Deshabandu
Deshabandhu is the third highest national honour awarded in Sri Lanka. It is awarded "for meritorious service". It is conventionally used as a title or prefix to the awardee's name. Deshabandhu ranks lower than Deshamanya.
Awardees
Awardees include:
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
Bulathsinhelage Sirisena Cooray
James Ernest Ivan Corea
Albert Edirisinghe
Don Jinadasa Attygalle
Siva Chinnatamby
Lena Charlotte Fernando
Mohamed Thassim Ahamed Furkhan
Sathischandra Jayasinghe
Abeysiri Mendis Munasinghe
Abdul Haleem Sheriffdeen
Franciskuhettige Gerald Hudson Silva
Samuel Jeyarajah Stephen
Victor Garwin Weerawardhana Ratnayake
Michael Tissera
Wickramasinghage Wimaladasa
Velu Annamalai
Mohamed Mohideen Mohamed Abdul Cader
Nuwarapaksa Hewayalage Keerthiratne
Sembukuttiarachchige Bertram Silva
