S.NO

NAMES

DURATION

1

D. S. Senanayake

24 September 1947- 22 March 1952

2

Dudley Senanayake

26 March 1952- 12 October 1953

3

Sir John Kotelawala

12 October 1953- 12 April 1956

4

S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike

12 April 1956 -26 September 1959

5

Wijeyananda Dahanayake

26 September 1959-20 March 1960

Dudley Senanayake

21 March 1960 -21 July 1960

6

Sirimavo Bandaranaike

21 July 1960 -25 March 1965

Dudley Senanayake

25 March 1965-29 May 1970

Sirimavo Bandaranaike

29 May 1970- 23 July 1977

7

Junius Richard Jayewardene

23 July 1977 -4 February 1978

8

Ranasinghe Premadasa

6 February 1978 -2 January 1989

9

Dingiri Banda Wijetunga

6 March 1989 – 7 May 1993

10

Ranil Wickremesinghe

7 May 1993 -19 August 1994

11

Chandrika Kumaratunga

19 August 1994- 12 November 1994

Sirimavo Bandaranaike

14 November 1994 -9 August 2000

12

Ratnasiri Wickremanayake

10 August 2000 -7 December 2001

Ranil Wickremesinghe

9 December 2001- 6 April 2004

13

Mahinda Rajapaksa

6 April 2004 -19 November 2005

Ratnasiri Wickremanayake

19 November 2005 -21 April 2010

14

D. M. Jayaratne

21 April 2010 -9 January 2015

Ranil Wickremesinghe

9 January 2015 -26 October 2018

Mahinda Rajapaksa

26 October 2018 -15 December 2018

Ranil Wickremesinghe

16 December 2018- 21 November 2019

Mahinda Rajapaksa

21 November 2019 -9 May 2022

Ranil Wickremesinghe

12 May 2022 -20 July 2022

15

Dinesh Gunawardena

22 July 2022- Incumbent