| Meaning | Parsnip |
|---|---|
| Language | Slavic |
| Variant | Pasternack |
Pasternak or Pasternack (Cyrillic: Пастернак, pəstʲɪrˈnak, Hungarian: paszternák), means parsnip, Pastinaca sativa, in Polish, Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Hungarian, and Yiddish. Notable people with the last name "Pasternak" include:
- 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 Pastrňák (born 1996), Czech ice hockey player
- Gabriel Pasternak, character and eponymous episode in the Argentinian film Wild Tales
- Harley Pasternak (born 1974), Canadian-American personal trainer
- Igor Pasternak, Soviet-born US airship designer, founder and CEO of Worldwide Aeros Corp.
- Ilya Pasternak, character in Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation
- 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
- Reagan Pasternak (born 1977), Canadian actress and singer
- Simon Pasternack (1914–1976), physicist and editor
- Simon Pasternak (born 1971), Danish author
- Velvel Pasternak (1933–2019), Canadian-American Jewish ethnomusicologist