List of Indians in Sri Lanka

This is a list of Indians in Sri Lanka. The list includes notable people from multiple different ethnicities, as well as people native to India who are living in or notable in Sri Lanka.

Indian Tamils[edit | edit source]

Muthiah Muralidaran, popular Sri Lankan cricketer of Indian Tamil descent

Mano Ganesan - prominent human rights activist; politician
K. Natesa Iyer - pre-independence politician
Muthiah Muralidaran – Sri Lanka international spin bowler; world record holder for most wickets taken in Test cricket
M.G. Ramachandran - Sri Lankan-born Indian politician and actor
Arumugan Thondaman - Sri Lankan politician
Savumiamoorthy Thondaman - post-independence politician

Colombo Chetties[edit | edit source]

Reggie Candappa - founder Chairman of Grant McCann Erickson
Rohan Candappa - Canadian author
Gritakumar E. Chitty - Sri Lankan First Registrar and Secretary-General of International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (retired)
Rukmani Devi - actress and singer
Roy Dias - former cricket captain
Jeyaraj Fernandopulle - Sri Lankan politician
Neela Marikkar - Chairperson of Grant McCann Erickson
Christopher Ondaatje - OC, CBE, Sri Lankan-Canadian businessman, philanthropist, adventurer, writer and Olympian
Michael Ondaatje - OC, Sri Lankan Canadian novelist and poet, perhaps best known for his Booker Prize winning novel adapted into an Academy Award-winning film, The English Patient