Gate Mudaliyar Abraham Mendis Gunasekera (1869–1931) was a leading literary figure in Ceylon.
He had served as an Interpreter Mudaliyar to the Registrar General of Ceylon.
Gunasekera produced a Sinhalese grammar as well as Sinhalese-English and English-Sinhalese dictionaries.
[1] He is the grandfather of the famous Sri Lankan construction engineer U.N. Gunasekera.
A. Mendis Gunasekera: "A Comprehensive Grammar of the Sinhalese Language", 1891 (first edition), reprinted 1962, Sri Lanka Sahitya Mandalaya Colombo.