What is "pasternak"

Pasternak or Pasternack (: means Parsnip (Pastinaca sativa) in Russian and Ukrainian). Notable people with the last name "Pasternak" include:

• Anne Pasternak, art critic
• Boris Pasternak, poet and writer
• Harley Pasternak, Canadian personal trainer
• Igor Pasternak, airship designer and CEO of Aeroscraft
• Ilya Pasternak, fictional character from the video game Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation
• James Pasternak, Canadian politician
• Jaroslaw Pasternak, Ukrainian archaeologist who discovered the stone sarcophagus where Prince of Halych Yaroslav Osmomysl was buried
• Joe Pasternak (Joseph Pasternak), Hungarian-US film producer
• Kenneth Pasternak, businessman
• Leon Pasternak, Polish poet and satirist
• Leonid Pasternak, painter, father of Boris Pasternak
• "Mike" Michael Joseph Pasternak, known as Emperor Rosko
• Reagan Pasternak, Canadian actress and singer
• Velvel Pasternak, Jewish ethnomusicologist