Famous People with Name Ponnambalam

Ponnambalam Kumaraswamy            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Ponnambalam Kumaraswamy: was a leading hydrologist from India[1][2]. He was elected a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1972[3] although his only formal education was a Civil Engineering degree from College of Engineering, Guindy, University of Madras. Before his death in 1988, at 57 years old, he was the only one to have received both the Homi Bhabha Fellowship 1967-69[4] (he spent his time at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts doing research in Groundwater modeling) and the Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship 1975-77, two of the country's top research awards.

Kumar Ponnambalam            Origin/Culture/Country: Sri-Lankan

Kumar Ponnambalam: was a prominent defence lawyer and a controversial minority Tamil nationalist politician from Sri Lanka. He was shot dead by unknown gunmen immediately after a suspected LTTE suicide bomb attack against the then president Chandrika Kumaratunga.[1]Kumar Ponnambalam was born in capital city of Colombo to an affluent and politically influential minority Sri Lankan Tamil family. His father G. G. Ponnambalam was also a prominent defense attorney and the leader of All Ceylon Tamil Congress, a party that was at times an ally of the ruling majority Sinhalese dominated United National Party in opposition to the Tamil Nationalistic tone of other Tamil political parties.[2]

Ganapathipillai Gangaser Ponnambalam            Origin/Culture/Country: Sri-Lankan

Ganapathipillai Gangaser Ponnambalam: was a Sri Lankan Tamil politician in British Ceylon, and then after independence, in Ceylon. He founded the first Sri Lankan Tamil political party, the All Ceylon Tamil Congress. Ponnambalam stood for the principle of minority representation.G.G. Ponnambalam’s parents were both from the northernmost part of the island, Jaffna District, his father Gangesar was a postmaster from Alvai North, Point Pedro, and his mother was from Navali, Manipay. He received his secondary education at St. Joseph's College, Colombo, and then went to King's College London on a scholarship and graduated with a degree in the Natural Sciences. He went on to Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, to study the Law Tripos. GG graduated with a BA in Law and was subsequently called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn, London.