Gerald Pereira (20 September 1929 – 4 March 1976) was an Indian freedom fighter, author, lawyer and trade unionist from Goa.

[4] On 13 December 1952, while he was still a student, he participated actively in a demonstration that displayed black flags to the then Portuguese Governor-General, who was visiting the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel.

[6] As part of the GPP, he also addressed many public meetings on issues like the planning of satyagrahas,[7] encouragement of women to join the freedom struggle,[8] and the removal of the economic blockade of Goa.

[5] He also contributed to newspapers like the National Herald, Amrita Bazar Patrika and The Free Press Journal.

[3] In 1955, during the mass satyagraha at Patradevi, Pereira was an organiser of the satyagrahis, while Luisa Carvalho, whom he later married, was one of the leaders of the Medical Brigade of the GVSS.

[10] In June that year, he was part of a delegation of 11 Goans chosen for consultation by then Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru.

This ultimately led to the defeat of the UGP candidate Wilfred de Souza by the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) candidate, Menino Jesus Luta Ferrão, in the 1974 by-election of the Benaulim Assembly constituency, followed by the split of the UGP to the United Goans Democratic Party.

[1] On 27 November 1962, Pereira was arrested at Londa for being a part of the Communist Party of India, and for allegedly being "Pro-China", in the background of the Sino-Indian War.

While some believe that a Portuguese newspaper's work had convinced the public, the prevailing theory is that the Goan Catholic Church had opposed Pereira, who was a Communist and thus did not believe in religion.

[25] In 1966, Pereira was chosen to visit the Soviet Union as part of the AITUC delegation of the Indo-Soviet Cultural Society (ISCUS).

He was also a part of organisations like the Goan Arts and Culture League, Goa Mundkar and Shetkari Sabha, and the Indo-Cuban Solidarity Centre (CESIC).

[1] Pereira married Luisa Carvalho, a medical practitioner and also a freedom fighter, on 24 December 1960 under the Special Marriage Act, 1954.