Mahapitiyage Velin Peter Peiris, OBE, LRCP, FRCS, (28 July 1898 – 26 April 1988) was a Ceylonese orthopaedic surgeon and politician.
He served on the staff of the General Hospital, Colombo, from 1936 to 1960 and in 1951 he was elected the President of the Ceylon Medical Association.
Peiris was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1952 Birthday Honours list.
[3] In March 1965 he was appointed as Minister of Commerce and Trade in the Third Dudley Senanayake cabinet[4][5] In the 1968 cabinet re-shuffle Hugh Fernando was appointed the Minister of Commerce and Trade and Peiris was offered and accepted the position of Ceylon's Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1968 and 1969.
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