John Edmund Amaratunga was a Ceylonese planter, lawyer and politician.
[1][2] In October 1929 he enrolled at Lincoln's Inn and on 18 November 1933 was called to the bar as a barrister.
[3][4] In 1939 he was appointed as the secretary of the Ceylon National Congress and the following years as treasurer.
[5] He was elected to parliament at the 2nd parliamentary election held in May 1952, representing the United National Party in the Mirigama electorate.
[6] He was unsuccessful in retaining seat at the 3rd parliamentary election held in April 1956, where he was defeated by 25,297 votes by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party candidate, Vimala Wijewardene.