List of members of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party

This following article is a list of prominent members of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party. Members of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP), a Marxist, Trotskyist, socialist party in Sri Lanka. Some of the people listed below may only briefly have been in the LSSP. A large proportion of the leadership of the Left in Sri Lanka started their political lives in the LSSP. This is even true of the political right; for example, Esmond Wickremesinghe (the father of Ranil Wickremasinghe) was a leading member of the party before he married the daughter of the wealthy press baron D.R Wijewardena and being appointed editor-in-chief of Lake House.

Founder Members

• Colvin R de Silva
• Leslie Goonewardene
• Philip Gunawardena, later Viplavakari Lanka Sama Samaja Party, later Mahajana Eksath Peramuna
• N. M. Perera
• Selina Perera

Other Prominent Members

• Tissa Abeysekara
• Hector Abhayavardhana
• Kusala Abhayavardhana
• S. C. C. Anthony Pillai (Toni)
• Seneka Bibile
• Mark Anthony Bracegirdle
• Doric de Souza
• Carlo Fonseka
• Cholomondeley Goonewardene, later Sri Lanka Sama Samaja Party later Sri Lanka Freedom Party
• Vivienne Goonewardena
• Robert Gunawardena, later Mahajana Eksath Peramuna
• Jeanne Hoban, later Sri Lanka Sama Samaja Party
• Osmund Jayaratne
• Siritunga Jayasuriya later Nava Sama Samaja Party, later United Socialist Party
• V. Karalasingham (Carlo)
• Wickremabahu Karunaratne, later Nava Sama Samaja Party
• Vijaya Kumaratunga, later Sri Lanka Freedom Party, later Sri Lanka Mahajana Party
• M. G. Mendis
• Anil Moonesinghe, later Sri Lanka Sama Samaja Party later Sri Lanka Freedom Party
• Vasudeva Nanayakkara, later Nava Sama Samaja Party, later Democratic Left Front
• Edmund Samarakkody, later Lanka Sama Samaja Party (Revolutionary), later Revolutionary Workers Party
• Wilfred Senanayake, later Sri Lanka Sama Samaja Party later Sri Lanka Freedom Party
• Regi Siriwardena (Hamid or Hameed)
• Tikiri Banda Subasinghe
• Tissa Vitharana
• Batty Weerakoon
• S. A. Wickramasinghe, later Communist Party of Sri Lanka
• I. J. Wickrema
• Percy Wickremasekera, later Sri Lanka Sama Samaja Party
• Doreen Young Wickremasinghe, later Communist Party of Sri Lanka