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List
- Nick Adams (actor) his father was a Ukrainian immigrant
- Alexander Archipenko - artist, sculptor[1]
- Vasyl Avramenko - dancer/choreographer[2]
- Pat Bilon - actor
- Christopher A. Boyko - United States federal judge
- Neko Case - singer, songwriter, member of The New Pornographers
- Wayne Chrebet - former NFL player
- Juliya Chernetsky - television personality[3]
- William Chomsky - scholar of Hebrew
- Kvitka Cisyk - soprano singer[4]
- Sasha Cohen - Olympic silver medalist figure skater (on the maternal side Jewish - Ukrainian). [5]
- John Demjanjuk - retired auto worker/war crimes defendant[6]
- Mike Ditka - football coach[7]
- Steve Ditko - comic book writer[8]
- Edward Dmytryk (1908 - 1999), film director who was amongst the Hollywood 10, a group of blacklisted film industry professionals who served time in prison for being in contempt of Congress during the McCarthy era red scare[9]
- Erika Eleniak - actress, father is of Ukrainian decent [21]
- Katherine Esau - botanist[10]
- Vera Farmiga - actress[11]
- Anthony Fedorov (1985 - ) singer; finalist on season 5 of American Idol[12]
- George Gamow - astrophysicist[13]
- Jill Hennessy - Canadian actress, her mother is of mostly Ukrainian ancestry
- Agapius Honcharenko - exiled Orthodox priest[14]
- Taras Hunczak - historian (Ph. D./Professor) and media advisor; expert in the East European history and languages
- Milla Jovovich - famous actress, supermodel and musician
- Dema Kovalenko - (Dmytro "Dema"Kovalenko, born August 28, 1977 in Kiev) - soccer player who currently plays for Los Angeles Galaxy in Major League Soccer.
- Kiril Kulish - stage actor [15]
- Mila Kunis (1983 - ) actress, perhaps best known for playing Jackie Burkhart on That '70s Show[16]]
- Traci Lords- an actress born Nora Kuzma, her father is of Ukrainian Jewish ancestry.
- Michael Mann (director), his father is of Ukrainian Jewish ancestry.
- Leonard Nimoy - actor, parents were Jewish immigrants from Ukraine [17]
- Larisa Oleynik - actress
- Bree Olson - pornographic actress
- Igor Olshansky- (born May 3, 1982 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) - football defensive end for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League.
- Chuck Palahniuk - famous transgressional fiction novelist and freelance journalist.
- Jack Palance - actor, parents were immigrants from Ukraine [18]
- Wally Palmar - musician of The Romantics[19]
- Stepan Popel - chess player[20]
- Simon Ramo - physicist (Russian - Ukrainian)
- Kirill Reznik - politician - Member, Maryland House of Delegates
- Mike Royko- journalist (his father's Ukrainian).
- Dorian Rudnytsky - cellist and composer (son of Maria Sokil, his father's Ukrainian)[21]
- Richard Sandrak (1992 - ) child bodybuilder[22]
- Flip Saunders - head coach for Detroit Pistons and coaches in the NBA
- Wally Szczerbiak - basketball player in the NBA and currently plays for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
- Igor Sikorsky - helicopter designer (on the maternal side Russian - Ukrainian)[23]
- Maria Sokil - soprano singer[24]
- John Spencer - actor (on the maternal side Ukrainian - American)[25]
- Liv Tyler - actress (daughter of Steven Tyler)
- Steven Tyler - singer of Aerosmith (on the maternal side is Cherokee - Ukrainian)
- Viktoria Foxx - beauty queen and socialite
- Kathleen Willey - major figure in the Monica Lewinski and Paula Jones scandals. Her father was of Ukrainian decent [22].
- Anna Zatonskih - chess player[26]
References
- ^ [1] "Ukrainian-American sculptor, b. Kiev..."
- ^ IMAGES Search Results
- ^ [2] "The Ukrainian-born, Brooklyn-reared ex-model..."
- ^ OBITUARY: Kvitka Cisyk, 44, popular singer (04/12/98)
- ^ [3] "Alexandra Pauline Cohen, nicknamed Sasha by her Ukrainian-born mother, Galina..."
- ^ [4] "Court's acquittal of Ukrainian-American auto worker John Demjanjuk..."
- ^ [5] "The year before, the Ukrainian American had been named coach of the year by Sporting News and the Associated Press."
- ^ [6] "Ukrainian-American Steve Ditko is acknowledged as one of the all-time great illustrators of comic books."
- ^ [7] "Some Ukrainian Canadians have found success in the USA such as Hollywood film director Edward Dmytryk..."
- ^ [8] "Groundbreaking work in the structure & workings of plants."
- ^ [9] "Born and raised in New Jersey's insulated Ukrainian community, where she "went to Ukrainian Catholic school, was in the Ukrainian Girl Scouts, and did Ukrainian folk dancing in the Catskills during summers," Farmiga did not learn English until she was six."
- ^ Fedorov - [10] "Anthony Fedorov -- or the "Ukrainian cowboy," as Ryan introduced him -- sang LONESTAR's "I'm Already There.""
- ^ [11]""First suggested hydrogen fusion as source of solar energy.
- ^ [12] "ce of the Ukrainian patriot and exile Orthodox priest Agapius Honcharenko..."
- ^ http://www.vagazette.com/ny-billyelliot-pg,0,3904226.photogallery?index=ny-0jzqr67a20080422125521
- ^ [13] "The AUSTIN POWERS star and Ukrainian beauty Kunis devised a plan to shock the press with revelations of an affair behind Culkin's back..."; born to a Jewish family in Kiev, Ukraine
- ^ [14] "The son of a Ukrainian-born barber..."
- ^ [15] "Jack Palance has everyone smiling as he recites stories about growing up Ukrainian in a tough neighborhood."
- ^ [16] "Wally Palmar, traversed this virgin landscape...to finally lay his eyes on the Ukrainian homeland"
- ^ International Chess Tournament in Lviv dedicated to memory of champion (10/31/99)
- ^ This article is unavailable - HighBeam Research
- ^ [17] "Following in Ahnold's footsteps, 11-year-old Ukrainian body-builder Richard Sandrak sets his sights on Hollywood..."
- ^ Sikorsky, Igor Ivan - Photograph - Britannica Concise
- ^ [18] "honor the memory of famed Ukrainian opera singer Maria Sokil..."
- ^ [19] "following last Sunday's matinee performance and enthusiastically declared "Yes, I'm half Ukrainian."... he was Ukrainian on his mother's side. "My mother's maiden name was Bincarowski - I have no idea where the family came from in Ukraine - and my father's Irish. I think there may have been some Czech (ancestry) in my father's family - on his father's side - but I only found that out in the last six-seven years."
- ^ [20] "two-time Ukrainian Women's Champion and two-time Olympian WGM Anna Zatonskih..."
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