Name |
Portrait |
Party |
Tenure |
Head(s) of Government |
Ministerial title |
|
Junius Richard Jayewardene (1st term) |
|
United National Party |
26 September 1947 - 13 October 1953 |
|
Don Stephen Senanayake |
Ministry of Finance and the Treasury of Ceylon |
Dudley Senanayake |
Oliver Goonetilleke (1st term) |
|
United National Party |
14 October 1953 - 30 June 1954 |
John Kotelawala |
M. D. H. Jayawardena |
|
United National Party |
1 July 1954 - 18 February 1956 |
|
|
Stanley de Zoysa |
|
Sri Lanka Freedom Party |
12 April 1956 - 22 November 1959 |
|
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike |
Wijeyananda Dahanayake |
M. M. Musthapa |
|
Sri Lanka Freedom Party |
22 November 1959 - 5 December 1959 |
|
Oliver Goonetilleke (2nd term) |
|
United National Party |
21 March 1960 - 23 April 1960 |
|
Dudley Senanayake |
J. R. Jayewardene (2nd term) |
|
United National Party | |
24 April 1960 - 20 July 1960 |
|
Felix Dias Bandaranaike (1st term) |
|
Sri Lanka Freedom Party | 21 July 1960 - 24 August 1962 |
|
Sirimavo Bandaranaike |
C. P. de Silva |
|
Sri Lanka Freedom Party |
28 August 1962 - 8 November 1962 |
P. B. G. Kalugalla |
|
Sri Lanka Freedom Party |
9 November 1962 - 10 May 1963 |
T. B. Ilangaratne |
|
Sri Lanka Freedom Party |
29 May 1963 - 10 June 1964 |
|
N. M. Perera (1st term) |
|
Lanka Sama Samaja Party |
11 June 1964 - 17 December 1964 |
|
U. B. Wanninayake |
|
United National Party |
27 March 1965 - 25 March 1970 |
|
Dudley Senanayake |
|
N. M. Perera (2nd term) |
|
Lanka Sama Samaja Party |
10 May 1970 - 2 September 1975 |
|
Sirimavo Bandaranaike |
|
Felix Dias Bandaranaike (2nd term) |
|
Sri Lanka Freedom Party |
3 September 1975 - 18 May 1977 |
|
Ronnie de Mel |
|
United National Party |
23 July 1977 - 18 January 1988 |
|
Junius Richard Jayewardene |
Naina Marikkar |
|
United National Party |
18 January 1988 - 3 January 1989 |
Ranasinghe Premadasa |
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga |
|
United National Party |
18 February 1989 - 31 August 1994 |
|
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga |
|
Chandrika Kumaratunga |
|
Sri Lanka Freedom Party |
30 September 1994 - 5 December 2001 |
|
Chandrika Kumaratunga |
|
K. N. Choksy |
|
United National Party |
12 December 2001 - 2 April 2004 |
|
Sarath Amunugama |
|
Sri Lanka Freedom Party |
14 April 2004 – 22 November 2005 |
Mahinda Rajapaksa |
|
Sri Lanka Freedom Party |
23 November 2005 – 9 January 2015 |
Mahinda Rajapaksa |
Minister of Finance and Planning |
|
Ravi Karunanayake |
|
United National Party |
12 January 2015 - 22 May 2017 |
Maithripala Sirisena |
Mangala Samaraweera |
|
United National Party |
22 May 2017 - Present |
Maithripala Sirisena |