This is a list of individuals who were born and lived in territories located in present-day

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 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 Ort ...

and those of other ethnicities.

Academics

Mathematicians

* Selig Brodetsky (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 *

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 * 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 * Mikhail Ostrogradsky * Volodymyr Petryshyn * Platon Poretsky * Volodymyr Potapiv * Anatoly Samoilenko * Oleksandr Mikolaiovich Sharkovsky (1936–2022), most famous for developing Sharkovsky's theorem 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 (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 (1937–2006), Jewish Ukrainian mathematician. * Maryna Viazovska (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

Physicists/Astronomers

* Gersh Budker, nuclear physicist ( Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics) * Georges Charpak, French physicist (Nobel Prize), born in East Galicia * Abram Ioffe, prominent Soviet physicist (Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute) * Isaak Khalatnikiv, BKL conjecture in general relativity * Leo Palatnik, thin film physics * Ivan Pulyui, 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 * 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 * Erwin Chargaff * Theodosius Dobzhansky * Katherine Esau * Dmitri Ivanovsky *

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 * Kostiantyn Sytnyk *

, mineralogist, biochemist

Chemists

* Anatoly Babko * Israel Dostrovsky (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 * Lev Pisarzhevsky * Swiatoslaw Trofimenko * 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 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 * Serdyuk Valentin, orthopedic surgeon * Nicolai L. Volodos, cardiovascular surgeon * Nikolay Pirogov, inventor of a splint, sling, brace or cast.

Engineers

* Volodymyr Chelomey, ballistic missile and Ukrainian spacecraft designer * Valentyn Hlushko, European engineer * Mykola Holonyak, 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 and the first space rocket ('' R-7 Semyorka''), 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 radioi ...

('' Sputnik''), supervisor of the first human spaceflight * Mykola Kybalchich, 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. ...

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

Economists

* Mykhailo Tuhan-Baranovsky (1865–1919) * Eugen Slutsky (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, 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 Ukrain ...

) * 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 * 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, historian * Taras Hunczak * 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, also literary historian, folklorist * Paul Robert Magocsi, chairman of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto * Oleksander Ohloblyn * 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 Har ...

, 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 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 *

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 ...

* Lubomyr Luciuk, 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, 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, computer scientist * Fedir Vovk, anthropologist and ethnographer

Arts

Architects

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

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 ...

, painter, famous for his seascapes *

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

(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 * Mykola Burachek * David Burliuk, 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 "pr ...

, 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 * Jacques Hnizdovsky * 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, gr ...

* 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 Solomon Nikritin ( uk, Соломон Борисовiч Нiкрiтiн; 1898–1965) was a Ukraine, Ukrainian Painting, painter, avant-garde artist ( Neo-Primitivist, Constructivism (art), Constructivist), philosopher, and author. Biography Solom ...

, 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, 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 Academ ...

(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 * Volodymyr Sichynskyi, architect, graphic artist * Opanas Slastion, 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 administrative ...

* Avigdor Stematsky, Israeli painter from Odessa *

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, 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, 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 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 * Vladimir Tatlin

Performing arts

Actors/Actresses

* Alla Nazimova, (silent film star, born Adelaida Leventon, in Yalta) * Ana Layevska * Anna Sten (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 *

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 * Ivanna Sakhno * Jack Palance (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 * 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,

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 Kholodnaya * Yakov Smirnoff * Yuriy Tkach * Zhanna Prokhorenko *

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 * Roma Pryma-Bohachevsky, pro-Western * Oksana Skorik - 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 * 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, Shevchenko National Prize laureate and Cossacks (cartoon series) 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 noir films and received an Oscar nomination for Best Director for '' Crossfire'' (1947). In 1947, he was named as one of the Hollywoo ...

* 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 , 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 Gueórguiev ...

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 fe ...

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

Models

* Alexandra Kutas, Ukrainian model who has a disability * Snejana Onopka, Ukrainian model born in

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

* Semen Hulak-Artemovsky *

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 ...

* Oleksander Koshetz *

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 c ...

, composed Shchedryk (song) 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 *

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, ...

* Levko Revutsky *

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 * Myroslav Skoryk * Yevhen Stankovych *

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 * Mykhailo Verbytsky, composer of the National Anthem of Ukraine * Mykola Vilinsky * Yakiv Yatsynevych

Pianists

* Simon Barere, 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 bor ...

, 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 romantic repertoire. His playing was c ...

, pianist * Emil Gilels, 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 al ...

, 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, pianist

Organists

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

, viola soloist * Mischa Elman, 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, violinist * Pawlo Humeniuk, 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, 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 ...

, violinist * Igor Oistrakh, 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 (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 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, 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, bass, baritone

Singers and artists of other genres

* Iryna Bilyk - singer * Denis Stoff, singer *

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, 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, bard * Gaitana * Ganna Gryniva, jazz singer * Eugene Hutz, lead singer of the Gypsy Punk band Gogol Bordello *

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 * 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 U ...

, 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, holdi ...

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

* 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 for ...

, singer * Alexander Vertinsky, singer * Velvel Zbarjer, 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 Music National Aviation University , ...

, singer * Vitas, singer and actor * Oleksandr Ponomaryov, 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 (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. * Isabelle Rezazadeh, DJ * George Shakhnevich, accordionist * Estas Tonne, guitarist

Other performing artists

* Juliya Chernetsky *

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 * Alla Korot * Olga Khokhlova, 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 *

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 repres ...

, 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, American satirical novelist (Ukrainian father) * Clarice Lispector *

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, 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 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 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, playwright * Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky * Ivan Vahylevych *

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 pi ...

, 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 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, 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 * Marya Zaturenska * Mikhail Bulgakov, novelist in Russian language * Mikhail Zhvanetsky, Russian humorist * Miriam Yalan-Shteklis, 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 Kulish, 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, Ukrainian writer in Russian language, born in Velyki Sorochyntsi * Oksana Zabuzhko, modern Ukrainian novelist, poet, essayist * Oles Honchar, author of ''The Cathedral'' * Olha Kobylianska,

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

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and feminist. * 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 *

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 * Viktor Nekrasov, writer * Viktor Petrov *

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 Dec ...

* Yevhen Hutsalo * Yuri Andrukhovych, 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 Shevchenko National Prize 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, 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 Ru ...

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, 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 * Mykola Khvylovy * Lina Kostenko * Andriy Malyshko * Oleksandr Oles * Oleh Olzhych *

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 ...

* Markiyan Shashkevych *

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 *

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 * Maksym Rylsky *

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 Ukrainian poet, wr ...

, founder of modern Ukrainian Literature * Volodymyr Sosiura *

* Vasyl Symonenko * Hryhoriy Tiutiunnyk * Lesya Ukrainka * 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 * 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 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 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 se ...

, former President of Ukraine * Jay Pritzker, founder of Hyatt 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 MP in 1974–89 representing Donetsk region * Leonid Kizim, 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 leavi ...

, Soviet cosmonaut * Anatoly Artsebarsky, 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, 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 * Yury Onufriyenko, Russian cosmonaut * Yuri Malenchenko, 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,

NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil List of government space agencies, space program ...

* 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 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 Dmytro Ivanovych Vyshnevetsky ( uk, Дмитро Іванович Вишневе́цький; russian: Дмитрий Иванович Вишневе́цкий; pl, Dymitr Wiśniowiecki) was a magnate of Ruthenian (Ukrainian) origin and an organi ...

(1550–1563) * Ivan Pidkova (1577–1578), Cossack Hetman and

Hospodar Hospodar or gospodar is a term of Slavonic origin, meaning "lord" or " master". Etymology and Slavic usage In the Slavonic language, ''hospodar'' is usually applied to the master/owner of a house or other properties and also the head of a family. ...

Moldavia Moldavia ( ro, Moldova, or , literally "The Country of Moldavia"; in Romanian Cyrillic alphabet, Romanian Cyrillic: or ; chu, Землѧ Молдавскаѧ; el, Ἡγεμονία τῆς Μολδαβίας) is a historical region and for ...

* Kryshtof Kosynsky (1591–1593) * Hryhory Loboda (1593–1596) * Severyn Nalyvaiko (1596) *

Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny ( uk, Петро Конашевич-Сагайдачний; pl, Piotr Konaszewicz-Sahajdaczny; born about 1582 in Kulchytsi, today Sambir Raion – 20 April 1622 in Kyiv) was a Ukrainian Cossack political and ...

(1614–1622), Hetman of Zaporozhian Cossacks * Mykhailo Doroshenko (1623–1628) *

Hryhoriy Chorny Hryhoriy Savych Chorny ( uk, Григорій (Грицько) Савич Чорний, pl, Hryćko Czarny), died 1630, was a Hetman of the Dnieper Cossacks from 1628 to 1630 who represented the registered Cossacks while the larger bulk of unregist ...

(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 The Cossack Hetmanate ( uk, Гетьманщина, Hetmanshchyna; or ''Cossack state''), officially the Zaporizhian Host or Army of Zaporizhia ( uk, Військо Запорозьке, Viisko Zaporozke, links=no; la, Exercitus Zaporoviensis) ...

Ivan Vyhovsky Ivan Vyhovsky ( uk, Іван Виговський; pl, Iwan Wyhowski / Jan Wyhowski; date of birth unknown, died 1664), a Ukrainian military and political figure and statesman, served as hetman of the Zaporizhian Host and of the Cossack Hetma ...

(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 Pavlo Teteria ( uk, Павло́ Тете́ря; russian: Па́вел Ива́нович Тете́ря, pl, Paweł Morzkowski herbu Ślepowron) (1620s–1670) was Hetman of Right-bank Ukraine (1663–1665). His real name is Pavlo Morzhkovsky. ...

(1663–1665) in the Right-bank Ukraine * Ivan Briukhovetsky (1663–1668) in the Left-bank Ukraine *

Petro Doroshenko Petro Doroshenko ( uk, Петро Дорофійович Дорошенко, russian: Пётр Дорофе́евич Дороше́нко, pl, Piotr Doroszenko; 1627–1698) was a Cossack political and military leader, Hetman of Right-bank Ukr ...

(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 Ivan Samoylovych (, , ; died 1690) was the Hetman of Left-bank Ukraine from 1672 to 1687. His term in office was marked by further incorporation of the Cossack Hetmanate into the Tsardom of Russia and by attempts to win Right-bank Ukraine from ...

(1672–1687) in the Left-bank Ukraine *

Ivan Mazepa Ivan Stepanovych Mazepa (also spelled Mazeppa; uk, Іван Степанович Мазепа, pl, Jan Mazepa Kołodyński; ) was a Ukrainian military, political, and civic leader who served as the Hetman of Zaporizhian Host in 1687–1708. ...

(1687–1708) in the Left-bank Ukraine, and (1708–1709) in the Right-bank Ukraine *

Pylyp Orlyk Pylyp Stepanovych Orlyk ( uk, Пилип Степанович Орлик, pl, Filip Orlik; October 11 (21), 1672 – May 26, 1742) was a Zaporozhian Cossack starshyna, Hetman of Ukraine in exile, diplomat, secretary and close associate of Hetm ...

(1710–1742) in exile *

Ivan Skoropadsky Ivan Skoropadsky ( uk, Іван Скоропадський) (1646 – 3 July 1722) was a Cossack Hetman of the Zaporizhian Host (in office: 1708–1722), and the successor to the famous Hetman Ivan Mazepa. Biography Born into a noble Cossack ...

(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 Count Kirill Grigoryevich Razumovski, anglicized as Cyril Grigoryevich Razumovski (russian: Кирилл Григорьевич Разумовский, uk, Кирило Григорович Розумовський ''Kyrylo Hryhorovych Rozumovs ...

(1750–1764) in the Left-bank Ukraine *

Petro Kalnyshevsky Petro Kalnyshevsky (20 June 1690? – 31 October 1803) was the last Koshovyi Otaman of the Zaporozhian Host, serving in 1762 and from 1765 to 1775. Kalnyshevsky was a hero in the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774 for which he was awarded the Gold ...

(1765–1775) last

Koshovyi Otaman Kish otaman ( uk, Кошовий отаман, ; russian: Кошевой атаман, ; pl, Ataman koszowy; also known as of the Zaporizhian Host) was a chief officer of the ''Kish'' (central body of government) of the Zaporozhian Host in the 1 ...

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 The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army ( Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, afte ...

* Marko Bezruchko, general of the Ukrainian People's Army *

Taras Bulba-Borovets Taras Dmytrovych Borovets ( uk, Тарас Дмитрович Борове́ць; March 9, 1908 – May 15, 1981) was a Ukrainian resistance leader during World War II. He is better known as Taras Bulba-Borovets after his ''nom de guerre'' ''Tar ...

, otaman of the

Ukrainian People's Revolutionary Army Ukrainian People's Revolutionary Army ( uk, Українська народно-революційна армія), also known as the Polissian Sich ( uk, Поліська Січ) or the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, was a paramilitary formation of U ...

aka Polissian Sich * Ivan Chernyakhovsky, general of the Red Army *

Yakov Dashevsky Yakov Sergeyevich Dashevsky (russian: Яков Серге́евич Дашевский; 18 April 1902, Kherson - 8 February 1972, Moscow) was a Soviet Union, Soviet Red Army military intelligence officer and lieutenant-general. Dashevsky joined ...

, general of the Red Army * Kuzma Derevyanko, general of the Red Army *

Yaakov Dori Yaakov Dori (; October 8, 1899 – January 22, 1973), born Yaakov Dostrovsky, was the first Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). He was also the President of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Biography Yaakov Dostr ...

(1899-1973), Israeli first Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, President of the

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology ( he, הטכניון – מכון טכנולוגי לישראל) is a public research university located in Haifa, Israel. Established in 1912 under the dominion of the Ottoman Empire, the Technion ...

Petro Dyachenko Petro Havrylovych Dyachenko (January 30, 1895 - April 23, 1965) was Ukrainian Military Leader, commander of the Black Zaporozhets, the 2nd division of the Ukrainian National Army, the anti-tank brigade "Free Ukraine". Military ranks — colon ...

, staff captain of the Russian Army (

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

), 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 Ukrainian National Army (UNA) was a World War II Ukrainian military group, created on March 17, 1945 in Weimar, Germany, and subordinate to Ukrainian National Committee. The army, formed on April 15, 1945, and commanded by General Pavlo Shandruk ...

(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 Nykyfor Oleksandrovych Hryhoriv (né Nychypir Servetnyk, 1884 – 27 July 1919) was a Ukrainian paramilitary leader noted for repeatedly switching sides during the Ukrainian Civil War. He was commonly known as "Otaman Hryhoriv." In some historic ...

, otaman and leader of a Ukrainian insurgent " Green Army" * Vylhelm Habsburh (Vasyl Vyshyvanyi), Austrian archduke, colonel of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen *

Andrei Grechko Andrei Antonovich Grechko (, ; – 26 April 1976) was a Marshal of the Soviet Union (from 1955). He was Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union from 1967 to 1976. Early life Grechko was the thirteenth child born to a family of Ukrainian peasant ...

, marshal of the Soviet Union *

Oleksander Hrekov Oleksander Petrovych Hrekov ( uk, Олександр Петрович Греков) (4 December 1875 – 2 December 1958) was a general of the Imperial Russian Army, Ukrainian People's Army, military professor and one of the most prominent persona ...

, commander-in-chief of the army of the

West Ukrainian National Republic The West Ukrainian People's Republic (WUPR) or West Ukrainian National Republic (WUNR), known for part of its existence as the Western Oblast of the Ukrainian People's Republic, was a short-lived polity that controlled most of Eastern Gali ...

Dmytro Hrytsai Dmytro Hrytsai ( a.k.a. "''Perebyinis''"; Ukrainian: Дмитрó Грицáй-Переб́ийніс; Dorozhiv, Galicia, 1 April 1907 – 22 December 1945, Prague, Czechoslovakia) was a leader in the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and ...

, general of the

Ukrainian Insurgent Army The Ukrainian Insurgent Army ( uk, Українська повстанська армія, УПА, translit=Ukrayins'ka povstans'ka armiia, abbreviated UPA) was a Ukrainian nationalist paramilitary and later partisan formation. During World ...

* Karl Georg Graf Huyn, Austrian colonel general, last governor-general of Galicia (1917–18) * Alfred Jansa, Austrian major general *

Mykola Kapustiansky Mykóla Oleksándrovyč Kapustjáns’kyj ( uk, Мико́ла Олекса́ндрович Капустя́нський) (February 1, 1879 – February 19, 1969) was a General in the army of the Ukrainian National Republic and one of the founders ...

, general of the Ukrainian People's Army * Dmytro Klyachkivsky, colonel and the commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army *

Ivan Kozhedub Ivan Nikitovich Kozhedub ( Russian: Иван Hикитович Кожедуб; Ukrainian: Іван Микитович Кожедуб; 8 June 1920 – 8 August 1991) was a Soviet World War II fighter ace. Universally credited with over 60 solo vic ...

, legendary fighter pilot of WWII, top USSR ace * Roman Kondratenko, lieutenant general of Russian Imperial Army, defender of Port Arthur during

Russo-Japanese war The Russo-Japanese War ( ja, 日露戦争, Nichiro sensō, Japanese-Russian War; russian: Ру́сско-япóнская войнá, Rússko-yapónskaya voyná) was fought between the Empire of Japan and the Russian Empire during 1904 and 1 ...

Yevhen Konovalets Yevhen Mykhailovych Konovalets ( uk, Євген Михайлович Коновалець; June 14, 1891 – May 23, 1938), also anglicized as Eugene Konovalets, was a military commander of the Ukrainian National Republic army, veteran of the Uk ...

, leader of the Ukrainian Military Organization (UVO) (1920–29) and the

Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists ( uk, Організація українських націоналістів, Orhanizatsiya ukrayins'kykh natsionalistiv, abbreviated OUN) was a Ukrainian ultranationalist political organization esta ...

(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 * Mykhailo Krat, general of the Ukrainian National Army *

Sydir Kovpak Sydir Artemovych Kovpak ( uk, Сидір Артемович Ковпак; russian: Си́дор Арте́мьевич Ковпа́к, ), (June 7, 1887December 11, 1967) was one of the partisan leaders of the Soviet partisans in Ukraine during t ...

, major general, partisan leader, subsequently deputy chairperson of Verkhovna Rada * Vasyl Kuk, commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army *

Grigory Kulik Grigory Ivanovich Kulik ( ua, Григорій Іванович Кулик; russian: Григо́рий Ива́нович Кули́к, Grigóriy Ivánovich Kulík; 9 November 1890 – 24 August 1950), a Soviet Union, Soviet military commande ...

, marshal of the Soviet Union * Yuriy Lopatynsky, colonel of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army * Nestor Makhno, commander of " Black Army" * Alexander Marinesko, legendary Sub Commander in WWII *

Rodion Malinovsky Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky (russian: Родио́н Я́ковлевич Малино́вский, ukr, Родіо́н Я́кович Малино́вський ; – 31 March 1967) was a Soviet military commander. He was Marshal of the Sov ...

, marshal of the Soviet Union *

Kirill Moskalenko Kirill Semyonovich Moskalenko (russian: Кирилл Семёнович Москаленко, uk, Кирило Семенович Москаленко; May 11, 1902 – June 17, 1985) was a Marshal of the Soviet Union. A member of the Soviet Arm ...

, 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 Count Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich-Erevansky, Serene Prince of Warsaw (russian: Ива́н Фёдорович Паске́вич-Эриванский, светлейший князь Варшавский, tr. ; – ) was an Imperial Russian mi ...

, field marshal of the Russian imperial army *

Alexander Pechersky Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky (russian: Алекса́ндр Аро́нович Пече́рский; 22 February 1909 – 19 January 1990) was one of the organizers, and the leader, of the most successful uprising and mass-escape of Jews from a Naz ...

, Soviet officer, leader of the Uprising in

Sobibor extermination camp Sobibor (, Polish: ) was an extermination camp built and operated by Nazi Germany as part of Operation Reinhard. It was located in the forest near the village of Żłobek Duży in the General Government region of German-occupied Poland. As an ...

(1943) * Alfred Redl, Austrian counter-intelligence officer * Jakob Rosenfeld, general of the

Chinese People's Liberation Army The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the principal military force of the China, People's Republic of China and the armed wing of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The PLA consists of five Military branch, service branches: the People's ...

* Semyon Rudniev, major general, partisan leader, committed suicide to avoid capture by the Nazi * Pavlo Shandruk, general of the Ukrainian National Army * Mykola Shchors, colonel, the Shchors City named after him * Stanislav Sheptytsky, general of the Polish Army *

Grigori Shtern Grigory Mikhailovich Shtern (russian: Григорий Михайлович Штерн; – 28 October 1941) was a Soviet officer in the Red Army and military advisor during the Spanish Civil War. He also served with distinction during the Sov ...

, general of the

Roman Shukhevych Roman-Taras Yosypovych Shukhevych ( uk, Рома́н-Тарас Йо́сипович Шухе́вич, also known by his pseudonym, Tur and Taras Chuprynka; 30 June 1907 – 5 March 1950), was a Ukrainian nationalist, one of the commanders of N ...

, general and the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army *

Stepan Shukhevych Stepan Shukhevych (1 January 1877 – 6 June 1945) was a Ukrainian lawyer and military figure. Born in Serafanivka, near Horodenka, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, he was the son of a Greek Catholic priest. He completed school at the Academic ...

, 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 * Roman Sushko, colonel of the Ukrainian Legion *

Semyon Timoshenko Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko (russian: link=no, Семён Константи́нович Тимоше́нко, ''Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko''; uk, Семе́н Костянти́нович Тимоше́нко, ''Semen Kostiantyno ...

, 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 Yulia Tolopa (call sign "Valkyrie"), (russian: Юлия Толопа, "Валькирия"; uk, Юлія Толопа, "Валькірія"; born 1995) is a Russian-born female volunteer who fought for Ukraine in the Russo-Ukrainian War. Tolop ...

- Russian-born volunteer who fought for Ukraine in the

Russo-Ukrainian War The Russo-Ukrainian War; uk, російсько-українська війна, rosiisko-ukrainska viina. has been ongoing between Russia (alongside Russian separatists in Ukraine) and Ukraine since February 2014. Following Ukraine's Rev ...

* Mykola Tsybulenko, major general * Pyotr Vershigora, major general, partisan leader, WWII photographer * Dmytro Vitovsky, colonel of the Ukrainian Galician Army *

Kliment Voroshilov Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov (, uk, Климент Охрімович Ворошилов, ''Klyment Okhrimovyč Vorošylov''), popularly known as Klim Voroshilov (russian: link=no, Клим Вороши́лов, ''Klim Vorošilov''; 4 Februa ...

, marshal of the Soviet Union *

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, marshal of the Soviet Union

Intelligence

Yakov Blumkin Yakov Grigoryevich Blumkin (russian: Я́ков Григо́рьевич Блю́мкин; 12 March 1900 – 3 November 1929) was a Left Socialist-Revolutionary, a Bolshevik, and an agent of the Cheka and the Joint State Political Directorat ...

* Jack Childs * Morris Childs *

Jacob Golos Jacob Golos (born Yakov Naumovich Reizen, Russian: Яков Наумович Рейзен; April 24, 1889 - November 27, 1943) was a Ukrainian-born Bolshevik revolutionary who became an intelligence operative in the United States on behalf of the U ...

Walter Krivitsky Walter Germanovich Krivitsky (Ва́льтер Ге́рманович Криви́цкий; June 28, 1899 – February 10, 1941) was a Soviet intelligence officer who revealed plans of signing the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact after he defected to ...

* Genrikh Lyushkov * Jakob Rudnik * Nathan Gregory Silvermaster * Abram Slutsky * Bohdan Stashynsky *

Manfred Stern Manfred (Moses) Stern (also known as Emilio Kléber, Lazar Stern, Moishe Stern, Mark Zilbert) (1896–1954) was a member of the GRU, Soviet military intelligence. He served as a spy in the United States, as a military advisor in China, and gained ...

Pavel Sudoplatov Pavel Anatolyevich Sudoplatov (russian: Пáвел Aнатóльевич Cудоплáтов; ua, Павло Анатолійович Судоплатов, translit=Pavlo Anatoliiovych Sudoplatov; July 7, 1907 – September 24, 1996) was a member ...

* Viktor Suvorov * Richard Yary *

Mark Zborowski Mark Zborowski (27 January 1908 – 30 April 1990) (AKA "Marc" Zborowski or Etienne) was an anthropologist and an NKVD agent ( Venona codenames TULIP and KANT

Politicians

Ukrainian non-Soviet politicians

Dmytro Antonovych Dmytro Antonovych (14 November 1877, in Kyiv – 12 October 1945, in Prague) was a Ukrainian politician and art historian. Family Professor Dmytro Antonovych was the son of two Ukrainian historians: his father was Volodymyr Antonovych and his m ...

, minister of naval affairs, and of arts of the

Ukrainian People's Republic The Ukrainian People's Republic (UPR), or Ukrainian National Republic (UNR), was a country in Eastern Europe that existed between 1917 and 1920. It was declared following the February Revolution in Russia by the First Universal. In March 1 ...

(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 Stepan Andriyovych Bandera ( uk, Степа́н Андрі́йович Банде́ра, Stepán Andríyovych Bandéra, ; pl, Stepan Andrijowycz Bandera; 1 January 1909 – 15 October 1959) was a Ukrainian far-right leader of the radical, terr ...

, leader of the

(OUN-B) *

Oleksander Barvinsky Oleksander Barvinsky ( uk, Олександр Барвiнський ) (June 8, 1847 – December 25, 1926) was an important western Ukrainian cultural figure and politician, a founder of the Christian Social Party in western Ukraine. He also w ...

, leader of the

Christian Social Movement in Ukraine The Christian Social Movement in Ukraine was a political movement that existed in Western Ukraine from the end of the 19th century until the 1930s. Ideals The movement's program was based on Christian ethics and on papal encyclicals focused on soci ...

Vyacheslav Chornovil Viacheslav Maksymovych Chornovil ( uk, В'ячесла́в Макси́мович Чорнові́л; 24 December 1937 – 25 March 1999) was a Ukrainian politician and Soviet dissident. As a prominent Ukrainian dissident in the Soviet Union, ...

, leader of the People's Movement of Ukraine *

Dmytro Dontsov Dmytro Ivanovych Dontsov ( ua, Дмитро Іванович Донцов) (August 29, 1883 – March 30, 1973) was a Ukrainian nationalist writer, publisher, journalist and political thinker whose radical ideas, known as integral nationalism, ...

, Ukrainian nationalist writer, publisher, journalist and political thinker *

, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Hetmanate (1918) * Sydir Holubovych, Prime Minister of the

(1919) *

Vsevolod Holubovych Vsevolod Oleksandrovych Holubovych ( uk, Всеволод Олександрович Голубович; February 1885 – 16 May 1939) was the Prime Minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic from January to March 1918. Early period Holubov ...

, 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) *

, leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (1929–1938) *

Leonid Kravchuk Leonid Makarovych Kravchuk ( uk, Леонід Макарович Кравчук; 10 January 1934 – 10 May 2022) was a Ukrainian politician and the first president of Ukraine, serving from 5 December 1991 until 19 July 1994. In 1992, he signed ...

President of Ukraine The president of Ukraine ( uk, Президент України, Prezydent Ukrainy) is the head of state of Ukraine. The president represents the nation in international relations, administers the foreign political activity of the state, condu ...

(1991–1994) *

, geographer and politician (Ukrainian Central Committee) *

Leonid Kuchma Leonid Danylovych Kuchma ( uk, Леоні́д Дани́лович Ку́чма; born 9 August 1938) is a Ukrainian politician who was the second president of Ukraine from 19 July 1994 to 23 January 2005. Kuchma's presidency saw numerous corru ...

, 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 The Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance, (UNDO) ( uk, Українське національно-демократичне об'єднання, УНДО, ''Ukrayin'ske Natsional'no-Demokratichne Obyednannia'', pl, Ukraińskie Zjednoczenie Naro ...

(UNDO) (1925–1935) *

Kost Levytsky Kost Levytsky ( uk, Кость Леви́цький; 18 November 1859 – 12 November 1941) was a Ukrainian politician. He was a founder of the Ukrainian National Democratic movement and the leader of the State Representative Body of the Ukrai ...

, 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 Mykola Andriyovych Livytsky ( uk, Микола Андрійович Лівицький; 7 January 1907 – 8 December 1989) was a Ukrainian politician and journalist. He was the prime minister (1957–1967) and the president of the Ukrainian Peopl ...

, 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 Isaak Prokhorovych Mazepa ( uk, Ісаак Прохорович Мазепа) (16 August 1884, Kostobobriv – 18 March 1952, Augsburg) was a Ukrainian politician. He was a Head of the Government of Ukrainian People’s Republic from August 1919 ...

, Prime Minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1919–1920 and 1948–1952) * Andriy Melnyk, leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-M) * Volodymyr Ohryzko, Minister for Foreign Affairs (2007–2009) * Symon Petlura, President of the

Yevhen Petrushevych Yevhen Omelyanovych Petrushevych ( uk, Євге́н Омеля́нович Петруше́вич; June 3, 1863 in Busk, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Kronland of Austro-Hungary – August 29, 1940 in Berlin, Germany) was a Ukrainian law ...

, President of the West Ukrainian National Republic * Mykola Plaviuk, President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1989–1992) *

Vyacheslav Prokopovych Vyacheslav (Viacheslav) Kostyantynovych Prokopovych ( uk, В'ячеслав Костянтинович Прокопович) (1881, Kiev – 1942, Bessancourt) was a Ukrainian politician and historian. Starting in 1905, he was a politician of the ...

, 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 Pavlo Petrovych Skoropadskyi ( uk, Павло Петрович Скоропадський, Pavlo Petrovych Skoropadskyi; – 26 April 1945) was a Ukrainian aristocrat, military and state leader, decorated Imperial Russian Army and Ukrainian Arm ...

, Hetman of Ukraine or head of the Hetmanate (1918) * Yaroslav Stetsko, Prime Minister of the 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 The prime minister of Ukraine ( uk, Прем'єр-міністр України, ) is the head of government of Ukraine. The prime minister presides over the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, which is the highest body of the executive branch of th ...

(2007–present) *

Anatole Vakhnianyn Anatole Vakhnianyn ( uk, Анатоль Вахнянин ; September 19, 1841 – February 11, 1908), was a Ukrainian political and cultural figure, composer, teacher, and journalist. Biography Family Background Vakhnianyn was born in Sieniawa ...

, leader of the Christian Social Movement in Ukraine * Avhustyn Voloshyn, President of

Carpatho-Ukraine Carpatho-Ukraine or Carpathian Ukraine ( uk, Карпа́тська Украї́на, Karpats’ka Ukrayina, ) was an autonomous region within the Second Czechoslovak Republic, created in December 1938 by renaming Subcarpathian Rus' whose full ...

(1939) *

, Prime Minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic, writer * Stepan Vytvytskyi, President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1954–1965) * 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 Arseniy Petrovych Yatsenyuk ( uk, Арсеній Петрович Яценюк ; born 22 May 1974) is a Ukrainian politician, economist and lawyer who served as Prime Minister of Ukraine twice – from 27 February 2014 to 27 November 2014 and f ...

, Minister for Foreign Affairs (2007), Prime Minister of Ukraine (2014) * Serhiy Yefremov, deputy head of the Central Rada (1917) *

Viktor Yushchenko Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko ( uk, Віктор Андрійович Ющенко, ; born 23 February 1954) is a Ukrainian politician who was the third president of Ukraine from 23 January 2005 to 25 February 2010. As an informal leader of th ...

, President of Ukraine (2005–2010) *

Viktor Yanukovych Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych ( uk, Віктор Федорович Янукович, ; ; born 9 July 1950) is a former politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 until he was removed from office in the Revolution of D ...

, Prime Minister of Ukraine (2002–2004, 2006–2007) and President of Ukraine (2010–2015)

Zionists and Israeli politicians

* Chaim Arlosoroff, Zionist activist, leader of

Mapai Mapai ( he, מַפָּא"י, an acronym for , ''Mifleget Poalei Eretz Yisrael'', lit. "Workers' Party of the Land of Israel") was a democratic socialist political party in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger in ...

* Daniel Auster, first Hebrew mayor of Jerusalem * Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, historian, Labor Zionist leader, and President of Israel * Ber Borochov, Zionist activist *

Levi Eshkol Levi Eshkol ( he, לֵוִי אֶשְׁכּוֹל ;‎ 25 October 1895 – 26 February 1969), born Levi Yitzhak Shkolnik ( he, לוי יצחק שקולניק, links=no), was an Israeli statesman who served as the third Prime Minister of Israe ...

, Prime Minister of Israel * Ahad Ha'am, Zionist activist * Abba Hushi, mayor of Haifa * 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 Golda Meir, ; ar, جولدا مائير, Jūldā Māʾīr., group=nb (born Golda Mabovitch; 3 May 1898 – 8 December 1978) was an Israeli politician, teacher, and '' kibbutznikit'' who served as the fourth prime minister of Israel from 1969 to ...

, Prime Minister of Israel * Leo Motzkin, Zionist activist *

Leon Pinsker yi, לעאָן פינסקער , birth_date = , birth_place = Tomaszów Lubelski, Kingdom of Poland, Russian Empire , death_date = , death_place = Odessa, Russian Empire , known_for = Zionism , occupation = Physician, political activ ...

, 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

* Moisei Uritsky, Bolshevik revolutionary * Volodymyr Zatonsky, Bolshevik politician * Grigory Zinoviev, Bolshevik revolutionary

Soviet dissidents

* 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

* 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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