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A. L. Abdul Majeed (15 November 1933 – 13 November 1987) also known as Mutur Majeed, former Deputy Minister of Information and Broadcasting and Member Parliament from 1960–1977.[1]
M. N. Abdul Majeed (1 January 1957 – ) Chief Minister of the Eastern Province, former Government Minister and Member of Parliament[2]
Herath Banda Abeyratne – Member of Parliament for Yapahuwa (1977–1989),[3] former Deputy Minister of Transport, former District Minister and former Provincial Council Member and Licensed Surveyor
Abeyratne Pilapitiya (25 May 1925 – ) 3rd Governor of Uva Province, 2nd Chief Minister of Sabaragamuwa Province, Member of Parliament for Kalawana 1960, 1965, 1977–82, Deputy Minister of Posts and Telecommunications.[4][5]
Abeyratne Ratnayaka – First Cabinet Minister of Food, Co-operatives and Home Affairs in independent Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and the last President of the Senate of Ceylon, former Member of Parliament and State Council.[6]
Pathirage Don Abeyratne (26 November 1952 – ) Member of 5th Provincial Council of Kalutara, Member of Parliament for Kalutara 1989 and 2000, Chief Organiser for Horana.
Sumanadasa Abeywickrama (5 February 1928 – 27 February 2006) Deputy Minister of Agriculture Development & Research[13] and Member of Parliament for Akmeemana in 1977 (UNP).[10]
Simon Abeywickrema (26 April 1899 – 2 May 1948) Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Transport. Member of State Council and Parliament, founding member of the United National Party (UNP)[14][15][16]
Henry Abeywickrema (24 December 1903 – 29 August 1982) Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Transport and Works, Minister of Works, Member of Parliament, founding member of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP)[17][18][19][20]
Ananda Abeywickrema (24 June 1960 – ) former member of Parliament for Galle District
Sir Richard Aluwihare, Inspector General of Police and Ceylon's High Commissioner to India
Bernard Aluwihare (6 April 1902 – 22 January 1961) State Counsellor (1936–47), Member of Parliament (1952, 1960–61), Cabinet Minister[21][22][23][24][25]
Alick Aluwihare, (20 December 1926 – 17 May 2009) Cabinet Minister, Member of Parliament[26][27]
Wasantha Aluwihare (16 July 1962 – ) Member of Parliament, former chief minister of Central Province, Deputy Minister.[28]
Ranjith Aluwihare (5 May 1958 – ) Member of Parliament for Matale District, former Opposition Leader, Matale Municipal Council[29]
Prasanna Kumara Aluwihare, Member of Pradeshiya saba Matale, former National javelin record holder / National Kabadi player / First class cricketer, Government Sports officer
G. L. Peiris,(1946– ) Member of Parliament, Minister of External Affairs, Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs and Deputy Minister of Finance, Minister of External Trade, Ethnic Affairs and National Integration. [Son in law of Thomas Amarasuriya][36]
Montague Jayawickrama,(1911–2001) Member of Parliament, Minister of Public Administration and Home Affairs and Governor of the North Western Province married Amara Amarasuriya [Brother in law of H.W. and Thomas Amarasuriya].[37][38]
Attanayake Mudiyanselage Jayawardena Attanayake (Member of Parliament, Moneragala District 1970 and 1994) and Basnayake Nilame of the Ruhunu Kataragama Maha Devalaya
Senarath Attanayake Former Provincial Minister of Uva Province and current Member of Uva Provincial Council[56]
Punchi Banda Balasuriya (1907–1978), UC Chairman (1948–1967), Member of Parliament (1960–1965, 1970–1977) + Hema Balasuriya
Dr. Jagath Balasuriya, Provincial Council Member (1988–1989), Member of Parliament (1989–1994), Deputy Minister of Cooperative (1994–2000), Deputy Minister of Urban Development (2001–2002), Governor North Central (2004–2008), Deputy Minister of Labor (2010–2011), Cabinet Minister for National Heritage (2011–2015) + Kumari Balasuriya, Governor Southern Province (2008–2015)[62][63]
Tharaka Balasuriya, Member of Parliament, Provincial council member + Malintha Bolonghe Balasuriya[64][65]
Don Daniel Dias Banaranaike + Dona Clara Amarasekere
Don Solomon Dias Bandaranaike (−1859), Mudaliyar of Siyane Korale, 1st Udagaha Mudaliyar + Cornelia Philipsz Panditharatne de Saram
Don Christoffel Henricus Dias Abeywickrema Jayatilake Seneviratne Bandaranaike (1826– ), Mudaliyar Governors Gate and 2nd Udagaha Mudaliyar + Anna Florentina Philipsz Panditharatne
Punchi Banda Bulankulame Dissawe,(12 December 1890 – 17 December 1958) Member of the State Council (1936), Member, House of Representatives, Parliamentary Secretary (Agriculture and Lands), Minister of Lands and Land Development[84][85][86][87]
(Maternal Uncle of Edwin Loku Bandara Hurulle and Granduncle of Themiya Loku Bandara Hurulle)
DeshamanyaEdwin Loku Bandara Hurulle, (19 January 1919 – 6 April 2009), Member, House of Representatives, Member of Parliament, Government Minister, Governor, Central Province, High Commissioner in Australia, Governor, North Central Province[88][89] (Nephew of P.B. Bulankulame Dissawe)
Themiya Loku Bandara Hurulle, (16 March 1952– ), Member of Parliament, Project Minister (Science and Technology), Member, North Central Provincial Council, Director-General of Telecommunications, Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (T.R.C.S.L.), Engineer (A.C.&R.) (Son of Edwin Loku Bandara Hurulle)
D. M. Swaminathan (1945– ), Member of Parliament, Governor of Western Province,[97] grandson of above (also related to D. M. Swaminathan and Ulaganathar Mudaliyar of Manipay)
Victor Corea – founder Member of the Ceylon National Congress, elected to the Legislative Council, founder Chilaw Association, President Ceylon Labour Union
Dr. Gamani Corea – (1974 to 1984) Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ceylon's Ambassador to the EEC, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Planning and Economic Affairs of Ceylon and the Senior Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Ceylon[98][99]
Charles Edgar Corea – elected to the Legislative Council, President of the Ceylon National Congress (1924), Chair/founder Chilaw Association.
Shirley Corea, (1906–1974) Speaker of the Parliament of Ceylon, Member of Parliament for Chilaw, Minister of Commerce, Trade and Fisheries.[100]
(Also related to)
Sir Claude Corea – Minister of Labour 1946, High Commissioner of Sri Lanka in the UK, Ceylon's Ambassador in the US, President of the United Nations Security Council, Ceylon's Ambassador at the United Nations
Harindra Corea, Deputy Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka,[101] Member of Parliament for Chilaw
(Also related to)
Dr. Gamani Corea, Ambassador, Secretary-General of UNCTAD, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations
Ernest Corea, Sri Lanka's High Commissioner to Canada, Sri Lanka's Ambassador to the United States of America
Kumari Corea, Provincial Councillor, NWP.
Manouri Muttetuwegama, Commissioner of the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka + Sarath Muttetuwegama, Member of Parliament (son in law of Colvin R. de Silva)
B. H. Dunuwille (1896 – ), Deputy President of the Senate,[114] Proctor, Notary Public
Harindra Dunuwille (1946 – ) member of Parliament, State Minister of State and Constitutional Affairs, member of Kandy Municipal Council, Mayor of Kandy and Attorney- at Law[115][116]
D. S. Senanayake (1883–1952) 1st Prime Minister of Sri Lanka was married to Molly Dunuwille[117]
Dudley Senanayake (1911–1973) 2nd Prime Minister of Sri Lanka,[118] son of Molly Dunuwille and D. S. Senanayake
Sarath Ekanayake – 7th and current Chief Minister of the Central Province of Sri Lanka[119]
Nandimithra Ekanayake – Member of Parliament (1989–2015); Chief Minister of Central Province (1999–2000); Minister of Environmental and Forest Resources (1996–1999)[120]
Gamage Don Mahindasoma, former Member of Parliament for Kekirawa,[128] former chief minister of the North Central Province
Lal Dharmapriya Gamage. (nephew of G. D. Mahindasoma) former Member of Parliament for Anuradhapura district,[129] former Minister Assisting Foreign Affairs
Tudor Gunasekara – former Member of Parliament for Mahara,[139] former District Minister for Gampaha, former Sri Lanka ambassador to Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary
Anuradha Dullewe Wijeyeratne – former Councillor of Sabaragamuwa Provincial Council, Ex-Acting Diyawadana Nilame of Sri Dalada Maligawa, Kandy (son-in-law of Tudor Gunasekara)
Don Jacolis Rupasinghe Gunawardena (1879–1947) + Leonora
Philip Gunawardena (1901–1972), Government Minister, Member of Parliament, Member of State Council The 'Father of Socialism in Sri Lanka',[141] first person to call for Independence in Sri Lanka + Kusumasiri Amarasinghe (1912–1985) Member of Parliament[142]
Mallika Dharmagunawardhana (1846–1936), President Women's Education Society + Don Carolis Hewavitarne (1833–1906) founder member of Buddhist Theosophical Society, founder member of the Buddhist Defence Committee and a leader of the Buddhist revival in Sri Lanka
Anagarika Dharmapala (Don David Hewavitarne) (1864–1933), Leader of the Buddhist revival movement
Dona Engeltina Hewavitarne (1865–1902) + Jacob Moonesinghe, a leader of the Buddhist revival movement
Edwin Loku Bandara Hurulle, (1919–2009), Member, House of Representatives, Member of Parliament, Government Minister, Governor (Central Province), High Commissioner in Australia, Governor (North Central Province).[88][89]
Themiya Loku Bandara Hurulle (1952 – ), Member of Parliament, Project Minister (Science and Technology), Member,(North Central Provincial Council), Director-General, Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (T.R.C.S.L.), Engineer (AC&R)[156][157][158][159]
Punchi Banda Bulankulame Dissawe, Member of the State Council (1936), Member, House of Representatives, Parliamentary Secretary (Agriculture), Minister of Lands and Land Development, Proctor, Notary Public and Captain (Cricket ),1919–1920, St.Thomas’ College, Mt.Lavinia[84](Maternal Uncle of Edwin Loku Bandara Hurulle and Granduncle of Themiya Loku Bandara Hurulle)
Harindra Dunuwille (1946 – ), Member of Parliament, State Minister of State and Constitutional Affairs, Member, Kandy Municipal Council, Mayor of Kandy, Attorney at Law (son-in-law of E. L. B. Hurulle)
Tombi Mudaliyar Don Adrian Wijesinghe Jayewardene (1768–1830) A descendant of a Colombo Chetty originally from Coromandel Coast of India who married into a Sinhalese family called Jayewardene; conspired with the British to overthrow the last King of Kandy
Mudaliyar Don Abraham Wijesinghe Jayewardene (1801–1866)
James Alfred Jayewardene (c. 1845 – 1888), Deputy Coroner of Colombo + Cornelia Matilda Wijekoon
S. D. R. Jayaratne, Government Deputy Minister (1931 - 2008) (Former Deputy Minister of Fisheries and Minister of Fisheries) and Member of Parliament for Chilaw(1960 to 2000)
Piyankara Jayaratne (1964- ),Foreign Employment Development Minister, Civil Aviation Minister (former Deputy Speaker/ former State Minister law and Order, former State Minister Local Government, former State Minister Indigenous Medicine), former Deputy Minister Youth Affairs and Member of Parliament[172][173]
Anuradha Jayaratne, Deputy Minister, Member of Parliament, Provincial Councillor
Hon. Jayarathne's daughter had married to Duminda Dissanayake, government minister. After the broken of the marriage the daughter has married Mahindananda Aluthgamage, government minister.
Subeitha Zohara MS Kariapper + A. R. Mansoor, Member of Parliament, Former Government Minister and Former Sri Lankan ambassador to the State of Kuwait and the Kingdom of Bahrain[177]
Shahida MS Kariapper + M. M. Musthafa, Government Minister, Member of Parliament
MADANIYA Dr. Mohamed Ibrahim Kariapper + Mohamed Cassim Kariapper
M.C. Ahamed, Member of Parliament Kalmunai 1960–1977), d: 3 July 2008
Khatheeja Kos Mohamed Notaris bin Ibra Lebbe Kariapper + [200] Abdul Latheef Kariapper (had 13 children of which 1 died in infancy, 1 died in early youth)
Abdul Kareem Kariapper + MAriyam Nachi Selapullai Udayar(from Ninthavur)
Zohara (Nona) AK Kariapper + Advocate Samsudeen Member of Parliament, former Sri Lankan Ambassador to UAE
Ariff Samsudeen Attorney-at-Law (1972) – Member of Eastern Provincial Council
Freda Corea, Sister of Sir John and Justin Kotelawala
Dr. Gamani Corea – (1974 to 1984) Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ceylon's Ambassador to the EEC, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Planning and Economic Affairs of Ceylon and the Senior Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Ceylon[98]
Weerasinghe Mallimarachchi (1929 – ), Minister of Food, Co-operatives and Janasaviya (Poverty Alleviation) Minister of Petroleum Services, State Minister of Industry, District Minister of Colombo Member Of Parliament 1977 – 1994[189]
Jayantha Mallimaratchi (1955–1989), Member of Colombo Municipal Council 1978–1989
Janaka Mallimaratchi, Member of Western Provincial Council 1993 – 2009
Mudaliyar Thenahandi David Mendis (1904–1977) – Mayor of Negombo (1965-1970)
Thenahandi Wijayapala Mendis (1928–2012) – Government Minister, Member of Parliament, Mayor of Negombo, Minister of Textile Industries (1977–89), Minister of Transport and Highways (1989–1994), Leader of the House (1993–4),[196] Chief Opposition Whip (1994–98)[197]
Thenahandi Nandana Mendis – Chief Minister Western Province
Thenahandi Davindra Sethwijaya Mendis – Provincial Councillor, Western Province [son of T Wijayapala Mendis]
Nevil de Silva - Deputy Mayor of Negombo [brother-in-law of T. Wijayapala Mendis]
Prof. Kamal Karunanayake (1937-2006) Member of Parliament [brother-in-law of T. Wijayapala Mendis]
Seyed Alavi Moulana, Government Minister, Member of Parliament, Governor of Western Province.
Seyed Ali Zahir Moulana (1956 – ), Government Minister, Member of Parliament (1994–2004, 2015– ), Diplomat, Senior Adviser to the Prime Minister. Played a pivotal role that brought about the end of the Sri Lankan Civil War.[200][201]
Mathicham Saleem Lebbe Muhammedh Thamby Vidane alias Muhammedh Vidane (1819–1879) + Amina (1827–1899) of Negombo – He succeeded his father as the Vidane (Village Headman) for part of Negombo (assumed to be for Udayar Toppu area) somewhere around mid 1800AD
Meena Muhammedh Thamby + Name not known
Yoosoof Lebbe Vidane of Negombo
Yoosoof Lebbe Mubarak Vidane of Negombo – He succeeded his father as the Vidane
Omardeen Police Vidane(d 1921)of Negombo
Omardeen Abdul Wahab Vidane
Muhammedh Thamby Samsudheen Vidane Arachchi alias Dheen Arachchi (1860–1915) + Hafsa Marikar (1870–1950) of Negombo – He was appointed as the "Vidane Arachchi " for Negombo in Eighteen Ninety Six (1896)
Fathima Zuhara Dheen (1893–1967) + Abdulla Court Mudliyar (d 1944)
Safa Abdulla (1914–2007) + Hussain Sheik Ismail Proctor (1901–1974) of Putlam – He entered the field of politics in 1928 when he became a member of the Puttalam Local Board. He was elected as a member of the Puttalam Urban Development Council In 1933. He became its chairman in 1938 and served in that post without a break until 1947. At the first Parliamentary elections which was held in 1947, he was elected uncontested and thus holding the distinction of being referred to as the First Member of the First Independent Parliament of Ceylon. He was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Food and Co-operatives under the Govt. of Rt. Hon D.S. Senanayake. As a Deputy Minister of food and Co-operatives (1947–1948) he managed to open a large number of Co-operative Societies all over the country. Later on he was elected as the Deputy Chairman of Committees and subsequently, had the distinction of being elected as Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives. The culmination of Proctor Ismail's political career came when he was unanimously elected as the speaker in 1956, thus creating another first in the annals of Sri Lankan political history; the first Muslim speaker of the parliament of Ceylon (1956–1959)
M. Abdulla Thaha (1915–1969) + Kadheeja (1934–1989) – Member of Negombo Urban Council (1944–1949)
Abdulla Abdul Rahman Proctor (1921–1998)+ Hamzathul Inaya Abdul Raheeman (1927)
Fahima Abdul Rahman (1951) + Sheriff Sabry (1940–2008) of Ratmalana – He was the first Muslim to be appointed as the Auditor General (1993–2000) of Sri Lanka
Ummu Aimun Abdulla (1923–2000) + Anis Sheriff JP – He was the first Muslim to be the Deputy Mayor of Negombo Municipal Council and was also a member of the Western Provincial Council.
Ismail Dheen Proctor JP (1894–1968) + Hameeda Habeeblebbe (d 1970) – He was the first Muslim to qualify as a Lawyer in Negombo and was also the Quazi for Negombo
Samsudheen Abdul Raheeman Proctor JPUM (1896–1965) + Rahma Abdul Azeez (1910–2002) – He was the only Muslim to be the Chairman (1941–1944) of the then Negombo Urban Council.
Shareefa Dheen (1897–1986) + Haneefa
Haneefa Cafoor (1916–1970) + Jezima Muhammed (d 2001)
Aleema Cafoor (1947) + Farook (1937–1996) of Mawanella – He was a Member of the Sabaragamuwa Provincial Council at the time of his death
Haneefa Mahroof Proctor JPUM (1919–1990) + Hamzackiya Abdul Raheeman (1931) – He was a member of the Negombo Municipal Council
Faleela Dheen (1901–1982) + Thamby Lebbe Abdul Hameed (1894–1959)
Sithy Rahma Abdul Hameed (1929–2006) + Abdul Raheem Rafeek JP (1927–1989)
Fariha Rafeek (1955) + Caesar Reyan Hassan (1947–2015) of Katugastota – He obtained the highest number of preferential votes for the Pathadumbara Electorate during the local government elections held in Nineteen ninety-one (1991) and thereby became the first Muslim to be the Vice Chairman of the Pathadumbara Pradeshiya Sabava
Shums Ruquiya Dheen (1905–1958) + Ali Abul Hassen JP (1903–1997)
Ajward Cassim (1955–1995) + Lilyana (1955) – (Migrated to Yugoslavia in 1980s) He was appointed as the Honorary Counsel General of Sri Lanka for Yugoslavia and held this post until his death.
Muhammedh Thamby Sinna Lebbe Marikar + Name not known
Shasheendra Rajapaksa (1976– ), Chief Minister of Uva Province, Provincial Councillor, Basnayake Nilame of the Ruhunu Kataragama Maha Devalaya[240][241]
Mudaliyar Don Spater Senanayake with son-in-law F H Dias-Bandaranaike, sons Don Stephen Senanayake, Don Charles Senanayake and Fredrick Richard Senanayake, daughter Maria Francesca and wife Dona Catherina Elizabeth Perera Gunasekara
Protus Tissera, member of parliament (Nattandiya 1970-1977), provincial council member (north western province) 1988-1993
Dayasritha Tissera, member of parliament (Puttalam 2001-2004), Deputy minister 2004-2007, non-cabinet minister skills development 2007-2010, cabinet minister state development 2010-2015, provincial council member (north western province) 1999-2000
Sumal Tissera, nattandiya pradesiya sabha opposition leader 2002-2004, provincial Council member (north western province) 2004-2008, provincial Council Minister (north western province) 2008-2020
Dr. S.A. Wickramasinghe is the first leftist member to elect to the State council in 1931 in Sri Lanka. Dr. S.A. Wickramasinghe represent the state council and Parliament since 1931–1977.
W.P.A. Wickramasinghe member of parliament in Sri Lanka's first ever Parliament in 1947.
Doreen Wickramasinghe member of parliament 1951–1956.
Dayananda. A. Wickramasinghe member of parliament and Minister of United National Party Government in 1977–1994.
Percy Wickramasinghe member of parliament 1970–1977
Shalini Gomes + Themiya Loku Bandara Hurulle, Member of Parliament, Project Minister (Science and Technology), Member,(North Central Provincial Council), Director-General, Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (T.R.C.S.L.), Engineer (AC&R)
Don Charles Wijewardene (1893-19??) + Vimala Wijewardene, Member of Parliament, Minister of Health[334]
Padmini Wijewardene
Rukmani Wijewardene + C Beligammana
Ananda Wijewardene
Don Walter T Wijewardene (1894–1939) + Anula Kalyanawathi Wijesinghe
Gabrial Perera Wijeyeratne + Dona Catherina Wickremasinghe Jayasekera
Sir Edwin Wijeyeratne (1889–1968), Cabinet Minister of Home Affairs and Rural Development, Senator, High Commissioner to Britain and India, one of Founding Members of the United National Party [340]+ Leela Pethiyagoda Kumarihamy[341]
Tissa Wijeyeratne (1923–2002), politician, diplomat, Barrister-at-Law and businessman He was also Additional Secretary to the Ministry of External Affairs and Defence, Senior Advisor (Foreign Affairs) to the Prime Minister[342][343][344][345] + Visakha Bulankulame
Mano Wijeyeratne (1957–2011), Government Minister of Plantation, Government Minister of Enterprise Development, Member of Parliament[348][349] + Dushyanthi Wegodapola (first marriage) & Barathi Wijeratne (2nd marriage)
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