Pasternak
Pasternak or Pasternack means parsnip, Pastinaca sativa, in Polish, Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian, and Yiddish. Notable people with the last name "Pasternak" include:
- Amos Pasternack, Finnish professor of medicine
- Anne Pasternak, art critic
- Ben Pasternak, Co-founder and CEO of Monkey Inc
- Boris Pasternak, Soviet/Russian poet and novelist
- Bruce Pasternack, American corporate executive
- Harley Pasternak, Canadian personal trainer
- Igor Pasternak, airship designer and CEO of Aeroscraft
- James Pasternak, Canadian politician
- Jaroslaw Pasternak, Ukrainian archaeologist who discovered the stone sarcophagus where Prince of Halych Yaroslav Osmomysl was buried
- Joe Pasternack, American college basketball coach
- Joe Pasternak, Hungarian-US film producer
- Josef Pasternack, Polish conductor and composer
- Kenneth Pasternak, American businessman
- Laura Pasternack, American Physician
- Leon Pasternak, Polish poet and satirist also
- Leonid Pasternak, Russian painter, father of Boris Pasternak
- "Mike" Michael Joseph Pasternak, known as Emperor Rosko
- Reagan Pasternak, Canadian actress and singer
- Velvel Pasternak, Jewish ethnomusicologist
