Shankar Babaji Patil (1926 - July 30, 1994) was an Indian Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India. Patil was born in 1926 in Pattan-Kodoli, Hatkangle Tahsil, in Kolhapur District. He attended high school in Gadhinglaj and college in Kolhapur to earn his B.A. and B.T. degrees. He served for some time as a member of Maharashtra state government's committee on high school textbooks and curricula research.