| Vidura Wickremanayake | |
| Native Name: | විදුර වික්රමනායක விதுர விக்கிரமநாயக்க |
| Honorific-Suffix: | MP |
| Office: | Minister of Buddhashasana, Religious, and Cultural Affairs |
| President: | Gotabaya Rajapaksa Ranil Wickremesinghe |
| Primeminister: | Ranil Wickremesinghe Dinesh Gunawardena |
| Term Start: | 20 May 2022 |
| Predecessor: | Mahinda Rajapaksa |
| Office1: | Minister of Labour |
| President1: | Gotabaya Rajapaksa |
| Primeminister1: | Mahinda Rajapaksa |
| Term Start1: | 18 April 2022 |
| Term End1: | 9 May 2022 |
| Successor1: | Manusha Nanayakkara |
| Constituency Mp2: | Kalutara District |
| Parliament2: | Sri Lankan |
| Term Start2: | 2010 |
| Birth Date: | 11 July 1959 |
| Nationality: | Sri Lankan |
| Party: | Sri Lanka Freedom Party |
| Otherparty: | Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna |
| Relations: | Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (father) |
Vidura Wickremanayake (born 11 July 1959) is a Sri Lankan politician. He is the current Minister of Buddhashasana, Religious, and Cultural Affairs[1] and Member of Parliament. He is the son of the former Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickremanayake.
Born to Ratnasiri Wickremanayake and Kusum Wickremanayake, he was educated at Royal College, Colombo and gained a BSc in Agriculture in the Philippines.[2]
Wickremanayake was elected to parliament from Kalutara from the Sri Lanka Freedom Party in the 2015 parliamentary election and was appointed State Minister of Agriculture. He was re-elected in the 2020 parliamentary election from the Kalutara electorate with 147,958 preferential votes and was appointed State Minister of National Heritage, Rural Arts.[3] Following the mass resignation of the Sri Lankan cabinet in the wake of the 2022 Sri Lankan protests, he was appointed as the Minister of Labour by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on 18 April 2022.[4] [5] He left office following the resignation of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and thereby the whole government. He was appointed to the position of Minister of Buddhashasana, Religious, and Cultural Affairs in the new Sri Lankan Cabinet by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on 20 May 2022.