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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div> <br /> {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2014}}<br /> {{Refimprove|date=May 2017}} <br /> {{dynamic list}} <br /> This is a list of people from or who live in [[Odisha]], India.<br /> <br /> ==Literature==<br /> <br /> ===Age of Sarala Yuga===<br /> <br /> *[[Sarala Dasa]] (1465)<br /> *[[Atibadi Jagannath Das]] (c. 1491–1550)<br /> <br /> ===Age of Upendra Bhanja===<br /> <br /> * [[Kabi Samrat Upendra Bhanja]] (C. 1688–1740)<br /> * [[Kavisurya Baladev Rath]] (c. 1789&amp;nbsp;– 1845)<br /> <br /> ===Age of Radhanath===<br /> <br /> * [[Fakir Mohan Senapati]]<br /> * [[Gangadhar Meher]]<br /> * [[Radhanath Ray]]<br /> * [[Madhusudan Rao]]<br /> * [[Nanda Kishore Bal]]<br /> * [[Gourishankar Ray]]<br /> <br /> ===Post colonial age===<br /> * [[Gangadhar Meher]]<br /> * [[Sachidananda Routray]]<br /> * [[Brajanath Rath]]<br /> <br /> ===Poets and authors===<br /> * [[Annada Shankar Ray]]<br /> * [[Brajanath Ratha]]<br /> * [[Bibhuprasad Mohapatra]]<br /> * [[Fakir Mohan Senapati]]<br /> * [[Gangadhar Meher]]<br /> * [[Hussain Rabi Gandhi]]<br /> * [[Gopabandhu Das]]<br /> * [[Gopinath Mohanty]]<br /> * [[Gourahari Das]]<br /> * [[Jachindra Rout]]<br /> * [[Jagadish Mohanty]]<br /> * [[Jagannath Prasad Das]] ([[Saraswati Samman]] winner)<br /> * [[Jayadeva]]<br /> * [[Jayanta Mahapatra]]<br /> * [[Madhusudan Rao]]<br /> * [[Manasi Pradhan]]<br /> * [[Manoj Das]]<br /> * [[Manoranjan Das]]<br /> * [[Manmohan Acharya]]<br /> * [[Mohammed Ayoob]]<br /> * [[Oopali Operajita]]<br /> * [[Pratibha Satpathy]]<br /> * [[Pratyush Prakash]]<br /> * [[Radhanath Ray]]<br /> * [[Ramakanta Rath]]<br /> * [[Ranjan Das]]<br /> * [[Ramakrushna Nanda]]<br /> * [[Sachidananda Raut Ray]]<br /> * [[Sarala Dasa]]<br /> * [[Sarala Devi]]<br /> * [[Sarojini Sahoo]]<br /> * [[Satya Narayan Bohidar]]<br /> * [[Sitakanta Mohapatra]] ([[Bharatiya Jnanpith|Jnanpith Award]] winner)<br /> * [[Tapan Kumar Pradhan]]<br /> <br /> ===Writers and novelists===<br /> * [[Artabalabha Mohanti]]<br /> * [[Bibhuprasad Mohapatra]]<br /> * [[Brajanath Ratha]]<br /> * [[Gita Mehta]]<br /> * [[Gopinath Mohanty]] ([[Bharatiya Jnanpith|Jnanpith Award]] winner)<br /> * [[Haldhar Nag]]<br /> * [[Kalindi Charan Panigrahi]]<br /> * [[Krushna Chandra Kar]]<br /> * [[Manoj Das]]<br /> * [[Pratibha Ray]]<br /> * [[Rajendra Prasad Das]]<br /> * [[Shantanu Kumar Acharya]]<br /> * [[Surendra Mohanty]]<br /> * [[Uday Satpathy]]<br /> <br /> ===Women&#039;s writing and feminism===<br /> *[[Sarala Devi]]<br /> *[[Archana Nayak]]<br /> *[[Annapurna Maharana]]<br /> *[[Manasi Pradhan]]<br /> *[[Nandini Sahu]]<br /> *[[Sarojini Sahoo]]<br /> <br /> ===Children&#039;s literature===<br /> *[[Adikanda Mahanta]]<br /> *[[Bibhuprasad Mohapatra]]<br /> *[[Krutibas Nayak]]<br /> *[[Ramakrushna Nanda]]<br /> *[[Dash Benhur]]<br /> <br /> ===Drama and plays===<br /> *[[Gopal Chhotray]]<br /> *[[Manoranjan Das]]<br /> *[[Biswajit Das (playwright)|Biswajit Das]]<br /> <br /> ===Short stories===<br /> *[[Fakir Mohan Senapati]]<br /> *[[Surendra Mohanty]]<br /> *[[Manoj Das]]<br /> *[[Jagadish Mohanty]]<br /> *[[Sarojini Sahoo]]<br /> <br /> ===Popular science===<br /> *[[Binod Kanungo]]<br /> *[[Gokulananda Mohapatra]]<br /> *[[Ramesh Chandra Parida|Dr. Ramesh Chandra Parida]]<br /> *[[Kamalakanta Jena]]<br /> *[[Bibhuprasad Mohapatra]]<br /> *[[Mayadhar Swain]]<br /> <br /> ==Education and Research==<br /> * [[Baidyanath Misra]]<br /> * [[Bhubaneswar Behera]]<br /> * [[Bidhu Bhusan Das]]<br /> * [[Prabhat Nalini Das]]<br /> * [[Madhu Sudan Kanungo]]<br /> * [[Keshab Chandra Dash]]<br /> * [[Madhab Chandra Dash]]<br /> * [[Ranjan Dash]]<br /> * [[Prafulla Kumar Jena]]<br /> * [[Baisali Mohanty]]<br /> * [[Jitendra Nath Mohanty]]<br /> * [[Saraju Mohanty]]<br /> * [[Oopali Operajita]]<br /> * [[Prana Krushna Parija]]<br /> * [[Nikhil Mohan Pattnaik]]<br /> * [[Jogesh Pati]]<br /> * [[Arun K. Pati]]<br /> * [[Sam Pitroda]]<br /> * [[Amiya Pujari]]<br /> * [[Ashok Swain]]<br /> <br /> ==Artists==<br /> <br /> ===Actresses===<br /> * [[Anisha Ambrose]]<br /> * [[Anu Chowdhury]]<br /> * [[Aparajita Mohanty]]<br /> * [[Archita Sahu]]<br /> * [[Barsha Priyadarshini]]<br /> * [[Bijaya Jena]]<br /> * [[Jyoti Mishra]]<br /> * [[Mahasweta Ray]]<br /> * [[Naina Das]]<br /> * [[Nandita Das]]<br /> * [[Talluri Rameshwari|Rameshwari]]<br /> * [[Sulagna Panigrahi]]<br /> * [[Tandra Ray]]<br /> <br /> ===Actors===<br /> {{div col|colwidth=30em}}* [[Akash Das Nayak]]<br /> * [[Anubhav Mohanty]]<br /> * [[Atal Bihari Panda]]<br /> * [[Babushan]]<br /> * [[Bijay Mohanty]]<br /> * [[Buddhaditya Mohanty]]<br /> * [[Chandan Kar]]<br /> * [[Chandrachur Singh]]<br /> * [[Dukhiram Swain]]<br /> * [[Hara Patnaik]]<br /> * [[Jayiram Samal]]<br /> * [[Mihir Das]]<br /> * [[Papu Pam Pam]]<br /> * [[Prashanta Nanda]]<br /> * [[Sabyasachi Mishra]]<br /> * [[Sadhu Meher]]<br /> * [[Sarat Pujari]]<br /> * [[Siddhanta Mahapatra]]<br /> * [[Sisir Misra]]<br /> * [[Sriram Panda]]<br /> * [[Uttam Mohanty]]<br /> * [[Mohammad Mohsin]]<br /> {{div col end}}<br /> <br /> ===Dancers===<br /> <br /> ====Modern====<br /> * [[Rajasmita Kar]]<br /> * [[Prince Dance Group]]<br /> <br /> ====Odissi Gurus and Dancers====<br /> * [[Gangadhar Pradhan]]<br /> * [[Geeta Mahalik]]<br /> * [[Kelucharan Mohapatra]]<br /> * [[Mayadhar Raut]]<br /> * [[Sanjukta Panigrahi]]<br /> * [[Saswat Joshi]]<br /> * [[Sujata Mohapatra]]<br /> * [[Sunanda Patnaik]]<br /> * [[Oopali Operajita]]<br /> * [[Kumkum Mohanty]]<br /> * [[Baisali Mohanty]]<br /> <br /> ===Filmmakers===<br /> * [[Mohammad Mohsin]]<br /> * [[Mehmood Hussain]]<br /> * [[Bijoy Ketan Mishra]]<br /> * [[Hara Patnaik]]<br /> * [[Mira Nair]]<br /> * [[Nila Madhab Panda]]<br /> * [[Nitai Palit]]<br /> * [[Prashanta Nanda]]<br /> * [[Ravi Kinagi]]<br /> * [[Sabyasachi Mohapatra]]<br /> * [[Sadhu Meher]]<br /> * [[Sisir Mishra]]<br /> * [[Jitendra Mishra]]<br /> <br /> ===Painters===<br /> * [[Jatin Das (painter)|Jatin Das]]<br /> * [[Jayanta Meher]]<br /> * [[Kailash Chandra Meher]]<br /> <br /> ===Sand artists===<br /> * [[Sudarshan Pattnaik]]<br /> <br /> ===Sculptors===<br /> * [[Raghunath Mohapatra]]<br /> <br /> ===Singers===<br /> * [[Akshaya Mohanty]]<br /> * [[Bhikari Bal]]<br /> * [[Arabinda Muduli]]<br /> * [[Krishna Beura]]<br /> * [[Pratyush Prakash]]<br /> * [[Sarbeswar Bhoi]]<br /> * [[Sikandar Alam]]&lt;ref&gt;http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100810/jsp/orissa/story_12790780.jsp&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-otherstates/oriya-singer-sikandar-alam-passes-away/article562238.ece&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;http://www.orissacinema.com/interviews/sikandar_alam.html&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> * [[Sniti Mishra]]<br /> * [[Sona Mohapatra]]<br /> * [[Sunanda Patnaik]]<br /> * [[Rituraj Mohanty]]<br /> * [[Jitendra Haripal]]<br /> <br /> ===Musicians===<br /> * [[Akshaya Mohanty]]<br /> * [[Prafulla Kar]]&lt;ref&gt;http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110106/jsp/orissa/story_13398629.jsp&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110218/jsp/orissa/story_13597854.jsp&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;[https://archive.today/20130628034021/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-02-17/bhubaneswar/31071186_1_music-lyrics-odia ]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> * [[Arabinda Muduli]]<br /> <br /> ===Designers===<br /> * [[Bibhu Mohapatra]]<br /> <br /> ==Jurists==<br /> * [[Ananga Kumar Patnaik]]; Former Justice of the [[Supreme Court of India]]<br /> * [[Gopal Ballav Pattanaik]]; Former [[Chief Justice of India]]<br /> * [[Ranganath Misra]]; Former [[Chief Justice of India]]<br /> * [[Dipak Misra]]; [[Chief Justice of India]]<br /> <br /> ==Chief Executive Officers==<br /> * [[T.K.Chand]], Chairman and Managing Director of [[National Aluminium Company | NALCO]]<br /> <br /> ==Professionals==<br /> <br /> ===Bankers===<br /> *[[Ashok Sarangi|Ashok Kumar Sarangi]]<br /> *[[Harun Rashid Khan]]<br /> *[[Sopnendu Mohanty]]<br /> <br /> ===Engineers===<br /> * [[Bibhusita Das]]<br /> <br /> ===Managers===<br /> * [[Sarthak Behuria]]<br /> * [[Sandip Das]]<br /> * [[Subroto Bagchi]]<br /> * [[Dr Tapan Kumar Pradhan]]<br /> * [[Ranjan Dash]]<br /> <br /> ===Physicians===<br /> * [[B. K. Misra]] (Neurosurgeon)<br /> * [[Ramakanta Panda]] (Cardiovascular Surgeon)<br /> <br /> ===Journalists===<br /> * [[Bibhuti Bhushan Nayak]] (Journalist)<br /> * [[Gopal Mishra]]<br /> <br /> ==Government civil servants==<br /> * [[Anugraha Narayan Tiwari]] (Former CIC of India)<br /> * [[Lalit Mansingh]]<br /> * [[Prajna Paramita]]<br /> * [[Ramakanta Rath]]<br /> * [[Sitakanta Mohapatra]]<br /> * [[Dayanidhi Choudhury]]<br /> <br /> === Security and Law Enforcement ===<br /> <br /> * [[Pramod Kumar Satapathy]]<br /> <br /> ==Religion==<br /> * [[Chaitanya Mahaprabhu]]<br /> * [[Bhima Bhoi]]<br /> * [[Jayadeva]]<br /> * [[Atibadi Jagannath Das]]<br /> * [[Achyutananda|Achyutananda Das]]<br /> * [[Durga Charan Mohanty]]<br /> <br /> ==Freedom fighters==<br /> {{div col|colwidth=22em}}<br /> * [[Annapurna Maharana]]<br /> * [[Afzal-ul Amin]]<br /> * [[Baji Rout]]<br /> * [[Birsa Munda]]<br /> * [[Biswambhar Parida]]<br /> * [[Bishwanath Das]]<br /> * [[Bakshi Jagabandhu]]<br /> * [[Chakhi Khuntia]]<br /> * [[Ekram Rasul]]<br /> * [[Ghanshyam Panigrahi]]<br /> * [[Gopabandhu Das]]<br /> * [[Gurubari Meher]]<br /> * [[Harekrushna Mahatab]]<br /> * [[Jayee Rajguru]]<br /> * [[Jagannatha Gajapati Narayana Deo II]]<br /> * [[Jagabandhu Patnaik]]<br /> * [[Kamal Singh Dao|Kamal Singh]]<br /> * [[Karunakar Singh]]<br /> * [[Krushna Chandra Gajapati]]<br /> * [[Laxman Nayak]]<br /> * [[Madhab Chandra Routray]]<br /> * [[Madho Singh (Ghess)]]<br /> * [[Madhusudan Das]]<br /> * [[Madhusudan Rao]]<br /> * [[Malati Choudhury]]<br /> * [[Nabakrushna Choudhuri]]<br /> * [[Nityananda Mohapatra]]<br /> * [[Parbati Giri]]<br /> * [[Pindiki Bahubalendra]]<br /> * [[Rama Devi (Orissa politician)|Rama Devi]]<br /> * [[Sarala Devi]]<br /> * [[Subhas Chandra Bose]]<br /> * [[Sayeed Mohammed]]<br /> * [[Veer Surendra Sai]]<br /> {{div col end}}<br /> <br /> ==Rulers==<br /> *[[Avakinnayo Karakandu]]<br /> *[[Chullakalinga]]<br /> *[[Kalinga II]]<br /> *[[Kharavela]]<br /> *[[Satrubhanja]]<br /> *[[Kaundinya I]]<br /> *[[Hemangada]]<br /> *[[Sivakara Deva I]]<br /> *[[Ramachandra Deva I]]<br /> *[[Tribhuvana Mahadevi I]]<br /> *[[Anantavarman Chodaganga]]<br /> *[[Anangabhima Deva III]]<br /> *[[Narasingha Deva I]]<br /> *[[Kapilendra Deva]]<br /> *[[Purushottama Deva]]<br /> *[[Prataparudra Deva]]<br /> *[[Jagannatha Gajapati Narayana Deo II]]<br /> *[[Krushna Chandra Gajapati]]<br /> *[[Basudeb Sudhal Deb]]<br /> *[[Ramai Deva]]<br /> *[[Balarama Deva]]<br /> *[[Vishwanath Dev Gajapati]]<br /> *[[Vikram Dev III]]<br /> *[[Sriram Chandra Bhanj Deo]]<br /> <br /> ==Politicians==<br /> {{div col|colwidth=22em}}<br /> * [[Amarnath Pradhan]]<br /> * [[Ananga Udaya Singh Deo]]<br /> * [[Ananta Nayak]]<br /> * [[Archana Nayak]]<br /> * [[Arjun Charan Sethi]]<br /> * [[Afzal-ul Amin]]<br /> * [[Badri Narayan Patra]]<br /> * [[Bhakta Charan Das]]<br /> * [[Bhartruhari Mahtab]]<br /> * [[Bhupinder Singh (politician)|Bhupinder Singh]]<br /> * [[Bibhu Prasad Tarai]]<br /> * [[Bijayananda Patnaik]]<br /> * [[Bijoy Mohapatra]]<br /> * [[Biju Patnaik]]<br /> * [[Bikram Keshari Deo]]<br /> * [[Binayak Acharya]]<br /> * [[Biren Mitra]]<br /> * [[Bishwanath Das]]<br /> * [[Braja Kishore Tripathy]]<br /> * [[Chandra Sekhar Sahu]]<br /> * [[Chintamani Panigrahi]]<br /> * [[Draupadi Murmu]]<br /> * [[Gourahari Naik]]<br /> * [[Giridhar Gamang]]<br /> * [[Habibullah Khan]]<br /> * [[Harekrushna Mahatab]]<br /> * [[Hari Har Swain]]<br /> * [[Hemananda Biswal]]<br /> * [[Hrushikesh Naik]]<br /> * [[Hussain Rabi Gandhi]]<br /> * [[Janaki Ballabh Patnaik]]<br /> * [[Jayaram Pangi]]<br /> * [[Jitu Patnaik]]<br /> * [[Jual Oram]]<br /> * [[Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo]]<br /> * [[Kamakhya Prasad Singh Deo]]<br /> * [[Laichan Nayak]]<br /> * [[Laxman Tudu]]<br /> * [[Maheswar Baug]]<br /> * [[Mohan Jena]]<br /> * [[Nabakrushna Choudhuri]]<br /> * [[Nabin Nanda]]<br /> * [[Nandini Satpathy]]<br /> * [[Naveen Patnaik]]<br /> * [[Nityanand Kanungo]]<br /> * [[Nilamani Routray]]<br /> * [[Niranjan Patnaik]]<br /> * [[Nityananda Pradhan]]<br /> * [[Parsuram Majhi]]<br /> * [[Pinaki Misra]]<br /> * [[Pradeep Kumar Majhi]]<br /> * [[Prasanna Acharya]]<br /> * [[Prasanna Kumar Patasani]]<br /> * [[P.V.Narasimha Rao]]<br /> * [[Pyarimohan Mohapatra]]<br /> * [[Rabi Ray]]<br /> * [[Radhanath Rath]]<br /> * [[Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo]]<br /> * [[Ranjib Biswal]]<br /> * [[Rudramadhab Ray]]<br /> * [[Sadashiva Tripathy]]<br /> * [[Samarendra Kundu]]<br /> * [[Sanatan Mahakud]]<br /> * [[Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo]]<br /> * [[Sanjay Bhoi]]<br /> * [[Sarala Devi]]<br /> * [[Siddhanta Mahapatra]]<br /> * [[Soumya Ranjan Patnaik]]<br /> * [[Srikant Kumar Jena]]<br /> * [[Surendra Mohanty]]<br /> * [[Sudam Marndi]]<br /> * [[Surendra Mohanty]]<br /> * [[Sushila Tiriya]]<br /> * [[Tathagata Satpathy]]<br /> * [[V.V. Giri]]<br /> {{div col end}}<br /> <br /> ==Social service==<br /> * [[Sarala Devi]]<br /> * [[Madhusudan Das]]<br /> * [[Gopabandhu Das]]<br /> * [[Farhat Amin]]<br /> * [[Manasi Pradhan]]<br /> * [[Begum Badar un nissa Akhtar]]<br /> <br /> ==Sports==<br /> <br /> ===Cricket===<br /> * [[Alok Jena]]<br /> * [[A. Panda]]<br /> * [[Baljit Singh (cricketer, born 1981)|Baljit Singh]]<br /> * [[Basant Mohanty]]<br /> * [[Bibhudutta Panda]]<br /> * [[Kadambini Mohakud]]<br /> * [[Biplab Samantray]]<br /> * [[Debashish Mohanty]]<br /> * [[Ranjib Biswal]]<br /> * [[Sanjay Raul]]<br /> * [[Shiv Sunder Das]]<br /> * [[Natraj Behera]]<br /> <br /> ===Hockey===<br /> * [[Binita Toppo]] (female hockey)<br /> * [[Dilip Tirkey]]<br /> * [[Lazarus Barla]]<br /> * [[Ignace Tirkey]]<br /> * [[Birendra Lakra]]<br /> <br /> ===Other sports===<br /> * [[Anuradha Biswal]] (100m hurdles, running)<br /> * [[Budhia Singh]] (long distance running)<br /> * [[Dutee Chand]] (sprint runner)<br /> * [[Jauna Murmu]] (sprint running, hurdler)<br /> * [[Katulu Ravi Kumar]] (weightlifting)<br /> * [[Srabani Nanda]] (sprint runner)<br /> * [[Pramila Prava Minz]] (rowing)<br /> * [[Pratima Puhan]] (rowing)<br /> * [[Valena Valentina]] (karate)<br /> * [[Kalpana Dash]] (Everest climber)<br /> * [[Pramod Bhagat]] (Paralympian)<br /> <br /> ==See also==<br /> * [[Lists of people from India by state]]<br /> * [[List of Indian poets#Odia|List of Odia poets]]<br /> * [[Odia people]]<br /> * [[Odia literature]]<br /> * [[Odia language]]<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{Reflist|2}}<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> {{Commons category|People of Odisha}}<br /> *[http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Performing_Arts/Dance/Classical_Indian/Odissi/ Odissi dance] at the Open Directory<br /> *[https://web.archive.org/web/20090410060341/http://orissagov.nic.in/e-magazine/Orissareview/2008/May-2008/engpdf/The_Story17-19.pdf History of Odissi]<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Odia Writers}}<br /> [[Category:People from Odisha| ]]<br /> [[Category:Odisha-related lists]]<br /> [[Category:Ethnic groups in India]]<br /> [[Category:Lists of people by state or union territory in India|Odisha]]<br /> [[Category:Odia language|Writers]]<br /> [[Category:Odia-language writers]]</div>

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