| Honorific-Prefix: | Hon. |
| Athauda Seneviratne | |
| Constituency Mp1: | Ruwanwella |
| Parliament1: | Sri Lanka |
| Term Start1: | 1970 |
| Term End1: | 1977 |
| Predecessor1: | P. C. Imbulana |
| Successor1: | P. C. Imbulana |
| Constituency Mp: | Kegalle District |
| Parliament: | Sri Lanka |
| Term Start: | 1989 |
| Term End: | 2015 |
| Birth Date: | 19 September 1931 |
| Birth Place: | Colombo, British Ceylon |
| Death Place: | Colombo, Sri Lanka |
| Nationality: | Sri Lankan |
| Party: | United People's Freedom Alliance |
Athauda Seneviratne (19 September 1931 – 31 March 2022)[1] was a Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. He was also a Cabinet Minister of Sri Lanka.
In 1957 Athauda was elected to the Village Council of Othara Gam Dolaha Pattu. In 1960 he unsuccessfully contested the March 1960 parliamentary election in the Dedigama Electoral District. At the 1965 parliamentary election he ran in the Ruwanwella Electoral District, representing the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP), failing by 417 votes although he did win the seat at the subsequent elections in 1970, defeating the sitting member P. C. Imbulana by 2,936 votes. He failed to win re-election in 1977, losing by 4,067 votes to Imbulana.
Athauda was elected as a member of the Sabaragamuwa Provincial Council and became the Leader of the Opposition at the Provincial Council in 1988. In June 1999 he was appointed the Chief Minister of Sabaragamuwa Province a position he retained until October 2000.
In 1989 he was elected to parliament representing the Kegalle Electoral District a position that he retained until the 2015 elections.
He served in the ministries of Labor, Youth Affairs, and Mineral Resources Development.[2]