Kumaran Ratnam
Kumaran Ratnam was a Ceylonese physician. He was the founder of Ratnam's Private Hospital in Union Place, Colombo. A long-standing member of the Colombo Municipal Council from the Slave Island Ward, he was elected as Mayor of Colombo from January 1950 to December 1950.
He was married to Meena Coomaraswamy, and lived in Barnes Place, Colombo. He was the brother-in-law of Mangala Moonesinghe. Following his death, the Short Road in Union Place was renamed Dr. Kumaran Ratnam Road.