| Honorific-Prefix: | Hon. |
| P. P. Devaraj | |
| Constituency Mp1: | National List |
| Parliament1: | Sri Lankan |
| Term Start1: | 1989 |
| Term End1: | 1994 |
| Constituency Mp2: | Colombo District |
| Parliament2: | Sri Lankan |
| Term Start2: | 1994 |
| Term End2: | 2000 |
| Birth Date: | 21 February 1929 |
| Nationality: | Sri Lankan |
| Party: | Ceylon Workers' Congress |
| Otherparty: | United People's Freedom Alliance |
| Blank1: | Ethnicity |
| Data1: | Indian Tamil |
Periannan Pillai Devaraj (born 21 February 1929) is a Sri Lankan politician and former minister of state.
Devaraj was born on 21 February 1929.[1] He was educated at St. Sylvester's College, Kandy.[2] He has a B.Sc. degree in economics.[2]
Devaraj was director of the Congress Labour Foundation, part of the Ceylon Workers' Congress (CWC) and was an advisor to CWC leader Savumiamoorthy Thondaman.[2] [3] He was later vice president of the CWC.[4]
Devaraj was appointed as one of the CWC/UNP alliance's National List MP in the Sri Lankan Parliament following the 1989 parliamentary election.[2] He was appointed Minister of State for Hindu Religious and Cultural Affairs on 18 February 1989.[5] [6] He contested the 1994 parliamentary election as one of the CWC/UNP alliance's candidates in Colombo District but failed to get elected. However, he re-entered Parliament following the assassination of Ossie Abeygunasekera and Weerasinghe Mallimarachchi on 24 October 1994.[7] Following the death of Thondaman in 1999 Devaraj tried unsuccessful to gain the leadership of the CWC from Thondaman's grandson Arumugam Thondaman.[8]
Devaraj was elected chairman of the Global Organization for People of Indian Origin (GOPIO) in 2007.[9]