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This is a list of notable
Sri Lankan American citizens , including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants, but does not include Sri Lankan nationals living or working in the U.S. The list includes a brief description of the reason for their notability.
Academics
Rohan Abeyaratne – academic and engineer
Athula Attygalle – professor in
mass spectrometry
Ananda Coomaraswamy – philosopher
Sarath Gunapala – solid-state physicist, senior research scientist and group supervisor at NASA's
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Shelton Gunaratne – Professor Emeritus of Mass Communications at Minnesota State University Moorhead
Ratnajeevan Hoole – professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at
Michigan State University
Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa –
freemason ,
theosophist and president of the
Theosophical Society Adyar
Nalin Kulatilaka – Professor of Finance at
School of Management
Patrick Mendis – educator, diplomat, author, and executive in US government service
Anura C. Perera – science writer, astronomer
Nalin Samarasinha – astronomer, first Sri Lankan to have an asteroid named after him
Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah – Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, Harvard University
Siva Sivananthan – professor, scientist and Director of the Microphysics Laboratory at the
University of Illinois
Sam Weerahandi – former professor; the first ASA Fellow of Sri Lankan origin
Keerthi Premadasa - Professor in Mathematics
Architecture
Artists
Business
Film
Thushari Jayasekera – actress, writer, emcee, and performance artist; with her role on NBC's Outsourced (2010-2011), she is the first American actress of Sri Lankan origin to play a principal role in a primetime show on a major American TV network
Chandran Rutnam – film director, producer, screenwriter
Fabianne Therese – actress, director
Bernard White – actor, screenwriter, film director
Gina Zamparelli –
Los Angeles -based concert promoter, daughter of
Maureen Hingert
Sanjit De Silva – actor, known for roles in
The Company Men and
American Desi
Military
Musicians
DeLon – rapper and record producer; first Sri Lankan-American to appear on the Billboard charts
[1]
[2]
Clarence Jey – US Billboard and Grammy-credited record producer and songwriter
[3]
[4]
Ranidu Lankage – rapper
Ruwanga Samath – record producer and the president of The Bird Call Productions
Politicians
Rebels
Religion
Singers
Sports
Writers
Indran Amirthanayagam – author
V. V. Ganeshananthan – fiction writer, essayist, and journalist
Patrick Mendis – educator, diplomat, author, and executive in US government service
Mary Anne Mohanraj – speculative fiction writer and editor who helped found
Strange Horizons
[5]
Nayomi Munaweera – author
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha – poet, writer, educator, social activist
Romesh Ratnesar – journalist, author
Rosemary Rogers – best-selling author of romance novels in the US; has been on the New York Times best-sellers list
Sunil Yapa – fiction writer, author of Your Heart Is a Muscle The Size of a Fist (2016), which he promoted as a guest on
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Others
See also
References