rajapakse – former Cabinet Minister of Fisheries, Member of Parliament
• P. B. Bulankulame Dissava – former Cabinet Minister of Land, Land Development and Member of Parliament
• Mano Wijeyeratne – former Minister of Plantation Services, Non-Cabinet Minister of Enterprise Development, Member of Parliament
• Susil Moonesinghe – former Chief Minister of the Western Provincial Council, Member of Parliament
• T. B. Panabokke – former Deputy Minister of Justice & Agriculture and Member of Parliament
• Sagala Ratnayaka – former Deputy Minister of Power, Energy; Member of Parliament
• Wijaya Dahanayake – former Deputy Minister of Public Administration and Home Affairs and Member of Parliament
• Mangala Moonesinghe – former Member of Parliament
• H. Sri Nissanka – former Member of Parliament and one of the founders of the SLFP
• Walwin de Silva CCS – former Member of Parliament
• Neelan Thiruchelvam – former Member of Parliament
• Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam – former Member of Parliament
• Wilmot A. Perera – former Member of Parliament
• Ahmed Hussain Macan Markar – former Member of Parliament
• Arthur de Zoysa – former Member of Parliament
• J. A. Martenze – former Member of Parliament
• Tissa Kapukotuwa – former Member of Parliament
• Murugesu Balasunderam – former Member of Parliament
• Gladwin Kotelawala – former Member of Parliament
• Sajin Vass Gunawardena – former Member of Parliament
• Tiran Alles – former Member of Parliament
• Mohamed Latheef – former Member of the Maldivian Parliament

• Sir James Peiris – Vice President of the Legislative Council and first Ceylonese Acting Governor
• Sir Richard Morgan – first Ceylonese member of the Governor's Executive Council and Member of the Legislative Council
• Sir Ponnambalam Arunachalam CCS – member of the Executive Council and Legislative Council
• Sir Ponnambalam Ramanathan – first elected Ceylonese representative unofficial member of the Legislative Council
• Sir Hector van Cuylenburg – first elected Burgher representative unofficial member of the Legislative Council
• Sir Marcus Fernando – member of the Executive Council and Legislative Council
• Sir Arunachalam Mahadeva – former Minister Home Affaires of the State Council and member of the Legislative Council
• Sir Bandara Panabokke Adigar – First Minister of Health in the State Council and a member of the Legislative Council
• Sir Forester Obeysekera – Speaker of the State Council and a member of the Legislative Council
• Sir Susantha de Fonseka – Deputy Speaker of the State Council
• Sir Harry Dias Bandaranaike – former acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ceylon and first Ceylonese Barrister
• Sir Muthu Coomaraswamy – former Member of the Legislative Council
• Sir Henry de Mel – former Member of the Legislative Council
• F. R. Senanayake – former Member of the Legislative Council
• Colonel T. G. Jayewardene CLI – former Member of the State Council
• Donald Obeyesekere – former Member of the State Council and the Legislative Council
• Justice Sir Thomas Garvin – former ex-officio Member of the Legislative Council
• Justice Maas Thajoon Akbar – former Member of the Legislative Council
• C.E. Corea – former Member of the Legislative Council, President of the Ceylon National Congress
• Charles Ambrose Lorensz – former Member of the Legislative Council
• T M Sabaratnam – former Member of the Legislative Council
• James De Alwis – former Member of the Legislative Council
• K. Balasingam – former Member of the Executive Council and Legislative Council
• J. R. Weinman – former Member of the Legislative Council
• A. J. R. de Soysa – former Member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon

  Judiciary

• Miliani Sansoni – former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ceylon
• Hugh Norman Gregory Fernando – former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ceylon
• Parinda Ranasinghe – former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka
• Mohan Peiris PC – former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka

• Sir Richard Morgan – former Acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ceylon
• Sir Harry Dias Bandaranaike – former Acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ceylon and first Ceylonese Barrister
• Sir Thomas Garvin – former Acting Chief Justice and Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Ceylon
• C. Nagalingam – former Acting Chief Justice and Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Ceylon
• S. W. B. Wadugodapitiya PC – former Acting Chief Justice and Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka

• Sir Thomas De Sampayo – former Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Ceylon
• Sri Lankabhimanya Christopher Weeramantry AM – former Vice President and Judge of the International Court of Justice, Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka
• Eugene Wilfred Jayewardene – former Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Ceylon
• John Adrian St. Valentine Jayewardene – former Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Ceylon
• Maas Thajoon Akbar – former Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Ceylon
• Saleem Marsoof PC – Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka and Justice of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Fiji
• Oswald Leslie De Kretser II – former Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Ceylon
• Oswald Leslie De Kretser III – former Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Ceylon
• Felix Reginald Dias Bandaranaike I – former Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Ceylon
• Felix Reginald Dias Bandaranaike II – former Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Ceylon
• Arthur Eric Keuneman – former Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Ceylon
• V. M. Fernando – former Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Ceylon
• T. S. Fernando – former Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Ceylon
• F. H. B. Koch – former Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Ceylon
• V. Manicavasagar – former Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Ceylon, Chancellor of the University of Jaffna
• C. V. Vigneswaran PC – former Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka
• Asoka Wijetunga – former Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka
• P. Edussuriya – former Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka
• Anil Goonaratne – former Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka
• K. T. Chitrasiri – former Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka
• Prasanna Jayawardena PC – current Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka

• Siva Selliah – former Judge of the Court of Appeal of Sri Lanka
• Eric Basnayake – former Judge of the Court of Appeal of Sri Lanka and the Court of Appeal of Fiji
• Achala Wengappuli – current Judge of the Court of Appeal of Sri Lanka

• Sarath Ambepitiya – former Judge of the High Court of Colombo
• J. R. Weinman – former District Judge of Colombo
• Charles Ambrose Lorensz – former District Judge, Acting Queen's Advocate
• Dhammika Kitulgoda – District Judge

  Provincial and local government

Governors

Chief Ministers and Provincial Councilors

Mayors

Diplomats

• Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe CCS – former President of the United Nations General Assembly, Ceylon's Permanent Representative to the UN, New York and High Commissioner to India
• Deshamanya Gamani Corea – Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Sri Lankan Ambassador to the EEC, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands
• Deshamanya Vernon L. B. Mendis SLOS – former United Nation's Special Envoy to the Middle East, Sri Lankan High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Canada; Ambassador to USSR, Cuba and Secretary General of the Non Aligned Movement
• Rodney Vandergert SLOS – former Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sri Lankan Ambassador to China and USSR, Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Canada
• Wilhelm Woutersz SLOS – former Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sri Lankan Ambassador to China, Italy and Yugoslavia
• Esala Weerakoon SLOS – former Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sri Lankan High Commissioner to India and Ambassador to Norway
• Lal Jayawardena – Second Vice-Chairman of the Group of 24, former Sri Lankan High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and Ambassador to the EEC, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands
• John De Saram – former Director of the Office of the Legal Counsel, United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, Member of the International Law Commission and Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the UN, New York
• Susantha De Alwis SLOS – former Sri Lankan Ambassador to the United States, Japan, South Korea and Ambassador/Permanent Representative of Ceylon to the UN, Geneva.
• Yogendra Duraiswamy SLOS – former Sri Lankan Ambassador to United States, China, Italy
• Neville Jansz CCS – former Ceylon's Ambassador to Australia
• C. Coomaraswamy CCS – former Ceylon's High Commissioner to India
• Sir Susantha de Fonseka – former Ambassador to Japan and Burma
• Sir Razik Fareed OBE JP – High Commissioner to Pakistan
• Sir Arunachalam Mahadeva – former High Commissioner to India
• Sir Bandara Panabokke Adigar – former Representative of the Government of Ceylon in India
• General Deshamanya D. S. Attygalle CLI – High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
• General T. I. Weerathunga VSV ndc SLLI – Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Canada
• General Jagath Jayasuriya VSV USP ndc psc SLAC – current Sri Lankan Ambassador to Brazil
• Admiral Thisara S.G. Samarasinghe RSP VSV USP ndc psc DISS MNI SLN – Sri Lankan High Commissioner designate to Australia
• Vice Admiral Asoka de Silva VSV ndc psc SLN – Sri Lankan Ambassador to Cuba
• Ana Seneviratne – Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Malaysia
• T. B. Panabokke – former High Commissioner to India
• Tyronne Fernando PC – former Sri Lankan Ambassador to France
• Wilmot A. Perera – first Ceylonese Ambassador to China
• Anil Moonesinghe – Sri Lankan Ambassador to Austria and Ambassador/Permanent Representative the UN, Geneva
• Mangala Moonesinghe – former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
• Susil Moonesinghe – former Ambassador to Iran
• Wickrema Weerasooria – former High Commissioner to Australia and New Zealand
• Ernest Corea – Sri Lanka's former Ambassador to the United States, High Commissioner to Canada
• Daya Perera PC – Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Canada and former Ambassador to the United Nations
• Deshamanya Neville Kanakeratne – Sri Lankan Ambassador to the United States and High Commissioner to India
• Oliver Weerasinghe – Sri Lanka's former Ambassador to the United States
• Tissa Wijeyeratne – Sri Lankan Ambassador to France, Switzerland and UNESCO, Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister, Additional Secretary to Ministry of External Affairs and Defence
• Omer Kamil – former Sri Lankan Ambassador to Iran
• T. D. S. A. Dissanayake – former Sri Lankan Ambassador to Indonesia and Egypt; prominent Sri Lankan diplomat in the UN
• S. J. Walpita CCS – former Ceylon's Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium

  Civil servants

• Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe CCS – former Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance & Treasury, Ministry of Health
• Deshamanya C.A. Coorey SLAS – former Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance & Treasury
• Deshamanya Baku Mahadeva CCS – former Permanent Secretary of the Treasury, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food and the Ministry of Public Administration and Home Affairs
• Lal Jayawardena – former Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance & Treasury; founding Director of the World Institute for Development Economics Research
• Lalith Weeratunga SLAS – current Permanent Secretary to the President
• Deshamanya Gamani Corea – former Secretary-General of the UNCTD, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Planning and Economic Affairs, Senior Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Ceylon
• Nissanka Wijeyeratne CCS – former Permanent Secretary of the Ministries of Information & Broadcasting, Transport and Cultural Affairs
• A. S. Jayawardene – former Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance & Treasury, Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka and former Alternate Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund, Washington D.C
• Bernard Peiris JP – former Cabinet Secretary
• H. C. Goonewardene CCS – former Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Home Affairs
• S. J. Walpita CCS – former Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Industries & Fisheries and Vice-Chancellor of University of Ceylon, Peradeniya
• Walwin de Silva CCS – former Vice Chancellor of University of Ceylon, Colombo and Director of Education
• Charitha Ratwatte – former Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance & Treasury, Ministry of Youth Affairs
• Wickrema Weerasooria – former Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Plan Implementation and current Insurance Ombudsman
• Sunil Mendis – former Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka
• Arjuna Mahendran – former Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka and former Chairman of Board of Investment of Sri Lanka
• Indrajit Coomaraswamy – current Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka and former Director Economic Affairs, Commonwealth Secretariat
• Nihal Seneviratne – former Secretary General of Parliament and parliamentary affairs adviser to the Prime Minister
• Dhammika Kitulgoda – Secretary General of Parliament, Secretary to the Parliamentary Council and former District Judge
• Dhammika Dasanayake – current Secretary General of Parliament
• Vernon Abeysekera CCS – former Postmaster General and Director of Radio Ceylon.
• Neville Jansz CCS – Director General of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of External Affairs and Defence
• C. Coomaraswamy CCS – former Registrar General and Government Agent
• Victor Gunasekara CCS – former Controller of Imports Exports and Government Agent of Kegalle
• Aubrey Neil Weinman – First Superintendent of the Colombo Zoological Gardens
• Captain Cyril Nicholas KRR – first Warden of the Wild Life Department
• R.G. Anthonisz JP – first Government Archivist
• Gamini Iriyagolla SLAS – former Presidential adviser
• Donald Rutnam – Deputy Commissioner of the Central Provinces and Berar and member of the Indian Civil Service

  Military

Army

Navy

Air Force

[Ceylon Defence Force]

[British Army]

Police

Academics

• Vidya Jyothi V. K. Samaranayake – former Dean of the Faculty of Science, University of Colombo, Professor of Computer Science and Founder of University of Colombo School of Computing
• Vidya Jyothi Osmund Jayaratne – former President of the Colombo Campus, University of Sri Lanka, Emeritus Professor of Physics and left wing politician
• Chandre Dharma-wardana – former President of the Vidyodaya Campus, University of Ceylon, currently Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Université de Montréal
• K. Kailasapathy – first president of the Jaffna Campus, University of Sri Lanka
• V. Sivalingam – Founder of Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya and first Professor of Parasitology in the University of Ceylon
• S.R. Kottegoda – former Dean and Professor of the Medical Faculty, University of Colombo, and National Coordinator, Health Systems Research, Ministry of Health
• Sanath Lamabathusooriya – former Dean of the Medical Faculty, University of Colombo and Emeritus Professor of Paediatrics
• Vidya Jyothi Janaka de Silva – Senior Professor of Medicine and Former Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, and Director of the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo
• Vidya Jyothi A. W. Mailvaganam – former Dean of Faculty of Science, University of Ceylon
• S. Mahalingam – former Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, University of Peradeniya and Professor of Veterinary Clinical Sciences
• Ajith P. Madurapperuma – Former Dean and Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Moratuwa
• Sunitha Wickramasinghe – Deputy Dean of the Imperial College School of Medicine and Professor of Haematology
• David de Kretser – former Associate Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University
• Michael Dias Bandaranaike – Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Cambridge; Director of Studies and Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge
• Vidya Jyothi Chandra Wickramasinghe FIMA FRAS FRSA – Professor of Applied Mathematics and Astronomy at Cardiff University and Director of the Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology
• K. N. Seneviratne – Professor of Medicine and founder director of Sri Lanka's Postgraduate Institute of Medicine
• Muhammad Ajward Macan Markar – first Professor of Medicine, University of Ceylon, Peradeniya
• Saman Kelegama – Executive Director, Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka and former President of the Sri Lanka Economic Association
• K. N. Jayatilleke – Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ceylon and Professor of Philosophy
• Kollupitiye Mahinda Sangharakkhitha Thera – Professor and Head of the Buddhist and Pail Faculty of the University of Kelaniya
• Rohan Abeyaratne – Quentin Berg Professor of Mechanics and CEO/Director of the SMART Centre, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Nalin Kulatilaka – Wing Tat Lee Family Professor of Management and Research Director of Institute for Leading in a Dynamic Economy, Boston University
• Gihan Wikramanayake – Professor of Computer Science and Director, University of Colombo School of Computing
• Janek Ratnatunga – former Head of the School of Commerce, University of South Australia and Professor of Accounting
• Vidya Jyothi Rezvi Sheriff – Senior Professor of Medicine, Director of the Post Graduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo
• Kumaraswamy "Vela" Velupillai – Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Trento
• Milroy Paul MRCP – first Professor of Surgery, Ceylon Medical College and co-founder International College of Surgeons
• Lakshman Marasinghe – Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Windsor
• Saman Gunatilake FCCP – Professor of Medicine, University of Sri Jayewardenepura
• Nalin de Silva – Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, University of Kelaniya
• A. Suri Ratnapala – Professor of Law, T.C. Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland
• Nihal Jayawickrama – former Professor of Law at University of Hong Kong and Ariel F Sallows Professor of Human Rights at University of Saskatchewan
• D. N. Samarasekera – Professor of Surgery, Head of the Department of Surgery, University of Colombo
• Chandima Gomes – Professor of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia and Head of the Centre for Electromagnetic and Lightning Protection Malaysia
• R. K. W. Goonesekera – Professor of Law, Ahmadu Bello University
• Asantha Cooray – Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine and a leading researcher in the field of Cosmology and theoretical astrophysics
• Brendon Gooneratne – Head and Senior Lecturer, Department of Parasitology, University of Ceylon, Peradeniya
• Murugesapillai Maheswaran – Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin Stevens Point at Wausau, formerly Professor and Head, Department of Mathematics, University of Peradeniya.

  Scientists

Educationalists

Public commissions and corporations

Industrialists and corporate executives

Sports

Sports administrators

Sports

Engineers

Legal

Architects

Medicine

Media

Aviation

Arts

Activists

Religion

Old Royalists in fiction

• Carlaboy von Bloss from the novel Once Upon a Tender Time
• Allan from the novel Kaliyugaya
• Malin from the novel Yuganthaya
• Mithra Dias from the novel The Giniralla Conspiracy
• The revolutionary Kumudu Prasanna from the novel The Giniralla Conspiracy
• Janendra "Janu" Samarawickrama from the novel There is Something I Have to Tell You