Gunapala is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
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Gunapala Amarasinghe, Sri Lankan academic
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Gunapala Malalasekera
Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera, OBE, JP, (8 November 1899 – 23 April 1973) was a Sri Lankan academic, scholar and diplomat best known for his Malalasekara English-Sinhala Dictionary. He was Ceylon's first Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Ce ...
(1899–1973), Sri Lankan academic
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Gunapala Rathnasekara (born 1961), Sri Lankan academic
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Gunapala Tissakuttiarachchi, Sri Lankan politician
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Sarath Gunapala
Sri Lanka Ranajana Dr Sarath Gunapala ( Sinhala:සරත් ගුණපාල) is a solid-state physicist, senior research scientist and group supervisor at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He works primarily in Quantum Well Infrared Phot ...
, Sri Lankan physicist
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