Eunice de Souza
Eunice de Souza was an Indian English language poet, literary critic and novelist. Was the head of the English Department of St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai till her retirement.
Brahmanand Shankhwalker
Brahmanand Sagoon Kamat Sankhwalkar is a former Indian footballer and a captain of the Indian team from 1983 to 1986, who played as a goalkeeper. Considered one of India’s best goalkeepers, he had a 25-year playing career.
Chic Chocolate
Chic Chocolate born Antonio Xavier Vaz, was a Goan trumpeter who led a Jazz band at the Taj Mahal Hotel in Bombay and was one of Bombay’s best-known jazz musicians. He was also a Hindi film music composer and played trumpet in various soundtracks.
Seraphino Antao
Seraphino Antao was a runner from Kenya. He won two events at the 1962 Commonwealth Games, making him the first Kenyan athlete to win a gold medal at an international level. He is of Asian origin, from low altitude coastal city of Mombasa and was a sprinter, making him an atypical Kenyan athlete.
Lata Mangeshkar + Anthony Gonsalves
Lata Mangeshkar is an Indian playback singer and music director. She is one of the best-known and most respected playback singers in India.
Anthony Prabhu Gonsalves was an Indian musical composer, music arranger and teacher born in the village of Majorda, who during the mid-1950s, attempted to merge the symphonies of his Goan heritage with the Hindustani melodies and rhythms in films of the day.
Sita Valles
Anthony Prabhu Gonsalves was an Indian musical composer, music arranger and teacher born in the village of Majorda, who during the mid-1950s, attempted to merge the symphonies of his Goan heritage with the Hindustani melodies and rhythms in films of the day.
Sonia Shirsat
Sonia Shirsat is a Fado singer from Ponda taluka, Goa, India. She has been referred to as “the ambassador of Goan music to the world” and has performed across India and the world and often during cultural and music events in Goa.
Vishnu Wagh
Vishnu Surya Naik Wagh was a poet, writer, dramatist, journalist, politician and management consultant/ trainer, hailing from the coastal state of Goa, India.
Dilip Sardessai
Dilip Narayan Sardesai was an Indian international cricketer. He played Tests for the Indian national team as a batsman, the only Goa-born cricketer to play for India.
Angelo da Fonseca was born in Goa in 1902 and died in Poona in 1967. He was a Goan painter, and a pioneer of the Christian Cultural Renaissance in India.