Sri Lankan academics

R. C. de S. Manukulasooriya

R. C. de S. Manukulasooriya (Sinhala:ආර්.සී. ද එස්. මනුකුලසූරිය) (1919-2005) was a Sri Lankan scholar and the past President of the Royal Asiatic So…

Ven Waskaduwe Sri Subuthi Thera (Sinhala:වස්කඩුවේ ශ්‍රී සුභූති තෙරණුවෝ) (1835-1917) was a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk and scholar. Life events He wa…

Ven Ratmalane Sri Dharmaloka Thera (Sinhala: රත්මලානේ ශ්‍රී ධර්මාලෝක තෙරණුවෝ) (1828-1887) was a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk and scholar. Life events…

Ven Walane Sri Siddhartha Thera (Sinhala: වලානේ ශ්‍රී සිද්ධාර්ථ තෙරණුවෝ) (1811-1867) was a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk and scholar. Life events He w…

Sivasubramaniam Pathmanathan or S. Pathmanathan (Tamil: சிவசுப்பிரமணியம் பத்மநாதன்; Sinhala: සිවසුබ්‍රමනියම් පත්මනාදන්) (1940-) is a Sri Lankan Tam…

Cyril Wace Nicholas (Sinhala: සිරිල් වේස් නිකලස්) (1898-1961) was a Sri Lankan soldier, civil servant, forester and writer on history and antiquitie…

Gallage Sirimal Ranawella (Sinhala: සිරිමල් රණවැල්ල) (1921-2021) was a Sri Lankan epigraphist and historian. Life events Ranawella was born in Kog…

Ven Weligama Sri Sumangala Thera (Sinhala: වැලිගම ශ්‍රී සුමංගල තෙරණුවෝ) (1825-1905) was a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk and an oriental scholar. Life …

Professor Emeritus Wimal Gunasekara Balagalle , known as Wimal G. Balagalle (Sinhala: විමල් ගුණසේකර බලගල්ලේ) (1924-2021) was a Sri Lankan academic…

Professor Nicholas Abeydheera Jayawickrama , known as N.A. Jayawickrama (Sinhala: එන්.ඒ‍. ජයවික්‍රම) (1920-2012) was a Sri Lankan academic and Pali …

Professor Mendis Rohanadeera (Sinhala: මැන්දිස් රෝහණදීර) (1931-2011) was a Sri Lankan academic and historian. Life events Rohanadeera was born o…

Professor Alankaraga Victor Suraweera (Sinhala: ඒ. වී. සුරවීර) (1930-2014), known as A. V. Suraweera was a Sri Lankan academic, historian, literary …

Deshamanya Dr. Sembukutti Arachchilage Roland Silva (1933-2020) (Sinhala: රෝලන්ඩ් සිල්වා) was an eminent archaeologist of Sri Lanka. He was the …

Dr. Malini Dias (Sinhala: මාලිනී ඩයස්, b.1943 - d.30 August 2024) was an archaeologist and was the Director of Epigraphy & Numismatics of the D…