Evangeline Thillayampalam

Thillayampalam was from Allaipiddi in the Jaffna Peninsula. She attended Chundikuli Girls' College in Jaffna.^[3] She went on to complete a master's degree in science at the University of Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh, India, followed by a doctorate at Columbia University, New York.^[1][2] She became a lecturer in Lucknow, India, at Isabella Thoburn College.^[1]

In 1941, Thillayampalam returned to Sri Lanka and in 1943 was appointed principal of her former school, Chundikuli Girls' College.^[1] She was the first Sri Lankan principal of the school.^[3]