List of Sri Lankan Americans

This is a list of notable Sri Lankan American citizens, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants, but does not include Sri Lankan nationals living or working in the U.S. The list includes a brief description of the reason for their notability.

Lists of Americans
By U.S. state
By ethnicity or nationality
  • Danish
  • Dominican Americans (Dominica)
  • Dominican Americans (Dominican Republic)
  • Dutch
  • Gambian
  • Georgian
  • German
  • Ghanaian
  • Greek
  • Guatemalan
  • Guinean
  • Guyanese
  • Karen
  • Kazakh
  • Kenyan
  • Korean
  • Kurdish
  • Kuwaiti
  • Taiwan
  • Tajikistani
  • Tanzanian
  • Thai
  • Tibetan
  • Tongan
  • Trinidadian and Tobagonian
  • Turkish
  • Category

Academics

Actors

Architecture

Artists

Business

Film

Medical
  • Bandula Wijay - inventor, businessman, and diplomat. Invented "Nested Loop" vascular stent.

Military

Musicians
  • DeLon - rapper and record producer; first Sri Lankan-American to appear on the Billboard charts[1][2]
  • Clarence Jey - US Billboard and Grammy-credited record producer and songwriter[3][4]
  • Ranidu Lankage - rapper
  • Ruwanga Samath - record producer and the president of The Bird Call Productions

Rebels
  • Visvanathan Rudrakumaran - Chairman of the Provisional Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam, a pro-LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam) front organization (LTTE has been described as a terrorist organization by the US, European Union and many other countries)

Religion

Singers

Sports

Writers

Others
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See also
  • List of Sri Lankans

References
  1. DeLon (2011-01-14). "DeLon - Home". Delonmusic.com. Retrieved 2011-05-23.
  2. Top Music Charts - Hot 100 - Billboard 200 - Music Genre Sales
  3. Yang, Jeff (19 October 2013). "Why Alison Gold's 'Chinese Food' Caused a Stir - Speakeasy - WSJ". The Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones & Company.
  4. "Blow Your Pants Off album credits". Retrieved 22 December 2013.
  5. Harper Collins "She was concerned that as one of the first Sri Lankan-Americans writing in English, her depiction of Sri Lankan culture might be taken as overly authentic and authoritative."
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