Harish Chandra Sinhababu (1939-2015) was born in the village of Baripada, Mayurbhanj, Odisha in 1939. He went to Government School of Art and Crafts, Kolkata and did specialisation in painting. In 1963 he came to Bhubaneswar and worked as an artist in State Museum of Odisha and received Odisha State Lalit kala Akademi Award. He is very well known for his portrait paintings and he died in 2015.