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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]].<br />
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==Indian Tamils==<br />
[[Image:Murali.jpg|right|thumb|[[Muttiah Muralitharan|Muthiah Muralidaran]], popular Sri Lankan [[cricket]]er of Indian Tamil descent]]<br />
* [[Mano Ganesan]] - prominent [[human rights]] activist; politician<br />
* [[K. Natesa Iyer]] - pre-independence politician<br />
* [[Muttiah Muralitharan|Muthiah Muralidaran]] – [[Sri Lanka national cricket team|Sri Lanka international]] [[off spin|spin]] [[bowling (cricket)|bowler]]; world record holder for most [[Wicket#Dismissing a batsman|wickets]] taken in [[Test cricket]]<br />
* [[M.G. Ramachandran]] - Sri Lankan-born Indian politician and actor<br />
* [[Arumugan Thondaman]] - Sri Lankan politician<br />
* [[Savumiamoorthy Thondaman]] - post-independence politician<br />
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==Colombo Chetties==<br />
*[[Reggie Candappa]] - founder Chairman of [[Grant McCann Erickson]]<br />
*[[Rohan Candappa]] - Canadian author<br />
*[[Gritakumar E. Chitty]] - Sri Lankan First Registrar and Secretary-General of International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (retired)<br />
*[[Rukmani Devi]] - actress and singer<br />
*[[Roy Dias]] - former cricket captain <br />
*[[Jeyaraj Fernandopulle]] - Sri Lankan politician<br />
*[[Neela Marikkar]] - Chairperson of Grant McCann Erickson<br />
*[[Christopher Ondaatje]] - [[Order of Canada|OC]], [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]], Sri Lankan-[[Canadians|Canadian]] businessman, philanthropist, adventurer, writer and [[Olympic Games|Olympian]]<br />
*[[Michael Ondaatje]] - [[Order of Canada|OC]], Sri Lankan Canadian [[novelist]] and [[poet]], perhaps best known for his [[Booker Prize]] winning novel adapted into an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]]-winning film, ''[[The English Patient (film)|The English Patient]]''<br />
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==Others==<br />
* [[Mahesh Amalean]] <br />
* [[Nirj Deva]]<br />
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;Usurpers of the [[List of Sri Lankan monarchs|Sri Lankan throne]]<br />
* [[Ellalan]]<br />
* [[The Five Dravidians]]<br />
* [[Kalinga Magha]]<br />
* [[Parakrama Pandya]]<br />
* [[Sena and Guttika]]<br />
* [[The Six Dravidians]]<br />
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;Indian dynasty of the [[Kingdom of Kandy]]<br />
* [[Nayaks of Kandy]]<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[List of Sri Lankans by ethnicity]]<br />
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==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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[[Category:Lists of Sri Lankan people by ethnicity|I]]<br />
[[Category:Indian diaspora by country]]<br />
[[Category:Indians in Sri Lanka]]<br />
[[Category:Lists of people of Indian descent|Sri Lanka]]<br />
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