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Pasternak, Pasternack (Cyrillic: Пастернак, Russian pronunciation: [pəstʲɪrˈnak]) (Hungarian: Paszternák, Romanian: Păstârnac, and other cognates) means parsnip, Pastinaca sativa, in Polish, Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Hungarian, and Yiddish. Notable people with the last name "Pasternak" include:

Pasternak/Pasternack

Anne Pasternak (born 1964), American art critic
Ben Pasternak (born 1999), Australian co-founder and CEO of Monkey Inc.
Boris Pasternak (1890–1960), Russian/Soviet poet and novelist
Bruce Pasternack (1947–2021), American corporate executive
Carol Braun Pasternack, American scholar of English medieval literature and language
David Pasternack
Harley Pasternak (born 1974), Canadian-American personal trainer
Igor Pasternak, Soviet-born US airship designer, founder and CEO of Worldwide Aeros Corp.
James Pasternak, Canadian politician
Joe Pasternack (born 1977), American college basketball coach
Joseph "Joe" Pasternak (1901–1991), Hungarian-US film producer
Josef Pasternack (1881–1940), Polish conductor and composer
Kenneth Pasternak (born 1954), American businessman
Leon Pasternak (1910–1969), Polish poet and satirist
Leonid Pasternak (1862–1945), Russian painter, father of Boris Pasternak
Marco Pasternak, character in Better Call Saul
Michael Joseph Pasternak, known as Emperor Rosko (born 1942), American pop music presenter
Nadja Pasternack (born 1996), Swiss bobsledder
Natalia Pasternak Taschner, Brazilian microbiologist
Peter Pasternack
Reagan Pasternak (born 1977), Canadian actress and singer
Robert Pasternack, American politician
Simon Pasternack (1914–1976), physicist and editor
Simon Pasternak (born 1971), Danish author
Velvel Pasternak (1933–2019), Canadian-American Jewish ethnomusicologist

Gabriel Pasternak, character and eponymous episode in the Argentinian film Wild Tales
Ilya Pasternak, character in Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation