title: List of Indians in Sri Lanka
text: # List of Indians in Sri Lanka
  
  This is a list of Indians in Sri Lanka. The list includes notable people from multiple different ethnicities, as well as people native to India who are living in or notable in Sri Lanka.
  
  ## Indian Tamils
  
  * Mano Ganesan - prominent human rights activist; politician
  * K. Natesa Iyer - pre-independence politician
  * Muthiah Muralidaran – Sri Lanka international spin bowler; world record holder for most wickets taken in Test cricket
  * M.G. Ramachandran - Sri Lankan-born Indian politician and actor
  * Arumugan Thondaman - Sri Lankan politician
  * Savumiamoorthy Thondaman - post-independence politician
  
  ## Colombo Chetties
  
  * Reggie Candappa - founder Chairman of Grant McCann Erickson
  * Rohan Candappa - Canadian author
  * Gritakumar E. Chitty - Sri Lankan First Registrar and Secretary-General of International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (retired)
  * Rukmani Devi - actress and singer
  * Roy Dias - former cricket captain
  * Jeyaraj Fernandopulle - Sri Lankan politician
  * Neela Marikkar - Chairperson of Grant McCann Erickson
  * Christopher Ondaatje - OC, CBE, Sri Lankan-Canadian businessman, philanthropist, adventurer, writer and Olympian
  * Michael Ondaatje - OC, Sri Lankan Canadian novelist and poet, perhaps best known for his Booker Prize winning novel adapted into an Academy Award-winning film, The English Patient
  
  ## Others
  
  * Mahesh Amalean
  * Nirj Deva
  
  ### Usurpers of the Sri Lankan throne
  
  * Ellalan
  * The Five Dravidians
  * Kalinga Magha
  * Parakrama Pandya
  * Sena and Guttika
  * The Six Dravidians
  
  ### Indian dynasty of the Kingdom of Kandy
  
  * Nayaks of Kandy
  