On 4th February 1986, President of Sri Lanka J. R. Jayewardene awarded the first Sri Lankan national honours since the suspension of Imperial honors in 1956.
Sri Lankabhimanya
[edit]- Ranasinghe Premadasa - Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
Deshamanya
[edit]- P. R. Anthonis – surgeon and academic[1]
- Gamani Corea – economist, civil servant and diplomat[1]
- M. C. M. Kaleel[1]
- Malage George Victor Perera Wijewickrama Samarasinghe[1]
- Miliani Sansoni – Chief Justice of Ceylon[1]
- Victor Tennekoon – Chief Justice of Ceylon[1]
Deshabandu
[edit]- Ahangamage Tudor Ariyaratne
- Hewa Komanage Dharmadasa
- Norendradas Jayaratnam Wallooppillai
- Daphne Attygalle
- Wimala de Silva
- Arulanandam Yesuadian Samuel Gnanam
- David Edwin Hettiarachchi
- Dhamital Senakumar Jayasundera
- Clara Motwani
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f "National Awards". President of Sri Lanka Secretariat. Archived from the original on 26 January 2017. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
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