Purandara Dasa | Vrindavana Dasa Thakura | Sarala Das | Jagannatha dasa Babaji |
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.