Hewananarachchige Ivan Tiddy Dassanayake, OBE (10 March 1910 - ??)
[1] In 1947 Dassanayake was elected to the Parliament of Ceylon at the 1st parliamentary election, in the Wariyapola electorate, representing the United National Party.
[2] Dassanayake successfully retained the seat at the 2nd parliamentary election held in May 1952, where he received 19,622 votes (78.5% of the total vote).
[4] Dassanayake contested both the 4th parliamentary elections in March 1960 and the 5th parliamentary elections in July 1960 but was defeated on both occasions by Adikari.
He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1955 Birthday honours.