leading political figures in the twentieth century of Sri Lanka. S. A. Wickramasinghe was born in Nasnaranketiya Walawwa, Athuraliya in the Matara district...

Don Martin Wickramasinghe, MBE (commonly known as Martin Wickramasinghe) (Sinhala: මාර්ටින් වික්‍රමසිංහ) (29 May 1890 – 23 July 1976) was a Sri Lankan...

Wickremasinghe, Wickremesinghe or Wickramasinghe is a Sinhalese surname. Notable people with the name include: Surname Chandra Wickramasinghe (born 1939), British...

was initially led by Dr. S. A. Wickramasinghe. In 1952 Wickremesinghe's wife, the English-born Doreen Young Wickremasinghe, a former leader of the Suriya-Mal...

Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe MBE (born 20 January 1939) is a Sri Lankan-born British mathematician, astronomer and astrobiologist of Sinhalese ethnicity...

formation in 1946 as a founder member, he was reelected from the Kelaniya electorate in the 1st parliamentary election and was appointed by D. S. Senanayake as...

various social programmes before marrying and raising a family. Playing hostess to her husband S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, who founded the socialist SLFP...

a breakaway party of the United National Party his father once led. The 1993 Indian Tamil-language film Gentleman was rewritten by the director S. Shankar...

Following D. S. Senanayake's sudden death and the elections that followed, Bandaranaike was elected leader of the opposition. Mustering a powerful coalition...

the English section. From there he spent a year at the Cathedral Boys' School, Mutwal a branch school of S. Thomas' College, Mutwal, then known as Cathedral...