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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]]
* [[D. Shelton A. Gunaratne|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]], [[Theosophy (Blavatskian)|theosophist]] and president of the [[Theosophical Society Adyar]]
* [[Nalin Kulatilaka]] – Professor of Finance at [[Boston University School of Management|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==
* [[Raj Barr-Kumar]] – former president of the [[American Institute of Architects|AIA]]

== Artists ==
* [[Anne Cherubim]] – painter

==Business==
* [[Namal Nawana]] – CEO of [[Smith & Nephew]]
* [[Raj Fernando]] – chairman and CEO of Scoutahead.com and philanthropist
* [[Sanjay Kumar (business executive)|Sanjay Kumar]] – businessman
* [[Kumar Mahadeva]] – entrepreneur and CEO
* [[Chamath Palihapitiya]] – venture capitalist, software developer
* [[Raj Rajaratnam]] – founder of Galleon Group, a New York-based hedge fund management firm, convicted of insider trading
* [[Bandula Wijay]] –  inventor, businessman, and diplomat. Invented "Nested Loop" vascular stent.

==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)|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==
* [[John Kingsman Beling]] – [[Rear Admiral]] of the [[United States Navy]]

== Musicians ==
* [[DeLon]] – rapper and record producer; first Sri Lankan-American to appear on the ''Billboard'' charts<ref>((cite web |author=DeLon |url=http://www.delonmusic.com/ |title=DeLon - Home |publisher=Delonmusic.com |date=2011-01-14 |access-date=2011-05-23 |archive-date=2011-07-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110709011445/http://www.delonmusic.com/ |url-status=live ))</ref><ref>[http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/chart_display.jsp?cfi=353&cfgn=Singles&cfn=Hot+Singles+Sales&ci=3062772&cdi=8491317&cid=11%2F26%2F2005 Top Music Charts - Hot 100 - Billboard 200 - Music Genre Sales]((dead link|date=May 2011|fix-attempted=yes))</ref>
* [[Clarence Jey]] – US ''Billboard'' and Grammy-credited record producer and songwriter<ref>((cite news | url=https://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2013/10/19/why-alison-golds-chinese-food-caused-a-stir/ | title=Why Alison Gold's 'Chinese Food' Caused a Stir - Speakeasy - WSJ | last=Yang | first=Jeff | work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] | publisher=[[Dow Jones & Company]] | date=19 October 2013 | access-date=4 August 2017 | archive-date=19 October 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019162534/http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2013/10/19/why-alison-golds-chinese-food-caused-a-stir/ | url-status=live ))</ref><ref>((cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/blow-your-pants-off-mw0002356470/credits|title=''Blow Your Pants Off'' album credits|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=22 December 2013|archive-date=2 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120802030030/http://www.allmusic.com/album/blow-your-pants-off-mw0002356470/credits|url-status=live))</ref>
* [[Ranidu Lankage]] – rapper
* [[Ruwanga Samath]] – record producer and the president of The Bird Call Productions

==Politicians==
* [[Basil Rajapaksa]] – former [[Member of Parliament (Sri Lanka)|Member of the Sri Lankan Parliament]]
* [[Gotabaya Rajapaksa]] – 8th [[President of Sri Lanka]]; US citizen from 2003 to 2019

==Rebels==
* [[Visvanathan Rudrakumaran]] – chairman of the [[Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam]], a pro-LTTE ([[Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam|Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam]]) organization (the LTTE has been described as a [[terrorist organization]] by the US, the European Union and many other countries)

==Religion==
* [[Bawa Muhaiyaddeen]] – teacher and [[Sufism|Sufi]] mystic
* [[Witiyala Seewalie Thera]] – founder/president and abbot of the [[Minnesota Buddhist Vihara]], Deputy Chief Sangha Nayaka of North America

==Singers==
* [[Danielle de Niese]] – opera singer
* [[Sean Panikkar]] – opera singer
* [[Tharanga Goonetilleke]] – opera singer

==Sports==
* [[Nagalingam Ethirveerasingam]] – Olympian for [[1952 Summer Olympics|1952]] and [[1956 Summer Olympics|1956 Olympic Games]]
* [[Barney Henricus]] – 1938 [[British Empire Games]] boxing gold medallist
* [[Christine Sonali Merrill]] – Olympian for [[2012 Summer Olympics|2012 Olympic Games]], engineer
* [[Roy Silva]] – cricketer who has [[United States national cricket team|represented the US]] in [[Twenty20 International]]
* [[Tiana Sumanasekera]] – member of the [[United States women's national artistic gymnastics team|U.S. national gymnastics team]]
* [[Sunil Weeramantry]] – chess trainer, author

==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]]<ref>[http://www.harpercollins.com/author/authorExtra.aspx?isbn13=9780060781187&displayType=readingGuide Harper Collins] ((Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160131180243/http://www.harpercollins.com/author/authorExtra.aspx?isbn13=9780060781187&displayType=readingGuide |date=2016-01-31 )) "She was concerned that as one of the first Sri Lankan-Americans writing in English, her depiction of Sri Lankan culture might be taken as overly authentic and authoritative."</ref>
* [[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==
* [[Rifqa Bary controversy|Rifqa Bary]] – author, subject of the [[Rifqa Bary controversy]]
* [[Natalie and Nadiya Anderson]] – twin sisters who had competed in ''[[The Amazing Race (American TV series)|The Amazing Race]]'' and ''[[Survivor (American TV series)|Survivor]]''
* [[Upeshka De Silva]] – professional poker player

==See also==
* [[List of Sri Lankans]]

==References==
((Reflist))

[[Category:Lists of American people of Asian descent|Sri Lankans]]
[[Category:American people of Sri Lankan descent|*]]
[[Category:Lists of Sri Lankan people by diaspora|American]]
[[Category:Lists of American people by ethnic or national origin|Sri Lankan]]
[[Category:Lists of people by ethnicity|Sri Lankan]]

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