Gethsie Shanmugam

Gethsie Shanmugam (, ) is a Sri Lankan teacher, psychological counsellor and social worker who had given her service to victims of the Sri Lankan civil war. She was awarded the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2017 for braving bombings and threats of arrests in conflict areas to counsel war widows, orphans and children affected by the civil war.

Born in 1934 to a clerk in a British tea estate, Shanmugam had her education at Mowbray private girls’ boarding school. After the O/L examination she became a teacher and followed a course at Nallur training college where she met her husband, Muthuvelu Shanmugam. After retiring from St. Joseph's college in 1983, Shanmugam conducted number of psycho social works for adults and children who are internally displaced in conflict zones during the civil war.