- Source: 1986 Sri Lankan national honours
On 4th February 1986, President of Sri Lanka J. R. Jayewardene awarded the first Sri Lankan national honours since the suspension of Imperial honors in 1956.
Sri Lankabhimanya
Ranasinghe Premadasa - Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
Deshamanya
P. R. Anthonis – surgeon and academic
Gamani Corea – economist, civil servant and diplomat
M. C. M. Kaleel
Malage George Victor Perera Wijewickrama Samarasinghe
Miliani Sansoni – Chief Justice of Ceylon
Victor Tennekoon – Chief Justice of Ceylon
Deshabandu
Ahangamage Tudor Ariyaratne
Hewa Komanage Dharmadasa
Norendradas Jayaratnam Wallooppillai
Daphne Attygalle
Wimala de Silva
Arulanandam Yesuadian Samuel Gnanam
David Edwin Hettiarachchi
Dhamital Senakumar Jayasundera
Clara Motwani