# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hamilton-shirley-amerasinghe
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:40:17.651Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hamilton-shirley-amerasinghe"
name: "Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe"
slug: "hamilton-shirley-amerasinghe"
description: "Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe, CCS was a Sri Lankan diplomat and civil servant. He was High Commissioner to India and concurrently Ambassador to both Nepal and Afghanistan (1963–1967) and Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance and Treasury and the Ministry of Health. Amerasinghe served as Ceylon's Permanent Representative to the United Nations 1967 to 1980 and served as President of the United Nations General Assembly in 1976. He was also one of the leaders of the negotiations to draft the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea."
tagline: "Sri Lankan diplomat and civil servant (1913-1980)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1913-03-18"
deathDate: "1980-12-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.65
  momentum:             13.76668891855808
  historical:           5.474658666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_Shirley_Amerasinghe"
    title: "Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%8A_%D8%A3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%BA"
    title: "هاميلتون شيرلي أميراسينغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_Shirley_Amerasinghe"
    title: "Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_Shirley_Amerasinghe"
    title: "Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_Shirley_Amerasinghe"
    title: "Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_Shirley_Amerasinghe"
    title: "Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1573524"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump