Name Portrait Party Tenure Head (s) of Government Ministerial title Junius Richard Jayewardene (1st term) United National Party 26 September 1947 - 13 October 1953 Don Stephen Senanayake Ministry of Finance and the Treasury of Ceylon Dudley Senanayake Oliver Goonetilleke (1st term) United National Party 14 October 1953 - 30 June 1954 John Kotelawala M.D.H. Jayawardena United National Party 1 July 1954 - 18 February 1956 Stanley de Zoysa Sri Lanka Freedom Party 12 April 1956 - 22 November 1959 S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike Wijeyananda Dahanayake M.M. Musthapa Sri Lanka Freedom Party 22 November 1959 - 5 December 1959 Oliver Goonetilleke (2nd term) United National Party 21 March 1960 - 23 April 1960 Dudley Senanayake J.R. Jayewardene (2nd term) United National Party 24 April 1960 - 20 July 1960 Felix Dias Bandaranaike (1st term) Sri Lanka Freedom Party 21 July 1960 - 24 August 1962 Sirimavo Bandaranaike C.P. de Silva Sri Lanka Freedom Party 28 August 1962 - 8 November 1962 P.B.G. Kalugalla Sri Lanka Freedom Party 9 November 1962 - 10 May 1963 T.B. Ilangaratne Sri Lanka Freedom Party 29 May 1963 - 10 June 1964 N.M. Perera (1st term) Lanka Sama Samaja Party 11 June 1964 - 17 December 1964 U.B. Wanninayake United National Party 27 March 1965 - 25 March 1970 Dudley Senanayake N.M. Perera (2nd term) Lanka Sama Samaja Party 10 May 1970 - 2 September 1975 Sirimavo Bandaranaike Felix Dias Bandaranaike (2nd term) Sri Lanka Freedom Party 3 September 1975 - 18 May 1977 Ronnie de Mel United National Party 23 July 1977 - 18 January 1988 Junius Richard Jayewardene Naina Marikkar United National Party 18 January 1988 - 3 January 1989 Ranasinghe Premadasa Dingiri Banda Wijetunga United National Party 18 February 1989 - 31 August 1994 Dingiri Banda Wijetunga Chandrika Kumaratunga Sri Lanka Freedom Party 30 September 1994 - 5 December 2001 Chandrika Kumaratunga K.N. Choksy United National Party 12 December 2001 - 2 April 2004 Sarath Amunugama Sri Lanka Freedom Party 14 April 2004 -- 22 November 2005 Mahinda Rajapaksa Sri Lanka Freedom Party 23 November 2005 -- 9 January 2015 Mahinda Rajapaksa Minister of Finance and Planning Ravi Karunanayake United National Party 12 January 2015 - 22 May 2017 Maithripala Sirisena Mangala Samaraweera United National Party 22 May 2017 - Present Maithripala Sirisena
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