| Post: | Solicitor General |
| Body: | Sri Lanka |
| Flag: |  Sri Lanka |
| Insignia: | Emblem of Sri Lanka.svg |
| Insigniasize: | 50px |
| Incumbent: | Indika Demuni de Silva [1] |
| Incumbentsince: | 2021 |
| Department: | Attorney General's Department |
| Nominator: | The President |
| Appointer: | The President |
| Appointer Qualified: | with Constitutional Council advice and consent |
| Termlength: | No fixed term |
| Formation: | 1884 |
| First: | Charles Lambert Ferdinands |
| Deputy: | Additional Solicitors General (5) |
| Website: | Attorney General's Department |
The solicitor general of Sri Lanka is a post subordinate to the attorney general of Sri Lanka. The solicitor general of Sri Lanka assists the attorney general, and is assisted by four additional solicitors general. Note that the post was solicitor general of Ceylon until Sri Lanka became a republic in 1972.
The attorney general draws a monthly salary and pensionable allowance (as at 2017) of Rs 220,000 and other allowances of Rs 290,800. The attorney general is entitled to an official vehicle. The position is pensionable and holders are entitled for government duty free permits.[2]
| Solicitor General | Province | Took office | Left office | Appointed by | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solicitor General of Ceylon (1884-1972) | ||||||
| 1 | 1884 | 1888 | Arthur Hamilton-Gordon | |||
| 2 | 1888 | 1892 | ||||
| 3 | 1892 | 1906 | Arthur Havelock | |||
| 4 | 1906 | 1912 | Henry Arthur Blake | |||
| 5 | 1912 | 1915 | Henry McCallum | |||
| 6 | 1915 | 1917 | Robert Chalmers | |||
| 7 | 1917 | 1917 | John Anderson | |||
| 6 | 1918 | 1924 | William Manning | |||
| 8 | 1925 | 1928 | Hugh Clifford | |||
| 9 | 1929 | 1932 | Herbert Stanley | |||
| 10 | 1932 | 1935 | Graeme Thomson | |||
| 11 | 1935 | 1935 | Reginald Edward Stubbs | |||
| 12 | 1936 | 1938 | ||||
| 13 | 1939 | 1940 | Andrew Caldecott | |||
| 14 | 1941 | 1942 | ||||
| 15 | 1943 | 1945 | ||||
| 16 | 1946 | 1947 | Henry Monck-Mason Moore | |||
| 17 | 1948 | 1950 | ||||
| 18 | 1950 | 1951 | Herwald Ramsbotham | |||
| 19 | 1952 | 1954 | ||||
| 20 | 1955 | 1957 | Oliver Ernest Goonetilleke | |||
| 21 | 1958 | 1961 | ||||
| 22 | 1962 | 1964 | William Gopallawa | |||
| 23 | 1965 | 1967 | ||||
| 24 | 1967 | 1968 | ||||
| 25 | 1968 | 1970 | ||||
| 26 | 1970 | 1972 | ||||
| Solicitor General of Sri Lanka | ||||||
| 27 | 1972 | 1974 | William Gopallawa | |||
| 28 | 1974 | 1975 | ||||
| 29 | 1975 | 1977 | ||||
| 30 | 1977 | 1977 | ||||
| 31 | 1977 | 1981 | ||||
| 32 | 1982 | 1989 | J. R. Jayewardene | |||
| 33 | 1989 | 1991 | Ranasinghe Premadasa | |||
| 34 | 1991 | 1992 | ||||
| 35 | 1992 | 1994 | ||||
| 36 | 1994 | 1996 | Chandrika Kumaratunga | |||
| 37 | 1996 | 1998 | ||||
| 38 | 1998 | 1999 | ||||
| 39 | 2000 | 2007 | ||||
| 40 | 2007 | 2011 | Mahinda Rajapaksa | |||
| 41 | 2011 | 2011 | ||||
| 42 | 2011 | 2012 | ||||
| 43 | 2012 | October 2014 | ||||
| 44 | 2 February 2015 | February 2018 | Maithripala Sirisena | |||
| 45 | February 2018 | May 2019 | ||||
| 46 | May 2019 | October 2019 | ||||
| 47 | October 2019 | May 2021 | Gotabaya Rajapaksa | |||
| 48 | September 2021 | March 2024 | Gotabaya Rajapaksa |