Simon Budinich (1744-1815)
Kapetan jedrenjaka, nakon 41 godine plovidbe, izabran za prvog načelnika novoosnovane Općine Veli Lošinj 1808. godine.
Bio je najstariji Antunov sin, a od svoje 12. godine plovio je s ocem ik poslije na drugim brodovima kompanije Treves iz Venecije, do svoje 53. godine. Tada je imenovan mirovnim sucem I prvim gradonačelnikom Velog Lošinja nako što se Veli Lošinj odvojio od Malog Lošinja 1808, Oženio se Katarinom Petrina, kćerkom kapetana I viteza Petra Petrine. Niz godina zapovjedao je navom “Madre Amorosa”, u vlasništvu obitelji Treves iz Venecije.
A sailing ship Master, following 41 years at sea first mayor elected to a newly formed commune of Veli Losinj, year 1808.
Simon was the eldest son of Antun Antigo Budinich, followed his father at sea since he was 12 on the sailing ships o0wned by Treves family from Venice. Later he sailed on the same company ships until the age of 53, when elected as a magistrate and first Mayor of newly formed commune of Veli Losinj, segregated from Mali Losinj, year 1808.
He was married to Katarina Petrina, daughter of another illustre knighted captain Petar Petrina.
Simon was a Master of Treves’s nava “Madre Amorosa” for a number of years.