Heen Banda Dissanayake, SLAS (28 August 1937) was a Sri Lankan civil servant. He was the Governor of the Central Bank of Ceylon. Born to a peasant family in the village of Musnewa, Anuradhapura District. His father was Dissanayake Mudiyanselage Kirihamige Tikiri Banda, a paddy farmer and his mother was Wijekoone Mudiyanselage Ranmenika. He was the second child of three children, born on28 August 1937. He received his primary education in the village school, Negampaha Maha Vidyalaya. In 1947, he was sent to Kekirawa Central College, where he completed his Senior School Certificate and thereafter attended Ananda Sastralaya, Kotte. He graduated from the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya with the BA honors degree in Sinhala.