Gangadhar Pradhan (10 July 1948 – 10 October 2010) was an Indian Odissi dancer.
[1][2] He was a sickly baby; his father, Muralidhar Pradhan, a farmer, and mother, Dwitika Devi, whose previous children had died, dedicated him to Balunkeshwar, the presiding deity of the temple in the nearby village of Dimirisena.
He later trained at Utkal Sangeet Mahavidyalaya[3] in Odissi and in playing the mardala, and accompanied Sanjukta Panigrahi as her co-dancer and percussionist.
[1] In his later years, he organised a project to document the folk dance styles of the state.
In early 2010 he underwent an angioplasty at an Apollo hospital in Bhubaneswar, but he died on 10 October at the age of 62 after a cerebral haemorrhage.