1986 Sri Lankan national honours
# 1986 Sri Lankan national honours

On 4th February 1986, President of Sri Lanka J. R. Jayewardene awarded the first Sri Lankan national honours since the suspension of Imperial honors in 1956.

## Sri Lankabhimanya

* Ranasinghe Premadasa - Prime Minister of Sri Lanka

## Deshamanya

* P. R. Anthonis – surgeon and academic
* Gamani Corea – economist, civil servant and diplomat
* M. C. M. Kaleel
* Malage George Victor Perera Wijewickrama Samarasinghe
* Miliani Sansoni – Chief Justice of Ceylon
* Victor Tennekoon – Chief Justice of Ceylon

## Deshabandu

* Ahangamage Tudor Ariyaratne
* Hewa Komanage Dharmadasa
* Norendradas Jayaratnam Wallooppillai
* Daphne Attygalle
* Wimala de Silva
* Arulanandam Yesuadian Samuel Gnanam
* David Edwin Hettiarachchi
* Dhamital Senakumar Jayasundera
* Clara Motwani
