Like members of other communities on the island, some of the earliest Chinese in Mauritius arrived involuntarily, having been "shanghaied" from Sumatra in the 1740s to work in Mauritius in a scheme hatched by the French admiral Charles Hector, comte d'Estaing; however, they soon went on strike to protest their kidnapping.
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Some members of the colonial government thought that further migration should be prohibited, but Governor John Pope Hennessy, recognising the role that Sino-Mauritians played in providing cheap goods to less well-off members of society, resisted the restrictionists' lobbying.
Angidi Verriah Chettiar (அங்கிடி செட்டியார்) (29 April 1928 – 15 September 2010) was a Mauritian politician who served as the Vice President of Mauritius from August 2007 until his death in September 2010.
Amongst its responsibilities is the issuance of the Mauritian currency, the Mauritian rupee.
The stamps were bought in 1993 for $2,000,000 by a consortium of Mauritian enterprises headed by The Mauritius Commercial Bank and brought back to Mauritius after almost 150 years.
Claude Denis Boucherville de Baissac, DSO and bar, CdeG, known as Claude de Baissac or by his codename David (born 28 February 1907, Curepipe, Mauritius - died 22 December 1974) was a Mauritian of French descent who became an agent in the Special Operations Executive (SOE).
Joël de Rosnay, Mauritian-born French futurist, science writer, and molecular biologist.
With the retirement of Stephan Buckland in July 2010, Coiffic was thought to be the sprinter who would put Mauritian back at the international level but has disappointed many Mauritians due to his poor performances at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics and the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
In 1984, Mauritian botanist Deva Duttun Tirvengadum, a former director of the Mauritius Institute, renamed the endemic plant mangliye gran bwa as Glionnetia sericea, in honour of Guy Lionnet.
Shortly after his fourth birthday, his Mauritian-born father Captain Charles La Nauze was killed by Turkish artillery fire at Silt Spur (southern ANZAC sector) Gallipoli.
The Jugnauth Family of Mauritius is a prominent Mauritian family of politicians, statesmen and businessman hailing from the state of Bihar, India in the late 1800s and settled in the town of Vacoas-Phoenix.
The Mauritian Wood Pigeon (Columba thiriouxi) is an extinct species of the pigeon genus Columba which was endemic to Mauritius.
The first Mauritian migrant to France was a Tamil doctor who settled in Strasbourg, in 1970.
In April 2011, Tommy Hammond, of Tommy Hammond Sports, took South African first-class side Kwazulu-Natal Inland Under-15 side to Mauritius in what promised to be a most important and promising tour and proved to a ground-breaking tour in Mauritian cricket.
Abdool Razack Mohamed Kt, MP (1906–1978), Indian born former key Mauritian Minister in the pre and post-independence cabinet of Mauritius
After botanist Philip Burnard Ayres collected the last known specimens in 1863 it was long regarded as lost until 76 individuals were rediscovered in April 2001 by the Mauritian botanists Vincent Florens and Jean-Claude Sevathian, from the Mauritius Herbarium, on a rocky slope of the Corps de Garde six kilometres apart from the type locality.