Cholomondeley de Fonseka Goonewardene (චොල්මොණ්ඩලේ ද නොව චමලි ද නොව චම්ලි) (16 September 1917 – 25 November 2006) was a prominent Sri Lankan politician, Member of Parliament, and cabinet minister.
He later qualified as an advocate and started his legal practice in Unofficial Bar in Kalutara in 1946.
[2] He was one of the early members of the Marxist Lanka Sama Samaja Party – the first political party in Sri Lanka- and founded its Kalutara Branch in 1937 and in 1940 he was elected to the Kalutara Urban Council.
[3] Giving up his legal practice, Goonewardene took up full time political work.
[4] In June 1964 he was appointed Minister of Works in the First Sirimavo Bandaranaike cabinet.