Patankar
Patankar is an Indian surname. Notable people with the name include:
- Bharat Patankar, activist, co-founder and President of the left wing of Shramik Mukti Dal in Maharashtra
- Chandrakant Patankar, Indian cricketer
- Indumati Babuji Patankar, freedom fighter and activist in Kasegaon, Maharashtra
- Prachi Patankar, community activist, writer, and educator
- R. B. Patankar, Marathi critic and scholar of modern aesthetics
- S. N. Patankar was an Indian producer, director, and cameraman
- Suhas Patankar, Indian mechanical engineer
- Vikramsinh Patankar, Indian politician from Maharashtra
- Wasudev Waman Patankar, Marathi shayar, and one of the first to pen Marathi shayari