Vice Admiral A. H. Asoka de Silva, VSV (1931 – 22 December 2006) was the Commander of the Sri Lanka Navy from 1983 to 1986.

During this time he received specialized training in communication at HMS Mercury, thereafter attended the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.

He was the Naval Officer-in Charge of Trincomalee when he was promoted to the rank of captain on 1 June 1973, after which he was the Master of MV Lanka Kanthi of the Ceylon Shipping Corporation in 1975.

With the escalation of the Sri Lankan Civil War, Admiral de Silva was concurrently appointed Coordinating Officer of the District of Trincomalee and later commander-in-chief of the Joint Services Special Operations (JOSSOP), with its Command Headquarters established in Vavuniya with responsible for the districts of Mannar, Vavuniya, Mullativu and Trincomalee.

Following his tenor as Ambassador, he served as a consultant to the Jamaica Maritime Training Institute and returned to Sri Lanka in 1994.