Konkani Celebrities - Districtwise

Who is the Konkani celebrity of your district - Comment.

North Goa District :

1. Shenoy Goembab(Vaman Shenoi)

2. Alka Tayi Velingkar

3. Vishnu Wagh

4. Pandit Ajit Kadkade

5. Illeana Dcruz

6. Manohar Parrikar 

7. Balakrishna Bhagwant Borkar (Famous Konkani and Marathi poet)

South Goa District : 

1. Varsha Ushgaokar

2. Ravindra Kelkar

3. Isha koppikar

4. Shaunak Abhisheki

5. Mario Miranda

6. Kartika Rane 

7. Ashalata vabgaonkar

8. Jitendra Abisheki*

9. Lata Mangeshkar

10. Asha Bosle

11. Usha Mangeshkar

12. Meena Mangeshkar

13. Pandit Hrudayanath Mangeshkar

14. Pandit Dinanatn Mangeshkar

15. P.k velip khankar ( konki writer & retrd colecter)

North kanara district :

1. Jayanth kaikini

2. Amrita rao

3. Anant Nag

4. Shankar nag

5. Radhika Pandit

6. Leena Chandavarkar

7. Nandan Nilekani

8. Dinakar Desai

9. Vivek Pai

10. Guru Dutt(Vasant Kumar padukone)

11. Jayashree Gadkar

12. Dayanand Nadakarni

13. snehalata gadakar

14. jayashree shejwadkar 

15. anuradha powdwal 

16. seema dev 

17. usha naik 

18. bipin warti 

19. mohan wagh 

20. saguna borkar 

21. padmaja fenani joglekar 

22. gajanan kirtikar

23. abhiram bhadkamkar 

24. bhaskar chandawarkar

25. mahabaleshwar sail

26. RV Deshpande

27. Sunil Hegde

28. Isha Koppikar

29. Anuradha Paudwal

Udupi district :

1 .Deepika padukone

2. Prakash padukone

3. Girish karnad

4. Kullappu (Balakrishna Pai )

5. T. M. A Pai

6. Manjunath Kamath 

7. Dr. Manohar naik(M.D Rajivgandi medical University Mumbai..& research scientist India & Russian) originally from karkala kudumbi family

8. Anant Pai

9. Shyam Benegal

10. Guru Dutt

South Kanara district :

1. Basti Vaman Shenoy

2. Genelia dsouza

3. Frieda pinto

4. Magret Alva

5. Oskar fernandes

6. George fernandes

7. Maxim periera

8. Vijay mallya

9. K. V. Kamath

10. Sonal Monteiro

11. Bolanthur Krishna Prabhu

12. Vilas Nayak

13. Nakul Abhyankar (Singer in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada )

14. Nakkul Jayadev (Nakka Mukka fame Tamil actor)

15. Devayani Jayadev (Tamil actress and sister of Nakkul Jayadev)

16. M.Gopal Gowda ( konki writer & artist)

17. Late Mijar annappa ( famous yakshagana comedy artist in Karnataka & award winner hasyachakravarthi & Karnataka rajyosthav puraskar)

18. Kalavisharada B.PHaribabu Chennai ( native Mangalorian) ( kudumbi mrundaga artist &  tamilu Nadu govt Kalavisharada puraskar winner)

19. Divyasena chennai(Indian famous bharathanatyam artist)

Kasargod district:

1. Manjeshwar Govind Pai

2. Kasargod chinna

Sindhudurg district :

1. Sachin tendulkar

2. Urmila mathodkar

3. Sunil Gavaskar

4. Machhindra Kambli

5. Aadesh Bandekar

6. Omprakash (The Man - Dashavtari female actress) 

7. Jayawant Dalvi

8. Swapnil Bandodkar

9. Namrata Shirodkar

10. Shilpa Shirodkar

11. Babi Kalingan (Famous Dashavtar actor)

12. Richard Nerurkar (British runner from Nerur)

13. Nana Nerurkar (Owner of biggest book shop Ideal Book Depot)

14. Guru Thakur (Famous lyricist)

15. Ajit Parab (Famous music director / actor)

16. Leo Varadkar (Ireland Prime Minister) 

17. Jayant Salgaonkar - Historian 

18. Moropant Ramchandra Paradkar (Famous Marathi poet )

19.Madhu Mangesh Karnik - Activist 

20. Vinda Karandikar - Poet 

21. Sanjay Narvekar - Actor 

22. Bhalchandra (Bhau) Kadam

23. Dharmik kavya lekhan 

24. Laxmibai Sidhaye 

25. Umabai Mainkar 

26. nilkanthrao Naik 

27. J R ajgaonkar 

28. Satish Kalasekar - Marxist poet

29. Gurunath dhuri - poet

30. Arti Prabhu - poet

31. Vasant Sawant - poet

32. Mangesh Padgaonkar - poet

33. Vitthal Nerurkar - first Malvani poet

34. madhu Mangesh Karnik 

35. Na H Gore

36. H Mo Marathe 

37. A na Pednekar

38. Shripad kale 

39. Vidyadhar bhagwat

40. harihar Athalekar 

41. Sharad Kale 

42. L Mo bandekar 

43. Pravin Bandekar 

44. Govind Kajrekar 

45. Guru thakur

46. Dada Madkaikar 

47. Shrinivas Narvekar 

48. Anil Gawas 

49. Anil Naik

50. Babi Kalingan 

51. Babi Nalang

52. Baal dhuri

53. Dilip vengasarkar

54. Suresh Prabhu 

55. Mangesh padgavkar

Ratnagiri district :

1. Sada / Sadaf

2. Ajith agarkar

3. Bajirao

4. Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar 

5. Sumitra Mahajan

6.Lokamanya Tilak

7.Swatantryaveer Sawarkar

8.Vishnushastri Chiplunkar

9.PuLa Deshpande

10.Dhondo Karve

11. Pandurang Vaman Kane- Bharat Ratn Awardee 

12. Hamid dalwai