The Kala Keerthi () is a Sri Lankan national honour awarded "for extraordinary achievements and contributions in arts, culture and drama". It is the highest national honour for arts, culture and drama in Sri Lanka. It is conventionally used as a title or prefix to the awardee's name. Kala Keerthi ranks lower than Vidya Jyothi.
Awardees
Awardees include:
1986
Wannakuwattawaduge Don Amaradeva
Rohan de Saram
Dayananda Ekanatha Hettiarachchi
George Keyt
Lester James Peries
1987
Ananda Weihena Palliya Guruge
Prof Nandadasa Kodagoda
Anton Wickremasinghe
1988
Prof Thomas Earle Joseph de Fonseka
Dr Punchi Bandara Sannasgala
Varindra Tarzie Vittachi
1989
Eileen Siriwardhana
Alankarage Victor Suraweera
Lorna Srimathie Dewaraja
Jinadasa Vijayatunge
1990
Miniwandeni Pathirannehelage Tillakaratna
Arumugam Kandiah
1991
Wimal Abayasundera
Diongu Badaturuge Nihalsinghe
1992
Edwin Ariyadasa
Ananda Salgado Kulasooriya
1993
Sembuge Shelton Gamini Fonseka
Miguel Hewage Goonatilleka
Chitra Malinee Jayasinghe Peris
Ponniah Poologasingham
Jayadeva Tilakasiri
Vini Vitharana
1994
Pinnaduwa Hewa Cyril de Silva Kulathilaka
Chitrasena
Swarna Jayaweera
Sinnathamby Thillainathan
Madawala Sirisena Ratnayake
Wimal Wickrama Surendra
Mawanana Hewa Peter Silva
Anuradha Seneviratne
Nambukara Thanthrige Karunaratna Gunapala Senadheera
Ashley Halpe
1998
Premasiri Kemadasa
Irangani Serasinghe
Regi Siriwardena
Dharmasiri Jayakody
Nalini Jayasuriya
2005
A. J. Canagarathnam
A. Jesurasa
A. Sivananthan
Asoka Handagama
Bharahmasri Sarveswara Sarma
Carl Muller
Dharmasena Pathiraja
Dharmasiri Bandaranayake
Enid Anula Aluvihare De Silva
Gamini Haththotuwegama
Geetha Kumarasinghe
Gnarathan
Henry Jayasena
Jackson Anthony
Jayalath Manoratne
Karthigesu Sivathamby
Kulanthai M. shunmugalingam
Latha Walpola
M. Kanakasabai
Malini Fonseka
Monica Ruwanpathirana (Posthumous) Olga De Livera T. B. Richard M. Don Gabriel Pandithar Sachchithanantham Prasanna Vithanage Rohana Weerasinghe S. Maunaguru S. Pani Bharatha (Posthumous) Sanath Gunathilake Sanath Nandasiri Santhini Sevanesan Shyam Selvadurai Sybil Wettasinghe Simon Navagattegama (Posthumous) Somalatha Subasinghe Sri Jayana Rajapakse Sumitra Peries Swarna Mallawarachchi Tilak Abeysinghe Tissa Ranasinghe Vimukthi Jayasundara Vasantha Obeysekera
2017
Arun Dias Bandaranaike
Edmand Ranasinghe
G. Kartini Drahaman Mohamed
George Edmond Jayasinghe
Gunawardhana Mudalige Ajith Hemachandra
Hapuwalanege Don Ariyadasa (Dasa Hapuwalana) Herman Ronald Lakshman De Alwis Ivor Dennis Kurukulasuriya Eligius Camillus Perera Lalitha Sarathchandra Lionel Bentharage Madhubhashini Disanayaka Ratnayaka Namel Weeramuni Nanayakkarage Sumana Jayatillake Nellampitiya Pathirana Arachchige Dayawathi (Daya Nellampitiya) Ranasinghe Arachchige Jayantha Prema Lal Hegoda Saravanai Vinayagamoorthy Singarampillai Thillanadarajah Suminda Sirisena Suresh Maliyadde Sunanda Mahendra Wijesinghe Arachchilage Abeysingha