List of British Sri Lankans

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This is a list of people of Sri Lankan descent living in the United Kingdom. "Sri Lankan Britons" refers to all Sri Lankan ethnic groups.

Business and Industry[]

Most of the Srilankan Britons are doing businesses such as cornershops , petrol stationss , restaurants, jewellery stores, textiles, etc.

• Subaskaran Allirajah, businessman and entrepreneur, founder of the Lycamobile, world's largest MVNO based in UK.
• Ratheesan Yoganathan, British entrepreneur, and founder of the Lebara.
• Karunamoorthy, film producer and founder of Ayngaran International.
• Arjuna Sittampalam, financier.

Academic[]

• Abhaya Induruwa
• Sunitha Wickramasinghe
• , researcher, feminist, global historian, children's novelist, and academic at the City University of New York

Actors[]

• Jai Akash
• Romesh Ranganathan, British stand-up comedian, actor and presenter.
• Tony Jayawardena
• Amara Karan
• Albert Moses
• Kim Vithana

Engineers[]

• Cecil Balmond
• Lakshika Wanniarachchi
• Kanagaratnam Sriskandan

Lawyers[]

• Desmond Lorenz de Silva

Media[]

Tamil media like IBC Tamil, Deepam TV are headquartered in UK.

• George Alagiah
• Nigel Barker
• Suranga Chandratillake
• James Coomarasamy
• Rasantha Cooray
• Vernon Corea
• Darshini David
• Elmo Fernando
• Christopher Greet
• Rohan Jayasekera
• Neville Jayaweera
• Tim Kash
• Emmanuel Ray

Military[]

• Cyril Nicholas

Musicians[]

• Teejay
• Arjun Coomaraswamy
• Beverley Craven
• Rohan de Saram
• Desmond de Silva
• Siva Kaneswaran
• Lay Low
• M.I.A.
• Nimal Mendis
• DJ Nihal
• Ashan Pillai

Physicians[]

• Henry Speldewinde de Boer
• Richard Lionel Spittel
• Ajith Kumar Siriwardena

Politicians[]

• Desmond Lorenz de Silva
• Nirj Deva
• Jan Jananayagam
• Ranil Jayawardena
• Alexander Robert Johnston
• , Mayor of Harrow.^{[citation needed]}

Religion[]

• Kamal Chunchie
• Bogoda Seelawimala Nayaka Thera
• Lakshman Wickremasinghe

Scientists[]

• Suran Goonatilake
• Chandra Wickramasinghe
• Cyril Ponnamperuma^[1]

Sports[]

• Francis Bacon
• Alistair Blair
• Jude Chaminda
• Dimitri Mascarenhas
• Gehan Mendis
• Walter Philps
• Murugan Thiruchelvam
• Duncan White
• Glucka Wijesuriya

Writers[]

• Mahinda Deegalle
• Rohan Jayasekera
• Nadarajah Selvarajah
• Ambalavaner Sivanandan
• Michael Ondaatje
• , author of a children's book, feminist, global historian, researcher, and academic at the City University of New York

Others[]

• Kali Arulpragasam
• Peter Kuruvita
• Ganesh Sittampalam
• Sir Christopher Ondaatje

See also[]

• List of Sri Lankans

References[]