Top 10 odia personalities who have represented odisha internationally

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1-Bibhu Mohapatra


Born 7 June 1972 in Rourkela, Odisha, India.He is a New York-based fashion designer and costume designer. Following J. Mendel's Spring 2008 collection, Mohapatra resigned from J. Mendel in order to establish his first label, Bibhu Mohapatra -Purple Label. Since then, he has presented many collections of luxury women's ready to wear, couture and fur under his name in New York, Mumbai, Frankfurt, Beijing, and New Delhi.

2-Pitobasa Tripathy


He is a Hindi film actor, originally from the state of Odisha, India. He is known for his role in the movies I Am Kalamand Shor in the City. Pitobash was born in Deuli, Nayagarh, Odisha. Pitobash was brought up in Bhubaneswar where he completed his schooling from the Government High School, Unit 1, Bhubaneswar. Then, he joined Buxi Jagabandhu Bidyadhar College, Bhubaneswar for his higher secondary education.

3-Sambhunath Khuntia


From the land of Lord Jagannath to Hollywood, servitor Shambhunath Khuntia sure is going places. When filmmaker Sunil Babbar of Ants fame came to visit the Jagannath temple, he chanced upon Khuntia and asked him to play a role in his upcoming film Melody. In the film, Khuntia will share screen space with Italian-American singer Nadia Lanfranconi, actors Jeremy Marr Williams and Kenneth Dixon.

4-Solila Parida


Beyond disasters and mineral riches, Odisha is now getting a new face through its talents hitting the headlines in international media for their exceptional achievement. The state has made a step ahead into the glamourous movie world with an Odisha born US based Producer - Writer Solila Parida making Hollywood debut with film ‘Desires of the Heart’ - a story of reincarnation and love between two hearts living world apart.

5-Sunny Tripathy



Born October 27, 1989, also referred to as stage name ‘Sunny T, is an Indian-American actor, comedian, writer, producer, Mr. India Global and a former model. Tripathy, was born in Brampton, Canada to an Indian-American father and mother. Tripathy currently resides in Los Angeles, California and is fluent in English, French, Hindi and Oriya. After high school, Tripathy attended UCLA for engineering and applied for the undergraduate film program but was rejected twice.

6-Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda (Sam Pitroda)


Born 4 May 1942 is a telecom engineer, inventor, entrepreneur and policymaker. He was born in Titilagarh, Odisha, India. In 1964, he traveled to Chicago to study electrical engineering. After many years Pitroda visited India and could not make a phone call to his wife. So he returned to India and spent nearly a decade with Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi as leader of an effort to build an Indian information industry.

7-Ramakanta Panda


He is the Chief Consultant for Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgery and the Vice Chairman and Managing Director of the Asian Heart Institute, a speciality cardiac care hospital under the aegis of Asian Hospitals, at the Bandra-Kurla Complex in Mumbai, India. He set up the Asian Heart Institute in 2002. As of 2016, Dr.Panda has performed over 20,000 cardiac surgeries including over 1800 redo bypass surgeries and over 3000 high risk surgeries.

8-Jitendra Mishra


Born 9 September 1979 .He is an Indian film producer and promoter, hails from Titlagarh of Odisha, India, known for I Am Kalam and Desires of the Heart. He was born in Titlagarh, A small town in Western Odisha to Radha Madhab Mishra and Saudamini Mishra.A joint family of 8 members where Jitendra is the youngest.In 2000 did his Graduation in Law and Masters in commerce from Sambalpur University and went to Delhi with a dream to do something different from the monotonous lifestyle of a small town.

9-Lalit Mansingh


Lalit Mansingh (born April 29, 1941) is a former Indian diplomat. He was the Foreign Secretary of India from 1999–2000, and Indian Ambassador to the United States from 2001-2004. Prior to this, he was Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 1998-99. Lalit Mansingh is the son of Oriya poet Mayadhar Mansingh. Mansingh was born and brought up in Odisha as the middle son of Oriya poet Mayadhar Mansingh. He was born at Nandala, in Puri district, Odisha. He graduated with a master's degree in Political Science, receiving a Gold Medal for being top of the class.

10-Mira Nair


Mira Nair (born 15 October 1957) is an Indian American filmmaker based in New York City. Her production company, Mirabai Films, specializes in films for international audiences on Indian society, whether in the economic, social or cultural spheres. Among her best known films are Mississippi Masala, The Namesake, the Golden Lion-winning Monsoon Wedding and Salaam Bombay!, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Nair was born on 15 October 1957 in Rourkela, Odisha, and grew up with her two older brothers and parents in Bhubaneshwar, Odisha.

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