List of Burgher people

This is a list of notable Burgher people, who are a Eurasian ethnic group, historically from Sri Lanka, consisting for the most part of male-line descendants of European colonists from the 16th to 20th centuries (mostly Portuguese, Dutch, German and British) and local women, with some minorities of French and Irish.

Academics

  • E. F. C. Ludowyk – Professor of English, Dean of the School of Arts, University of Ceylon
  • Prof. E. O. E. Pereira – founding Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Ceylon; Vice Chancellor Peradeniya

Civil servants

Professionals

Artists

Authors

Journalists

Politics

Chefs

Musicians and entertainers

Fashion and models

Athletes

gollark: I mean, you can go for "pay everyone UBI or something", which is valid but doesn't provide incentives to art.
gollark: Also, "your car" can produce value via driving people around and such.
gollark: Also, it's not just IP. Consider also 3D printers and other such small-scale manufacturing technologies.
gollark: You need a more coherent system for paying for works where it's hard to capture value than just "decide not to starve artists".
gollark: This is hard to distinguish. You can "make things" on a personal computer and such nowadays.

See also

  • List of Sri Lankans

References

  1. "About the Burghers". Burgher Association (Australia). Retrieved 12 December 2011.

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