| Honorific-Prefix: | Hon. |
| Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena | |
| Office: | Governor of the North Western Province |
| President: | Ranil Wickremesinghe |
| Primeminister: | Dinesh Gunawardena |
| Predecessor: | Wasantha Karannagoda |
| Term Start: | 17 May 2023 |
| Constituency Mp2: | National List |
| Parliament2: | Sri Lanka |
| Term Start2: | 2015 |
| Term End2: | 2020 |
| Constituency Mp3: | Matara |
| Parliament3: | Sri Lanka |
| Term Start3: | 1994 |
| Term End3: | 26 June 2015 |
| Birth Date: | 7 June 1955 |
| Nationality: | Sri Lankan |
| Party: | Sri Lanka Freedom Party |
| Otherparty: | United People's Freedom Alliance |
| Residence: | Lakmini Sanda, Beragama, Makandura, Matara, Sri Lanka. |
| Alma Mater: | St. Servatius' College Mahinda College, Galle |
| Website: | http://www.lakshmanyapa.com/ |
Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena (born June 7, 1955) is a Sri Lankan politician who is currently serving as the Governor of the North Western Province of Sri Lanka. A former representative of Matara District for the United People's Freedom Alliance in the Parliament of Sri Lanka, he served as the cabinet minister of parliamentary affairs, Minister of Media, Deputy Minister of Economic Development, Minister of Foreign Employment Welfare, deputy minister of civil aviation and as the cabinet minister of Investment Promotion. He was the state minister for State Enterprise Development in the government of President Maithripala Sirisena.[1] He has been in parliament from 1994 and 2019.
Abeywardana was born in 1955 to a political family in Matara District, in Southern Province, where his father held local and provincial leadership positions. He was educated at St. Servatius College, Matara and Mahinda College, Galle.[2]
Abeywardana has been a proponent of various micro-level development programs to enable the people to improve their quality of life. He is the Chairman of the Lakshman Yapa Abeywardana Foundation. Abeywardana resides in Colombo. He is married and has three sons. His son Pasanda Yapa Abeywardana is a member of the Southern Provincial council.[3]