List of people from Goa


This is a list of notable people from Goa, India. This list includes Goans and persons of Goan origin. The names are arranged in alphabetical order in their respective categories.

Architects

Artists

  • Angelo da Fonseca, noted for presenting Christian themes in an Indian style
  • Antonio Piedade da Cruz, twentieth-century painter and sculptor
  • António Xavier Trindade, important painter of the Bombay School in the early 20th century
  • Carl d'Silva, Indian wildlife artist and naturalist well known for his paintings of birds in many ornithological handbooks and field guides.
  • Dinanath Dalal
  • Francis Newton Souza, artist
  • Frederika Menezes, Goan author, poet and artist. She is best known for her book, Unforgotten. A poem of hers, The Different Normals, is yet to feature in English textbook of the Goa Board of Secondary & Higher Secondary Education
  • Lancelot Ribeiro, Goan origin Modern artist
  • Laxman Pai, Indian artist and painter. He was a principal of the Goa College of Art, a post he held from 1977 to 1987. Pai was a recipient of several awards, including India's third highest civilian honour of Padma Bhushan, awarded by the Government of India.
  • Mario Miranda, famous for his cartoons in The Illustrated Weekly of India; Padma Vibushan awardee
  • Prafulla Dahanukar, Indian painter, a leader in modern Indian art who also helped and influenced many young artists in India.
  • Subodh Kerkar, Indian painter, sculptor and installation artist, and founder of the private art gallery Museum of Goa. He is known for his artworks and installations
  • Sushila Yawalkar, painter, sculptor and dancer
  • Vamona Navelcar, painter
  • Vasudeo S. Gaitonde, regarded as India's foremost abstract artist; received Padma Shri Award in 1971; born in Nagpur of Goan parents

Bankers

Businesspersons and Entrepreneurs

Chief Secretary

Industrialists

Engineers

  • Peter de Noronha, Goan origin, businessman and civil servant of Kanpur, India. He was knighted by Pope Paul VI in 1965 for his work for the Christian community in India.

Esport players

People in Film and Television

Governors

Historians, Indologists and Archeologists

Lawyers and Judges

Military

Models and Pageants

Musicians and Singers

Olympians

Representing India

Representing other nations

Physicians

  • José Camillo Lisboa, Goan physician and botanist
  • José Gerson da Cunha, Goan physician who achieved international renown as an orientalist, historian, linguist and numismatist
  • Acacio Gabriel Viegas, medical practitioner who was credited with the discovery of the outbreak of bubonic plague in Bombay, India, in 1896.
  • Jaime Valfredo Rangel, Goan doctor, Director of Tipografia Rangel, President of the Municipal Council of Bardez and a delegate to the International Labour Organization for Portugal.
  • P. D. Gaitonde, surgeon from Goa and an active participant in the Goa liberation movement. Along with Antonio Colaco, Gaitonde was nominated by the president of India to the 3rd Lok Sabha in 1962, following the incorporation of Goa, Daman and Diu into India on 19 December 1961.
  • Alvaro de Loyola Furtado, social worker, historian, journalist, medical practitioner and humanitarian. He was described as a leader among men, a man of great integrity and honour.
  • Bhau Daji, Indian physician, Sanskrit scholar, and an antiquarian.
  • Francisco Luís Gomes, Goan physician, writer, historian, economist, political scientist and MP in the Portuguese parliament. A classical liberal by political orientation, Gomes represented Portuguese India in the Cortes Gerais from 1861 to 1869.
  • Rosendo Ribeiro, Goan physician and diplomat.
  • António Maria de Bettencourt Rodrigues, doctor, Portuguese diplomat and politician.
  • Vithal Nagesh Shirodkar, Indian obstetrician and gynaecologist, hailing from the State of Goa.
  • Miguel Caetano Dias, medical doctor best known for his roles as chief of health services in Goa and director of the Medical School of Goa.
  • P S Ramani, Indian neurosurgeon and writer from the state of Goa. He is known for his work in Newcastle and his neuro spinal surgery technique of "PLIF". He is currently the senior neuro spinal surgeon at Lilavati Hospital, Mumbai.
  • Vincent Alvares, medical practitioner and chemist of his Majesty John V of Portugal. In 1713, he accompanied the General of the Arraial of Ponda, Antonio do Amaral Sarmento, to Sunda in Kanara.
  • M. C. Albuquerque, Indian physician. She was medical superintendent of the Vanivilas Women and Children Hospital in Bangalore, from 1937 to 1948.
  • Wilfred de Souza, surgeon and politician from Goa, India. He served as Goa's chief minister on three occasions when he was a member of the Indian National Congress and the Goa Rajiv Congress Party, during his third tenure
  • Mortó Dessai, medical analyst of Goan origin who worked in Goa and Portugal
  • Tomaz Aquino Messias de Bragança, physicist and Mozambican social scientist

Politicians

Education

Priests, Nuns, Bishops and Religious leaders

Scientists and Researchers

Athletes

Tiatrists

  • Alfred Rose (singer), one of the most popular singers and composers of Konkani songs, and is routinely broadcast on the Panaji or Panjim station of All India Radio.
  • C. Alvares, Indian actor, playwright, singer, producer and director from Saligao, Goa.
  • Comedian Selvy, playwright, singer, director and producer from Goa. Regarded as one of the greatest Konkani comedians of his generation.
  • Edmer Barreto, Indian writer, director, and actor who primarily works on the Konkani stage.
  • Hortencio Pereira, is a Konkani stage actor from Goa, India. He is a lyricist, writer, actor, comedian, and singer.
  • John D'Silva, is an Indian Konkani actor, playwright and director. D'Silva is the first tiatrist to enter the Limca Book of Records in 2010 for acting, writing, directing and producing 25 tiatrs having a double alphabet in their titles.
  • M. Boyer, is a writer, director and producer from Goa. He has produced over 35 plays, participated in more than 5000 performances, composing and singing over 1000 songs.
  • Kamlakant Chari, Indian scenic designer known for his work on the Konkani stage.
  • Maestro Josinho, Indian saxophonist and playwright
  • Manuel D'Lima, Indian playwright and theatre director known for his religious plays staged during Lent.
  • Mario Menezes, Indian actor, director, writer and prominent tiatrist. He primarily worked on the Konkani stage and was the vice president of Tiatr Academy Goa.
  • Nevel Gracias, Indian actor, singer, composer, director, playwright, editor and diocesan priest from Goa. He predominantly worked on the Konkani stage and is best known for his lenten tiatrs.
  • Pascoal de Chicalim, playwright and theatre director known for his tiatr productions like Devchaar.
  • Prince Jacob, popular tiatrist and singer from Goa, India. He is "the most Famous man in Konkani Comedy".
  • Roseferns, Indian actor and director who is a Konkani tiatrist. He popularly goes under the sobriquet King of centuries.
  • Roy de Chinchinim, Indian playwright, theatre director, and actor.
  • Sharon Mazarello, tiatrist, singer, scriptwriter, director and actor, hailing from the coastal state of Goa, India.
  • Sylvester Vaz, contemporary worship music singer, and former tiatrist.
  • Tomazinho Cardozo, dramatist, playwright, writer, educationist and politician from Goa.

Writers, Editors and Journalists

  • Armand de Souza, founding editor of the Morning Leader in Ceylon; early freedom fighter; jailed 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; father of Senator Doric de Souza and the late editor of the Times of Ceylon, Tory de Souza
  • Damodar Mauzo, Jnanpith Award-winning Konkani writer, Novelist, Critic and script writer
  • B. D. Satoskar, author, ex-editor of Gomantak daily.
  • 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
  • Dom Moraes, won the American Press Club Citation for Excellence in Reporting, for some 20 articles he wrote for the New York Times Sunday Magazine; poet.
  • Francisco Luís Gomes, Portuguese physician, politician, writer, historian, and economist.
  • Frank Simoes, Goan advertising executive; author of Glad Season in Goa.
  • Frank Moraes, editor of prominent newspapers in post-independence India, including The Indian Express
  • Frederick Noronha, active in cyberspace and involved with e-ventures involving Goa, developmental concerns and free software.
  • Frederika Menezes, Goan author, poet and artist. She is best known for her book, Unforgotten. A poem of hers, The Different Normals, is yet to feature in English textbook of the Goa Board of Secondary & Higher Secondary Education
  • Ian Fyfe, cricketer, coach and a sports journalist from Karachi, Pakistan.
  • Ivo de Figueiredo, Norwegian historian, biographer and critic of Goan origin
  • J. Clement Vaz author of Profiles of Eminent Goans, Past and Present
  • JoeGoaUk, pseudonymous Goa-based correspondent, photographer, photojournalist, and online activist
  • Lambert Mascarenhas, author of the novel Sorrowing Lies My Land ; editor of the Goan Tribune; founder editor of Goa Today, former editor of The Navhind Times; won the State Cultural award.
  • Leopoldo da Gama, Goan journalist and founder of the weekly Portuguese newspaper "A Convicção".
  • Manohar Rai Sardesai, Konkani and French novelist and poet.
  • 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.
  • Olivinho Gomes, eminent Konkani scholar and former acting vice chancellor of the Goa.
  • Orlando da Costa, Communist Portuguese poet and writer of Goan descent, born in the capital of the former Portuguese colony of Mozambique, Maputo.
  • Orlando Gomes, theatre critic and writer known for his previews, reviews and free advertisements for Konkani tiatrs.
  • Ravindra Kelekar, freedom fighter, writer and revivalist of the Konkani language.
  • Sebastião Rodolfo Dalgado, from Assagão, linguist; knew Malayalam, Sinhala, Bengali, Kannada, Marathi, and Sanskrit; in 1892, he produced a Konkani-Portuguese dictionary and later a grammar
  • Teotonio R. de Souza, historian, founder-director of Xavier Centre of Historical Research, Goa ; Fellow of the Portuguese Academy of History; author of publications on Goan history and culture.
  • Prashanti Talpankar
  • Sandesh Prabhudesai
  • Hema Naik
  • Pundalik Naik
  • Isabel de Santa Rita Vás
  • Jessica Faleiro
  • Savia Viegas
  • Hirabai Pednekar, regarded as the first female Marathi language playwright
  • Vinayak Sadashiv Sukhthankar

Activists

  • Neola Pereira, Indian environmentalist who is known for her participation in the Save Mollem campaign
  • Nilesh Naik, Goan environmental activist and farmworker; Goa's first environmental martyr
  • Floriano Vaz, Indian writer and activist from Goa. First martyr of the scheduled tribe community who fought for the official status of the Konkani language during the Konkani language agitation.
  • Dadu Mandrekar, Dalit rights activist

Radio personalites

Criminals