Kala Suri

{{Short description|Sri Lankan national honour}} {{Infobox order | name = Kala Suri කලා සූරී கலாசூரி | image = | caption = | image2 = | caption2 = | awarded_by = 30px The Government of Sri Lanka | type = Title of honor/Order of merit | established = | ribbon = | motto = | eligibility = Sri Lankan citizens | criteria = Highly notable service to the nation in Art, cinema and music | status = Currently constituted | classes =  | post-nominals = | former_grades = | first_induction = 1986 | last_induction = 2019 | total = | higher = Kala Keerthi | same = | lower = | related = }} The '''Kala Suri''' ({{langx|si|කලා සූරී}}; {{langx|ta|கலாசூரி|translit=Kalācūri}}) is a Sri Lankan national honour awarded "for special contributions to the development of the arts".<ref name=Gunawardena>{{cite book|last=Gunawardena|first=Charles A.|title=Encyclopedia Of Sri Lanka|year=2005|publisher=Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd|page=254|isbn=9781932705485|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hWLQSMPddikC&q=Veera+Chudamani&pg=PA254}}</ref> It is conventionally used as a title or prefix to the awardee's name. Kala Suri ranks lower than Vidya Nidhi.

==Awardees== Awardees include:

;1984 * Arisen Ahubudu

;1991 * Thangamma Appakutty<ref>[https://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=16791 Thangamma Appakutty]</ref>

;1994 *Yolande Abeywira

;1998 * Jiffry Yoonoos<ref name="1998 list">{{cite web|title=Deshamanya for 14 Lankans|url=http://www.sundaytimes.lk/980405/news2.html|publisher=Sundaytimes|access-date=10 July 2013}}</ref> * Parakrama Kodituwakku<ref name="1998 list" /> * Dharmasiri Bandaranayake<ref name="1998 list" /> * G. S. B. Rani<ref name="1998 list" /> * S. A D. D. Samarasekera<ref name="1998 list" /> * D. V. Richard de Silva<ref name="1998 list" /> * Jayalath Manoratne<ref name="1998 list" /> * Tissa Abeysekera<ref name="1998 list" /> * A. Sivanesa Selvan<ref name="1998 list" />

;2005 * Anne Ranasinghe<ref name="2005 list part2">{{cite web|title=National Honours Part 2|url=http://documents.gov.lk/Extgzt/2005/pdf/Nov/1418-8/1418-8e/2.pdf|publisher=Government Press|access-date=10 July 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141230234817/http://documents.gov.lk/Extgzt/2005/pdf/Nov/1418-8/1418-8e/2.pdf|archive-date=30 December 2014}}</ref> * Anoma Rajakaruna<ref name="2005 list part2" /> * Barbara Sansoni Lewcock<ref name="2005 list part2" /> * Chandraguptha Thenuwara<ref name="2005 list part2" /> * Channa Wijewardena<ref name="2005 list part2" /> * Chitra Ranawake<ref name="2005 list part2" /> * Dulip Gabada Mudalige<ref name="2005 list part2" /> * Edward Jayakody<ref name="2005 list part2" /> * H. A. Perera<ref name="2005 list part2" /> * Harsh Makalanda<ref name="2005 list part2" /> * Inoka Sathyangani Keerthinanda<ref name="2005 list part2" /> * Jagath Weerasinghe<ref name="2005 list part2" /> * Janadasa Peiris<ref name="2005 list part2" /> * Latha Walpola<ref name="2005 list part2" /> * M. A. Nuhuman<ref name="2005 list part2" /> * Muhanned Mohideen Abdul Cader<ref name="2005 list part2" /> * Nelum Harasgama Nadaraja<ref name="2005 list part2" /> * Oosha Saravanamuttu<ref name="2005 list part2" /> * Parakrama Niriella<ref name="2005 list part2" /> * Pradeep Chandrasiri<ref name="2005 list part2" /> * Pushpakumara Kandegedara<ref name="2005 list part2" /> * R. Rushankan<ref name="2005 list part2" /> * Rajini Selvanayagam<ref name="2005 list part2" /> * Rohana Baddage<ref name="2005 list part2" /> * Rohanadeva Perera<ref name="2005 list part2" /> * Subramanium Vilvaratnam<ref name="2005 list part2" /> * Sarath Chandrajeewa<ref name="2005 list part2" /> * Somaratne Dissanayake<ref name="2005 list part2" /> * Stanley Omar<ref name="2005 list part2" /> * Sumathy Sivamohan<ref name="2005 list part2" /> * T. Shanathanan<ref name="2005 list part2" /> * Udaya Shantha Fernando<ref name="2005 list part2" />

==References== {{reflist}}{{Honors and decorations of Sri Lanka}}

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