List of Sri Lankan Americans (56 items)report

• Rohan Abeyaratne - academic and engineer (Academics)

• Athula Attygalle - professor in mass spectrometry (Academics)

• Ananda Coomaraswamy - philosopher (Academics)

• Sarath Gunapala - solid-state physicist, senior research scientist and group supervisor at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Academics)

• Shelton Gunaratne - Professor Emeritus of Mass Communications at Minnesota State University Moorhead (Academics)

• Ratnajeevan Hoole - professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan State University (Academics)

• Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa - freemason, theosophist and president of the Theosophical Society Adyar (Academics)

• Nalin Kulatilaka - Professor of Finance at School of Management (Academics)

• Patrick Mendis - educator, diplomat, author, and executive in US government service (Academics)

• Anura C. Perera - science writer, astronomer (Academics)

• Nalin Samarasinha - astronomer, first Sri Lankan to have an asteroid named after him (Academics)

• Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah - Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, Harvard University (Academics)

• Siva Sivananthan - professor, scientist and Director of the Microphysics Laboratory at the University of Illinois (Academics)

• Sam Weerahandi - former professor; the first ASA Fellow of Sri Lankan origin (Academics)

• Sanjit De Silva - actor, known for roles in The Company Men and American Desi (Actors)

• Akeel Kalik - actor and model at Ford Models (Actors)

• Raj Barr-Kumar - fellow and past president of the AIA (Architecture)

• Anne Cherubim - Painter (Artists)

• Namal Nawana - CEO of Smith & Nephew (Business)

• Raj Fernando - Chairman and CEO of Scoutahead.com and philanthropist (Business)

• Sanjay Kumar - businessman (Business)

• Kumar Mahadeva - entrepreneur and CEO (Business)

• Chamath Palihapitiya - venture capitalist, software developer (Business)

• Raj Rajaratnam - founder of Galleon Group, a New York-based hedge fund management firm, convicted of insider trading (Business)

• 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 (Film)

• Chandran Rutnam - film director, producer, screenwriter (Film)

• Bernard White - actor, screenwriter, film director (Film)

• Gina Zamparelli - Los Angeles-based concert promoter; daughter of Maureen Hingert (Film)

• Bandula Wijay - inventor, businessman, and diplomat. Invented "Nested Loop" vascular stent. (Medical)

• John Kingsman Beling - Rear Admiral of the United States Navy (Military)

• DeLon - rapper and record producer; first Sri Lankan-American to appear on the Billboard charts (Musicians)

• Clarence Jey - US Billboard and Grammy-credited record producer and songwriter (Musicians)

• Ranidu Lankage - rapper (Musicians)

• Ruwanga Samath - record producer and the president of The Bird Call Productions (Musicians)

• Visvanathan Rudrakumaran - Chairman of the Provisional Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam, a pro-LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam) front organization (LTTE has been described as a terrorist organization by the US, European Union and many other countries) (Rebels)

• Bawa Muhaiyaddeen - teacher and Sufi mystic (Religion)

• Witiyala Seewalie Thera - founder/President and abbot of the Minnesota Buddhist Vihara; recently appointed Deputy Chief Sangha Nayaka of North America (Religion)

• Danielle de Niese - opera singer (Singers)

• Sean Panikkar - opera singer (Singers)

• Tharanga Goonetilleke - opera singer (Singers)

• Nagalingam Ethirveerasingam - Olympian for 1952 and 1956 Olympic Games (Sports)

• Barney Henricus - 1938 British Empire Games boxing gold medallist (Sports)

• Christine Sonali Merrill - Olympian in 2012; engineer (Sports)

• Aruna Ranaweera - USA Rugby national panel referee (Sports)

• Sunil Weeramantry - chess trainer, author (Sports)

• Indran Amirthanayagam - author (Writers)

• V.V. Ganeshananthan - fiction writer, essayist, and journalist (Writers)

• Patrick Mendis - educator, diplomat, author, and executive in US government service (Writers)

• Mary Anne Mohanraj - speculative fiction writer and editor who helped found Strange Horizons (Writers)

• Nayomi Munaweera - author (Writers)

• Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha - poet, writer, educator, social activist (Writers)

• Romesh Ratnesar - journalist and author (Writers)

• Rosemary Rogers - best-selling author of romance novels in the US; has been on the New York Times best-sellers list (Writers)

• 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 (Writers)

• Rifqa Bary (Others)

• Natalie and Nadiya Anderson - twin sisters who had competed in The Amazing Race and Survivor (Others)

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