List of Trinity College, Kandy alumni

This is a list of alumni of Trinity College, Kandy, located in Sri Lanka.

Government and politics

Intergovernmental organisations

• Dr Sarath Amunugama - Founder Director of the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) at the Paris-based UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) (See also Cabinet Ministers.)
• Dr. Jayantha Dhanapala - Senior Special Advisor to both Presidents Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga and Mahinda Rajapakse; UN Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs; the Government of Sri Lanka's nominee for the office of United Nations Secretary General in 2006; Trinity Ryde gold medalist of 1956 (See also Diplomatic Service.)
• Lakshman Kadirgamar - founder Director of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO); advisor to 36 Foreign Governments; advisor to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) (See also Diplomats, Ministers and Sportsmen.)
• Dr Deshamanya Jayantha Kelegama - Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of External and Internal Trade; ^[1] during 1977–1990 he pursued a career outside Sri Lanka, serving in various international organizations such as UNCTAD, FAO, and ESCAP as an economic consultant^[2][3][4]
• Mohamed Muhsin - Vice President and founder Chief Information Officer of the World Bank

Diplomatic service

• Sir V. Coomaraswamy CMG - former Ceylonese High Commissioner to Canada,^[5] Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Defense and External Affairs, and Senior Civil Servant
• Jayantha Dhanapala - former High Commissioner to New Delhi, London and Ambassador to Washington (with accreditation to the United Nations and Geneva)
• Faisz Musthapha, PC - former High Commissioner to the UK
• Adigar TB Panabokke - High Commissioner to New Delhi, India
• Hon. Dr Sarath Amunugama - Sri Lankan Cabinet Minister (Min. of Public Administration and Home Affairs), Minister of Irrigation prior to becoming independent Sri Lanka’s 16th Finance Minister in the Chandrika Kumaratunga Government, Minister of Public Administration in the Mahinda Rajapaksa Government, Deputy Minister of Finance and now Senior Minister for International Monetary Cooperation and Kandy District MP
• Hon. Lionel Gamini Dissanayake PC – presidential candidate, United National Party; Leader of the Opposition, Minister of Lands, Land Development and Mahaweli Development, in the JR Jayawardene Government of 1977; Minister of Plantation Industries in the Ranasinghe Premadasa Government of 1989; first MP for Nuwara Eliya in 1970 and 1977; President of the Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka; founder President of the Cricket Foundation of Sri Lanka
• Hon. Kabir Hashim - Minister of Tertiary Education in the abridged Ranil Wickremesinghe Government of 2001-2003 and MP for Kegalle District
• Hon. Edwin Loku Banda Hurulle – Cabinet Minister of Communications and Cultural Affairs
• Hon. Lakshman Jayakody - Deputy Minister of Defence in the Sirimavo Bandaranaike Government of 1970-1977 and Minister of Cultural and Religious Affairs in the Chandrika Kumaratunga Government of 1994, MP for Divulapitiya^[5] and Kurunegala District MP
• Sri Lankabhimanya Hon. Lakshman Kadirgamar PC - former Minister of Foreign Affairs at the time of his assassination on August 12, 2005l President of the Oxford Union; Honorary Master of the Inner Temple in 1996 (only the second Asian to have this after Malaysian Prime Minister Tungku Abdul Rahaman in 1974); Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford
• Adigar Sir T.B. Panabokke - Ceylonese Cabinet Minister and Member of the Legislative Council
• Hon. Anuruddha Ratwatte - former Minister of Power and Energy and Deputy Minister of Defence and MP for Kandy District
• Deshamanya Hon. Edward Lionel Senanayake - Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka

Provincial governors

• Hon. Edwin Loku Banda Hurulle - Governor, Central Province and North Central Province
• Deshamanya Hon. Edward Lionel Senanayake - Governor of North Central Province

Members of municipal councils

• Sanjeewa Hulangamuwa - Councillor, Kandy Municipal Council

Senior civil servants and heads of government departments

• W. T. I. Alagaratnam – Director of Irrigation
• Dr Sarath Amunugama - government agent, Ratnapura and Hambantota (See also under International Civil Servants, Ministers and Media.)
• Atma Jayaram - former Chief of the Indian Intelligence Bureau;^[5] personal advisor to Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
• Faisz Musthapha, PC - Chairman of the Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission, 2000-2003

Mayors

• Sir Cuda Ratwatte Adigar - first Kandyan Knight; first Mayor of Kandy
• Fredrick de Silva, MBE - former Mayor of Kandy
• Harindra Dunuwille - former Mayor of Kandy, MP and State Minister for Constitutional Affairs

Political party leaders

• Gamini Dissanayake - Democratic United National Front (DUNF)
• Prof. Tissa Vitharana - the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP)

Artists

• George Keyt - Sri Lankan artist^[5]
• David Paynter RA, OBE - Sri Lankan artist^[5]

Judges and senior counsel

Supreme Court justices

• His Lordship NDM (Neville) Samarakoon QC - former Chief Justice, Sri Lanka
• His Lordship Sarath Nanda Silva, PC - Chief Justice, Sri Lanka

Justices and attorneys

• R. R. Crossette-Thambiah - former Solicitor General of Ceylon, Commissioner of Assize and Barrister^[5]
• Sir Desmond Lorenz de Silva QC - head of one of the foremost and longest established barristers' chambers in the UK; former Chief Prosecutor of the International War Crimes Tribunal for Sierra Leone, with rank of United Nations Under-Secretary-General; knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in the 2007 Honours List; 2 Paper Buildings;^[6] married to Princess Katarina of Yugoslavia)

Military

Sri Lanka Army

• Captain S. Aladeniya (KIA) - first recipient of the Parama Were Vibhushanaya
• Lieutenant General Denzil Lakshman Kobbekaduwa RWP, RSP, VSV, USP, rcds, psc, SLAC (KIA) - General Officer Commanding Northern Province
• Lieutenant General Parami Kulatunga RSP, VSV, USAWC (United States Army War College) GW (KIA) - former Deputy Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka Army, Security Forces Commander - Vanni and General Officer Commanding 22 Division; assassinated on June 26, 2006
• General Anuruddha Ratwatte - Deputy Minister of Defence
• Major General Richard Udugama, MBE - former Commander of the Army, Ceylon;^[5] Trinity Rugby Lion in 1932

Indian Army

• Major General Ajit Rudra - Southern Command of the Indian Army

Police

• Sir Richard Aluwihare KCMG, CBE, CCS - first Ceylonese Inspector General of Police and later High Commissioner to India^[5]
• John Attygalle - former Inspector General of Police, Sri Lanka^[5]
• Rudra Rajasingham - former Inspector General of Police, Sri Lanka

Sportsmen and administrators

Rugby

• Quentin Israel - rugby player, coach, school master
• Lt Gen. Denzil Lakshman Kobbekaduwa - former Sri Lanka Rugby Captain and Secretary General of the Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union

Cricket

• Narendra Ekanayake - captain of Bahamas national cricket team
• Kumar Sangakkara - Sri Lankan cricket captain
• Lakshman Kadirgamar - Oxford University Cricket Blue
• Graeme Labrooy - former Sri Lanka National Cricketer; represented Maris Stella College, Negombo at first eleven level
• Ranjan Senarath Madugalle - former Sri Lankan Cricket Captain; presently Chief Match Referee of the International Cricket Council
• Joseph Ravindran (Ravi) Ratnayeke - former Sri Lanka Vice Captain of Cricket
• N.L.K. (Nilantha) Ratnayake - former Sri Lanka national cricketer
• Kumar Choksanada Sangakkara - former captain of Sri Lankan National Cricket Team
• Kaushalya Weeraratne - Sri Lanka national cricketer
• Sachith Pathirana - Sri Lanka limited over cricketer
• Lahiru Kumara - Sri Lanka Test cricketer

Athletics

• Lakshman Kadirgamar - holder of the All India Inter University hurdles record both at Ahmedabad and Allahabad
• Duncan White MBE - Olympic silver medalist

Academics

• Prof. Seneka Bibile - former Professor of Pharmacology,^[5] Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and founder of the State Pharmaceuticals Corporation
• Prof. Stanley Wijesundera - former Professor of Bio-Chemistry and Vice Chancellor, University of Colombo
• Prof. Gishan Dissanaike - financial economist; Robert Monks Professorial Chair in Corporate Governance at Cambridge University and Head of the Finance Department;^[7] first graduate of a Sri Lankan university to be given a chair at either Oxford or Cambridge^[8]

Educators

• Louis Edmund Blaze CBE - founder and first Principal of Kingswood College, Kandy^[5]

Business

• Cecil Balmond - Chairman of Arup (Europe)
• Susantha Ratnayake - youngest ever Group Chairman of John Keells Holdings PLC.
• Nahil Wijesuriya - entrepreneur and Chairman of the East West Group, Sri Lanka
• Mohamed Muhsin - Director of Dialog Axiata PLC
• Dr. Sarath Amunugama - Chairman of Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd during the D.B. Wijetunga Presidency; former Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of State under Hon. Anandatissa De Alwis in the Dudley Senanayake government of 1965-70

References

1. ↑ Book on ‘Sri Lankan Economy in Transition’ launched. The Island, Retrieved on 17 March 2012.
2. ↑ "Dr. Jayantha Kelegama". Upali Group of Companies. 2005-08-17. Retrieved 2013-11-05. 
3. ↑ "Jayantha Kelegama: The patriot as economist". The Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd. 2005-08-14. Retrieved 2013-11-05. 
4. ↑ "A progressive economist remembered". The Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd. 2005-09-13. Retrieved 2013-11-05. 
5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Centenary Number, Trinity College, Kandy, 1872-1972, Appendix II - Old Boys, published by Trinity College Press, Kandy, March 1972
6. ↑ 2pb.co.uk
7. ↑ ‘DISSANAIKE, Prof. Gishan Romesh’, Who's Who 2011, A & C Black, 2011; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2010 ; online edn, Oct 2010 accessed 13 Dec 2010
8. ↑ "accessed 28 March 2011". Sundaytimes.lk. Retrieved 2011-09-10.