George Fernandez

Quick Facts

Full Name	George Fernandez
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Jun 3, 1930(1930-06-03)
Age	94
Date Of Death	January 29, 2019, Max Hospital, New Delhi
Birthplace	Mangalore
Country	India
Birth City	Karnataka
Horoscope	Gemini

George Fernandez Biography

George Fernandez is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on June 3, 1930 in Mangalore, Karnataka, India.

George Mathew Fernandes (3 June 1930 – 29 January 2019) was an Indian trade unionist, statesman, journalist, freethinker, and member of Rajya Sabha from Bihar for a short while, and a member of Lok Sabha for a very long period, starting from Bombay (present-day Mumbai) in 1967 but mostly representing Bihar. He was a key member of the Janata Dal and the founder of the Samata Party. He held several ministerial portfolios including communication , industry, railways, and defence.

In an interview with E TV, he described his decision to stop studies after matriculation despite his father wishing him to study and become a lawyer. His premise was that he did not want to become a lawyer and fight cases for his father who often evicted tenants from a patch of land that they owned on the outskirts of Mangalore. He was instead enrolled in a seminary for studies to become a priest. He went to St Peter’s Seminary in Bangalore at the age of 16, to be trained as a Roman Catholic priest, studying philosophy for two and a half years from 1946 to 1948. At the age of 19, he left the seminary due to sheer frustration because he was appalled that the rectors ate better food and sat at higher tables than the seminarians. He later confessed that, “I was disillusioned, because there was a lot of difference between precept and practice where the Church was concerned.” Though he was born in a Christian family, he rejected religion, ran away from the seminary, and he was a practising freethinker. He began work at the age of 19, organising exploited workers in the road transport industry and in the hotels and restaurants in Mangalore.

George Fernandez Net Worth

George Fernandez is one of the richest Politician from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, George Fernandez 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

George Fernandes was born on 3 June 1930 to John Joseph Fernandes and Alice Martha Fernandes (née Pinto), in Mangalore to a Mangalorean Catholic family. The eldest of six children, his siblings are Lawrence, Michael, Paul, Aloysius, and Richard. His mother was a great admirer of King George V (who was also born on 3 June), hence she named her first son George. His father was employed by the Peerless Finance group as an insurance executive, and headed their office of South India for several years. George was fondly called “Gerry” in close family circles. He attended his first few years of schooling at a government school near his house called “Board school”, a municipal school and a church school.

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Who is George Fernandez Dating?

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The moment that thrust Fernandes into the limelight was his decision to contest the 1967 general election. He was offered a party ticket for the Bombay South constituency by the Samyukta Socialist Party against the more popular S. K. Patil of the Indian National Congress in Bombay. Patil was a seasoned politician, with two decades of experience. Nevertheless, Fernandes won by garnering 48.5 per cent of the votes, thus earning his nickname, “George the Giantkiller”. The shocking defeat ended Patil’s political career.

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George Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. George Fernandez celebrates birthday on June 3 of every year.

Fernandes met Leila Kabir, the daughter of former Union minister Humayun Kabir, on a flight back to Delhi from Calcutta. Fernandes, then the general secretary of the Samyukta Socialist Party, was returning from Bangladesh while Kabir was on her way back from the battlefront where she had gone as an assistant director of the Red Cross. They began dating and were married on 22 July 1971. They had a son, Sean Fernandes, who is an investment banker based in New York. Fernandes and Kabir separated in the mid-1980s. Jaya Jaitly was Fernandes’ companion from 1984.