Category

Sri Lankan Hindus

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Muttiah Muralitharan

Sri Lankan cricketer

Hinduism in Sri Lanka

overview of Hinduism in Sri Lanka

Ellalan (; ; 235–161 BCE), also referred to as Elara the Pious, and by the honorific epithet Manu Needhi Cholan, was a member of the Tamil Chola dynasty in Southern India, who upon capturing the throne became king of the Anuradhapura Kingdom, in present-day Sri Lanka, from 205 BCE to 161 BCE.

Periyasamy Chandrasekaran

Sri Lankan politician (1957-2010)

Radhika Coomaraswamy

Sri Lankan United Nations official

Rajasinha I of Sitawaka

Sri Lankan king of Sitawaka from 1581 to 1593

Sri Lankan politician (1966-2008)

Nadarajah Raviraj

assassinated Sri Lankan politician

Sridharan Jeganathan

Sri Lankan cricketer (1951-1996)

Sri Lankan Tamil politician (1933–2024)

Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan

Sri Lankan politician, Former LTTE Terrorist

C. V. Vigneswaran

Sri Lankan politician, judge

Ponnambalam Arunachalam

Sri Lankan politician (1853–1924)

Arumuka Navalar

Sri Lankan Shaivism and Tamil language scholar, reformer, revivalist (1822–1879)

Douglas Devananda

Sri Lankan politician

G. G. Ponnambalam

Sri Lankan Tamil politician

Ethirimana Cinkam

Ponnambalam Ramanathan sinhala

Solicitor-General of Ceylon and Sri Lankan Tamil political leader

Swami Vipulananda

Sri Lankan Tamil Hindu social reformer, literary critic, author, poet, teacher and ascetic (1892–1947)

A. Amirthalingam

Sri Lankan politician (1927-1989)

Arunachalam Mahadeva

Sri Lankan politician

Mavai Senathirajah

Sri Lankan Tamil politician (1942–2025)

E. Saravanapavan

Sri Lankan politician

Chelvy Thiyagarajah

Sri Lankan activist

Nagalingam Ethirveerasingam

Sri Lankan high jumper

Sri Lankan journalist

V. Akilesapillai

Scholar, poet, writer (1853–1910)