Bhubaneswar Behera (1 January 1916 – 15 April 2001) was an engineer, writer and scholar from the Kalahandi district of Odisha.

[citation needed] Behera came across the perennial Indravati flowing across the Thuamul Rampur Plateau of Kalahandi, a tributary of the Godavari, running parallel to the Eastern Ghats.

[citation needed] Behera was selected by the Government of India as one of the Post-war Reconstruction Scholars to pursue higher education abroad.

He studied hydraulics and fluid mechanics at the State University of Iowa and wrote his Master's thesis on "A Length Criterion for the Hydraulic Jump" in a collaborative effort with his Indian peer, Asrar Ahmad Qureshy, with Professor Poesy serving as their Adviser in 1947.

[6] He was trained in model studies and dam construction in Denver, Colo., and project planning under the Tennessee Valley Authority.

In 1977, the Government of India dispatched him to the Democratic Republic of Liberia in West Africa as an adviser for technical education.

Behera also worked as a member of the Orissa State Planning Board and the Union Public Service Commission until 1981.

He officially retired from his work on January 1, 1981, and returned to his native village, Mundraguda, in the Dharmagarh subdivision of Kalahandi District, Orissa.