Perampalam Kanagasabapathy (1923–1977) was a Ceylon Tamil mathematician, academic and dean of the Faculty of Science at the Jaffna Campus of the University of Sri Lanka.
[1] He was the son of Iyampillai Perampalam from Erlalai in northern Ceylon.
[1] He then went to the University of Cambridge, graduating with a master's degree in mathematics.
[1] He joined the Jaffna Campus of the University of Sri Lanka in October 1974 as a professor of mathematics.
[1] He was head of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and dean of the Faculty of Science at the Jaffna campus from October 1974 to January 1977.