Govindaray H. Nayak (born 18 September 1933) was awarded the Central Sahitya Akademi Award for his work Sanskrit Chintana in 2014. He was a professor of Kannada at University of Mysore. Nayak was born in Surve near Ankola, a village in coastal Karnataka, India. In 1951, Nayak earned his high school diploma from Peoples Multi-purpose High School, Ankola and a M. A. in Kannada from University of Mysore.