This following article is a list of prominent members of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party. Members of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP), a Marxist, Trotskyist, socialist party in Sri Lanka. Some of the people listed below may only briefly have been in the LSSP. A large proportion of the leadership of the Left in Sri Lanka started their political lives in the LSSP. This is even true of the political right; for example, Esmond Wickremesinghe (the father of Ranil Wickremasinghe) was a leading member of the party before he married the daughter of the wealthy press baron D.R Wijewardena and being appointed editor-in-chief of Lake House. Founder Members Colvin R de Silva Leslie Goonewardene Philip Gunawardena, later Viplavakari Lanka Sama Samaja Party, later Mahajana Eksath Peramuna N. M. Perera Selina Perera Other Prominent Members Tissa Abeysekara Hector Abhayavardhana S. C. C. Anthony Pillai (Toni) Seneka Bibile Mark Anthony Bracegirdle Doric de Souza Carlo Fonseka Cholomondeley Goonewardene, later Sri Lanka Sama Samaja Party later Sri Lanka Freedom Party Vivienne Goonewardena Robert Gunawardena, later Mahajana Eksath Peramuna Jeanne Hoban, later Sri Lanka Sama Samaja Party Osmund Jayaratne Siritunga Jayasuriya later Nava Sama Samaja Party, later United Socialist Party V. Karalasingham (Carlo) Wickremabahu Karunaratne, later Nava Sama Samaja Party Vijaya Kumaratunga, later Sri Lanka Freedom Party, later Sri Lanka Mahajana Party M. G. Mendis Rhoda Miller de Silva Anil Moonesinghe, later Sri Lanka Sama Samaja Party later Sri Lanka Freedom Party Wesley Muttiah, later Nava Sama Samaja Party Vasudeva Nanayakkara, later Nava Sama Samaja Party, later Democratic Left Front G. E. H. Perera G. P. Perera ('Elephant Perera') V. S. Rajah ('Raja sahodaraya' 1935-2000), Long standing member of Lanka Sama Samaja Party Edmund Samarakkody, later Lanka Sama Samaja Party (Revolutionary), later Revolutionary Workers Party Reginald Senanayake ('Reggie') Wilfred Senanayake, later Sri Lanka Sama Samaja Party later Sri Lanka Freedom Party Regi Siriwardena (Hamid or Hameed) Bernard Soyza Kusala Abhayavardhana Tissa Vitharana Batty Weerakoon S. A. Wickramasinghe, later Communist Party of Sri Lanka I. J. Wickrema Percy Wickremasekera, later Sri Lanka Sama Samaja Party D. G. William ('Galle Face William') P. D. Wimalasena (General Secretary of LSSP Trade Union Federation) Doreen Young Wickremasinghe, later Communist Party of Sri Lanka Lists of Sri Lankan politicians