List of Sinhalese people

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This is a list of Sinhalese people by their country of domicile or origin. All communities that speak Sinhalese or spoke Sinhalese and originally came from Sri Lanka are included. Sinhalese are the majority ethnic group in Sri Lanka.

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Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith

Cyril Abeynaike, 10th bishop of Colombo (Anglican)
Tissa Balasuriya (Catholic)
Cardinal Thomas Cooray, 8th archbishop of Colombo
Ivan Corea (Anglican)
Duleep de Chickera, 14th bishop of Colombo (Anglican)
Lakdasa De Mel, 1st bishop of Kurunegala (Anglican)
Lynn de Silva (Methodist)
Harold de Soysa, 9th bishop of Colombo (Anglican)
Frank Marcus Fernando, 3rd bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Chilaw
Nicholas Marcus Fernando (1932-2020), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Colombo from 1977 to 2002
Kenneth Fernando, 13th bishop of Colombo (Anglican)
Swithin Fernando, 11th bishop of Colombo (Anglican)
Oswald Gomis, 10th archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Colombo
Kumara Illangasinghe, 4th bishop of Kurunegala (Anglican)
Marcelline Jayakody (Catholic)
Andrew Kumarage, 3rd bishop of Colombo (Anglican)
Valence Mendis, current bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Chilaw
Edmund Peiris (1897-1989), Bishop of Chilaw from 1940 to 1972, President of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka from 1959 to 1961
Elmo Noel Joseph Perera, 5th bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Galle
Aloysius Pieris, Jesuit Catholic priest
Ernest Poruthota (1931-2020), Roman Catholic priest and author
Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, current archbishop of Colombo (Catholic)
Lakshman Wickremasinghe, 2nd bishop of Kurunegala (Anglican)

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Dilith Jayaweera

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Jayantha Dhanapala

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Vimaladharmasuriya I of Kandy

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Mahinda Rajapaksa

D. S. Senanayake

S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike

Ranil Jayawardena

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Chamath Palihapitiya

Chamath Palihapitiya

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