MAYADUNNE S. A. E. COREA (JNR) is a Justice of the Court of Appeal of Sri Lanka. He possesses a Masters Degree in Law (LL.M) from the University of Wales, United Kingdom. He is also qualified as a Barrister and Solicitor in the Republic of Fiji, where he served for two years as a High Court judge on a release from the Attorney General's Department to which he thereafter reverted.

He is the son of Mayadunne Corea (Snr) and Audrey Iris Rita Corea (Nee Gooneratne) and the brother of Sharmila Perera (Nee Corea) and Priyantha Corea. He received his secondary education at St. Anne's College, Kurunegala and followed in the footsteps of his father (who was a judicial officer) to enter the Sri Lanka Law College. He passed out as a lawyer and joined the Attorney General's Department as a State Counsel and rose to the rank of Deputy Solicitor General before his elevation to the higher judiciary.

He married Surangi Perera and they have two children, Sayuni E. Corea and Teshan E. Corea.