Patnaik/ Pattnaik/ Pattanayak/ Pattanaik / Pattnayak is a native Odia surname native to Odisha, northeastern districts of Andhra Pradesh and southern districts of West Bengal in India. Notable people Notable people with the surname include: Ananga Kumar Patnaik (born 1949), Indian jurist, currently serving on the Supreme Court of India Arup Patnaik (born 1955), Former Police Commissioner of Mumbai, first and only Odia IPS officer to hold the post Biju Patnaik (1916–1997), Indian politician D. B. M. Patnaik (1925–2009), Indian lawyer, politician and communist leader Devdutt Pattanaik (born 1970), Indian mythologist, writer and columnist Devraj Patnaik (born 1975), Canadian-born composer, musician and choreographer Donkada Patnaik (1925–2009), Indian solicitor and politician Ellora Patnaik (born 1968), Canadian-born actress and Odissi dancer Gopal Ballav Pattanaik (born 1937), Former Chief Justice of India Hara Patnaik (1958–2015), Oriya actor, film director and screenwriter Ila Patnaik, Indian economist and a financial journalist Jagabandhu Patnaik, dewan of Raja Arjun Singh of Porahat Janaki Ballabh Patnaik (1927-2015), was leader of the Indian National Congress and former chief minister of Orissa Naveen Patnaik (born 1946), the Chief Minister of Orissa, India Niranjan Patnaik - Indian politician. OPCC chief Prabhat Patnaik (born 1945), Indian Marxist economist and political commentator R. P. Patnaik, Indian film music director Raghunath Patnaik - veteran leader of the Indian National Congress Soumya Ranjan Patnaik - diversified business, print media, electronic media, FM radio and operas; member of Parliament Rajya Sabha Sudarshan Patnaik (born 1977), inventor of sand art in India Sudhir Pattnaik - journalist and a social activist of Odisha Utsa Patnaik - Indian Marxist economist See also Biju Patnaik Airport, also known as Bhubaneswar Airport in Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India Biju Patnaik University of Technology, created by an act of the Orissa state legislature in 2002 References Surnames of Indian origin