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This is a list of famous or notable Ukrainians or more broadly citizens of Ukraine (who may or may not be ethnic Ukrainians), persons who where born on the territory of present Ukraine and persons of other then the Ukrainian nationality who are of Ukrainian descent.

Contents 1 Academics 1.1 Biologists/Physicians 1.2 Chemists 1.3 Computer scientists 1.4 Doctors & Surgeons 1.5 Economists 1.6 Engineers 1.7 Historians 1.8 Mathematicians 1.9 Philosophers 1.10 Physicists 1.11 Other academics 2 Arts 2.1 Architects 2.2 Painters 2.3 Sculptors 3 Performing Arts 3.1 Actors/Actresses 3.2 Choreographers 3.3 Film and theatre directors 4 Musicians 4.1 Bandurists 4.2 Composers 4.3 Pianists 4.4 Strings 4.5 Conductors 4.6 Other 5 Singers 5.1 Opera 5.2 Pop singers and artists 5.3 Other performing artists 6 Literary Arts 6.1 Writers 6.2 Poets 6.3 Models 7 Business 8 Cosmonauts 9 Cossack Hetmans 10 Military Figures 11 Intelligence 12 Politicians 12.1 Ukrainian politicians 12.2 Zionists and Israeli politicians 12.3 Bolsheviks and Soviet politicians 12.4 Soviet dissidents 12.5 Russian politicians 12.6 Polish politicians 12.7 Bulgarian politicians 12.8 Czechoslovak politicians 12.9 German politicians 12.10 Italian politicians 12.11 French politicians 12.12 American politicians 12.13 Canadian politicians 12.14 Chinese politicians 12.15 Crimean Tatar politicians 13 Religious leaders and theologians 13.1 Orthodox Christian 13.2 Greek Catholic 13.3 Roman Catholic 13.4 Jewish 13.5 Others 14 Sport 14.1 Archery 14.2 Basketball 14.3 Boxing 14.4 Chess 14.5 Football (soccer) 14.6 Gymnastics 14.7 Ice Hockey 14.8 Track & Field 14.9 Tennis 14.10 Other Athletes 15 Other 16 See also 17 References

Academics

Biologists/Physicians

• Mykola Amosiv
• Oleksandr Bohomolets
• Tatiana Davydiva^{[citation needed]}
• Theodosius Dobzhansky
• Katherine Esau
• Volodymyr Filativ
• Waldemar Haffkine
• Dmytro Ivanovski
• Trofim Lysenko
• Ilya Mechnikov, microbiologist
• Roman Salasznyk^{[citation needed]}
• Svitlana P. Sydorenko^{[citation needed]}
• Vladimir Vernadsky, mineralogist, biochemist
• Danylo Zabolotny

Chemists

• Anatoly Babko
• George Kistiakowsky
• Ivan Horbachevsky
• Alexander Shchukariv, chemist, computer scientist^{[citation needed]}
• Sviatoslaw Trofimenko
• Boris Tyutyunnikiv^{[citation needed]}
• Selman Waksman, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1952)

Computer scientists

• Vyhtor Hlushkiv
• Serhei Lebediv, first programmable computer in Continental Europe
• Robert Tutwiler- Developed the second Ukrainian keyboard^{[citation needed]}

Doctors & Surgeons

• Volodymyr Filativ, ophthalmologist

Economists

• Myhailo Tuhan-Baranovsky
• Simon Kuznets, Nobel Prize (1971)
• Eugen Slutsky (1880-1948), Slutsky equation (born in Russian Empire, in the territory of Ukraine)

Engineers

• Oleg Antonov, aircraft designer
• Jacques Bogopolsky, movie cameras
• Volodymyr Chelomei, ballistic missile and spacecraft designer
• Valentyn Hlushko, engineer
• Mykola Holonyak, first visible diode
• Mykola Kybalchich, rocket science pioneer
• Yuri Kondratyuk, spaceflight pioneer
• Sergey Korolyov, first spacecraft designer
• Roman Kroitor
• Vladimir P. Koval, mechanical engineer^{[citation needed]}
• Volodymyr Mackiw, mining engineer
• Oleksandr A. Morozov, tank designer, patron of the Morozov Design Bureau
• Yevhen Paton, welding engineer
• Paul Salasznyk, PhD, industrial engineer
• Oleksandro Samakula, anti-reflective coating for optical lenses^{[citation needed]}
• Igor Sikorsky, inventor of helicopter
• Alexander Tetelbaum, computer engineer
• Stepan Tymoshenko, father of modern engineering mechanics

Historians

• Volodymyr Antonovych, pro-Western, also folklorist
• Olena Apanovich
• Mykola Chubaty ^[1]
• Dmytro Doroshenko
• Mykhailo Drahomaniv, also political emigre and folklorist
• Mykhailo Hetman, historian of mines^{[citation needed]}
• Mykhailo Hrushevsky, also pro-Western political leader
• Taras Hunczak
• Myron Korduba ^[2][3]
• Mykola Kostomariv, also literary historian, folklorist
• Borys Krupnytsky ^[4]
• Peter Loboda, researcher of Ancient Ukrainian Numismatics ^[5]
• 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
• Serhii Shelukhyn ^[6][7]
• Omeljan Pritsak, orientalist
• Volodymyr Stojko^{[citation needed]}
• Viktor Suvorov, spy and WWII researcher
• Stepan Tomashivsky ^[8]
• Dmytro Yavornytsky, Cossack historian, archeologist

Mathematicians

Main article Ukrainian mathematicians

• Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko
• Andriy Holeski
• Myron Hlynka Resume
• Mark Kac
• Volodymyr Semenovych Korolyuk
• Mykhailo Krawtchouk
• Yakiv Kulik
• Mark Krein
• Volodymyr Marchenko
• Mark Naimark
• Volodymyr Petryshyn
• Platon Poretsky
• Volodymyr Potapiv
• Anatoly Samoilenko
• Oleksandr Mikolaiovich Sharkovsky
• Samuil Shatunovsky
• Anatoliy Skorokhod
• Josif Shtokalo
• Ivan Sleszynski
• Pavlo Urysohn
• Mykhailo Vashchenko-Zakharchenko
• Volodymyr Veksler
• Naum Z. Shor

Philosophers

• Mykola Berdyaiv, Ukrainian pro-Western religious philosopher
• Lev Shestiv, Ukrainian existentialist philosopher, pro-democracy freedom thinker
• Hryhorii Skovoroda, philosopher, poet and composer

Physicists

• Mykola Boholyubov, theory of superconductivity, nonlinear mechanics
• Gersh Budker, nuclear physicist (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics)
• Georges Charpak, French physicist (Nobel Prize), born in East Galicia
• George Gamow, liquid drop model of atom nucleus
• Abram Ioffe, prominent Soviet physicist (Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute)
• Isaak Khalatnikiv, BKL conjecture in general relativity
• Leo Palatnik, thin film physics
• Mykola Pylchikiv, electronic photography
• Ivan Pulyui, discoverer of X-rays
• George Yuri Rainich, mathematical physicist
• Cyril Sinelnikiv, nuclear physicist

Other academics

• Mykola Andrusiv
• Albert Bandura
• Pavel Petrovich Blonsky
• Olgerd Bochkovsky, sociologist
• Vitaly Chernetsky, author and film scholar Amazon profile
• Isydore Hlynka
• Mykola Kholodny^{[citation needed]}
• Vikentiy Khvoyka
• Robert Klymasz, Ukrainian Canadian folklorist
• Bohdan S Kordan, political scientist^{[citation needed]}
• Robert Kravchuk, Professor & Chair of Political Science at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte.^{[citation needed]}
• Volodymyr Kubiyovych, geographer and encyclopedist
• Viktor Kyrpychov
• Volodymyr Levytsky^{[citation needed]}
• Yuri Linnik
• Lubomyr Luciuk, political geographer and community activist
• Anton Makarenko, Ukrainian and Soviet educator
• Georgii Pfeiffer^{[citation needed]}
• Wilhelm Reich, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, founding father of Ukrainian psychiatry, pro-Ukrainian freedom dissident
• Otto Struve, Ukrainian-Russian-American astronomer
• Evhen Tsybulenko (b. 1972), professor of international law
• Pavlo Tutkovsky see National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• Fedir Vovk, anthropologist and ethnographer
• Stephen Rudnitsky, academician, geographer and ethnographer^{[citation needed]}

Arts

Architects

• Ivan Hryhorovych-Barskyi
• Marian Peretyatkovich
• Volodymyr Sichynskyi

Painters

• Ivan Aivazovsky, Ukrainian painter, famous for his seascapes
• Nathan Altman, painter and stage designer from Vynytsia
• Marie Bashkirtseff, artist
• Oleksandro Bogomaziv, Avant-garde artist
• Volodymyr Borovykovsky, painter
• Mykhaylo Boychuk
• Robert Brackman
• Mykola Burachek
• David Burliuk, Avante-garde painter, Ukrainian freedom thinker
• Volodymyr Burliuk, Avant-garde artist, pro-Western freedom thinker
• Louis Choris
• Mychajlo Dmytrenko
• Oleksandra Ekster, Avant-garde artist
• Nina Genke-Meller, Avant-garde artist
• Maurice Gottlieb, Polish painter
• Dmytro Hrygorovich
• Mykola Hlushchenko
• Jacques Hnizdovsky
• Tatiana Holembievska
• Oleksandro Khvostenko-Khvostov, Avant-garde stage designer
• Pyotr Konchalovsky, painter
• Vasyl Krychevsky
• Fedir Krychevsky
• Dmytro Levitzky, painter
• Akym Levych
• Ephraim Moses Lilien, German-Jewish painter
• Anton Losenko
• Abram Manevich, painter
• Ivan Marchuk, modern painter
• Vadym Meller, avant-garde artist, stage designer
• Ludimilla Morozova
• Oleksandr Murashko
• Heorhiy Narbut
• Solomon Nikritin, painter, Avant-garde artist
• Nykifor, primitivist painter
• Vyhtor Palmiv, painter, Avant-garde artist
• Maria Pryimachenko
• Kliment Red'ko, painter, Avant-garde artist
• Ilya Repin, painter
• Issachar Rybak, painter
• Bruno Schulz, painter and writer
• Zynaida Serebriakiva, painter
• Volodymyr Sichynskyi, architect, graphic artist
• Opanas Slastion, folklorist, designer of modern type of bandura
• Anton Solomoukha
• Ivan Soshenko, painter
• Volodymyr Sosnivsky
• David Shterenberg, painter from Zhitomir
• Sergei Sviatchenko, (1952-)
• Volodymyr Tatlin, Avant-garde artist
• Sonia Terk, Avant-garde artist
• Roman Turovsky-Savchuk
• Mykhailo Turovsky
• Andriy Varhol, major figure in the pop art movement, pro-Western Ukrainian freedom fighter
• Tetyana Yablonska, modern painter
• Vasiliy Yermilov, Avant-garde artist
• Ivan Yizhakevych

Sculptors

• Oleksandro Orhipenko, U.S. sculptor and graphic artist
• Victor Konoval
• Anatoly Kushch
• Oleh Pinchuk
• Mykola Syadristy
• Vladimir Tatlin
• Volodymyr Baraniv-Rossyn
• Valentyn Znoba

Performing Arts

Actors/Actresses

• Elisabeth Bergner - Austrian-English actress
• Elina Bystritskaya
• Vera Farmiga
• Luba Goy
• Lyudmila Hurchenko
• John Hodiak
• Milla Jovovich
• Roman Kartsiv
• Vera Kholodnaya
• Olga Krasko
• Olga Kurylenko
• Mila Kunis (That 70's Show)
• Vasily Lanovoy
• Ana Layevska
• Mike Mazurki
• Ivan Mykolaychuk
• Alla Nazimiv
• Jack Palance (Volodymyr Palahnyuk)
• Zhanna Prokhorenko
• Ada Rohovtsiv
• Yakov Smirnoff
• Lee Strasberg
• Bohdan Stupka
• Maria Zankovetska
• Nicholas Britt

Choreographers

• Vasyl Avramenko
• Yaroslav Chuperchuk
• Olexandr Dmytrenko
• Leonid Kalinin
• Anatoliy Krivokhyzha
• Olga Lepeshinskaya
• Roma Pryma-Bohachevsky
• Anatoly Shekera, National Opera House of Ukraine
• Myroslav Vantukh
• Kim Vasylenko
• Vasyl Verkhovynets
• Pavlo Virsky, Virsky Ukrainian dance company
• Maksim Chmerkovskiy,professional dancer on the American Dancing With the Stars
• Karina Smirnoff,professional dancer on the American Dancing With the Stars

Film and theatre directors

• Sergei Bondarchuk
• Leonid Bykiv
• Grigori Chukhrai
• Alexander Dovzhenko
• Edward Dmytryk
• Yuri Klimenko, cinematographer
• Les Kurbas
• Anatole Litvak
• Paul Mazursky
• Roman Viktyuk

Musicians

Bandurists

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

Composers

• Virko Baley
• Vasyl Barvinsky
• Maksym Berezovsky
• Matvei Blanter, Ukrainian composer, author of Katyusha
• Dmytro Bortniansky
• Marusia Churai
• Konstantin Dankevich
• Stepan Degtiariv
• Mykola Diletsky
• Isaak Dunayevsky, author of numerous popular Soviet songs
• Lesia Dytchko
• Arkady Filippenko
• Reinhold Glière
• Rynold Hlyer
• Leonid Hrabovsky
• Semen Hulak-Artemovsky
• Andrei Hnatyshyn
• Volodymyr Ivasyuk
• Dmytro Klebaniv
• Levko Kolodub
• Oleksander Koshetz
• Evgeni Kostitsyn, composer after whom the Ukrainian Composers' Competition is named
• Mykola Leontovych
• Zara Levina
• Boris Lyatoshynsky
• Mykola Lysenko
• Ruslana Lyzhichko
• Ihor Markevytch
• Yuli Meitus
• Yuriy Oliynyk
• Mykola Ovsianiko-Kulikovsky
• Sergei Prokofiev, one of the greatest Ukrainian composers of the 20th century
• Levko Revutsky
• Mykola Andriyvych Roslavits
• Aleksandr Shymko
• Denys Sichynsky
• Valentyn Silvestriv
• Myroslav Skoryk
• Yevhen Stankovych
• Kyrylo Stetsenko
• Roman Turovsky-Savchuk
• Artemy Vedel
• Mykhailo Verbytsky, composer of the National Anthem of Ukraine
• Mykola Vilinsky
• Yakiv Yatsynevych

Pianists

• Simon Barere, pianist
• Felix Blumenfeld, pianist
• Shura Cherkassky, pianist
• Emil Gilels, pianist
• Vladimir Horowitz, pianist
• Lubka Kolessa, pianist
• Valentina Lisitsa, pianist
• Benno Moiseiwitsch, pianist
• Evgeni Kostitsyn, pianist and composer
• Leo Sirota, pianist
• Sviatoslav Richter, pianist

Strings

• Yuri Bashmet, viola soloist
• Mischa Elman, violinist
• Emanuel Feuermann, cellist (born in Austrian Galicia)
• Pawlo Humeniuk - violinist / fiddler
• Leonid Kogan, violinist
• Nathan Milstein, violinist
• David Oistrakh, violinist
• Igor Oistrakh, violinist
• Steven Staryk, violinist
• Isaac Stern, violinist

Conductors

• Jascha Horenstein, conductor
• Theodore Kuchar, Conductor, National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine

Other

• Borys Kotanski, Model
• Volodymyr (Vlad) DeBriansky, guitarist, producer, composer, songwriter
• George Douglas
• Michael Frimenko, American bass player
• Eugene Hütz (Gogol Bordello), singer, guitarist, banger of buckets, world-famous founding father of Ukrainian entertainment, pro-Western freedom fighter
• Ruslana Lyzhichko, pianist, singer, pro-Western pro-democracy dissident, greatest world-famous Ukrainian singer, dancer, composer, producer, songwriter, conductor

• Leo Ornstein, composer
• George Shakhnevich, accordionist
• Paul Stetsenko, organist
• Irina Vilinskaia (Vilinska), professor of vocal, composer
• Olexandro Vynograd
• Rostislaw Wygranienko
• Alexiz labelle, drummer

Singers

Opera

• Andrij Dobriansky, bass-baritone
• Pavlo Hunka, bass-baritone
• Ivan Kozlovsky, tenor
• Oksana Krovytska, soprano
• Solomiya Krushelnytska, mezzo-soprano
• Ivan Patorzhynsky, bass
• Maria Sokil, soprano
• Anatoly Solovyanenko, lyric tenor

Pop singers and artists

• Kvitka Cisyk, singer
• Katya Chilly, singer
• Taras Chubay, bard
• Anthony Fedoriv, American Ukrainian pop singer
• Iosif Kobzon, iconic Soviet crooner, anti-Western
• Ani Lorak, singer, distinguished pro-Western singer, pro-Ukrainian freedom dissident and runner-up of the 2008 Eurovision contest
• Ruslana Lyzhichko, pop singer, composer, songwriter, conductor, dancer, record producer, pro-Western, famous Ukrainian singer and winner of the 2004 Eurovision contest.
• Verka Serduchka (Adriy Danylko), singer and runner-up of the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest
• Yuri Shevchuk, bard, born of Ukrainian father
• Theresa Sokyrka, Canadian Idol 2 runner-up
• Nissan Spivak, the world-famous Ukrainian cantor
• Stereoliza (Katya Shalayeva), singer
• Leonyd Utyosiv, Ukrainian jazz singer
• Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, singer, European-style democracy supporter, pro-Western
• Alexander Vertinsky, Ukrainian singer and composer
• Velvel Zbarjer, singer
• Tina Karol, singer

Other performing artists

• Juliya Chernetsky
• Stefania Dovhan
• Iryna Dvorovenko
• Serge Lifar one of the greatest male ballet dancers of the 20th century
• Maria Guleghina
• Alla Korot
• Alex Magic (Ukrainian Magician)
• Ian Pikula
• Alex Trebek (Ukrainian father)
• William Tytla

Literary Arts

Writers

• Shmuel Agnon, a world-famous eminent Israeli Hebrew writer, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (1966), born in Buchach
• Sholom Aleichem, world-famous distinguished Ukrainian writer in Yiddish language, born in Pereyaslav
• Yuri Andrukhovych, born in Ivano-Frankivsk
• Isaac Babel, world-famous Ukrainian writer in Russian language, born in Odessa
• Aleksei Bibik, working-class writer(1878-1976)
• Levko Borovykovsky
• Mikhail Bulgakov, novelist in Russian language
• Marko Cheremshyna
• Joseph Conrad, world-famous Polish writer in English language, born in Berdichiv
• Raya Dunayevskaya, Marxist humanist, anti-Western, mafia-connected
• Ilya Ehrenburg, Ukrainian publicist and writer in Russian language, born in Kiev
• Hryhorii Epik, writer, journalist
• Jan Galka
• Nikolai Gogol, Ukrainian writer in Russian language, born in Velyki Sorochyntsi
• Daniil Granin
• Vasily Grossman
• Yakiv Holovatskyi
• Oles Honchar, author of The Cathedral
• Yevhen Hrebinka
• Yevhen Hutsalo
• Ilya Ilf, world-famous Ukrainian humorist in Russian language, co-author of The Twelve Chairs
• Adrian Kashchenko
• Valentyn Kataiv, Russian novelist and pro-Western and pro-Ukrainian dissident
• Mykola Khvylovy
• Olha Kobylyanska
• Levko Kopeliv, author and dissident
• Oleksandr Korniychuk, dramatist
• Mykola Kostomariv, distinguished Ukrainian writer and historian, supporter of pro-Western orientation of Ukraine
• Ivan Kotlyarevsky, playwright
• Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky
• Marko Kropyvnytsky, actor, stage director, playwright, and composer
• Mykola Kulish, dramatist
• Panteleymon Kulish
• Andryi Kurkiv
• Hryhori Kvitka
• Clarice Lispector
• Oleksandra Marynyna
• Les Martovych
• Amvrosii Metlynsky, poet, writer
• Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky
• Viktor Nekrasov, Ukrainian writer pro-Western and pro-Ukrainian dissident
• Yuri Nikitin, Russian science fiction and fantasy writer
• Yuri Nikitin, Ukrainian trampolinist
• Bohdan Osadchuk
• Chuck Palahniuk, American satirical novelist (Ukrainian father)
• Sofia Parfanovych
• Mykhailo Pavlyk
• Viktor Petrov
• Yevhen Petriv, Ukrainian humorist in Russian language, co-author of The Twelve Chairs, pro-Western and pro-Ukrainian dissident
• Valerian Pidmohylny, novelist
• Les Podervianskiy, satirist and playwright, pro-Western and pro-Ukrainian dissident
• Yuri Pokalchuk
• Anna Politkovskaya, writer and journalist, world-famous eminent pro-Western freedom and democracy defender and advocate
• Jan Potocki, Count, a world-famous Polish writer in French language, born and died in Ukraine
• Valentyn Rechmedin, writer, journalist
• Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer, author of Venus in Furs, pro-Western and pro-Ukrainian dissident
• Markiyan Shashkevych
• Hryhoriy Skovoroda, poet, writer, philosopher
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer, had Ukrainian mother
• Mykhaylo Starytsky
• Vasyl Stefanyk
• Mykhaylo Stelmakh
• Ivan Tobilevich
• Olha Tokarczuk, Polish writer, pro-Western and pro-Ukrainian dissident
• Ivan Vahylevych
• Marko Vovchok
• Volodymyr Vynnychenko
• Ostap Vyshnia
• Natan Ilyich Zabara
• Pavlo Zahrebelnyi
• Marya Zaturenska
• Mykola Zeriv
• Mykhailo Zhvanetskiy, Russian humorist, pro-Western and pro-Ukrainian dissident

Poets

• Anna Akhmativ, Ukrainian poet in Russian language, pro-Western and pro-Ukrainian dissident
• Bohdan-Ihor Antonych
• Eduard Bagritsky
• Mikola Bazhan
• Hayyim Nahman Bialik, modern Hebrew Ukrainian poet, national poet of the State of Israel
• Itzik Feffer, Soviet poet in Yiddish language
• Moysey Fishbeyn, Ukrainian poet in Yiddish language
• Ivan Franko
• Alexander Galich, Soviet bard in Russian language, pro-Western and pro-Ukrainian dissident
• Lina Kostenko
• Dmytro Pavlychko
• Markiyan Shashkevych
• Taras Shevchenko, the most world-famous Ukrainian poet
• Vasyl Stus
• Vasyl Symonenko
• Olena Teliha
• Pavlo Tychyna
• Maksym Rylsky
• Lesya Ukrainka
• Volodymyr Yavorivsky

Models

• Vera Basistyy
• Natalia Chabanenko
• Viktoria Foxx
• Natalia Gotsiy
• Stan Jouk
• Mariya Markina
• Snejana Onopka - Ukrainian model born in Sievierodonetsk
• Alyona Osmanova
• Nataliya Piro
• Viktoriya Sasonkina
• Lera Sheremeta
• Masha Tylena
• Daria Werbowy - Polish-born Canadian model of Ukrainian descent.
• Victoria Zdrok

Business

• Rynat Akhmetov, Ukraine's richest man (Ukrainian mother)
• Martin Chase, founder of Ann & Hope Department Stores
• Mykhailo Fridman, Ukrainian oligarch, billionaire, pro-Western
• Petro Jacyk, community benefactor
• Maksym Levchyn, co-founder of PayPal, pro-Western dissident
• Viktor Pinchuk, Ukraine's second-richest man, son-in-law of Leonid Kuchma
• Petro Poroshenko, confectionery baron, close confidant of Viktor Yushchenko
• Jay Pritzker, founder of Hyatt and philanthropist
• Alexandre Stavisky, French financier
• Vyhtor Veksylberh, Ukrainian oligarch, billionaire (Ukrainian father)
• John Zubal, founder of Zubal Books

Cosmonauts

Many cosmonauts of the Soviet Union and modern Russia were ethnic Ukrainians or come from Ukraine. See Category:Ukrainian cosmonauts for the full list.

• Georgi Beregovoi
• Leonid Kadeniuk, earlier a Soviet cosmonaut, made the first manned spaceflight of the National Space Agency of Ukraine.
• Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper for NASA

Cossack Hetmans

• Predslav Lanckoronsky (1506-1512) one of the first Hetmans of Ukrainian Cossacks
• Ostap Dashkevych (1514-1535)
• Dmytro Vyshnevetsky (1550-1563)
• Ivan Svirgovsky (1567-1674)
• Ivan Pidkova (1577-1578), Cossack hetman and Hospodar of Moldavia
• Ivan Orishevsky (1579–1591)
• Kryshtof Kosynsky (1591-1593)
• Hryhory Loboda (1593-1596)
• Severyn Nalyvaiko (1596)
• Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny (1614-1622) Hetman of Zaporozhian Cossacks
• Mykhailo Doroshenko (1623-1628)
• Hryhoriy Chorny (1628-1630), elected by Registered Cossacks
• Taras Fedorovych (1629–1630), elected by unregistered Cossacks
• Ivan Sulyma (1630-1635)
• Dmytro Hunia (1638)
• Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1648–1657) the first Hetman of the Cossack Hetmanate
• Ivan Vyhovsky (1657-1659) second Hetman of the Cossack Hetmanate
• Yurii Khmelnytsky (1659-1663) third Hetman of the Cossack Hetmanate, and (1677-1681 and 1685) in the Right-bank Ukraine
• Pavlo Teteria (1663-1665) in the Right-bank Ukraine
• Ivan Briukhovetsky (1663-1668) in the Left-bank Ukraine
• Petro Doroshenko (1665-1676) in the Right-bank Ukraine and (1668-1669) in the Left-bank Ukraine
• Demian Mnohohrishny (1669-1672) in the Left-bank Ukraine
• Mykhailo Khanenko (1669-1674) in the Right-bank Ukraine
• Ivan Samoylovych (1672-1687) in the Left-bank Ukraine
• Ivan Mazepa (1687-1708) in the Left-bank Ukraine, and (1708-1709) in the Right-bank Ukraine
• Pylyp Orlyk (1710-1742) in exile
• Ivan Skoropadsky (1708-1722) in the Left-bank Ukraine
• Pavlo Polubotok (1722-1724) served as Acting Hetman of the Left-bank Ukraine
• Danylo Apostol (1727-1734) in the Left-bank Ukraine
• Kyrylo Rozumovsky (1750-1764) in the Left-bank Ukraine
• Petro Kalnyshevsky (1765-1775) the last Koshovyi Otaman of the Zaporozhian Cossacks

Military Figures

• Roman Abraham, general of the Polish Army
• Marko Bezruchko, general of the Ukrainian People's Army
• Petro Dyachenko, general of the Ukrainian National Army
• Nikifor Grigoriev, ataman and leader of a Ukrainian insurgent "Green Army"
• Vylhelm Habsburh, Austrian archduke, colonel of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen
• Andriy Hrechko, Marshal of the Soviet Union
• Oleksander Hrekov, commander-in-chief of the army of the West Ukrainian National Republic
• Alfred Jansa, Austrian Major General
• Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski, general of the Polish Army
• Dmytro Klyachkivsky, commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army
• Ivan Kozhedub, legendary fighter pilot of WWII, top USSR ace
• Roman Kondratenko, Lieutenant General of Russian Imperial Army, defender of Port Arthur during Russo-Japanese war
• Yevhen Konovalets, pro-Western style democracy OUN Military Leader
• Filip Konowal, Ukrainian Canadian war hero (Victoria Cross, 1917)
• Petr Koshevoi, Marshal of the Soviet Union
• Zenon Kossak, OUN Military Leader
• Vasyl Kuk, commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army
• Grigory Kulik, Marshal of the Soviet Union
• Nestor Makhno, commander of "Black Army"
• Alexander Marinesko, Legendary Sub Commander in WWII
• Rodion Malinovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union
• Kirill Moskalenko, Marshal of the Soviet Union
• Mykhailo Omelianovych-Pavlenko, general, commader of the Ukrainian Galician Army and Ukrainian People's Army
• Bohdan Panchuk, organizer of Ukrainian Canadian Servicmens Association and Central Ukrainian Relief Bureau in WW II
• Ivan Paskevich, field marshal of the Russian imperial army
• Alexander Pechersky, Soviet officer, leader of the Uprising in Sobibor extermination camp (1943)
• Alfred Redl, Austrian counter-intelligence officer
• Jakob Rosenfeld, general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army
• Pavlo Shandruk, general of the Ukrainian National Army
• Stanislav Sheptytsky, general of the Polish Army
• Roman Shukhevych, the leader of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army
• Roman Sushko, Colonel of the Ukrainian Legion
• Semyon Timoshenko, Marshal of the Soviet Union
• Mykola Tsybulenko, Major General
• Dmytro Vitovsky, Colonel of the Ukrainian Galician Army
• Kliment Voroshilov, Marshal of the Soviet Union
• Andrei Yeremenko, Marshal of the Soviet Union

Intelligence

• Yakov Blumkin
• Jack Childs
• Morris Childs
• Jacob Golos
• Walter Krivitsky
• Genrikh Lyushkov
• Jakob Rudnik
• Nathan Gregory Silvermaster
• Viktor Suvorov
• Mark Zborowski

Politicians

Ukrainian politicians

• Dmytro Antonovych, Minister of naval affairs, and of arts of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1917-1918 and 1918/19)
• Volodymyr Bahaziy, head of Kiev City Administration under German occupation (October 1941 - January 1942)
• Ivan Bahrianyi, President (acting) of the UNR in exile (1965-1967)
• Stepan Bandera, leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B)
• Oleksander Barvinsky, leader of the Christian Social Movement in Ukraine
• Vyacheslav Chornovil, leader of the People's Movement of Ukraine
• Dmytro Dontsiv, Ukrainian nationalist writer, publisher, journalist and political thinker
• Dmytro Doroshenko, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Hetmanate (1918)
• Sydir Holubovych, Prime Minister of the West Ukrainian National Republic (1919)
• Vsevolod Holubovych, Prime Minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1918)
• Mykhaylo Hrushevsky, President of the Ukrainian People's Republic
• Stepan Klochurak, Prime Minister of the Hutsul Republic (1919)
• Yevhen Konovalets, leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (1929-1938)
• Leonyd Kravchuk, President of Ukraine (1991-1994)
• Volodymyr Kubiyovych, geographer and politician (Ukrainian Central Committee)
• Leonyd Kuchma, President of Ukraine (1994-2005)
• Dmytro Levytsky, head of the Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance (UNDO) (1925-1935)
• Kost Levytsky, Prime Minister of the West Ukrainian National Republic
• Andriy Livytskyi, President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1926-1954).
• Mykola Livytskyi, President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1967-1989).
• Vyacheslav Lypynsky, a leader of the Ukrainian Democratic-Agrarian Party
• Nestor Makhno, leader of anarchists
• Isaak Mazepa, Prime Minister of 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 Ukrainian People's Republic
• Yevhen Petrushevych, President of the West Ukrainian National Republic
• Mykola Plaviuk, President of Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1989–1992)
• Vyacheslav Prokopovych, Prime Minister of Ukrainian People's Republic (1920, 1921, 1926-1939)
• Pavlo Skoropadsky, Hetman of Ukraine or head of the Hetmanate (1918)
• Yaroslav Stetsko, a leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement
• Slava Stetsko, a leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement
• Kyryl Studynsky, a head of the People's Assembly of Western Ukraine (1939)
• Borys Tarasyuk, Minister for Foreign Affairs (1998-2000 and 2005-2007)
• Yulia Tymoshenko, Prime Minister of Ukraine (2007 - present)
• Anatole Vakhnianyn, a leader of the Christian Social Movement in Ukraine
• Avhustyn Voloshyn, President of Carpatho-Ukraine (1939)
• Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Prime Minister of Ukrainian People's Republic, writer
• Stepan Vytvytskyi, President of Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1954–1965)
• Serhiy Yefremov, deputy head of the Central Rada (1917)
• Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine (2005 - present)
• Viktor Yanukovych, Prime Minister of Ukraine (2002-2004, 2006-2007)

Zionists and Israeli politicians

• Chaim Arlosoroff, Zionist activist, leader of Mapai
• Daniel Auster, first Hebrew mayor of Jerusalem
• Levi Eshkol, 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
• Holda Meyr, prime minister of Israel
• Leon Pinsker, Zionist activist, leader of the Hovevei Zion
• Natan Sharansky, Soviet human rights activist and Israeli politician
• Moshe Sharett, prime minister of Israel
• Shevah Weiss, Israeli lawman and Labor party politician, speaker of the Kneset
• Simon Wiesenthal, hunter of Nazis

Bolsheviks and Soviet politicians

• Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader, General Secretary (1964-1982}
• Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet leader, General Secretary (1984-1985)
• Vlas Chubar, Soviet politician
• Yakov Gamarnik, Soviet politician
• Semyon Ignatyev, Soviet politician
• Adolph Joffe, Soviet diplomat
• Lazar Kaganovich, Soviet politician
• Mykyta Khruschev, Soviet leader, General Secretary (1953-1964)
• Stanislav Kosior, leader of the Communist Party (Bolshevik) of Ukraine (1919-1920 and 1928-1938)
• Emanuel Kviring, Bolshevik politician
• Solomon Lozovsky, Bolshevik politician
• Panas Lyubchenko, Bolshevik politician
• Dmitry Manuilsky, Bolshevik politician
• Lev Mekhlis, Soviet politician
• Mykola Podhorny, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (1965-1977)
• 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)
• Mykola Skrypnyk, Ukrainian Bolshevik leader
• Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, leader of the Communist Party of Ukraine (1972-1989)
• Oleksander Shumsky, Bolshevik politician
• Leon Trotsky, leading Bolshevik revolutionary, founder of the Red Army
• Moisei Uritsky, Bolshevik revolutionary
• Andrey Vyshinsky, Soviet politician
• Volodymyr Zatonsky, Bolshevik politician
• Grigory Zinoviev, Bolshevik revolutionary

Soviet dissidents

• Vyacheslav Chornovil
• Vasily Grossman
• Mykola Horbal
• Petro Hryhorenko
• Vitaliy Kalynychenko
• Ivan Kandyba
• Lev Kopelev
• Sergei Kovalev
• Yaroslav Lesiv
• Eduard Limonov
• Levko Lukyanenko
• Valeriy Marchenko
• Myroslav Marynovych
• Natan Sharansky
• Danylo Shumuk
• Vasyl Stus
• Nadiya Svitlychna
• Yosyf Zisels

Russian politicians

• 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 Yavlinsky, liberal economist

Polish politicians

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

Bulgarian politicians

• Christian Rakovsky, communist politician

Czechoslovak politicians

• František Kriegel, communist politician

German politicians

• Emanuel Kwiring, communist politician

Italian politicians

• Angelica Balabanoff, communist politician

French politicians

• Pierre Eugène Bérégovoy, Prime Minister of France

American politicians

• Kirill Reznik

Canadian politicians

• Ramon John Hnatyshyn
• Stephen Juba
• Yuri Shymko
• Andrew Witer

Chinese politicians

• Jakob Rosenfeld

Crimean Tatar politicians

• Noman Çelebicihan
• İsmail Gaspıralı
• Mustafa Abdülcemil Qırımoğlu

Religious leaders and theologians

Orthodox Christian

• Hiob Boretsky, Orthodox metropolitan of Kiev (1620-1631)
• Gregory Bulgar, metropolitan of Kiev (1458-1472)
• Gregory Camblak, metropolitan of Kiev (1415-1419)
• Dymytriy (Yarema), Patriarch of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (1993-2000)
• Hilarion of Kiev, the first native Rus metropolitan of Kiev (ca.1051-ca.1054)
• Saint John of Tobolsk, Orthodox metropolitan of Tobolsk (1711-1715)
• Sylvester Kossov, Orthodox metropolitan of Kiev (1647-1657)
• Saint Maxim-Gorlitsky, Orthodox priest, martyr
• Saint Mother Maria (Skobtsova), Eastern Orthodox nun, martyr
• Saint Petro Mohyla, Orthodox metropolitan of Kiev (1632-1647)
• Mefodiy (Kudryakov), metropolitan of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (2000-present)
• Mstyslav (Stepan Skrypnyk), Patriarch of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (1990-1993)
• Theophan Prokopovich, vice-president of the Orthodox Holy Synod
• Patriarch Volodomyr (Romaniuk), the Patriarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kiev Patriarchy.
• Kliment Smolatych, metropolitan of Kiev (1147-1155)
• Saint Dmytrij (Danylo Tuptalo) of Rostov, Orthodox Saint
• Vasyl (Lypkivsky), first metropolitan of Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (1921-1937)
• 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, the first Greek Catholic metropolitan of Lviv (1808-1814)
• Blessed Nykyta Budka, the first Ukrainian Canadian Greek-Catholic bishop (1912-1927)
• Josafat Bulhak, head of the Greek Catholic Church in Russia (1817-1838)
• Maxim Hermaniuk, the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Archbishop of Winnipeg (1956-1992)
• Josaphata Hordashevska, Greek Catholic nun
• Vasyl Hrynyk, General Vicar for the Greek Catholics in Poland (1967-1977)
• Lubomyr Husar, cardinal, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (2001-present), Major Archbishop of Kiev and Halych (2005-present)
• Lev Kishka, Greek Catholic metropolitan of Kiev (1714-1728)
• Blessed Gregory Khomyshyn, Greek Catholic bishop of Stanislav, martyr (1947)
• Blessed Josafat Kotsylovsky, Greek Catholic bishop of Peremyshl, martyr (1947)
• 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)
• Ipatij Potyj, Greek Catholic metropolitan of Kiev (1600-1613)
• Mykhailo Rahoza, Greek Catholic metropolitan of Kiev (1596-1599)
• Teodor Rostotsky, Greek Catholic metropolitan of Kiev (1788-1805)
• Josyf Veliamyn Rutsky, Greek Catholic metropolitan of Kiev (1613-1637)
• Josyf Sembratovich, Greek Catholic Archbishop of Lviv (1870-1882)
• Sylvester Sembratovich, cardinal (1894), Greek Catholic Archbishop of Lviv (1882-1898)
• 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.
• Atanazy Sheptytsky, Greek Catholic bishop of Lviv (1715-1746), and metropolitan of Kiev (1728-1746)
• Bazyl Sheptytsky, Greek Catholic bishop of Lviv (1708-1715)
• Blessed Klymentiy Sheptytskyi, Greek Catholic Exarch of Russia and Siberia (1939), Archimandrite of the Studites (1944), martyr (1951), died in GULAG, victimized by Soviets for being Ukrainian
• Lev Sheptytsky, Greek Catholic bishop of Lviv (1748-1779) and metropolitan of Kiev (1778-1779)
• Josyf Shumlansky, Greek Catholic bishop of Lviv (1700-1708)
• Josyf Slipyj, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (1944-1984)
• Jazon Smogozhevsky, Greek Catholic metropolitan of Kiev (1780-1788)
• Meletius Smotrytsky, Ruthenian religious activist and author
• Stefan Soroka, Ukrainian Greek Catholic archbishop of Philadelphia
• Innocent Vinnitzki, the first Greek Catholic bishop of Przemysl (1691-1700)
• Filip Volodkovich, Greek Catholic metropolitan of Kiev (1762-1778)
• Ihor Voznak, Greek Catholic Archbishop of Lviv (2005-present)

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)
• Saint 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)
• Bogusław Radoszewski, Bishop of Kiev (Latin rite, 1618-1633)
• Kajetan Sołtyk, Bishop of Kiev (1756-1759), then Bishop of Cracow (1759-1788)
• Józef Andrzej Załuski, Bishop of Kiev (1759-1774)

Jewish

• Jacob Avigdor, last Chief Rabbi of Drohobych
• Moshe Reuven Azman, the Chabad chief Rabbi of Ukraine
• Yaakov Dov Bleich, Chief Rabbi of Ukraine and Kiev (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) (1817-1855)
• Yehoshua Rokeach, second rebbe of Belz (1857-1894)
• Yissachar Dov Rokeach (I), third rebbe of Belz (1894-1926)
• Aharon Rokeach, fourth rebbe of Belz (1926-1957)
• 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

• Emirali Ablayev, Mufti of the Crimean Muslims
• Muhammad Asad, Jewish religious writer who converted to Islam, Pakistani diplomat
• Helena Blavatsky, founder of Theosophy
• Abraham Kefeli, 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)
• Christopher Ondusky, archer
• Megan Ondusky, archer
• Kateryna Palekha, archer
• Viktor Ruban, archer (Olympic bronze - team)
• Oleksandr Serdyuk, archer (Olympic bronze - team)

Basketball

• Viktor Khryapa, basketball player
• Slava Medvedenko, basketball player
• Oleksiy Pecherov, basketball player
• Vitaly Potapenko, basketball player

Boxing

• Taras Bidenko, boxer
• Alexander Dimitrenko, boxer champion
• Volodymyr Klychko, boxer champion
• Vitaliy Klychko, 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, Kiev Champion (1900, 1902, 1903, 1906)
• Louis Eisenberg
• Alexander Evensohn, Kiev 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
• 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, Kiev 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
• Isaac Lipnitsky, Ukrainian Champion (1949, 1956)
• Moishe Lowtzky
• Vladimir Malaniuk, Ukrainian Champion (1980, 1981, 1986)
• Adrian Mikhalchishin
• Illya 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)
• Nicolas Rossolimo
• Iosif Rudakovsky
• Ludmila Rudenko, Women's World Champion (1950-1953)
• Nikoly Rudnev
• Yuri Sakharov, Ukrainian Champion (1966, 1968)
• Volodymyr 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)
• Volodymyr Tukmakiv, Ukrainian Champion (1970)
• Myroslav Turiansky, Champion of Western Ukraine (1943 - jointly)
• 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

Football (soccer)

• Igor Belanov, footballer, Ballon d'or (1986)
• Oleg Blokhin, footballer, Ballon d'or (1975)
• Walter Chyzowych, footballer, football coach
• Valeriy Lobanovs'kyi, football coach
• Oleh Luzhny, footballer
• Serhiy Rebrov, footballer
• Andriy Shevchenko, footballer, Ballon d'or (2004)
• Oleksandr Shovkovsky, footballer
• Anatoliy Tymoschuk, footballer
• Andriy Voronin, footballer
• Andriy Polunin,footballer
• Timerlan Huseinov,footballer
• Yuri Maximov,footballer
• Ivan Getsko,footballer
• Viktor Leonenko,footballer
• Yuri Kalitvintsev, footballer
• Artem Yashkin,footballer
• Vitaliy Kosovsky, footballer
• Oleksandr Aliev, footballer
• Artem Milevskiy, footballer
• Viktor Skrypnyk, footballer
• Volodymyr Mykytyn, footballer
• Yevhen Pokhlebayev, footballer
• Oleg Iachtchouk, footballer
• Yevhen Lutsenko, footballer
• Dema Kovalenko, footballer
• Serhiy Serebrennikov, footballer
• Serhiy Kandaurov, footballer
• Yevgeny Levchenko, footballer
• Sergey Shcherbakov, footballer
• Oleh Suslov, footballer
• Serhiy Skachenko, footballer
• Oleksandr Holovko, footballer
• Vladyslav Vashchuk, footballer
• Andriy Husin, footballer
• Dmytro Parfenov, footballer
• Maksym Kalynychenko, footballer
• Serhiy Nazarenko, footballer
• Ruslan Rotan, footballer
• Oleg Salenko, footballer
• Olexandr Gorshkov, footballer
• Serhiy Popov, footballer

Gymnastics

• Iryna Deriugina, gymnast
• Maria Gorokhovskaya, gymnast (2 Olympic golds)
• Tatyana Gutsu, gymnast (Olympic gold)
• Lilia Podkopayeva, gymnast (Olympic gold)
• Larissa Latynina, gymnast (9 Olympic golds)
• Kateryna Serebrians'ka, gymnast (Olympic gold)
• Oxana Skaldina, gymnast (Olympic bronze)
• Olexandra Tymoshenko, gymnast (Olympic gold)
• Olena Vitrychenko, gymnast (Olympic bronze)
• Roman Zozulya, gymnast

Ice Hockey

• Ruslan Fedotenko, ice hockey player
• Orest Kindrachuk, ice hockey player
• Alexei Ponikarovsky, hockey player
• Terry Sawchuk, hockey player
• Denis Shvidki, hockey player
• Vitaly Vishnevsky, ice hockey player
• Alexei Zhitnik, ice hockey player
• Nikolai Zherdev, ice hockey player
• Vicky Sunohara, ice hockey player

Track & Field

• Valeri Borzov, sprinter (2 Olympic golds)
• Serhiy Bubka, pole vault legend (Olympic gold), numerous world records
• Inessa Kravets, jumper (world record in triple jump)
• Volodymyr Kuts, long distance runner (2 Olympic golds)
• Serhiy Lebid, long distance runner (8-time winner of European Cross Country championships)
• Zhanna Pintusevych-Blok, sprinter (World Championship gold)
• Tamara & Irina Press, sister athletes (5 Olympic golds in total)

Tennis

• Alyona Bondarenko, tennis player
• Kateryna Bondarenko, tennis player
• Mariya Koryttseva, tennis player
• Andriy Medvedev, tennis player
• Tatiana Perebiynis, tennis player
• Olga Savchuk, tennis player
• Julia Vakulenko, tennis player
• Maryna Zanevska, tennis player (winner of the 2009 US Open - Girls' Doubles)

Other Athletes

• Oksana Baiul, figure skater (Olympic gold)
• Yana Klochkova, swimmer (4 Olympic golds)
• Lenny Krayzelburg, swimmer (now U.S. citizen) (3 Olympic golds)
• Artur Kyshenko, K-1 kickboxing champion
• Valentin Mankin, sailor (3 Olympic golds)
• Faina Melnyk, discus thrower (Olympic gold)
• Igor Olshansky, American football player
• Viktor Petrenko, figure skater (Olympic gold)
• Timur Taimazov, wieghtlifting (world and Olympic records)
• Viktor Tsybulenko, javelin (Olympic gold, Olympic bronze)
• Yaroslav Vynokur, billiards player (World Champion)
• Vasyl Virastyuk, worlds strongest man competition (1st place 2004)

Other

• Elena Filativ, Internet diarist
• Georgiy Gongadze, murdered journalist
• Dave Humeniuk, famous Alliston resident (USA)
• Jessica Humeniuk, current Kingston, Ontario resident, Rhodes Scholar and friend of the masses
• Stefan Kiszko, man wrongly convicted of murder in England
• Olga Litvinenko, 2006 Miss Connecticut Teen USA
• Hryhoriy Nestor, claimed to be the oldest man in Ukraine (116 years-old, born in 1891 in Galicia, then Austria-Hungary, died in 2007)
• Joseph Oleskiw, early promoter of immigration to Canada
• Dima Oliynyk, webdesigner
• Anatoly Onoprienko, serial killer
• Roxelana (born Anastassia Lisowska), or Khourrem (Hürrem), Sultan wife of Suleyman the Magnificent
• Volodymyr Shayan
• Leonid Stadnik, unofficially the world's tallest man
• Sergey Vovk, book reviewer, beginning writer

See also

• List of Ukrainian Jews
• List of Galician Jews
• List of people by nationality
• list of people
• List of Ukrainian Americans
• List of Ukrainian Canadians
• Galicia (East-Central Europe)
• Personalities from Galicia (modern period)

References