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Shadab Jakati, spin bowler for Goa and Chennai Super Kings; played a key role to help his team win the IPL; Swapnil Asnodkar, opening batsman for Goa and Rajasthan Royals; played a key role help his team win the inaugural edition of the Indian Premier League; Vibhor Batheja National Skating :U14; Stephie D'Souza, 1954 Asian Games 4 × 100 m ...
Goans (Romi Konkani: Goenkar, Portuguese: Goeses) is the demonym used to describe the people native to Goa, India, who form an ethno-linguistic group resulting from the assimilation of Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Indo-Portuguese, Austro-Asiatic ethnic and/or linguistic ancestries.
Nowadays Hindu names like Sandeep, Rahul and Anita, etc. are also given. Portuguese names like António, João, Maria, Ana are also common among Goan Catholics who follow Portuguese culture. British names (e.g. Kevin, Shelley) and other European names (e.g. Benito, Heidi), which have no Konkani variants, are also popular.
Gaudas are aboriginal people residing in the coastal Indian state of Goa.They are believed to be the original inhabitants of Konkan.Most follow folk Hinduism, but many were converted to Catholicism by the Portuguese missionaries during the Christianisation of Goa while still keeping their folk tradition and culture alive.
Pages in category "Lists of people from Goa" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Luso-Indians, or Portuguese-Indian, is a subgroup of the larger Eurasian multiracial ethnic creole people of Luso-Asians.Luso-Indians are people who have mixed Indian and Portuguese ancestry or people of Portuguese descent born or living or originating in former Portuguese Indian colonies, the most important of which were Goa and Damaon of the Konkan region in the present-day Republic of India ...
A native of Goa is called a Goan. Goa has a population of 1.459 million residents as of 2011, [50] making it the fourth least populated state of India after Sikkim, Mizoram, and Arunachal Pradesh. Population density of Goa is 394 per km 2 which is higher than national average 382 per km 2. Goa is the state with highest proportion of urban ...
Lists of people from Goa (10 P) + Women from Goa (1 C) G. Goan Catholics (1 C, 55 P) Goan people (209 P) P. People of Goan descent (16 C) Pages in category "People ...