Ram Gopal Varma | Ram Gopal Bajaj | Gopal Bhar | Anandi Gopal Joshi | Gopal Shankar Misra | Gopal Menon | Gopal Kundu | Gopal Krushna College of Engineering & Technology | Gopal Krishna | Gopal Godse | Gopal Ganesh Agarkar |
The district (smallest in size among the 30 districts in Odisha) has produced some of the most famous names in Oriya and Indian literature: Sarala Dasa, Birakishore, Gopal Chhotaray, Pratibha Ray and Bibhuti Patnaik, for example.