List of Dharmaraja College alumni

This is a list of Old Rajans, they being the alumni of Dharmaraja College, Kandy, Sri Lanka.

Name	Notability	Reference
Dimuthu Bandara Abayakoon	Member of Parliament (Kandy District) (2001 – 2010)	[1]
Nalin Angammana  †	Lieutenant General / GOC, 3rd Division Sri Lanka Engineers	[2][3]
Chandrarathna Bandara	Author	[4]
Prasanna Chandrasekera	Major General/Master-General of the Ordnance at Sri Lanka Army	[5]
J. B. Disanayake	Linguistics professor; author	[6]
Lalith Dissanayake	Member of Parliament (Kegalle District) (2008 – 2015)
Sarath Dissanayake	Rear Admiral
T. B. Dissanayake	President's Counsel; Commissioner of Assizes (1969 – 1970)	[7]
C. A. S. Marikkar	Member of Parliament 1952, 1957 1960. Minister for Post, Broadcasting and Communication.
William Gopallawa MBE	President of Sri Lanka (1972 – 1978); Governor-General of Ceylon (1962 – 1972)	[8]
A. Ekanayake Gunasinha	Mayor of Colombo (1940 – 1943); Member of Parliament (Colombo Central District) (1947 – 1952)	[9]
Ananda W. P. Guruge	Buddhist scholar; author
Pujith Jayasundara	Inspector General of Police (2016 – 2020)	[10]
Amarasiri Kalansuriya	Legendary Film Actor (Most Popular Actor in 70s & 80s)	[11]
Chamara Kapugedera	International test cricketer (2006 – 2009)
W. S. Karunaratne	Buddhist scholar
T. B. Kehelgamuwa	First-class cricketer	[12]
Wimalaratne Kumaragama	Poet
Sunanda Mahendra	Author; poet
Dharma Sri Munasinghe	Playwright; screenwriter; director	[13]
Keerthi Pasquel	Singer	[14]
Dharmasena Pathiraja	Film director; screenwriter	[15]
Sudarshana Pathirana	commander of the Sri Lankan Airforce (2020-2023)	[16]
Roshan Pilapitiya	Actor; producer	[17]
Tilak Ratnayake	Governor of Uva Province (1990 – 1993)
Godwin Samararatne	Meditation instructor
Anuradha Seneviratna	Linguistics professor; author	[18]
Sir Bennet Soysa	Member of the State Council; Member of the Senate of Ceylon; Mayor of Kandy	[19]
Janaka Bandara Tennakoon	Member of Parliament (Matale District) (1994 – present)	[20]
Heshan Unamboowe	Olympic swimmer
Sandun Weerakkody	International test cricketer
Eric Prasanna Weerawardena	Member of Parliament (Kandy District) (2010 – present)
Stanley Wijesundera	Vice Chancellor, University of Colombo (1979 – 1989)	[21]
Dayan Witharana	Singer

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See also

• Dharmaraja College