Kala Suri

The Kala Suri (Sinhala: කලා සූරී; Tamil: கலாசூரி, romanized:Kalācūri) is a Sri Lankan national honour awarded "for special contributions to the development of the arts". It is conventionally used as a title or prefix to the awardee's name. Kala Suri ranks lower than Vidya Nidhi.

Awardees

Awardees include:

1984

• Arisen Ahubudu

1991

• Thangamma Appakutty

1994

• Yolande Abeywira

1998

• Jiffry Yoonoos
• Parakrama Kodituwakku
• Dharmasiri Bandaranayake
• G. S. B. Rani
• S. A D. D. Samarasekera
• D. V. Richard de Silva
• Jayalath Manoratne
• Tissa Abeysekera
• A. Sivanesa Selvan

2005

• Anne Ranasinghe
• Anoma Rajakaruna
• Barbara Sansoni Lewcock
• Chandraguptha Thenuwara
• Channa Wijewardena
• Chitra Ranawake
• Dulip Gabada Mudalige
• Edward Jayakody
• H. A. Perera
• Harsh Makalanda
• Inoka Sathyangani Keerthinanda
• Jagath Weerasinghe
• Janadasa Peiris
• Latha Walpola
• M. A. Nuhuman
• Muhanned Mohideen Abdul Cader
• Nelum Harasgama Nadaraja
• Oosha Saravanamuttu
• Parakrama Niriella
• Pradeep Chandrasiri
• Pushpakumara Kandegedara
• R. Rushankan
• Rajini Selvanayagam
• Rohana Baddage
• Rohanadeva Perera
• Subramanium Vilvaratnam
• Sarath Chandrajeewa
• Somaratne Dissanayake
• Stanley Omar
• Sumathy Sivamohan
• T. Shanathanan
• Udaya Shantha Fernando