| Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
| Sir Veerasamy Ringadoo | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | GCMG GCSK QC |
| Order: | 1st President of Mauritius |
| Primeminister: | Anerood Jugnauth |
| Vicepresident: | Vacant |
| Term Start: | 12 March 1992 |
| Term End: | 30 June 1992 |
| Predecessor: | Elizabeth II as Queen of Mauritius |
| Successor: | Cassam Uteem |
| Order2: | 6th Governor-General of Mauritius |
| Monarch2: | Elizabeth II |
| Primeminister2: | Sir Anerood Jugnauth |
| Term Start2: | 17 January 1986 |
| Term End2: | 12 March 1992 |
| Predecessor2: | Sir Cassam Moollan (acting) |
| Successor2: | Position abolished (himself as President of Mauritius) |
| Birthname: | Vīracāmi Riṅkāṭu |
| Birth Date: | 20 October 1920 |
| Birth Place: | Port Louis, British Mauritius[1] |
| Alma Mater: | London School of Economics (LSE) |
Sir Veerasamy Ringadoo, GCMG, GCSK, QC, (born Vīracāmi Riṅkāṭu; 20 October 1920 - 9 September 2000) was a Mauritian politician, minister, the sixth and last governor-general of Mauritius from 1986 to 1992, and then the first president of Mauritius from March to June 1992.
Born in 1920 in an Indian Tamil family,[2] Ringadoo was educated at Port Louis Grammar School and completed his LLB at the London School of Economics in 1948. He was also a founder of the League of Tamils in 1937.[3]
At the 1953 general elections he was elected for the first time to the Legislative Council in Moka-Flacq, representing Labour Party alongside Ackbar Gujadhur and Satcam Boolell.[4] At the 1959 and 1963 elections he was elected to the Legislative Council at No. 17 Quartier Militaire after standing as candidate of Labour Party.[5] [6]
In 1967, he was elected to Legislative Council at Constituency No. 8 (Quartier Militaire-Moka) as candidate of the Independence Party coalition alongside Mahess Teeluck and Abdool Razack Mohamed.[7]
In 1976, he was re-elected at No. 8, alongside Mahess Teeluck.[8] He held the portfolio of finance minister of Mauritius during most of these terms. But at the 1982 general elections he was not elected following the landslide victory of MMM-PSM against PTr-PMSD.[9]
He served as governor-general of Mauritius from 17 January 1986 to 12 March 1992, when it became a republic. Ringadoo then served as interim president until later in 1992, when he was replaced by the second president, Cassam Uteem.
Ringadoo was knighted in the 1975 New Year Honours,[10] and following his appointment as Governor-General, appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in June 1986.[11]