Deshamanya (; ; "Pride of the Nation") is the second-highest national honour of Sri Lanka awarded by the Government of Sri Lanka as a civil honour. It is awarded for "highly meritorious service", and is conventionally used as a title or prefix to the recipient's name.
Deshamanya (; ; "Pride of the Nation") is the second-highest national honour of Sri Lanka awarded by the Government of Sri Lanka as a civil honour. It is awarded for "highly meritorious service", and is conventionally used as a title or prefix to the recipient's name.
==Recipients== 1986 P. R. Anthonis – surgeon and academic Gamani Corea – economist, civil servant and diplomat M. C. M. Kaleel – physician, social worker and politician Malage George Victor Perera Wijewickrama Samarasinghe Miliani Sansoni – Chief Justice of Ceylon Victor Tennekoon – Chief Justice of Ceylon 1987 Edwin Felix Dias Abeysinghe Neville Kanakeratne – diplomat V. Manicavasagar – Supreme Court Justice, Chancellor University of Jaffna Wijetunga Mudiyansela Tillekeratne 1988 Hector Wilfred Jayewardene – lawyer, member United Nations Commission on Human Rights Thambiah Sivagnanam 1989 Shiva Pasupati – Solicitor General of Sri Lanka, Attorney General of Sri Lanka 1990 Sepala Attygalle – Commander of the Army Nandadeva Wijesekera Badi-ud-din Mahmud – politician, Minister of Education Baku Mahadeva – civil servant Nanayakkara Wasam James Mudalige 1991 E. L. Senanayake – politician, Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka Montague Jayawickrama – politician, cabinet minister, governor K. W. Devanayagam – lawyer, politician, minister Nissanka Wijeyeratne – civil servant, politician Sivagamie Verina Obeyasekera Christopher Weeramantry Neville Ubesinghe Jayawardena Ivan Samarawickrema Chandirapal Chanmugam Abdul Caffoor Mohamed Ameer - Queen's Counsel, Attorney General of Sri Lanka 1992 Abdul Bakeer Markar – politician Hewa Komanage Dharmadasa Ananda Weihena Palliya Guruge – diplomat, Buddhist scholar E. L. B. Hurulle – politician Abdul Majeed Mohamed Sahabdeen Suppiah Sharvananda – Chief Justice of Sri Lanka, provincial governor Linus Silva Nissanka Wijewardane 1993 Geoffrey Bawa – Architect C. A. Coorey Felix Stanley Christopher Perera Kalpage H. W. Thambiah Richard Udugama – Major General Ponna Wignaraja Noel Wimalasena 1994 Jayantha Kelegama Lalith Kotelawala – Businessman Nandadasa Kodagoda – Academic Godfrey Gunatilleke Arulanandam Yesuadiam Samuel Gnanam Nugegoda Gabadage Pablis Panditharatna Surendra Ramachandran Deraniyagalage Basil Ivor Pieris Samaranayake Siriwardhana 1996 Duleep Mendis – Sri Lanka national cricket captain Arjuna Ranatunga – Sri Lanka national cricket captain 1998 Charitha Prasanna de Silva Ken Balendra – Businessman Doreen Winifred Wickramasinghe Tamara Kumari Illangaratne Elanga Devapriya Wickremanayake R. K. W. Goonesekera – Academic, Lawyer Vernon Mendis – Diplomat H. L. de Silva – Diplomat A. T. Kovoor – Academic Ranjit Abeysuriya – lawyer Duncan White – Olympic medalist Christopher Rajindra Panabokke W. D. Amaradeva – Music Director Chitrasena – Dancer 2005 Kamalika Priyaderi Abeyaratne William Alwis Mahesh Amalean – Engineer and industrialist Sohli E. Captain Radhika Coomaraswamy – Academic, Human Rights Activist, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Lalith de Mel Rohan de Saram – Cellist Chandrananda de Silva Ashley de Vos – Architect Jayaratne Banda Dissanayake M. T. A. Furkhan D. Basil Goonesekera Cyril Herath – Inspector General of Police Asoka Kanthilal Jayawardhana A. S. Jayawarden – Sri Lankan economist and civil servant Harry Jayawardena – Businessman Nihal Jinasena – industrialist and sportsman Premasiri Khemadasa – Composer W. D. Lakshman Paddy Mendis – Air Chief Marshal Sunil Mendis – former Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka J. B. Peiris – Senior Neurologist, Researcher and Pioneer of Neurology M. D. D. Peiris Denis Perera – Lieutenant General P. Ramanathan – Former Justice of the Supreme Court and Provincial Governor P. Deva Rodrigo Mano Selvanathan A. H. Sheriffdeen – Surgeon, academic and voluntary worker Roland Silva Bradman Weerakoon – Civil servant Kandekumara Hapudoragamage Jothiyarathna Wijayadasa Ray Wijewardene – Academic, Engineer 2007 James Peter Obeyesekere III – Politician and aviator 2008 Ramesh Mahendran 2017 Abbasally Akbar K. M. de Silva Tissa Devendra Colvin Goonaratna Amaradasa Gunawardana Devanesan Nesiah Nandadasa Rajapaksha Priyani Soysa Latha Walpola Mineka Presantha Wickramasingha Bhanuka Wimalasooriya 2019 Indrajit Coomaraswamy Ajith De Soyza Merrill J. Fernando Mohan Munasinghe Moragoda Christopher Walter Pinto Surath Wickremesinghe
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