| Francis D'Souza | |
| Birth Name: | Francisco Casimiro Jerónimo Agnelo Pinto de Souza |
| Birth Date: | 4 October 1954 |
| Birth Place: | Mapusa, Goa, Portuguese India, Portuguese Empire (now in India) |
| Death Place: | Panaji, Goa, India |
| Office: | Deputy Chief Minister of Goa |
| Constituency: | Mapusa |
| Term Start: | 9 March 2012 |
| Term End: | 14 March 2017 |
| Predecessor: | Wilfred de Souza |
| Successor: | Sudin Dhavalikar Vijai Sardesai |
| Office1: | Member of Goa Legislative Assembly |
| Constituency1: | Mapusa |
| Term Start1: | 1999 |
| Term End1: | 2019 |
| Predecessor1: | Surendra Sirsat |
| Successor1: | Joshua D'Souza |
| Party: | Bharatiya Janata Party (2002–2019) |
| Otherparty: | Goa Rajiv Congress Party (1999–2002) |
| Children: | Joshua D'Souza |
| Resting Place: | St Jerome’s Church cemetery, Mapusa, Goa, India |
Francisco Casimiro Jerónimo Agnelo Pinto de Souza (4 October 1954[1] – 14 February 2019), better known as Francis D'Souza, was an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who served as the Deputy Chief Minister of Goa. He had first unsuccessfully contested in the 1989 Goa Legislative Assembly election from the Mapusa Assembly constituency as an Independent candidate.
D'Souza was first elected to the Goa Legislative Assembly in 1999 as the Goa Rajiv Congress Party's candidate and later in 2002, 2007, 2012 and 2017 as the BJP candidate from the Mapusa constituency.[2] He was appointed Deputy Chief Minister when BJP formed a government in 2012 under Manohar Parrikar's leadership and remained Deputy Chief Minister when Laxmikant Parsekar became the Chief Minister. He was also front-runner to succeed Manohar Parrikar as the chief minister.[3] [4]
In July 2014, he landed into a controversy after publicly declaring that India is a Hindu nation and he was a Christian-Hindu.[5]
D'Souza died on 14 February 2019 at the age of 64 following a battle with cancer.[6]