List of British Sri Lankans

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 - British Tamil academic and the current president and vice-chancellor of the University of Leicester.Abhaya Induruwa
Sunitha Wickramasinghe - Sri Lankan Born British former Deputy Dean of the Imperial College School of Medicine

Actors

Jai Akash
Tony Jayawardena
Amara Karan
Indy Lewis
Albert Moses
Romesh Ranganathan – stand-up comedian, actor, presenter
Anneika Rose
Nethra Tilakumara
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

Engineers

Lawyers

Desmond Lorenz de Silva

Media

Military

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

Physicians

Politicians

Religion

Scientists

Sports

Cricket

Alistair Blair - Ceylonese Cricketer, Born in British Ceylon and represented the Ceylon National Cricket Team.
Jude Chaminda - Played First-class cricket in Wales.
Dimitri Mascarenhas - English Cricketer of Sri Lankan Descent and played Hampshire and represented the England Cricket Team.
Gehan Mendis - English and Sri Lankan Cricketer who played for Sussex and Lancashire.
Walter Philps - Ceylonese Cricketer who played for Buckinghamshire.
Glucka Wijesuriya - English and Sri Lankan Cricketer who played for Suffolk.

Football

Dillon De Silva - winger for Sutton United and the Sri Lankan National Team.
Sam Durrant - plays as a winger for Dundalk.
Vimal Yoganathan - plays as a midfielder for Barnsley and Wales U19.
Nikki Ahmed - former midfielder who played for Chelsea and FSV Frankfurt.
Marvin Hamilton - midfielder for Hythe Town and the Sri Lanka National Team.

Other

Murugan Thiruchelvam - Chess Played
Duncan White - British Ceylon born Olympic Athlete who represented Ceylon at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, where he won a Silver Medal and became the first Ceylonese/Sri Lankan to win a medal in the Modern day Olympics.

Writers

Others