Prasanta Pattanaik, Indian economist and academic
Prasanta Kumar Pattanaik (born 5 April 1943), is emeritus professor at the Department of Economics at the University of California. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society.

Along with Amartya Sen and Kenneth Arrow, Pattanaik is an advisory editor for the journal Social Choice and Welfare.He is a recipient of the Padma Shri award of 2020 by the Government of India in Literature and Education.