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Ananda College (Sinhala: ආනන්ද විද්‍යාලය) is a national school for boys, with a student population exceeding 7,000 across 13 grades from primary to secondary classes, on a campus of in Maradana, Colombo. [1]

47 relations: A. P. de Zoysa, Annual general meeting, Arjuna Ranatunga, Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Thero, Buddhism, C. Suntharalingam, Charles Webster Leadbeater, Colombo, Cricket, Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa, D. J. Wimalasurendra, Dhammapada, Dinesh Chandimal, Don Baron Jayatilaka, Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera, Henry Steel Olcott, Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Thera, Lionel Ranwala, List of Ananda College alumni, Maradana, Marvan Atapattu, Nalanda College, Colombo, National school (Sri Lanka), Nimal Rajapakshe, Patrick de Silva Kularatne, Pettah, Sri Lanka, Polwatte Buddhadatta Thera, R. A. Chandrasena, Ratnasiri Wickremanayake, Ravindra Fernando, S. Mahinda, Sagara Palansuriya, Sarath Fonseka, Sidath Wettimuny, Sinhala Kingdom, Sinhalese language, Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka national cricket team, Sumedha Chandana Wirasinghe, Tuan Burhanudeen Jayah, Twenty20, V. K. Samaranayake, W. S. Karunaratne, Wasantha Karannagoda, Wisden Cricketers of the Year, 1996 Cricket World Cup.

A. P. de Zoysa

Agampodi Paulus de Zoysa (5 April 1890 – 26 May 1968) was a Sri Lankan social reformer and a Buddhist scholar.

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Annual general meeting

An annual general meeting (commonly abbreviated as AGM, also known as the annual meeting) is a meeting of the general membership of an organization.

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Arjuna Ranatunga

Deshamanya Arjuna Ranatunga (අර්ජුන රණතුංග; born 1 December 1963) is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and 1996 Cricket World Cup winning captain for Sri Lanka.

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Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Thero

Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Thero (අග්ග මහා පණ්ඩිත බලංගොඩ ආනන්ද මෛත්‍රෙය මහනාහිමි;23 August 1896 – 18 July 1998) was a Sri Lankan scholar Buddhist monk and a personality of Theravada Buddhism in the twentieth century.

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Buddhism

Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.

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C. Suntharalingam

Chellappah Suntharalingam (செல்லப்பா சுந்தரலிங்கம்; 19 August 1895 – 11 February 1985) was a Ceylon Tamil academic, politician, Member of Parliament and government minister.

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Charles Webster Leadbeater

Charles Webster Leadbeater (16 February 1854 – 1 March 1934) was a member of the Theosophical Society, author on occult subjects and co-initiator with J. I. Wedgwood of the Liberal Catholic Church.

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Colombo

Colombo (translit,; translit) is the commercial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka.

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Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular pitch with a target at each end called the wicket (a set of three wooden stumps upon which two bails sit).

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Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa

Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa (16 December 1875, Sri Lanka–18 June 1953, United States) was an author, occultist, freemason and theosophist.

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D. J. Wimalasurendra

Devapura Jayasena Wimalasurendra (17 September 1874 - 10 August 1953) was a Sri Lankan engineer and statesman.

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Dhammapada

The Dhammapada (Pāli; धम्मपद Dhammapada) is a collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form and one of the most widely read and best known Buddhist scriptures.

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Dinesh Chandimal

Lokuge Dinesh Chandimal (දිනේෂ් චන්දිමාල්; born 18 November 1989) is a professional Sri Lankan cricketer and the current captain for Sri Lanka in Test cricket, and a former captain in the ODI and T20 formats.

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Don Baron Jayatilaka

Sir Don Baron Jayatilaka (Sinhala:ශ්‍රීමත් දොන් බාරොන් ජයතිලක; 13 February 1868 – 29 May 1944) known as D.B. Jayatilaka was a Sri Lankan educationalist, statesmen and diplomat.

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Gotabhaya Rajapaksa

Lieutenant Colonel Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa, RWP, RSP, psc, GR (ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ) (born 20 June 1949) is a retired officer of the Sri Lanka Army, a former Secretary to Ministry of Defence and Urban Development of Sri Lanka.

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Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera

Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera, OBE, JP (8 November 1899 – 23 April 1973) was a Sri Lankan academic, scholar and diplomat best known for his Malalasekara English-Sinhala Dictionary.

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Henry Steel Olcott

Colonel Henry Steel Olcott (2 August 1832 – 17 February 1907) was an American military officer, journalist, lawyer and the co-founder and first President of the Theosophical Society.

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Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Thera

Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Thera (හික්කඩුවේ ශ්‍රි සුමංගල නාහිමි; 20 January 1827 – 29 April 1911) was a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk, who was one of the pioneers of Sri Lankan Buddhist revivalist movement in the 19th century.

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Lionel Ranwala

Lionel Ranwala (ලයනල් රන්වල), (27 November 1939 – 13 November 2002) was a musician and a singer in Sri Lanka and a legend in Sri Lankan folk music.

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List of Ananda College alumni

This is a list of Anandians, alumni of the Ananda College, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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Maradana

Maradana is a suburb of Colombo city, Sri Lanka.

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Marvan Atapattu

Deshabandu Marvan Samson Atapattu (born 22 November 1970 in Kalutara) is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and former Sri Lankan captain, who played Tests and ODIs for seventeen years for Sri Lanka.

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Nalanda College, Colombo

Nalanda College (Sinhala: නාලන්දා විද්‍යාලය) is a national school in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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National school (Sri Lanka)

A National school (ජාතික පාසල, Jathika Pasala, தேசியப் பாடசாலை) in Sri Lanka is a school that is funded and administered by the Ministry of Education of the central government as opposed to Provincial schools run by the local provincial council.

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Nimal Rajapakshe

Nimal Rajapakse is a Sri Lankan-born academic who lives in Canada.

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Patrick de Silva Kularatne

Panis (Patrick) de Silva Kularatne (31 March 1893 – 16 November 1976) (known as P de S Kularatne) was an educationist and politician of Sri Lanka.

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Pettah, Sri Lanka

Pettah is a neighbourhood in Colombo, Sri Lanka located east of the City centre Fort.

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Polwatte Buddhadatta Thera

The Venerable Ambalangoda Polwatte Buddhadatta Mahanayake Thera (A. P. Buddhadatta) (1887–1962) was a Theravada Buddhist monk and a professor of Buddhist philosophy at Vidyalankara University.

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R. A. Chandrasena

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Ratnasiri Wickremanayake

Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (රත්නසිරි වික්‍රමනායක, ரத்னசிறி விக்கிரமநாயக்க; 5 May 1933 – 27 December 2016) was a Sri Lankan politician who was Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 2000 to 2001 and again from 2005 to 2010.

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Ravindra Fernando

Ravindra Fernando is a Sri Lankan forensic pathologist, toxicologist, physician, author and academic.

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S. Mahinda

Sikkim Mahinda, commonly known as S. Mahinda, was a Buddhist monk from the state of Sikkim.

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Sagara Palansuriya

Palansuriya Mohottalalage Dingiri Mahaththaya (පලන්සුරිය මොහොට්ටාලලාගේ ඩිංගිරි මහත්තයා) or Kalalelle Ananda Sagara (KAS / Kayes) (කළල්ඇල්ලේ ආනන්ද සාගර (කේයස්)) or Sagara Palansuriya (සාගර පලන්සූරිය) as he was known in his late life, was a poet, teacher and a member of parliament.

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Sarath Fonseka

Field Marshal Gardihewa Sarath Chandralal Fonseka, RWP, RSP, VSV, USP, MP, rcds, psc (ගර්දිහේවා සරත් චන්ද්‍රලාල් ෆොන්සේකා, சரத் பொன்சேகா; born 18 December 1950), commonly known as Sarath Fonseka, is a Sri Lankan politician and senior military officer, being the first Sri Lankan Army officer to be promoted to the rank of Field Marshal.

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Sidath Wettimuny

Sidath Wettimuny is a former Sri Lankan cricketer, who played Test cricket and One Day Internationals as an opening batsman from 1982 to 1987.

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Sinhala Kingdom

The Sinhala Kingdom or Sinhalese Kingdom refers to the successive Sinhalese kingdoms that existed in what is today Sri Lanka.

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Sinhalese language

Sinhalese, known natively as Sinhala (සිංහල; siṁhala), is the native language of the Sinhalese people, who make up the largest ethnic group in Sri Lanka, numbering about 16 million.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා; Tamil: இலங்கை Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea.

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Sri Lanka national cricket team

The Sri Lanka national cricket team, nicknamed The Lions, is a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test, One-Day International (ODI) and T20 International status.

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Sumedha Chandana Wirasinghe

Sumedha Chandana Wirasinghe is a Sri Lanka born academic who currently lives in Canada.

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Tuan Burhanudeen Jayah

Tuan Burhanuddin Jayah (1 January 1890 – 31 May 1960), was a Sri Lankan educationalist, politician, diplomat and Muslim community leader.

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Twenty20

Twenty20 cricket, sometimes written Twenty-20, and often abbreviated to T20, is a short form of cricket.

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V. K. Samaranayake

Vidya Jyothi V. K. Samaranayake, MBCS, MCS(SL), FNASSL, MIEEE (Sinhala:වී.කේ.සමරනායක) (1939 – 6 June 2007) pioneered computing & IT development industry and usage in Sri Lanka and thus considered as the "Father of Information Technology" in Sri Lanka.

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W. S. Karunaratne

Wijesinghe Sugathadasa Karunaratne (24 December 1928 – 1986) was a well known Buddhist scholar and a fiercely independent thinker.

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Wasantha Karannagoda

Admiral Wasantha Karannagoda RSP, VSV, USP, MBA, MSc, ndc, psc, DISS, MRIN, MNI, SLN was the Commander of the Sri Lankan Navy and former Sri Lankan Ambassador to Japan.

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Wisden Cricketers of the Year

The Wisden Cricketers of the Year are cricketers selected for the honour by the annual publication Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, based primarily on their "influence on the previous English season".

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1996 Cricket World Cup

The 1996 Cricket World Cup, also called the Wills World Cup 1996 after its official sponsors, ITC's Wills brand, was the sixth Cricket World Cup, organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ananda_College

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