Gunapala is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:

Gunapala Amarasinghe (born 1954), Sri Lankan academic Gunapala Malalasekera (1899–1973), Sri Lankan academic Gunapala Rathnasekara (born 1961), Sri Lankan academic Gunapala Tissakuttiarachchi (born 1954), Sri Lankan politician Sarath Gunapala, Sri Lankan physicist