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Dr. Paules Edward Pieris Deraniyagala (1900 - 1976) was a paleontologist, zoologist, and also an artist from Sri Lanka. He specialised in fauna and human fossils of the Indian subcontinent. Between 1939 - 1963 he was the Director of the National Museum of Ceylon, and between 1961 - 64 he was also the Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the Vidyodaya University. He was married to Prini Molamure. Their son Dr. Siran Upendra Deraniyagala is also a famous scientist, specialising in archeology.

Among the fossils and species he described, there are:

The cannibalistic Balangoda People, Homo sapiens balangodensis
The extinct Sri Lanka Lion (Leo leo sinhaleyus 1939)
The extinct Sri Lankan Gaur (Bibos sinhaleyus 1962)
The extinct Sri Lankan hippopotamus (Hexaprotodon sinhaleyus 1937)
The extinct Sri Lankan rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sinhaleyus 1936)
The extinct Sri Lankan rhinoceros (Rhinoceros kagavena 1956)

He also described an alleged African subspecies of tiger Panthera tigris sudanensis in 1951.