| Honorific-Prefix: | Hon. |
| Ellawala Medhananda Theroඑල්ලාවල මේධානන්ද | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | MP |
| Constituency Mp: | National List |
| Parliament: | Sri Lanka |
| Term Start: | 2004 |
| Term End: | 2015 |
| Birth Date: | 28 January 1937 |
| Nationality: | Sri Lankan |
| Party: | Jathika Hela Urumaya |
| Otherparty: | United People's Freedom Alliance |
| Residence: | Sri Sumangalaramaya, Napawala, Gatahatta |
| Occupation: | Buddhist monk |
Ellawala Medhananda Thero (එල්ලාවල මේධානන්ද) is a Sri Lankan politician and a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. He had also organized many charities and engaged himself in educational activities in under-prevailed rural communities.[1] As an academic scholar (see Pieris, op. cit.) he has published 40 books of academic and archaeological research of which the book on the "Sinhala-Buddhist Heritage in the Northern and Eastern Provinces" published in 2003 by Jayakody Publishers in Colombo is most well known[2] Medhananda was a parliamentarian elected by the Jathika hela Urumaya, a party which campaigned for the so-called rights of Buddhists. As a consequence, many Marxist as well as minority Tamil writers have criticized him for his alleged right-wing political leanings and pro-majoritarian sentiments.[3] He presented himself for elections twice first in 2004 then in 2010. Since then he has devoted himself to charitable works, teaching and scholarly activities in rural regions of Sri Lanka