| A. Canagaratnam | |
| Native Name: | ஆ. கனகரத்தினம் |
| Native Name Lang: | ta |
| Honorific-Suffix: | MLC |
| Office1: | Unofficial Member (Northern Province South), Legislative Council of Ceylon |
| Birth Date: | 1873 |
| Alma Mater: | Jaffna Central College Wesley College |
| Profession: | Lawyer |
| Blank1: | Ethnicity |
| Data1: | Ceylon Tamil |
Arumugam Canagaratnam (Tamil: ஆறுமுகம் கனகரத்தினம்; 1873–1929)[1] was a Ceylon Tamil lawyer and member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon.
Canagaratnam was born in 1873.[2] He was the son of Visuvanathan Arumugam.[2] Canagaratnam was educated at Jaffna Central College and Wesley College, Colombo.[2] He had his higher education in Calcutta.[2]
Canagaratnam's nephew C. Sittampalam was a government minister.[3]
Canagaratnam joined the legal profession after finishing his education.[2]
Canagaratnam became chairman of the Rural Education Development Board in the 1920s.[2] He was also chairman of the Jaffna Local Board and Jaffna Urban Council.[2] [3] He was elected to the Legislative Council of Ceylon as the member for the Northern Province South at the 1924 election.[2] [4]
Canagaratnam campaigned for the establishment of the University of Ceylon and edited a nationalist journal called The Ceylon Patriot.[2] He built Stanley College, which was later renamed Canagaratnam Maha Vidyalayam, using his own funds.[2] [3] Canagaratnam Road is also named after him.[2]