| Janaki Ballabh Patnaik | |
| Predecessor: | Syed Sibtey Razi |
| Successor: | Padmanabha Acharya |
| Predecessor1: | Biju Patnaik |
| Party: | Indian National Congress |
| 1Blankname: | Chief Minister |
| 1Namedata: | Tarun Gogoi |
| Order1: | 11th |
| Office1: | Chief Minister of Odisha |
| Predecessor2: | Nilamani Routray |
| Successor2: | Hemananda Biswal |
| Successor1: | Giridhar Gamang |
| Birth Date: | 3 January 1927 |
| Birth Place: | Rameshwar, Bihar and Orissa Province, British India |
| Death Place: | Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India |
| Spouse: | Jayanti Patnaik |
| Blank1: | Awards |
| Term Start: | 11 December 2009 |
| Term End: | 10 December 2014 |
| Term Start2: | 9 June 1980 |
| Term End2: | 7 December 1989 |
| Term Start1: | 15 March 1995 |
| Term End1: | 17 February 1999 |
| Office8: | Union Minister of Tourism, Civil Aviation and Labour |
| Termstart 8: | term_start8 |
| Term Start8: | 16 January 1980 |
| Term End8: | 7 June 1980 |
| Office9: | President of Indian Youth Congress, Odisha state unit |
| Term Start9: | 1950 |
| Term End9: | n/a |
Janaki Ballabh Patnaik (3 January 1927 – 21 April 2015) was an Indian politician who had been 25th Governor of Assam from 2009 to 2014. A leader of the Indian National Congress, He was born in a well known Hindu Karan family. he was Chief Minister of Odisha from 1980 to 1989 and again from 1995 to 1999, holding that post for the longest time on record before Naveen Patnaik. In 1950, he became the President of the Odisha state unit of the youth wing of the Congress. In 1980, he became the Union Minister for Tourism, Civil Aviation and Labour from 16 January to 7 June.
He was involved in the Anjana Mishra rape case.[1] [2]
He died on Tuesday, 21 April 2015, aged 88 at Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh. On Monday, 20 April 2015, he had gone to attend the convocation of Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha, of which he was chancellor, and also visited the Lord Venkateswara Temple, Tirumala.[3] [4] [5] Later in the night, he complained of severe chest pain and was subsequently shifted to Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences (SVIMS) where he died at around 3:00 am. on 21 April. He leaves behind a legacy of having translated the Mahabharata, the Ramayana and the Bhagavad Gita into his mother tongue, as he was a Sanskrit-Odia scholar.[6]