List of people from Ukraine

This is a list of individuals who were born and lived in territories located in present-day Ukraine, including ethnic Ukrainians and those of other ethnicities.

Academics

Mathematicians

Selig Brodetsky (1888–1954), British mathematician, President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Vladimir Drinfeld (1954 (age 69–70)), Fields medal laureate
Anatoly Fomenko (1945 (age 78–79))
Mark Kac (1914–1984), Jewish, Polish-American mathematician
Volodymyr Semenovych Korolyuk (1925 - 2020)
Mykhailo Krawtchouk
Yakiv Kulik
Volodymyr Marchenko
Mikhail Ostrogradsky
Volodymyr Petryshyn
Platon Poretsky
Vladimir Potapov
Anatoly Samoilenko
Oleksandr Mikolaiovich Sharkovsky (1936–2022), known for developing Sharkovsky's theorem on the periods of discrete dynamical systems
Samuil Shatunovsky (1859–1929), Jewish mathematician
Anatoliy Skorokhod
Mykhailo Vashchenko-Zakharchenko (1825–1912), major areas of research included the history of geometry in antiquity and Lobachevskian geometry.
Ivan Śleszyński (1854–9 March 1931), ethnic Polish Ukrainian mathematician
Pavel Urysohn (1898–1924), Jewish mathematician
Josif Shtokalo (1897–1987)
Naum Z. Shor (1937–2006), Jewish Ukrainian mathematician
Maryna Viazovska (born 1984), Fields medal laureate, known for her work in sphere packing
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 Khalatnikov, BKL conjecture in general relativity
Leo Palatnik, thin film physics
Ivan Pulyui, scientist working with cathode radiation
George Yuri Rainich, mathematical physicist

Geographers/Geologists

Volodymyr Kubijovyč
Lubomyr Luciuk, political geographer, community activists
Vladimir Vernadsky, mineralogist, biochemist

Biologists

Aleksandr Bogomolets
Erwin Chargaff
Theodosius Dobzhansky
Katherine Esau
Dmitri Ivanovsky
Trofim Lysenko
Oleksandr Palladin
Kostiantyn Sytnyk
Vladimir Vernadsky, mineralogist, biochemist

Chemists

Anatoly Babko
Israel Dostrovsky (1918–2010), Russian (Ukraine)-born Israeli physical chemist, fifth president of the Weizmann Institute of Science
Ivan Horbachevsky
George Kistiakowsky
Lev Pisarzhevsky
Swiatoslaw Trofimenko
Volodymyr Vernadsky, mineralogist, biochemist
Selman Waksman (1888–1973), Jewish, Ukrainian-American, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1952)

Doctors and surgeons

Nikolai Amosov, 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, the father of the Soviet space program, inventor of the first intercontinental ballistic missile and the first space rocket (R-7 Semyorka), creator of the first satellite (Sputnik), supervisor of the first human spaceflight
Mykola Kybalchich, rocket science pioneer
Yuri Kondratyuk, spaceflight pioneer
Roman Kroitor
Volodymyr Mackiw, 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 (born in Russian Empire in the territory of Ukraine)
Ludwig von Mises, founding father of the Ukrainian western-style economics (1881–1973. Born in Austria-Hungary, on the territory of present-day Lviv)
Bohdan Hawrylyshyn (1926–2016), noted economist, visionary and an economic advisor to the Ukrainian government.

Archeologists

Vikentiy Khvoyka, discovered Trypillia culture
Simhah Pinsker (1801–1864), Polish-Jewish archeologist and scholar
Yuriy Shumovskyi

Historians

Volodymyr Antonovych, historian and folklorist
Olena Apanovich
Volodymyr Barvinok
Dmytro Doroshenko
Mykhailo Drahomanov, historian, political emigre and folklorist
Mykhailo Hrushevsky, historian
Taras Hunczak
Myron Korduba^[1]^[2]
Mykola Kostomarov, literary historian, folklorist
Oleh Kozerod, political scientist
Peter Loboda, researcher of ancient Ukrainian numismatics^[3]
George S. N. Luckyj, literary historian
Mykhailo Maksymovych, literary historian, folklorist
Paul Robert Magocsi, chairman of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto
Oleksander Ohloblyn
Bohdan Osadchuk, journalist
Nataliia Polonska-Vasylenko
Omeljan Pritsak, orientalist
Mikołaj Siwicki, historian
Viktor Suvorov, spy and WWII researcher
Dmytro Yavornytsky, Cossack historian, archaeologist

Philosophers

Hryhorii Skovoroda, philosopher, poet and composer

Other academics

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

Arts

Architects

Fashion Designers

Natalia Fedner

Painters

Ivan Aivazovsky, painter, known for his seascapes
Nathan Altman (1889–1970), Ukrainian-Jewish painter and stage designer from Vinnytsia
Marie Bashkirtseff, artist
Svitlana Biedarieva, artist, art historian, curator
Mykhailo Boychuk
Robert Brackman
Mykola Burachek
David Burliuk, avant-garde painter, Ukrainian freedom thinker
Volodymyr Burliuk
Louis Choris
Sonia Delaunay, avant-garde artist
Mychajlo Dmytrenko
Aleksandra Ekster, avant-garde artist
Nina Genke-Meller, avant-garde artist
Maurice Gottlieb (1856–1979), Polish-Jewish painter
Leopold Gottlieb (1883–1934), Polish-Jewish painter
Mykola Hlushchenko
Jacques Hnizdovsky
Alla Horska
Alexander Khvostenko-Khvostov, avant-garde stage designer
Pyotr Konchalovsky, painter
Fedir Krychevsky
Vasyl Krychevsky
Hanna Kryvolap
Arkhip Kuindzhi
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
Mykola Murashko
Oleksandr Murashko
Heorhiy Narbut
Solomon Nikritin, painter, avant-garde artist
Nykifor, primitivist painter
Maria Prymachenko
Mykola Pymonenko
Vlada Ralko, collage artist
Kliment Red'ko, painter, avant-garde artist
Ilya Repin, painter
Bruno Schulz (1892–1942), Polish-Jewish painter and writer
Zinaida Serebriakova, painter
David Shterenberg, painter from Zhytomyr
Volodymyr Sichynskyi, architect, graphic artist
Opanas Slastion, folklorist, designer of modern type of bandura
Anton Solomoukha
Ivan Soshenko, painter
Avigdor Stematsky, Israeli painter from Odesa
Serhiy Svetoslavsky
Sergei Sviatchenko (born 1952)
Vladimir Tatlin, avant-garde artist
Sonia Terk, avant-garde artist
Mykhailo Turovsky
Roman Turovsky-Savchuk
Max Vityk
Mickola Vorokhta, painter
Tetyana Yablonska, modern painter
Yevhen Yehorov, 20th century artist
Vasiliy Yermilov, avant-garde artist
Ivan Yizhakevych

Photographers

Anatoliy Havrylov, Shevchenko National Prize laureate for cinematography
Nikolai Kozlovsky

Sculptors

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

Performing arts

Actors/Actresses

Nick Adams
Elisabeth Bergner, Austrian-English Jewish actress
Elina Bystritskaya
Olena Chekan
Taissa Farmiga
Vera Farmiga
Luba Goy
John Hodiak
Milla Jovovich
Vera Kholodnaya
Mariya Khomutova
Olga Krasko
Mila Kunis, Ukrainian/American-Jewish actress
Olga Kurylenko
Vasily Lanovoy
Ana Layevska
Mike Mazurki
Yaroslava Mosiychuk, actress^[4]
Ivan Mykolaichuk
Alla Nazimova, (silent film star, born Adelaida Leventon, in Yalta)
Jack Palance (Volodymyr Palahnyuk)
Zhanna Prokhorenko
Ivanna Sakhno
Yakov Smirnoff
Anna Sten (Anel Sudakevich)
Lee Strasberg (1901–1982), Polish/American-Jewish actor
Stav Strashko, actress and model born in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
Bohdan Stupka
Yuriy Tkach
Katheryn Winnick
Natasha Yarovenko
Volodymyr Zelenskyy. actor, comedian and President of Ukraine since 2019

Choreographers and dancers

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

Film and theatre directors

Roman Balayan, Ukrainian-Armenian film director
Sergei Bondarchuk
Leonid Bykiv
Grigori Chukhrai
Volodymyr Dakhno, Shevchenko National Prize laureate and Cossacks (cartoon series) creator
Alexander Dovzhenko
Edward Dmytryk
Kateryna Gornostai - Ukrainian LGBTQ film director, screenwriter and film editor^[5]
Les Kurbas
Anatole Litvak (1902–1974), Ukrainian/American-Jewish film director
Danylo Lyder
Paul Mazursky (1930–2014), American-Jewish actor, screenwriter and film director
Kira Muratova
Larisa Shepitko
Bohdan Stupka
Peter Weibel
Sergei Loznitsa, Ukrainian documentary director
Tanu Muino

Models

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

LGBT activists

Bogdan Globa - LGBT activist
Vitalina Koval - LGBT activist
Anna Sharyhina - LGBT activist
Olena Shevchenko - Ukrainian women's and LGBT rights activist

Musicians

Bandurists

Composers

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

Pianists

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

Organists

Roman Krasnovsky, organist, composer
Paul Stetsenko, organist, choral conductor

Strings

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

Conductors

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

Singers

Opera

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

Singers and artists of other genres

Iryna Bilyk, singer
Vera Brezhneva, singer and television presenter
Denis Stoff, singer
Dimal, award-winning artist, rapper, entertainer
Kvitka Cisyk, singer
Katya Chilly, singer
Taras Chubay, bard
Gaitana
Ganna Gryniva, jazz singer^[6]
Eugene Hutz, lead singer of the Gypsy Punk band Gogol Bordello
Jamala, singer, composer, winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016
Tina Karol, singer
Iosif Kobzon, iconic Soviet crooner
Ani Lorak, singer, runner-up of the 2008 Eurovision contest
Mélovin (Kostyantyn Mykolayovych Bocharov) - Ukrainian singer, LGBT activist
Arsen Mirzoyan (born 1978), Ukrainian singer and songwriter
Alina Pash - Singer and rapper, LGBT activist^[7]^[8]^[9]
Oleksandr Ponomaryov, singer
Anastasia Prikhodko, winner of Star Factory 2007, and represented Russia in the 2009 Eurovision song contest
Artem Pyvovarov, new wave singer and composer
Sofia Rotaru, singer
Ruslana, pop singer, composer, songwriter, conductor, dancer, record producer, pro-Western, singer and winner of the 2004 Eurovision contest.
Anna Sedokova - Singer, actress and television presenter, LGBT activist
Verka Serduchka (Adriy Danylko), singer and runner-up of the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest
Yuri Shevchuk, bard, born of Ukrainian father
Klavdiya Shulzhenko, singer of the most inspiring WWII song that didn't mention Stalin
Theresa Sokyrka, Canadian Idol 2 runner-up
Super DJ Dmitri (Dmitry Brill), member of American club/dance group Deee-Lite
Nissan Spivak, Ukrainian cantor
Leonyd Utyosiv, jazz singer
Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, singer
Alexander Vertinsky, singer
Velvel Zbarjer, singer
Vitas, singer and actor
Zlata Ognevich, 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, one of the greatest male ballet dancers of the 20th century
Maria Guleghina
Alla Korot
Olga Khokhlova, ballet dancer, first wife of Pablo Picasso

Literary arts

Writers

Adrian Kashchenko
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer, had Ukrainian mother
Aleksei Bibik (1878–1976), working-class writer
Oleksandra Marynyna
Amvrosii Metlynsky, poet, writer
Andrey Kurkov, Ukrainian novelist
Bohdan Osadchuk
Chuck Palahniuk, American satirical novelist (Ukrainian father)
Clarice Lispector
Daniil Granin, author
David Bergelson, Ukrainian-Jewish writer in Yiddish language
Hryhorii Epik, writer, journalist
Hryhorii Kosynka
Hryhoriy Skovoroda, poet, writer, philosopher
Ilya Ehrenburg Ukrainian-Jewish publicist and writer in Russian language, born in Kyiv
Ilya Ilf, Ukrainian humorist in Russian language, co-author of The Twelve Chairs
Irena Karpa, modern Ukrainian writer
Isaac Babel, Ukrainian-Jewish writer in Russian language, born in Odesa
Ivan Kotlyarevsky, playwright
Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky
Ivan Vahylevych
Jan Potocki, count, Polish writer in French language, born and died in Ukraine
Joseph Conrad, Polish writer in the English language, born in Berdychiv
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer, author of Venus in Furs
Les Podervianskiy, satirist and playwright, pro-Western and pro-Ukrainian dissident
Levko Kopeliv, author and dissident
Markiyan Shashkevych, poet, writer, and interpreter
Marko Cheremshyna, writer
Marko Vovchok
Marya Zaturenska
Mikhail Bulgakov, novelist in Russian language
Mikhail Zhvanetsky, Russian humorist
Miriam Yalan-Shteklis, Israeli writer and poet
Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky
Mykhailo Stelmakh
Mykola Khvylovy
Mykola Kulish, dramatist
Mykola Voronyi
Mykola Zerov
Natalia Vlaschenko, Ukrainian journalist, theatrologist, screenwriter, television presenter, playwright, producer, columnist,^[10] 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 writer and feminist.
Olha Kobylyanska
Ostap Ortwin (1876–1942), Polish-Jewish journalist and literary critic.
Ostap Vyshnia
Panteleymon Kulish
Pavlo Zahrebelnyi
Raya Dunayevskaya, Marxist philosopher
Sam Honigberg, correspondent for The Billboard and publicist
Shmuel Agnon, Israeli Hebrew writer, winner of the Nobel Prize (1966), born in Buchach
Sholom Aleichem, Ukrainian writer in Yiddish language, born in Pereyaslav
Sofia Yablonska, travel writer, photographer, architect
Stanisław Lem, Polish science-fiction writer born in the present-day territory of Ukraine
Valentyn Rechmedin, writer, journalist
Valerian Pidmohylny, novelist
Valerian Polishchuk, poet
Vasily Grossman Ukrainian-Jewish, born in Berdichev in 1905. Dedicated his lives' writing to the three most terrible pages of 20th-century history: the siege of Stalingrad, the Shoah, and the Terror Famine which today is referred to as the Holodomor. Best known for Everything Flows, Life and Fate.
Vasyl Stefanyk
Viktor Nekrasov, writer
Viktor Petrov
Volodymyr Vynnychenko
Yakiv Holovatsky
Yaroslav Halan, anti-fascist playwright and publicist, assassinated by nationalist insurgents.
Yevgeny Grebyonka
Yevgeny Petrov, Ukrainian humorist in Russian language, co-author of The Twelve Chairs
Yevhen Hrebinka
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

Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet
Bohdan-Ihor Antonych
Eduard Bagritsky
Mikola Bazhan
Hayyim Nahman Bialik, modern Hebrew Ukrainian poet, national poet of the State of Israel
Ivan Drach
Itzik Feffer, Soviet poet in Yiddish language
Moysey Fishbeyn, Ukrainian poet in Yiddish language
Ivan Franko
Alexander Galich, Soviet bard in Russian language, pro-Western dissident
Ihor Kalynets
Mykola Khvylovy
Lina Kostenko
Andriy Malyshko
Oleksandr Oles
Oleh Olzhych
Dmytro Pavlychko
Markiyan Shashkevych
Vasyl Stus
Vasyl Symonenko
Olena Teliha
Pavlo Tychyna
Maksym Rylsky
Taras Shevchenko, founder of modern Ukrainian Literature
Volodymyr Sosiura
Vasyl Stus
Vasyl Symonenko
Hryhoriy Tiutiunnyk
Lesya Ukrainka
Volodymyr Yaniv
Volodymyr Yavorivsky
Maik Yohansen
Natan Yonatan, Kyiv-born Israeli poet
Serhiy Zhadan, modern Ukrainian poet and novelist
Mykhailo Zharzhailo, Ukrainian poet, performer, and art event organizer^[11]

Business

Gennadiy Bogolyubov (born 1961/1962), Ukrainian-Israeli billionaire businessman
Zino Davidoff, founder of Davidoff brand
Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal
Boris Lohzkin (born 1971), President of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine and vice-president of the World Jewish Congress^[12]
Jay Pritzker, founder of Hyatt and LGBT philanthropist
Leonid Radvinsky (born 1982), Ukrainian-American serial entrepreneur and majority owner of OnlyFans
Harold Willens (1914–2003), Jewish American businessman, political donor and nuclear freeze activist

Astronauts

Georgy Beregovoy, Soviet cosmonaut No.12, Soviet MP in 1974–89 representing Donetsk region
Leonid Kizim, Soviet cosmonaut
Anatoly Levchenko, Soviet cosmonaut
Anatoly Filipchenko, Soviet cosmonaut
Anatoly Artsebarsky, Soviet cosmonaut
Igor Volk, Soviet cosmonaut
Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut No.4, Verkhovna Rada MP in 1964–88, head of Ukrainian diaspora in Moscow
Georgy Dobrovolsky, Soviet cosmonaut
Leonid Kadeniuk, earlier a Soviet cosmonaut, made the first crewed spaceflight of the National Space Agency of Ukraine
Yury Onufriyenko, Russian cosmonaut
Yuri Malenchenko, Russian cosmonaut
Yuri Gidzenko, Russian cosmonaut
Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, NASA
Bruce E. Melnick, NASA
Roberta Bondar, Canada's first female astronaut and the first neurologist in space.
Joshua Kutryk - Canadian astronaut

Cossack Hetmans

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

Military figures

Roman Abraham, general of the Polish Army
Luka Basanets, general of the Red Army
Marko Bezruchko, general of the Ukrainian People's Army
Taras Bulba-Borovets, otaman of the Ukrainian People's Revolutionary Army aka Polissian Sich
Ivan Chernyakhovsky, general of the Red Army
Yakov Dashevsky, general of the Red Army
Kuzma Derevyanko, general of the Red Army
Yaakov Dori (1899-1973), Israeli first Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, President of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Petro Dyachenko, staff captain of the Russian Army (World War I), colonel of the Ukrainian People's Army (1918–1920), major of the Polish Army (1938–1939), colonel of the Ukrainian Liberation Army (1943–1945), and general of the Ukrainian National Army (1945)
Nikolay Dyatlenko, interrogator and translator at the Battle of Stalingrad
Oleksiy Fedorov, major general, partisan leader, subsequently minister of Welfare of Ukraine
Israel Fisanovich (1914–1944), Ukrainian-Jewish Navy submarine commander Soviet Navy
Petro Franko, captain of the Air Force of the Ukrainian Galician Army (UHA)
Andrei Grechko, marshal of the Soviet Union
Nykyfor Hryhoriv, otaman and leader of a Ukrainian insurgent "Green Army"
Vylhelm Habsburh (Vasyl Vyshyvanyi), Austrian archduke, colonel of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen
Yaroslav Hunka, a World War II veteran of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician), a military formation of Nazi Germany.
Oleksander Hrekov, commander-in-chief of the army of the West Ukrainian National Republic
Dmytro Hrytsai, general of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army
Karl Georg Graf Huyn, Austrian colonel general, last governor-general of Galicia (1917–18)
Alfred Jansa, Austrian major general
Mykola Kapustiansky, general of the Ukrainian People's Army
Dmytro Klyachkivsky, colonel and the commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army
Ivan 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, leader of the Ukrainian Military Organization (UVO) (1920–29) and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) (1929–38), pro-Western, killed many Jews and Russians
Filip Konowal, Ukrainian Canadian war hero (Victoria Cross, 1917)
Petr Koshevoi, marshal of the Soviet Union
Zenon Kossak, deputy commander of the Carpathian Sich
Mykhailo Krat, general of the Ukrainian National Army
Sydir Kovpak, major general, partisan leader, subsequently deputy chairperson of Verkhovna Rada
Vasyl Kuk, commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army
Grigory Kulik, marshal of the Soviet Union
Yuriy Lopatynsky, colonel of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army
Nestor Makhno, commander of "Black Army"
Alexander Marinesko, legendary Sub Commander in WWII
Rodion Malinovsky, marshal of the Soviet Union
Kirill Moskalenko, marshal of the Soviet Union
Maria Nikiforova, only female commander of an anarchist cavalry detachment, the "Free Combat Druzhina".
Mykhailo Omelianovych-Pavlenko, general of the Ukrainian Liberation Army, commander of the Ukrainian Galician Army and Ukrainian People's Army
Ivan Paskevich, field marshal of the Russian imperial army
Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Lieutenant of Red Army female sniper
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
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, general of the Red Army
Roman Shukhevych, general and the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army
Stepan Shukhevych, otaman of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen and the Ukrainian Galician Army
Volodymyr Sinclair, general of the Ukrainian People's Army
Maksym Skorupsky, commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, pro-Western, killed many Jews and Russians
Hnat Stefaniv, colonel of the Ukrainian Galician Army
Roman Sushko, colonel of the Ukrainian Legion
Semyon Timoshenko, marshal of the Soviet Union, added his native village Furmanivka and other western territories in 1939
Yurii Tiutiunnyk, general of the Ukrainian People's Army
Yulia Tolopa - Russian-born volunteer who fought for Ukraine in the Russo-Ukrainian War
Mykola Tsybulenko, major general
Pyotr Vershigora, major general, partisan leader, WWII photographer
Dmytro Vitovsky, colonel of the Ukrainian Galician Army
Kliment Voroshilov, marshal of the Soviet Union
Andrei Yeremenko, marshal of the Soviet Union

Intelligence

Politicians

Ukrainian non-Soviet politicians

Dmytro Antonovych, minister of naval affairs, and of arts of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1917–1918 and 1918–1919)
Volodymyr Bahaziy, head of Kyiv City Administration under German occupation (October 1941–January 1942)
Ivan Bahrianyi, president (acting) of the UNR in exile (1965–1967)
Stepan Bandera, leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B)
Oleksander Barvinsky, leader of the Christian Social Movement in Ukraine
Vyacheslav Chornovil, leader of the People's Movement of Ukraine
Dmytro Dontsov, Ukrainian nationalist writer, publisher, journalist and political thinker
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)
Volodymyr Horbulin, Secretary of National Security and Defense Council (1994–1999, 2006)
Oleksandr Horin, Ambassador to the Netherlands 2011-17
Mykhaylo Hrushevsky, President of the Ukrainian People's Republic
Ivan Hrynokh, Vice President of the Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council
Stepan Klochurak, Prime Minister of the Hutsul Republic (1919)
Yevhen Konovalets, leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (1929–1938)
Leonid Kravchuk, President of Ukraine (1991–1994)
Volodymyr Kubiyovych, geographer and politician (Ukrainian Central Committee)
Leonid Kuchma, President of Ukraine (1994–2005)
Mykola Lebed, head of the Security Service for the UPA
Serhiy Leshchenko - Ukrainian journalist, politician and public figure^[13]
Dmytro Levytsky, head of the Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance (UNDO) (1925–1935)
Kost Levytsky, Prime Minister of the West Ukrainian National Republic (1918–1919)
Andriy Livytskyi, President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1926–1954).
Mykola Livytskyi, President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1967–1989).
Vyacheslav Lypynsky, leader of the Ukrainian Democratic-Agrarian Party
Nestor Makhno, leader of anarchists
Isaak Mazepa, Prime Minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1919–1920 and 1948–1952)
Andriy Melnyk, leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-M)
Volodymyr Ohryzko, Minister for Foreign Affairs (2007–2009)
Symon Petlura, President of the Ukrainian People's Republic
Yevhen Petrushevych, President of the West Ukrainian National Republic
Mykola Plaviuk, President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1989–1992)
Petro Poroshenko, President of Ukraine (2014–2019)
Vyacheslav Prokopovych, Prime Minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1920, 1921, 1926–1939)
Lev Rebet, Acting Prime Minister of the Independent Ukrainian Republic (1941)
Pavlo Shandruk, head of the Ukrainian National Committee in Weimar (1945)
Pavlo Skoropadsky, Hetman of Ukraine or head of the 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 (2007–present)
Anatole Vakhnianyn, leader of the Christian Social Movement in Ukraine
Avhustyn Voloshyn, President of Carpatho-Ukraine (1939)
Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Prime Minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic, writer
Stepan Vytvytskyi, President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1954–1965)
Nikolaus (Mykola) Wassilko, Ritter von, member of the delegation in Brest-Litowsk, deputy with the rank of a minister at the ZUNR in Vienna (1918–1919), ambassador of Germany and Switzerland (1919–1924)
Volodymyr Yaniv, member of the Ukrainian National Committee in Kraków (1941)
Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Minister for Foreign Affairs (2007), Prime Minister of Ukraine (2014)
Serhiy Yefremov, deputy head of the Central Rada (1917)
Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine (2005–2010)
Viktor Yanukovych, Prime Minister of Ukraine (2002–2004, 2006–2007) and President of Ukraine (2010–2015)
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine (2019–present)

Zionists and Israeli politicians

Chaim Arlosoroff, Zionist activist, leader of Mapai
Daniel Auster, first Hebrew mayor of Jerusalem
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, historian, Labor Zionist leader, and President of Israel
Ber Borochov, Zionist activist
Levi Eshkol, Prime Minister of Israel
Ahad Ha'am, Zionist activist
Abba Hushi, mayor of Haifa
Volodymyr Jabotynsky, Zionist leader, founder of Revisionist Zionism, writer and journalist in Hebrew and Russian language
Ephraim Katzir, Israeli biophysicist, President of Israel
Abraham Kaufman, leader of Jewish community in China
Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel
Leo Motzkin, Zionist activist
Leon Pinsker, Zionist activist, leader of the Hovevei Zion
Natan Sharansky, Soviet human rights activist and Israeli politician
Moshe Sharett, Prime Minister of Israel
Shevah Weiss, Israeli lawman and Labor Party politician, speaker of the Knesset
Simon Wiesenthal, hunter of Nazis
Svitlana Zalishchuk - politician, public leader, journalist, and human rights LGBT campaigner and former member of Ukrainian Parliament^[14]

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 Brezhnev, Soviet leader (1964–1982)
Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet 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 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, Soviet ambassador to the United Kingdom,
Vitold Fokin, Soviet politician, Central Planning Commission head, first 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 leader (1953–1964), returned Crimea to Ukraine
Emanuel Kviring, Bolshevik politician
Anatoly Lunacharsky, first Soviet education minister, Latin alphabet advocate (similar to Atatürk), was sidelined by Stalin
Solomon Lozovsky, Bolshevik politician
Dmitry Manuilsky, Bolshevik politician
Vitaliy Masol, Central Planning Commission head, third 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 Gorbachev and later regretted
Valentyna Shevchenko, the only female Chairperson of the Presidium of the Verkhovna Rada
Viktor Taratuta, Bolshevik revolutionary
Leon Trotsky, leading Bolshevik revolutionary, founder of the Red Army
Moisei Uritsky, Bolshevik revolutionary
Volodymyr Zatonsky, Bolshevik politician
Grigory Zinoviev, Bolshevik revolutionary

Soviet dissidents

Russian politicians

Alexander Bezborodko – Grand Chancellor of Russian Empire
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 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

Religious leaders and theologians

Orthodox Christian

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
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), Patriarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate.
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, 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 at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Rome
Lubomyr Husar, cardinal, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (2001–2005), Major Archbishop of Kyiv and Halych (2005–2011)
Nicholas Ilkov, chaplain, victim of the 1940 Katyn massacre (1890-1940)
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)
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 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 (Latin rite, 1618–1633), Bishop of Lutsk (1633–1638)
Kajetan Sołtyk, Bishop of Kyiv (1756–1759), then Bishop of Cracow (1759–1788)
Józef Andrzej Załuski, Bishop of Kyiv (1759–1774)

Jewish

Jacob Avigdor, last Chief Rabbi of Drohobych
Moshe Reuven Azman, Chief Rabbi of Ukraine (2005–present)
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, 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
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
Oleksiy "Alex" Len, basketball player drafted 5th by the Phoenix Suns in 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
Vitaly Potapenko, basketball player drafted 12th by the Cleveland Cavaliers in 1996
Jerome Randle, American-Ukrainian basketball club BC Žalgiris player
Alexander Volkov, basketball player selected 134th by the Atlanta Hawks in 1986

Boxing

Vasyl Lomachenko, boxer
Oleksandr Usyk, boxer
Taras Bidenko, boxer
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
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, Odesa 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

Yury Gelman (born 1955), Ukrainian-born American Olympic fencing coach
Vadim Gutzeit, saber fencer, Olympic champion, Ukraine's Youth and Sport Minister.^[15]
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^[16]
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)^[17]
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
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

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^[18]
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

Aleksandr Bagach, shot putter
Valeriy Borzov, sprinter (2 Olympic golds)
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)
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 & 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

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^[19]
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^[20]
Vasyl Virastyuk, world's strongest man competition (1st place 2004)
Igor Vovchanchyn, mixed martial arts fighter
Yaroslav Vynokur, billiards player (World Champion)

Oligarchs

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

Other

Peter Adamshock, father of Nick Adams
Catherine Kutz Adamshock, mother of Nick Adams
Volodymyr Butkevych, judge
Markiyan Dimidov, concentration camp survivor
Georgiy Gongadze, journalist, civil activist
Stefan Kiszko, man wrongly convicted of murder in England
Joseph Oleskiw, early promoter of immigration to Canada
Anatoly Onoprienko, serial killer
Roxelana (born Anastassia Lisowska), or Khourrem (Hürrem), Sultan wife of Suleyman the Magnificent
Leonid Stadnik, unofficially the world's tallest man
Taras Kulakov (born 1987), born to a Russian mother and Ukrainian father. He is now a citizen of the US. He rose to internet fame as a YouTube personality known for life hack and gadget reviewing videos.
Vladlen Tatarsky (pseudonym of Maxim Fomin), convicted criminal and war propagandist
Volodymyr Zolkin, YouTuber and activist

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[2] "Myron Korduba". Open Library. Retrieved January 28, 2011.

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[4] "Ярослава Мосійчук: "Почуваюся наче вільна, стрімка, грайлива ріка, яка має надійний берег"". НОВА Тернопільська газета (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2022-05-20.

[5] "Award-winning Films for a Young Audience as Part of the Berlinale Summer Special". www.berlinale.de. Retrieved 2022-02-25.

[6] "Ganna Gryniva". www.jazz-fun.de (in German). Retrieved 2022-04-03.

[7] "Gender Z". truth-hounds.org. Retrieved 2022-10-18.

[8] "БОРІТЕСЯ – ПОБОРЕТЕ PROJECT". www.youtube.com (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2022-10-18.

[9] "Різні.Рівні by Alina Pash, Сергій Бабкін, Constantine, LATEXFAUNA, YUKO, Gurt [O], KRUTЬ". www.youtube.com (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2022-10-18.

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[12] Congress, World Jewish. "World Jewish Congress". www.worldjewishcongress.org. Retrieved 2019-02-25.

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[14] "Kiev Pride: A Success Despite Attacks". The Daily Beast.

[15] "The 18th Maccabiah–Maccabiah Chai". JCC. Archived from the original on April 20, 2010. Retrieved June 3, 2010.

[16] Beverley Smith, Dan Diamond (1997). A Year in Figure Skating. McClelland & Stewart. ISBN 0-7710-2755-9. Retrieved July 1, 2010.

[17] Peshkhatzki, Motti (June 9, 2006). דינמו קייב לבית"ר: 220 אלף דולר על אנדריי אוברמקו (in Hebrew). Retrieved July 6, 2008.

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