Wijeyananda Dahanayake was a Sri Lankan politician. He was the Prime Minister of Ceylon from September 1959 to March 1960.
Sir Oliver Ernest Goonetilleke was a Sri Lankan statesman. Having served as an important figure in the gradual independence of Ceylon from Britain, he became the third Governor-General of Ceylon (1954–1962). He was the first Ceylonese individual to hold the vice-regal post.
Rear Admiral Rajanathan Kadiragamar, MVO was a Ceylonese flag officer. He was the second Ceylonese Captain of the Royal Ceylon Navy from 1960 to 1970 and as such the longest serving Commander of the Navy.
Ratnayake Wasala Mudiyanselage Abeyratne Ratnayaka was a Sri Lankan politician. He was the first Cabinet Minister of Food, Co-operatives; Minister of Home Affairs in independent Ceylon and the last President of the Senate of Ceylon.
Sydney Godfrey de Zoysa was a Sri Lankan senior police officer. A former Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) of Range II and Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Internal Security, he was one of co-conspirators of the attempted military coup of 1962.
Stanley de Zoysa was a Sri Lankan businessmen and politician. He was the former Cabinet Minister of Finance (1956–1959) in S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike's government, subsequently Minister of Interior (1959–1960) and Ceylon's Ambassador to Indonesia.
Murugeysen Tiruchelvam, QC was a Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and politician. Tiruchelvam was a leading lawyer having served as the Solicitor General of Ceylon; he served as the Cabinet Minister of Local Government as a member of Senate of Ceylon.
Chandradasa Sarath Wijesinghe, OBE was a Sri Lankan planter, businessman and politician. He was the President of the Senate and a Cabinet Minister.
Sir Kanthiah Vaithianathan CBE (1896–1965) was a Ceylonese civil servant, politician, Member of the Senate and Minister of Housing and Social Services.
The Prime Minister of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is the head and most senior member of parliament in the cabinet of ministers. It is the second-most powerful position in Sri Lanka's executive branch behind the president, who is the constitutional chief executive. The Cabinet is collectively held accountable to parliament for their policies and actions.
Senator Valentine S. Jayawickrema was a Ceylonese politician. He was the Minister of Justice in the cabinet of W. Dahanayake and a member of the Senate of Ceylon.
Mahanama Samaraweera was a Sri Lankan politician. He was a Cabinet minister and a member of parliament.
Vimala Wijewardene was a Ceylonese politician and the country's first female cabinet minister.
Mudiyanselage Chandrasena Ratnayake Beligammana was a Ceylonese politician
Al-Haj Meeralebbe Poddy Mohamed Mustapha was a Sri Lankan lawyer and politician.
Mutu Banda Weerasekera Mediwake was a Sri Lankan educator and politician. He served as the Minister of Local Government and Housing, Member of Parliament and Member of Senate of Ceylon.
Donald Jasen Ranaweera, MBE, JP was a Sri Lankan plantation owner, press baron and politician. He was the Chairmen of the Times of Ceylon and served as the member of parliament from Maskeliya (1960) and Nuwara Eliya (1965-1970).
The Minister for Internal Security was a cabinet ministry of the Government of Ceylon that existed from January 1960 to March 1960 during the caretaker government of W. Dahanayake. Senator Layard Jayasundera served as Minister for Internal Security and Sydney de Zoysa served as Permanent Secretary. The Ministry had under it the Ceylon Police Force which at the time was tasked with internal security duties and had prior to January 1960, been under the Minister of Justice briefly after the Bandaranaike assassination. The police had traditionally been under the Ministry of External Affairs and Defence, which was a portfolio retained by the Prime Minister of Ceylon.
The Minister of State was a cabinet ministry of the Government of Ceylon that existed from 25 March 1965 to 29 May 1970 during the third Dudley Senanayake cabinet. The post was considered as the senior most cabinet minister following after the prime minister.
John Arthur Amaratunge, MBE, JP, UM was a Ceylonese politician. He was the Minister of Information and Broadcasting and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Planning and Economic Affairs in the Third Dudley Senanayake cabinet and an appointed member of the Senate of Ceylon from the United National Party. A closed confidant of Dudley Senanayake, in the 1950s he served as member of the Gal Oya Development Board and was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1951 Birthday Honours.
