List of Sri Lankan Australians
This is a List of Sri Lankan Australians, people who are of Sri Lankan heritage living in Australia. "Sri Lankan Australians" refers to all ethnic groups in Sri Lanka, but they are mainly the Sinhalese, Sri Lankan Tamils and Burghers.
Academics
- Christie Jayaratnam Eliezer - academic
- Sisira Jayasuriya - professor of Economics at La Trobe University
- Christopher Weeramantry - Emeritus Professor at Monash University
Authors
- Michelle de Kretser - author
- Dipti Saravanamuttu - poet and academic
Businesspeople
- Jitto Arulampalam - current Chairman of Progen Pharmaceuticals Limited and Euro Petroleum Limited; Australian Financial Review MIS Magazine recognized him as one of the "Top 25 Global Rising Stars" in 2006[1][2]
- Shanaka Fernando[3] - founder of Melbourne not-for-profit restaurant group 'Lentil as Anything' (a joke on the rock group Mental As Anything); 2007 Australian Local Hero Award recipient
Chefs
- Geoff Jansz - Nine Network TV chef
- Peter Kuruvita - chef[4][5][6]
- Charmaine Solomon - cookbook author
Media
- Vernon Abeysekera - Director of Radio Ceylon and civil servant
- Jamie Durie - Seven Network media personality
- Pria Viswalingam - SBS journalist
Musicians
- Andrew De Silva - R&B and rock singer, winner of Australia's Got Talent 2012
- Candy Devine - musician and actress
- Cliff Foenander - leading musician with the Fabulous Echoes
- Clarence Jey - Billboard Hot 100 record producer, musician
- Kamahl - singer and actor (born in Malaysia)
- Desmond Kelly - musician and actor
- Alston Koch - musician[7][8][9]
- Keith Potger - musician, founding member of The Seekers
- Guy Sebastian[10] - first winner of Australian Idol
- Amali Ward – Australian Idol contestant, singer[11]
Politics
- David de Kretser[12] - Governor of Victoria
- Palitha Kohona - former Permanent Secretary to the Sri Lankan Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Anton Muttukumaru[13] - ex Army Commander of Ceylon and high Commissioner to Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan and Ambassador to Egypt
- Shiva Pasupati - longest serving Attorney General of Sri Lanka (former); human rights activist
- Jude Perera - State Member for Cranbourne District in the Victorian Legislative Assembly
Religion
- Ameer Ali - ex-President of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils
- Roger Herft - Archbishop of Perth
- Danny Nalliah - Christian evangelist pastor
- Gangodawila Soma Thero - chief incumbent of Buddhist Temple Victoria
Sportspeople
- Ashton Agar - cricket player
- Saliya Ahangama - cricketer and coach
- Gamini Goonesena - cricketer
- Asanka Gurusinha - cricketer
- Chandika Hathurusingha - cricketer and coach
- Suresh Joachim - Guinness world record holder
- Kosala Kuruppuarachchi - cricketer
- Roshan Mahanama - cricketer
- Ravi Ratnayeke - cricketer
- Athula Samarasekera - cricketer
- Prashanth Sellathurai - professional gymnast who competed in New Delhi Commonwealth Games
- Tania Van Heer - sprinter
- Dav Whatmore - coach of the Sri Lanka and Bangladesh cricket teams
- Jamie Young - footballer
Others
- Ernest MacIntyre - playwright
See also
References
- ^ "Board of Directors". Progen Pharmaceuticals Limited. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
- ^ "Indrajit "Jitto" Arulampalam". Bloomberg. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
- ^ 2007 Australian of the Year awardees, accessed 26 January 2007
- ^ http://www.sbs.com.au/food/foodsafaricuisine/index/cp/22/section/businesses/n/Sri%20Lankan
- ^ http://www.au.timeout.com/sydney/restaurants/features/4941/buy-the-book-serendip
- ^ http://www.masterchef.com.au/guest-chef-peter-kuruvita.htm
- ^ http://worldmusiccentral.org/article.php/20051106170050562
- ^ http://sundaytimes.lk/090322/Magazine/sundaytimestvtimes_01.html
- ^ http://www.asiantribune.com/?q=node/18212
- ^ http://allmalaysia.info/news/story.asp?file=/2003/12/22/msiansabroad/6951322&sec=mi_msiansabroad
- ^ "Tassie's A list". The Mercury. 2007-01-19. Archived from the original on March 21, 2007. Retrieved 2007-02-15.
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- ^ http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2008/07/27/plus09.asp