Victor Garvin Weerawardana Ratnayake MBE (10 August 1908 – 10 April 1994) was a Sri Lankan tea planter and politician.
[1] Victor Garvin Weerawardana Ratnayake was born on 10 August 1908, at Pallegama Deniyaya, the eldest son of a tea plantation owner and popular philanthropist, Muhandiram A.
He educated at Mahinda and Ananda Colleges before attending the Peradeniya Farm School, where he obtained first class honours certificate.
[2] On 28 October 1938, he married Olivia Beatrice née Werasekera, with whom they had four children, three daughters and one son: Githangeli, Subadra Lakshirni, Suwenethi Priyadharshini and Senaka Kumar Upatissa.
[7] Ratnayake also served as the Chairman of the Morawaka Korale Planters Association and was an active member on the Board of Management of the Tea Research Institute Talawakelle.