This is a list of Sri Lankan non-career diplomats, who have been appointed by Government of Sri Lanka as Ambassadors and High Commissioners, but are not Career diplomats by profession, meaning they are not from the Sri Lanka Foreign Service, but are from different professions and politicians.
Academics
J. B. Disanayake - Ambassador to Thailand
Ananda W. P. Guruge - Ambassador to France, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to UNESCO and USA Lal Jayawardane - High Commissioner to United Kingdom W. S. Karunaratne - Ambassador to US Karunasena Kodituwakku - Ambassador to Japan, Republic of South Korea and China (note: also listed under "Parliamentarians" and "Provincial Governors") Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera - Ambassador to Soviet Union, High Commissioner to United Kingdom, Canada and Ambassador / Permanent Representative to United Nations in New York Ediriweera Sarachchandra - Ambassador to France Nalin de Silva - Ambassador to Myanmar
Architects
Oliver Weerasinghe, FRIBA - Ambassador to USA
Business
A. S. P Liyanage - Ambassador to Qatar, former High Commissioner to Nigeria
Udayanga Weeratunga - Ambassador to Russian Federation
Jaliya Wickramasuriya - Ambassador to USA
Corporate executives
Somasunadaran Skandakumar - High Commissioner to Australia
Civil servants
Sirisena Amarasekara - High Commissioner to South Africa
Richard Aluwihare, , CBE, JP - High Commissioner to India
Shirley Amerasinghe - High Commissioner to India, Ambassador to Nepal and Afghanistan and Permanent Representative to United Nations (New York) Velupillai Coomaraswamy - High Commissioner to Canada Gunasena de Soyza, CMG, OBE - High Commissioner to United Kingdom N. Q. Dias - High Commissioner to India K. C. Logeswaran - Ambassador to Republic of Korea S. J. Walpita - Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium Neville Jayaweera - Ambassador to Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland
Economists
Gamani Corea - Ambassador to the EEC, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands
Lal Jayawardena - High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and Ambassador to the Benelux countries
Filmmakers
Sumitra Peries - Ambassador to France
Journalists
Ernest Corea - Ambassador to USA; High Commissioner to Canada
Dayan Jayatilleka - Permanent Representative to United Nations (Geneva); Consul General for Switzerland; Ambassador to France and UNESCO Premil Ratnayake - First Secretary, for Press and Information to Bonn, Germany in 1984.
Judges
H. W. Thambiah - High Commissioner to Canada
Lawyers
Kusumsiri Balapatabendi - High Commissioner to Australia
John De Saram - Ambassador / Permanent Representative to United Nations (New York) H.L. de Silva, PC - Ambassador / Permanent Representative to United Nations (New York) Neville Kanakeratne - Ambassador to USA and High Commissioner to India Daya Perera PC - Ambassador / Permanent Representative to United Nations (New York) and High Commissioner to Canada Sir Lalitha Rajapakse, KC - Ambassador to France and High Commissioner to the U.K. Faisz Musthapha, - High Commissioner to the U.K. Wickrema Weerasuriya - High Commissioner to Australia and New Zealand Tissa Wijeyeratne - Ambassador to France, Switzerland and UNESCO Jayathri Samarakone - High Commissioner to Singapore
Physicians
M. V. P. Peiris - Ambassador to Soviet Union and High Commissioner to United Kingdom (note: also listed in "Senators")