List of Sri Lankan Americans list of notable Sri Lankan American citizens , including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants, but does not include Sri Lankan nationals living or working in the U.S. The list includes a brief description of the reason for their notability.Academics Rohan Abeyaratne - academic and engineer Athula Attygalle - professor in mass spectrometry Ananda Coomaraswamy - philosopher Sarath Gunapala - solid-state physicist, senior research scientist and group supervisor at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Shelton Gunaratne - Professor Emeritus of Mass Communications at Minnesota State University Moorhead Ratnajeevan Hoole - professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan State University Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa - freemason , theosophist and president of the Theosophical Society Adyar Nalin Kulatilaka - Professor of Finance at School of Management Patrick Mendis - educator, diplomat, author , and executive in US government service Anura C. Perera - science writer , astronomer Nalin Samarasinha - astronomer, first Sri Lankan to have an asteroid named after him Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah - Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, Harvard University Siva Sivananthan - professor, scientist and Director of the Microphysics Laboratory at the University of Illinois Sam Weerahandi - former professor; the first ASA Fellow of Sri Lankan originActors Sanjit De Silva - actor, known for roles in The Company Men and American Desi Akeel Kalik - actor and model at Ford ModelsArchitecture Raj Barr-Kumar - fellow and past president of the AIA Artists Anne Cherubim - PainterBusiness Namal Nawana - CEO of Smith & Nephew Raj Fernando - Chairman and CEO of Scoutahead.com and philanthropist Sanjay Kumar - businessman Kumar Mahadeva - entrepreneur and CEO Chamath Palihapitiya - venture capitalist , software developer Raj Rajaratnam - founder of Galleon Group, a New York-based hedge fund management firm, convicted of insider tradingFilm Thushari Jayasekera - actress, writer, emcee, and performance artist; with her role on NBC's Outsourced , she is the first American actress of Sri Lankan origin to play a principal role in a primetime show on a major American TV network Chandran Rutnam - film director, producer, screenwriter Bernard White - actor, screenwriter, film director Gina Zamparelli - Los Angeles-based concert promoter ; daughter of Maureen Hingert Medical Bandula Wijay - inventor, businessman, and diplomat. Invented "Nested Loop" vascular stent.Military John Kingsman Beling - Rear Admiral of the United States Navy Musicians DeLon - rapper and record producer; first Sri Lankan-American to appear on the Billboard charts Clarence Jey - US Billboard and Grammy-credited record producer and songwriter Ranidu Lankage - rapper Ruwanga Samath - record producer and the president of The Bird Call ProductionsRebels Visvanathan Rudrakumaran - Chairman of the Provisional Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam , a pro-LTTE front organizationReligion Bawa Muhaiyaddeen - teacher and Sufi mystic Witiyala Seewalie Thera - founder/President and abbot of the Minnesota Buddhist Vihara; recently appointed Deputy Chief Sangha Nayaka of North AmericaSingers Danielle de Niese - opera singer Sean Panikkar - opera singer Tharanga Goonetilleke - opera singerSports Nagalingam Ethirveerasingam - Olympian for 1952 and 1956 Olympic Games Barney Henricus - 1938 British Empire Games boxing gold medallist Christine Sonali Merrill - Olympian in 2012 ; engineer Aruna Ranaweera - USA Rugby national panel referee Sunil Weeramantry - chess trainer, authorWriters Indran Amirthanayagam - author V.V. Ganeshananthan - fiction writer, essayist, and journalist Patrick Mendis - educator, diplomat, author, and executive in US government service Mary Anne Mohanraj - speculative fiction writer and editor who helped found Strange Horizons Nayomi Munaweera - author Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha - poet, writer, educator, social activist Romesh Ratnesar - journalist and author Rosemary Rogers - best-selling author of romance novels in the US; has been on the New York Times best-sellers list Sunil Yapa - fiction writer, author of Your Heart Is a Muscle The Size of a FistLate Night with Seth Meyers Others Rifqa Bary Natalie and Nadiya Anderson - twin sisters who had competed in The Amazing RaceSurvivor
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