Ivor Jennings

Ivor Jennings

male
Sir William Ivor Jennings, KBE, (May 16, 1903 - December 19, 1965) educated at Bristol Grammar School, was a British lawyer, and educator who went...
Lakshman Kadirgamar

Lakshman Kadirgamar

male, deceased (2005)
Sri Lankabhimanya Hon. Lakshman Kadirgamar PC (April 12, 1932 - August 12, 2005) was a Sri Lankan politician. After a distinguished career as a...
Bradman Weerakoon

Bradman Weerakoon

male, 79 years old
Robin Bradman Weerakoon is a retired senior bureaucrat of the Sri Lankan government. He was born on October 30, 1930 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. His...
Vijita Fernando

Vijita Fernando

female
Vijita Fernando is a Sri Lankan journalist, translator and fiction writer. She was a winner of the Gratiaen Prize and has received Sri Lanka’s St...
Arnold Wolfendale

Arnold Wolfendale

male, 82 years old
Sir Arnold Wolfendale FRS (born June 25 1927-) is a British astronomer. He was Astronomer Royal from 1991 to 1995. Wolfendale graduated with a BSc...

Oliver Ernest Goonetilleke

male, deceased (1978)
Sir Oliver Goonetilleke (20 October 1892- 17 December 1978) was an important figure in the gradual independence of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) from...
Gunadasa Amarasekara

Gunadasa Amarasekara

male, 80 years old
Gunadasa Amarasekera (born in 1929) is a prominent Sinhala writer, poet, and essayist from Sri Lanka. Born in Yattalamatta close to Galle, he...