Pasternak or Pasternack (Пастернак: Russian, means Parsnip (Pastinaca sativa Linn.)). Notable people with the last name "Pasternak" include:
- Boris Pasternak, poet and writer
- Joe Pasternak (Joseph Pasternak), Hungarian-US actor
- Leon Pasternak, Polish poet and satirist
- Reagan Pasternak, Canadian actress and singer
- Leonid Pasternak, painter, father of Boris Pasternak
- Emperor Rosko ("Mike" Michael Joseph Pasternak)
- Velvel Pasternak, Jewish ethnomusicologist
- Kenneth Pasternak, businessman
- Igor Pasternak, designer and builder of the Aeroscraft, Worldwide Aeros Corporation
- Ilya Pasternak, fictional character from the video game Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation
- Jaroslaw Pasternak, Ukrainian archaeologist who discovered the stone sarcophagus where Prince of Halych Yaroslav Osmomysl was buried
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Famous quotes containing the word pasternak:
“No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.”
—Boris Pasternak (1890–1960)
“Snow, snow over the whole land
across all boundaries.
The candle burned on the table,
the candle burned.”
—Boris Pasternak (1890–1960)