Justice Gopal Ballav Pattanaik (born 19 December 1937) is an Indian lawyer and later a jurist who served over a period of 19 years in the bench of the Odisha High Court as a permanent Judge, as Chief Justice of the Patna High Court, Judge of the Supreme Court of India and as the 32nd Chief Justice of India. In 2002, Pattanaik was appointed Chief Justice of India by the President Shri A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.