Colonel Thomas Yates Wright, MBE, VD (1869–1964) was a British planter, who was a cricketer and legislator in Ceylon.
He was an all-round sportsman, playing cricket, Rugby football, hockey and polo.
He represented Matale and Kandy Sports Club at cricket and played for the Up-Country XI from 1893 to 1919.
Lieutenant Wright served in the Second Boer War from 1900 to 1902 with the Ceylon contingent from the CPRC and went on the serve as the commanding officer of the CPRC from July 1904 to February 1912 with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
He owned the Mahakande Estate in which he built a bungalow in 1939 which is now known as Gal Bangalawa.