This is a list of famous and notable people from Goa, India. This list includes Goans and persons of Goan origin who are known to a large number of people, and 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. The names are arranged in alphabetical order in their respective categories.
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
Dharmananda Damodar Kosambi (1876–1947), studied Pali; Buddhist scholar
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[3][4]
Prakashchandra Pandurang Shirodkar
Lawyers & Judges[]
Anuja Prabhudessai, Judge at Bombay High Court
Ferdino Rebello, former Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court
Fitz R S de Souza, Goan origin, barrister-at-law and PhD from London; important figure in African politics; participated in Kenya's struggle for freedom
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, former Judge at Bombay High Court
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)
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
Luizinho Faleiro, former Chief Minister and the first unopposed MLA
Manohar Parrikar, former Chief Minister of Goa; former Defense Minister of India[6]
Narana Coissoró, left his motherland of Goa to serve the Portuguese people and became a member of the Portuguese Parliament
Nelson de Souza, former Minister of Planning for Portugal
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
Pandurang Purushottam Shirodkar, first speaker of the Goa Assembly[7]
Pio Gama Pinto, Kenyan freedom fighters and politician; director of the Pan African Press
Pratapsingh Raoji Rane, longest serving Chief Minister (15 years and 250 days), longest serving MLA (1972 - Present) and oldest speaker in Goan assembly history at (73 years) in 2012
Armando Menezes, Head of the Department of English St Xavier's College Bombay; Principal of Karnataka College Dharwad; Under-Secretary Education, Government of Maharashtra
Rui de Figueiredo, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Mathematics, University of California, Irvine
Armand de Souza (1877–1922), 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;[8] father of Senator Doric de Souza (Professor of English) and the late editor of the Times of Ceylon, Tory de Souza
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 (1938–2004), 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 (1829–1869), 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
Ian Fyfe (d. 2005), cricketer, coach and a sports journalist from Karachi, Pakistan
Ivo de Figueiredo (born 1966), Norwegian historian, biographer and critic of Goan origin
Lambert Mascarenhas, author of the novel Sorrowing Lies My Land (1955); editor of the Goan Tribune; founder editor of Goa Today, former editor of The Navhind Times; won the State Cultural award
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 (St Estevam, Goa, 1943—30 July 2009), eminent Konkani scholar and former acting vice chancellor of the Goa
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
Ravindra Kelekar (born 1925), freedom fighter, writer and revivalist of the Konkani language
Sebastião Rodolfo Dalgado (1855–1922), 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 (1979–1994); Fellow of the Portuguese Academy of History; author of publications on Goan history and culture
