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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 invas ...

, including ethnic

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

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 *

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-k ...

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 ...

(1914–1984), Jewish, Polish-American mathematician *

Volodymyr Semenovych Korolyuk Volodymyr Semenovych Korolyuk ( uk, Володимир Семенович Королюк, 19 August 1925 – 4 April 2020) was a Soviet and Ukrainian mathematician who made significant contributions to probability theory and its applications, ...

Mykhailo Krawtchouk Mykhailo Pylypovych Kravchuk, also Krawtchouk ( uk, Миха́йло Пили́пович Кравчу́к) (September 27, 1892 – March 9, 1942), was a Soviet Ukrainian mathematician and the author of around 180 articles on mathematics. He p ...

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 *

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

Volodymyr Petryshyn Walter Volodymyr Petryshyn (Vladimir Petryshin) (January 22, 1929 - March 21, 2020) was a famous Ukraine, Ukrainian mathematician. On May 6, 1996, Petryshyn killed his wife, Ukrainian-American painter Arcadia Olenska-Petryshyn. He suffered from ...

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

Volodymyr Potapiv Vladimir Petrovich Potapov (24 January 1914 – 21 December 1980) was a Soviet mathematician. He was born in Odesa and died in Kharkiv. External links Vladimir Petrovich Potapov
at the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive {{DEFAULTSORT ...

* Anatoly Samoilenko *

Oleksandr Mikolaiovich Sharkovsky Oleksandr Mykolayovych Sharkovsky (also Sharkovskii, Sharkovskiy sometimes used the Šarkovskii or Sarkovskii) ( uk, Олекса́ндр Миколайович Шарко́вський, 7 December 1936 – 21 November 2022) was a Ukrainian math ...

(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 Discrete may refer to: *Discrete particle or quantum in physics, for example in quantum theory *Discrete device, an electronic component with just one circuit element, either passive or active, other than an integrated circuit * Discrete group, a ...

. * 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 stud ...

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 Bulga ...

(1854–9 March 1931), ethnic Polish Ukrainian mathematician. * Pavlo Urysohn (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 Naum Zuselevich Shor (russian: Наум Зуселевич Шор) (1 January 1937 – 26 February 2006) was a Soviet and Ukrainian mathematician specializing in optimization. He made significant contributions to nonlinear and stochastic progra ...

(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 pack ...

Vadim G. Vizing Vadim Georgievich Vizing (russian: Вади́м Гео́ргиевич Визинг, uk, Вадим Георгійович Візінг; 25 March 1937 – 23 August 2017) was a Soviet and Ukrainian mathematician known for his contributions to grap ...

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

Physicists/Astronomers

Gersh Budker Gersh Itskovich Budker (Герш Ицкович Будкер), also named Andrey Mikhailovich Budker (1 May 1918 – 4 July 1977), was a Soviet physicist, specialized in nuclear physics and accelerator physics. Biography He was elected a Correspo ...

, 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 Gersh ...

) *

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) ( ...

, prominent Soviet physicist (Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute) *

Isaak Khalatnikiv Isaak Markovych Khalatnykov ( uk, Ісаа́к Ма́ркович Хала́тников; 17 October 1919 – 9 January 2021) was a leading Soviet theoretical physicist who has made significant contributions to many areas of theoretical physi ...

, BKL conjecture in general relativity *

Leo Palatnik Lev Samiylovych Palatnik (; 26 April 1909, Poltava – 4 June 1994, Kharkiv) was a Soviet and Ukrainian physicist known for his contributions in the field of thin film physics and film material. Biography Lev Palatnik was born on 26 Apr ...

, thin film physics * Ivan Pulyui, scientist working with cathode radiation * George Yuri Rainich, 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, 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 era, and professor of biochemistry at Columbia University medical school ...

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

* Katherine Esau *

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 pseudo-scientist.''An ill-educated agronomist with hu ...

Oleksandr Palladin Aleksandr Volodymyrovych Palladin (russian: Алекса́ндр Влади́мирович Палла́дин; uk, Олександр Володимирович Палладін, 10 September 1885 – 6 December 1972) was a Ukrainian biochemist, ...

* Kostiantyn Sytnyk *

, mineralogist, biochemist

Chemists

Anatoly Babko Anatoly Babko (15 October 1905 in Sudzhenskoye, Tomsk Governorate – 7 January 1968) was a Soviet chemist, specializing in analytical chemistry and in the chemistry of complex compounds. Babko was a student of Professor N. Tananaev, a Member ...

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 univ ...

Ivan Horbachevsky Ivan Yakovych Horbachevsky ( uk, Іван Якович Горбачевський, ''Ivan Jakovyč Horbačevskyj''; 5 May 1854, Zarubińce – 24 May 1942, Prague) also known as Jan Horbaczewski, Johann Horbaczewski or Ivan Horbaczewski, was an em ...

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 Pres ...

* Lev Pisarzhevsky * Swiatoslaw Trofimenko *

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

, 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 discover ...

(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, 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 epidem ...

Serdyuk Valentin Valentyn Serdyuk (born July 9, 1942) is a Ukrainian scientist, honored inventor, and Prof MD of Traumatology and Orthopedic Surgery in Odessa National Medical University. Education In 1966, after graduating from Odessa Medical Institute ( ...

, orthopedic surgeon *

Nicolai L. Volodos Nicolai Leontievich Volodos (Nikolay, Nikolai, Nicholas); ( ukr, Микола Леонтійович Володось; rus, Николай Леонтьевич Володось) (15 May 1934 - 3 April 2016) was a Soviet and Ukrainian cardiova ...

, 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 ...

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

Engineers

Volodymyr Chelomey Vladimir Nikolayevich Chelomey or Chelomei (russian: Влади́мир Никола́евич Челоме́й; 30 June 1914 – 8 December 1984) was a Soviet engineer of Ukrainian ethnicity and designer in missile program of the former Sov ...

, ballistic missile and Ukrainian spacecraft designer * Valentyn Hlushko, 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 Volodymyr Pavlovych Horbulin (Ukrainian: Володимир Павлович Горбулін; born 17 January 1939 in Zaporizhia, Ukrainian SSR) is a Soviet and Ukrainian politician, Head of the Council for Foreign and Security Policy, former sec ...

, 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 dissol ...

'', 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 ...

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 sy ...

(''

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 ...

''), 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 radioiso ...

(''

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 *

Mykola Kybalchich Nikolai Ivanovich Kibalchich (russian: Николай Иванович Кибальчич, uk, Микола Іванович Кибальчич, sr, Никола Кибалчић, ''Mykola Ivanovych Kybalchych''; 19 October 1853 – April 3, 188 ...

, rocket science pioneer * Yuri Kondratyuk, 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 A business magnate, also known as a tycoon, is a person who has achieved immense wealth through the ownership of multiple line ...

, mining engineer *

Borys Paton Borys Yevhenovych Paton ( ua, Бори́с Євге́нович Пато́н, russian: Борис Евгеньевич Патон; 27 November 1918 – 19 August 2020

Yevhen Paton Professor Evgeny Oscarovich Paton (russian: Евгений Оскарович Патон, 1870–1953) was a Ukrainian and Soviet engineer of Ukrainian descent who established the E. O. Paton Electric Welding Institute in Kyiv. Paton was a peopl ...

, 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 Stepan Prokofyevich Timoshenko (russian: Степан Прокофьевич Тимошенко, p=sʲtʲɪˈpan prɐˈkofʲjɪvʲɪtɕ tʲɪmɐˈʂɛnkə; uk, Степан Прокопович Тимошенко, Stepan Prokopovych Tymoshenko; ...

, father of modern Ukrainian engineering mechanics

Economists

Mykhailo Tuhan-Baranovsky Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky (russian: Михаил Иванович Туган-Барановский, uk, Михайло Іванович Туган-Барановський, romanized: ''Mykhailo Ivanovych Tuhan-Baranovskyi'') was a Ukrainian eco ...

(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 List of Russian monarchs, 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 th ...

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 sociologist. Mises wrote and lectured extensively on the societal contributions of classical liberalism. He is ...

, 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 Ukra ...

) *

Bohdan Hawrylyshyn Bohdan Dmytrovych Hawrylyshyn (, 19 October 1926 – 24 October 2016) was a Canadian, Swiss and Ukrainian economist, thinker, benefactor and advisor to governments and large companies worldwide. He was a full member of the Club of Rome,

(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 Trypillia ( ua , Трипiлля) is a selo in Obukhiv Raion (district) of Kyiv Oblast in central Ukraine, with 2,800 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2005). It belongs to Ukrainka urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Trypillia lies abou ...

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 ...

Volodymyr Barvinok Barvinok Volodymyr Ivanovych (July 22, 1879 in Ohramyyevychi, Chernihiv oblast, Russian Empire – 1943 in Kiev, Soviet Union) was a Ukrainian historian, theologist, bibliographer, writer, archaeologist, prominent archivist, statesman of the Uk ...

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 fig ...

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, an ...

, 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 figur ...

, historian *

Taras Hunczak Taras Hunczak ( uk, Тарас Гунчак; born on March 13, 1932, in Staremiasto, near Tarnopol, Poland, now Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine) is a historian, and professor emeritus at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. He lectures in Ukraini ...

* 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, ...

, also literary historian, folklorist *

Oleh Kozerod Oleh Kozerod (born 1970) () is a political scientist and history researcher. He came from a Polish aristocratic family Kosyrod de Pyser coat of arms. Biography Kozerod was born in Ukraine, and has become a political scientist and history r ...

, also political scientist *

Peter Loboda Peter G. Loboda is a researcher of ancient history of the Northern Black Sea Region and antique numismatics. He is the founder and director of the Odesa Numismatics Museum. Loboda graduated from the Odesa Marine Academy and worked as a naval of ...

, 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 inclu ...

* 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 C ...

, 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 ...

, chairman of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto * Oleksander Ohloblyn * Bohdan Osadchuk, also journalist * Nataliia Polonska-Vasylenko * Omeljan Pritsak, orientalist * Mikołaj Siwicki, historian * Viktor Suvorov, spy and WWII researcher * Dmytro Yavornytsky, Cossack historian, archaeologist

Philosophers

* Hryhorii Skovoroda, philosopher, poet and composer

Other academics

* Mykola Andrusiv * Albert Bandura * Pavel Petrovich Blonsky * Olgerd Bochkovsky, sociologist * Isydore Hlynka * Robert Klymasz, Ukrainian Canadian folklorist * Volodymyr Kubiyovych, geographer and encyclopedist * Viktor Kyrpychov * Yuri Linnik * Lubomyr Luciuk, political geographer and community activist * Anton Makarenko, Ukrainian and Soviet educator * Joseph Oleskiw * Wilhelm Reich, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, pro-Ukrainian freedom dissident * Otto Struve, Ukrainian-Russian-American astronomer * Evhen Tsybulenko , professor of international law * Sergiy Vilkomir, computer scientist * Fedir Vovk, anthropologist and ethnographer

Arts

Architects

* Ivan Hryhorovych-Barskyi * Joseph Karakis * Musa Konsulova * Marian Peretyatkovich * Volodymyr Sichynskyi

Painters

*Ivan Aivazovsky, painter, famous for his seascapes *Nathan Altman (1889–1970), Ukrainian-Jewish painter and stage designer from Vynytsia *Marie Bashkirtseff, artist *Robert Brackman *Mykola Burachek *David Burliuk, avant-garde painter, Ukrainian freedom thinker *Louis Choris *Sonia Delaunay, avant-garde artist *Mychajlo Dmytrenko *Aleksandra Ekster, avant-garde artist *Nina Genke-Meller, avant-garde artist *Maurice Gottlieb (1856–1979), Polish-Jewish painter *Leopold Gottlieb (1883–1934), Polish-Jewish painter *Mykola Hlushchenko *Jacques Hnizdovsky *Alexander Khvostenko-Khvostov, avant-garde stage designer *Pyotr Konchalovsky, painter *Vasyl Krychevsky *Fedir Krychevsky *Boris Lekar, Israeli painter *Ephraim Moses Lilien, German-Jewish painter *Anton Losenko * Kazimir Malevich, avant-garde artist *Ivan Marchuk, modern painter *Vadym Meller, avant-garde artist, stage designer *Oleksandr Murashko *Heorhiy Narbut *Solomon Nikritin, painter, avant-garde artist *Nykifor, primitivist painter *Maria Pryimachenko *Vlada Ralko, collage artist *Kliment Red'ko, painter, avant-garde artist *Ilya Repin, painter *Bruno Schulz (1892–1942), Polish-Jewish painter and writer *Zinaida Serebriakova, painter *Volodymyr Sichynskyi, architect, graphic artist *Opanas Slastion, folklorist, designer of modern type of bandura *Anton Solomoukha *Ivan Soshenko, painter *David Shterenberg, painter from Zhytomyr *Avigdor Stematsky, Israeli painter from Odessa *Sergei Sviatchenko (born 1952) *Vladimir Tatlin, avant-garde artist *Sonia Terk, avant-garde artist *Roman Turovsky-Savchuk *Mykhailo Turovsky *Mickola Vorokhta, painter *Tetyana Yablonska, modern painter *Yevhen Yehorov, 20th century artist *Vasiliy Yermilov, avant-garde artist *Ivan Yizhakevych *Alla Horska

Photographers

*Anatoliy Havrylov, Shevchenko National Prize laureate for cinematography *Nikolai Kozlovsky

Sculptors

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

Performing arts

Actors/Actresses

* Alla Nazimova, (silent film star, born Adelaida Leventon, in Yalta) * Ana Layevska * Anna Sten (Anel Sudakevich) * Bohdan Stupka * Elina Bystritskaya * Elisabeth Bergner, Austrian-English Jewish actress * Yaroslava Mosiychuk, actress * Ivan Mykolaichuk * Ivanna Sakhno * Jack Palance (Volodymyr Palahnyuk) * John Hodiak * Katheryn Winnick * Lee Strasberg (1901–1982), Polish/American-Jewish actor * Luba Goy * Mike Mazurki * Mila Kunis, Ukrainian/American-Jewish actress * Milla Jovovich * Natasha Yarovenko * Nick Adams (actor, born 1931), Nick Adams * Olena Chekan * Olga Krasko * Olga Kurylenko * Stav Strashko, actress and model born in Dnipropetrovsk,

* Taissa Farmiga * Vasily Lanovoy * Vera Farmiga * Vera Kholodnaya * Yakov Smirnoff * Yuriy Tkach * Zhanna Prokhorenko * Volodymyr Zelenskyy President of Ukraine (2019–present)

Choreographers and dancers

* Vasyl Avramenko * Roma Pryma-Bohachevsky, pro-Western * Oksana Skorik - ballet dancer * Vasyl Verkhovynets * Igor Youskevitch - ballet dancer

Film and theatre directors

*Roman Balayan, Ukrainian-Armenian film director *Sergei Bondarchuk *Leonid Fyodorovich Bykov, Leonid Bykiv *Grigori Chukhrai *Volodymyr Dakhno, Shevchenko National Prize laureate and Cossacks (cartoon series) creator *Alexander Dovzhenko *Edward Dmytryk * Kateryna Gornostai - Ukrainian LGBTQ film director, screenwriter and film editor *Les Kurbas *Anatole Litvak (1902–1974), Ukrainian/American-Jewish film director *Danylo Lyder *Paul Mazursky (1930–2014), American-Jewish actor, screenwriter and film director * Kira Muratova *Larisa Shepitko *Bohdan Stupka *Peter Weibel *Sergei Loznitsa, Ukrainian documentary director *Tanu Muino

Models

* Alexandra Kutas, Ukrainian model who has a disability * Snejana Onopka, Ukrainian model born in Sievierodonetsk * Daria Werbowy, Polish-born Canadian model of Ukrainian descent. * Alina Baikova

LGBT activists and notable LGBT Ukrainians

* Bogdan Globa - LGBT activist * Vitalina Koval - LGBT activist * Anna Sharyhina - LGBT activist * Olena Shevchenko - Ukrainian women's and LGBT rights activist * Edward Tarletski - Belarusian drag performer and recording artist, entertainer, journalist and gay activist

Musicians

Bandurists

* Hnat Khotkevych, bandurist * Hryhory Kytasty, bandurist * Julian Kytasty, bandurist * Volodymyr Luciv, bandurist * Victor Mishalow, bandurist

Composers

*Svitlana Azarova *Virko Baley *Vasyl Barvinsky *Maxim Berezovsky *Oleksandr Bilash, composer, Hero of Ukraine *Dmitry Bortniansky *Marusia Churai *Nikolay Diletsky *Isaak Dunayevsky, author of numerous popular Soviet songs *Lesia Dychko *Arkady Filippenko *Reinhold Glière *Leonid Hrabovsky *Semen Hulak-Artemovsky *Volodymyr Ivasyuk *Oleksander Koshetz *Mykola Leontovych, composed Shchedryk (song) also known as Carol of the Bells *Zara Levina *Borys Lyatoshynsky *Mykola Lysenko *Ruslana Lyzhichko *Igor Markevitch *Yuli Meitus *Yuriy Oliynyk *Mykola Ovsianiko-Kulikovsky *Sergei Prokofiev *Levko Revutsky *Nikolai Roslavets *Aleksandr Shymko *Valentin Silvestrov *Myroslav Skoryk *Yevhen Stankovych *Kyrylo Stetsenko *Dimitri Tiomkin - film composer *Roman Turovsky-Savchuk *Artemy Vedel *Mykhailo Verbytsky, composer of the National Anthem of Ukraine *Mykola Vilinsky *Yakiv Yatsynevych

Pianists

* Simon Barere, pianist * Yevheniya Barvinska, pianist * Felix Blumenfeld, pianist * Shura Cherkassky, pianist * Emil Gilels, pianist * Vladimir Horowitz, pianist * Lubka Kolessa, pianist * Valentina Lisitsa, pianist * Benno Moiseiwitsch, pianist * Heinrich Neuhaus, pianist * Sviatoslav Richter, pianist * Leo Sirota, pianist

Organists

* Roman Krasnovsky, organist, composer * Paul Stetsenko, organist, choral conductor * Rostislaw Wygranienko, organist

Strings

* Yuri Bashmet, viola soloist * Mischa Elman, violinist * Emanuel Feuermann (1902–1942), Ukrainian-Jewish cellist (born in Austrian Galicia) * Vadim Gluzman, violinist * Pawlo Humeniuk, violinist / fiddler * Leonid Kogan, violinist * Nathan Milstein, violinist * David Oistrakh, violinist * Igor Oistrakh, violinist * Steven Staryk, violinist * Isaac Stern (1920–2001), American-Jewish, born in Kremenets Poland (now Ukraine), violinist.

Conductors

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

Singers

Opera

* Andrij Dobriansky, bass-baritone * Borys Hmyria, bass * Vasyl Slipak, baritone * Alexander Kipnis, bass * Ivan Kozlovsky, tenor * Solomiya Krushelnytska, soprano * Evgeniya Miroshnichenko, soprano * Vyacheslav Polozov, tenor * Maria Sokil, soprano * Anatoly Solovyanenko, tenor * Leonid Skirko, bass, baritone

Singers and artists of other genres

* Iryna Bilyk - singer * Denis Stoff, singer * Dimal, award-winning artist, rapper, entertainer * Kvitka Cisyk, singer * Katya Chilly, singer * Taras Chubay, bard * Gaitana (singer), Gaitana * Ganna Gryniva, jazz singer * Eugene Hutz, lead singer of the Gypsy Punk band Gogol Bordello * Jamala, singer, composer, winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 * Joseph Kobzon, Iosif Kobzon, iconic Soviet crooner * Ani Lorak, singer, runner-up of the 2008 Eurovision contest * Mélovin (Kostyantyn Mykolayovych Bocharov) - Ukrainian singer, LGBT activist * Ruslana, pop singer, composer, songwriter, conductor, dancer, record producer, pro-Western, singer and winner of the 2004 Eurovision contest. * Alina Pash - Singer and rapper, LGBT activist * Anastasia Prikhodko, winner of Star Factory 2007, and represented Russia in the 2009 Eurovision song contest * Sofia Rotaru, singer * Anna Sedokova - Singer, actress and television presenter, LGBT activist * Verka Serduchka (Adriy Danylko), singer and runner-up of the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest * Yuri Shevchuk, bard, born of Ukrainian father * Klavdiya Shulzhenko, singer of The 22 June song, the most inspiring WWII song that didn't mention Stalin * Theresa Sokyrka, Canadian Idol 2 runner-up * Super DJ Dmitri (Dmitry Brill), member of American club/dance group Deee-Lite * Nissan Spivak, world-famous Ukrainian cantor * Leonid Utyosov, Leonyd Utyosiv, jazz singer * Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, singer * Alexander Vertinsky, singer * Velvel Zbarjer, singer * Tina Karol, singer * Vitas, singer and actor * Oleksandr Ponomaryov, singer * Vera Brezhneva, singer and television presenter * Zlata Ognevich, singer, represented Ukraine in the 2013 Eurovision song contest * Zi Faámelu (born Boris Kruglov) - transgender Ukrainian singer and songwriter

Other

* Vlad (musician), Volodymyr (Vlad) DeBriansky, guitarist, producer, composer, songwriter * Eugene Hütz (Gogol Bordello), singer, guitarist, composer, songwriter, actor * Efim Jourist, composer, accordionist and bajan player * Ruslana Lyzhichko, pianist, singer, dancer, composer, producer, songwriter * Leo Ornstein (1895–2002), Ukrainian/American-Jewish composer and pianist. * Rezz, Isabelle Rezazadeh, DJ * George Shakhnevich, accordionist * Estas Tonne, guitarist

Other performing artists

* Juliya Chernetsky * Serge Lifar, one of the greatest male ballet dancers of the 20th century * Maria Guleghina * Alla Korot * Olga Khokhlova, ballet dancer, first wife of Pablo Picasso

Literary arts

Writers

*Adrian Kashchenko *Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer, had Ukrainian mother *Aleksei Bibik (1878–1976), working-class writer *Alexandra Marinina, Oleksandra Marynyna *Amvrosii Metlynsky, poet, writer *Andrey Kurkov, Ukrainian novelist *Bohdan Osadchuk *Chuck Palahniuk, American satirical novelist (Ukrainian father) *Clarice Lispector *Daniil Granin, author *David Bergelson, Ukrainian-Jewish writer in Yiddish language *Hryhorii Epik, writer, journalist *Hryhoriy Skovoroda, poet, writer, philosopher *Ilya Ehrenburg Ukrainian-Jewish publicist and writer in Russian language, born in Kyiv *Ilya Ilf, world-famous Ukrainian humorist in Russian language, co-author of ''The Twelve Chairs'' *Irena Karpa, modern Ukrainian writer *Isaac Babel, world-famous Ukrainian-Jewish writer in Russian language, born in Odessa *Ivan Kotlyarevsky, playwright *Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky *Ivan Vahylevych *Jan Potocki, count, world-famous Polish writer in French language, born and died in Ukraine *Joseph Conrad, world-famous Polish writer in the English language, born in Berdychiv *Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer, author of ''Venus in Furs'' *Les Podervianskiy, satirist and playwright, pro-Western and pro-Ukrainian dissident *Lev Kopelev, Levko Kopeliv, author and dissident *Markiyan Shashkevych, poet, writer, and interpreter *Marko Cheremshyna, writer *Marko Vovchok *Marya Zaturenska *Mikhail Bulgakov, novelist in Russian language *Mikhail Zhvanetsky, Russian humorist *Miriam Yalan-Shteklis, Israeli writer and poet *Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky *Mykhailo Stelmakh *Mykola Khvylovy *Mykola Kulish, dramatist *Mykola Voronyi *Mykola Zerov *Natalia 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, Ukrainian writer in Russian language, born in Velyki Sorochyntsi *Oksana Zabuzhko, modern Ukrainian novelist, poet, essayist *Oles Honchar, author of ''The Cathedral'' *Olha Kobylianska, modernism, modernist writer and feminist. *Olha Kobylyanska *Ostap Ortwin (1876–1942), Polish-Jewish journalist and literary critic. *Ostap Vyshnia *Panteleymon Kulish *Pavlo Zahrebelnyi *Raya Dunayevskaya, 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, world-famous distinguished Ukrainian writer in Yiddish language, born in Pereyaslav *Sofia Yablonska, travel writer, photographer, architect *Stanisław Lem, Polish science-fiction writer born on the present-day territory of Ukraine *Valentyn Rechmedin, writer, journalist *Valerian Pidmohylny, novelist *Vasily Grossman 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 *Viktor Nekrasov, writer *Viktor Petrov *Volodymyr Vynnychenko *Yakiv Holovatsky *Yaroslav Halan, anti-fascist playwright and publicist, assassinated by nationalist insurgents. *Yevgeny Grebyonka *Yevgeny Petrov (writer), Yevgeny Petrov, Ukrainian humorist in Russian language, co-author of ''The Twelve Chairs'' *Yevhen Hrebinka *Yevhen Hutsalo *Yuri Andrukhovych, born in Ivano-Frankivsk *Yuri Nikitin (author), Yuri Nikitin, Russian science fiction and fantasy writer *Yuri Nikitin (gymnast), Yuri Nikitin, trampolinist *Yuri Pokalchuk *Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko - fantasy fiction writers and Shevchenko National Prize laureate

Poets

Taras Shevchenko selfportrait oil 1840-2

* Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet *Bohdan-Ihor Antonych *Eduard Bagritsky *Mikola Bazhan *Hayyim Nahman Bialik, modern Hebrew Ukrainian poet, national poet of the State of Israel * Ivan Drach *Itzik Feffer, Soviet poet in Yiddish language *Moysey Fishbeyn, Ukrainian poet in Yiddish language *Ivan Franko *Alexander Galich (writer), Alexander Galich, Soviet bard in Russian language, pro-Western dissident *Ihor Kalynets *Mykola Khvylovy *Lina Kostenko * Andriy Malyshko * Oleksandr Oles * Oleh Olzhych *Dmytro Pavlychko *Markiyan Shashkevych *Vasyl Stus *Vasyl Symonenko *Olena Teliha *Pavlo Tychyna *Maksym Rylsky *Taras Shevchenko, founder of modern Ukrainian Literature * Volodymyr Sosiura * Vasyl Stus * Vasyl Symonenko * Hryhoriy Tiutiunnyk *Lesya Ukrainka *Volodymyr Yaniv *Volodymyr Yavorivsky *Maik Yohansen *Natan Yonatan, Kyiv-born Israeli poet * Serhiy Zhadan, modern Ukrainian poet and novelist

Business

* Gennadiy Bogolyubov (born 1961/1962), Ukrainian-Israeli billionaire businessman * Zino Davidoff, founder of Davidoff brand * Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal * Petro Poroshenko, former President of Ukraine * Jay Pritzker, founder of Hyatt and LGBT philanthropist * Boris Lozhkin, 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, Soviet cosmonaut No.12, Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, Soviet MP in 1974–89 representing Donetsk region * Leonid Kizim, Soviet cosmonaut * Anatoly Levchenko, Soviet cosmonaut * Anatoly Filipchenko, Soviet cosmonaut * Anatoly Artsebarsky, Soviet cosmonaut * Igor Volk, Soviet cosmonaut * Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut No.4, Verkhovna Rada MP in 1964–88, head of Ukrainian diaspora in Moscow * Georgy Dobrovolsky, Soviet cosmonaut * Leonid Kadeniuk, earlier a Soviet cosmonaut, made the first manned spaceflight of the National Space Agency of Ukraine * Yury Onufriyenko, Russian cosmonaut * Yuri Malenchenko, Russian cosmonaut * Yuri Gidzenko, Russian cosmonaut * Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, NASA * Bruce E. Melnick, NASA * Roberta Bondar, Canada's first female astronaut and the first neurologist in space. * Joshua Kutryk - Canadian astronaut

Cossack Hetmans

* Przecław Lanckoroński (1506–1512), one of the first Hetmans of Ukrainian Cossacks * Ostap Dashkevych (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 * Viktor Suvorov * 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) *

, 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) *Volodymyr Kubiyovych, 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) *Volodymyr Vynnychenko, 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 Verkhovna Rada * 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 * Vasily Grossman * 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 * Vasyl Stus * 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), 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 (actor, born 1931), Nick Adams * Catherine Kutz Adamshock, mother of Nick Adams (actor, born 1931), Nick Adams * Volodymyr Butkevych, judge * Markiyan Dimidov, concentration camp survivor * Georgiy Gongadze, journalist, civil activist * Stefan Kiszko, man wrongly convicted of murder in England * Joseph Oleskiw, 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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