This is a list of Sri Lankan non-career diplomats, who have been appointed by the Government of Sri Lanka as Ambassadors and High Commissioners, but are not career diplomats by profession, meaning they are not from the Sri Lanka Foreign Service, but are from different professions.
Academics
Archaeologists
Architects
Business
Chief Justices
- Mohan Peiris - Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations
- Jayantha Jayasuriya - Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations
Corporate executives
Civil servants
- Richard Aluwihare, , CBE, JP - High Commissioner to India
- Sirisena Amarasekara - High Commissioner to South Africa
- Shirley Amerasinghe - High Commissioner to India, Ambassador to Nepal and Afghanistan and Permanent Representative to United Nations (New York)
- Velupillai Coomaraswamy - High Commissioner to Canada
- Gunasena de Soyza, CMG, OBE - High Commissioner to United Kingdom
- N. Q. Dias - High Commissioner to India
- Austin Fernando - High Commissioner to India
- Lionel Fernando - High Commissioner to Malaysia, Ambassador to the Netherlands and France (note: also listed in "Provincial Governors")
- Neville Jayaweera - Ambassador to Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland
- K. C. Logeswaran - Ambassador to Republic of Korea
- S. J. Walpita - Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium
- Nissanka Wijeyeratne - Ambassador to Soviet Union (note: also listed in "Parliamentarians")
Economists
Engineers
Filmmakers
Journalists
- Ernest Corea - Ambassador to USA; High Commissioner to Canada
- Dayan Jayatilleka - Permanent Representative to United Nations (Geneva); Consul General for Switzerland; Ambassador to France and UNESCO and Ambassador of Sri Lanka to Russia
Judges
Lawyers
Physicians
- M. V. P. Peiris - Ambassador to Soviet Union and High Commissioner to United Kingdom (note: also listed in "Senators")
Military officers
Army
- General (Rtrd.) Deshamanya D. S. Attygalle, MVO - High Commissioner to United Kingdom
- General (Rtrd.) Rohan Daluwatte, RWP, RSP, VSV, USP - Ambassador to Brazil
- General (Rtrd.) G. H. De Silva, RWP, RSP, VSV, USP - High Commissioner to Pakistan
- General (Rtrd.) Deshamanya Denis Perera, VSV - High Commissioner to Australia
- General (Rtrd.) Jagath Jayasuriya, RWP, VSV, USP - Ambassador to Brazil
- General (Rtrd.) Shantha Kottegoda, WWV, RWP, RSP, VSV, USP - Ambassador to Brazil and Thailand
- Major General (Rtrd.) Nanda Mallawaarachchi, RWP, VSV, USP - Ambassador to Indonesia
- Major General (Rtrd.) Anton Muttukumaru, OBE, ED, ADC - High Commissioner to Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan and Ambassador to Egypt
- Major General (Rtrd.) Janaka Perera, RWP, RSP, VSV, USP - High Commissioner to Australia & Ambassador to Indonesia
- General (Rtrd.) Cyril Ranatunga, VSV - High Commissioner to Australia and United Kingdom
- Major General (Rtrd.) Richard Udugama, MBE - Ambassador to Iraq
- General (Rtrd.) Cecil Waidyaratne, VSV, USP, SLAC - Ambassador to Thailand
- General (Rtrd.) Srilal Weerasooriya, RWP, RSP, VSV, USP - High Commissioner to Pakistan
- General (Rtrd.) T. I. Weerathunga, VSV - High Commissioner to Canada
Navy
Air Force
Police officers
Politicians
Governors general
Senators
State and legislative councilors
Provincial governors
- Dixon Dela Bandara - High Commissioner to Maldives
- Janaka Priyantha Bandara - Ambassador to the UAE & Myanmar (note: also listed in "Parliamentarians")
- Rohitha Bogollagama - High Commissioner to United Kingdom (note: also listed in "Parliamentarians")
- Lionel Fernando - High Commissioner to Malaysia, Ambassador to the Netherlands and France (note: also listed in "Civil servants")
- E. L. B. Hurulle - High Commissioner to Australia (note: also listed in "Parliamentarians")
- Karunasena Kodituwakku - Ambassador to Japan, Republic of South Korea and China (note: also listed in "Academics" and "Parliamentarians")
- Ariya Rekawa - Ambassador to Philippines (note: also listed in "Parliamentarians")
- Noel Wimalasena - High Commissioner to United Kingdom (note: also listed in "Parliamentarians")
Parliamentarians
- Ferial Ashraff - High Commissioner to Singapore
- Dharmasena Attygalle - High Commissioner to Pakistan
- Janaka Priyantha Bandara - Ambassador to the UAE & Myanmar
- Rohitha Bogollagama - High Commissioner to United Kingdom (note: also listed in "Provincial Governors")
- Sirisena Cooray - High Commissioner to Malaysia
- Fred E. de Silva - Ambassador to France, Switzerland and UNESCO
- P.H. William de Silva - High Commissioner to Canada
- A.E. Goonesinha - Ambassador to Indonesia and Burma (Myanmar)
- Tudor Gunasekara - Ambassador to Poland, Bulgaria, Rumania and Hungary
- Robert Gunawardena - Ambassador to China
- R.S.S. Gunewardene - High Commissioner to United Kingdom, Ambassador to Italy, USA and Ambassador / Permanent Representative to United Nations (New York)
- E. L. B. Hurulle - High Commissioner to Australia (note: also listed in "Parliamentarians" and "Provincial Governors")
- Karu Jayasuriya - Ambassador to Germany
- P.B.G. Kalugalla - High Commissioner to Canada and Ambassador to Philippines
- Rupa Karunathilake - Ambassador to Netherlands
- Karunasena Kodituwakku - Ambassador to Japan, Republic of South Korea and China (note: also listed in "Academics" and "Provincial Governors")
- Anil Moonesinghe - Ambassador to Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Yugoslavia, the UN (Vienna), IAEA and OPEC
- Mangala Moonesinghe - High Commissioner to United Kingdom and India
- Susil Moonesinghe - Ambassador to Iran
- Theodore Braybrooke Panabokke - High Commissioner to India
- R. S. Pelpola - High Commissioner to Malaysia
- Wilmot A. Perera - Ambassador to China
- H. R. Piyasiri - Ambassador to Myanmar
- C. Rajadurai - High Commissioner to Malaysia
- Ariya Rekawa - Ambassador to Philippines
- Rosy Senanayake - High Commissioner to Malaysia
- T.B. Subasinghe - Ambassador to Soviet Union
- Nissanka Wijeyeratne - Ambassador to Soviet Union (note: also listed in "Civil servants")
- Noel Wimalasena - High Commissioner to United Kingdom
Mayors
UN officials
References
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