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The following list of Mauritians (in alphabetical order by last name), who are notable and are either born in Mauritius, of Mauritian descent or who produce works that are primarily about Mauritius. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Mauritian is made up of blended groups of people who come mainly from South Asian (notably Indian), African (Mozambique, Madagascar and Zanzibar), European (White/European Mauritians), and Chinese descent, as well as those of a mixed background from any combination of the aforementioned ethnic groups. Creol-Mauritian is the blending of the ...
Category: Mauritian people. 49 languages. ... British Mauritius people (5 C, 63 P) C. Mauritian centenarians (2 C) D. Mauritian diaspora (3 C, 3 P) F. Mauritian ...
Mauritian Creoles are the people on the islands of Mauritius, Rodrigues, Agaléga and the Chagos Archipelago and in the wider overseas Mauritian diaspora who trace their roots to continental Africans who were brought to Mauritius under slavery from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century.
Mauritius, [a] officially the Republic of Mauritius, [b] is an island country in the Indian Ocean, about 2,000 kilometres (1,100 nautical miles) off the southeastern coast of East Africa, east of Madagascar. It includes the main island (also called Mauritius), as well as Rodrigues, Agaléga, and St. Brandon (Cargados Carajos shoals).
Pages in category "Lists of Mauritian people" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. ... List of flag bearers for Mauritius at the Olympics
In the late 19th to early 20th century, Chinese men in Mauritius married Indian women due to both a lack of Chinese women and the higher numbers of Indian women on the island. [12] [13] The 1921 census in Mauritius counted that Indian women there had a total of 148 children fathered by Chinese men. [14] [15] These Chinese immigrants were mostly ...
Immigrants to Mauritius (4 C, 1 P) A. Mauritian people of African descent (2 C) Mauritian people of Asian descent (7 C) B. ... Mauritian people of South African ...