Pasternak, Pasternack (Cyrillic: Пастернак, ) (, , and other cognates) means parsnip, Pastinaca sativa, in Polish, Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Hungarian, and Yiddish. Notable people with the last name "Pasternak" include:
Pasternak/Pasternack Anne Pasternak (born 1964), American art critic Ben Pasternak (born 1999), Australian co-founder and CEO of Monkey Inc. Boris Pasternak (1890–1960), Russian/Soviet poet and novelist Bruce Pasternack (1947–2021), American corporate executive Carol Braun Pasternack, American scholar of English medieval literature and language
Harley Pasternak (born 1974), Canadian-American personal trainer Igor Pasternak, Soviet-born US airship designer, founder and CEO of Worldwide Aeros Corp. James Pasternak, Canadian politician Joe Pasternack (born 1977), American college basketball coach Joseph "Joe" Pasternak (1901–1991), Hungarian-US film producer Josef Pasternack (1881–1940), Polish conductor and composer Kenneth Pasternak (born 1954), American businessman Leon Pasternak (1910–1969), Polish poet and satirist Leonid Pasternak (1862–1945), Russian painter, father of Boris Pasternak Marco Pasternak, character in Better Call Saul Michael Joseph Pasternak, known as Emperor Rosko (born 1942), American pop music presenter Nadja Pasternack (born 1996), Swiss bobsledder Natalia Pasternak Taschner, Brazilian microbiologist
Reagan Pasternak (born 1977), Canadian actress and singer
Simon Pasternack (1914–1976), physicist and editor Simon Pasternak (born 1971), Danish author Velvel Pasternak (1933–2019), Canadian-American Jewish ethnomusicologist
Other variants , Romanian diplomat, ambasador to Israel David Pastrňák (born 1996), Czech ice hockey player
Fictional characters Gabriel Pasternak, character and eponymous episode in the Argentinian film Wild Tales Ilya Pasternak, character in Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation
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