Lalitha Rajapakse

Sir Lalitha Abhaya Rajapaksa, QC (born Louis Alexander Rajapakse;[1] 3 May 1900 – 25 May 1976) was a Ceylonese lawyer and politician.

[1] He joined the first batch of students to enter the University College, Colombo, where he was the first cricket captain and won the Obeysekara gold medal in athletics in 1922.

[1][3] On his return to Ceylon 1925, Rajapakse began his legal practice as an advocate in the Unofficial Bar, mainly in civil law in apex courts.

In 1948 he was appointed to the seven member flag committee that consisted of S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, J. R. Jayawardene, John Kotelawala, T. B. Jayah, G. G. Ponnambalam and S.

Their son Bimal, became a barrister from Lincoln's Inn and they had two daughters, Ramani became a proctor and headed the All Ceylon Women's Buddhist Congress and Vineetha who married Jayantha Gunasekera is a President's Counsel.