Eric Bird Wikramanayake, QC was a Ceylonese statesman and lawyer.
He was the Minister of Justice in the cabinet of Prime Minister Sir John Kotelawala and a member of the Senate of Ceylon.
[1] A successful lawyer[2] he was appointed a King's Counsel in 1948 and had been educated at S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia.
He led the appeal of those convicted in the Bandaranaike assassination.
[3] Wikramanayake was founder President of the Wildlife Protection Society of Sri Lanka[4] and served on the Board of Governors of S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia.