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Cooray
Cooray ( si, කුරේ, translit=Kurē) or Corea is a Sinhalese surname. Notable people * Anuradha Cooray (born 1978), Sri Lankan runner * Asantha Cooray (born 1973), Sri Lankan academic * B. C. Cooray (born 1941), Sri Lankan cricket official * Chamil Cooray, Sri Lankan carrom player * Cissy Cooray (1889–1965), Ceylonese social worker * Dilhan Cooray (born 1987), Sri Lankan cricketer * E. J. Cooray, Ceylonese politician * Harsha Cooray (born 1983), Sri Lankan cricketer * James Cooray Smith (born 1978), British writer * Janani Cooray, Sri Lankan performance artist * Malith Cooray (born 1990), Sri Lankan cricketer * Nilantha Cooray (born 1978), Sri Lankan cricketer * P. Andrew Cooray (1901–1998), Ceylonese politician * Reginald Cooray (born 1947), Sri Lankan politician * Sangeeth Cooray (born 1995), Sri Lankan cricketer * Sirisena Cooray, Sri Lankan politician * Tennison Cooray (born 1952), Sri Lankan actor * Thomas Cooray (1901–1988), Sri Lankan priest * Vernon C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reginald Cooray
Reginald Cooray (12 November 1947 – 13 January 2023) was a Sri Lankan teacher and politician. He was a provincial chief minister, a government minister, and governor of the Northern Province. He was briefly governor of the Central Province in April 2018, his tenure lasting less than 24 hours, making it the shortest of any governorship in Sri Lankan history. Personal life and death Cooray was born on 12 November 1947. He was a Roman Catholic and a wealthy land owner. Cooray's wife died in July 2011. His daughter Muditha Sanjeewani died in December 2013. Cooray died of a heart attack on 13 January 2023, aged 75. Career Cooray was an English teacher by profession. He started his political career in Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP). He contested the 1977 parliamentary election as an independent candidate in Beruwala but failed to get elected. He later joined Vijaya Kumaratunga's Sri Lanka People's Party (SLPP). In 1988, the Communist Party, Lanka Sama Samaja Party, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vernon Cooray
Vernon Cooray is a Sri Lankan scientist who is an emeritus professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering at Uppsala University, Sweden. As a scientist he has concentrated on solving both physics and engineering problems related to lightning physics, lightning protection and physics of electrical discharges. This research work has resulted in more than 600 research publications. He was the Ph.D. thesis supervisor of more than thirty researchers, both at Uppsala and foreign universities, who are now actively engaged in lightning research and lightning protection in different parts of the world. Early life and career In 2014 he was elected as the president of the International Conference on Lightning Protection (ICLP) for a period of six years. ICLP is considered as the most prestigious conference in the world that addresses the problems related to lightning physics and lightning protection and attended by lightning researchers and engineers from all over the world. From 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennison Cooray
Merengnnage Edward Tennyson Cooray (සිංහල: මෙරෙඤඤගේ එඩ්වඩ් ටෙනිසන් කුරේ) (30 April 1952 – 28 September 2020) was an actor and comedian in Sri Lankan cinema and theater. One of the most popular comedians ever in Sinhala cinema with a career spanned for more than three decades, Cooray was best known for comedy roles in several blockbuster film franchises such as ''Re Daniel Dawal Migel'', ''Cheriyo'', ''Peralikarayo'', ''Wada Bari Tarzan'' as well as ''Somy Boys''. In addition to acting, he also worked as a director and scriptwriter, singer, lyrics writer. Personal life He was born on 30 April 1952 in Weligama, Matara as the second of the family to a Catholic father and Buddhist mother. His father Merengnnage Edgar Stanley Arthur Cooray, who worked at Gamini Bus Company, learned to be a pastor for some time and also was a great reader of good English literature. His mother, Herath Mudiyanselage Ran Menika was a housewif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cissy Cooray
Cissy Cooray, OBE (8 June 1889 – 6 November 1965) was a Ceylonese social worker and the first woman to be appointed to the Senate of Ceylon. Career Cooray was a co-founder of the ''Lanka Mahila Samitiya'' in 1931, which has since become the country's largest women's voluntary organisation; she was a member for 35 years and the president for ten years between 1943 and 1953. She was considered a pioneer in the field of maternal and child health in Ceylon. In 1937, Cooray hosted Australian clubwoman Isobel Ritchie, on a visit to see the work of the Social Service League of Colombo. In 1941 she was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for her work in social welfare services in Ceylon. Cooray was also active in the Ceylon Social Service League and the Girl Guide movement. She served a term as president of the All-Ceylon Women's Buddhist Congress. In 1947 Cooray was appointed as a member of the Senate of Ceylon a position she retained until 1952. While in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anuradha Cooray
Anuradha Indrajith Cooray (born March 24, 1978) is a Sri Lankan marathon runner. Cooray was a competitor at the 2004 Olympic games, finishing 30th out of 113 in the marathon with a time of 2:19:24. He won the gold medal in the marathon at the SAF games in Pakistan in 2004. He had previously been a 5000 and 10000 m runner. Cooray is Sri Lanka's national record holder in the men's marathon and 10,000 metres and brings back memories of K.A. Karunaratne. Cooray started his running career as a 5000m runner at Divulapitiya Central College. He joined the Sri Lankan army in 1999, coming under the brigadier Perry Liyanage. Cooray reached his peak at the 2004 South Asian Games in Islamabad, April 2004, where he clocked two hours, 16 minutes, 36 seconds to secure the gold medal. Cooray's main aim was to compete in the Athens Olympics with a personal best. However he finished eight minutes and 29 seconds behind the gold medalist Stefano Baldini (2:10:55). Anuradha is currently living in Bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Cooray
Thomas Benjamin Cooray (Sinhala language: තෝමස් බෙන්ජමින් කුරේ), O.M.I. (28 December 1901 – 29 October 1988) was a Sri Lankan cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the Archbishop of Colombo from 1947 to 1976, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1965 by Pope Paul VI. His cause of canonization commenced in 2010 and he has been bestowed with the title of Servant of God. Biography Early life and priesthood Thomas Benjamin Cooray was born to a poor but religious family in Negombo, and attended St. Aloysius Seminary in Borella, and St. Joseph's College and University College in Colombo (University of London) before going to Rome, where he studied at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum), obtaining a doctorate in philosophy ''summa cum laude''. After entering the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, he was ordained to the priesthood on June 23, 1929. Finishing his Roman studies in 1931, he then did pastor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sirisena Cooray
Bulathsinghalage Sirisena Cooray, JP (25 April 1931 – 30 November 2021) was a Sri Lankan politician. Biography He was the Mayor of Colombo from 1979 to 1989 and was elected from Colombo to Parliament in the 9th parliamentary election in 1989. He was appointed Minister of Housing and Construction in the Premadasa cabinet. He had served as General Secretary of the United National Party during the tenure of party leader Ranasinghe Premadasa. He submitted nominations for the Colombo Municipal Council elections in 2006 as the Mayor, however his party nominations list was rejected by the election commission on a technicality. The independent party backed by Sirisena won the election and Uvais Mohamed Imitiyas became Mayor. His brother Nandasena Cooray was a one time Deputy Mayor of Colombo and was married to the sister of the former JVP leader Somawansa Amarasinghe. Cooray died on 30 November 2021 at Colombo, aged 90 years. See also * List of Sri Lankan non-career diplomats Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Cooray Smith
James Edward Cooray Smith (born in Solihull in 1978) is a British writer, critic and columnist of patrilineal Indian descent. He has written for journals including ''New Statesman'' and ''Prospect''. He has also contributed to the '' Doctor Who'' audio and DVD range. Career A graduate of University College London, Cooray Smith has written radio drama and comedy. He has contributed to numerous news, film and science fiction magazines. He has a specific interest in British television history. Asked about his long-term habit of co-writing with a variety of people, Cooray Smith commented: "I've written things with a lot of different people, partially because I'm a great believer in third brain theory, and partially as a series of attempts to disguise my own lack of talent!" In 2017, he responded to the casting of Jodie Whittaker in '' Doctor Who'' by writing an article describing those who disagreed with the lead character's sex change of being misogynistic. His article was e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asantha Cooray
Asantha R. Cooray is a professor and a chancellor's fellow at University of California, Irvine, California, US, and a member of the research faculty at the California Institute of Technology. His research expertise is in the field of space science, cosmology, astrophysics and is a member of several space-based and NASA sounding rocket experiments and instrumentation aimed at understanding the early universe, first stars, and galaxies. He is a member of the ESA's Herschel Space Observatory-SPIRE Instrument Team and several NASA astrophysics missions planned for this decade, including the Inflation Probe. He has contributed to topics in field such as halo model of the galaxy distribution in the large-scale structure, and has developed ways to measure and quantify physical properties of dark energy and dark matter in the universe. Cooray is also a science editor of ''Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics'' (JCAP). Education Cooray attended Royal College, Colombo, Sri Lanka, f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harsha Cooray
Harsha Cooray (born 23 November 1983) is a Sri Lankan cricketer. He made his first-class debut for Saracens Sports Club in the 2005–06 Premier Trophy on 16 December 2005. See also * List of Chilaw Marians Cricket Club players This is a list in alphabetical order of cricketers who have played for Chilaw Marians Cricket Club (founded 1975) in first-class matches since the club initially achieved first-class status in 2001. Where an article exists, the link precedes th ... References External links * 1983 births Living people Sri Lankan cricketers Chilaw Marians Cricket Club cricketers Kilinochchi District cricketers Panadura Sports Club cricketers Saracens Sports Club cricketers Cricketers from Colombo {{SriLanka-cricket-bio-1980s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janani Cooray
Bulathsinhalage Janani Chandima Cooray is a Sri Lankan contemporary performance artist, art educator and painter. She is regarded as one of the leading performance artists in Sri Lanka. She has held exhibitions around the world, including Bangalore, Colombo and London. Career Cooray initially began her career as a painter and later switched to performance art in 2003 after being acknowledged about the concept of live art at the Theertha International Arts Workshop in 2003. She also took part in the event and showcased her first performance art ''Cage'' She developed the interest on performance art at a time when it was not officially considered as a concept in Sri Lanka. Janani pursued her higher studies in the field of performance art from the University of the Visual and Performing Arts University of the Visual and Performing Arts (UVPA) ( si, සෞන්දර්ය හා කලා විශ්වවිද්යාලය, ta, கட்புல, அரங்க ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dilhan Cooray
Dilhan Cooray (born 10 March 1987) is a Sri Lankan cricketer. He made his first-class debut for Badureliya Sports Club in the 2006–07 Premier Trophy on 12 January 2007. In April 2018, he was named in Colombo's squad for the 2018 Super Provincial One Day Tournament. On 28 March 2021, in the 2020–21 Major Clubs Limited Over Tournament match between Sri Lanka Army Sports Club and Bloomfield Cricket and Athletic Club, Army Sports Club's captain Thisara Perera hit six sixes in one over In cricket, the boundary is the perimeter of a playing field. It is also the term given to a scoring shot where the ball is hit to, or beyond, that perimeter, which generally earns four or six runs for the batting team. Edge of the field The b ... off Cooray's bowling. References External links * 1987 births Living people Sri Lankan cricketers Badureliya Sports Club cricketers Bloomfield Cricket and Athletic Club cricketers Burgher Recreation Club cricketers Galle District ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |