| Honorific Prefix: | Professor |
| Ponnuthurai Balasundarampillai | |
| Native Name: | பொ. பாலசுந்தரம்பிள்ளை |
| Native Name Lang: | ta |
| Alma Mater: | Jaffna Hindu College |
| Occupation: | Academic |
| Vice-Chancellor of the University of Jaffna | |
| Term: | February 1997 - April 2003 |
| Predecessor: | K. Kunaratnam |
| Successor: | S. Mohanadas |
Professor Ponnuthurai Balasundarampillai (ta|பொன்னுத்துரை பாலசுந்தரம்பிள்ளை) is a Sri Lankan Tamil academic and former vice-chancellor of the University of Jaffna.
Balasundarampillaih was educated at the Jaffna Hindu College.[1]
Balasundarampillai was a professor of geography at the University of Jaffna in the 1980s.[2] He was the Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the university from March 1991 to March 1997.[3] He then served as vice-chancellor of the university between February 1997 and April 2003.[4]
. Broken Palmyra. 1190. University Teachers for Human Rights. Appendix IV: A statement issued by 50 university teachers during the run-up to the Provincial Council elections of November 1988. Rajan Hoole.