Pasternak or Pasternack (Cyrillic: Пастернак: means Parsnip (Pastinaca sativa) in Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, and Yiddish). Notable people with the last name "Pasternak" include:
Anne Pasternak, art critic
Boris Pasternak, Soviet/Russian poet and novelist
Bruce Pasternack, American corporate executive
Harley Pasternak, Canadian personal trainer
Igor Pasternak, airship designer and CEO of Aeroscraft
James Pasternak, Canadian politician
Jaroslaw Pasternak, Ukrainian archaeologist who discovered the stone sarcophagus where Prince of Halych Yaroslav Osmomysl was buried
Joe Pasternak (Joseph Pasternak), Hungarian-US film producer
Josef Pasternack, Polish conductor and composer
Kenneth Pasternak, businessman
Leon Pasternak, Polish poet and satirist also
Leonid Pasternak, Russian painter, father of Boris Pasternak
"Mike" Michael Joseph Pasternak, known as Emperor Rosko
Reagan Pasternak, Canadian actress and singer
Velvel Pasternak, Jewish ethnomusicologist
Vladislav Pasternak, Russian film producer and expert
