Poets, Novelists & Academic Writers
- Dr Gunadasa Amarasekara – Dental Surgeon, Writer, Poet
- Asoka Weerasinghe - award-winning poet, Co-founder of the Gloucester Spoken Art Series in Ottawa Canada (note: - also listed in Ambassadors and High Commissioners)
- Siri Perera, QC (also known as U.A.S. Perera) - famous "Siri Aiya" of Radio Ceylon (note: also listed in Lawyers & Judges)
- Ajith Galappaththy - well known film critic
- Dr Jagath Asoka Panangadan - famous medical writer New Jersey, former assistant Professor Department of Chemistry, Monmouth University, New Jersey USA
- Professor Suwanda H J Sugunasiri - author of three collections of poetry in English (Faces of Galle Face Green, Celestial Conversations, Obama-Ji); Novel, Untouchable Woman's Odyssey; short fiction in Sinhala: yama yudde, meeharak. (note:- also listed in Academics)
- Kivipathi Sugathamuni Gnanasiri - a famous poet, veteran educationist, psychologist
- Anura C. Perera - well-known science writer and author
- Sunanda Karunaratne - poet, author
- Miniwan P. Thilakaratne - veteran novelist
- Oruwala Bandu - poet, author, Russian Language specialist
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