Poets and Writers
- James De Alwis - Ninetheenth century Sinhala poet and writer (note: - Also listed in Legislators)
- R. L. Spittle, CMG, CBE, FRCS - author
- Phiroz Mehta - writer and lecturer on religious topics
- Carl Muller- author and Journalist
- Brendon Gooneratne - author (note: - Also listed in Academics)
- Shyam Selvadurai- author
- Lucky de Chickera - author (note: - Also listed in Industrialists and corporate executives)
- Susantha Goonatilake - author and President of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka
- Gamini Salgado - author on Elizabethan and Jacobean literature and appointed Chair of English at University of Exeter
- Seneka Abeyratne - play writer
- Harold Peiris - translator of Sinhalese literature & patron of the arts
- L.C. van Geyzel - translator of Sinhalese literature
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