Shankar Babaji Patil was an Indian screenwriter and author. He worked in Marathi film industry.
He was alumni of colleges of Gadhinglaj and Kolhapur from where he did B.A and B.T. respectively.
He served for some time as a member of Maharashtra state government's committee on high school textbooks and curricula research.
Patil presided over Marathi Sahitya Sammelan at Nanded in 1985.
Shankar Patil's short story Meeting was adapted by Dr. Priyadarshan Manohar as a short play named Meeting. On May 2, 2015, Kansas-based The Big Bang Theater performed the play at Regnier Hall Auditorium at KU Edwards Campus. The play was directed by Dr. Udayan Apte.