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
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
References
- ^ a b c d e f "National Awards". President of Sri Lanka Secretariat. Archived from the original on 26 January 2017. Retrieved 9 July 2013.