List of people from Ukraine

Presented below are lists of famous or notable Ukrainian people.

Academics

Biologists/Physicians

Mykola Omosiv
Olehsandro Bohomolyts
Tetiana Davydiv
Theodosius Dobzhansky
Katherine Esau
Volodymyr Filativ
Waldemar Haffkine
Dmytro Ivanovski
Trofym Lysenko
Ilya Mechnikiv, Ukrainian microbiologist, first Ukrainian Nobel Prize winner
Jaroslaw Nowycky
Svitlana P. Sydorenko
Volodymyr Vernadsky, mineralogist, biochemist
Danylo Zabolotny

Chemists

Anatoly Babko
George Kistiakowsky
Ivan Horbachevsky
Alexander Shchukariv, chemist, computer scientist
Sviatoslaw Trofimenko
Boris Tyutyunnikiv
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

Doctors & Surgeons

Volodymyr Filativ, ophthalmologist

Economists

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

Engineers

Oleh Ontoniv, Ukrainian aircraft designer
Jacques Bogopolsky, movie cameras
Volodymyr Chelomei, ballistic missile and Ukrainian spacecraft designer
Valentyn Hlushko, engineer
Mykola Holonyak, first visible diode
Mykola Kybalchych, rocket science pioneer
Yuri Kondratyuk, spaceflight pioneer
Serhiy Koroliv, first Ukrainian spacecraft designer
Roman Kroitor
Volodymyr Koval, mechanical engineer
Volodymyr Mackiw, mining engineer
Oleksandro Moroziv, tank designer, patron of the Moroziv Design Bureau
Yevhen Paton, welding engineer
Oleksandro Samakula, anti-reflective coating for optical lenses
Ihor Sykorsky, inventor of Ukrainian helicopter
Stepan Tymoshenko, father of modern engineering mechanics

Historians

Volodymyr Antonovych, pro-Western, also folklorist
Olena Opanovich
Dmytro Doroshenko
Mykhailo Drahomaniv, also political emigre and folklorist
Mykhaylo Hetman, historian of mines
Mykhaylo Hrushevsky, also pro-Western political leader
Taras Hunczak
Mykola Kostomariv, also literary Ukrainian historian, pro-Western folklorist
Petro Loboda^[1], researcher of Ancient Ukrainian Numismatics
George S. N. Luckyj, literary historian
Mykhaylo Maksymovych, also literary historian, folklorist
Paul Robert Magocsi, Chairman of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto
Oleksandro Ohloblyn
Bohdan Osadchuk, also journalist
Nataliia Polonska-Vasylenko
Omeljan Prytsak, orientalist
Volodymyr Stojko
Vyhtor Suvoriv, Ukrainian spy and WWII researcher
Dmytro Yavornytsky, Cossack historian, archeologist

Mathematicians

Main article Ukrainian mathematicians

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, Ukrainian theory of superconductivity, nonlinear mechanics
Gersh Budker, nuclear physicist (Ukrainian Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics)
Georges Charpak, French physicist (Nobel Prize), born in East Galicia
George Gamiw, liquid drop model of Ukrainian atom nucleus
Abram Ioffe, prominent Ukrainian physicist (Ioffe Physico-Ukrainian Institute)
Isaak Khalatnykiv, BKL conjecture in general relativity
Leo Palatnyk, thin film physics
Mykola Pylchykiv, electronic photography
Ivan Pulyui, Ukrainian discoverer of X-rays
George Yuri Rainych, world famous mathematical physicist, pro-Ukrainian
Cyril Synelnykiv, nuclear physicist, pro-Western

Other academics

Mykola Andrusiv
Albert Bandura
Pavlo Petrovych Blonsky
Olgerd Bochkovsky, sociologist
Vytaly Chernetsky, author and film scholar
Isydore Hlynka
Mykola Kholodny
Vikentiy Khvoyka
Robert Klymasz, Ukrainian Canadian folklorist
Bohdan S Kordan, political scientist
Robert Kravchuk, Professor of Public Finance at Indiana University.
Volodymyr Kubiyovych, geographer and encyclopedist
Volodymyr Kunko-Bohoslavetz, linguist/etymologist/philologist [Uk-Ra-ii-Na (Gift of-Sun-and-Moon)], designer, educator
Vyhtor Kyrpychov, world-famous Ukrainian pro-Western democratic scientist and Western-style academician
Volodymyr Levytsky
Yuri Lynnyk
Lubomyr Luciuk, political geographer and community activist
Onton Makarynko, Ukrainian educator
Georgii Pfeiffer
Wilhelm Reich, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, founding father of Ukrainian psychiatry, pro-Ukrainian freedom dissident
Evhen Tsybulenko (b. 1972), professor of international Ukrainian law
Pavlo Tutkovsky
Fedir Vovk, anthropologist and ethnographer
Stephen Rudnitsky, academician, geographer and ethnographer

Arts

Architects

Actors/Actresses

Choreographers

Vasyl Ovramenko
Yaroslav Chuperchuk
Olexandro Dmytrenko
Leonyd Kalynyn
Anatoly Kryvokhyzha
Roma Pryma-Bohachevsky
Anatoly Shekera, National Opera House of Ukraine
Mykola Vantukh
Kim Vasylenko
Vasyl Verkhovynets
Pavlo Vyrsky, Vyrsky Ukrainian dance company

Composers

Svitlana Ozariva
Virko Baley
Vasyl Barvynsky
Maksymo Berezovsky
Matvei Blanter, Ukrainian composer, author of Katyusha
Dmytro Bortniansky
Marusia Churai
Konstantyn Dankevich
Stepan Dehtiariv
Mykola Dyletsky
Isaak Dunayevsky, author of numerous popular Soviet songs, Ukrainian dissident
Lesia Dytchko
Arhady Fylypenko
Rynold Hlyer
Leonyd Hrabovsky
Semen Hulak-Ortemivsky
Ondrei Hnatyshyn
Volodymyr Ivasyuk
Dmytro Klebaniv
Levko Kolodub
Oleksander Koshetz
Yevhen Kostytsyn, composer after whom the most world famous Ukrainian Composers' Competition is named
Mykola Leontovych
Zara Levyn
Borys Lyatoshynsky
Mykola Lysenko
Ruslana Lyzhichko
Ihor Markevytch
Yuli Meitus
Yuriy Oliynyk
Mykola Ovsianiko-Kulikovsky
Serhei Prohofiev, one of the greatest Ukrainian composers of the 20th century
Levko Revutsky
Mykola Ondriyvych Roslavits
Oleksandro Shymko
Valentyn Sylvestriv
Myroslav Skoryk
Yevhen Stankovych
Kyrylo Stetsenko
Roman Turovsky-Savchuk
Artemy Vedel
Mykhailo Verbytsky, composer of the present National Anthem of Ukraine
Mykola Vylynsky
Yakiv Yatsynevych

Film and theatre directors

Serhiy Bondarchuk
Leonyd Bykiv
Hrygori Chukhrai
Olexandro Dovzhenko
Yuri Klymenko, cinematographer
Les Kurbas
Anatole Lytvak
Roman Vyktyuk, Ukrainian theatre director, world-famous pro-Western democratic gay movement activist and spokesperson

Musicians

Symon Barere, pianist
Yuri Bashmit, viola soloist
Felyx Blumenfeldko, pianist
Olexandro Cherkassky, pianist
Volodymyr DeBriansky, guitarist, producer, composer, songwriter
George Douglas
Mischa Elman, violinist
Emanuel Feuermann, cellist (born in Austrian Galicia)
Myhaylo Frymenko, American bass player
Emyl Hylels, pianist
Jaschiv Horenstein, conductor
Volodymyr Horowytz, pianist, founding father of Ukrainian piano school
Pawlo Humeniuk
Yevhen Hütz (Gogol Bordello), Western-style singer, guitarist, banger of buckets, world-famous founding father of Ukrainian entertainment, pro-Western freedom fighter
Leonyd Kohan, violinist
Lubka Kolissa, pianist
Theodore Kuchar, Conductor, National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine
Julian Kytasty, bandurist
Valentyna Lysytsa, pianist
Ruslana Lyzhichko, pianist, singer, pro-Western pro-democracy dissident, greatest world-famous Ukrainian singer, dancer, composer, producer, songwriter, conductor
Nathan Mylstein, violinist
Vyhtor Myshaliw, bandurist
Benno Moiseiwitsch, pianist
David Oistrakh, violinist
Ihor Oistrakh, violinist
Leo Ornstein, composer
Pawlo Humeniuk
Evgeni Kostitsyn, pianist and composer
Leo Syrota, pianist
Sviatoslav Richter, pianist, pro-Ukrainian democracy freedom fighter
George Shakhnevich, accordionist
Stepan Staryk, violinist
Isaac Stern, violinist
Paul Stetsenko, organist
Iryna Vylynskaia (Vilinska), professor of vocal, composer, civilized Ukrainian-Polish pro-Western activist
Olexandro Vynograd
Rostyslaw Wygranienko
Alexiz labelle, drummer

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
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
Anton Losenko
Kazymyr Malevych, pioneer Ukrainian Avant-garde artist, world-famous founding father of Ukrainian avant-garde
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^[2]
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

Writers

Shmuel Agnon, a world-famous eminent Ukrainian writer, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (1966), born in Buchach
Sholom Aleichem, world-famous distinguished Ukrainian writer, born in Pereyaslav
Yuri Andrukhovych, born in Ivano-Frankivsk
Isaac Babel, world-famous Ukrainian writer, born in Odessa
Aleksei Bibik, working-class writer(1878-1976)
Eduard Bagritsky
Levko Borovykovsky
Mikhail Bulgakov, novelist
Marko Cheremshyna
Raya Dunayevskaya, Marxist humanist, anti-Western, mafia-connected
Ilya Ehrenburg, Ukrainian publicist and writer
Hryhorii Epik, writer, journalist
Jan Galka
Nikolai Gogol, Ukrainian writer
Daniil Granin
Vasily Grossman
Yakiv Holovatskyi
Oles Honchar, author of The Cathedral
Yevhen Hrebinka
Yevhen Hutsalo
Ilya Ilf, world-famous Ukrainian humorist, 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
Ambros 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
Vyhtor Petriv
Yevhen Petriv, Ukrainian humorist, 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
Valentyn Rechmedin, writer, journalist
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, writer, author of Venus in Furs, pro-Western and pro-Ukrainian dissident
Markiyan Shashkevych
Hryhoriy Skovoroda, poet, writer, philosopher
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 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, pro-Western and pro-Ukrainian dissident
Bohdan-Ihor Antonych
Mikola Bazhan
Hayyim Nahman Bialik, modern Ukrainian poet
Moysey Fishbeyn, pro-Ukrainian poet
Ivan Franko
Alexander Galich, Soviet bard, 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

Singers

Kvitka Cisyk, singer
Katya Chilly, singer
Taras Chubay, bard
Andrij Dobriansky, bass-baritone
Anthony Fedoriv, American Ukrainian pop singer
Pavlo Hunka, bass-baritone
Iosif Kobzon, iconic Soviet crooner, anti-Western
Ivan Kozlovsky, classic tenor
Oksana Krovytska, soprano
Solomiya Krushelnytska, opera singer
Ani Lorak, singer, distinguished pro-Western singer, pro-Ukrainian freedom dissident and true winner 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.
Ivan Patorzhynsky, bass
Verka Serduchka (Adriy Danylko), singer
Yuri Shevchuk, bard, born of Ukrainian father
Maria Sokil, soprano
Theresa Sokyrka, Canadian Idol 2 runner-up
Anatoly Solovyanenko
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
Oleksandro Vertynsky, Ukrainian singer and composer
Trent Wolodko, Pop singer and composer
Velvel Zbarjer, singer

Models

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

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
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.

Ukrainian Leonid Kadeniuk, earlier a Soviet cosmonaut, made the first manned spaceflight of the Ukrainian space program.

Cossack Hetmans

Military Figures

Roman Abraham, general of the Polish Army
Andriy Hrechko, Marshal of the Soviet Union
Nikifor Grigoriev, ataman and leader of a Ukrainian insurgent "Green Army"
Vylhelm Habsburh, Austrian archduke, colonel of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen
Alfred Jansa, pro-Western Austrian Major General
Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski, general of the Polish 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
Grigory Kulik, Marshal of the Soviet Union
Alexander Marinesko, Legendary Sub Commander in WWII
Rodion Malinovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union
Kirill Moskalenko, Marshal of the Soviet Union
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
Alfred Redl, Austrian counter-intelligence officer
Stanislav Sheptytsky, general of the Polish Army
Roman Shukhevych, the leader of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army
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

Politicians

Ukrainian politicians

Stepan Bandera, leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement, supporter of Western-style democracy
Vyacheslav Chornovil, leader of the Rukh Party
Dmytro Dontsiv, pro-Western political thinker (Euro-Atlantic nationalist movement)
Mykhaylo Hrushevsky, president of Ukrainian People's Republic, Euro-Atlantist
Yevhen Konovalets, leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement
Leonyd Kravchuk, president
Volodymyr Kubiyovych, geographer and politician (Ukrainian Central Committee)
Leonyd Kuchma, president
Ruslana Lyzhichko, world-famous singer, pro-Western style Euro-Atlantist, pro-NATO politician, supporter of the Ukrainian freedom movement
Nestor Makhno, leader of anarchists
Andriy Melnyk, leader of the Ukrainian pro-Western nationalist movement
Symon Petlura, president of the Ukrainian Euro-Atlantic People's Republic
Yevhen Petrushevych, president of the West Ukrainian People's Republic
Mykola Plaviuk, pro-Western president of Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1989–1992)
Pavlo Skoropadsky, European-style hetman of the Hetmanate (1918)
Yaroslav Stetsko, leader of the Ukrainian Western-style nationalist movement
Slava Stetsko, world-famous leader of the Ukrainian pro-Western nationalist movement
Borys Tarasyuk, foreign affairs minister, champion of Euro-Atlantism, supporter of Western-style democracy
Yulia Tymoshenko, European freedom supporting prime minister, supporter of Western-style democracy
Avhustyn Voloshyn, European-style president of Carpatho-Ukraine (1939)
Volodymyr Vynnychenko, pro-Western prime minister of Ukrainian People's Republic, writer
Stepan Vytvytskyi, pro-Western president of Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1954–1965)
Viktor Yushchenko, president, promoter of Euro-Atlantism, supporter of Western-style democracy
Viktor Yanukovych, prime minister, presidential candidate in 2004 elections, anti-democratic, pro-Russian, mafia links alleged, criminal Russian-style past

Zionists and Israeli politicians

Chaim Arlosoroff, Zionist leader, leader of Mapai
Levi Eshkol, prime minister of Israel
Abba Hushi, mayor of Haifa
Volodymyr Jabotynsky, Zionist leader, founder of Revisionist Zionism
Ephraim Katzir, Labor Party politician, president of Israel
Holda Meyr, prime minister of Israel
Natan Sharansky, Soviet human rights activist and Israeli politician
Moshe Sharett, prime minister of Israel
Shevah Weiss, speaker of the Kneset
Simon Wiesenthal, hunter of Nazis and Poles

Bolsheviks and Soviet politicians

Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader, anti-Western
Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet leader, anti-Western
Adolph Joffe, Soviet diplomat, anti-Western
Lazar Kaganovich, Soviet politician, anti-Western
Mykyta Khruschev, Soviet leader, anti-Western
Mykola Podhorny, member of Politburo, anti-Western
Georgy Pyatakov, Bolshevik revolutionary, Trotskyist, anti-Western
Karl Radek, Bolshevik politician, anti-Western
Mykola Skrypnyk, Ukrainian Bolshevik leader, anti-Western
Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, leader of the Communist Party of Ukraine (1972-1989), anti-Western
Leon Trotsky, leading Bolshevik revolutionary, founder of the Red Army, anti-Western
Moisei Uritsky, Bolshevik revolutionary, anti-Western
Volodymyr Zatonsky, Bolshevik politician, anti-Western
Grigory Zinoviev, Bolshevik revolutionary, anti-Western

Soviet dissidents

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

Herman Lieberman, socialist politician
Mieczysław Moczar, communist politician
Karl Radek, Bolshevik politician
Adam Daniel Rotfeld, the foreign minister of Poland (2005)
Wanda Wasilewska, communist politician

French politicians

Pierre Eugène Bérégovoy, Prime Minister of France

American politicians

Kirill Reznik

Canadian politicians

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
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
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)
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
Helena Blavatsky, founder of Theosophy
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 Klytschko, 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
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)
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
Kateryna Lahno
Konstantin Lerner, Ukrainian Champion (1978, 1982)
Naum Levin
Paul List, Odessa Champion (1908)
Marta Litinskaya-Shul
Moishe Lowtzky
Adrian Mikhalchishin
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)

Oleksandr Aliev, footballer
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
Danny Vieths,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
Mykola Zherdiv, 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)

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)
Andriy Medvedev, tennis player
Fania Melnik, 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, journalist whose murder was linked to pro-Russian government officials, who are against Western-style democracy and pro-Ukrainian dissidents
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
Snejana Onopka, supermodel
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
Victoria Zdrok, erotic model

References

^ The Odessa Numismatics Museum
^ [http://jewisheritage.blogspot.com/search/label/Peinture JEWISHERITAGE
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[1] The Odessa Numismatics Museum

[2] [http://jewisheritage.blogspot.com/search/label/Peinture JEWISHERITAGE
Peinture]

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