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.
Victor Menezes, Senior Operating Advisor for New Silk Route;[3] former Senior Vice Chairman & CFO of Citigroup & Engineer of Goan Origin
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
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[4][5]
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
Chhote Rahimat Khan, Hindustani classical sitar player of the Bande Ali Khan (beenkar) Gharana,scored music to Vadhachakra, the first Marathi film of Goa, in 1992, and also to Tulsi, a Konkani Tele Film, in 1994, currently the director of FIM,Kala Academy
Narana Coissoró, left his motherland of Goa to serve the Portuguese people and became a member of the Portuguese Parliament
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
Armando Menezes, Head of the Department of English St Xavier's College Bombay; Principal of Karnataka College Dharwad; Under-Secretary Education, Government of Maharashtra
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
Jason Keith Fernandes, Anthropologist, post-doctoral researcher at the Centro de Estudos Internacionais – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (CEI-IUL)[16].
Raghunath Mashelkar, eminent scientist and head of the prestigious Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
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;[17] 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 (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
Francisco Luís Gomes (1829–1869), Portuguese physician, politician, writer, historian, and economist
Frank Simoes, passionate Goan advertising person; author of Glad Season in Goa
Frank Moraes, editor of many prominent newspapers in post-independence India, including The Indian Express
Ian Fyfe was a cricketer, coach and a sports journalist from Karachi, Pakistan
Ivo de Figueiredo (born 1966) is a Norwegian historian, biographer and critic of Goan origin
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
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 (1943–2009), (b.St Estevam, Goa, 1943—30 July 2009) was an 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
Preetu Nair, Principal correspondent, Times of India
Ravindra Kelekar (born 1925), freedom fighter, writer and revivalist of the Konkani language
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
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
Jose Rangel (1930-2004), Director of the Voicuntrao Dempo Centre for Indo-Portuguese Studies, Director of Tipografia Rangel (1959-1991), writer and poet.
