Philip Gunawardena

Hon.
Philip Gunawardena
Minister of Fisheries and Industry
In office
1965–1970
MonarchElizabeth II
Prime MinisterDudley Senanayake
Preceded byW. J. C. Munasinha
Succeeded byGeorge Rajapaksa
Minister of Agriculture and Food
In office
1956–1959
MonarchElizabeth II
Prime MinisterS. W. R. D. Bandaranaike
Preceded byJ. R. Jayewardene
Succeeded byC. P. de Silva
Member of the Ceylon Parliament
for Avissawella
In office
1956–1970
Preceded byKusumasiri Gunawardena
Succeeded byBonnie Jayasuriya
In office
1947–1947
Succeeded byKusumasiri Gunawardena
Personal details
Born(1901-01-11)11 January 1901
Boralugoda, Avissawella, British Ceylon
Died26 March 1972(1972-03-26) (aged 71)
Colombo, Dominion of Ceylon
NationalitySri Lankan
Political partyMahajana Eksath Peramuna
Other political
affiliations		Lanka Sama Samaja Party
SpouseKusumasiri Gunawardena
ChildrenIndika Gunawardena,
Prasanna Gunawardena,
Lakmali Gunawardena,
Dinesh Gunawardena,
Gitanjana Gunawardena
Alma materPrince of Wales' College, Moratuwa
Ananda College
University of Colombo
University of Illinois
OccupationPolitician

Don Philip Rupasinghe Gunawardena (11 January 1901 – 26 March 1972) was a Sri Lankan Marxist politician and leftist. A founder of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, the first political party in Ceylon which was known for having introduced Trotskyism, he later founded the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (along with William de Silva) and was called 'the Father of Socialism' and 'the Lion of Boralugoda'. A member of the State Council of Ceylon and the Parliament of Ceylon, he served as the Minister of Agriculture and food under S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike from 1956 to 1959 and as Minister of Industries and Fisheries in the national government under Dudley Senanayake from 1965 to 1970.

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