List of St. Sylvester's College alumni

|International cricket and hockey player

|[https://archives.sundayobserver.lk/2012/09/02/spo08.asp] Anura Ranasinghe - won Observer Schoolboy Cricket Award twice - 1974 and 1975

| Vice-Chancellor of University of Peradeniya (2009–2012)

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|Internationally reputed painter and sculptor - awarded “Cavaliere of the Order of Merit" (knighthood) by the Italian Government.

|{{Cite web |title=Artscope |url=http://archives.dailynews.lk/2005/08/31/arts01.htm |access-date=2022-10-12 |website=archives.dailynews.lk}}

| Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka (2013–present), Deputy Solicitor General (?-2013)

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| 1964 Olympic welterweight boxer, boxing referee (1944 –)

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| Ceylon national football team player (1961 – 1968)

| style="text-align:center;" |{{Cite web|first=Subhani|last=Hassimdeen|url=http://www.sundaytimes.lk/140615/sports/legends-of-sri-lanka-soccer-103436.html|title=Legends of Sri Lanka soccer|website=The Sundaytimes|date=15 June 2014|access-date=31 May 2024}}

| Admiral - Commander of the Navy (2012 – 2014)

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| Director-General of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (1998 – )

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| Governor of North Eastern Province (1993 – 1994)

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| Member of Parliament - Matara (2010–present)

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| Governor of Central Province (2005 – 2015)

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| Member of Parliament - Kandy (2015–present)

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| Member of Parliament - National List (1977-1989), Ambassador to Maldives, Ambassador to Italy

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| Member of Parliament - (1977-1989), Ambassador to Jordan (2011-2015)

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| Member of Parliament - Kegalle (1989-1994)

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| Filmmaker and actor (1934-1983)

| style="text-align:center;" |{{Cite web |title=Kingsley Rajapaksa ignited the cinema with Deepashika |url=http://www.sarasaviya.lk/features/2019/04/25/4781/සිනමාවේ-දීපශිඛාව-දැල්-වූ-කිංස්ලි-රාජපක්ෂ |access-date=2021-02-20 |website=Sarasaviya|date=24 April 2019 }}

| General - Chief of Staff Sri Lankan Army; first General Officer Commanding the Joint Operations Command; Secretary of Defence

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| Chief Minister of Uva Province (1988-1998), Member of Parliament - Welimada (1965-1970, 1977-1989)

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| Vice-Chancellor of Sabaragamuwa University (2014-2017)

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| Member of Parliament - National List (2015–present)

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| Major general, Brigade Commander, 51-4 Brigade

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| Member of Parliament - National List (2015–present)

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| Judge of the Court of Appeal of Sri Lanka (2020–present)

| style="text-align:center;" | {{Cite web |last=Farzan |first=Zulfick |date=2020-12-01 |title=President appoints new judges to the Supreme Court & Court of Appeal |url=https://www.newsfirst.lk/2020/12/01/president-appoints-new-judges-to-the-supreme-court-court-of-appeal |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240916161347/https://www.newsfirst.lk/2020/12/01/president-appoints-new-judges-to-the-supreme-court-court-of-appeal |archive-date=2024-09-16 |access-date=2025-02-22 |website=english.newsfirst.lk |language=en}}

| 20th Commander of the Air Force (2025–present)

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