Distinguished Wesleyites

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Sir Oliver E Goonetilleke

First Ceylonese Governor General
First High Commissioner to U.K.
First Ceylonese Auditor General
First Leader of the Senate

Sir Claude Corea

The first High Commissioner to U.S.A.

Mr M W H de Silva

The first High Commissioner to India

Sir Don Baron Jayatilaka

First Ceylonese Leader of the State Council

Sir Gerard Wijekoon

First President of the Senate

Sir Mohammed Macan Markar

First Muslim Knight

M A M Sheriff

First Ceylonese to win the Athletics Blue at Oxford University

Lou Adhihetty

First Ceylonese to win the Hockey Blue at either Cambridge or Oxford (at Cambridge).

Mr Mahadevan Sathasivam

First in the world to captain two countries in Cricket (Malaya and Ceylon)

H S Ismail

First Muslim Speaker of the House of Representatives

E Elmar Mack

First in the world in the Cambridge Junior examination, obtaining 6 distinctions.

H J V Ekanayake

Fist in the world in Drawing in the Cambridge Senior, with a Distinction

Prof. E F C Ludowyk

First in the Latham Prize at Cambridge 3 times (every time he sat for it).

Air Vice Marshall E R Amerasekera DFC and Bar

First Sri Lankan to command the Sri Lankan Air Force.

M H Mohamed

First Muslim Mayor of Colombo