James Cornelius Thomas "Jack" Kotelawala (16 December 1910 – 1992) was a Ceylonese lawyer and politician.
He was recruited to the Youth League by Terence de Zylva and participated in the Suriya-Mal Movement in Kandy.
[3][4] The Badulla electoral district was one of five multi-member constituencies, with two members, the others were Ambalangoda-Balapitiya, Balangoda, Colombo Central and Kadugannawa.
[7] Kotelawala lost the seat to the UNP candidate, B. H. Bandara, at the 4th parliamentary election held on 19 March 1960, when the electorate was changed to a single-member constituency.
Kotelawala joined the Sri Lanka Mahajana Party and served as its president between 1984 and 1992.