Dr. Nagalingam Ethirveerasingam represented Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) at the 1952 (Helsinki) and 1956 (Melbourne) Summer Olympic Games. ... Ethirveerasingam also participated in three Asian Games: 1954 (Manila), 1958 (Tokyo), and 1962 (Djakarta)
He won a Gold Medal at the 1958 Tokyo Asian Games, which was the first Gold Medal of any kind for Sri Lanka (Ceylon).
At the 1962 Djakarta Asian Games he took home a Silver Medal. He was co-record holder at the 1954 Manila Asian Games after jumping the same height (1.95 meters) as the gold, silver, and bronze jumpers, but came fourth due to having more misses than the other athletes. Ethirveerasingam finished eleventh in the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games high jump.
Kanag-Isvaran was called to bar at Lincoln's Inn in June 1964 and in Ceylon in July 1966, becoming an advocate of the Supreme Court.... He practices law in Colombo in the appellate and original courts, specializing in Aviation, Banking and Finance, Corporate, Commercial, Intellectual property, Insurance, Shipping and Admiralty and Telecommunication laws.
Kanag-Isvaran was a member of the Law Commission of Sri Lanka from 1994 to 2009, Director of the Law and Society Trust and the Institute for the Development of Commercial Law and Practice Arbitration Centre, Colombo, and Chairman of number of committees advising on new legislation. Kanag-Isvaran is a President's Counsel.
Kanag-Isvaran is a lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo and a visiting lecturer at the Sri Lanka Law College. He has been a member of the council of the University of Colombo since 2004, having been appointed by the University Grants Commission. He joined the board of Associated Motorways (Private) Limited in December 2006 as an independent non-executive director. He is a trustee and deputy vice-president of The National Trust Sri Lanka. In 2014 Kanag-Isvaran co-authored with attorney-at-law Dilshani Wijayawardana a book on company law.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._Kanag-Isvaran
Professor and Distinguished Engineering Professor
NSERC/General Dynamics Mission Systems-Canada Industrial Research ... Chair in Target Tracking and Information Fusion
Canada Research Chair in Information Fusion (2004-2014)
Dr. Gnanakanthan is a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, the UK; College of Surgeons of Sri Lanka; Sri Lanka ...Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation; and Sri Lanka Heart Association. He is also a Fellow in Cardiac Surgery, Austin Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. He has contributed to several national and international conferences and published significant number of scholarly articles both in national and international journals. He also transfers his knowledge and wealth of experience to the new bred doctors specializing in Cardiac surgery through teaching and mentoring.
Dr. Samuel Maheswaran is an Emeritus Professor at University of Minnesota. Dr. Maheswaran completed his Ph.D. from University of ...Minnesota and Post-Doctoral Research Training at School of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Canada. Dr. Maheswaran has around 97 publications and received various awards and honours.
Dr. Arulkumaran was born in 1948. He was the son of K. Sabaratnam, a Director of the Jaffna Co-operative Society, and Gnambikai. He was ...from Kantharmadam in northern Ceylon. He was educated at Jaffna Central College and Mahajana College, Tellippalai. After school he joined the University of Ceylon in 1968 and graduated with an honours MBBS degree in 1972. He then obtained a Diploma in Child Health from the university. He then entered the National University of Singapore from where he obtained MD and PhD degrees. He then became a fellow of the Royal the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabaratnam_Arulkumaran
Sritharan served in civilian universities such as University of Southern California and University of Wyoming as faculty member and ... head of the department and also in the Department of Defence (U. S. Navy and U. S. Air Force) in various capacities ranging from scientist to leadership roles, and also held visiting positions at several international institutions.
He served as the Vice Chancellor at the Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences in Bengaluru, India.
Sritharan had his high schooling at Jaffna Central College. He then joined at University of Sri Lanka (Peradeniya) and obtained a BSc (Honors) degree in mechanical engineering. He obtained a Master of Science degree in aeronautics and astronautics from University of Washington and a master's degree and Ph.D. in applied mathematics from University of Arizona.
Sritharan served as the first Provost and Vice Chancellor of the Air Force Institute of Technology at Dayton, Ohio and as the Dean of the Graduate School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California.
He was a Professor and Head of the Department of Mathematics at University of Wyoming and Head of the Science and Technology Branch at the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command in San Diego.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sivaguru_S._Sritharan
Duraiswamy was born on 8 June 1874 in Velanaitivu, an island in the north of Ceylon. He was the son of Ayampillai Waithilingam, an ... engineer from Malaya. He was educated at Jaffna College and Jaffna Central College. After school he joined University of Calcutta, from where he graduated with a double honours degree.
He then qualified as an advocate from the Ceylon Law College. Duraiswamy was one of the founders of the Hindu Board of Education and served as its president in 1923. He helped establish more than 150 Hindu schools. He was a founder and president of the Tamil Union. He was also the president of the Vivekananda Society and a leading member of the Saiva Paripalana Sabhai.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waithilingam_Duraiswamy
He was born in 1923 in Jaffna to Sir Waithilingam Duraiswamy, a speaker of the State Council of Ceylon. Duraiswamy was educated at ...Jaffna Central College, Jaffna Hindu College and at the Royal College, Colombo. He entered the University of Ceylon in 1944 and graduated with an Honours Degree in Economics.
In 1949 Duraiswamy joined the newly formed Ceylon Overseas Service in the first batch of six cadets, through a highly competitive examination and selection process. His first overseas appointment was in New Delhi, India, to which he later returned as Secretary in charge of Public Relations. He opened the Sri Lankan consulate in Chennai.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogendra_Duraiswamy
A Ceylon Tamil newspaper editor, politician and member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon.
...Sabapathy was born in 1853 in Thalaiyali near annarpannai in northern Ceylon. He was educated at Jaffna Central College.
Sabapathy was appointed to the Legislative Council of Ceylon on 9 January 1917 as the second Tamil member. He was the founder secretary and president of the Jaffna Association, a political organisation representing the Tamils of Jaffna.
Sabapathy was the founding member of the Saiva Paripalana Sabhai and a member of the Jaffna Local Board. He was editor of the Hindu Organ for 34 years. He was one of the founders of Jaffna Hindu College and served as its manager from 1913 to 1924.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Sabapathy
A British Ceylon born writer, a prominent figure in London's Bloomsbury literary circle, a Barrister-at-Law of The Honourable ...Society of Lincoln's Inn, and an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Ceylon.
He is the author of The Big Girl & Other Stories a retro-collection of short stories; they recount scenes of life in Jaffna during the colonial era, which includes the short story "Professional Mourners" which reflects the obsolete customs and practices of professional mourning done by some Sri Lankan Tamil communities.
He also authored the book Closing Time & Other Stories which contains stories set in London during the World War 2 era.
He was involved with the anti-colonial organisation, Swaraj House, which was formed in 1942 as a break-away group from the British Committee of the Indian National Congress.
He was one of the founders and editors of the literary magazine Indian Writing of which Rabindranath Tagore and Jawaharlal Nehru also contributed.
He was one of the founding fathers of Hindu Educational Society which had established several schools, including the Colombo Hindu College.
Alagu Subramaniam belongs to the Sri Lankan Tamil community. His father was a judge in Ceylon and his grandfather was a literary personage.
He had his early schooling at Jaffna Central College.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alagu_Subramaniam
A Sri Lankan judicial officer, philanthropist, Tamil and Sinhala linguist scholar who was the pioneer of free library movement in Sri ...Lanka and laid the foundation for building the Jaffna Public Library. In 1933, he started the first library in Jaffna, through lending books from his home in Puttur, Sri Lanka. This was eventually resulted in the establishment of the Jaffna public library, which was “regarded as among the most remarkable in South Asia and housed about 97,000 books, magazines and old news papers, many of them rare.”
Born on 24 February 1896 in Puttur West, Sri Lanka, Chellappah was the fourth child of Kanthapillai Kanagasabai Mudalithambiyar and Chinnathambiar Nagamuthu. He studied at Puttur Mission School and completed his higher education in Jaffna Central College.
Chellappah later joined the royal service and began his professional career as judicial officer in a district court in Galle, Sri Lanka. He also worked in the district court of Jaffna, and the high court of Colombo, Gampaha, Galle, Matara, Kegalle, Puttalam, Negombo and Point Pedro. He retired as a chief secretary of Jaffna high court.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._M._Chellappah
A Sri Lankan lawyer and member of parliament from 1961 to 1964. He also served as justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka
...Pathirana was educated at Jaffna Central College and St. Patrick's College, Jaffna.
Pathirana was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1972 by then Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike. He held that position until 1978 when the new constitution removed all serving Supreme Court and High Court judges from office.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaya_Pathirana
Sivakumaran was educated at Jaffna Central College from where he gained entry to the University of Ceylon, Colombo to read medicine. ...As a student and a trainee doctor Siva’s enthusiasm and caring attitude received the praise of many great teachers of his time including that of the late Prof Kumaradasa Rajasuriya and the late Dr R. P. Jayawardena. On completion of his training Siva proceeded to UK where he obtained his membership with the Royal College of Physicians in London returning to take a post in Mannar from where he proceeded to Jaffna as a Consultant Physician. With a drive to serve Mother Lanka his sense of duty and patriotism prevailed all his life.
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