List of people from Odisha

This is a list of famous and notable people from Orissa, India. This would include persons who are known to a large number of people and is not based on the extent of their popularity. Obviously this list as of now is far from being complete in any sense.

Eminent jurists

Hon'ble Mr. Justice Rai Bahadur Sadhu Charan Mahanti.
Hon'ble Mr. Justice Bira Kishore Ray; English Bar,Chief Justice of Orissa High Court CJ list, First Oriya Judge of Patna High Court, First Advocate General of Orissa Province Photo Gallery Serial No. 2
Hon'ble Mr. Justice Sukanta Kishore Ray; Chief Justice of Orissa High Court. Lokpal of Orissa, Chairman Ray Commission^{[disambiguation needed]} of Inquiry.
Hon'ble Mr. Justice Ranganath Misra; Former Chief Justice of India
Hon'ble Mr. Justice G.B. Pattanaik; Former Chief Justice of India
Hon'ble Mr. Justice A.K. Patnaik; serving Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of India. Former Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court & Chhattisgarh High Court
Mr.P.N.Misra; Senior Advocate Supreme Court of India
Mr.Bipina Behari Ratho; Senior Advocate Orissa High Court

Actors

Government civil servants

Rai Bahadur Sadhu Charan Mahanti Chairman, Orissa Public Service Commission.
Major L.K.Mahanti Development Commissioner.
[Sudhansu Mohan Patnaik]
[Bimal Chandra Mishra]
[Narasingh Swain] Indian Police Service, First Director General, Orissa Police, Recipient of President's Medal.
[Rabindra Nath Das]
[Rama Kanta Ratha]
Sitakanta Mohapatra
Nikunja Kishore Ray ( Imperial Police (IP); Jt. Director, Intelligence Bureau; Chairman, Orissa State Public Service Commission )
Kishore Chandra Pattanayak (IPS-1954 RR; Kanthin Seva Padak Medal; Director General of Police, Orissa State; Home Secretary, Orissa; Commandant General of Home Guards; First Inspector General of Fire & Emergency Services, Orissa; Jt. Director(R-Admin.)/ Jt. Secretary (R-Admin.), Cabinet Secretariat; Commandant, ITBP Leh; Superintendent of Police, (undivided) Puri, (undivided) Balasore, & Keonjhar; Principal, Police Training College, Angul)
Vivekananda Pattanayak ( Former Chairman, Orissa State Public Commission; Director, ICAO-cum-Special Adivsor to Secretary General, ICAO; Former Representative of India to ICAO; Principal Secretary (Energy) to Govt. of Orissa, Jt. Secretary (Civil Aviation) to Govt. of India, M.D, IPICOL; Founder M.D of Aska Sugar Factory )http://www.opsc.nic.in
Prajna Paramita (the first Oriya girl to qualify for the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and Indian Foreign Service (IFS) and choose to join the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) in 1974, at age 21, straight out of topping Madras University, and all of Tamil Nadu state, for her MA in English, with 4 gold medals.)
Roopa Mishra First Oriya Lady to top the Civil Services Examination. Joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 2004
Lalit Mansingh

Bijay Mohanty

Literature

Management

Jyotiprakash Patnaik, CFT(IIFT),MBA(DU).
Kailash Chandra Mishra
Manas Kumar Behera
Sarthak Behuria
Sandip Das CEO, Maxis, Malaysia

Odissi dance and culture

Sagarika Mohapatra
Bijayalaxmi Samal
Kelucharan Mohapatra
Sanjukta Panigrahi
Pankaj Charan Das
Deba Prasad Das
Mayadhar Raut
Raghunath Dutt
Surendranath Jena
Durga Charan Ranbir
Kumkum Mohanty
Ritha Devi
Minati Misra
Bandana Das
Sonal Mansingh
Oopali Operajita
Kumkum Lal
Cuckoo Meena Mohanty
Dr. Bidisha Mohanty
Dr. Nandita Samuel
Protima Bedi
Ratikant Mohapatra
Sujata Mohapatra
Aruna Mohanty
Rahul Acharya

Freedom fighters

Jayee Rajguru
Ashutosh Rath
Veer Surendra Sai
Utkalamani Gopabandhu Das
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
Dr. Atal Behari Acharya
Utkala Keshari Harekrushna Mahatab
Harmohan Patnaik
Sarala Devi
Rama Devi
Biswambhar Parida
Birsa Munda
Saheed Laxman Nayak
Saheed Baji Rout
Bira Surendra Sai
Baxci jaga Bandhu
Bijayananda Pattnaik
Madhusudan Rao
Madhusudan Dash
Krushna Chandra Singhadeo
Nabakrushna Choudhary

Politics

[Nabakrushna Choudhuri]
[Harekrushna Mahatab]
Harmohan Patnaik
Biju Patnaik
Naveen Patnaik
Janaki Ballabh Patnaik

Religion

Scientists