Lotus Vingadassamy-Engel

Geneviève Yolande Marie Engel (; 17 December 1946 – 6 April 2026), known professionally as Lotus Vingadassamy-Engel and Lotus Engel, was a French Guadeloupean poet, lyricist, and professor of French literature of the 18th century. Vingadassamy-Engel was known for her 1992 work "The Hindu Diaspora in the French West Indies". From the 1980s onwards Vingadassamy-Engel published poetry, lyrics and works of fiction. Vingadassamy-Engel's poem The Scribe was calligraphed by , a calligrapher, type designer and painter.

In December 1991, Vingadassamy-Engel gave a lecture entitled "The Hindu Diaspora in the French West Indies" at the India International Centre, which detailed the effects of indentured labour on Indo-Guadeloupeans, and the Hindu customs practiced among their descendants. Vingadassamy-Engel's work played a role in the cementing of Indo-Guadeloupeans as being part of the Indian diaspora. A revised version of this lecture was subsequently published in the India International Quarterly in 1992. Vingadassamy-Engel was also a painter, sculptor and calligrapher.

On 6 April 2026 Vingadassamy-Engel died in Saint-Jean-de-Liversay, aged 79.