Amarasiri Dodangoda was a Sri Lankan politician,the former Minister of Justice and Law Reforms (2005–2009) and the second Chief Minister of the Southern Province (1993–1994).
Dharmasoka College is a coed school in Sri Lanka. The college was established in 1913.
Yapa Appuhamilage Anura Priyadharshana MP for Kurunegala former Cabinet Minister of Disaster Management in 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka. Anura Priyadharshana Yapa is also the General Secretary of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party. He was also Sri Lanka's former Cabinet Minister of Petroleum and a Member of Parliament representing the Kurunegala District.
Wajira Abeywardana is a Sri Lankan United National Party politician and a member of parliament for Galle District. He is currently the leader of the United National Party of Sri Lanka. Wajira Abeywardana is one of the most senior leaders with 38 years of political experience in the party. He is also the leader who has dedicated almost the entirety of his career for the party.
Dullas Daham Kumara Alahapperuma is a Sri Lankan politician and founder and current leader of the Freedom People's Congress. Alahapperuma is also a former Cabinet Minister of Information and Mass Media and a current Member of Parliament from the Matara District.
Johnston Xavier Fernando is a Sri Lankan politician,former Cabinet Minister,Chief Government Whip and a current member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka from the Kurunegala District. He belongs to the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna. He is considered a leader of the Rajapaksa loyalist mobs that carried out violent attacks against peaceful protestors during the 9 May 'Black Monday' incident of the 2022 Sri Lankan Protests.
Galle electoral district is one of the 22 multi-member electoral districts of Sri Lanka created by the 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka. The district is conterminous with the administrative district of Galle in the Southern province. The district currently elects 10 of the 225 members of the Sri Lankan Parliament and had 761,815 registered electors in 2010.
Harsha de Silva is a Sri Lankan economist and politician. He is a Member of Parliament for the Colombo District and former Non-Cabinet Minister of Economic Reforms and Public Distribution;State Minister of National Policies and Economic Affairs;and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. He is a member of Samagi Jana Balawegaya.
Vasudeva Nanayakkara is a Sri Lankan left-wing politician,Member of Parliament and presidential candidate in the 1982 and 1999 Sri Lankan presidential elections.
Manusha Nanayakkara is a Sri Lankan politician,Cabinet Minister,and member of Parliament for the Galle District. He is a journalist by profession and was educated at Mahinda College,Galle. He was appointed as the Minister of Labour and Foreign Employment on the 20 May 2022.
Shan Wijayalal De Silva is a Sri Lankan politician. He is a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Galle District since 2020. Since 1 January 2024,he has belonged to the Samagi Jana Balawegaya. He formerly belonged to the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and the Freedom People's Alliance.
Ramesh Pathirana is a Sri Lankan politician,a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and is serving as the current Minister of Health. He previously served as the Minister of Plantation Industries,Minister of Industries and Minister of Education.He belongs to the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna. He was educated at Richmond College,Galle and University of Peradeniya. He is a physician by profession and is the son of former Education and Higher Education minister Richard Pathirana.
Wijaya Dahanayake is a Sri Lankan politician. He is the current Deputy Minister of Public Administration and Home Affairs in the Sri Lankan government and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka from Matara. He is a member of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.
D. G. Albert de Silva,commonly known as Albert Silva,was a Sri Lankan politician. Elected to the parliament from Galle electorate in 1977,Albert de Silva was a legislator in the J. R. Jayawardene government.
Mohan Priyadarshana De Silva is a Sri Lankan politician,Former Cabinet Minister,and member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. He belongs to the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna. Mohan P. de Silva is a lawyer by profession and was educated at St. Aloysius' College,Galle. Following the mass resignation of the Sri Lankan cabinet in the wake of the 2022 Sri Lankan protests,he was appointed as the Minister of Water Supplies by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on 18 April 2022,he served in this role until 9 May 2022 following another resignation of the Sri Lankan Cabinet.
Wijesekera Don Simon Abeygoonawardena was a Ceylonese businessman and politician. He served as a member of Parliament of Ceylon for Galle electorate,representing the United National Party.
Chandima Gamage is a Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. He was elected from Anuradhapura District in 2015. He is a Member of the United National Party. He is the son of G. D. Mahindasoma.
Baddegama Samitha Thero also simply known as Samitha Thero was a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk and a politician. A member of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP),Ven. Baddegama Samitha Thero was a member of the Sri Lankan parliament for Galle District from 2001 to 2004. He represented the Southern Provincial Council under United People's Freedom Alliance. Samitha Thero is regarded as the first ever Buddhist monk to enter the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
Denagama Vitharanage Chanaka Dinushan is a Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. He was elected as the United People's Freedom Alliance candidate,representing the Hambantota Electoral District at the general parliamentary elections held in August 2015.
The following lists notable events that took place during the year 2022 in Sri Lanka.
