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Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

, including ethnic

Ukrainians Ukrainians ( uk, Українці, Ukraintsi, ) are an East Slavs, East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine. They are the seventh-largest nation in Europe. The native language of the Ukrainians is Ukrainian language, Ukrainian. The majority ...

and those of other ethnicities.

Academics

Mathematicians

Selig Brodetsky Selig Brodetsky, זליג ברודצק (10 February 1888 – 18 May 1954) was a Russian-born English mathematician, a member of the World Zionist Executive, the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, and the second president of the ...

(1888–1954), British mathematician, President of the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

Vladimir Drinfeld Vladimir Gershonovich Drinfeld ( uk, Володи́мир Ге́ршонович Дрінфельд; russian: Влади́мир Ге́ршонович Дри́нфельд; born February 14, 1954), surname also romanized as Drinfel'd, is a renowne ...

, Fields medal laureate *

Anatoly Fomenko Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko (russian: Анато́лий Тимофе́евич Фоме́нко) (born 13 March 1945 in Stalino, USSR) is a Soviet and Russian conspiracy theorist, mathematician, professor at Moscow State University, well-known as ...

Mark Kac Mark Kac ( ; Polish: ''Marek Kac''; August 3, 1914 – October 26, 1984) was a Polish American mathematician. His main interest was probability theory. His question, " Can one hear the shape of a drum?" set off research into spectral theory, the i ...

(1914–1984), Jewish, Polish-American mathematician * Volodymyr Semenovych Korolyuk * Mykhailo Krawtchouk *

Yakiv Kulik Jakob Philipp Kulik (1793–1863) was an Austrian mathematician known for his construction of a massive factor tables. Biography Kulik was born in Lemberg, which was part of the Austrian empire, and is now Lviv located in Ukraine. Kulik's fa ...

Volodymyr Marchenko Vladimir Alexandrovich Marchenko (russian: Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Ма́рченко, uk, Володи́мир Олекса́ндрович Ма́рченко; born 7 July 1922) is a Soviet and Ukrainian mathematician who ...

Mikhail Ostrogradsky Mikhail Vasilyevich Ostrogradsky (transcribed also ''Ostrogradskiy'', Ostrogradskiĭ) (russian: Михаи́л Васи́льевич Острогра́дский, ua, Миха́йло Васи́льович Острогра́дський; 24 Sep ...

* Volodymyr Petryshyn *

Platon Poretsky Platon Sergeevich Poretsky (russian: Платон Серге́евич Порецкий; October 3, 1846 in Elisavetgrad, Russian Empire – August 9, 1907 in Gorodnyansky Uyezd, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire) was a noted Russian Imperial ...

Volodymyr Potapiv Vladimir Petrovich Potapov (24 January 1914 – 21 December 1980) was a Soviet mathematician. He was born in Odesa and died in Kharkiv Kharkiv ( uk, wikt:Харків, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is ...

Anatoly Samoilenko Anatoly Mykhailovych Samoilenko ( uk, Анато́лій Миха́йлович Само́йленко) (2 January 1938 – 4 December 2020) was a Ukrainian mathematician, an Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (since 1995 ...

* Oleksandr Mikolaiovich Sharkovsky (1936–2022), most famous for developing

Sharkovsky's theorem In mathematics, Sharkovskii's theorem, named after Oleksandr Mykolaiovych Sharkovskii, who published it in 1964, is a result about discrete dynamical systems. One of the implications of the theorem is that if a discrete dynamical system on the ...

on the periods of discrete dynamical systems. * Samuil Shatunovsky (1859–1929), Jewish mathematician *

Anatoliy Skorokhod Anatoliy Volodymyrovych Skorokhod ( uk, Анато́лій Володи́мирович Скорохо́д; September 10, 1930January 3, 2011) was a Soviet and Ukrainian mathematician. Skorokhod is well-known for a comprehensive treatise on the ...

* Mykhailo Vashchenko-Zakharchenko (1825–1912), major areas of research included the

history of geometry Geometry (from the grc, γεωμετρία; '' geo-'' "earth", '' -metron'' "measurement") arose as the field of knowledge dealing with spatial relationships. Geometry was one of the two fields of pre-modern mathematics, the other being the stu ...

in antiquity and

Lobachevskian geometry In mathematics, hyperbolic geometry (also called Lobachevskian geometry or Bolyai– Lobachevskian geometry) is a non-Euclidean geometry. The parallel postulate of Euclidean geometry is replaced with: :For any given line ''R'' and point ''P'' ...

. *

Ivan Śleszyński Ivan () is a Slavic male given name, connected with the variant of the Greek name (English: John) from Hebrew meaning 'God is gracious'. It is associated worldwide with Slavic countries. The earliest person known to bear the name was Bulgari ...

(1854–9 March 1931), ethnic Polish Ukrainian mathematician. *

Pavlo Urysohn Pavel Samuilovich Urysohn () (February 3, 1898 – August 17, 1924) was a Soviet mathematician who is best known for his contributions in dimension theory, and for developing Urysohn's metrization theorem and Urysohn's lemma, both of which a ...

(1898–1924), Jewish Ukrainian mathematician *

Josif Shtokalo Josif Zakharovich Shtokalo ( uk, Йосип Захарович Штокало, Yosyp Zakharovych Shtokalo; November 16, 1897 – January 5, 1987) was a famous Ukrainian mathematician. Shtokalo worked mainly in the areas of differential equations ...

(1897–1987) * Naum Z. Shor (1937–2006), Jewish Ukrainian mathematician. *

Maryna Viazovska Maryna Sergiivna Viazovska ( uk, Марина Сергіївна Вязовська, ; born 2 December 1984) is a Ukrainian mathematician known for her work in sphere packing. She is full professor and Chair of Number Theory at the Institute of M ...

(born 1984), Fields medal laureate, known for her work in

sphere packing In geometry, a sphere packing is an arrangement of non-overlapping spheres within a containing space. The spheres considered are usually all of identical size, and the space is usually three-dimensional Euclidean space. However, sphere packing p ...

* Vadim G. Vizing *

Georgy Voronoy Georgy Feodosevich Voronoy (russian: Георгий Феодосьевич Вороной; ukr, Георгій Феодосійович Вороний; 28 April 1868 – 20 November 1908) was an Russian Empire, Imperial Russian mathematician of U ...

Physicists/Astronomers

* Gersh Budker, nuclear physicist (

Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics The Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (BINP) is one of the major centres of advanced study of nuclear physics in Russia. It is located in the Siberian town Akademgorodok, on Academician Lavrentiev Avenue. The institute was founded by Gers ...

) *

Georges Charpak Georges Charpak (; born Jerzy Charpak, 1 August 1924 – 29 September 2010) was a Polish-born French physicist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992. Life Georges Charpak was born Jerzy Charpak to Jewish parents, Anna (Szapiro) and ...

, French physicist (Nobel Prize), born in East Galicia *

Abram Ioffe Abram Fedorovich Ioffe ( rus, Абра́м Фёдорович Ио́ффе, p=ɐˈbram ˈfʲɵdərəvʲɪtɕ ɪˈofɛ; – 14 October 1960) was a prominent Russian/Soviet physicist. He received the Stalin Prize (1942), the Lenin Prize (1960) (po ...

, prominent Soviet physicist (Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute) * Isaak Khalatnikiv, BKL conjecture in general relativity * Leo Palatnik, thin film physics *

Ivan Pulyui Ivan () is a Slavic male given name, connected with the variant of the Greek name (English: John) from Hebrew meaning 'God is gracious'. It is associated worldwide with Slavic countries. The earliest person known to bear the name was Bulgari ...

, scientist working with cathode radiation *

George Yuri Rainich George Yuri Rainich (Rabinovich) (March 25, 1886 in Odessa – October 10, 1968) was a leading mathematical physicist in the early twentieth century. Career Rainich studied mathematics from 1904 to 1908 in Odessa, in Göttingen (1905–1906), a ...

, mathematical physicist, genius *

Geographers/Geologists

Volodymyr Kubijovyč Volodymyr Kubijovyč, also spelled Kubiiovych or Kubiyovych ( uk, Володи́мир Миха́йлович Кубійо́вич, translit=Volodymyr Mykhailovych Kubiiovych; 23 September 1900, Nowy Sącz, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria – 2 ...

Lubomyr Luciuk Lubomyr Yaroslav Luciuk (born July 9, 1953) is a Canadian academic and author of books and articles in the field of political geography and Ukrainian history. He is currently a full professor at the Royal Military College of Canada. Backgrou ...

, political geographer, community activists *

Vladimir Vernadsky Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky (russian: link=no, Влади́мир Ива́нович Верна́дский) or Volodymyr Ivanovych Vernadsky ( uk, Володи́мир Іва́нович Верна́дський; – 6 January 1945) was ...

, mineralogist, biochemist

Biologists

Aleksandr Bogomolets Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Bogomolets (russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Богомо́лец, uk, Олекса́ндр Олекса́ндрович Богомо́лець/Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Bohomolets; 24 May 1881 � ...

Erwin Chargaff Erwin Chargaff (11 August 1905 – 20 June 2002) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American biochemist, writer, Bucovinian Jew who emigrated to the United States during the Nazi Germany, Nazi era, and professor of biochemistry at Columbia University ...

Theodosius Dobzhansky Theodosius Grigorievich Dobzhansky (russian: Феодо́сий Григо́рьевич Добржа́нский; uk, Теодо́сій Григо́рович Добржа́нський; January 25, 1900 – December 18, 1975) was a prominent ...

Katherine Esau Katherine Esau (3 April 1898 – 4 June 1997) was a German-American botanist who received the National Medal of Science for her work on plant anatomy. Personal life and education Esau was born on 3 April 1898 in Yekaterinoslav, Russian Empire ...

Dmitri Ivanovsky Dmitri Iosifovich Ivanovsky (alternative spelling ''Dmitrii'' or ''Dmitry Iwanowski''; russian: Дми́трий Ио́сифович Ивано́вский; 28 October 1864 – 20 June 1920) was a Russian botanist, the co-discoverer of :viruses ...

Trofim Lysenko Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (russian: Трофим Денисович Лысенко, uk, Трохи́м Дени́сович Лисе́нко, ; 20 November 1976) was a Soviet agronomist and Pseudoscience, pseudo-scientist.''An ill-educated agro ...

* Oleksandr Palladin *

Kostiantyn Sytnyk Kostiantyn Merkuriyovych Sytnyk ( uk, Костянтин Меркурійович Ситник; 3 June 1926 – 22 July 2017) was a Ukrainian and Soviet scientist and academician, a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine who in 197 ...

, mineralogist, biochemist

Chemists

* Anatoly Babko *

Israel Dostrovsky Israel Dostrovsky ( he, ישראל דוסטרובסקי) (November 29, 1918 – September 28, 2010) was an Israeli physical chemist, fifth president of the Weizmann Institute of Science, laureate of the 1995 Israel Prize in the exact sciences. ...

(1918-2010), Russian (Ukraine)-born Israeli physical chemist, fifth president of the

Weizmann Institute of Science The Weizmann Institute of Science ( he, מכון ויצמן למדע ''Machon Vaitzman LeMada'') is a public research university in Rehovot, Israel, established in 1934, 14 years before the State of Israel. It differs from other Israeli unive ...

* Ivan Horbachevsky *

George Kistiakowsky George may refer to: People * George (given name) * George (surname) * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Washington, First President of the United States * George W. Bush, 43rd Preside ...

* Lev Pisarzhevsky *

Swiatoslaw Trofimenko In coordination chemistry, the term scorpionate ligand refers to a tridentate (three-donor-site) ligand which would bind to a metal in a ''fac'' manner. The most popular class of scorpionates are the hydrotris(pyrazolyl)borates or Tp ligands. T ...

* Volodymyr Vernadsky, mineralogist, biochemist *

Selman Waksman Selman Abraham Waksman (July 22, 1888 – August 16, 1973) was a Jewish Russian-born American inventor, Nobel Prize laureate, biochemist and microbiologist whose research into the decomposition of organisms that live in soil enabled the discov ...

(1888–1973), Jewish, Ukrainian-American, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1952) * Viktor Nikolaivich Efimov (1950 - 2011), Metallurgist, Businessman

Doctors and surgeons

Nikolai Amosov Nikolai Mikhailovich Amosov, Doctor of Science, Professor (December 6, 1913 in Olkhovo, Novgorod Governorate, Russian Empire – December 12, 2002 in Kyiv, Ukraine) was a Soviet and Ukrainian doctor of Russian origin, heart surgeon, inventor, bes ...

, heart surgeon *

Alexander Shalimov Alexander Alekseyevich Shalimov (; January 20, 1918 – February 28, 2006) was a Soviet and Ukrainian surgeon and one of the founders of the ''Shalimov National Institute of Surgery and Transplantation'', which is named after him. Life Alexande ...

, surgeon *

Danylo Zabolotny Danylo Kyrylovych Zabolotny ( uk, Дани́ло Кири́лович Заболо́тний; 1866 in Chobotarka, Podolia Governorate – 1929) was a Ukrainian epidemiologist and the founder of the world's first research department of epidemi ...

* Serdyuk Valentin, orthopedic surgeon * Nicolai L. Volodos, cardiovascular surgeon *

Nikolay Pirogov Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov (Russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Пирого́в; — ) was a Russian scientist, medical doctor, pedagogue, public figure, and corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1847), one of the m ...

, inventor of a splint, sling, brace or cast.

Engineers

* Volodymyr Chelomey, ballistic missile and Ukrainian spacecraft designer *

Valentyn Hlushko Valentin Petrovich Glushko (russian: Валенти́н Петро́вич Глушко́; uk, Валентин Петрович Глушко, Valentyn Petrovych Hlushko; born 2 September 1908 – 10 January 1989) was a Soviet engineer and the m ...

, European engineer *

Mykola Holonyak Nick Holonyak Jr. ( ; November 3, 1928September 18, 2022) was an American engineer and educator. He is noted particularly for his 1962 invention and first demonstration of a semiconductor laser diode that emitted visible light. This device was t ...

, first visible diode * Volodymyr Horbulin, developer of strategic rocket systems and space vehicles of "Kosmos" series *

Sergei Korolev Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (russian: Сергей Павлович Королёв, Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov, sʲɪrˈɡʲej ˈpavləvʲɪtɕ kərɐˈlʲɵf, Ru-Sergei Pavlovich Korolev.ogg; ukr, Сергій Павлович Корольов, ...

, ''the father of the

Soviet space program The Soviet space program (russian: Космическая программа СССР, Kosmicheskaya programma SSSR) was the national space program of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), active from 1955 until the dissoluti ...

'', inventor of the first

intercontinental ballistic missile An intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is a ballistic missile with a range greater than , primarily designed for nuclear weapons delivery (delivering one or more thermonuclear warheads). Conventional, chemical, and biological weapons c ...

and the first

space rocket A launch vehicle or carrier rocket is a rocket designed to carry a payload (spacecraft or satellites) from the Earth's surface to outer space. Most launch vehicles operate from a launch pads, supported by a launch control center and syst ...

(''

R-7 Semyorka The R-7 Semyorka (russian: link=no, Р-7 Семёрка), officially the GRAU index 8K71, was a Soviet missile developed during the Cold War, and the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile. The R-7 made 28 launches between 1957 and 1 ...

''), creator of the first

satellite A satellite or artificial satellite is an object intentionally placed into orbit in outer space. Except for passive satellites, most satellites have an electricity generation system for equipment on board, such as solar panels or radioisotope ...

(''

Sputnik Sputnik 1 (; see § Etymology) was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 as part of the Soviet space program. It sent a radio signal back to Earth for t ...

''), supervisor of the

first human spaceflight Vostok 1 (russian: link=no, Восток, ''East'' or '' Orient'' 1) was the first spaceflight of the Vostok programme and the first human orbital spaceflight in history. The Vostok 3KA space capsule was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on Ap ...

* Mykola Kybalchich, rocket science pioneer *

Yuri Kondratyuk Yuri Vasilyevich Kondratyuk (russian: Юрий Васильевич Кондратюк; ukr, Юрій Васильович Кондратюк; 21 June 1897 – February 1942), real name Aleksandr Ignatyevich Shargei (russian: Алекса́нд� ...

, spaceflight pioneer *

Roman Kroitor Roman Kroitor (December 12, 1926 – September 17, 2012) was a Canadian filmmaker who was known as an early practitioner of ''cinéma vérité'', as co-founder of IMAX, and as creator of the Sandde hand-drawn stereoscopic animation system. H ...

Volodymyr Mackiw Vladimir Nicolaus Mackiw (August 4, 1923, Stanisławów – 2001, Islington) was a Canadian inventor, industrialist, and chemist of Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, ...

, mining engineer * Borys Paton * Yevhen Paton, welding engineer *

Igor Sikorsky Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky (russian: И́горь Ива́нович Сико́рский, p=ˈiɡərʲ ɪˈvanəvitʃ sʲɪˈkorskʲɪj, a=Ru-Igor Sikorsky.ogg, tr. ''Ígor' Ivánovich Sikórskiy''; May 25, 1889 – October 26, 1972)Fortie ...

, aviation pioneer, creator of the first helicopter * Stepan Tymoshenko, father of modern Ukrainian engineering mechanics

Economists

* Mykhailo Tuhan-Baranovsky (1865–1919) *

Eugen Slutsky Evgeny "Eugen" Evgenievich Slutsky (russian: Евге́ний Евге́ньевич Слу́цкий; – 10 March 1948) was a Russian and Soviet mathematical statistician, economist and political economist. Work in economics Slutsky is principa ...

(1880–1948),

Slutsky equation The Slutsky equation (or Slutsky identity) in economics, named after Eugen Slutsky, relates changes in Marshallian (uncompensated) demand to changes in Hicksian (compensated) demand, which is known as such since it compensates to maintain a fixed ...

(born in

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...

in the territory of Ukraine) *

Ludwig von Mises Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises (; 29 September 1881 – 10 October 1973) was an Austrian School economist, historian, logician, and Sociology, sociologist. Mises wrote and lectured extensively on the societal contributions of classical liberali ...

, founding father of the Ukrainian western-style economics (1881–1973. Born in

Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire,, the Dual Monarchy, or Austria, was a constitutional monarchy and great power in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. It was formed with the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of ...

, on the territory of present-day

Lviv Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine ...

) * Bohdan Hawrylyshyn (1926–2016), noted economist, visionary and an economic advisor to the Ukrainian government.

Archeologists

Vikentiy Khvoyka Vikentiy Viacheslavovych Khvoyka ( ua, Вікентій В'ячеславович Хвойка; russian: Викентий Вячеславович Хвойка; cz, Vincenc Častoslav Chvojka; born Čeněk Chvojka; 1850–1914) was a Czech-born Uk ...

, discovered Trypillia culture *

Simhah Pinsker Simhah Pinsker (March 17, 1801 – October 29, 1864) (Hebrew: שמחה פינסקר) was a Polish-Jewish scholar and archeologist born at Tarnopol, Galicia. He received his early Hebrew education in the cheider and from his father, Shebaḥ ha-Le ...

(1801–1864), Polish-Jewish archeologist and scholar * Yuriy Shumovskyi

Historians

Volodymyr Antonovych Volodymyr Antonovych ( ukr, Володимир Боніфатійович Антонович, tr. ''Volodymyr Bonifatijovych Antonovych''; pl, Włodzimierz Antonowicz; russian: Влади́мир Бонифа́тьевич Антоно́вич, ...

, historian and folklorist *

Olena Apanovich Olena Apanovych ( uk, Олена Михайлівна Апанович) (9 November 1919 – 21 February 2000) was a Ukrainian historian, a researcher of Zaporozhian Cossackdom. She was an Antonovych prize recipient. Biography Olena Apanovych w ...

* Volodymyr Barvinok *

Dmytro Doroshenko Dmytro Doroshenko ( uk, Дмитро Іванович Дорошенко, ''Dmytro Ivanovych Doroshenko'', russian: Дми́трий Ива́нович Дороше́нко; 8 April 1882 – 19 March 1951) was a prominent Ukrainian political figu ...

Mykhailo Drahomaniv Mykhailo Petrovych Drahomanov ( ukr, Михайло Петрович Драгоманов; 18 September 1841 – 2 July 1895) was a Ukrainian intellectual and public figure. As an academic, Drahomanov was an economist, historian, philosopher, and ...

, historian, political emigre and folklorist *

Mykhailo Hrushevsky Mykhailo Serhiiovych Hrushevsky ( uk, Михайло Сергійович Грушевський, Chełm, – Kislovodsk, 24 November 1934) was a Ukrainian academician, politician, historian and statesman who was one of the most important figure ...

, historian *

Taras Hunczak Taras Hunczak ( uk, Тарас Гунчак; born on March 13, 1932, in Stare Misto, Pidhaitsi Raion, Staremiasto, near Tarnopol, Second Polish Republic, Poland, now Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine) is a historian, and professor emeritus at Rutgers Uni ...

* Myron Korduba *

Mykola Kostomarov Mykola Ivanovych Kostomarov or Nikolai Ivanovich Kostomarov (russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Костома́ров, ; uk, Микола Іванович Костомаров, ; May 16, 1817, vil. Yurasovka, Voronezh Governorate, R ...

, also literary historian, folklorist * Oleh Kozerod, also political scientist * Peter Loboda, researcher of ancient Ukrainian

numismatics Numismatics is the study or collection of currency, including coins, tokens, paper money, medals and related objects. Specialists, known as numismatists, are often characterized as students or collectors of coins, but the discipline also includ ...

* George S. N. Luckyj, literary historian *

Mykhailo Maksymovych Mykhailo Oleksandrovych Maksymovych ( uk, Михайло Олександрович Максимович; 3 September 1804 – 10 November 1873) was a famous professor in plant biology, Ukrainian historian and writer in the Russian Empire of a Co ...

, also literary historian, folklorist *

Paul Robert Magocsi Paul Robert Magocsi (born January 26, 1945 in Englewood, New Jersey) is an American professor of history, political science, and Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto. He has been with the university since 1980, and became a Fe ...

, chairman of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto *

Oleksander Ohloblyn Oleksander Petrovych Ohloblyn, ( uk, Олександр Петрович Оглоблин; 6 December 1899 – 16 February 1992) was a Ukrainian historian. He was one of the most important Ukrainian émigré historians of the Cold War era. Life a ...

* Bohdan Osadchuk, also journalist * Nataliia Polonska-Vasylenko *

Omeljan Pritsak Omeljan Yosypovych Pritsak ( uk, Омелян Йосипович Пріцак; 7 April 1919, Luka, Sambir County, West Ukrainian People's Republic – 29 May 2006, Boston) was the first Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvar ...

, orientalist * Mikołaj Siwicki, historian *

Viktor Suvorov Vladimir Bogdanovich Rezun (russian: link=no, Владимир Богданович Резун; born 20 April 1947), known by his pseudonym of Viktor Suvorov () is a former Soviet GRU officer who is the author of non-fiction books about World ...

, spy and WWII researcher *

Dmytro Yavornytsky Dmytro Ivanovych Yavornytsky ( uk, Дмитро́ Іва́нович Яворни́цький), or Dmitry Ivanovich Yavornitsky (also known as ''Dmitry Evarnitsky'', russian: Дмитрий Иванович Яворницкий; November 6, 1855, ...

, Cossack historian, archaeologist

Philosophers

Hryhorii Skovoroda Hryhorii Skovoroda, also Gregory Skovoroda or Grigory Skovoroda ( la, Gregorius Scovoroda; uk, Григорій Савич Сковорода, ''Hryhorii Savych Skovoroda''; russian: Григо́рий Са́ввич Сковорода́, ...

, philosopher, poet and composer

Other academics

* Mykola Andrusiv *

Albert Bandura Albert Bandura (; December 4, 1925 – July 26, 2021) was a Canadian-American psychologist who was the David Starr Jordan Professor in Psychology at Stanford University. Bandura was responsible for contributions to the field of education and to ...

* Pavel Petrovich Blonsky * Olgerd Bochkovsky, sociologist * Isydore Hlynka *

Robert Klymasz Robert Bohdan Klymasz (born May 14, 1936, Toronto, Canada) is a Ukrainian-Canadian folklorist. He was a pioneer in the field and published widely in the English language. Educated at the University of Toronto (Russian, 1957) under George Luckyj, t ...

, Ukrainian Canadian folklorist *

Volodymyr Kubiyovych Volodymyr ( uk, Володи́мир, Volodýmyr, , orv, Володимѣръ) is a Ukrainian given name of Old East Slavic origin. The related Ancient Slavic, such as Czech, Russian, Serbian, Croatian, etc. form of the name is Володимѣръ ...

, geographer and encyclopedist *

Viktor Kyrpychov Viktor Lvovich Kirpichov (russian: Ви́ктор Льво́вич Кирпичё́в; , Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire – , Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a prominent Russian Imperial engineer, physicist, and educational organizer, know ...

Yuri Linnik Yuri Vladimirovich Linnik (russian: Ю́рий Влади́мирович Ли́нник; January 8, 1915 – June 30, 1972) was a Soviet mathematician active in number theory, probability theory and mathematical statistics. Linnik was born in B ...

, political geographer and community activist *

Anton Makarenko Anton Semenovich Makarenko ( ua , Анто́н Семенович Мака́ренко, 13 January 1888 – 1 April 1939), a Ukrainian and Soviet educator, social worker and writer, became the most influential educational theorist in the ...

, Ukrainian and Soviet educator *

Joseph Oleskiw Dr. Joseph Oleskiw or Jósef Olesków ( uk , Іосифъ Олеськôвъ (historic spelling), Осип Олеськів (modern spelling), ''Osyp Oleskiv'', September 28, 1860 – October 18, 1903) was a Ukrainian professor of agronomy who p ...

Wilhelm Reich Wilhelm Reich ( , ; 24 March 1897 – 3 November 1957) was an Austrian Doctor of Medicine, doctor of medicine and a psychoanalysis, psychoanalyst, along with being a member of the second generation of analysts after Sigmund Freud. The author ...

, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, pro-Ukrainian freedom dissident *

Otto Struve Otto Struve (August 12, 1897 – April 6, 1963) was a Russian-American astronomer of Baltic German origins. In Russian, his name is sometimes given as Otto Lyudvigovich Struve (Отто Людвигович Струве); however, he spent most o ...

, Ukrainian-Russian-American astronomer * Evhen Tsybulenko , professor of international law *

Sergiy Vilkomir Sergiy A. Vilkomir (November 19, 1956 – February 9, 2020) was a Ukrainians, Ukrainian-born computer scientist. Sergiy Vilkomir was born in 1956 in present-day Ukraine. He finished Mathematical College at the Moscow State University National M ...

, computer scientist * Fedir Vovk, anthropologist and ethnographer

Arts

Architects

Ivan Hryhorovych-Barskyi Ivan Grigorovich-BarskyBrumfield, William Craft: Gold in azure: one thousand years of Russian architecture. D.R. Godine, 1983. P. 20. or Ivan Hryhorovych-Barskyi (russian: Иван Григорьевич Григорович-Барский, ) (bo ...

Joseph Karakis Joseph Karakis (or ''Iosif Karakys''; uk, Йо́сип Ю́лійович Кара́кіс; 29 May 1902 – 23 February 1988) was a Ukrainians, Ukrainian Soviet Union, Soviet architect, urban planner, Painting, painter and teacher, and one of ...

Musa Konsulova Musa Borysivna Konsulova (20 July 1921 — 18 March 2019) was Ukrainian architect and researcher of architecture. Early life and education Musa Konsulova was born on 20 July 1921 in Romanivka village, now Kostiantynivsky district of Donetsk reg ...

Marian Peretyatkovich Marian Marianovich Peretyatkovich (russian: Мариа́н Мариа́нович Перетя́ткович; 23 August 1872, in Usychi (Усичі in Ukrainian), Volhyn (now Ukraine) 22 May 1916, in Kyiv (Ukraine) was a Russian and Ukrainian ar ...

Volodymyr Sichynskyi Volodymyr Sichynskyi (June 24, 1894 – June 25, 1962) was a Ukrainian émigré architect, graphic artist, and art historian. Volodymyr Sichynskyi was born to the family of Ievtym Sitsinskyi in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Podilia guberniya, Russi ...

Painters

Ivan Aivazovsky Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (russian: link=no, Иван Константинович Айвазовский; 29 July 18172 May 1900) was a Russian Romantic painter who is considered one of the greatest masters of marine art. Baptized a ...

, painter, famous for his seascapes *

Nathan Altman Nathan Isaiovych Altman (Ukrainian language, Ukrainian: , transliterated: ''Natan Isaiovych Altman''; – December 12, 1970) was a Russian, Soviet and Ukrainian artist, Cubist Painting, painter, stage designer and book illustrator. Early life ...

(1889–1970), Ukrainian-Jewish painter and stage designer from Vynytsia *

Marie Bashkirtseff Marie Bashkirtseff (born Mariya Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva, russian: Мария Константиновна Башки́рцева; 1858–1884) was a Ukrainian artist from the Russian Empire who worked in Paris, France. She died aged 25. Li ...

, artist *

Robert Brackman Robert Brackman (September 25, 1898 – July 16, 1980) was an American artist and teacher, best known for large figural works, portraits, and still lifes. Biography Robert Brackman was born on September 25, 1898, in Odessa, Russian Empire (no ...

Mykola Burachek Mykola Burachek (or ''Buraček'', uk, Микола Бурачек) (March 16, 1871 in Letychiv, Podillia Guberniya (now Khmelnytskyi Oblast) – August 12, 1942, in Kharkiv) was a Ukrainian Impressionist painter and pedagogue. Biography ...

David Burliuk David Davidovich Burliuk (Давид Давидович Бурлюк; 21 July 1882 – 15 January 1967) was a Russian-language poet, artist and publicist associated with the Futurist and Neo-Primitivist movements. Burliuk has been described as ...

, avant-garde painter, Ukrainian freedom thinker *

Louis Choris Louis Choris (1795–1828) was a German-Russian painter and explorer.Louis Choris
. The B ...

Sonia Delaunay Sonia Delaunay (13 November 1885 – 5 December 1979) was a French artist, who spent most of her working life in Paris. She was born in Odessa (then part of Russian Empire), and formally trained in Russian Empire and Germany before moving to Fr ...

, avant-garde artist *

Mychajlo Dmytrenko Mychajlo Serhiyovych Dmytrenko ( uk, Михайло Сергійович Дмитренко; November 9, 1908, Lokhvytsi, Poltava, Russian Empire – March 8, 1997) was a Ukrainian-American painter of world recognition. Dmytrenko settled in Detroi ...

Aleksandra Ekster Alexandra () is the feminine form of the given name Alexander (, ). Etymologically, the name is a compound of the Greek verb (; meaning 'to defend') and (; GEN , ; meaning 'man'). Thus it may be roughly translated as "defender of man" or "prot ...

, avant-garde artist *

Nina Genke-Meller Nina Henrichovna Genke or Nina Henrichovna Genke-Meller, or Nina Henrichovna Henke-Meller (russian: Нина Генке-Меллер, Нина Генке; 19 April 1893 – 25 July 1954) was a Ukrainian-Russian avant-garde artist, (Suprematist, ...

, avant-garde artist * Maurice Gottlieb (1856–1979), Polish-Jewish painter *

Leopold Gottlieb Leopold Gottlieb (1879, Drohobycz, Partitioned Poland – Paris, 1934) was a History of the Jews in Poland, Polish-Jewish modernist Painting, painter. His brother Maurycy Gottlieb, also a painter, died before Leopold was born. Career Leopold Go ...

(1883–1934), Polish-Jewish painter *

Mykola Hlushchenko Mykola Hlushchenko ( uk, Микола Петрович Глущенко; 17 September 1901 – 31 October 1977) was a Ukrainian artist. He was a winner of the Shevchenko National Prize in 1972. Biography Hlushchenko was born in Novomoskovs ...

Jacques Hnizdovsky Jacques Hnizdovsky ( uk, Яків Гніздовський, pl, Jakub Gniazdowski, hr, Jakiv Hnizdovskij), (1915–1985) was a Ukrainian-American painter, printmaker, graphic designer, illustrator and sculptor. Biography Jacques Hnizdovs ...

* Alexander Khvostenko-Khvostov, avant-garde stage designer *

Pyotr Konchalovsky Pyotr Petrovich Konchalovsky (''also trans.'' Petr; russian: Пётр Петрович Кончаловский; 21 February 1876 – 2 February 1956) was a Russian and Soviet painter, a member of the Knave of Diamonds group. Biography Ear ...

, painter *

Vasyl Krychevsky Vasyl Hryhorovych Krychevsky ( uk, Василь Григорович Кричевський; January 12, 1873 in Vorozhba village, now Lebedyn Raion – November 15, 1952, in Caracas, Venezuela) was a Ukrainian painter, architect, art scholar, gra ...

Fedir Krychevsky Fedir Krychevsky ( uk, Федір Кричевський; – July 30, 1947) was an influential Ukrainian early modernist painter. He was the brother of graphic designer Vasyl Krychevsky. Biography Krychevsky was born in Lebedyn, in the K ...

* Boris Lekar, Israeli painter *

Ephraim Moses Lilien Ephraim Moses Lilien ( pl, Maurycy Lilien, ; 23 May 1874 – 18 July 1925) was an art nouveau illustrator and printmaker particularly noted for his art on Jewish themes. He is sometimes called the "first Zionist artist."Anton Losenko Anton Pavlovich Losenko ( rus, Антон Павлович Лосенко; — ) was a Russian neoclassical painter and academician who lived in Imperial Russia and who specialized in historical subjects and portraits. He was one of the found ...

Kazimir Malevich Kazimir Severinovich Malevich ; german: Kasimir Malewitsch; pl, Kazimierz Malewicz; russian: Казими́р Севери́нович Мале́вич ; uk, Казимир Северинович Малевич, translit=Kazymyr Severynovych ...

, avant-garde artist * Ivan Marchuk, modern painter *

Vadym Meller Vadym Meller or Vadim Meller, (russian: Вадим Георгиевич Меллер; uk, Вадим Георгійович Меллер, 1884–1962) was a Ukrainian Soviet painter, avant-garde Cubist, Constructivist and Expressionist artis ...

, avant-garde artist, stage designer *

Oleksandr Murashko Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Murashko ( uk, Олександр Олександрович Мурашко); also known as Aleksandr Murashko ( – June 14, 1919) was a prominent Ukrainians, Ukrainian Painting, painter. Life and career Murashko wa ...

* Heorhiy Narbut *

Solomon Nikritin Solomon Nikritin ( uk, Соломон Борисовiч Нiкрiтiн; 1898–1965) was a Ukrainian painter, avant-garde artist ( Neo-Primitivist, Constructivist), philosopher, and author. Biography Solomon Nikritin was born in Chernihiv, Ukrai ...

, painter, avant-garde artist * Nykifor, primitivist painter * Maria Pryimachenko * Vlada Ralko, collage artist *

Kliment Red'ko Kliment Nikolaevich Red'ko or Redko (, , Klyment Mykolayovych Redko), 15 (27) October 1897 - 18 February 1956) was a Ukrainian-Russian painter-scientist, avant-garde artist ( Constructivist, Projectionist, Suprematist), graphic artist. Biograph ...

, painter, avant-garde artist *

Ilya Repin Ilya Yefimovich Repin (russian: Илья Ефимович Репин, translit=Il'ya Yefimovich Repin, p=ˈrʲepʲɪn); fi, Ilja Jefimovitš Repin ( – 29 September 1930) was a Russian painter, born in what is now Ukraine. He became one of the ...

, painter *

Bruno Schulz Bruno Schulz (12 July 1892 – 19 November 1942) was a Polish writer, fine artist, literary critic and art teacher. He is regarded as one of the great Polish-language prose stylists of the 20th century. In 1938, he was awarded the Polish Academy ...

(1892–1942), Polish-Jewish painter and writer *

Zinaida Serebriakova Zinaida Yevgenyevna Serebriakova (russian: Зинаида Евгеньевна Серебрякова; – 20 September 1967) was a Russian and later French painter. Family Zinaida Serebryakova was born on the estate of Neskuchnoye near Kh ...

, painter *

, architect, graphic artist *

Opanas Slastion Opanas Heorhiiovych Slastion ( uk, Опанас Георгійович Сластіон, – September 24, 1933) was a Ukrainian graphic artist, painter, and ethnographer. He was born in the port town of Berdiansk (now Ukraine) on the Berdya ...

, folklorist, designer of modern type of

bandura A bandura ( uk, банду́ра) is a Ukrainian plucked string folk instrument. It combines elements of the zither and lute and, up until the 1940s, was also often referred to by the term kobza. Early instruments (c. 1700) had 5 to 12 strings ...

* Anton Solomoukha * Ivan Soshenko, painter *

David Shterenberg David Petrovich Shterenberg (russian: Давид Петрович Штеренберг; Zhitomir – May 1, 1948 Moscow) was a Ukrainian-born Russian Soviet painter and graphic artist. Life Born to a Jewish family in Zhitomir, Ukraine, Shterenb ...

, painter from

Zhytomyr Zhytomyr ( uk, Жито́мир, translit=Zhytomyr ; russian: Жито́мир, Zhitomir ; pl, Żytomierz ; yi, זשיטאָמיר, Zhitomir; german: Schytomyr ) is a city in the north of the western half of Ukraine. It is the Capital city, a ...

Avigdor Stematsky Avigdor Stematsky (1908–1989) was a Russian Empire-born Israeli painter. He is considered one of the pioneers of Israeli abstract art. Biography Stematsky was born in 1908 in Odessa. He joined the Massad group in Tel Aviv. In 1929, he went to P ...

, Israeli painter from

Odessa Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrativ ...

Sergei Sviatchenko Sergei Sviatchenko (born 1952) is a Danish - Ukrainian architect, artist, photographer and curator. He is a representative of the Ukrainian New Wave, that arose in Ukraine up through the 1980s. Initiator and creative director of the Less Festiva ...

(born 1952) *

Vladimir Tatlin Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin ( – 31 May 1953) was a Russian and Soviet painter, architect and stage-designer. Tatlin achieved fame as the architect who designed The Monument to the Third International, more commonly known as Tatlin's Tower, whi ...

, avant-garde artist * Sonia Terk, avant-garde artist *

Roman Turovsky-Savchuk Roman Turovsky-Savchuk (Ukrainian: Роман Туровський-Савчук) is an American artist-painter, photographer and videoinstallation artist, as well as a lutenist-composer,

* Mykhailo Turovsky *

Mickola Vorokhta Mickola Vorokhta ( uk, Микола Ворохта, born 18 July 1947 in Rakhiv, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian artist- painter who lives and works in Odessa. In 2014, he was awarded the status of Merited Artist of Ukraine. Mickola Vorokhta finished ...

, painter *

Tetyana Yablonska Tetyana Nylivna Yablonska ( ukr, Тетяна Ниливна Ябло́нська; 24 February 1917 – 17 June 2005) was a Ukraine, Ukrainian Painting, painter. Her early vital pictures were devoted to the work and life of Ukrainian people (" ...

, modern painter * Yevhen Yehorov, 20th century artist * Vasiliy Yermilov, avant-garde artist * Ivan Yizhakevych *

Alla Horska Alla Horska ( uk, Алла Горська; 18 September 1929, Yalta — 17 November 1970, Vasylkiv) was a Ukrainian artist of the 1960s, Monumentalism, monumentalist painter, one of the first representatives of the Ukrainian underground, und ...

Photographers

* Anatoliy Havrylov,

Shevchenko National Prize Shevchenko National Prize ( uk, Націона́льна пре́мія Украї́ни і́мені Тараса́ Шевче́нка; also ''Shevchenko Award'') is the highest state prize of Ukraine for works of culture and arts awarded since ...

laureate for cinematography *

Nikolai Kozlovsky Nikolai Fedorovich Kozlovsky ( uk, Микола Федорович Козловський, 1921–1996) was a Ukrainian Soviet photographer and teacher. Biography Nikolai Fedorovich Kozlovsky was born 8 May 1921 in Sumy, now in Ukraine. Care ...

Sculptors

Alexander Archipenko Alexander Porfyrovych Archipenko (also referred to as Olexandr, Oleksandr, or Aleksandr; uk, Олександр Порфирович Архипенко, Romanized: Olexandr Porfyrovych Arkhypenko; February 25, 1964) was a Ukrainian and American ...

, Ukrainian-American sculptor and graphic artist * Lina Condes (born 1980), Ukrainian sculptor and multimedia artist * Chana Orloff (1888–1968), Ukrainian-Israeli *

Performing arts

Actors/Actresses

Alla Nazimova Alla Nazimova (Russian: Алла Назимова; born Marem-Ides Leventon, Russian: Марем-Идес Левентон; June 3 Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates">O.S._May_22.html" ;"title="Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="nowiki/>O ...

, (silent film star, born Adelaida Leventon, in

Yalta Yalta (: Я́лта) is a resort city on the south coast of the Crimean Peninsula surrounded by the Black Sea. It serves as the administrative center of Yalta Municipality, one of the regions within Crimea. Yalta, along with the rest of Crimea ...

) *

Ana Layevska Anna Sergeyevna Layevska ( uk, Анна Сергіївна Лаєвська, Anna Serhiyivna Layevsʹka, russian: Анна Сергеевна Лаевская, Anna Sergeyevna Layevskaya; born January 10, 1982), known as Ana Layevska, is a Mexic ...

Anna Sten Anna Sten ( ua, А́нна Стен; born Anna Petrivna Fesak, December 3, 1908November 12, 1993) was a Ukrainian-born American actress. She began her career in stage plays and films in the Soviet Union before traveling to Germany, where she st ...

(Anel Sudakevich) *

Bohdan Stupka Bohdan Sylvestrovych Stupka ( uk, Богдан Сильвестрович Ступка; 27 August 1941 – 22 July 2012) was a popular Ukrainian actor and the minister of culture of Ukraine. He was born in Kulykiv, General Government to Ukrainian ...

Elina Bystritskaya Elina Avraamovna Bystritskaya (4 April 1928 – 26 April 2019) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress and theater pedagogue. She is regarded as one of the most prominent actresses in the Soviet and Russian film industry. Her career spann ...

Elisabeth Bergner Elisabeth Bergner (22 August 1897 – 12 May 1986) was an Austrian-British actress. Primarily a stage actress, her career flourished in Berlin and Paris before she moved to London to work in films. Her signature role was Gemma Jones in '' Esca ...

, Austrian-English Jewish actress * Yaroslava Mosiychuk, actress *

Ivan Mykolaichuk Ivan Vasylyovych Mykolaichuk ( uk, Іван Васильович Миколайчук) (15 June 1941, Chortoryia, Ukrainian SSR – 3 August 1987) was a Ukrainian actor, producer, and screen writer. He is best known for playing the Hutsul I ...

Ivanna Sakhno Ivanna Anatoliyivna Sakhno ( uk, Іванна Анатоліївна Сахно; born 14 November 1997) is a Ukrainian and American actress. She is known for her roles as Cadet Viktoriya in the science fiction monster film ''Pacific Rim Uprising ...

Jack Palance Jack Palance ( ; born Volodymyr Palahniuk ( uk, Володимир Палагню́к); February 18, 1919 – November 10, 2006) was an American actor known for playing tough guys and villains. He was nominated for three Academy Awards, all fo ...

(Volodymyr Palahnyuk) *

John Hodiak John Hodiak ( ; April 16, 1914 – October 19, 1955) was an American actor who worked in radio, stage and film. Early life Hodiak was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Anna (Pogorzelec) and Walter Hodiak. He was of Ukrainian and ...

* Katheryn Winnick *

Lee Strasberg Lee Strasberg (born Israel Strassberg; November 17, 1901 – February 17, 1982) was an American theatre director, actor and acting teacher. He co-founded, with theatre directors Harold Clurman and Cheryl Crawford, the Group Theatre in 1931 ...

(1901–1982), Polish/American-Jewish actor *

Luba Goy Luba Goy ( uk, Люба Ґой; born November 8, 1945) is a Canadian actress, comedian and one of the stars of ''Royal Canadian Air Farce''. Life and career Goy was born in Haltern, Germany, to Ukrainian parents and raised in Ottawa, Ontario, Ca ...

Mike Mazurki Mike Mazurki (December 25, 1907 – December 9, 1990) was a Ukrainian-American actor and professional wrestler who appeared in more than 142 films. His 6 ft 5 in (196 cm) presence and face had him typecast as often brainless athletes ...

Mila Kunis Milena Markovna "Mila" Kunis (born August 14, 1983) is an American actress. Born in Chernivtsi and raised in Los Angeles, she began playing Jackie Burkhart on the Fox television series ''That '70s Show'' (1998–2006) at the age of 14. Since ...

, Ukrainian/American-Jewish actress *

Milla Jovovich Milica Bogdanovna Jovovich; sr-Latn, Milica Bogdanovna Jovović; russian: Милица Богдановна Йовович; uk, Милиця Богданoвна Йовович ( ; born December 17, 1975), known professionally as Milla Jovo ...

* Natasha Yarovenko * Nick Adams * Olena Chekan *

Olga Krasko Olga Yuryevna Krasko () is a Russian actress, born 30 November 1981 in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. She has starred in Russian theater productions, and is noted that as the heroine in '' The Turkish Gambit'' (2005), she is the only female ...

Olga Kurylenko Olga Kostyantynivna Kurylenko ( uk, Ольга Костянтинівна Куриленко; born 14 November 1979) is a Ukrainian and French actress and model. She started her acting career in 2005, and first found success as an actress for ...

* Stav Strashko, actress and model born in

Dnipropetrovsk Dnipro, previously called Dnipropetrovsk from 1926 until May 2016, is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper Rive ...

Taissa Farmiga Taissa Farmiga (; born August 17, 1994) is an American actress. Born in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, she is the younger sister of actress Vera Farmiga. Her numerous appearances in horror films have established her as a scream queen. Farmi ...

Vasily Lanovoy Vasily Semyonovich Lanovoy (russian: Василий Семёнович Лановой; (16 January 1934 – 28 January 2021) was a Soviet and Ukrainian Russian actor who worked in the Vakhtangov Theatre, Moscow. He was also known as the Preside ...

Vera Farmiga Vera Ann Farmiga ( ; born August 6, 1973) is an American actress who is best known for portraying paranormal investigator Lorraine Warren in the Conjuring Universe films '' The Conjuring'' (2013), '' The Conjuring 2'' (2016), '' Annabelle Co ...

Vera Kholodnaya Vera Vasilyevna Kholodnaya ( Levchenko; russian: link=no, Вера Васильевна Холодная; uk, link=no, Віра Василівна Холодна; 5 August 1893 – 16 February 1919) was an actress of Russian Empire cinema. She w ...

Yakov Smirnoff Yakov Naumovich Pokhis (russian: Яков Наумович Похис; born 24 January 1951), better known as Yakov Smirnoff (russian: Яков Смирнов; ), is a Ukrainian-American comedian, actor and writer. He began his career as a stan ...

* Yuriy Tkach *

Zhanna Prokhorenko Zhanneta "Zhanna" Trofimovna Prokhorenko (russian: Жаннета "Жанна" Трофимовна Прохоренко, uk, Жаннета "Жанна" Трохимівна Прохоренко; 11 May 1940 – 1 August 2011) was a Soviet and ...

Volodymyr Zelenskyy Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy, ; russian: Владимир Александрович Зеленский, Vladimir Aleksandrovich Zelenskyy, (born 25 January 1978; also transliterated as Zelensky or Zelenskiy) is a Ukrainian politicia ...

President of Ukraine (2019–present)

Choreographers and dancers

Vasyl Avramenko Vasyl Kyrylovych Avramenko ( uk, Василь Кирилович Авраменко; sometimes transcribed as Vasile) (March 22, 1895 – May 6, 1981) was a Ukrainian actor, dancer, choreographer, balletmaster, director, and film producer, ...

* Roma Pryma-Bohachevsky, pro-Western *

Oksana Skorik Oksana Skorik ( Ukrainian: Оксана Скорик, born April 20, 1989) is a professional ballet dancer from Kharkiv, Ukraine and Principal Dancer of the Mariinsky Ballet. She joined the Mariinsky Ballet in 2007 after graduating from the Per ...

- ballet dancer * Vasyl Verkhovynets *

Igor Youskevitch Igor Youskevitch (russian: link=no, Игорь Юскевич, uk, Ігор Юскевич) (13 March 1912 – 13 June 1994) was a ballet dancer and a choreographer of Russian-Ukrainian origin, famous as one of the greatest male ballet dancers ...

- ballet dancer

Film and theatre directors

Roman Balayan Roman Gurgenovich Balayan ( hy, Ռոման Գուրգենի Բալայան, russian: Рома́н Гурге́нович Балая́н; born 15 April 1941, Nerkin Horatagh, Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian-Armeni ...

, Ukrainian-Armenian film director *

Sergei Bondarchuk Sergei Fyodorovich Bondarchuk (russian: Сергей Фёдорович Бондарчук, ; uk, Сергі́й Федорович Бондарчук, Serhíj Fédorovych Bondarchúk; 25 September 192020 October 1994) was a Soviet and Russian ...

* Leonid Bykiv *

Grigori Chukhrai Grigory Naumovich Chukhray (russian: Григо́рий Нау́мович Чухра́й; uk, Григорiй Наумович Чухрай; 23 May 1921 – 28 October 2001) was a Ukrainian Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. ...

Volodymyr Dakhno Volodymyr Dakhno (; March 7, 1932, Zaporizhzhia — July 28, 2006, Kyiv, Ukraine) was a Ukrainian animator, animation film director and scriptwriter. He was a laureate of the Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine (1988), and a People's Artist of ...

laureate and

Cossacks (cartoon series) Cossacks () is a series of Ukrainian animated comedy short films originally shot at the Kyivnaukfilm film studio and in later series created by the UkrAnimaFilm and Baraban animation studios. This series has also sometimes been titled "Kak Kazaki" ...

creator *

Alexander Dovzhenko Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko or Alexander Petrovich Dovzhenko ( uk, Олександр Петрович Довженко, ''Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko''; russian: Алекса́ндр Петро́вич Довже́нко, ''Aleksandr Petro ...

Edward Dmytryk Edward Dmytryk (September 4, 1908 – July 1, 1999) was an American film director. He was known for his 1940s films noir, noir films and received an Academy Award for Best Director, Oscar nomination for Best Director for ''Crossfire (film), Cros ...

Kateryna Gornostai Kateryna Gornostai (Ukrainian: Горностай Катерина Павлівна; born March 15, 1989) is a Ukrainian film director, screenwriter and film editor. She is a jury member of the film festival Wiz-Art since 2014 and a member of t ...

- Ukrainian LGBTQ film director, screenwriter and film editor * Les Kurbas *

Anatole Litvak Anatoly Mikhailovich Litvak (russian: Анатолий Михайлович Литвак; 21 May 1902 – 15 December 1974), better known as Anatole Litvak, was a Ukrainian-born American filmmaker who wrote, directed, and produced films in vari ...

(1902–1974), Ukrainian/American-Jewish film director *

Danylo Lyder Danylo Danylovych Lyder (– 29 December 2002, Kyiv, Ukraine) was a Ukrainian set designer, and teacher. He was a member of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, the National Union of Theater Actors of ...

Paul Mazursky Irwin Lawrence "Paul" Mazursky (April 25, 1930 – June 30, 2014) was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor. Known for his dramatic comedies that often dealt with modern social issues, he was nominated for five Academy Awards: three t ...

(1930–2014), American-Jewish actor, screenwriter and film director *

Kira Muratova , honorific_suffix = People's Artist of Ukraine , birth_date = , birth_place = Soroca, Kingdom of Romania(now Moldova) , death_date = , death_place = Odessa, Ukraine , birth_name = Kira Gueórguievn ...

Larisa Shepitko Larisa Yefimovna Shepitko (, uk, Лариса Юхимівна Шепітько, translit=Larysa Yukhymivna Shepitko; 6 January 1938 – 2 July 1979) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter and actress. She is considered one of the best fema ...

Peter Weibel Peter Weibel (; born 5 March 1944 in Odessa, USSR) is an internationally known Austrian post-conceptual artist, curator and new media theoretician. He started out in 1964 as a visual poet but soon jumped from the page to the screen within the sen ...

Sergei Loznitsa Sergei Vladimirovich Loznitsa ( be, Сяргей Уладзіміравіч Лазніца, russian: Сергей Владимирович Лозница, uk, Сергій Володимирович Лозниця; born 5 September 1964) is a Uk ...

, Ukrainian documentary director *

Tanu Muino Tetyana Robertivna Muinyo ( uk, Тетяна Робертівна Муїньо; born 7 December 1989), better known as Tanu Muino ( uk, Таня Муїньо, es, Tanu Muiño) is a Ukrainian music video director, designer, stylist, photographe ...

Models

* Alexandra Kutas, Ukrainian model who has a disability *

Snejana Onopka Snejana Dmitrievna Onopka ( uk, Сніжана Дмитрівна Онопко; born 15 December 1986) is a Ukrainian model. Early life Born 15 December 1986 in Severodonetsk, Onopka moved to the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, in 2001. While there, ...

, Ukrainian model born in

Sievierodonetsk russian: Северодоне́цк , other_name = Severodonetsk , settlement_type = City , image_skyline = , image_caption = , image_flag = Severodoneck prapor.png , image_shield ...

Daria Werbowy Daria Werbowy (born 19 November 1983) is a Canadian retired fashion model born in Poland. She became a spokesmodel for the French beauty brand Lancôme in 2005. According to '' Forbes'', Werbowy has appeared on over 50 international ''Vogue'' ...

, Polish-born Canadian model of Ukrainian descent. *

Alina Baikova Alina Baikova ( uk, Аліна Байкова) is a Ukrainian fashion model and businesswoman. Early life Baikova was born in Kropyvnytskyi, Kirovohrad Oblast. She came from an impoverished family and worked at a restaurant to earn money. On t ...

LGBT activists and notable LGBT Ukrainians

* Bogdan Globa - LGBT activist * Vitalina Koval - LGBT activist * Anna Sharyhina - LGBT activist *

Olena Shevchenko Olena Olehivna Shevchenko ( uk, Олена Олегівна Шевченко; born 1982) is a Ukrainian women's and LGBT rights activist. After working as a teacher, she co-founded the NGO Insight in 2007 to advocate for LGBT inclusiveness on ...

- Ukrainian women's and LGBT rights activist *

Edward Tarletski Edward Tarletski, (; also known as Norma Pospolita and Madame Zhu–Zhu, born 5 February 1969) is a Belarusian drag performer, recording artist, entertainer, journalist, gay activist, and costume designer, living in Stockholm, Sweden. He was bo ...

- Belarusian drag performer and recording artist, entertainer, journalist and gay activist

Musicians

Bandurists

Hnat Khotkevych Hnat Martynovych Khotkevych ( uk, Гнат Мартинович Хоткевич, also ''Gnat Khotkevich'' or ''Hnat Khotkevych'', born December 31, 1877 – died October 8, 1938) was a Ukrainian writer, ethnographer, playwright, composer, musico ...

, bandurist * Hryhory Kytasty, bandurist *

Julian Kytasty Julian Kytasty ( uk, Юліян Китастий) is an American composer, singer, kobzar, bandurist, flautist, and conductor of Ukrainian descent. He was born January 23, 1958, in Detroit, Michigan, in a family of refugees. Biography His firs ...

, bandurist * Volodymyr Luciv, bandurist * Victor Mishalow, bandurist

Composers

Svitlana Azarova Svitlana Azarova ( uk, Світлана Азарова; born 9 January 1976) is a Ukrainian-Dutch composer of contemporary classical music, originally from the Ukrainian SSR. Early years Svitlana Azarova was born on 9 January 1976, in Izmail, ...

* Virko Baley *

Vasyl Barvinsky Vasyl Oleksandrovych Barvinsky ( uk, Василь Олександрович Барвінський) (20 February 1888 – 9 June 1963) was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor, teacher, musicologist, and music related social figure. Barvinsk ...

Maxim Berezovsky Maxim Sozontovich Berezovsky (russian: Макси́м Созо́нтович Березо́вский , uk, Максим Созонтович Березовський, translit=Maksym Sozontovych Berezovskyi; (?) — 2 April 1777) was a compos ...

Oleksandr Bilash Oleksandr Ivanovych Bilash (also spelt ''Olexandr Bilash'', ''Alexander Bilash'', uk, Олександр Іванович Білаш) (6 March 1931 – 6 May 2003) was a Soviet and Ukrainian composer and the author of popular lyric songs, bal ...

, composer, Hero of Ukraine *

Dmitry Bortniansky Dmitry Stepanovich Bortniansky ; ; alternative transcriptions of names are ''Dmitri Bortnianskii'', and ''Bortnyansky'', group=n (28 October 1751 – ) was a Russian Imperial composer of Ukrainian Cossack origin. He was a composer, harpsichord ...

* Marusia Churai *

Nikolay Diletsky Nikolay Diletsky ( uk, Микола Дилецький, Mykola Dyletsky, russian: Николай Павлович Дилецкий, Nikolay Pavlovich Diletsky, Nikolai Diletskii, pl, Mikołaj Dilecki, also ''Mikolaj Dylecki'', ''Nikolai Dilezki ...

Isaak Dunayevsky Isaak Osipovich Dunayevsky (russian: Исаак Осипович Дунаевский ; also transliterated as Dunaevski or Dunaevskiy; 25 July 1955) was a Soviet film composer and conductor of the 1930s and 1940s, who composed music for operett ...

, author of numerous popular Soviet songs *

Lesia Dychko Lesia Vasylivna Dychko ( uk, Леся Василівна Дичко), originally Liudmyla Vasylivna Dychko (born 24 October 1939) is a List of Ukrainian composers, Ukrainian composer and music educator. Life Early years and education Lesia Vasyl ...

Arkady Filippenko Arkady Dmitriyevich Filippenko ( uk, Аркадій Дми́трович Филипенко, Arkadii Dmytrovych Fylypenko) (8 January 1912 – 24 August 1983) was a Soviet Ukrainian composer. Biography He was born in the small village of Pushc ...

Reinhold Glière Reinhold Moritzevich Glière (born Reinhold Ernest Glier, which was later converted for standardization purposes; russian: Рейнгольд Морицевич Глиэр; 23 June 1956), was a Russian Imperial and Soviet composer of German and P ...

Leonid Hrabovsky Leonid Oleksandrovych Hrabovsky (also Hrabovsky or Hrabovs'ky, uk, Леонід Олександрович Грабо́вський; russian: Леони́д Алекса́ндрович Грабо́вский, ''Leonid Alexandrovitch Grabovsky ...

Semen Hulak-Artemovsky Semen Stepanovych Hulak-Artemovsky ( uk, Семен Степанович Гулак-Артемовський, also referred to as Semyon Gulak-Artemovsky and Artemovs’kyj) ( – ), was a Ukrainian opera composer, singer (baritone), actor, and ...

Volodymyr Ivasyuk Volodymyr Mykhailovych Ivasyuk or Volodymyr Ivasiuk ( uk, Володи́мир Миха́йлович Івасю́к) (4 March 1949 – 24–27 April 1979) was a Ukrainian songwriter, composer and poet. He is the author and composer of the wid ...

Oleksander Koshetz Alexander Koshetz (12 September 1875 – 21 September 1944) was a Ukrainian choral conductor, arranger, composer, ethnographer, writer, musicologist, and lecturer. He helped popularize Ukrainian music around the world. His name is sometimes ...

Mykola Leontovych Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych (23 January 1921; ua, Микола Дмитрович Леонтович, link=no (); also Leontovich) was a Ukrainian composer, conductor, ethnomusicologist and teacher. His music was inspired by the Ukrainian ...

, composed

Shchedryk (song) "Shchedryk" ( uk, Щедрик, from , "Bountiful Evening") is a Ukrainian ''shchedrivka'', or New Year's song, known in English as "The Little Swallow". It was arranged by composer and teacher Mykola Leontovych in 1916, and tells a story of a ...

also known as

Carol of the Bells "Carol of the Bells" is a popular Christmas carol, with music by Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych in 1914 and lyrics by Peter J. Wilhousky. The song is based on the Ukrainian folk chant " Shchedryk". The music is in the public domain; Wil ...

Zara Levina Zara Aleksandrovna Levina (russian: Зара Александровна Левина; born February 5 ( O.S. January 25), 1906, in Simferopol, Russian Empire – June 27, 1976, in Moscow) was a Soviet pianist and composer. She was from a Jewish fam ...

Borys Lyatoshynsky Borys Mykolayovych Lyatoshynsky ( uk, Бори́с Миколáйович Лятоши́нський ()), also known as Boris Nikolayevich Lyatoshinsky (russian: Бори́с Николаевич Лятоши́нский), (3 January 189515 Apr ...

Mykola Lysenko Mykola Vitaliyovych Lysenko ( uk, Мико́ла Віта́лійович Ли́сенко; 22 March 1842 – 6 November 1912) was a List of Ukrainian composers, Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor and ethnomusicologist of the late Romantic mus ...

Ruslana Lyzhichko Ruslana Stepanivna Lyzhychko ( uk, Руслана Степанівна Лижичко, ''Ruslana Lyzhychko''; born 24 May 1973), known mononymously as Ruslana, is a World Music Award and Eurovision Song Contest winning recording artist, holdin ...

Igor Markevitch Igor Borisovich Markevitch (russian: Игорь Борисович Маркевич, ''Igor Borisovich Markevich'', uk, Ігор Борисович Маркевич, ''Ihor Borysovych Markevych''; 27 July 1912 – 7 March 1983) was a Russian- ...

* Yuli Meitus * Yuriy Oliynyk *

Mykola Ovsianiko-Kulikovsky Mykola Ovsianiko-Kulikovsky (Russian: Николай Овсянико-Куликовский, 1768–1846) was the purported author of a famous musical hoax Symphony No. 21 (Ovsianiko-Kulikovsky), perpetrated by composer and violinist Mikhail G ...

Sergei Prokofiev Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev; alternative transliterations of his name include ''Sergey'' or ''Serge'', and ''Prokofief'', ''Prokofieff'', or ''Prokofyev''., group=n (27 April .S. 15 April1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, p ...

Levko Revutsky Levko "Lev" Mykolajovych Revutskyi (, russian: Лев Николаевич Ревуцкий; – 30 March 1977) was a Ukrainian composer, teacher, and activist. Amongst his students at the Lysenko Music Institute were the composers Arkady Fi ...

Nikolai Roslavets Nikolai Andreevich Roslavets (russian: link=no, Никола́й Андре́евич Ро́славец; in Surazh, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire – 23 August 1944 in Moscow) was a significant Ukrainian modernist composer of Beloruss ...

* Aleksandr Shymko *

Valentin Silvestrov Valentyn Vasylyovych Sylvestrov ( uk, Валенти́н Васи́льович Сильве́стров; born 30 September 1937) is a Ukrainian composer and pianist, who plays and writes contemporary classical music. Biography Valentyn Vasylyo ...

Myroslav Skoryk Myroslav Mykhailovych Skoryk ( uk, Мирослав Михайлович Скорик; 13 July 1938 – 1 June 2020) was a Ukrainian composer and teacher. His music is contemporary in style and contains idioms from diverse sources including G ...

Yevhen Stankovych Yevhen Fedorovych Stankovych ( uk, Євге́н Фе́дорович Станко́вич; born September 19, 1942) is a contemporary Ukrainian composer of stage, orchestral, chamber, and choral works. Biography Stankovych was born in Szolyva ( ...

Kyrylo Stetsenko Kyrylo Hryhorovych Stetsenko ( ua, Кирило Григорович Стеценко; May 12, 1882 – April 29, 1922) was a prolific Ukrainian composer, conductor, critic, and teacher. Late in his life he became a Ukrainian Orthodox Priest an ...

Dimitri Tiomkin Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin (, ; May 10, 1894 – November 11, 1979) was a Russian-born American film composer and conductor. Classically trained in St. Petersburg, Russia before the Bolshevik Revolution, he moved to Berlin and then New York City ...

- film composer *

Artemy Vedel Artemy Lukyanovich Vedel (russian: Артемий Лукьянович Ведель, uk, Артем Лук'янович Ведель, translit=Artem Lukianovych Vedel; ), born Artemy Lukyanovich Vedelsky, was a Ukrainian-born Russian composer ...

Mykhailo Verbytsky Mykhailo Mykhailovych Verbytsky ( uk, Михайло Михайлович Вербицький; March 4, 1815 – December 7, 1870) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest and composer. He is considered to be one of the first professional Ukrai ...

, composer of the National Anthem of Ukraine *

Mykola Vilinsky Mykola Mykolayovych Vilinsky ( uk, Микола Миколайович Вілінський; 14 May 18889 September 1956) was a Soviet and Ukrainian composer who held senior chairs at the Odesa Conservatory and later the Kyiv Conservatory. He ...

* Yakiv Yatsynevych

Pianists

Simon Barere Simon may refer to: People * Simon (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name Simon * Simon (surname), including a list of people with the surname Simon * Eugène Simon, French naturalist and the genus ...

, pianist *

Yevheniya Barvinska Yevheniia Maksymivna Barvinska or Yevheniya Barvinsʼka (nee Liubovych, 1854–1913), was a Ukrainian pianist, choral conductor and singer (soprano), who promoted the music of Ukrainian composers. Biography Yevheniia Liubovych was born on 20 D ...

, pianist *

Felix Blumenfeld Felix Mikhailovich Blumenfeld (russian: Фе́ликс Миха́йлович Блуменфе́льд; – 21 January 1931) was a Russian and Soviet composer, conductor of the Imperial Opera St-Petersburg, pianist, and teacher. He was born ...

, pianist *

Shura Cherkassky Shura Cherkassky (russian: Александр (Шура) Исаакович Черкасский; 7 October 190927 December 1995) was a Ukrainian-American concert pianist known for his performances of the romanticism, romantic repertoire. His p ...

, pianist *

Emil Gilels Emil Grigoryevich Gilels (Russian: Эми́ль Григо́рьевич Ги́лельс; 19 October 1916 – 14 October 1985) was a Russian pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest pianists of all time. Early life and educatio ...

, pianist *

Vladimir Horowitz Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz; yi, וולאַדימיר סאַמוילאָוויטש האָראָוויץ, group=n (November 5, 1989)Schonberg, 1992 was a Russian-born American classical pianist. Considered one of the greatest pianists of all ...

, pianist *

Lubka Kolessa Lubka Oleksandrivna Kolessa ( uk, Любов Олександрівна Колесса; 19 May 1902 in Lemberg, Austro-Hungarian Empire – 15 August 1997 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) was a classical pianist and professor of piano. Biography Edu ...

, pianist *

Valentina Lisitsa Valentina Lisitsa, ; russian: Валентина Евгеньевна Лисица, translit=Valentina Evgen'evna Lisica, ) (born 25 March 1970) is a Ukrainian-American pianist. Lisitsa independently launched her career on social media, without ...

, pianist * Benno Moiseiwitsch, pianist *

Heinrich Neuhaus Heinrich Gustav Neuhaus ( pl, Henryk (Harry) Neuhaus, russian: Ге́нрих Густа́вович Нейга́уз, Genrikh Gustavovič Nejgauz, 10 October 1964) was a Russian-born pianist and teacher of German and Polish extraction. Part of ...

, pianist *

Sviatoslav Richter Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter, group= ( – August 1, 1997) was a Soviet classical pianist. He is frequently regarded as one of the greatest pianists of all time, Great Pianists of the 20th Century and has been praised for the "depth of his int ...

, pianist *

Leo Sirota Leo Gregorovich Sirota (May 4, 1885 - February 25, 1965) was a Jewish pianist born in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Podolskaya Guberniya, Russian Empire, now Ukraine. Biography Leo Sirota began studying piano at the age of five. By the age of nine he w ...

, pianist

Organists

* Roman Krasnovsky, organist, composer *

Paul Stetsenko Paul T. Stetsenko (born 1962 in Kyiv, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian-born organist, choral conductor, and composer of church music. Stetsenko, the son of an architect and a painter, always wished that he could be an organist, growing up in Kyiv, Ukraine ...

, organist, choral conductor *

Rostislaw Wygranienko Rostisław Wygranienko (born 1978 in Simferopol, Ukraine) is a Polish concert organist, pianist and musicologist of Ukrainians, Ukrainian origin. In 2003 he graduated from the Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy, Warsaw (Master of Arts with "excellent ...

, organist

Strings

Yuri Bashmet Yuri Abramovich Bashmet (russian: link=no, Юрий Абрамович Башмет; born 24 January 1953) is a Russian conductor, violinist, and violist. Biography Yuri Bashmet was born on 24 January 1953 in Rostov-on-Don in the family of Ab ...

, viola soloist *

Mischa Elman Mischa (Mikhail Saulovich) Elman (russian: Михаил Саулович Эльман; January 20, 1891April 5, 1967) was a Russian-born American violinist famed for his passionate style, beautiful tone, and impeccable artistry and musicality. E ...

, violinist *

Emanuel Feuermann Emanuel Feuermann (November 22, 1902 – May 25, 1942) was an internationally celebrated cellist in the first half of the 20th century. Life Feuermann was born in 1902 in Kolomyja, Galicia, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Kolomyia, Ukraine) to ...

(1902–1942), Ukrainian-Jewish cellist (born in Austrian Galicia) *

Vadim Gluzman Vadim Gluzman (Вадим Михайлович Глузман, born 1973) is a Ukrainian-born Israeli classical violinist. Born in the former Soviet Union, Vadim Gluzman spent most of his childhood in Riga, Latvia. His father is a conductor and cl ...

, violinist *

Pawlo Humeniuk Pawlo Humeniuk ( uk, Павло Гуменюк, anglicized as Paul Homenick, and polonized as Paweł Humeniak) June 18, 1883 – January 24, 1965) was a Ukrainian American fiddler from the early 20th century who became one of the biggest s ...

, violinist / fiddler *

Leonid Kogan Leonid Borisovich Kogan (russian: Леони́д Бори́сович Ко́ган; uk, Леонід Борисович Коган; 14 November 1924 – 17 December 1982) was a preeminent Soviet violinist during the 20th century. Many consider ...

, violinist *

Nathan Milstein Nathan Mironovich Milstein ( – December 21, 1992) was a Russian-born American virtuoso violinist. Widely considered one of the finest violinists of the 20th century, Milstein was known for his interpretations of Bach's solo violin works and ...

, violinist *

David Oistrakh David Fyodorovich Oistrakh (; – 24 October 1974), was a Soviet classical violinist, violist and conductor. Oistrakh collaborated with major orchestras and musicians from many parts of the world and was the dedicatee of numerous violin w ...

, violinist *

Igor Oistrakh Igor Davidovich Oistrakh (russian: И́горь Дави́дович О́йстрах; uk, Ігор Давидович Ойстрах 27 April 1931 – 14 August 2021) was a Soviet and Russian violinist. He was described by ''Encyclopædia Brita ...

, violinist *

Steven Staryk Steven Sam Staryk, OC (born 27 April 1932) is a Canadian violin virtuoso. He had a distinguished solo career and was concertmaster of several major orchestras, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Concertgeb ...

, violinist *

Isaac Stern Isaac Stern (July 21, 1920 – September 22, 2001) was an American violinist. Born in Poland, Stern came to the US when he was 14 months old. Stern performed both nationally and internationally, notably touring the Soviet Union and China, and ...

(1920–2001), American-Jewish, born in Kremenets Poland (now Ukraine), violinist.

Conductors

Jascha Horenstein Jascha Horenstein (russian: Яша Горенштейн; – 2 April 1973) was an American conductor. Biography Horenstein was born in Kiev, Russian Empire (now Ukraine), into a well-to-do Jewish family; his mother (Marie Ettinger) came fr ...

(1898–1973), Ukrainian/American-Jewish conductor * Oleksander Horilyj (1863-1937), first conductor of the Ukrainian National Symphony Orchestra

Singers

Opera

Andrij Dobriansky Andrij Dobriansky ( uk, Андрій Добрянський; September 2, 1930February 1, 2012) was a principal artist with the Metropolitan Opera for 30 years where he sang over 60 roles in over 900 performances. As a displaced person in post-war ...

, bass-baritone * Borys Hmyria, bass * Vasyl Slipak, baritone *

Alexander Kipnis Alexander Kipnis ( – May 14, 1978) was a Ukrainian-born operatic bass. Having initially established his artistic reputation in Europe, Kipnis became an American citizen in 1931, following his marriage to an American. He appeared often at the Ch ...

, bass *

Ivan Kozlovsky Ivan Semyonovich Kozlovsky (russian: Ива́н Семё́нович Козло́вский, uk, Іван Семенович Козловський; also referred to as Kozlovskiy or Kozlovskij; 21 December 1993) was a Soviet lyric tenor and on ...

, tenor *

Solomiya Krushelnytska Solomiya Amvrosiivna KrushelnytskaHer name is sometimes spelt as Solomiya Ambrosiyivna Krushelnytska, Salomea Krusceniski, Krushel'nytska or Kruszelnicka. ( uk, Соломія Амвро́сіївна Крушельницька, links=no; Septem ...

, soprano * Evgeniya Miroshnichenko, soprano *

Vyacheslav Polozov Vyacheslav Michailovich Polozov (russian: Вячеслав Михайлович Полозов; January 1, 1950) nicknamed "Slava", is a Soviet-born opera singer, professor of voice, entrepreneur. He sang at many opera houses around the world, ap ...

, tenor *

Maria Sokil Maria Sokil (Rudnytsky) (October 18, 1902 – January 20, 1999) was a Ukrainian opera singer. Biography Sokil was born in the village of Zherebets' (now Tavriiske) in the Zaporizhzhia Oblast on October 18, 1902. She studied at the conserva ...

, soprano * Anatoly Solovyanenko, tenor *

Leonid Skirko Leonid Skirko ''Ukr.'' Леонід Миколайович Скірко (27 April 1939 – 8 June 2012) was a Canadian bass-baritone opera singer of Ukrainian origin. Biography and Career He was born in Shcherbynivka near Lozova, Ukraine to M ...

, bass, baritone

Singers and artists of other genres

Iryna Bilyk Iryna Mykolayivna Bilyk ( ua, Ірина Миколаївна Білик, born 1970 in Kyiv) is a Ukrainian singer, songwriter, and People's Artist of Ukraine. She wrote her first song at the age of ten. In 1995, Bilyk performed for the United S ...

- singer *

Denis Stoff Denis Alexandrovich Shaforostov ( uk, Денис Олександрович Шафоростов; born 4 May 1992), also known by his stage name Denis Stoff, is a Ukrainian singer, best known for his work as a guitarist and singer of the Ukraini ...

, singer *

Dimal Dimal may refer to *Dimal (municipality), in Berat County, central Albania *Dimal (rapper), from Ukraine {{disamb, geo ...

, award-winning artist, rapper, entertainer *

Kvitka Cisyk Kvitka "Kasey" Cisyk ( uk, Квітка Цісик; Квітослава-Орися Цісик, ''Kvitka Tsisyk''; April 4, 1953 Katya Chilly Kateryna Petrivna Kondratenko ( uk, Катерина Петрівна Кондратенко; born 12 July 1978), known professionally as Katya Chilly, is a Ukrainian singer and songwriter. Her style is a fusion of world and new-age music. Biog ...

, singer *

Taras Chubay Taras Hryhorovych Chubay ( uk, Тарас Григорович Чубай), (born on 21 June 1970 in Lviv) is a Ukrainian musician and poet, singer and composer, leader of the Ukrainian rock band Plach Yeremiyi. Biography and personal life Tar ...

, bard *

Gaitana {{confusing, date=May 2014 Gaitana, also known as Guaitipan, is referred to as La Gaitana and Cacica Gaitana, was a 16th-century Yalcon ''cacica'' from the region of Timaná, Huila, a leader who, in 1539–40, led the indigenous people of the U ...

* Ganna Gryniva, jazz singer *

Eugene Hutz Eugene may refer to: People and fictional characters * Eugene (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Eugene (actress) (born 1981), Kim Yoo-jin, South Korean actress and former member of the sin ...

, lead singer of the Gypsy Punk band

Gogol Bordello Gogol Bordello is an American punk rock band from the Lower East Side of Manhattan, formed in 1999 by musicians from all over the world and known for theatrical stage shows and persistent touring. Much of the band's sound is inspired by Ro ...

Jamala Susana Alimivna Jamaladinova, ; rus, Суса́на Али́мовна Джамалади́нова, Susána Alímovna Dzhamaladínova, sʊˈsanə ɐˈlʲiməvnə dʐəməlɐˈdʲinəvə, links=yes. (born 27 August 1983), known professionally ...

, singer, composer, winner of the

Eurovision Song Contest 2016 The Eurovision Song Contest 2016 was the 61st edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Stockholm, Sweden, following the country's victory at the with the song "Heroes" by Måns Zelmerlöw. Organised by the European Broadcasting ...

* Iosif Kobzon, iconic Soviet crooner *

Ani Lorak Karolina Myroslavivna Kuiek, russian: Каролина Мирославовна Куек (born 27 September 1978), popularly known as Ani Lorak,, russian: Ани Лорак is a Ukrainian singer, songwriter, actress, entrepreneur and former UN ...

, singer, runner-up of the 2008 Eurovision contest *

Mélovin Kostyantyn Mykolayovych Bocharov ( uk, Костянти́н Микола́йович Бочаро́в; born 11 April 1997), better known by his stage name Mélovin (stylised as MÉLOVIN; uk, Ме́ловін, links=no), is a Ukrainian singer an ...

(Kostyantyn Mykolayovych Bocharov) - Ukrainian singer, LGBT activist *

Ruslana Ruslana Stepanivna Lyzhychko ( uk, Руслана Степанівна Лижичко, ''Ruslana Lyzhychko''; born 24 May 1973), known mononymously as Ruslana, is a World Music Award and Eurovision Song Contest winning recording artist, holding ...

, pop singer, composer, songwriter, conductor, dancer, record producer, pro-Western, singer and winner of the 2004 Eurovision contest. *

Alina Pash Alina Ivanivna Pash ( uk, Аліна Іванівна Паш, ; born 6 May 1993) is a Ukrainian singer and rapper. In 2016, she participated in the sixth season of the Ukrainian edition of ''The X Factor'', placing 3rd. She also participated i ...

- Singer and rapper, LGBT activist *

Anastasia Prikhodko Anastasia Kostyantynivna Prikhodko ( uk, Анастасія Костянтинівна Приходько, Anastasiya Kostyantynivna Prykhodko; born 21 April 1987) is a Ukrainian activist, politician and former singer-songwriter. Known for her ...

, winner of Star Factory 2007, and represented Russia in the 2009 Eurovision song contest *

Sofia Rotaru Sofiia Mykhailivna Yevdokymenko-Rotaru (born 7 August 1947), known as Sofia Rotaru ( uk, Софія Михайлівна Ротару ; russian: link=no, Софи́я Миха́йловна Рота́ру; ro, Sofia Rotaru), is a former Ukrainia ...

, singer *

Anna Sedokova Anna Vladimirovna Sedokova ( uk, А́нна Володи́мирівна Сєдоко́ва; russian: А́нна Влади́мировна Седоко́ва, born 16 December 1982) is a Ukrainian singer, actress and television presenter. Sedo ...

- Singer, actress and television presenter, LGBT activist *

Verka Serduchka Andriy Mykhailovych Danylko ( uk, Андрі́й Миха́йлович Дани́лко; born 2 October 1973), better known as his drag persona Verka Serduchka ( uk, Вє́рка Сердю́чка, links=no, ; russian: Ве́рка Серд ...

(Adriy Danylko), singer and runner-up of the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest *

Yuri Shevchuk Yuri Yulianovich Shevchuk (russian: Юрий Юлианович Шевчук; born 16 May 1957) is a Soviet and Russian rock musician and singer/songwriter who leads the rock band DDT, which he founded with Vladimir Sigachyov in 1980. He is bes ...

, bard, born of Ukrainian father *

Klavdiya Shulzhenko Klavdiya Ivanovna Shulzhenko (russian: Кла́вдия Ива́новна Шульже́нко, uk, Клавдія Іванівна Шульженко; – June 17, 1984) was a Soviet popular female singer and actress. Biography Shulzhenko ...

, singer of the most inspiring WWII song that didn't mention Stalin *

Theresa Sokyrka Theresa Sokyrka (born 1 April 1981) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. On the Canadian Idol (Season 2), second season of ''Canadian Idol'', she was the final runner-up to winner Kalan Porter. Biography Born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Sokyrka s ...

, Canadian Idol 2 runner-up * Super DJ Dmitri (Dmitry Brill), member of American club/dance group

Deee-Lite Deee-Lite was an American house and dance music group formed in New York City. The group's best-known single is "Groove Is in the Heart", which was released in 1990 from their debut studio album ''World Clique'' (1990), and was a top-ten hit in ...

* Nissan Spivak, world-famous Ukrainian cantor * Leonyd Utyosiv, jazz singer *

Svyatoslav Vakarchuk Sviatoslav "Slava" Vakarchuk ( uk, Святослав Іванович Вакарчук; born May 14, 1975) is a Ukrainian musician, politician and public activist. He is the lead vocalist of Okean Elzy, a rock band in Ukraine. Vakarchuk is a form ...

, singer *

Alexander Vertinsky Alexander Nikolayevich Vertinsky (russian: Александр Николаевич Вертинский, — May 21, 1957) was a Russian and Soviet artist, poet, singer, composer, cabaret artist and actor who exerted seminal influence on the Ru ...

, singer *

Velvel Zbarjer Velvel Zbarjer (1824, Zbarazh – 1884), birth name Benjamin Wolf Ehrenkrantz (a.k.a. Velvl Zbarjer, Zbarjur, Zbarzher, etc.), a Galician Jew, was a Brody singer. Following in the footsteps of Berl Broder, his "mini-melodramas in song" were ...

, singer *

Tina Karol , native_name_lang = uk , birth_name = Tetiana Hryhorivna Liberman , birth_date = , birth_place = Orotukan, Russian SFSR, USSR , alma_mater = R. Glier Kyiv Institute of MusicNational Aviation University , oc ...

, singer *

Vitas Vitaliy Vladasovich Grachev (russian: Виталий Владасович Грачёв; uk, Віталій Владасович Грачов, Vitaliy Vladasovych Hrachov; born 19 February 1979), known professionally as Vitas ( rus, Вит� ...

, singer and actor *

Oleksandr Ponomaryov Oleksandr Ponomariov ( ua, Олександр Пономарьов; born August 9, 1973) is a Ukrainian singer. He has been awarded the country's "Singer of the Year" seven times. Ponomariov was born in Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine. One of his early ...

, singer *

Vera Brezhneva Vira Viktorivna Halushka ( uk, Віра Вікторівна Галушка; russian: link=no, Вера Викторовна Галушка, ''Vira Viktorivna Halushka''; born 3 February 1982), better known by her stage name Vera Brezhneva (russi ...

, singer and television presenter *

Zlata Ognevich Inna Leonidivna Bordiuh ( uk, Інна Леонідівна Бордюг, Inna Leonidivna Bordiuh, ; born 12 January 1986), known professionally as Zlata Ognevich ( uk, Злата Огнєвіч, Zlata Ohnievich, links=no, ), is a Ukrainian sing ...

, singer, represented Ukraine in the 2013 Eurovision song contest * Zi Faámelu (born Boris Kruglov) - transgender Ukrainian singer and songwriter

Other

* Volodymyr (Vlad) DeBriansky, guitarist, producer, composer, songwriter *

Eugene Hütz Eugene Hütz (; uk, Євген Гудзь, Yevhen Hudz, ; born Yevgen Oleksandrovych Nikolayev-Symonov, ua, Євген Олександрович Ніколаєв-Симонов, on 6 September 1972) is a Ukrainian-born singer, composer, disc ...

(Gogol Bordello), singer, guitarist, composer, songwriter, actor *

Efim Jourist Efim Jourist (January 13, 1947 – January 13, 2007) was a Russian and German composer, accordionist and bajan player. Life Efim Jourist was born in Siberia. From 1966 until 1971 he studied at the conservatory of Gorky where he made the acquai ...

, composer, accordionist and bajan player *

, pianist, singer, dancer, composer, producer, songwriter *

Leo Ornstein Leo Ornstein (born ''Лев Орнштейн'', ''Lev Ornshteyn''; – February 24, 2002) was an American experimental composer and pianist of the early twentieth century. His performances of works by avant-garde composers and his own innovative ...

(1895–2002), Ukrainian/American-Jewish composer and pianist. * Isabelle Rezazadeh, DJ * George Shakhnevich, accordionist *

Estas Tonne Estas Tonne ( uk, Станіслав Тонне, born 24 April 1975) is a musician who describes himself as a "modern day troubadour". Biography Born Stanislav Tonne in 1975 in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, he is of Jewish and German ...

, guitarist

Other performing artists

Juliya Chernetsky Juliya Chernetsky Denning ( uk, Юлія Чернецька, ''Yulia Chernetska''; born July 10, 1982), is a television personality best known for her stage name Mistress Juliya and the popularity on the music-themed network Fuse. She also ho ...

Serge Lifar Serge Lifar ( ua, Сергій Михайлович Лифар, ''Serhіy Mуkhailovуch Lуfar'') ( 15 December 1986) was a Ukrainian ballet dancer and choreographer, famous as one of the greatest male ballet dancers of the 20th century. No ...

, one of the greatest male ballet dancers of the 20th century *

Maria Guleghina Maria Agasovna Guleghina, russian: Mapия Aгacoвнa Гулeгинa, uk, Марія Агасівна Гулегіна, hy, Մարիա Գուլեգինա (née Meytardjan (russian: Мейтарджян); born 9 August 1959) is a Soviet-born ope ...

Alla Korot Alla Korot (born November 1, 1970) is a Ukrainian-American actress and dancer best known for her soap opera roles of List of All My Children characters#D, Allie Doyle Martin on ''All My Children'' and List of General Hospital: Night Shift chara ...

Olga Khokhlova Olga Picasso (born Olga Stepanovna Khokhlova; russian: Ольга Степановна Хохлова; 17 June 1891 – 11 February 1955) was a ballet dancer in the Russian ballet. She was also the first wife of Pablo Picasso, one of his ea ...

, ballet dancer, first wife of

Pablo Picasso Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...

Literary arts

Writers

Adrian Kashchenko Adrian Kashchenko ( uk, Адріан Феофанович Кащенко) (19 September 1858 – 16 March 1921) was a well-known Ukrainian writer, historian of Zaporozhian Cossacks. Biography Adrian Kashchenko was born in the family of small lando ...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn. (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Russian novelist. One of the most famous Soviet dissidents, Solzhenitsyn was an outspoken critic of communism and helped to raise global awareness of political repress ...

, Russian writer, had Ukrainian mother *

Aleksei Bibik Aleksei Pavlovich Bibik (russian: Алексей Павлович Бибик; October 17, 1878 – November 18, 1976) was a Russian and Soviet working class writer, dramatist and revolutionary. Life Bibik was one of a relative handful of worki ...

(1878–1976), working-class writer * Oleksandra Marynyna * Amvrosii Metlynsky, poet, writer *

Andrey Kurkov Andrey Yuryevich Kurkov ( uk, Андрій Юрійович Курков; russian: Андре́й Ю́рьевич Курко́в; born 23 April 1961 in Leningrad, USSR) is a Ukrainian author and public intellectual who writes in Russian. He is ...

, Ukrainian novelist * Bohdan Osadchuk *

Chuck Palahniuk Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk (; born February 21, 1962) is an American freelance journalist and novelist who describes his work as transgressional fiction. He has published 19 novels, three nonfiction books, two graphic novels, and two adul ...

, American satirical novelist (Ukrainian father) *

Clarice Lispector Clarice Lispector (born Chaya Pinkhasivna Lispector ( uk, Хая Пінкасівна Ліспектор); December 10, 1920December 9, 1977) was a Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist and short story writer. Her innovative, idiosyncratic works exp ...

Daniil Granin Daniil Aleksandrovich Granin (russian: Дании́л Алекса́ндрович Гра́нин; 1 January 1919 – 4 July 2017), original family name German (russian: Ге́рман), was a Soviet and Russian author. Life and career Granin st ...

, author * David Bergelson, Ukrainian-Jewish writer in Yiddish language *

Hryhorii Epik Hryhorii Danylovych Epik ( uk, Григорій Данилович Епік) (January 17, 1901 – November 3, 1937) was a Ukrainian writer and journalist. He supported the Soviet Ukrainization during the 1920s, which likely led to his arrest and ...

, writer, journalist *

Hryhoriy Skovoroda Hryhorii Skovoroda, also Gregory Skovoroda or Grigory Skovoroda ( la, Gregorius Scovoroda; uk, Григорій Савич Сковорода, ''Hryhorii Savych Skovoroda''; russian: Григо́рий Са́ввич Сковорода́, ...

, poet, writer, philosopher *

Ilya Ehrenburg Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg (russian: link=no, Илья́ Григо́рьевич Эренбу́рг, ; – August 31, 1967) was a Soviet writer, revolutionary, journalist and historian. Ehrenburg was among the most prolific and notable autho ...

Ukrainian-Jewish publicist and writer in Russian language, born in Kyiv *

Ilya Ilf Ilya Arnoldovich Ilf (born Iehiel-Leyb Aryevich Faynzilberg, russian: Иехи́ел-Лейб Арьевич Фа́йнзильберг) ( in Odessa – 13 April 1937, Moscow), was a popular Soviet journalist and writer of Jewish origin who usu ...

, world-famous Ukrainian humorist in Russian language, co-author of ''The Twelve Chairs'' *

Irena Karpa Irena Karpa ( uk, Ірена Карпа; born 8 December 1980 in Cherkasy) is a Ukrainian writer, journalist, and singer. Biography Born in Cherkasy (Central Ukraine), Karpa grew up in Subcarpathian region ( Prykarpattia). Since 1999 she has bee ...

, modern Ukrainian writer *

Isaac Babel Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel (russian: Исаак Эммануилович Бабель, p=ˈbabʲɪlʲ; – 27 January 1940) was a Russian writer, journalist, playwright, and literary translator. He is best known as the author of ''Red Cavalry'' ...

, world-famous Ukrainian-Jewish writer in Russian language, born in Odessa *

Ivan Kotlyarevsky Ivan Petrovych Kotliarevsky ( uk, Іван Петрович Котляревський) ( in Poltava – in Poltava, Russian Empire, now Ukraine) was a Ukrainian writer, poet and playwright, social activist, regarded as the pioneer of modern Ukra ...

, playwright *

Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky Ivan Semenovych Nechuy-Levytsky (born Levytsky; – 2 April 1918) was a well-known Ukrainian writer. Biography Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky was born on to the family of a peasant priest in Stebliv (Cherkasy Oblast in central Ukraine). In 1847 he en ...

Ivan Vahylevych Ivan Vahylevych, Jan Wagilewicz, (born 2 September 1811 in Yasen, today in Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austrian Empire - died 10 May 1866 in Lviv, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria) was Ukrainian Romantic poet, philologist, and ethnographer ...

Jan Potocki Count Jan Potocki (; 8 March 1761 – 23 December 1815) was a Polish nobleman, ethnologist, linguist, traveller and author of the Enlightenment period, whose life and exploits made him a celebrated figure in Poland. He is known chiefly for his p ...

, count, world-famous Polish writer in French language, born and died in Ukraine *

Joseph Conrad Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, ; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Poles in the United Kingdom#19th century, Polish-British novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in t ...

, world-famous Polish writer in the English language, born in Berdychiv *

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch (; 27 January 1836 – 9 March 1895) was an Austrian nobleman, writer and journalist, who gained renown for his romantic stories of Galician life. The term ''masochism'' is derived from his name, invented by h ...

, Austrian writer, author of ''Venus in Furs'' * Les Podervianskiy, satirist and playwright, pro-Western and pro-Ukrainian dissident * Levko Kopeliv, author and dissident *

Markiyan Shashkevych Markiyan Shashkevych (November 6, 1811 in Pidlyssia, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria – June 7, 1843 in Novosilky, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria) was a priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, a poet, a translator, and the leader of th ...

, poet, writer, and interpreter *

Marko Cheremshyna Marko Cheremshyna ( uk, Марко Черемшина) (other name: Ivan Semaniuk, Іван Семанюк), (born 13 June 1874 in Kobaky, Galicia; died 25 April 1927 in Kobaky) was a Ukrainian writer of Hutsul background. Biography Cheremshy ...

, writer *

Marko Vovchok Marko Vovchok ( uk, Марко́ Вовчо́к, birth name: Mariia Vilinskа, surname by the first marriage: Markovych, surname by the second marriage: Lobach-Zhuchenko, russian: Мария Александровна Вилинская; 22 Dece ...

* Marya Zaturenska *

Mikhail Bulgakov Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov ( rus, links=no, Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков, p=mʲɪxɐˈil ɐfɐˈnasʲjɪvʲɪtɕ bʊlˈɡakəf; – 10 March 1940) was a Soviet writer, medical doctor, and playwright active in the fir ...

, novelist in Russian language *

Mikhail Zhvanetsky ) , birth_date = , birth_place = Odesa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) , death_date = , death_place = Moscow, Russia , genre = Satire , subject = , influences = , influen ...

, Russian humorist *

Miriam Yalan-Shteklis Miriam Yalan-Shteklis (also Miriam Yalan-Stekelis) ( he, מרים ילן-שטקליס) (21 September 1900 – 9 May 1984) was an Israeli writer and poet famous for her children's books. Her surname, Yalan, was an acronym based on her father's name ...

, Israeli writer and poet *

Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky Mykhailo Mykhailovych Kotsiubynsky ( uk, Михайло Михайлович Коцюбинський), (September 17, 1864 – April 25, 1913) was a Ukrainian author whose writings described typical Ukrainian life at the start of the 20th centur ...

Mykhailo Stelmakh Mykhailo Stelmakh (Ukrainian: Миха́йло Пана́сович Сте́льмах, 11 (24) May 1912, Diakivtsi, Vinnytsia Oblast - September 27, 1983, Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR) was a Ukrainian novelist, poet, and playwright. Member of t ...

Mykola Khvylovy Mykola Khvylovy ( ; – May 13, 1933) (who also used the pseudonyms "Yuliya Umanets", "Stefan Karol", and "Dyadko Mykola") was a Ukrainian novelist, poet, publicist, and political activist, one of the founders of post-revolutionary Ukraini ...

Mykola Kulish Mykola Hurovych Kulish ( uk, Микола Гурович Куліш) (19 December 1892 – 3 November 1937) was a Ukrainian prose writer, playwright, pedagogue, veteran of World War I, and Red Army veteran. He is considered to be one of the le ...

, dramatist * Mykola Voronyi *

Mykola Zerov Mykola Kostiantynovych Zerov (Ukrainian: Микола Костянтинович Зеров; 26 April 1890, in Zinkiv, Poltava Governorate – 3 November 1937, in Sandarmokh, KareliaNatalia Vlaschenko, Ukrainian journalist, theatrologist, screenwriter, television presenter, playwright, producer, columnist, publisher and contributing editor * Natan Ilyich Zabara (1908–1975), Ukrainian-Jewish writer in Yiddish *

Nikolai Gogol Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol; uk, link=no, Мико́ла Васи́льович Го́голь, translit=Mykola Vasyliovych Hohol; (russian: Яновский; uk, Яновський, translit=Yanovskyi) ( – ) was a Russian novelist, ...

, Ukrainian writer in Russian language, born in Velyki Sorochyntsi *

Oksana Zabuzhko Oksana Stefanivna Zabuzhko ( uk, Окса́на Стефа́нівна Забу́жко) is a Ukrainian novelist, poet, and essayist. Her works have been translated into several languages. She has been accused of relativising the Volhynian Massac ...

, modern Ukrainian novelist, poet, essayist *

Oles Honchar Oleksandr "Oles" Terentiyovych Honchar ( uk, Олесь Терентійович Гончар; 3 April 1918 – 12 December 1995) was a Soviet and Ukrainian writer and public figure. He also was a veteran of World War II and member of the Ukraini ...

, author of ''The Cathedral'' *

Olha Kobylianska Olha Yulianivna Kobylianska ( uk, Ольга Юліанівна Кобилянська; 27 November 1863 Gura Humorului, Bukovina, Austro-Hungary - 21 March 1942 Cernăuți, Cernăuți County, Romania) was a Ukrainian modernist writer and fe ...

modernist Modernism is both a philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new forms of art, philosophy, an ...

writer A writer is a person who uses written words in different writing styles and techniques to communicate ideas. Writers produce different forms of literary art and creative writing such as novels, short stories, books, poetry, travelogues, p ...

and

feminist Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. Feminism incorporates the position that society prioritizes the male po ...

. * Olha Kobylyanska *

Ostap Ortwin Ostap Ortwin (real name Oskar Katzenellenbogen) (born 23 November 1876; murdered in spring 1942 in Lwów) was a Polish Jewish journalist and literary critic. He was born in Tłumacz, near Stanisławów (now Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine). His father, ...

(1876–1942), Polish-Jewish journalist and literary critic. * Ostap Vyshnia * Panteleymon Kulish *

Pavlo Zahrebelnyi Pavlo Arhypovych Zahrebelnyi ( uk, Павло́ Архи́пович Загребе́льний) or Zagrebelnyi (russian: link=no, Павел Архипович Загребе́льный; 25 August 1924 – 3 February 2009) was a Soviet and Ukr ...

Raya Dunayevskaya Raya Dunayevskaya (born Raya Shpigel, ; May 1, 1910 - June 9, 1987), later Rae Spiegel, also known by the pseudonym Freddie Forest, was the American founder of the philosophy of Marxist humanism in the United States. At one time Leon Trotsky's s ...

, Marxist philosopher * Sam Honigberg, correspondent for ''The Billboard'' and publicist * Shmuel Agnon, world-famous eminent Israeli Hebrew writer, winner of the Nobel Prize (1966), born in Buchach *

Sholom Aleichem ) , birth_date = , birth_place = Pereiaslav, Russian Empire , death_date = , death_place = New York City, U.S. , occupation = Writer , nationality = , period = , genre = Novels, sh ...

, world-famous distinguished Ukrainian writer in Yiddish language, born in Pereyaslav * Sofia Yablonska, travel writer, photographer, architect *

Stanisław Lem Stanisław Herman Lem (; 12 September 1921 – 27 March 2006) was a Polish writer of science fiction and essays on various subjects, including philosophy, futurology, and literary criticism. Many of his science fiction stories are of satirical ...

, Polish science-fiction writer born on the present-day territory of Ukraine *

Valentyn Rechmedin Valentyn Ostapovych Rechmedin ( uk, Валентин Остапович Речмедін, russian: Валентин Остапович Речмедин; 12 February 1916 – 6 June 1986) was a Ukrainian journalist and writer. He grew up in the vi ...

, writer, journalist *

Valerian Pidmohylny Valerian Petrovych Pidmohylny (Ukrainian: Валер'ян Петрович Підмогильний; 2 February 1901 - 3 November 1937) was a Ukrainian modernist, most famous for the realist novel '' Misto'' (The City). Like a number of Ukra ...

, novelist *

Vasily Grossman Vasily Semyonovich Grossman (russian: Васи́лий Семёнович Гро́ссман; 12 December (29 November, Julian calendar) 1905 – 14 September 1964) was a Soviet writer and journalist. Born to a Jewish family in Ukraine, then pa ...

Ukrainian-Jewish, born in Berdichev in 1905. Dedicated his lives' writing to the three most terrible pages of 20th-century history: the siege of Stalingrad, the Shoah, and the Terror Famine which today is referred to as the Holodomor. Best known for ''Everything Flows'', ''Life and Fate''. *

Vasyl Stefanyk Vasyl Semenovych Stefanyk ( uk, Васи́ль Семе́нович Стефа́ник; May 14, 1871 – December 7, 1936) was an influential Ukrainian modernist writer and political activist. He was a member of the Austrian parliament from 1 ...

Viktor Nekrasov Viktor Platonovich Nekrasov (russian: Ви́ктор Плато́нович Некра́сов, ) (17 June 1911, Kyiv – 3 September 1987, Paris) was a Russian writer, journalist and editor. Biography Nekrasov was born in Kyiv and graduated ...

, writer *

Viktor Petrov Viktor Platonovych Petrov ( uk, Віктор Платонович Петров, pen names V. Domontovych ( uk, В. Домонтович), Viktor Ber ( uk, Віктор Бер); 10 October 1894 – 8 June 1969) was a prominent Ukrainian existenti ...

Volodymyr Vynnychenko Volodymyr Kyrylovych Vynnychenko ( ua, Володимир Кирилович Винниченко, – March 6, 1951) was a Ukrainian statesman, political activist, writer, playwright, artist, who served as the first Prime Minister of Ukraine. ...

Yakiv Holovatsky Yakiv is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Yakiv Barabash (died 1658), Zaporozhian Cossack Otaman (1657–58) who opposed Hetman Ivan Vyhovsky *Yakiv Hodorozha (born 1993), Ukrainian former competitive figure skater *Yakiv Holo ...

Yaroslav Halan '' , pseudonym = Comrade Yaga, Volodymyr Rosovych, Ihor Semeniuk , birth_date = , birth_place = Dynów, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Poland) , death_date = , death_place = Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) , resting_place ...

, anti-fascist playwright and publicist, assassinated by nationalist insurgents. * Yevgeny Grebyonka * Yevgeny Petrov, Ukrainian humorist in Russian language, co-author of ''The Twelve Chairs'' *

Yevhen Hrebinka Yevhen Pavlovych Hrebinka ( uk, link=no, Євген Павлович Гребінка; russian: link=no, Евге́ний Па́влович Гребёнка) (2 February 1812, Ubizhyshche (today – Marianivka), Poltava Governorate - 15 Dece ...

Yevhen Hutsalo Yevhen Hutsalo (14 January 1937 – 4 July 1995 ) was a Ukrainian writer and journalist. Biography Hutsalo was born in Staryi Zhyvotiv, Vinnytsia oblast. He graduated from the Nizhyn Pedagogical Institute in 1959, and was first published in 19 ...

Yuri Andrukhovych Yurii Ihorovych Andrukhovych ( uk, Юрій Ігорович Андрухович) is a Ukrainian prose writer, poet, essayist, and translator. Biography In 1985, Andrukhovych co-founded the Bu-Ba-Bu poetic group, which stands for «burlesque ...

, born in Ivano-Frankivsk * Yuri Nikitin, Russian science fiction and fantasy writer * Yuri Nikitin, trampolinist * Yuri Pokalchuk * Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko - fantasy fiction writers and

laureate

Poets

Taras Shevchenko selfportrait oil 1840-2

Anna Akhmatova Anna Andreyevna Gorenko rus, А́нна Андре́евна Горе́нко, p=ˈanːə ɐnˈdrʲe(j)ɪvnə ɡɐˈrʲɛnkə, a=Anna Andreyevna Gorenko.ru.oga, links=yes; uk, А́нна Андрі́ївна Горе́нко, Ánna Andríyivn ...

, Russian poet * Bohdan-Ihor Antonych *

Eduard Bagritsky Eduard Georgyevich Bagritsky ( rus, Эдуа́рд Гео́ргиевич Багри́цкий, p=ɨdʊˈard ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪjɪvʲɪdʑ bɐˈɡrʲitskʲɪj, a=Eduard Gyeorgiyevich Bagriczkiy.ru.vorb.oga; February 16, 1934) was an important Russia ...

* Mikola Bazhan *

Hayyim Nahman Bialik Hayim Nahman Bialik ( he, חיים נחמן ביאַליק; January 9, 1873 – July 4, 1934), was a Jewish poet who wrote primarily in Hebrew but also in Yiddish. Bialik was one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew poetry. He was part of the vangu ...

, modern Hebrew Ukrainian poet, national poet of the State of Israel *

Ivan Drach Ivan Fedorovych Drach ( uk, Іва́н Фе́дорович Драч; 17 October 1936 – 19 June 2018) was a Ukrainian poet, screenwriter, literary critic, politician, and political activist. Drach played an important role in the founding of ...

Itzik Feffer Itzik Feffer (10 September 1900 – 12 August 1952), also Fefer (Yiddish איציק פֿעפֿער, Russian Ицик Фефер, Исаàк Соломòнович Фèфер) was a Soviet Yiddish poet executed on the Night of the Murdered Poe ...

, Soviet poet in Yiddish language *

Moysey Fishbeyn Moysey (Moses) Abramovich Fishbein ( uk, Мойсей Абрамович Фішбейн; 1 December 1946 – 26 May 2020) was an influential Ukrainian poet and translator of Jewish origin. Biography Moysey Fishbein was born on 1 December 1946 in ...

, Ukrainian poet in Yiddish language *

Ivan Franko Ivan Yakovych Franko (Ukrainian: Іван Якович Франко, pronounced ˈwɑn ˈjɑkowɪtʃ frɐnˈkɔ 27 August 1856 – 28 May 1916) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, interpreter, economist, ...

* Alexander Galich, Soviet bard in Russian language, pro-Western dissident * Ihor Kalynets *

Lina Kostenko Lina Vasylivna Kostenko ( uk, Ліна Василівна Костенко; born 19 March 1930) is a Ukrainian poet, journalist, writer, publisher, and former Soviet dissident. A founder and leading representative of the Sixtiers poetry movem ...

Andriy Malyshko Andriy Samiylovych Malyshko ( uk, Андрій Самійлович Малишко; born in Obukhiv, Kyiv Governorate, Russian Empire - died 17 February 1970 in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union) was a Soviet and Ukrainian poet, translato ...

Oleksandr Oles Oleksandr Oles (real name Oleksandr Ivanovych Kandyba) ( uk, Олександр Іванович Олесь) (1878–1944) was a prominent Ukrainian writer and poet. He is the father of another Ukrainian poet and political activist, Oleh Olzhych, ...

Oleh Olzhych Oleh Olzhych (July 8, 1907, Zhytomyr, Russian Empire - 9 June 1944, Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Germany) was a Ukrainian poet and political activist. Born as Oleh Kandyba, he was forced to emigrate from Ukraine in 1923 due to occupation by t ...

Dmytro Pavlychko Dmytro Pavlychko ( uk, Дмитро Васильович Павличко; born September 28, 1929) is a Ukrainian poet, translator, scriptwriter, culturologist, political and public figure. Biography Dmytro Pavlychko was born on September 2 ...

Vasyl Stus Vasyl Semenovych Stus ( uk, Васи́ль Семе́нович Стус; 6 January 1938, Rakhnivka, Ukrainian SSR – 4 September 1985, Perm-36, Kuchino, Russian SFSR) was a Ukrainian poet, translator, literary critic, journalist, and an active ...

Vasyl Symonenko Vasyl Andriiovych Symonenko ( uk, Василь Андрійович Симоненко; 8 January 1935 – 13 December 1963) was a Ukrainian poet, journalist, activist of dissident movement. He is considered one of the most important figures in ...

Olena Teliha Olena Ivanivna Teliha ( uk, Олена Іванівна Теліга, July 21, 1906 – February 21, 1942) was a Ukrainian poet and Ukrainian activist of Ukrainian and Belarusian ethnicity. Biography Olena Teliha was born in the village of Ilyi ...

Pavlo Tychyna Pavlo Hryhorovych Tychyna ( uk, Павло Григорович Тичина; – September 16, 1967) was a major Ukrainian poet, translator, publicist, public activist, academician, and statesman. He composed the lyrics to the Anthem of the Ukr ...

Maksym Rylsky Maksym Tadeyovych Rylsky ( uk, Максим Тадейович Рильський; russian: Максим Фадеевич Рыльский; in Kyiv – 24 July 1964 ''id.'') was a Ukrainian poet, translator, academician, Doctor of Philologi ...

Taras Shevchenko Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko ( uk, Тарас Григорович Шевченко , pronounced without the middle name; – ), also known as Kobzar Taras, or simply Kobzar (a kobzar is a bard in Ukrainian culture), was a Ukraine, Ukrainian p ...

, founder of modern Ukrainian Literature *

Volodymyr Sosiura Volodymyr Mikolayovich Sosiura ( uk , Володимир Сосюра; January 6, 1898, in Debaltseve, Yekaterinoslav Governorate (today Donetsk Oblast) of the Russian Empire – January 8, 1965, in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union) was a ...

* Hryhoriy Tiutiunnyk *

Lesya Ukrainka Lesya Ukrainka ( uk, Леся Українка ; born Larysa Petrivna Kosach, uk, Лариса Петрівна Косач; – ) was one of Ukrainian literature's foremost writers, best known for her poems and plays. She was also an active ...

* Volodymyr Yaniv *

Volodymyr Yavorivsky Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Yavorivsky ( uk, Володимир Олександрович Яворівський; 11 October 1942 – 17 April 2021) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, journalist and politician. Biography Born in 1942 in the Crijopol re ...

Maik Yohansen Maik (Mykhailo) Hervasiiovych Yohansen or Mike Johansen ( uk, Майк Гервасійович Йогансен; pseudonyms Villi Vetselius illy Wetzeliusand M. Kramar; 16 October 1895, Kharkiv, Ukraine – 27 October 1937, Kyiv, Ukraine) – wa ...

Natan Yonatan Nathan Yonathan ( he, נָתָן יֹונָתָן; 20 September 1923 – 12 March 2004) was an Israeli poet. His poems have been translated from Hebrew and published in more than a dozen languages, among them: Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Dutch ...

, Kyiv-born Israeli poet *

Serhiy Zhadan Serhiy Viktorovych Zhadan ( uk, Сергі́й Ві́кторович Жада́н; born 23 August 1974 in Starobilsk, Luhansk oblast, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian poet, novelist, essayist, musician, translator, and social activist. Life and career ...

, modern Ukrainian poet and novelist

Business

Gennadiy Bogolyubov Gennadiy (Zvi Hirsch) Bogolyubov (born 1961/1962) is a Ukrainian billionaire businessman based in the United Kingdom. He controls Privat Group, along with Ihor Kolomoyskyi and Oleksiy Martynov. Early life Gennadiy Bogolyubov is a native of Dnipro ...

(born 1961/1962), Ukrainian-Israeli billionaire businessman *

Zino Davidoff Davidoff is a Swiss premium brand of cigars, cigarettes and smoker's accessories. The Davidoff cigarette brand has been owned by Imperial Brands after purchasing it in 2006. The non-cigarette portion of the Davidoff tobacco brand is owned by O ...

, founder of

Davidoff Davidoff is a Swiss premium brand of cigars, cigarettes and smoker's accessories. The Davidoff cigarette brand has been owned by Imperial Brands after purchasing it in 2006. The non-cigarette portion of the Davidoff tobacco brand is owned by ...

brand *

Max Levchin Maksymilian Rafailovych "Max" Levchin ( uk, Максиміліан Рафаїлович Левчин; born July 11, 1975) is a Ukrainian-American software engineer and businessman. In 1998, he co-founded the company that eventually became PayP ...

, co-founder of

PayPal PayPal Holdings, Inc. is an American multinational financial technology company operating an online payments system in the majority of countries that support online money transfers, and serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper ...

Petro Poroshenko Petro Oleksiyovych Poroshenko ( uk, Петро́ Олексі́йович Пороше́нко, ; born 26 September 1965) is a Ukrainian businessman and politician who served as the fifth president of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019. Poroshenko ser ...

, former President of Ukraine *

Jay Pritzker Jay Arthur Pritzker (August 26, 1922 – January 23, 1999) was an American entrepreneur, conglomerate organizer, and member of the Pritzker family. Early life and education Pritzker was born in Chicago, Illinois to Jewish parents who emi ...

, founder of

Hyatt Hyatt Hotels Corporation, commonly known as Hyatt Hotels & Resorts, is an American multinational hospitality company headquartered in the Riverside Plaza area of Chicago that manages and franchises luxury and business hotels, resorts, and vacat ...

and LGBT philanthropist * Boris Lohzkin (born 1971), President of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine and vice-president of the World Jewish Congress * Harold Willens (1914–2003), Jewish American businessman, political donor and nuclear freeze activist

Astronauts

Georgy Beregovoy Georgy Timofeyevich Beregovoy (russian: Гео́ргий Тимофе́евич Берегово́й, ua, Гео́ргій Тимофі́йович Берегови́й; 15 April 1921 – 30 June 1995) was a Soviet cosmonaut who commanded the s ...

, Soviet cosmonaut No.12,

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

MP in 1974–89 representing Donetsk region *

Leonid Kizim Leonid Denisovich Kizim (russian: Леонид Денисович Кизим; 5 August 1941 – 14 June 2010) was a Soviet cosmonaut. Biography Kizim was born in Krasnyi Lyman, Donetsk Oblast, Soviet Union (now Lyman, Ukraine). He graduated f ...

, Soviet cosmonaut * Anatoly Levchenko, Soviet cosmonaut *

Anatoly Filipchenko Major General Anatoly Vasilyevich Filipchenko (26 February 1928 – 7 August 2022) was a Soviet cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent. He flew on the Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 16 missions. He was born in Davydovka, Voronezh Governorate, RSFSR. After leaving ...

, Soviet cosmonaut *

Anatoly Artsebarsky Anatoly Pavlovich Artsebarsky ( uk, Анатолій Павлович Арцебарський, russian: Анатолий Павлович Арцебарский; born 9 September 1956) is a former Soviet cosmonaut. He became a cosmonaut in 1985 ...

, Soviet cosmonaut *

Igor Volk Igor Petrovich Volk (russian: Игорь Петрович Волк, ; 12 April 1937 – 3 January 2017) was a Soviet test pilot and cosmonaut in the Buran programme. Military and test pilot Volk became a pilot in the Soviet Air Forces in ...

, Soviet cosmonaut *

Pavel Popovich Pavel Romanovich Popovich (russian: Па́вел Рома́нович Попо́вич, uk, Павло Романович Попович, Pavlo Romanovych Popovych) (5 October 1930 – 29 September 2009) was a Soviet cosmonaut. Popovich was the ...

, Soviet cosmonaut No.4,

Verkhovna Rada The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ( uk, Верхо́вна Ра́да Украї́ни, translit=, Verkhovna Rada Ukrainy, translation=Supreme Council of Ukraine, Ukrainian abbreviation ''ВРУ''), often simply Verkhovna Rada or just Rada, is the ...

MP in 1964–88, head of Ukrainian diaspora in Moscow *

Georgy Dobrovolsky Georgy Timofeyevich Dobrovolsky (russian: Гео́ргий Тимофе́евич Доброво́льский; 1 June 192829 June 1971) was a Soviet cosmonaut who commanded the three-man crew of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft. They became the world's ...

, Soviet cosmonaut *

Leonid Kadeniuk Leonid Kostyantynovych Kadenyuk ( uk, Леонід Костянтинович Каденюк, 28 January 1951 – 31 January 2018) was the first astronaut of independent Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country ...

, earlier a Soviet cosmonaut, made the first manned spaceflight of the

National Space Agency of Ukraine The State Space Agency of Ukraine (SSAU; uk, Державне космічне агентство України, ''Derzhavne kosmichne ahentstvo Ukrayiny'', ДКАУ, ''DKAU'') is the Ukrainian government agency responsible for space policy a ...

Yury Onufriyenko Col. Yuri Ivanovich Onufrienko (russian: Юрий Иванович Онуфриенко, ua, Юрій Іванович Онуфрієнко; born 6 February 1961) is a retired Russian cosmonaut. He is a veteran of two extended spaceflights, aboa ...

, Russian cosmonaut *

Yuri Malenchenko Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko (russian: Юрий Иванович Маленченко; born December 22, 1961) is a retired Russian cosmonaut. Malenchenko became the first person to marry in space, on 10 August 2003, when he married Ekaterina Dmit ...

, Russian cosmonaut *

Yuri Gidzenko Yuri Pavlovich Gidzenko (russian: link=no, Юрий Павлович Гидзенко; born March 26, 1962) is a Russian cosmonaut. He was a test cosmonaut of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (TsPK). Gidzenko has flown into space thre ...

, Russian cosmonaut *

Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper Heidemarie Martha Stefanyshyn-Piper (born February 7, 1963) is an American Naval officer and former NASA astronaut. She has achieved the rank of Captain in the United States Navy. She is also a qualified and experienced salvage officer. Her ...

NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research. NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...

* Bruce E. Melnick, NASA *

Roberta Bondar Roberta Lynn Bondar (; born December 4, 1945) is a Canadian astronaut, neurologist and consultant. She is Canada's first female astronaut and the first neurologist in space. After more than a decade as head of an international space medicine ...

, Canada's first female astronaut and the first neurologist in space. *

Joshua Kutryk Joshua Kutryk (born March 21, 1982) is a Canadian Astronaut Corps, Canadian astronaut, engineer, and pilot. He was selected by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) one of the two members of the 2017 CSA Group alongside Jenni Sidey. Early life and educ ...

- Canadian astronaut

Cossack Hetmans

Przecław Lanckoroński Przecław Lanckoroński ( uk, Предслав Лянцкоронський) of Brzezie of Zadora coat of arms (died 10 June 1531) was a notable member of the Polish szlachta, a knight often identified as the first hetman of the Cossacks in ser ...

(1506–1512), one of the first

Hetmans of Ukrainian Cossacks Hetman of Zaporizhian Cossacks is a historical term that has multiple meanings. Officially the post was known as Hetman of the Zaporizhian Host ( uk, Гетьман Війська Запорозького, ''Hetman Viyska Zaporozkoho'').Mytsyk, ...

Ostap Dashkevych Ostap Dashkevych (Ukrainian: Остап Дашкевич; born in Ovruch – died after 1535) is considered to be the first recorded leader of a Cossack defense force (according to Dmitri Bantysh-Kamensky, Dmytro Doroshenko, and others). However ...

(1514–1535) * Dmytro Vyshnevetsky (1550–1563) * Ivan Pidkova (1577–1578), Cossack Hetman and Hospodar of Moldavia * Kryshtof Kosynsky (1591–1593) * Hryhory Loboda (1593–1596) * Severyn Nalyvaiko (1596) * Petro Konashevych, Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny (1614–1622), Hetman of Zaporozhian Cossacks * Mykhailo Doroshenko (1623–1628) * Hryhoriy Chorny (1628–1630), elected by Registered Cossacks * Taras Fedorovych (1629–1630), elected by unregistered Cossacks * Ivan Sulyma (1630–1635) * Dmytro Hunia (1638) * Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1648–1657) first Hetman of the Cossack Hetmanate * Ivan Vyhovsky (1657–1659) second Hetman of the Cossack Hetmanate * Yurii Khmelnytsky (1659–1663) third Hetman of the Cossack Hetmanate, and (1677–1681 and 1685) in the Right-bank Ukraine * Pavlo Teteria (1663–1665) in the Right-bank Ukraine * Ivan Briukhovetsky (1663–1668) in the Left-bank Ukraine * Petro Doroshenko (1665–1676) in the Right-bank Ukraine and (1668–1669) in the Left-bank Ukraine * Demian Mnohohrishny (1669–1672) in the Left-bank Ukraine * Mykhailo Khanenko (1669–1674) in the Right-bank Ukraine * Ivan Samoylovych (1672–1687) in the Left-bank Ukraine * Ivan Mazepa (1687–1708) in the Left-bank Ukraine, and (1708–1709) in the Right-bank Ukraine * Pylyp Orlyk (1710–1742) in exile * Ivan Skoropadsky (1708–1722) in the Left-bank Ukraine * Pavlo Polubotok (1722–1724) served as Acting Hetman of the Left-bank Ukraine * Danylo Apostol (1727–1734) in the Left-bank Ukraine * Kyrylo Rozumovsky (1750–1764) in the Left-bank Ukraine * Petro Kalnyshevsky (1765–1775) last Koshovyi Otaman of the Zaporozhian Cossacks

Military figures

* Roman Abraham, general of the Polish Army * Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Lieutenant of Red Army female sniper * Luka Basanets, general of the Red Army * Marko Bezruchko, general of the Ukrainian People's Army * Taras Bulba-Borovets, otaman of the Ukrainian People's Revolutionary Army aka Polissian Sich * Ivan Chernyakhovsky, general of the Red Army * Yakov Dashevsky, general of the Red Army * Kuzma Derevyanko, general of the Red Army * Yaakov Dori (1899-1973), Israeli first Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, President of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology * Petro Dyachenko, staff captain of the Russian Army (World War I), colonel of the Ukrainian People's Army (1918–1920), major of the Polish Army (1938–1939), colonel of the Ukrainian Liberation Army (1943–1945), and general of the Ukrainian National Army (1945) * Nikolay Dyatlenko, interrogator and translator at the Battle of Stalingrad * Oleksiy Fedorov, major general, partisan leader, subsequently minister of Welfare of Ukraine * Israel Fisanovich (1914–1944), Ukrainian-Jewish Navy submarine commander Soviet Navy * Petro Franko, captain of the Air Force of the Ukrainian Galician Army (UHA) * Nykyfor Hryhoriv, otaman and leader of a Ukrainian insurgent "Green armies, Green Army" * Wilhelm Habsburg, Vylhelm Habsburh (Vasyl Vyshyvanyi), Austrian archduke, colonel of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen * Andrei Grechko, marshal of the Soviet Union * Oleksander Hrekov, commander-in-chief of the army of the West Ukrainian National Republic * Dmytro Hrytsai, general of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army * :de:Karl Georg Graf Huyn, Karl Georg Graf Huyn, Austrian colonel general, last governor-general of Galicia (1917–18) * Alfred Jansa, Austrian major general * Mykola Kapustiansky, general of the Ukrainian People's Army * Dmytro Klyachkivsky, colonel and the commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army * Ivan Nikitovich Kozhedub, Ivan Kozhedub, legendary fighter pilot of WWII, top USSR ace * Roman Kondratenko, lieutenant general of Russian Imperial Army, defender of Lüshunkou, Port Arthur during Russo-Japanese war * Yevhen Konovalets, leader of the Ukrainian Military Organization (UVO) (1920–29) and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) (1929–38), pro-Western, killed many Jews and Russians * Filip Konowal, Ukrainian Canadian war hero (Victoria Cross, 1917) * Petr Koshevoi, marshal of the Soviet Union * Zenon Kossak, deputy commander of the Carpathian Sich * :pl:Mychajło Krat, Mykhailo Krat, general of the Ukrainian National Army * Sydir Kovpak, major general, partisan leader, subsequently deputy chairperson of Verkhovna Rada * Vasyl Kuk, commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army * Grigory Kulik, marshal of the Soviet Union * Yuriy Lopatynsky, colonel of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army * Nestor Makhno, commander of "Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine, Black Army" * Alexander Marinesko, legendary Sub Commander in WWII * Rodion Malinovsky, marshal of the Soviet Union * Kirill Moskalenko, marshal of the Soviet Union * Maria Nikiforova, only female commander of an anarchist cavalry detachment, the "Free Combat Druzhina". * Mykhailo Omelianovych-Pavlenko, general of the Ukrainian Liberation Army, commander of the Ukrainian Galician Army and Ukrainian People's Army * Ivan Paskevich, field marshal of the Russian imperial army * Alexander Pechersky, Soviet officer, leader of the Uprising in Sobibor extermination camp (1943) * Alfred Redl, Austrian counter-intelligence officer * Jakob Rosenfeld, general of the People's Liberation Army, Chinese People's Liberation Army * Semyon Rudniev, major general, partisan leader, committed suicide to avoid capture by the Nazi * Pavlo Shandruk, general of the Ukrainian National Army * Nikolay Shchors, Mykola Shchors, colonel, the Shchors (city), Shchors City named after him * Stanisław Szeptycki, Stanislav Sheptytsky, general of the Polish Army * Grigori Shtern, general of the Red Army * Roman Shukhevych, general and the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army * Stepan Shukhevych, otaman of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen and the Ukrainian Galician Army * Volodymyr Sinclair, general of the Ukrainian People's Army * Maksym Skorupsky, commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, pro-Western, killed many Jews and Russians * Hnat Stefaniv, colonel of the Ukrainian Galician Army * :pl:Roman Suszko, Roman Sushko, colonel of the Ukrainian Legion * Semyon Timoshenko, marshal of the Soviet Union, added his native village Furmanivka and other western territories in 1939 * Yurii Tiutiunnyk, general of the Ukrainian People's Army * Yulia Tolopa - Russian-born volunteer who fought for Ukraine in the Russo-Ukrainian War * Mykola Tsybulenko, major general * Pyotr Vershigora, major general, partisan leader, WWII photographer * Dmytro Vitovsky, colonel of the Ukrainian Galician Army * Kliment Voroshilov, marshal of the Soviet Union * Andrei Yeremenko, marshal of the Soviet Union

Intelligence

* Yakov Blumkin * Jack Childs * Morris Childs * Jacob Golos * Walter Krivitsky * Genrikh Lyushkov * Jakob Rudnik * Nathan Gregory Silvermaster * Abram Slutsky * Bohdan Stashynsky * Manfred Stern * Pavel Sudoplatov *

* Richard Yary * Mark Zborowski

Politicians

Ukrainian non-Soviet politicians

* Dmytro Antonovych, minister of naval affairs, and of arts of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1917–1918 and 1918–1919) *Volodymyr Bahaziy, head of Kyiv City Administration under German occupation (October 1941–January 1942) *Ivan Bahrianyi, president (acting) of the UNR in exile (1965–1967) *Stepan Bandera, leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B) *Oleksander Barvinsky, leader of the Christian Social Movement in Ukraine *Vyacheslav Chornovil, leader of the People's Movement of Ukraine *Dmytro Dontsov, Ukrainian nationalist writer, publisher, journalist and political thinker *

, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian State, Hetmanate (1918) *Sydir Holubovych, Prime Minister of the West Ukrainian National Republic (1919) *Vsevolod Holubovych, Prime Minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1918) * Volodymyr Horbulin, Secretary of National Security and Defense Council (1994–1999, 2006) *Oleksandr Horin, Ambassador to the Netherlands 2011-17 *Mykhaylo Hrushevsky, President of the Ukrainian People's Republic *Ivan Hrynokh, Vice President of the Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council *Stepan Klochurak, Prime Minister of the Hutsul Republic (1919) *Yevhen Konovalets, leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (1929–1938) *Leonid Kravchuk, President of Ukraine (1991–1994) *

, geographer and politician (Ukrainian Central Committee) *Leonid Kuchma, President of Ukraine (1994–2005) *Mykola Lebed, head of the Security Service for the UPA * Serhiy Leshchenko - Ukrainian journalist, politician and public figure *Dmytro Levytsky, head of the Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance (UNDO) (1925–1935) *Kost Levytsky, Prime Minister of the West Ukrainian National Republic (1918–1919) *Andriy Livytskyi, President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1926–1954). *Mykola Livytskyi, President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1967–1989). *Vyacheslav Lypynsky, leader of the Ukrainian Democratic-Agrarian Party *Nestor Makhno, leader of anarchists *Isaak Mazepa, Prime Minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1919–1920 and 1948–1952) *Andriy Atanasovych Melnyk, Andriy Melnyk, leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-M) *Volodymyr Ohryzko, Minister for Foreign Affairs (2007–2009) *Symon Petlura, President of the Ukrainian People's Republic *Yevhen Petrushevych, President of the West Ukrainian National Republic *Mykola Plaviuk, President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1989–1992) *Vyacheslav Prokopovych, Prime Minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1920, 1921, 1926–1939) *Lev Rebet, Acting Prime Minister of the Independent Ukrainian Republic (1941) *Pavlo Shandruk, head of the Ukrainian National Committee in Weimar (1945) *Pavlo Skoropadsky, Hetman of Ukraine or head of the Ukrainian State, Hetmanate (1918) *Yaroslav Stetsko, Prime Minister of the Declaration of Ukrainian Independence, 1941, Independent Ukrainian Republic (1941) *Slava Stetsko, leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement *Kyryl Studynsky, head of the People's Assembly of Western Ukraine (1939) *Borys Tarasyuk, Minister for Foreign Affairs (1998–2000 and 2005–2007) *Serhiy Tihipko, Minister of Economics (2000) *Yulia Tymoshenko, Prime Minister of Ukraine (2007–present) *Anatole Vakhnianyn, leader of the Christian Social Movement in Ukraine *Avhustyn Voloshyn, President of Carpatho-Ukraine (1939) *

, Prime Minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic, writer *Stepan Vytvytskyi, President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1954–1965) *:de:Wassilko von Serecki, Nikolaus (Mykola) Wassilko, Ritter von, member of the delegation in Brest-Litowsk, deputy with the rank of a minister at the ZUNR in Vienna (1918–1919), ambassador of Germany and Switzerland (1919–1924) * Volodymyr Yaniv, member of the Ukrainian National Committee in Kraków (1941) *Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Minister for Foreign Affairs (2007), Prime Minister of Ukraine (2014) *Serhiy Yefremov, deputy head of the Central Rada (1917) *Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine (2005–2010) *Viktor Yanukovych, Prime Minister of Ukraine (2002–2004, 2006–2007) and President of Ukraine (2010–2015)

Zionists and Israeli politicians

* Arlosoroff, Chaim Arlosoroff, Zionist activist, leader of Mapai * Daniel Auster, first Hebrew mayor of Jerusalem * Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, historian, Labor Zionist leader, and President of Israel * Ber Borochov, Zionist activist * Levi Eshkol, Prime Minister of Israel * Ahad Ha'am, Zionist activist * Abba Hushi, mayor of Haifa * Vladimir Jabotinsky, Volodymyr Jabotynsky, Zionist leader, founder of Revisionist Zionism, writer and journalist in Hebrew and Russian language * Ephraim Katzir, Israeli biophysicist, President of Israel * Abraham Kaufman, leader of Jewish community in China * Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel * Leo Motzkin, Zionist activist * Leon Pinsker, Zionist activist, leader of the Hovevei Zion * Natan Sharansky, Soviet human rights activist and Israeli politician * Moshe Sharett, Prime Minister of Israel * Shevah Weiss, Israeli lawman and Labor Party politician, speaker of the Knesset * Simon Wiesenthal, hunter of Nazis * Svitlana Zalishchuk - politician, public leader, journalist, and human rights LGBT campaigner and former member of Ukrainian Parliament

Bolsheviks and Soviet politicians

* Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko, Bolshevik leader and diplomat, one of the leaders of the October revolution * Yevgenia Bosch, Bolshevik politician, People's Secretary of Internal Affairs (1917–1918) * Leonid Ilych Brezhnev, Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, leader (1964–1982) * Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, leader (1984–1985), Brezhnev's chief of staff * Boris Shcherbina, a Soviet politician who served as a vice-chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1984 to 1989. Supervisor of Soviet crisis management during Chernobyl disaster, 1986 Chernobyl disaster and the 1988 Armenian earthquake. * Grigory Petrovsky- Old Bolshevik, participated in signing the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR, one of the officials responsible for implementing Stalin's policies such as collectivization. * Hryhoriy Hrynko – finance minister of the Soviet Union (1930-1937) * Vlas Chubar – finance minister of the Soviet Union (1937-1938) * Yakov Malik, the head of the Africa department of the Soviet ministry of Foreign affairs, List of Ambassadors of Russia to the United Kingdom, Soviet ambassador to the United Kingdom, * Vitold Fokin, Soviet politician, Central Planning Commission head, first Prime Minister of Ukraine#Prime Ministers of Ukraine (1991 – present), PM after the Independence * Yakov Gamarnik, Soviet politician * Serafima Hopner, Bolshevik politician * Semyon Ignatyev, Soviet politician * Adolph Joffe, Soviet diplomat * Lazar Kaganovich, Soviet politician * Yuriy Kotsiubynsky, Bolshevik politician * Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, leader (1953–1964), returned Crimea to Ukraine * Emanuel Kviring, Bolshevik politician * Anatoly Lunacharsky, first Soviet education minister, Latin alphabet advocate (similar to Atatürk's Reforms#Language reforms, Atatürk), was sidelined by Stalin * Solomon Lozovsky, Bolshevik politician * Dmitry Manuilsky, Bolshevik politician * Vitaliy Masol, Central Planning Commission head, third Prime Minister of Ukraine#Prime Ministers of Ukraine (1991 – present), PM after the Independence * Lev Mekhlis, Soviet politician * Nikolai Podgorny, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (1965–1977), betrayed Khrushchev and later regretted * Georgy Pyatakov, Bolshevik revolutionary, Trotskyist * Karl Radek, Bolshevik politician * Christian Rakovsky, Bolshevik politician * Vladimir Semichastny, Soviet politician * Petro Shelest, leader of the Communist Party of Ukraine (1963–1972), betrayed Khrushchev and later regretted * Mykola Skrypnyk, Bolshevik leader * Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, leader of the Communist Party of Ukraine (1972–1989), supported Mikhail Gorbachev, Gorbachev and later regretted * Valentyna Shevchenko (politician), Valentyna Shevchenko, the only female Chairperson of the Presidium of the

* Viktor Taratuta, Bolshevik revolutionary * Leon Trotsky, leading Bolshevik revolutionary, founder of the Red Army * Moisei Uritsky, Bolshevik revolutionary * Volodymyr Zatonsky, Bolshevik politician * Grigory Zinoviev, Bolshevik revolutionary

Soviet dissidents

* Vyacheslav Chornovil *

* Mykola Horbal * Petro Hryhorenko * Vitaliy Kalynychenko * Ivan Kandyba * Lev Kopelev * Sergei Kovalev * Yaroslav Lesiv * Eduard Limonov * Levko Lukyanenko * Valeriy Marchenko * Myroslav Marynovych * Natan Sharansky * Danylo Shumuk *

* Nadiya Svitlychna * Yosyf Zisels

Russian politicians

* Alexander Bezborodko – Grand Chancellor of

* Sergei Kiriyenko, prime minister of Russian Federation * Dmitry Kozak, minister of regional development of Russia * Valentina Matviyenko, governor of St Petersburg * Yevgeny Primakov, prime minister of Russian Federation * Alexey Razumovsky, count of Imperial Russia * Sergei Storchak, deputy finance minister of Russia * Yevgeny Yasin, minister of economy of Russian Federation * Grigory Alexeyevich Yavlinsky, Grigory Yavlinsky, liberal economist and leader of the Russian political party "Yabloko".

Polish politicians

* Henryk Józewski, deputy minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1920) * Jan Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski, diplomat (1918–1924) * Feliks Kon, Bolshevik politician * Stanislav Kosior, Bolshevik politician * Herman Lieberman, socialist politician * Dmitry Manuilsky, Bolshevik politician * Mieczysław Mickiewicz, minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1917–1918) * Karl Radek, Bolshevik politician * Adam Daniel Rotfeld, foreign minister of Poland (2005) * Stanisław Stempowski, minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1920–1922) * Andrey Vyshinsky, foreign minister of the Soviet Union (1949–1953) * Wanda Wasilewska, communist politician

Austrian politicians

* Archduke Wilhelm of Austria, known as "Prince Vasyl" * Franz Stadion, Count von Warthausen, Governor of Galicia (1847–1848)

Bulgarian politicians

* Christian Rakovsky, communist politician

Czechoslovak politicians

* František Kriegel, communist politician

German politicians

* Yevgenia Bosch, communist politician * Emanuel Kwiring, communist politician

Italian politicians

* Angelica Balabanoff, communist politician

American politicians

*Kirill Reznik – Maryland State House of Delegates *Herman Toll – former Pennsylvania Congressman *Inna Vernikov - Citycouncilwoman in New York City from Brooklyn

Chinese politicians

* Jakob Rosenfeld

Crimean Tatar politicians

* Noman Çelebicihan * Ismail Gasprinski * Mustafa Dzhemilev

Religious leaders and theologians

Orthodox Christian

* Patriarch Dymytriy (Yarema), Dymytriy (Yarema), Patriarch of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (1993–2000) * Hilarion of Kyiv, first native Rus metropolitan of Kyiv (c. 1051–c. 1054) * John of Tobolsk, Orthodox metropolitan of Tobolsk (1711–1715) * Mother Maria (Skobtsova), Eastern Orthodox nun, martyr * Metropolitan Mefodiy (Kudryakov), Mefodiy (Kudryakov), metropolitan of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (2000–present) * Patriarch Mstyslav, Mstyslav (Stepan Skrypnyk), Patriarch of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (1990–1993) * Feofan Prokopovich, Theophan Prokopovich, vice-president of the Orthodox Holy Synod * Patriarch Volodomyr (Romaniuk), Patriarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate. * Dimitry of Rostov, Dmytrij (Danylo Tuptalo) of Rostov, Orthodox saint * Metropolitan Vasyl (Lypkivsky), Vasyl (Lypkivsky), first metropolitan of Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (1921–1937) * Stefan Yavorsky, Stephen Yavorsky, first president of the Orthodox Holy Synod (1721) * Paisius Velichkovsky, monk, spiritual writer, the founder of modern Eastern Orthodox staretsdom.

Greek Catholic

* Antin Angelovych, first Greek Catholic metropolitan of Lviv (1808–1814) * Nykyta Budka, first Ukrainian Canadian Greek-Catholic bishop (1912–1927) * Maxim Hermaniuk, Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Archbishop of Winnipeg (1956–1992) * Josaphata Hordashevska, Greek Catholic nun (1869–1919) * Ivan Hrynokh, Greek Catholic priest, professor of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Rome * Lubomyr Husar, cardinal, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (2001–2005), Major Archbishop, Major Archbishop of Kyiv and Halych (2005–2011) * Gregory Khomyshyn, Greek Catholic bishop of Stanislav, martyr (1947) * Josafat Kotsylovsky, Greek Catholic bishop of Peremyshl, martyr (1947) * Omelyan Kovch, Greek Catholic priest of Peremyshliany, martyr (1944) * Michał Lewicki, Mykhailo Levitsky, cardinal (1856), Greek Catholic Archbishop of Lviv, Primate of Galicia and Lodomeria (1848–1858) * Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky, cardinal, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (1984–2000) * Roman Lysko, Greek Catholic priest, martyr (1949) * Josyf Veliamyn Rutsky, Greek Catholic metropolitan of Kyiv (1613–1637) * Yakym Senkivskyi, Greek Catholic priest, martyr (1941) * Andriy Sheptytsky, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Metropolitan Archbishop of Lviv (1900–1944), political victim of the Soviet Union and was proclaimed as the enemy of the state. * Klymentiy Sheptytsky, Greek Catholic Exarch of Russia and Siberia (1939), Archimandrite of the Studites (1944), martyr (1951), died in GULAG, victimized by Soviets for being Ukrainians, Ukrainian * Josyf Slipyj, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (1944–1984), exited to Siberia and released in xxxx, * Meletius Smotrytsky, Ruthenian religious activist and author (d. 1633) * Stefan Soroka, Ukrainian Greek Catholic archbishop of Philadelphia (2000–2018) * Vasyl Velychkovsky, Greek Catholic bishop (1963–1973) * Innokentiy Vynnyckyj, first Greek Catholic bishop of Przemyśl (1691–1700)

Roman Catholic

* Andrzej Alojzy Ankwicz, Count, Archbishop of Lviv (1815–33), and Archbishop of Prague (1833–38) * Eugeniusz Baziak, Archbishop of Lviv and Apostolic Administrator of Cracow (1944–1962) * Józef Bilczewski, Archbishop of Lviv (1900–1923) * Marian Jaworski, Cardinal, Archbishop of Lviv (1991–2008) * Adam Stanisław Krasiński, Bishop of Kamianets-Podilskyi (1757–1798) * Władysław Aleksander Łubieński, Archbishop of Lviv (1758–1759), Primate of Poland (1759–1767), and Interrex (1763–1764) * Mieczysław Mokrzycki, Archbishop of Lviv (2008–present) * Adam Naruszewicz, Titular Bishop of Smolensk (1775–1788), Suffragan Bishop of Lutsk (1788–1790) and Diocesan Bishop of Lutsk (1790–1796) * Bogusław Radoszewski, Bishop of Kyiv (Roman Catholic), Bishop of Kyiv (Latin rite, 1618–1633), Bishop of Luck, Bishop of Lutsk (1633–1638) * Kajetan Sołtyk, Bishop of Kyiv (Roman Catholic), Bishop of Kyiv (1756–1759), then Bishop of Cracow (1759–1788) * Józef Andrzej Załuski, Bishop of Kyiv (Roman Catholic), Bishop of Kyiv (1759–1774)

Jewish

* Jacob Avigdor, last Chief Rabbi of Drohobych * Moshe Reuven Azman, Chabad chief Rabbi of Ukraine * Yaakov Bleich, Yaakov Dov Bleich, Chief Rabbi of Ukraine and Kyiv (1992–present) * Solomon Buber, talmudic scholar * Jacob Frank, Jewish religious reformer who combined Judaism and Christianity * Zvi Hirsch Chajes, talmudic scholar * Tzvi Hirsh of Zidichov, Hasidic rabbi * Israel ben Eliezer, founder of Hasidism * Malbim, rabbi and preacher * Nachman of Breslov, Hasidic leader * Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport (Shir), rabbi of Ternopil (1837–40) and Prague (1840–67) * Shalom Rokeach, first Rebbe of Belz (Hasidic dynasty) (1817–55) * Yehoshua Rokeach, second rebbe of Belz (1857–1894) * Yissachar Dov Rokeach (third Belzer rebbe), Yissachar Dov Rokeach, the third rebbe of Belz (1894–1926) * Aharon Rokeach, fourth rebbe of Belz (1926–57) * Mordechai Rokeach, rabbi, father of the fifth rebbe of Belz * Sholom Mordechai Schwadron, rabbi * Yoel Sirkis, great rabbi, one of Achronim * Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai, Hebrew scholar * Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev, Hasidic leader * Israel Zolli, Chief Rabbi of Rome who converted to Roman Catholicism, born in Brody

Others

* Muhammad Asad, Jewish religious writer who converted to Islam, Pakistani diplomat * Sima Babovich, Hakham of the Crimean Karaite * Helena Blavatsky, founder of Theosophy (Blavatskian), Theosophy * Olga Dibrova, Ukrainian diplomat * Abraham Firkovich, leader of the Crimean Karaites * Seraya Shapshal, chief Hakham of the Crimean Karaite and Lithuanian Karaite communities * Józef Teodorowicz, Archbishop of Lviv (Armenian rite, 1901–1938)

Sport

Archery

* Tetyana Berezhna, archer * Nataliya Burdeyna, archer * Dmytro Hrachov, archer (Olympic bronze – team) * Kateryna Palekha, archer * Viktor Ruban, archer (Olympic champion) * Oleksandr Serdyuk, archer (Olympic bronze – team)

Basketball

* Alexander Belostenny, Olympic medalist * Viacheslav Kravtsov, basketball player * Alex Len, Oleksiy "Alex" Len, basketball player drafted 5th by the Phoenix Suns in 2013 NBA Draft, 2013 * Stanislav Medvedenko, basketball player that won two NBA Finals championships in 2001 and 2002 * Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk, college basketball player of the Kansas Jayhawks * Igor Nesterenko (born 1990), Israeli-Ukrainian basketball player in the Israel Basketball Premier League * Oleksiy Pecherov, basketball player selected 18th by the Washington Wizards in 2006 NBA Draft, 2006 * Vitaly Potapenko, basketball player drafted 12th by the Cleveland Cavaliers in 1996 NBA Draft, 1996 * Jerome Randle, American-Ukrainian basketball club BC Žalgiris player * Alexander Anatolyevich Volkov, Alexander Volkov, basketball player selected 134th by the Atlanta Hawks in 1986 NBA Draft, 1986

Boxing

* Vasyl Lomachenko, boxer * Oleksandr Usyk, boxer * Taras Bidenko, boxer * Kid Kaplan, Louis Kaplan ("Kid Kaplan"), boxer, featherweight world champion * Wladimir Klitschko, boxer champion * Vitali Klitschko, boxer champion * Yuriy Nuzhnenko, boxer champion * Volodymyr Sydorenko, boxer champion * Volodymyr Virchis, boxer

Chess

* Lev Alburt, Ukrainian Champion (1972, 1973, 1974) * Izak Aloni, Lviv Champion (1936, 1939) * Boris Alterman * Lev Aptekar * Vladimir Baklan, Ukrainian Champion (1997, 1998) * Anatoly Bannik, Ukrainian Champion (1945, 1946, 1951, 1955, 1964) * Alexander Beliavsky, Champion of the USSR (1987, and thrice jointly – 1974, 1980, 1990) * Ossip Bernstein, All-Russian Sub-Champion (1903) * Efim Bogoljubow, Champion of the USSR (1924, 1925), FIDE World Champion (1928/29), Challenger for World Championship (1929, 1934) * Fedor Bohatirchuk, Champion of the USSR (1927 – jointly), Ukrainian Sub-Champion (1924) and Champion (1937), Canadian Sub-Champion (1949) * Isaac Boleslavsky, Ukrainian Champion (1938, 1939, 1940) * David Bronstein, Ukrainian Sub-Champion (1940), Champion of the USSR (1948, 1949 – both jointly), Challenger for World Championship (1951), * Oscar Chajes * Alexander Chernin, Champion of the USSR (1985 – jointly) * Josif Dorfman, Champion of the USSR (1977 – jointly) * Fyodor Duz-Khotimirsky, Kyiv Champion (1900, 1902, 1903, 1906) * Louis Eisenberg * Alexander Evensohn, Kyiv Champion (1914) * Salo Flohr, winner of the 1957 Ukrainian Championship (off contest) * Maurice Fox * Henryk Friedman, seven-times Lviv Champion (1926–1934) * Efim Geller, Ukrainian Champion (1950, 1957, 1958, 1959), Champion of the USSR (1955, 1979) * Edward Gerstenfeld * Vitali Golod, Ukrainian Champion (1991) * Vladimir Grabinsky * Eduard Gufeld * Ilya Gurevich * Mikhail Gurevich (chess player), Mykhailo Gurevich, Ukrainian Champion (1984), Champion of the USSR (1985 – jointly) * Alexander Huzman * Vasyl Ivanchuk, Champion of Europe (2004) * Stefan Izbinsky * Nicolai Jasnogrodsky * Abram Khavin, Champion of Western Ukraine (1940), Ukrainian Champion (1954) * Artur Kogan * Alexander Konstantinopolsky, Kyiv Champion five consecutive times (1932–1936) * Irina Krush * Gennady Kuzmin, Ukrainian Champion (1969, 1989, 1999 – all jointly), Sub-Champion of the USSR (1973) * Kateryna Lahno * Konstantin Lerner, Ukrainian Champion (1978, 1982) * Naum Levin * Paul List, Odessa Champion (1908) * Marta Litinskaya-Shul, World Senior Women Chess Champion (2002) * Isaac Lipnitsky, Ukrainian Champion (1949, 1956) * Moishe Lowtzky * Vladimir Malaniuk, Ukrainian Champion (1980, 1981, 1986) * Adrian Mikhalchishin * Anna Muzychuk * Illia Nyzhnyk * Alexander Onischuk * Sam Palatnik * Ruslan Ponomariov, FIDE World Champion (2002) * Stepan Popel, Champion of Lviv (1930), Western Ukraine (1943 – jointly), Paris (1951, 1953, 1954) and eventually, of the Ukrainians in North America (USA and Canada) * Ignatz von Popiel, Lviv Sub-Champion (1925) * Vsevolod Rauzer, Ukrainian Champion (1927, 1933 – jointly) * Oleg Romanishin, European Junior Champion (1973) * Jakob Rosanes * Nicolas Rossolimo * Iosif Rudakovsky * Ludmila Rudenko, Women's World Champion (1950–1953) * Nikoly Rudnev * Yuri Sakharov, Ukrainian Champion (1966, 1968) * Vladimir Savon, Ukrainian Champion (1969 – jointly), Champion of the USSR (1971) * Lidia Semenova * Alexey Sokolsky, Ukrainian Champion (1947, 1948) * Victor Soultanbeieff * Leonid Stein, Ukrainian Champion (1960, 1962), Champion of the USSR (1963, 1965, 1966) * Mark Taimanov, Champion of the USSR (1956) * Vladimir Tukmakov, Ukrainian Champion (1970) * Boris Verlinsky, Ukrainian Champion (1926), Champion of the USSR (1929) * Yakov Vilner, Ukrainian Champion (1924, 1925, 1928) * Daniel Yanofsky * Abram Zamikhovsky, Ukrainian Champion (1931) * Anna Zatonskih

Fencing

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* Yury Gelman (born 1955), Ukrainian-born American Olympic fencing coach * Vadim Gutzeit, saber fencer, Olympic champion, Ukraine's Ministry of Youth and Sports (Ukraine), Youth and Sport Minister. * Serhiy Kravchuk, épée fencer, Olympic bronze * Grigory Kriss, épée fencer, Olympic champion, 2-time silver *Olena Kryvytska (born 1987), 3-time world bronze * David Tyshler, saber fencer, Olympic bronze * Yulen Uralov, foil fencer, Olympian * Iosif Vitebskiy, épée fencer, Olympic silver, 10-time national champion, world champion * Olga Zhovnir, saber fencer

Figure skating

* Oksana Baiul, figure skater (Olympic gold) * Oleksii Bychenko (born 1988), Ukrainian-born Israeli figure skater, Olympian * Alexei Beletski, Israeli ice dancer, Olympian * Natalia Gudina, Israeli figure skater, Olympian * Viktor Petrenko, figure skater (Olympic gold, World Championship gold) * Aliona Savchenko, German figure skater * Michael Shmerkin, Israeli figure skater * Adel Tankova (born 2000), Ukrainian-born Israeli Olympic figure skater

Football (soccer)

* Oleksandr Aliev, footballer * Igor Belanov, footballer, Ballon d'or (1986) * Oleg Blokhin, footballer, Ballon d'or (1975) * Leonid Buryak, footballer, midfielder, Olympic bronze, coach * Walter Chyzowych, footballer, football coach * Ivan Getsko, footballer * Oleksandr Horshkov, footballer * Timerlan Huseinov, footballer * Oleg Iachtchouk, footballer * Yuri Kalitvintsev, footballer * Serhiy Kandaurov, footballer * Vitaliy Kosovsky, footballer * Dema Kovalenko, footballer *Leo Krupnik (born 1979), American-Israeli footballer, football coach * Viktor Leonenko, footballer * Yevgeny Levchenko, footballer * Valeriy Lobanovs'kyi, football coach * Yevhen Lutsenko, footballer * Oleh Luzhnyi, footballer * Dov Markus (born 1946), American-Israeli footballer, born in Ukraine * Yuri Maximov, footballer * Artem Milevskyi, footballer * Volodymyr Mykytyn, footballer * Serhiy Nazarenko, footballer * Andriy Oberemko, footballer, midfielder (Illichivets & U21 national team) * Dmytro Parfenov, footballer * Yevhen Pokhlebayev, footballer * Andriy Polunin, footballer * Serhiy Popov, footballer * Serhii Rebrov, footballer * Serhiy Serebrennikov, footballer * Serhiy Scherbakov, footballer * Andriy Shevchenko, footballer, Ballon d'or (2004) * Oleksandr Shovkovskyi, footballer * Serhiy Skachenko, footballer * Viktor Skrypnyk, footballer * Oleh Suslov, footballer * Oleksandr Holovko, footballer * Andriy Husin, footballer * Maksym Kalynychenko, footballer * Ruslan Rotan, footballer * Oleg Salenko, footballer * Hryhoriy Surkis, president of the Football Federation of Ukraine till 2012 * Anatoliy Tymoschuk, footballer * Vladyslav Vashchuk, footballer * Andriy Voronin, footballer * Andriy Yarmolenko, footballer * Artem Yashkin, footballer * Serhiy Zeldi, footballer * Oleksandr Zinchenko (footballer), Oleksandr Zinchenko, footballer * Roman Yaremchuk, footballer, striker

Gymnastics

* Anna Bessonova, gymnast * Iryna Deriugina, gymnast *Artem Dolgopyat (born 1997), Israeli artistic gymnast (second in world championships) * Maria Gorokhovskaya, gymnast (2 Olympic golds; all-around individual exercises, team combined exercises), 5-time silver (vault, asymmetrical bars, balance beam, floor exercises, team exercises with portable apparatus) * Tatyana Gutsu, gymnast (Olympic gold) * Yuri Nikitin, gymnast * Lilia Podkopayeva, gymnast (Olympic gold) * Larisa Latynina, gymnast (9 Olympic golds) * Karina Lykhvar, Israeli Olympic rhythmic gymnast * Tatiana Lysenko, gymnast, 2-time Olympic champion (balance beam, team combined exercises), bronze (horse vault) * Kateryna Serebrians'ka, gymnast (Olympic gold) * Oxana Skaldina, gymnast (Olympic bronze) * Olexandra Tymoshenko, gymnast (Olympic gold) * Olena Vitrychenko, Individual Rhythmic Gymnast (Olympic bronze) * Roman Zozulya (gymnast), Roman Zozulya, gymnast

Ice hockey

* Ruslan Fedotenko, ice hockey player * Dmitri Khristich, ice hockey player * Orest Kindrachuk, ice hockey player * Eric Nesterenko, ice hockey player *Mikhail Nemirovsky (born 1974), Canadian-German ice hockey player * Alexei Ponikarovsky, hockey player * Ivan Pravilov (1963–2012), ice hockey coach, arrested for sexual abuse of teenage student, committed suicide by hanging in prison * Denis Shvidki, ice hockey player * Kostiantyn Simchuk, ice hockey player * Vicky Sunohara, ice hockey player * Vitaly Vishnevsky, ice hockey player * Nikolai Zherdev, ice hockey player * Alexei Zhitnik, ice hockey player

Swimming

* Yana Klochkova, swimmer (4 Olympic golds) * Lenny Krayzelburg, swimmer (now U.S. citizen); 4-time Olympic champion (100 m backstroke, 200-m backstroke, twice 4x100-m medley relay); 3-time world champion (100 m and 200-m backstroke, 4×100-m medley) and 2-time silver (4×100-m medley, 50-m backstroke); 3 world records (50-, 100-, and 200-m backstroke) * Maryna Piddubna, Paralympic swimmer * Maxim Podoprigora, Olympic swimmer

Tennis

* Yulia Beygelzimer, tennis player * Alona Bondarenko, tennis player * Kateryna Bondarenko, tennis player * Gail Brodsky (born 1991), American tennis player * Olga Fridman (born 1998), Ukrainian-Israeli tennis player * Julia Glushko (born 1990), Ukrainian-born Israeli tennis player * Mariya Koryttseva, tennis player * Viktoriya Kutuzova, tennis player * Andriy Medvedev, tennis player * Tatiana Perebiynis, tennis player * Elina Svitolina, tennis player (winner of 2020 Olympic Bronze Medal Women's Singles) * Olga Savchuk, tennis player * Julia Vakulenko, tennis player * Dayana Yastremska, tennis player * Maryna Zanevska, tennis player (winner of the 2009 US Open - Girls' Doubles)

Track & field

Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko by Augustas Didzgalvis

* Aleksandr Bagach, shot putter * Valeriy Borzov, sprinter (2 Olympic golds) * Sergey Bubka, Serhiy Bubka, pole vault legend (Olympic gold), numerous world records * Vasiliy Bubka, also a pole vaulter, older brother of Sergey/Serhiy * Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko (born 1989), Israeli triple jumper and long jumper * Inessa Kravets, jumper (world record in triple jump) * Vladimir Kuts, Volodymyr Kuts, long-distance runner (2 Olympic golds) * Serhiy Lebid, long-distance runner (8-time winner of European Cross Country championships) * Faina Melnik, discus thrower (Olympic gold) * Zhanna Pintusevych-Blok, sprinter (World Championship gold); world 100-m & 200-m champion * Olesya Povh, sprinter (Olympic bronze, world bronze) * Tamara Press, Tamara & Irina Press, sister athletes (5 Olympic golds in total) * Viktoriya Styopina, high jumper * Viktor Tsybulenko, javelin (Olympic gold, Olympic bronze)

Weightlifting

* Grigory Novak, Olympic silver (middle-heavyweight); world champion * Igor Rybak, Olympic champion (lightweight) * Timur Taymazov, world and Olympic records * Eduard Weitz, Israeli Olympic weightlifter

Wrestling

Grigoriy Gamarnik at the height of his career

* Alexander Davidovich (wrestler), Alexander Davidovich, Israeli Olympic wrestler * Vasyl Fedoryshyn, Olympic silver (freestyle 60 kg); world championship silver & bronze * Grigory Gamarnik, world champion (Greco-Roman lightweight) * Samuel Gerson, Olympic silver (freestyle featherweight) * Boris Michail Gurevich (1937–2020), Olympic champion (freestyle middleweight) *Oleg Ladik (born 1971), Ukrainian-born Canadian Olympic wrestler * Yakov Punkin, Olympic champion (Greco-Roman featherweight) * Nik Zagranitchni, Israeli Olympic wrestler

Other athletes

* Vladislav Bykanov (born 1989), Ukrainian-born Israeli Olympic short track speed skater * Valentina Chepiga (born 1962), IFBB professional bodybuilder * Olga Danilov (born 1973), Israeli Olympic speed skater * Fedor Emelianenko, mixed martial arts fighter *Charles Goldenberg (1911–1986), American All-Pro National Football League player * Leonid Kolumbet, Olympic cycling medalist * Marina Kravchenko, Soviet and Israel national table tennis teams * Artur Kyshenko, K-1 kickboxing champion * Yevhen Lapinsky, Olympic champion volleyball player * Valentin Mankin, sailor (3 Olympic golds); only sailor in Olympic history to win gold medals in three different classes (yachting: finn class, tempest class, and star class), silver (yachting, tempest class) * Igor Olshansky, American football player, DL (Miami Dolphins) * Olyeg Olyeksandrovich Prudius aka Vladimir Kozlov, pro wrestler * Sergy Rikhter (born 1989), Israeli Olympic sport shooter * Ian Rubin, Russia national rugby league team * Vasyl Virastyuk, world's strongest man competition (1st place 2004) * Igor Vovchanchyn, mixed martial arts fighter * Yaroslav Vynokur, billiards player (World Champion)

Oligarchs

* Ihor Kolomoyskyi, Ukrainian businessman of Jewish descent * Gennadiy Korban, Ukrainian businessman of Jewish descent, collector of modern and contemporary art * Olena Pinchuk, daughter of Ukrainian second president Leonid Kuchma * Viktor Pinchuk, Jewish-Ukrainian businessman * Eduard Prutnik, Ukrainian businessman and politician * Rinat Akhmetov, Ukrainian businessman and oligarch * Dmytro Firtash, Ukrainian businessman and investor

Other

* Peter Adamshock, father of Nick Adams * Catherine Kutz Adamshock, mother of Nick Adams * Volodymyr Butkevych, judge * Markiyan Dimidov, concentration camp survivor * Georgiy Gongadze, journalist, civil activist * Stefan Kiszko, man wrongly convicted of murder in England *

, early promoter of immigration to Canada * Anatoly Onoprienko, serial killer * Roxelana (born Anastassia Lisowska), or Khourrem (Hürrem), Sultan wife of Suleyman the Magnificent * Leonid Stadnik, unofficially the world's tallest man * Taras Kulakov (born 1987), born to a Russian mother and Ukrainian father. He is now a citizen of the US. He rose to internet fame as a YouTube personality known for life hack and gadget reviewing videos. * Volodymyr Zolkin, YouTuber and activist

References

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