Sir Arthur Marcelles de Silva, KCMG, KBE, FRCS (5 November 1879 - 22 September 1957) was a Ceylonese surgeon.
Born to Mudaliyar William Marcellus De Silva, he was educated at the Royal College, Colombo.
Having missed by four marks the Ceylon Government University Scholarship for Oxbridge study in classics in 1898, he shifted to study in medicine and attended the London Hospital Medical College, becoming the first Ceylonese postgraduate student to gain Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (MRCS) and Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians (LRCP) in 1903.
He was the first Ceylonese to gain Fellowship Royal College of Surgeons of England (FRCS) in December 1906.
[1] Having practiced as an assistant to a general practitioner in the West End of London, he returned to Ceylon in 1907 joined the Colombo General Hospital as a junior physician and thereafter a surgeon and was promoted to senior surgeon in 1930.