The Most Famous
PHILOSOPHERS from Sri Lanka
This page contains a list of the greatest Sri Lankan Philosophers. The pantheon dataset contains 1,081 Philosophers, 1 of which were born in Sri Lanka. This makes Sri Lanka the birth place of the 71st most number of Philosophers behind Jordan and Indonesia.
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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Sri Lankan Philosophers of all time. This list of famous Sri Lankan Philosophers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Ananda Coomaraswamy (1877 - 1947)
With an HPI of 57.73, Ananda Coomaraswamy is the most famous Sri Lankan Philosopher. His biography has been translated into 31 different languages on wikipedia.
Ananda Kentish Muthu Coomaraswamy (Tamil: ஆனந்த குமாரசுவாமி, Āṉanta Kentiś Muthū Kumāracuvāmi; Sinhala: ආනන්ද කුමාරස්වාමි Ānanda Kumārasvāmī; 22 August 1877 − 9 September 1947) was a Ceylonese metaphysician, historian and a philosopher of Indian art who was an early interpreter of Indian culture to the West. In particular, he is described as "the groundbreaking theorist who was largely responsible for introducing ancient Indian art to the West".
Pantheon has 1 people classified as philosophers born between 1877 and 1877. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased philosophers include Ananda Coomaraswamy.
