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COLOMBO

Most Famous People Born in Colombo, Sri Lanka

Notable people

732

Peak decade

1990s

Median birth year

1967

Most distinctive

Cricket 36.5×

Colombo is essentially a cricket ground with a harbor attached — the sport runs at better than thirty-six times the global baseline, among the most dominant professions on the entire site, and Sri Lankan Test teams have been drafted from the school grounds of Colombo-7 since independence. The Beauty Pageant count and the colonial-era Judge and Diplomat benches tell you the rest: a small anglophone elite that still runs the law courts, the foreign service and the Sunday society pages.