In March 2017 President of Sri Lanka Maithripala Sirisena awarded national honours to 90 individuals for distinguished services.[1][2][3] It was the first time in twelve years that awards were given out and there were 426 applicants.[4] The awards ceremony was held on 20 March 2017 at the Nelum Pokuna Theatre in Colombo.[5]
Sri Lankabhimanya
Deshamanya
- Abbasally Akbarally
- K. M. de Silva
- Tissa Devendra
- Colvin De Fonseka Warnasuriya Goonaratna
- Thalagalage Amaradasa Gunawardana
- Devanesan Nesiah
- Diyunuge Nandadasa Rajapaksha
- Priyani Soysa
- Latha Walpola
- Mineka Presantha Wickramasingha
Deshabandu
- Leslie Shelton Devendra
- Deivanayagam Eassuwaren
- Susanthika Jayasinghe
- Mahinkande Gamladdalage Kularatne
- Ranjan Madugalle
- Thommadura Pabilis Silva
- Lakshman Lucian de Silva Weerasena
- W. K. H. Wegapitiya
- Shan Wickremesinghe
Vidya Jyothi
- Lal Gotabhaya Chandrasena
- Harendra de Silva
- Errol Radcliffe Jansz
- Moderage Marian Rohan Waas Jayasekara
- Sarath Kotagama
- Mahamendige Wilfred Joseph Gerard Mendis
- Colvin Ananda Samarasinghe
- De Silva T. K. Nimal Padmasena
- Alagiyawanna Mohotti Appuhamillage Nimal Kitsiri Senanayake
- Tissa Vitharana
- Bandula Wijayarathna
- Wijesinghe Arachchilage Abeysingha
- Hapuwalanege Don Ariyadasa (Dasa Hapuwalana)
- Arun Dias Bandaranaike
- Lionel Bentharage
- Herman Ronald Lakshman De Alwis
- Nellampitiya Pathirana Arachchige Dayawathi (Daya Nellampitiya)
- Ivor Dennis
- Ranasinghe Arachchige Jayantha Prema Lal Hegoda
- Gunawardhana Mudalige Ajith Hemachandra
- George Edmond Jayasinghe
- Sumana Jayatillake
- Sunanda Mahendra
- Suresh Maliyadde
- G. Kartini Drahaman Mohamed
- Camillus Perera
- Edmand Ranasinghe
- Madhubhashini Disanayaka Ratnayaka
- Lalitha Sarathchandra
- Suminda Sirisena
- Singarampillai Thillanadarajah
- Saravanai Vinayagamoorthy
- Namel Weeramuni
- Hetti Arachchige Piyadasa Abeywardane
- Achi Mohamed Ishaq
- Chulamani Gedara Gunasoma Nawarathne
- S. Pathmanathan
- Leelananda Prematilleke
- Krishnamoorthi Ratnam Ravindran
- Sellapuliyage Lucian Benedict Rosa
- R. I. T. Alles
- Don Tilak Dias Jayaweera Abeysekera
- Ahmed Mumtaz Masoon Cassim
- Vithanage Nimal Chandrasiri Gunasekera
- Herath Peruma Mudiyanselage Gunasena
- Sarath Somasiri Gunawardhana
- Mariapillai Sellamuthu Pillai Mookiah
- Lekamage Ramsay Lloyd Perera
- Somasundaram Sandarasegaram
- S. Sivananthan
- Wanninayake Mudiyanselage Tikiri Banda Wanninayake
- Adagamage Pandula Adagama
- Hema Bandara Jayasinghe
- Aluth Gedara Ranjith Amarajeewa
- Rankoth Gedara Shanaka Prasad Kumara
References
"PART I : SECTION (I) – GENERAL Government Notifications NATIONAL HONOURS" (PDF). The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. 2010/38. 17 March 2017.
- ^ "90 eminent persons to receive national honours tomorrow". The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka). 19 March 2017.
- ^ "National Honours after 12 years". The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka). 19 March 2017.
- ^ "National Honours – 2017". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 21 March 2017.
- ^ de Silva, Sajni (17 March 2017). "'National Honours 2017' in recognition of outstanding achievements". Daily News (Sri Lanka).
- ^ Marasinghe, Sandasen (21 March 2017). "PRESIDENT AT NATIONAL HONOURS-2017 CEREMONY". Daily News (Sri Lanka).
