List of Sri Lankan Tamils

• Rev. Fr. (Dr.) H. S. David - Priest, Scholar and Linguist who died of shock the next day after seeing flames engulfing Jaffna Library from his room at St. Patrick's College, Jaffna the night before.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sundaytimes.lk/970601/plus6.html|title=Appreciations:He died seeing the Jaffna library burn|accessdate=May 22, 2024|work=The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka)|date=1 June 1997}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.tamilguardian.com/content/37-years-remembering-burning-jaffna-public-library|title=37 years on - remembering the burning of the Jaffna Public Library|accessdate=May 23, 2024|work=Tamil Guardian|date=31 May 2018}}
• Srikanthalakshmi Arulanandam - Principle Librarian at the University of Jaffna
• A. Thurairajah - Professor, Vice Chancellor of University of Peradeniya, Civil Engineer (Akbar Bridge in University of Peradeniya was constructed by him), Founder of Thurai Law ( About Soil)
• T. Nadaraja - Chancellor of the University of Jaffna; Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Ceylon
• S. Raveendranath - Vice-Chancellor of the Eastern University of Sri Lanka
• K. Sivathamby - emeritus professor of University of Jaffna; prominent Tamil scholar, sociologist and author of books
• X. Thaninayagam - scholar, author and historian
• Valentine Joseph - was a Sri Lankan Tamil mathematician, noted for his contributions to education
• Rajini Thiranagama - murdered human rights activist and author of books; head of the Department of Anatomy, University of Jaffna; member of University Teachers for Human Rights assassinated by Tamil Tigers.
• T. Varagunam - Chancellor of the Eastern University of Sri Lanka
• Dr W S Santharaj - Consultant Cardiologist

• Fr. Mary Bastian - Roman Catholic parish priest and human rights activist
• Fr. Thiruchelvam Nihal Jim Brown - Roman Catholic parish priest and activist; missing since August 20, 2006; presumed dead
• Radhika Coommaraswamy - human rights activist; Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict
• Richard de Zoysa - journalist, author, human rights activist and actor; was abducted and brutally killed by Sri Lankan government paramilitary forces during the JVP insurrection; of Tamil and Singhala mixed origin; son of Manorani Sarawanamuttu
• Rev. Chandra Fernando - Roman Catholic parish priest, human rights activist; Batticaloa Citizens Committee member; murdered
• Rajan Hoole - professor of Department of Mathematics, University of Jaffna; human rights activist; author of books; member of University Teachers for Human Rights
• Kethesh Loganathan - Deputy Secretary General of the Peace Secretariat of the Government of Sri Lanka; assassinated
• Rajini Thiranagama - murdered human rights activist and author of books; head of the Department of Anatomy, University of Jaffna; member of University Teachers for Human Rights
• Chelvy Thiyagarajah - feminist and International PEN award winner

• Sabby Jey- New Zealand, Sri Lankan Tamil actress and model.
• Rukmani Devi - popular film actress
• Suresh Joachim film actor and producer
• Chandran Rutnam - film producer / director

• Ignatius Anandappa - late Sri Lankan international cricket umpire
• Russel Arnold - former Sri Lankan Test cricketer and international commentator
• Roy Dias - former Sri Lankan Test cricketer/vice captain
• Kandiah Thirugnansampandapillai Francis - international Test/ODI umpire
• S. Illangaratnam - late Sri Lankan cricketer, stalwart of Moratuwa and Bloomfield cricket clubs prior to the Test match era and the coach of Bloomfield C&AC
• Pradeep Jayaprakashdaran - Sri Lankan One Day International (ODI) cricket player
• Sridharan Jeganathan - late NCC and Sri Lankan Test cricketer/off spin bowler
• Vinothen John - former NCC and Sri Lankan Test cricketer/opening fast medium bowler
• Angelo Mathews - Sri Lankan all rounder and former captain of the Sri Lankan cricket team
• Selliah Ponnadurai - late international cricket umpire
• Ravindra Pushpakumara - Karupiah Raveendra Pushpakumara, born to a Tamil father and Sinhala mother
• Ravi Ratnayeke (Joseph Raveendran Ratnayeke) - former Sri Lankan vice captain; Tamil-Sinhala mixed
• Mahadevan Sathasivam - cricket batsman
• Mario Villavarayan - former NCC and first class cricketer
• Suthershini Sivanantham - Sri Lankan women's cricketer

• Nagalingam Ethirveerasingam - high jumper; v Olympic Games and Asian Games; winner of Ceylon's first gold medal in international track and field competition (high jump, 1958 Asian Games)
• Sujan Perera, footballer
• Sunil Roshan Appuhamy
• Adhavan Rajamohan, footballer
• Jason Thayaparan, footballer
• Sam Durrant, footballer
• Anujan Rajendram, footballer

• V. Akilesapillai - author, scholar, poet and Hindu activist
• Ananda Coomaraswamy - Orientalist, author, philosopher and metaphysician
• V. V. Ganeshananthan - author, scholar, and professor
• Dominic Jeeva - author and social activist
• S. Kanapathipillai - scholar
• Muttukumara Kavirajar - poet and Hindu activist
• Kumaraswamy Pulavar - scholar, poet and Hindu activist
• D. Raja Segar - painter and sculptor
• Tharshan Selvarajah - chef
• SJ Sindu - author, scholar, and professor
• Alagu Subramaniam - Writer, a prominent figure in London's Bloomsbury literary circle, a Barrister-at-Law of The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn, and an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Ceylon
• C. W. Thamotharampillai - editor and publisher of classical Tamil poetry and grammar; the oldest extant written work in Tamil, Tolkapiyam - Porulathikaram, was discovered and published by him with a commentary

• Ken Balendra - Sri Lankan corporate leader and executive; holds and has held many corporate positions in Sri Lanka and the region
• Chandran Rutnam - filmmaker and owner of Lionair
• Suresh Joachim- is well known as the co-founder of WBBAS, No Poverty No Disease No War, World Peace Marathon and Suresh Joachim International Group Of Companies.

• Yogendra Duraiswamy - first batch of Ceylon Overseas Service, 1949
• Tamara Kunanayakam - Sri Lankan Ambassador to Cuba (2008-2009); Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations Office at Geneva

• Arumaipperumal - Batticaloa chieftain who led a rebellion against the British colonial occupiers in 1803
• Cankili I (Sankili Segarajasekaran) - a prominent king of the Jaffna KingdomKunarasa, K. The Jaffna Dynasty, pp.82-84Gnanaprakasar, S. A critical history of Jaffna, pp.113-117
• Cankili II - last king of the Jaffna kingdomAbeysinghe, T. Jaffna Under the Portuguese, pp.58-63Gnanaprakasar, S. A critical history of Jaffna, pp.153-172
• Migapulle Arachchi - Feudal lord of Jaffna Kingdom who rebelled against the Portuguese colonial occupiers in 1620.
• Pandara Vannian (Kulasegaram Vairamuthu Pandaravanniyan) - Vanni chieftain who challenged British rule

• Sena and Guttika - Tamil horse merchants who ascended the throne in Anuradhapura, 237-215 BC
• Ellalan - ruled Anuradhapura from 205 BC to 161 BC; considered a most impartial and just monarch
• Pulahatta - Tamil king, ruled from Anuradhapura 103 -100 BC
• Bahiya - Tamil king, ruled from Anuradhapura 100-98 BC
• Panya Mara - Tamil king, ruled from Anuradhapura 98-91 BC
• Pilaya Mara - Tamil King, ruled from Anuradapura 91-90 BC
• Dathiya - Tamil King of Anuradhapura 447-450 AD
• Pandu - Tamil king from 436 to 441 BC
• Parindu - son of Pandu, ruled for one year, 441 BC
• Khudda Parinda - brother of Pandu, ruled 441-447 BC
• Tiritara - 447 BC
• Dathiya - 447-450 BC
• Pithiya - 450-452
• Chempaha Perumal - a Jaffna Tamil who ascended the Sinhala throne as King Bhuvanekabahu VI of Kotte

• S. P. Mylvaganam - first Tamil announcer of the Commercial Service of Radio Ceylon
• A. Nadesan - murdered Virakesari newspaper journalist
• M. Nimalrajan - murdered journalist, BBC reporter
• K. S. Raja - Radio Ceylon announcer
• Claude Selveratnam - Radio Ceylon announcer
• Kailayar Sellanainar Sivakumaran - broadcaster and Journalist in English and Tamil
• Taraki Sivaram - journalist, military analyst editor of TamilNet news website, author of books
• J. S. Tissainayagam - journalist and first winner of the Peter Mackler Award for Courageous and Ethical Journalism

• V. Casipillai - Crown Proctor, President of the Jaffna Hindu Board, co-founder of Jaffna Hindu College, founder of Parvathy Maha Vidyalayam and other educational institutions
• Prabaharan Kumararatnam – Sri Lankan judge of the Court of Appeal
• V. Manicavasagar - Puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka, Chancellor of the University of Jaffna and Chairman of the Commercial Bank of Ceylon
• K. Kanag-Isvaran - Lawyer and President's Counsel
• Annalingam Premashankar – Judge of the Court of Appeal
• S. Selliah - Judge of the Court of Appeal, Judge of the High Court, Magistrate
• S. Sharvananda - 37th Chief Justice of Sri Lanka, Puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka and Governor of the Western Province
• K. Sripavan - 44th Chief justice of Sri Lanka
• H. D. Thambiah - Judge of the Court of Appeal, Puisne justice of the Supreme Court and 39th Chief Justice of Sri Lanka
• H. W. Thambiah - Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court

• Velupillai Prabhakaran (Karikalan) - Leader of the LTTE and of the de facto state of Tamil Eelam till 2009.
• Charles Lucas Anthony (Seelan) - senior Tamil Tiger commander
• V. Baheerathakumar (Theepan) - senior Tamil Tiger commander, de facto military leader
• V. Balakumaran - former leader of Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students, later joined the Tamil Tigers
• Anton Balasingham - chief political strategist and chief negotiator for the Tamil Tigers
• S. Chandrakanthan (Pillayan) - Tamil Tiger member, defected to the Sri Lankan Government; Chief Minister of the Eastern Province
• Douglas Devananda - Tiger deserter; former militant turned politician; founder and leader of the Eelam People's Democratic Party political party and a pro-government paramilitary organization; Government Minister and Member of Parliament
• B. Kandiah (Balraj) - senior Tamil Tiger commander
• S. Krishnakumar (Kittu) - senior Tamil Tiger commander
• G. Mahendraraja (Mahattaya) - Deputy Leader of the Tamil Tigers and head of the People's Front of Liberation Tigers
• V. Muralitharan (Karuna Amman) - senior Tamil Tiger commander, defected to the Sri Lankan Government; Government Minister and appointed Member of Parliament
• B. Nadesan - Tamil Tiger political leader
• A. Neminathan (CRaju) - senior Tamil Tiger commander
• R. Parthipan (Thileepan) - Tamil Tiger political wing member who died during a hunger strike
• S. Pathmanathan (KP) - senior Tamil Tiger member; now collaborating with the Sri Lankan government
• Arul Pragasam - founder and leader of Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students
• Thenmozhi Rajaratnam - assassin who killed Rajiv Gandhi
• E. Ratnasabapathy - founder member of Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students
• S. Ravishankar (Charles) - Tamil Tiger military intelligence wing leader
• Sri Sabaratnam - leader of Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization
• T. Sivanesan ( Soosai) - Tamil Tiger Sea Wing leader
• P. Sivaparan (Nediyawan) - senior Tamil Tiger member
• S. Sivashankar (Pottu Amman) - Tamil Tigers Intelligence Wing leader, was number 2 in the organisation
• V. Sornalingam (Shankar) - founder of Sea Tigers and Air Tigers wing of the Tamil Tigers
• S. P. Thamilselvan - Tamil Tiger political leader
• N. Thangathurai - co-founder and leader of Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization
• K. Ulaganathan (Ramanan) - senior Tamil Tiger commander
• V. Vasanthan (Miller) - first Black Tiger
• S. Yogachandran (Kuttimani) - co-founder and leader of Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization

• Air Vice Marshal P.B. Premachandra - former Chief of Staff, Sri Lanka Air Force
• Air Vice Marshal Ravi Arunthavanathan - former Deputy Chief of Staff, Sri Lanka Air Force and current Additional Secretary, Ministry of Defence
• Major General Y. Balaretnarajah, Vishista Seva Vibhushanaya, Uttama Seva Padakkama, National Defence College, India, Sri Lanka Armoured Corps - Chief of Staff, Sri Lanka Army (1992-1992)
• Rear Admiral Rajan Kadiragamar, Royal Victorian Order, Royal Ceylon Navy - former Commander of the Sri Lankan Navy
• Air Vice Marshal A. Kumaresan, Rana Sura Padakkama, Uttama Seva Padakkama, Psc (British Army), Sri Lanka Air Force - current Director of Planning, Sri Lanka Air Force
• Major General Anton Muttukumaru, OBE, Efficiency Decoration; Aide-de-camp, Ceylon Light Infantry; first Ceylonese Commander of the Sri Lanka Army
• Vice Admiral Travis Sinniah, Weera Wickrama Vibhushanaya, Rana Wickrama Padakkama, Rana Sura Padakkama, Uttama Seva Padakkama, ndu - 21st Commander of the Sri Lanka Navy, veteran of attack flotilla
• Major General E. G. Thevanayagam, Vishista Seva Vibhushanaya - Commandant of the Sri Lanka Army Volunteer Force (1984–1986)
• Major General Chelliah Thurairaja, Uttama Seva Padakkama, Sri Lanka Army Medical Corps - former Director Army Medical Services and Colonel Commandant Sri Lanka Army Medical Corps
• Colonel David Rockwood, KStJ, ED, JP - Deputy Commandant of the Volunteer Force

• Selvam Adaikalanathan - President of the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization and Member of Parliament
• A. Amirthalingam - leader of the Tamil United Liberation Front, Leader of the Opposition and Member of Parliament
• V. Anandasangaree - leader of the Tamil United Liberation Front and Member of Parliament
• Sir Ponnambalam Arunachalam CCS - pre-independence politician and civil servant; Registrar General; member of Executive Council of Ceylon; member of Legislative Council of Ceylon
• A. Canagaratnam - member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon, Chairman of the first Urban Council of Jaffna; founder of Canagaratnam Maha Vidyalayam (formerly Stanley College) in Jaffna
• S. J. V. Chelvanayakam - political leader of the Sri Lankan Tamil people; founder and leader of the Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (Federal Party); leader of the Tamil United Liberation Front; Member of Parliament
• A. Coomaraswamy - member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon
• Sir Muthu Coomaraswamy - member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon; first Asian to be knighted; father of author Ananda Coomaraswamy[http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/feb102008/394.pdf Ananda K. Coomaraswamy: From Geology to philosophia perennis]
• Douglas Devananda - Militant turned politician; founder and leader of the Eelam People's Democratic Party paramilitary group; Government Minister and Member of Parliament
• K. W. Devanayagam - former minister, Member of Parliament, lawyer who represented Kalkudah seat
• Waithilingam Duraiswamy - pre-independence Sri Lankan lawyer, politician and speaker of the State Council of Ceylon
• Alfred Duraiappah - Member of Parliament from 1960 to 1964; Mayor of Jaffna
• Jeyaraj Fernandopulle - slain SLFP politician, a Negombo chetty
• Mano Ganesan - leader of the Democratic People's Front political party; Member of Parliament; member of Western Provincial Council
• Praba Ganeshan - MP
• Lakshman Kadirgamar - Minister of Foreign Affairs; nominated Member of Parliament
• N. Kumaraguruparan - General Secretary of Democratic People's Front political party; General Secretary and Senior Vice President of All Ceylon Tamil Congress; member of the Colombo Municipal Council; member of Western Provincial Council
• Sir Arunachalam Mahadeva - Minister of Home Affairs; member of the State Council of Ceylon; member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon
• S. Nadesan - member of the State Council of Ceylon, Member of Parliament, Senator
• Joseph Pararajasingham - Member of Parliament
• C. Ponnambalam - first Mayor of Jaffna
• G. G. Ponnambalam - political leader of the Sri Lankan Tamil people; founder and leader of the All Ceylon Tamil Congress; government minister and Member of Parliament
• Kumar Ponnambalam - Nationalist politician and human rights activist; leader of All Ceylon Tamil Congress; presidential candidate
• Suresh Premachandran - leader of the Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front and Member of Parliament
• Sir Ponnambalam Ramanathan - pre-independence politician and political leader of the Sri Lankan Tamil people; Solicitor General of Ceylon; member of Legislative Council of Ceylon
• N. Raviraj - Member of Parliament
• James T. Rutnam - historian, educationalist, author and politician
• A. Sabapathy - member of Legislative Council of Ceylon; one of the founders of Jaffna Hindu College; editor of Hindu Organ; President of Jaffna Association
• T. M. Sabaratnam - member of Legislative Council of Ceylon; President of the Vattrapalai Kannagi Amman Kovil Trust
• R. Sampanthan - Leader of Tamil National Alliance political party; Member of Parliament
• S. Sellamuttu, OBE - Colombo mayor, 1951
• N. Shanmugathasan - General Secretary of the Ceylon Communist Party (Maoist)
• C. Sittampalam - Minister of Posts and Telecommunications in the first Cabinet of independent Ceylon; Member of Parliament
• S. Sivamaharajah - Member of Parliament; managing director of Namathu Eelanadu
• M. Sivasithamparam - Deputy Speaker of the Parliament
• C. Suntharalingam - Government Minister and Member of Parliament
• Bala Tampoe - veteran trade unionist; General Secretary of the Ceylon Mercantile, Industrial and General Workers Union
• Arumugam Thondaman - leader of the CWC
• S. Thondaman - leader of the Ceylon Workers' Congress, Government Minister, Member of Parliament
• Murugeysen Tiruchelvam - Government Minister and Senator
• Neelan Tiruchelvam - Member of Parliament
• Sir Kanthiah Vaithianathan KBE CCS - Minister for Housing, Industry and Social Service; first Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of External Affairs and Defence (1947–1952); Senator{{cite book |last=Army |first=Sri Lanka |title=Sri Lanka Army, "50 YEARS ON" - 1949-1999 |edition=1st|date=October 1999 |publisher=Sri Lanka Army |location=Colombo |isbn=955-8089-02-8}}
• A. Vinayagamoorthy - President of All Ceylon Tamil Congress and Member of Parliament
• Sarojini Yogeswaran - Mayor of Jaffna
• V. Yogeswaran - co-leader of the Tamil United Liberation Front and Member of Parliament

• Arumuka Navalar - Hindu reformer and author of books from Jaffna
• Swami Vipulananda - Hindu reformer and author of books
• Yogaswami - Hindu ascetic from Jaffna

• Christie Jayaratnam Eliezer - Professor of Mathematics in University of Ceylon, University of Malaya and La Trobe University in Australia; recipient of Order of Australia

• Maha Sinnathamby - property developer; the man behind Australia's largest real estate project; frequently listed in BRW's annual list of the 200 richest Australians

• Kamahl (Kandiah Kamalesvaran) - singer
• Dhee (Dheekshitha Venkadeshan) - singer

• Nishan Velupillay - footballer for Melbourne Victory FC

• Alfred Jeyaratnam Wilson - peacemaker, politician and author of books on Sri Lanka

• Rohan Fernando - filmmaker born in Jaffna[http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=54022 Film Collection – National Film Board of Canada – Blood and Water]
• Lenin M. Sivam - film director; directed the critically acclaimed film 1999
• Maitreyi Ramakrishnan- actress; Never Have I Ever
• Rajiv Surendra - actor, artist and author

• Trevin Bastiampillai - Canadian cricketer
• Manoj David - Canadian cricketer
• Arvind Kandappah - Canadian cricketer
• Sanjayan Thuraisingam - Canadian cricketer
• Suresh Joachim - Multiple Guinness World Record Holder

• Shyam Selvadurai - author of Funny Boy and Cinnamon Gardens
• SJ Sindu - author of Marriage of a Thousand Lies, professor at University of Toronto Scarborough

• Roy Ratnavel - Business executive and the author of the book Prisoner #1056.

• Gary Anandasangaree - MP for Scarborough-Rouge Park
• Vijay Thanigasalam - MPP for Scarborough-Rouge Park
• Logan Kanapathi - MPP for Markham-Thornhill, former Markham City Councillor, first Tamil Canadian elected to political office (2006)
• Neethan Shan - former Toronto City Councillor
• Rathika Sitsabaiesan - former Canadian politician from Toronto; the New Democratic Party (NDP) Member of Parliament for Scarborough-Rouge River; the first Tamil elected to the Canadian Parliament

• Poongkothai Chandrahasan - actress and Harvard-trained filmmaker
• Suresh Joachim - actor, producer, and singer
• Balu Mahendra - prominent Kollywood film director

• V. Kanakasabhai - lawyer, historian and Dravidologist of Sri Lankan Tamil descent

• E. M. V. Naganathan - one of the founders of the Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (Federal Party); Member of Parliament

• Anand Amritraj

• Shan Ratnam - professor and researcher

• Punch Gunalan - former national badminton player and IBF Executive Deputy President
• Mahadevan Sathasivam - former captain of the Malaysian cricket team
• K. Gurusamy - Malaysian Footballer

• Rani Manicka - writer
• Manicasothy Saravanamuttu - editor of The Straits Echo in Malaya (1931–1941); credited with 'saving' Penang during Japanese invasion in 1941; author of The Sara Saga

• Vijay Eswaran - Group MD; CEO of the QI Group of companies
• Tan Sri G. Gnanalingam - executive chairman of Westport; ranked 29th in the 2007 Forbes Asia List of the 40 Richest Malaysians
• Ananda Krishnan - Malaysia's richest man and 62nd Richest Man in the world according to the 2009 Forbes Billionaire List
• Bastianpillai Paul Nicholas - the first non-British businessman who endeavoured to become one of the top bankers in the then Malaya

• Tan Sri Dr Ramon Navaratnam - Malaysian economist

• Tan Sri Devaki Krishnan - former politician
• Sivarasa Rasiah - human rights lawyer and vice-president of the opposition Parti Keadilan Rakyat (People's Justice Party){{cite web |url=http://www.sivarasa4subang.com/site/archives/86 |title=Sivarasa Wins! |access-date=2008-03-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080312011121/http://www.sivarasa4subang.com/site/archives/86 |archive-date=2008-03-12 }}
• D. R. Seenivasagam - founder of People's Progressive Party in Malaysia
• Datuk Dr S Vijayaratnam - former Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia Vice-president

• Philip Jeyaretnam - professor of law; member of Public Service Commission
• Shan Ratnam - former Head of Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at the National University of Singapore

• Edwin Thumboo - poet

• K. S. Rajah - former Supreme Court Judge

• Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam - former Solicitor General and perennial opposition politician of the Workers' Party of Singapore
• Sinnathamby Rajaratnam - politician, deputy prime minister, one of the founding fathers of Singapore
• Tharman Shanmugaratnam - politician and President of Singapore

• Ganesh Sittampalam - Guinness World Record holder as the youngest person in the UK to pass an A-Level in 1988, aged only nine years and four months old at the time
• Sabaratnam Arulkumaran - is a Sri Lankan Tamil physician, former president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, and president-elect of the British Medical Association.
• Maheshi N. Ramasamy - is a British-Sri Lankan physician and lecturer. She is currently working as one of the chief investigators at the Oxford Vaccine Group.

• S. J. Emmanuel - priest, academic, and activist; President of the Global Tamil Forum; Vicar General of the Jaffna Diocese

• Amara Karan, British actress, whose parents moved to the UK from Zambia for work.

• Dimitri Mascarenhas - international cricketer, plays for England; born to Sri Lankan Bharatakula Tamil parents in the UK, brought up in Australia and the UK
• Murugan Thiruchelvam - British child prodigy chess player
• Sam Durrant - Footballer for Connah's Quay Nomads and Sri Lanka. First Sri Lankan Tamil to play professional football in England.
• Vimal Yoganathan - Footballer for Barnsley FC

• Romesh Ranganathan - British comedian and actor from Crawley

• Arjun - recording artist, born to a Tamil father
• M.I.A. (Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam) - British rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and fashion designer
• Siva Kaneswaran - member of the English-Irish boy band The Wanted, born to a Tamil father
• Ashan Pillai- British violist and professor

• George Alagiah - BBC reporter and journalist
• James Coomarasamy - BBC reporter and journalist
• Dharshini David - BBC reporter and journalist
• Tim Kash - MTV and BBC reporter and journalist

• Thangam Debbonaire - Labour Party MP, born to a mixed Indian-Sri Lankan Tamil father
• Dileeni Daniel-Selvaratnam, Governor of Anguilla

• Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah - retired Harvard University professor of anthropology and author of several books

• Mary Anne Mohanraj - Sri Lankan-born writer, editor, and academic

• Kavichandran Alexander (Kavi Alexander) - owner of US record label Water Lily Acoustics; engineer; won 1993 Grammy Award for Ry Cooder's album A Meeting by the River
• Sanjay Kumar - former Chief Executive of Computer Associates
• Kumar Mahadeva - former Chief Executive of Cognizant Technology Solutions
• Raj Rajaratnam - hedge fund manager and the founder and Managing General Partner of The Galleon Group; on Forbes{{'}} Richest Americans List

• Clarence Jey - songwriter and composer for US Late Night host Jimmy Fallon's 2013 Grammy-winning record Blow Your Pants Off; songwriter and producer for Emmy-winning US TV animation series Growing Up Creepie; producer and songwriter for Rebecca Black's viral hit song "Friday"

• V. Rudrakumaran - Prime Minister of the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam

• Tamiliam Subas - film director; directed the critically acclaimed short film Vanni Mouse

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