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.

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Ukrainians
Culture
Languages and dialects
Religion
Sub-national groups
Closely-related peoples

Academics

Mathematicians

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

Biologists

Chemists

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
Sergei Korolev

Economists

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

Historians

Philosophers

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

Fashion Designers
  • Natalia Fedner

Painters
Kazimir Malevich
  • 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

Sculptors

Actors/Actresses
Mila Jovovich

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
Kira Muratova

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
  • Hnat Khotkevych
  • Halyna Korin
  • Hryhory Kytasty
  • Julian Kytasty
  • Volodymyr Luciv
  • Victor Mishalow

Composers
Mykola Leontovych

Pianists

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

Strings

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

Opera
Solomiya Krushelnytska
  • 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

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

Literary arts

Writers
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Joseph Conrad
Oksana Zabuzhko
  • 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
Hayyim Nahman Bialik
Ivan Franko
Taras Shevchenko

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

Cossack Hetmans

Military figures

Intelligence

Politicians

Ukrainian non-Soviet politicians
Nestor Makhno

Zionists and Israeli politicians
Golda Meir
Simon Wiesenthal

Bolsheviks and Soviet politicians

Soviet dissidents

Russian politicians

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

Bulgarian politicians

Czechoslovak politicians

German politicians

Italian politicians

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

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

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
Oleksiy Pecherov

Boxing

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
Vadym Gutzeit
Grigory Kriss
  • 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)
Andriy Shevchenko

Gymnastics

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
Julia Glushko

Track & field
Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko
Olesya Povh
  • 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
Grigoriy Gamarnik
  • 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
Igor Olshansky
  • 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

See also

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