Sri Lankan independence activists are those who are considered to have played a major role in the

Sri Lankan independence movement The Sri Lankan independence movement was a peaceful political movement which was aimed at achieving independence and self-rule for the country of Sri Lanka, then British Ceylon, from the British Empire. The switch of powers was generally kn ...

from British Colonial rule during the 20th century.

List of prominent Sri Lankan independence activists

A. E. Goonesinha Alexander Ekanayake Gunasinha (1 May 1891 – 1 August 1967) trade unionist and politician. A pioneering trade union leader, known as the "Father of the Labour Movement", he was the founder of the Ceylon Labour Party, Sri Lanka's first labour or ...

N.M. Perera Nanayakkarapathirage Martin Perera, commonly known as Dr. N. M. Perera ( Sinhala එන්.එම්.පෙරේරා ; 6 June 1904 – 14 August 1979), was one of the leaders of the Sri Lankan Trotskyist Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP). He w ...

Leslie Goonewardene Leslie Simon Goonewardene ( si, ලෙස්ලි සයිමන් ගුනවර්ධන, ta, லெஸ்லி சைமன் குணவர்தன; 31 October 190911 April 1983) was a prominent Sri Lankan statesman. He founded ...

Vivienne Goonewardene Violet Vivienne Goonewardene ( si, වයලට් විවියන් ගුන්වර්ධන, ta, வயலட் விவியென் கூனவர்தன; 18 September 19163 October 1996), commonly known as "Vivi", was a Sri Lan ...

* Philip Gunawardena *

Colvin R. de Silva Colvin Reginald de Silva (1907 – 27 February 1989; commonly known as Colvin R. de Silva) was a Cabinet Minister of Plantation Industries and Constitutional Affairs, prominent member of parliament, Trotskyist leader and lawyer in Sri Lanka. ...

* Don Stephen Senanayake *

Fredrick Richard Senanayake Fredrick Richard Senanayake (known to as F. R. Senanayake) (October 20, 1882 – January 1, 1926) was a Ceylonesen lawyer and independence activist. A leading member of the Sri Lankan independence movement, he was an elected member of the Colom ...

* Don Charles Senanayake * Anagarika Dharmapala *Sir James Peiris *Sir Ponnambalam Ramanathan *Sir Ponnambalam Arunachalam *Sir

Susantha de Fonseka Sir Susantha de Fonseka KBE (25 April 1900 – 1 January 1963) was a Ceylonese statesmen and diplomat. He was the Deputy Speaker of the State Council of Ceylon and following Ceylon's independence from Britain his first Ambassador to Burma and fir ...

* D. R. Wijewardena * E. W. Perera * George E. de Silva * Charles Edgar Corea *

Victor Corea Charles Edward Victor Seneviratne Corea was born in Chilaw, Sri Lanka, on 29 January 1871 to Charles Edward Bandaranaike Corea, a famous lawyer, and Henrietta Seneviratne. He was the youngest out of five children, three boys and two girls, Cha ...

* Gratien Fernando * Henry Pedris *

Arthur V. Dias Arthur Vincent Dias (10 February 1886 – 31 July 1960), commonly known as Arthur V. Dias, was a philanthropist, temperance movement member and an independence activist of Sri Lanka (then known as Ceylon). A planter by profession, he is known f ...

* Wilmot A. Perera * Tuan Burhanudeen Jayah *M.C. Siddi Lebbe * C. W. W. Kannangara * W. A. de Silva * S. Mahinda * H. W. Amarasuriya * Thomas Amarasuriya * H. Sri Nissanka

List of other Sri Lankan independence activists

* Mark Anthony Bracegirdle * William de Silva * Pieter Keuneman * Doric de Souza *

Armand de Souza Armand de Souza (29 October 1874 – 1921) was a Ceylonese newspaper editor and democratic activist. Early life De Souza was born in Assagaum, Goa, to a Roman Catholic family belonging to the Saraswat Brahman community. He was the tenth ...

S. A. Wickramasinghe Dr. Sugiswara Abeywardena Wickramasinghe (13 April 1900 – 25 August 1981) was the founder of the Communist Party of Sri Lanka. He was the first Leftist to be elected to Ceylon State Council in 1931. He gave up all his wealth and comforts ...

*Sir Edwin Wijeyeratne

List of prominent Sri Lankan independence activists

List of other Sri Lankan independence activists

See also