Annada Shankar Ray (15 March 1904 – 28 October 2002) was an Indian poet and essayist in Bengali.

Among his many essays, the book Banglar Reneissance has an analytical history of the cultural and social revolution in Bengal.

It includes poems he composed when was in England and they are creations based on Romantic imaginations thus involving the innate bond of nature and human emotions.

As an essayist, he was urbane and sophisticated and combined in his craft two different styles of prose, represented by Tagore and Pramatha Choudhury.

A significant breakthrough in his literary career came with the publication of Pathe Prabase, a diary of his Europe trip, in 1931.

A Bengali rendering of a short story by Tolstoy and an appraisal of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s essay Narir Mulya marked his debut on the literary scene at the age of 16.