Deshamanya Chandana Aelian Coorey, SLAS (March 18, 1921 - ) was a Sri Lankan civil servant.
There he read natural philosophy, and graduated First Class degree in chemistry in 1943 from the University of London winning the gold medal, and was selected for a government scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford.
During his tenor, he introduced a program budgeting in the preparation of the estimates, whereby the programme of expenditure was published by every government department.
He held to post until 1975 and retired from the Sri Lankan Administrative Service.
He was married to his wife Lakshmi and had four children Dilrukshi, Mohan, Anura and Sharmini.