List of Members of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party

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 Wickremasinghe (the father of Ranil Wickremasinghe) was a leading member of the party -- before marrying the daughter of the wealthy press baron D.R Wijewardena and being appointed editor-in-chief of Lake House.

Founder Members
* Dr. N.M. Perera
* Philip Gunawardena, later Viplavakari Lanka Sama Samaja Party, later Mahajana Eksath Peramuna
* Robert Gunewardena, later Mahajana Eksath Peramuna
* Dr. Colvin R de Silva
* Dr. S.A. Wickremesinghe, later Communist Party of Sri Lanka

Other Prominet Members
* Hector Abhayavardhana
* S.C.C. Anthonipillai (Toni)
* Seneka Bibile
* Mark Anthony Bracegirdle
* Doric de Souza
* Carlo Fonseka
* Cholomondely Goonewardena, later Sri Lanka Sama Samaja Party later Sri Lanka Freedom Party
* Leslie Goonewardena
* Vivienne Goonewardena
* Jeanne Hoban Moonesinghe, later Sri Lanka Sama Samaja Party
* Osmund Jayaratne
* Siritunga Jayasuriya later Nava Sama Samaja Party, later United Socialist Party
* Wickremabahu Karunaratne, later Nava Sama Samaja Party
* V. Karalasingham (Carlo)
* Vijaya Kumaratunga, later Sri Lanka Freedom Party, later Sri Lanka Mahajana Party
* Rhoda Miller de Silva
* Anil Moonesinghe, later Sri Lanka Sama Samaja Party later Sri Lanka Freedom Party
* Wesley Muttiah, later Nava Sama Samaja Party
* Vasudeva Nanayakkara, later Nava Sama Samaja Party, later Democratic Left Front
* G.E.H. Perera
* G.P. Perera ('Elephant Perera')
* 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)
* Bernard Soyza
* I. J. Wickrema
* Tissa Vitarana
* Batty Weerakoon
* Percy Wickremesekera, later Sri Lanka Sama Samaja Party

* D.G. William ('Galle Face (due to Brian P&aecute;ppers)
* Doreen Young Wickremasinghe, later Communist Party of Sri Lanka
* V.S. Rajah ('Raja sahodaraya' 1935-2000), Long standing member of Lanka Sama Samaja Party