Bishwanath Das (8 March 1889 – 2 June 1984) né (maiden name) Biswanath Dash was a politician, lawyer and philanthropist from India.
He was born on 8 March 1889 in a Kanyakubja Brahmin[1] family at Belgan village in Ganjam district of the erstwhile Madras Presidency, which is in the state of Odisha.
Married at an early age his only child Dr. Trinath Dash also followed on the steps of philanthropic legal practice for the poor.
[4] In 1966, he was made the president of Servants of the People Society (Lok Sevak Mandal founded by Lala Lajpat Rai).
He set up multiple trusts for providing free legal support, food and vedantic learning institutions for the poor in Orissa and Uttar Pradesh from his lifetime earnings and salary.