List of British Sri Lankans

This is a list of Sri Lankans in the United Kingdom, people who are of Sri Lankan heritage living in Britain. "Sri Lankan Britons" refers to all ethnic groups in Sri Lanka, but are mainly the Sinhalese, Sri Lankan Tamils and Burghers.

Academic

• Abhaya Induruwa
• Sunitha Wickramasinghe

Actors

• Amara Karan
• Albert Moses
• Merle Oberon, British actress of mixed British, Sinhalese, and Irish descent
• Danny Srisuriya
• Kim Vithana

Engineers

• Cecil Balmond
• Kanagaratnam Sriskandan

Lawyers

• Desmond Lorenz de Silva

Media

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

Military

• Christopher Hamilton
• Cyril Nicholas

Musicians

• Ersin Bahceci
• Arjun Coomaraswamy, known by mononym Arjun
• Beverley Craven
• Rohan de Saram
• Desmond de Silva
• Siva Kaneswaran
• Lay Low
• M.I.A.
• Nimal Mendis
• DJ Nihal
• Som Wardner

Physicians

• Henry Speldewinde de Boer
• Richard Lionel Spittel

Politicians

• Desmond Lorenz de Silva
• Nirj Deva
• Jan Jananayagam
• Ranil Jayawardena
• Alexander Robert Johnston

LTTE leaders

• Anton Balasingham
• Eliyathamby Ratnasabapathy

Religion

• Kamal Chunchie
• Bogoda Seelawimala Nayaka Thera
• Lakshman Wickremasinghe

Scientists

• Suran Goonatilake
• Chandra Wickramasinghe

Sports

• Francis Bacon - English cricketer
• Alistair Blair
• Ersin Bahceci
• Jude Chaminda
• Dimitri Mascarenhas
• Walter Philps
• Murugan Thiruchelvam
• Duncan White - Sri Lankan Olympian for the 1948 Olympic Games
• Glucka Wijesuriya

Writers

• Mahinda Deegalle
• Rohan Jayasekera
• Nadarajah Selvarajah
• Ambalavaner Sivanandan

Others

• Kali Arulpragasam
• Peter Kuruvita
• Laura Shields
• Arjuna Sittampalam
• Ganesh Sittampalam
• Romesh Ranganathan

See also

• List of Sri Lankans