List of people from Odisha

This is a list of people from or who live in Odisha, India.

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Literature

Age of Sarala Yuga

• Sarala Dasa (1465)
• Atibadi Jagannath Das (c. 1491–1550)

Age of Upendra Bhanja

• Kabi Samrat Upendra Bhanja (C. 1688–1740)
• Dinakrushna Dasa (c.1650–1710)
• Abhimanyu Samanta Singhara (c. 1760– 1806)
• Kavisurya Baladev Rath (c. 1789 – 1845)

Age of Radhanath

• Fakir Mohan Senapati
• Gangadhar Meher
• Radhanath Ray
• Madhusudan Rao
• Nanda Kishore Bal
• Gourishankar Ray
• Nilakantha Das

Post colonial age

• Gangadhar Meher
• Kalicharan Pattnaik
• Sachidananda Routray
• Brajanath Rath

Poets and authors

• Amjad Najmi
• Annada Shankar Ray
• Brajanath Ratha
• Fakir Mohan Senapati
• Gangadhar Meher
• Hussain Rabi Gandhi
• Godabarish Mishra
• Gopabandhu Das
• Gopinath Mohanty
• Gourahari Das
• Jachindra Rout
• Jagadish Mohanty
• Jagannath Prasad Das (Saraswati Samman winner)
• Jayadeva
• Jayanta Mahapatra
• Karamat Ali Karamat
• Kalicharan Pattnaik
• Madhusudan Rao
• Manasi Pradhan
• Manoj Das
• Manoranjan Das
• Manmohan Acharya
• Mayadhar Mansingh
• Mohammed Ayoob
• Nilakantha Das
• Oopali Operajita
• Pratibha Satpathy
• Pratyush Prakash
• Radhanath Ray
• Ramakanta Rath
• Ranjan Das
• Ramakrushna Nanda
• Sachidananda Raut Ray
• Sarala Dasa
• Sarala Devi
• Sarojini Sahoo
• Satya Narayan Bohidar
• Sitakanta Mohapatra (Jnanpith Award winner)
• Subrat Kumar Prusty (Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman winner)
• Tapan Kumar Pradhan

Writers and novelists

• Artabalabha Mohanti
• Brajanath Ratha
• Gita Mehta
• Gopinath Mohanty (Jnanpith Award winner)
• Haldhar Nag
• Kalindi Charan Panigrahi
• Krushna Chandra Kar
• Manoj Das
• Pratibha Ray
• Shantanu Kumar Acharya
• Surendra Mohanty
• Uday Satpathy

Women's writing and feminism

• Sarala Devi
• Archana Nayak
• Annapurna Choudhury
• Manasi Pradhan
• Nandini Sahu
• Sarojini Sahoo

Children's literature

• Kalicharan Pattnaik
• Adikanda Mahanta
• Krutibas Nayak
• Ramakrushna Nanda
• Dash Benhur
• Nilakantha Das

Drama and plays

• Kalicharan Pattnaik
• Gopal Chhotray
• Manoranjan Das
• Biswajit Das

Short stories

• Fakir Mohan Senapati
• Kalicharan Pattnaik
• Surendra Mohanty
• Manoj Das
• Jagadish Mohanty
• Sarojini Sahoo

Popular science

• Binod Kanungo
• Gokulananda Mohapatra
• Dr. Ramesh Chandra Parida
• Kamalakanta Jena

Education and Research

Satyabadi Era

• Gopabandhu Das
• Nilakantha Das
• Godabarish Mishra

Later Period

• Kalicharan Pattnaik
• Baidyanath Misra
• Bhubaneswar Behera
• Bidhu Bhusan Das
• Prabhat Nalini Das
• Subrat Kumar Prusty (Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman
• Madhu Sudan Kanungo
• Keshab Chandra Dash
• Madhab Chandra Dash
• Ranjan Dash
• Prafulla Kumar Jena
• Baisali Mohanty
• Jitendra Nath Mohanty
• Saraju Mohanty
• Oopali Operajita
• Prana Krushna Parija
• Nikhil Mohan Pattnaik
• Jogesh Pati
• Arun K. Pati
• Sam Pitroda
• Amiya Pujari
• Ashok Swain

Business and Entrepreneurship

• Sadhabas - Traders and Merchants from Odisha( Kalinga)
• Kaundinya I - Kalingan Merchant & second monarch of Funan
• Madhusudan Das - Founder of Orissa Art Wares in 1898 and Utkal Tannery in 1905
• Biju Patnaik - Founder of Kalinga tubes, Kalinga Airlines, Kalinga Iron work, Kalinga Refractories and the Kalinga, a daily Odia newspaper
• Mahimananda Mishra - Founder, OSL Group
• Banshidhar Panda - Founder, IMFA Group
• Achyuta Samanta - Founder, KIIT Group
• Tara Ranjan Pattnaik - Founder, Falcon Marine Group
• Dilip Ray - Founder, Mayfair Group
• Soumya Ranjan Patnaik - Founder, Sambad Group
• Prem Pattnaik - Founder, Haryana Coated Papers ltd & Red Fortune Llp
• Pankaj Lochan Mohanty - Founder, MGM Group
• Dr Satyaprakash Panda - Founder, Gandhi Group of Institutions
• Dr Swarup Ranjan Mishra - Founder, Mediheal Group of Hospitals, Kenya & 1st Odia MP of Kenya, from Kesses Constituency.
• Dr Ramakanta Panda - Founder, Asian Heart Institute & Asian Hospitals
• Dr Sita Kantha Dash - Founder, Kalinga Hospitals
• Dr Maya Gantayet - Founder, Ashwini Group of Hospitals
• Arun Kar - Founder of the Nest Group-a multinational conglomerate from UK
• Aditya Patra - Founder, The Aditya Group (Odisha)
• Biswanath Pattnaik - Founder FinNest Group of Companies, a renewable energy-focused private equity investment company
• Tarini Prasad Mohanty - Founder,

Naibuga Iron and Manganese Mines (Mining Magnate) and owner of Team Gonasika, hockey franchise of Visakhapatnam, AP

• Dr Priyabrata Dhir - Founder, Sparsh Healthcare group
• Rabindra Kumar Jena - Founder, Highland Group
• Sibashish Mishra - Founder of BookingJini, a hospitality SaaS platform serving thousands of hotels
• Sitakanta Ray - Founder of RetainIQ, is aimed at e-commerce brands looking to enhance their customer engagement and MySmartPrice, a leading price comparison platform used by lakhs of Indian consumers
• Subrat Kar - Founder of MotorFloor, an online marketplace for commercial vehicles such as trucks, tractors, buses, and electric vehicles & co-founder of Vidooly, a video analytics platform that changed how Indian content creators and brands measured video performance
• Santosh Panda - Founder of Foundership, a global accelerator VC focused on AI, Web3, and emerging tech and Explara in 2008 — a platform that deals with event ticketing and management across India
• Srikumar Mishra - Founder of Aarna Protocol, a Singapore-based platform that blends decentralised finance with AI to create autonomous asset management solutions and Milk Mantra - dairy products startup, which was acquired by Hatsun Agro Product ltd. in 2025
• Sarat Kumar Sahoo - Founder of Ruchi Foodline, a FMCG sector company whose brand "Ruchi Masala" is a household name in Odisha.
• Pradosh Kumar Rout - Founder of Pragati Milk Products, whose brand

"Pragati” is the most trusted and popular dairy product brand in every household of Odisha.

• Asish Mohapatra - Co founder and CEO of "Ofbusiness"
• Priyadarshi Nanu Pany - Founder of CSM Technologies
• Dr Tirupati Panigrahi - Founder of Hi-tech Group
• Tapendra N Senapati & Ayaskanta Mohanty - Founder of Tatwa Technologies
• Subroto Bagchi - Co-Founder of MindTree Limited
• Jyotiranjan Harichandan - Co-founder of Bolt Energy, one of India’s fastest-growing EV infrastructure companies.
• Manas Badajena - Founder of Houzlook, the creative force and entrepreneurial mind behind Houzlook, Bangalore’s trusted full-service interior design brand.
• Tara Prasad Mahapatra - the visionary entrepreneur behind Asian Health Meter and Health Express
• Jitu Mohapatra - Founder of Orimark Properties
• Dr. Kamakhya Das - Founder of Kruti Coffee, one of India’s fastest-growing homegrown specialty coffee brands
• Capt. Soumya R. Patnaik- the Managing Partner & CEO of Panbulk Shipping DMCC, one of the most respected names in global maritime logistics
• Dr. Jitendra Kumar Mohanty - the visionary founder and CMD of Swosti Group — Odisha’s leading name in hospitality, tourism, and education
• Dr. Sreejoy Patnaik, a renowned surgeon and the visionary founder of Shanti Hospitals Group, Cuttack
• Biraja Rout - Founder of Biggies Burger – one of India’s fastest-growing burger chains
• Manoj Kumar Pattnaik - the visionary founder of Orissa Transformer Pvt Ltd (OTPL) – a name trusted by Tata and many other industrial giants across India
• Milan K. Mishra - Founder of Duramix Concrete — one of Odisha’s most trusted names in the construction materials industry.
• Suresh Chandra Sahoo - Founder of Dion Group
• Amarendra Dash - Founder of Suryo Group
• Sibasis Nayak - Founder of T Cube Solutions (acquired by Capgemini)
• Tapan Kumar Mohanty - Founder of Z Estates Group
• Mohammed Moquim - Founder of Metro Group

Artists

Actresses

• Anu Choudhury
• Archita Sahu
• Barsha Priyadarshini
• Bijaya Jena
• Jyoti Mishra
• Mahasweta Ray
• Naina Das
• Nandita Das
• Rameshwari
• Sulagna Panigrahi
• Tandra Ray
• Kavya Keeran
• Rajeswari Ray
• Pupul Bhuyan
• Sudharani Jena

Actors

• Akash Das Nayak
• Anubhav Mohanty
• Arindam Roy
• Atal Bihari Panda
• Babushaan Mohanty
• Bijay Mohanty
• Buddhaditya Mohanty
• Chandan Kar
• Chandrachur Singh
• Dipanwit Dashmohapatra
• Dukhiram Swain
• Hara Patnaik
• Jayiram Samal
• Mihir Das
• Papu Pam Pam
• Prashanta Nanda
• Sabyasachi Mishra
• Sadhu Meher
• Sarat Pujari
• Siddhanta Mahapatra
• Sisir Misra
• Sriram Panda
• Uttam Mohanty
• Mohammad Mohsin
• Jyoti Ranjan Nayak
• Samaresh Routray
• Partha Sarathi Ray

Dancers

Modern

• Rajasmita Kar
• Prince Dance Group

Odissi Gurus and Dancers

• Kalicharan Pattnaik
• Gangadhar Pradhan
• Geeta Mahalik
• Kelucharan Mohapatra
• Mayadhar Raut
• Sanjukta Panigrahi
• Saswat Joshi
• Sujata Mohapatra
• Sunanda Patnaik
• Oopali Operajita
• Kumkum Mohanty
• Baisali Mohanty
• Dayanidhi Das

Filmmakers

• Mohammad Mohsin
• Mehmood Hussain
• Bijoy Ketan Mishra
• Hara Patnaik
• Mira Nair
• Nila Madhab Panda
• Nitai Palit
• Prashanta Nanda
• Ravi Kinagi
• Sabyasachi Mohapatra
• Sadhu Meher
• Sisir Mishra
• Jitendra Mishra

Painters

• Jatin Das
• Jayanta Meher
• Kailash Chandra Meher

Sand artists

• Sudarshan Pattnaik

Sculptors

• Raghunath Mohapatra
• Sudarshan Sahoo

Singers

• Kalicharan Pattnaik
• Akshaya Mohanty
• Bhikari Bal
• Arabinda Muduli
• Krishna Beura
• Pratyush Prakash
• Sarbeswar Bhoi
• Sikandar Alam ^{[1] [2] [3]}
• Sniti Mishra
• Sona Mohapatra
• Sunanda Patnaik
• Rituraj Mohanty
• Jitendra Haripal

Musicians

• Kalicharan Pattnaik
• Akshaya Mohanty
• Prafulla Kar ^{[4] [5] [6]}
• Arabinda Muduli

Designers

• Bibhu Mohapatra

Jurists

• Ananga Kumar Patnaik; Former Justice of Supreme Court of India
• Gopal Ballav Pattanaik; Former Chief Justice of India
• Bira Kishore Ray; First Chief Justice of Orissa High Court
• Sukanta Kishore Ray; Former Chief Justice of Orissa High Court
• Jugal Kishore Mohanty; Former Chief Justice of Sikkim High Court ^[7]
• Pradip Kumar Mohanty; Former Chief Justice of Jharkhand High Court
• Gati Krushna Misra; Former Chief Justice of Orissa High Court
• Ranganath Misra; Former Chief Justice of India
• Dipak Misra; Former Chief Justice of India

Chief Executive Officers

• T.K.Chand, Chairman and Managing Director of NALCO

Professionals

Bankers

• Ashok Kumar Sarangi
• Harun Rashid Khan

Engineers

• Bibhusita Das

Managers

• Sarthak Behuria
• Sandip Das
• Subroto Bagchi
• Dr Tapan Kumar Pradhan
• Ranjan Dash

Physicians

• B. K. Misra (Neurosurgeon)
• Ramakanta Panda (Cardiovascular Surgeon)

Journalists

• Bibhuti Bhushan Nayak (Journalist)
• Gopal Mishra

Government civil servants

• Anugraha Narayan Tiwari (Former CIC of India)
• Lalit Mansingh
• Prajna Paramita
• Ramakanta Rath
• Sitakanta Mohapatra
• Dayanidhi Choudhury

Security and Law Enforcement

• Pramod Kumar Satapathy

Religion

• Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
• Bhima Bhoi
• Jayadeva
• Atibadi Jagannath Das
• Achyutananda Das
• Durga Charan Mohanty

Freedom fighters

• Annapurna Choudhury
• Afzal-ul Amin
• Baji Rout
• Biswambhar Parida
• Bishwanath Das
• Bakshi Jagabandhu
• Chakhi Khuntia
• Ekram Rasul
• Ghanshyam Panigrahi
• Gopabandhu Choudhury
• Gopabandhu Das
• Godabarish Mishra
• Gurubari Meher
• Harekrushna Mahatab
• Jayee Rajguru
• Jagannatha Gajapati Narayana Deo II
• Jagabandhu Patnaik
• Kamal Singh
• Karunakar Singh
• Krushna Chandra Gajapati
• Laxman Nayak
• Madhab Chandra Routray
• Madho Singh (Ghess)
• Madhusudan Das
• Madhusudan Rao
• Malati Choudhury
• Nabakrushna Choudhuri
• Nilakantha Das
• Nityananda Mohapatra
• Parbati Giri
• Pindiki Bahubalendra
• RamaDevi Choudhury
• Sarala Devi
• Subhas Chandra Bose
• Sarangadhar Das
• Sayeed Mohammed
• Veer Surendra Sai

Rulers

• Avakinnayo Karakandu
• Chullakalinga
• Kalinga II
• Kharavela
• Kalinga Magha
• Nissanka Malla
• Satrubhanja
• Kaundinya I
• Hemangada
• Sivakara Deva I
• Ramachandra Deva I
• Tribhuvana Mahadevi I
• Anantavarman Chodaganga
• Anangabhima Deva III
• Narasingha Deva I
• Kapilendra Deva
• Purushottama Deva
• Prataparudra Deva
• Govinda Vidyadhara
• Jagannatha Gajapati Narayana Deo II
• Krushna Chandra Gajapati
• Basudeb Sudhal Deb
• Ramai Deva
• Balarama Deva
• Vishwanath Dev Gajapati
• Vikram Dev III
• Sriram Chandra Bhanj Deo

Politicians

• Amarnath Pradhan
• Ananga Udaya Singh Deo
• Ananta Nayak
• Archana Nayak
• Arjun Charan Sethi
• Afzal-ul Amin
• Badri Narayan Patra
• Bhakta Charan Das
• Gopanarayan Das
• Bhartruhari Mahtab
• Bhupinder Singh
• Bibhu Prasad Tarai
• Bijayananda Patnaik
• Bijoy Mohapatra
• Biju Patnaik
• Bikram Keshari Deo
• Binayak Acharya
• Biren Mitra
• Bishwanath Das
• Braja Kishore Tripathy
• Chandra Sekhar Sahu
• Chintamani Panigrahi
• Draupadi Murmu
• Godabarish Mishra
• Gourahari Naik
• Giridhar Gamang
• Habibullah Khan
• Harekrushna Mahatab
• Hari Har Swain
• Hemananda Biswal
• Hrushikesh Naik
• Hussain Rabi Gandhi
• Janaki Ballabh Patnaik
• Jayaram Pangi
• Jitu Patnaik
• Jual Oram
• Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo
• Kamakhya Prasad Singh Deo
• Laichan Nayak
• Laxman Tudu
• Maheswar Baug
• Mohan Jena
• Nabakrushna Choudhuri
• Nabin Nanda
• Nandini Satpathy
• Naveen Patnaik
• Nilakantha Das
• Nityanand Kanungo
• Nilamani Routray
• Niranjan Patnaik
• Nityananda Pradhan
• Parsuram Majhi
• Pinaki Misra
• Pradeep Kumar Majhi
• Prasanna Acharya
• Prasanna Kumar Patasani
• P.V.Narasimha Rao
• Pyarimohan Mohapatra
• Rabi Ray
• Radhanath Rath
• Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo
• Ranjib Biswal
• Rudramadhab Ray
• Sadashiva Tripathy
• Samarendra Kundu
• Sanatan Mahakud
• Saptagiri Sankar Ulaka
• Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo
• Sanjay Bhoi
• Sarala Devi
• Siddhanta Mahapatra
• Soumya Ranjan Patnaik
• Srikant Kumar Jena
• Surendra Mohanty
• Sudam Marndi
• Surendra Mohanty
• Sushila Tiriya
• Tathagata Satpathy
• V.V. Giri
• Baikunthanath Swain

Social service

• Baba Balia
• Sarala Devi
• Madhusudan Das
• Gopabandhu Das
• Subrat Kumar Prusty
• Farhat Amin
• Manasi Pradhan
• Begum Badar un nissa Akhtar

Sports

Cricket

• Alok Jena
• A. Panda
• Baljit Singh
• Basant Mohanty
• Bibhudutta Panda
• Kadambini Mohakud
• Biplab Samantray
• Debashish Mohanty
• Ranjib Biswal
• Sanjay Raul
• Shiv Sunder Das
• Natraj Behera

Hockey

• Binita Toppo (female hockey)
• Dilip Tirkey
• Lazarus Barla
• Ignace Tirkey
• Birendra Lakra

Other sports

• Anuradha Biswal (100m hurdles, running)
• Budhia Singh (long distance running)
• Dutee Chand (sprint runner)
• Jauna Murmu (sprint running, hurdler)
• Katulu Ravi Kumar (weightlifting)
• Srabani Nanda (sprint runner)
• Pramila Prava Minz (rowing)
• Pratima Puhan (rowing)
• Valena Valentina (karate)
• Kalpana Dash (Everest climber)
• Pramod Bhagat (Paralympian)

See also

• Lists of people from India by state
• List of Odia poets
• Odia people
• Odia literature
• Odia language

References

1. "The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) | Orissa | Sur Badshah ceases to sing". www.telegraphindia.com. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014.
2. "Oriya singer Sikandar Alam passes away - OTHER STATES - The Hindu". The Hindu. 10 August 2010.
3. "Sikandar Alam | Orissa Cinema | Odisha Ollywood".
4. "The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) | Orissa | Orissa Campus". www.telegraphindia.com. Archived from the original on 19 August 2014.
5. "The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) | Orissa | Musical tribute to singer". www.telegraphindia.com. Archived from the original on 19 August 2014.
6. "'I find present day lyrics spineless' - Times of India". The Times of India . Archived from the original on 28 June 2013. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
7. India, The Hans (20 March 2021). "Governor Biswa Bhusan pays tributes to Justice Jugal Kishore Mohanty". www.thehansindia.com. Retrieved 23 October 2024.

External links

• Odissi dance at the Open Directory
• History of Odissi