Achyutananda Samanta (born 20 January 1965) is an Indian educationist and philanthropist.

[2] His father died when Samanta was four, and he grew up in abject poverty with his widowed mother and seven siblings.

Samanta received a number of awards, and created new records in the field of social entrepreneurship.

He was mentioned among the Top 15 Social Entrepreneurs of the World by the American Edge Foundation.

[4] Samanta appears in The Limca Book of Records as the youngest chancellor of any University in India.