Oriya Writers
- Sarala Dasa
- Kabi Samrat Upendra Bhanja
- Fakir Mohan Senapati
- Gangadhar Meher
- Sudhansu Nayak (Writer of award winning story "Jeje tame michha kahila")
- Hiranmayee Mishra
- Chirshree Indrasingh
- Satrujit
- Kamalakanta Jena (Popular Science)
- Deba Prasad Dash
- Sarat Chandra Acharya
- Gopinath Mohanty
- Jayadeva
- Manmohan Acharya
- Manoj Das
- Mohammed Ayoob
- Nanda Kishore Bal
- Nirmala Devi
- Radhanath Ray
- Ramakrushna Nanda
- Ramakant Rath
- Salabega (born 1607 or 1608), Muslim author of many bhajans and devotee of Jagannath
- Sarala Dasa
- Surendra Mohanty
- Upendra Bhanja (born sometime from 1670 to 1688), poet and member of the royal family of a princely state.