Basdeo Panday

Personal detailsBorn(1933-05-25)25 May 1933
Died1 January 2024(2024-01-01) (aged 90)
PartyUnited National Congress (from 1989; nominally)
Patriotic Front (from 2020)Spouse(s)Norma Mohammed (died 1981)
Oma RamkissoonChildren4, including MickelaRelativesSubhas Panday (brother)
Sam Boodram (brother-in-law)EducationOccupationPravasi Bharatiya Samman (2005)NicknameThe Silver Fox

Basdeo Panday (pronounced; 25 May 1933 – 1 January 2024) was a Trinidadian politician who served as the fifth Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago from 1995 to 2001. He was the first Indo-Trinidadian, along with being the first Hindu, to hold the office of prime minister in his country.

Panday was first elected to Parliament in 1976. He served as Leader of the Opposition four times between 1976 and 2010 and was a founding member of the United Labour Front (ULF), the National Alliance for Reconstruction (NAR), and the United National Congress (UNC). He served as leader of the ULF and UNC, and was President General of the All Trinidad Sugar and General Workers' Trade Union from 1973 to 1995.

In 2005, he was awarded the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman by the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs.