Kirthi Nissanka Seneviratne (22 November 1929 - 10 August 1986) was a Sri Lankan academic and physician.
He was a Professor of Physiology and founding director of Sri Lanka's Postgraduate Institute of Medicine.
[1][2] He was educated at the Royal College, Colombo, where he won the Arunachchalam Prize, and graduated with a MBBS with honours in 1954 from the University of Ceylon, Colombo and went on to gain his PhD from the University of Edinburgh.
Joining the academic staff of the University of Ceylon's Medical Faculty in 1957 as a demonstrator, he went on to become a Professor of Physiology.
He was also a reservist Captain in the Sri Lanka Army.