This is a list of notable people of Sri Lankan descent living in the United Kingdom. The term "Sri Lankan Britons" refers to Sri Lankans of all ethnic groups.

Academic

Nishan Canagarajah

Abhaya Induruwa

Sunitha Wickramasinghe

Actors

Jai Akash

Tony Jayawardena

Amara Karan

Albert Moses

Romesh Ranganathan – stand-up comedian, actor, presenter

Kim Vithana

Business

Subaskaran Allirajah – businessman, entrepreneur, founder of the Lycamobile; the world's largest MVNO based in the UK Karunamoorthy – film producer, founder of Ayngaran International Arjuna Sittampalam – financier Ratheesan Yoganathan – entrepreneur, founder of the Lebara

List of British Sri Lankans

Engineers

Cecil Balmond

Shini Somara

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

Jack Churchill

Cyril Nicholas

Musicians

Arjun Coomaraswamy

Beverley Craven

Rohan de Saram

Desmond de Silva

Tanya Ekanayaka – composer, pianist

Siva Kaneswaran

Lay Low

M.I.A. Nimal Mendis Andrew Nethsingha – choral conductor, organist DJ Nihal Ashan Pillai – violinist

List of British Sri Lankans

Physicians

Sir Sabaratnam Arulkumaran

Henry Speldewinde de Boer

Ajith Kumar Siriwardena

Richard Lionel Spittel

Nihal Gurusinghe OBE Professor Neurosurgeon

Politicians

Desmond Lorenz de Silva

Nirj Deva

Jan Jananayagam

Ranil Jayawardena

Alexander Robert Johnston

Religion

Kamal Chunchie

Bogoda Seelawimala Nayaka Thera

Lakshman Wickremasinghe

Scientists

Suran Goonatilake

Cyril Ponnamperuma

Chandra Wickramasinghe

Sports

Francis Bacon

Alistair Blair

Jude Chaminda

Dimitri Mascarenhas

Gehan Mendis

Walter Philps

Murugan Thiruchelvam

Duncan White

Glucka Wijesuriya

Writers

Mahinda Deegalle

Rohan Jayasekera

Michael Ondaatje

Nadarajah Selvarajah

Ambalavaner Sivanandan

Others

Kali Arulpragasam

Peter Kuruvita

Sir Christopher Ondaatje

Ganesh Sittampalam

Anton Balasingham

See also

List of Sri Lankans

References

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List of British Sri Lankans