1986 Sri Lankan national honours

May 2026 On 4 February 1986, President of Sri Lanka J. R. Jayewardene awarded the first Sri Lankan national honours since the suspension of Imperial honors in 1956. Sri Lankabhimanya Ranasinghe Premadasa - Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Deshamanya P. R. Anthonis – surgeon and academicNational Awards http://www.presidentsoffice.gov.lk/?page_id=340 President of Sri Lanka Secretariat 9 July 2013 26 January 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170126093848/http://www.presidentsoffice.gov.lk/?page_id=340 dead Gamani Corea – economist, civil servant and diplomat M. C. M. Kaleel Malage George Victor Perera Wijewickrama Samarasinghe Miliani Sansoni – Chief Justice of Ceylon Victor Tennekoon – Chief Justice of Ceylon Deshabandu Ahangamage Tudor Ariyaratne Hewa Komanage Dharmadasa Norendradas Jayaratnam Wallooppillai Daphne Attygalle Wimala de Silva Arulanandam Yesuadian Samuel Gnanam David Edwin Hettiarachchi Dhamital Senakumar Jayasundera Clara Motwani References Sri Lanka National Honours National Honours Category:Civil awards and decorations of Sri Lanka