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NATIONAL HARBOR, MD – MARCH 7, 2014: Author D’Souza speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Christopher Halloran /Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Dinesh Joseph D’Souza
Place of Birth: Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra, India
Date of Birth: April 25, 1961
Ethnicity: Konkani [Goan Indian]
Dinesh D’Souza is an Indian-American political commentator, author, filmmaker, and conspiracy theorist. He has co-directed and co-written the political films 2016: Obama’s America , America: Imagine the World Without Her , Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party , Death of a Nation , Trump Card , and 2000 Mules ; and written over a dozen books. A conservative, he was a White House policy advisor in the 1980s; was president of Christian school The King’s College, from August 23, 2010 to October 18, 2012; and has been involved with the American Enterprise Institute and the Hoover Institution. He pled guilty to campaign finance fraud, and later received a presidential pardon.
His parents were Goan Catholics. His father was an executive at Johnson & Johnson. He came to the U.S. as a foreign exchange student in 1978, under the Rotary Youth Exchange, and went to high school in Patagonia, Arizona. Dinesh became a U.S. citizen in 1991. He is married to conservative political activist Deborah Fancher, who is from Venezuela. He has a daughter, writer Danielle D’Souza Gill, with his former wife Dixie Brubaker. Danielle is married to politician and investment banker Brandon Gill, who has been a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas, since January 3, 2025.