List of people from Goa
This is a list of famous and notable people from Goa, India. This list aims to include persons who are known to a large number of people, and is not based on the extent of their popularity. Neither is the list viewed from the context of the present. Their fame could be brief; what matters is that they were well known during the peak of their popularity.
Sports personalities
Main article: Goans in sports
- Seraphino Antao, represented Kenya in sprinting in the Commonwealth Games during the 1950s and early 60s; won two gold medals
- Swapnil Asnodkar, opening batsman for Goa and Rajasthan Royals; played a key role in helping his team win the inaugural edition of the Indian Premier League
- Bruno Coutinho, Indian footballer and Arjuna awardee
- Antao D'Souza, represented Pakistan cricket team in Tests in the 1950s and early 60s
- Mary Dsouza (Sequeira), winner of the Dhyan Chand Award as First Double International; Asian Games winner first and second Asian Games for track and field; World Cup Field Hockey in England and Australia
- Brahmanand Sankhwalkar, soccer player and former Goa captain; one of Goa's best goalkeepers; Arjuna awardee for his achievements in sports
- Dilip Sardesai, former cricketer
Olympians
- Jack Britto, field hockey, 1952, representing Pakistan
- J.M. Carvalho, field hockey, 1976, representing India
- Mary Dsouza (Sequeira), 1952, Helsinki, track and field
- Leo Pinto, field hockey, 1948, representing India
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Musicians
See also: Goans in Hindi film music composition
- Jitendra Abhisheki, Indian musician
- Kishori Amonkar, classical vocalist
- Lorna Cordeiro, Konkani language singer
- Ian D'Sa, UK-born, of Goan descent; former guitarist of Canadian band Billy Talent
- António Fortunato de Figueiredo (1903–1981), conductor, violinist; founder-director of the Academia de Música (now Dept of Western Classical Music, Kala Academy); founder-director of the Orquestra Sinfónica de Goa (Goa Symphony Orchestra)
- Remo Fernandes, musician and Bollywood playback singer
- Anthony Gonsalves (1927–2012), violinist; taught R.D. Burman and Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma (a member of the Laxmikant Pyarelal team) and worked with most of the legendary composers of the 1950s and 1960s
- Suresh Haldonkar, classical vocalist, actor
- Kesarbai Kerkar (1892–1977)
- Mogubai Kurdikar, classical vocalist
- Anjanibai Malpekar (1883–1974), Hindustani classical singer of Bhendibazaar gharana, Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship (1958)
- Dinanath Mangeshkar, dramatist and classical vocalist
- Datta Naik, Hindi film music director
- Khaprumama Parvatkar (1879–1953), ghumot and tabla player
- Chris Perry, the king of Goan music
- Hema Sardesai, playback singer
- Oliver Sean, singer/songwriter
Indologists and archeologists
- José Gerson da Cunha (1844–1900), historian and Orientalist; wrote the first book on history of Bombay, The Origin of Bombay (1900), published by the Bombay branch of the Royal Asiatic Society[1][2]
- Mahadevshastri Joshi
- Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi (1907–1966), Indologist
- Dharmananda Damodar Kosambi (1876–1947), studied Pali; Buddhist scholar
- Prakashchandra Pandurang Shirodkar
Political campaigners
- Dayanand Bandodkar, first Chief Minister of Goa
- Narana Coissoró, left his motherland of Goa to serve the Portuguese people and became a member of the Portuguese Parliament
- António Costa, Portuguese Prime Minister (since 26 November 2015) and former Mayor of Lisbon (2007–2015)
- Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, formerly a Portuguese military officer, was the chief strategist of the 1974 Carnation Revolution in Lisbon; was born in Lourenço Marques (now Maputo); Mozambique of some Goan ancestry
- Luís de Menezes Bragança, journalist, writer and anti-colonial activist
- Erasmo de Sequeira, head of United Goans Party; former member of the Indian Parliament at New Delhi
- Dr. Jack de Sequeira, prominent campaigner for the opinion poll that retained Goa as an independent state
- Eduardo Faleiro, politician and former central minister
- Abbé Faria, priest, key participant in the Conspiracy Of The Pintos; became a famous hypnotist and revolutionary in France
- Shamrao Madkaikar
- Manohar Parrikar, Defence Minister of Union of India and ex-Chief Minister of Goa[3]
- Pio Gama Pinto, Kenyan freedom fighters and politician; director of the Pan African Press
- Pratapsingh Raoji Rane, former Chief Minister of Goa
- Pandurang Purushottam Shirodkar, first speaker of the Goa Assembly[4]
Judges and lawyers
- Luís da Cunha Gonçalves (1875–1956), wrote as many as 14 volumes on his studies of civil law[5]
- Fitz R S de Souza, barrister-at-law and PhD from London; important figure in African politics; participated in Kenya's struggle for freedom
Professors and educationists
- Rui de Figueiredo, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Mathematics, University of California, Irvine
- J. Anthony Gomes, MD, FACC, FAHA, Professor of Medicine (cardiology), the Mount Sinai Medical Center and the Icahn School of Medicine, New York, US
- Armando Menezes, Head of the Department of English St Xavier's College Bombay; Principal of Karnataka College Dharwad; Under-Secretary Education, Government of Maharashtra
Artists
- Antonio Piedade da Cruz, twentieth-century painter and sculptor[6]
- Angelo da Fonseca, noted for presenting Christian themes in an Indian style
- Mario de Miranda (1926–2011), famous for his cartoons in The Illustrated Weekly of India; Padma Vibushan awardee
- Vasudeo S. Gaitonde (1924–2001), regarded as India's foremost abstract artist; received Padma Shri Award in 1971; born in Nagpur of Goan parents
- Kimi Katkar, film actress
- Subodh Kerkar, artist
- Kartika Rane, film and television actress
- Francis Newton Souza (1924–2003), artist
- Varsha Usgaonkar, film and television actress
Scientists
Main article: Goans in science and technology
- Garcia de Orta (1523–1580), physician, druggist, and botanist; wrote and published the first major book on Indian drugs and remedies; a Portuguese/Spanish Jew who lived some time in Goa
- Froilano de Mello, Indo-Portuguese microbiologist, medical scientist, professor, author and independent MP in the Portuguese parliament
- Raghunath Mashelkar, eminent scientist and head of the prestigious Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
Religious leaders
- Joseph Cordeiro, Cardinal in Pakistan (Karachi/Goa)
- Matheus de Castro (c. 1594–1677), first Indian Bishop of the Catholic Church
- Moreno de Souza, translated the Bible into Konkani language
- Ivan Dias, Cardinal Prefect, Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Rome (Mumbai/Goa)
- Filipe Neri Ferrão, from Aldona, current Archbishop of Goa and Damao
- Oswald Gracias, from Carmona, Archbishop of Mumbai
- Valerian Gracias, Cardinal in Bombay (Mumbai/Goa)
- Anthony Theodore Lobo, Bishop of Rawalpindi/Islamabad, Pakistan (Karachi/Goa)
- Evarist Pinto, from Aldona, Archbishop of Karachi, Pakistan
- Joseph Vaz, missionary in Sri Lanka (Ceylon); patron of Goan Archdiocese
Writers, editors, journalists
- Maria Aurora Couto, writer, academic and literary critic with books including Graham Greene: On the Frontier, Politics and Religion in the Novels, and Goa: A Daughter's Story
- Orlando da Costa (1929–2006), Communist Portuguese poet and writer of Goan descent, born in the capital of the former Portuguese colony of Mozambique, Maputo
- Sebastião Rodolfo Dalgado (1855–1922), of Assagao, linguist; knew Malayalam, Sinhala, Bengali, Kannada, Marathi, and Sanskrit; in 1892, he produced a Konkani-Portuguese dictionary and later a grammar
- Armand de Souza (1877–1922), founding editor of the Morning Leader in Ceylon; early freedom fighter; gaoled by the British colonial government for advocating democracy, but was released following public protests; author of Hundred days in Ceylon under martial law in 1915;[7] father of Senator Doric de Souza (Professor of English) and the late editor of the Times of Ceylon, Tory de Souza
- Teotonio R. de Souza, historian, founder-director of Xavier Centre of Historical Research, Goa (1979–1994); Fellow of the Portuguese Academy of History; author of Medieval Goa (1979), Goa to Me (1994), Goa outgrowing postcolonialism (2014) and several other publications on Goan history and culture
- Francisco Luís Gomes (1829–1869), Indo-Portuguese physician, politician, writer, historian, and economist
- Ravindra Kelekar (born 1925), freedom fighter, writer and revivalist of the Konkani language
- Chandrakant Keni, retired editor of Marathi daily Rashtramat and Konkani daily Sunaparant; former freelance journalist; was associated with the development of Konkani language; won Sahitya Academy Award for his book Ashadh Pawali
- Lambert Mascarenhas, author of the classic novel Sorrowing Lies My Land (1955), which was reprinted thrice and has been translated into Marathi, Telugu and Konkani; editor of the Goan Tribune; founder editor of Goa Today, former editor of The Navhind Times; won the State Cultural award
- Dom Moraes (born 1938), won the American Press Club Citation for Excellence in Reporting, for some 20 articles he wrote for the New York Times Sunday Magazine; poet; died earlier this decade
- Frank Moraes, editor of many prominent newspapers in post-independence India, including The Indian Express
- B. D. Satoskar, author, ex-editor of Gomantak daily
- Frank Simoes, passionate Goan advertising person; author of Glad Season in Goa
Governors
- Bernardo Peres da Silva, of Neurá; appointed Prefect of Estado da Índia Portuguesa in 1835, the only Goan to hold a post equivalent to a Governor-General
References
- ↑ Chatterjee, Sudeshna (Aug 31, 2003). "Family Matters". The Times of India.
- ↑ Vaz, J. Clement (1997). Profiles of eminent Goans, past and present. Concept Publishing Company. p. 118. ISBN 81-7022-619-8.
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- ↑ Past speakers of Goa
- ↑ Martin, John Duncan (1978). Essays in Classical and Modern Hindu Law: Consequences of the intellectual exchange with the foreign powers. BRILL. p. 472. ISBN 90-04-04808-1.
- ↑ J. Clement Vaz, "Profiles of Eminent Goans Past and Present", Concept Publishing Company, 1997, ISBN 9788170226192
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External links
- Goans All Over the World are Doing Great Things
- Goans on the International Sporting Stage
- Great Men of Goa
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