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List of people from Ukraine

August 26, 2023

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.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Academics

Mathematicians

Main article: Ukrainian mathematicians

Physicists/Astronomers

Geographers/Geologists

Biologists

Chemists

Doctors and surgeons

Engineers

 
Sergei Korolev

Economists

Archeologists

Historians

Philosophers

Other academics

Arts

Architects

Fashion Designers

Painters

For a more comprehensive list, see List of Ukrainian painters.
 
Kazimir Malevich

Photographers

Sculptors

Performing arts

Actors/Actresses

 
Mila Jovovich

Choreographers and dancers

Film and theatre directors

 
Kira Muratova

Models

LGBT activists and notable LGBT Ukrainians

Musicians

Bandurists

Composers

Main article: List of Ukrainian composers
 
Mykola Leontovych

Pianists

Organists

Strings

Conductors

Singers

Opera

 
Solomiya Krushelnytska

Singers and artists of other genres

Other

Other performing artists

Literary arts

Writers

 
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
 
Joseph Conrad
 
Oksana Zabuzhko

Poets

 
Hayyim Nahman Bialik
 
Ivan Franko
 
Taras Shevchenko

Business

Astronauts

Cossack Hetmans

Military figures

Intelligence

Politicians

Ukrainian non-Soviet politicians

Main article: List of Ukrainian politicians
 
Nestor Makhno

Zionists and Israeli politicians

 
Golda Meir
 
Simon Wiesenthal

Bolsheviks and Soviet politicians

Soviet dissidents

Russian politicians

Polish politicians

Austrian politicians

Bulgarian politicians

Czechoslovak politicians

German politicians

Italian politicians

American politicians

Chinese politicians

Crimean Tatar politicians

Religious leaders and theologians

Orthodox Christian

Greek Catholic

Roman Catholic

Jewish

Others

Sport

See also: List of Ukrainian sportspeople

Archery

Basketball

 
Oleksiy Pecherov

Boxing

Chess

Fencing

 
Vadym Gutzeit
 
Grigory Kriss

Figure skating

Football (soccer)

Gymnastics

Ice hockey

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

Weightlifting

Wrestling

 
Grigoriy Gamarnik

Other athletes

 
Igor Olshansky

Oligarchs

Other

See also

References

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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources List of people from Ukraine news newspapers books scholar JSTOR January 2020 Learn how and when to remove this template message 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 This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources Contents 1 Academics 1 1 Mathematicians 1 2 Physicists Astronomers 1 3 Geographers Geologists 1 4 Biologists 1 5 Chemists 1 6 Doctors and surgeons 1 7 Engineers 1 8 Economists 1 9 Archeologists 1 10 Historians 1 11 Philosophers 1 12 Other academics 2 Arts 2 1 Architects 2 2 Fashion Designers 2 3 Painters 2 4 Photographers 2 5 Sculptors 2 6 Performing arts 2 6 1 Actors Actresses 2 6 2 Choreographers and dancers 2 6 3 Film and theatre directors 2 6 4 Models 3 LGBT activists and notable LGBT Ukrainians 4 Musicians 4 1 Bandurists 4 2 Composers 4 3 Pianists 4 4 Organists 4 5 Strings 4 6 Conductors 4 7 Singers 4 7 1 Opera 4 7 2 Singers and artists of other genres 4 8 Other 4 9 Other performing artists 5 Literary arts 5 1 Writers 5 2 Poets 6 Business 7 Astronauts 8 Cossack Hetmans 9 Military figures 10 Intelligence 11 Politicians 11 1 Ukrainian non Soviet politicians 11 2 Zionists and Israeli politicians 11 3 Bolsheviks and Soviet politicians 11 4 Soviet dissidents 11 5 Russian politicians 11 6 Polish politicians 11 7 Austrian politicians 11 8 Bulgarian politicians 11 9 Czechoslovak politicians 11 10 German politicians 11 11 Italian politicians 11 12 American politicians 11 13 Chinese politicians 11 14 Crimean Tatar politicians 12 Religious leaders and theologians 12 1 Orthodox Christian 12 2 Greek Catholic 12 3 Roman Catholic 12 4 Jewish 12 5 Others 13 Sport 13 1 Archery 13 2 Basketball 13 3 Boxing 13 4 Chess 13 5 Fencing 13 6 Figure skating 13 7 Football soccer 13 8 Gymnastics 13 9 Ice hockey 13 10 Swimming 13 11 Tennis 13 12 Track amp field 13 13 Weightlifting 13 14 Wrestling 13 15 Other athletes 14 Oligarchs 15 Other 16 See also 17 ReferencesAcademicsMathematicians Main article Ukrainian mathematicians Selig Brodetsky 1888 1954 British mathematician President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Vladimir Drinfeld Fields medal laureate Anatoly Fomenko Mark Kac 1914 1984 Jewish Polish American mathematician Volodymyr Semenovych Korolyuk 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 Sleszynski 1854 9 March 1931 ethnic Polish Ukrainian mathematician Pavlo Urysohn 1898 1924 Jewish Ukrainian 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 VoronoyPhysicists 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 Khalatnikiv BKL conjecture in general relativity Leo Palatnik thin film physics Ivan Pulyui scientist working with cathode radiation George Yuri Rainich mathematical physicist geniusGeographers Geologists Volodymyr Kubijovyc Lubomyr Luciuk political geographer community activists Vladimir Vernadsky mineralogist biochemistBiologists Aleksandr Bogomolets Erwin Chargaff Theodosius Dobzhansky Katherine Esau Dmitri Ivanovsky Trofim Lysenko Oleksandr Palladin Kostiantyn Sytnyk Vladimir Vernadsky mineralogist biochemistChemists 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 castEngineers Sergei KorolevVolodymyr 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 mechanicsEconomists 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 ShumovskyiHistorians 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 Mikolaj Siwicki historian Viktor Suvorov spy and WWII researcher Dmytro Yavornytsky Cossack historian archaeologistPhilosophers Hryhorii Skovoroda philosopher poet and composerOther 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 ethnographerArtsArchitects Ivan Hryhorovych Barskyi Joseph Karakis Musa Konsulova Marian Peretyatkovich Volodymyr SichynskyiFashion Designers Natalia FednerPainters For a more comprehensive list see List of Ukrainian painters Kazimir MalevichIvan Aivazovsky painter known for his seascapes Nathan Altman 1889 1970 Ukrainian Jewish painter and stage designer from Vinnytsia Marie Bashkirtseff artist 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 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 Mickola Vorokhta painter Tetyana Yablonska modern painter Yevhen Yehorov 20th century artist Vasiliy Yermilov avant garde artist Ivan YizhakevychPhotographers Anatoliy Havrylov Shevchenko National Prize laureate for cinematography Nikolai KozlovskySculptors Alexander Archipenko Ukrainian American sculptor and graphic artist Lina Condes born 1980 Ukrainian sculptor and multimedia artist Chana Orloff 1888 1968 Ukrainian Israeli Vladimir TatlinPerforming arts Actors Actresses Mila JovovichNick 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 2019Choreographers and dancers Vasyl Avramenko Sergei Polunin ballet dancer Roma Pryma Bohachevsky pro Western Oksana Skorik ballet dancer Vasyl Verkhovynets Igor Youskevitch ballet dancerFilm and theatre directors Kira MuratovaRoman 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 MuinoModels 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 and notable LGBT UkrainiansBogdan Globa LGBT activist Vitalina Koval LGBT activist Anna Sharyhina LGBT activist Olena Shevchenko Ukrainian women s and LGBT rights activistMusiciansBandurists Hnat Khotkevych Halyna Korin Hryhory Kytasty Julian Kytasty Volodymyr Luciv Victor MishalowComposers Main article List of Ukrainian composers Mykola LeontovychSvitlana 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 Gliere 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 YatsynevychPianists 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 pianistOrganists Roman Krasnovsky organist composer Paul Stetsenko organist choral conductorStrings 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 OrchestraSingers Opera Solomiya KrushelnytskaAndrij Dobriansky bass baritone Borys Hmyria bass Vasyl Slipak baritone Alexander Kipnis bass Ivan Kozlovsky tenor Solomiya Krushelnytska soprano Evgeniya Miroshnichenko soprano Vyacheslav Polozov tenor Maria Sokil soprano Anatoly Solovyanenko tenor Leonid Skirko bass baritoneSingers 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 Melovin Kostyantyn Mykolayovych Bocharov Ukrainian singer LGBT activist 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 Faamelu born Boris Kruglov transgender Ukrainian singer and songwriterOther Volodymyr Vlad DeBriansky guitarist producer composer songwriter Eugene Hutz 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 guitaristOther 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 PicassoLiterary artsWriters Shmuel Yosef Agnon Joseph Conrad Oksana ZabuzhkoAdrian 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 Stanislaw 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 laureatePoets Hayyim Nahman Bialik Ivan Franko Taras ShevchenkoAnna 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 BusinessGennadiy Bogolyubov born 1961 1962 Ukrainian Israeli billionaire businessman Zino Davidoff founder of Davidoff brand Max Levchin co founder of PayPal Petro Poroshenko former President of Ukraine Jay Pritzker founder of Hyatt and LGBT philanthropist Boris Lohzkin born 1971 President of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine and vice president of the World Jewish Congress 12 Harold Willens 1914 2003 Jewish American businessman political donor and nuclear freeze activistAstronautsGeorgy 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 astronautCossack HetmansPrzeclaw Lanckoronski 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 Kyrylo Rozumovsky 1750 1764 in the Left bank Ukraine Petro Kalnyshevsky 1765 1775 last Koshovyi Otaman of the Zaporozhian CossacksMilitary figuresRoman Abraham general of the Polish Army Lyudmila Pavlichenko Lieutenant of Red Army female sniper 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 Nykyfor Hryhoriv otaman and leader of a Ukrainian insurgent Green Army Vylhelm Habsburh Vasyl Vyshyvanyi Austrian archduke colonel of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen Andrei Grechko marshal of the Soviet Union 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 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 UnionIntelligenceYakov Blumkin Jack Childs Morris Childs Jacob Golos Walter Krivitsky Genrikh Lyushkov Jakob Rudnik Nathan Gregory Silvermaster Abram Slutsky Bohdan Stashynsky Manfred Stern Pavel Sudoplatov Viktor Suvorov Richard Yary Mark ZborowskiPoliticiansUkrainian non Soviet politicians Main article List of Ukrainian politicians Nestor MakhnoDmytro 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 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 Krakow 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 Zionists and Israeli politicians Golda Meir Simon WiesenthalChaim 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 Ataturk 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 revolutionarySoviet dissidents Vyacheslav Chornovil Vasily Grossman Mykola Horbal Petro Hryhorenko Vitaliy Kalynychenko Ivan Kandyba Lev Kopelev Sergei Kovalev Yaroslav Lesiv Eduard Limonov Levko Lukyanenko Valeriy Marchenko Myroslav Marynovych Natan Sharansky Danylo Shumuk Vasyl Stus Nadiya Svitlychna Yosyf ZiselsRussian 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 Jozewski 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 Mieczyslaw Mickiewicz minister of the Ukrainian People s Republic 1917 1918 Karl Radek Bolshevik politician Adam Daniel Rotfeld foreign minister of Poland 2005 Stanislaw Stempowski minister of the Ukrainian People s Republic 1920 1922 Andrey Vyshinsky foreign minister of the Soviet Union 1949 1953 Wanda Wasilewska communist politicianAustrian politicians Archduke Wilhelm of Austria known as Prince Vasyl Franz Stadion Count von Warthausen Governor of Galicia 1847 1848 Bulgarian politicians Christian Rakovsky communist politicianCzechoslovak politicians Frantisek Kriegel communist politicianGerman politicians Yevgenia Bosch communist politician Emanuel Kwiring communist politicianItalian politicians Angelica Balabanoff communist politicianAmerican politicians Kirill Reznik Maryland State House of Delegates Herman Toll former Pennsylvania Congressman Inna Vernikov Citycouncilwoman in New York City from BrooklynChinese politicians Jakob RosenfeldCrimean Tatar politicians Noman Celebicihan Ismail Gasprinski Mustafa DzhemilevReligious leaders and theologiansOrthodox 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 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 Przemysl 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 Jozef Bilczewski Archbishop of Lviv 1900 1923 Marian Jaworski Cardinal Archbishop of Lviv 1991 2008 Adam Stanislaw Krasinski Bishop of Kamianets Podilskyi 1757 1798 Wladyslaw Aleksander Lubienski Archbishop of Lviv 1758 1759 Primate of Poland 1759 1767 and Interrex 1763 1764 Mieczyslaw 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 Boguslaw Radoszewski Bishop of Kyiv Latin rite 1618 1633 Bishop of Lutsk 1633 1638 Kajetan Soltyk Bishop of Kyiv 1756 1759 then Bishop of Cracow 1759 1788 Jozef Andrzej Zaluski 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 BrodyOthers 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 Jozef Teodorowicz Archbishop of Lviv Armenian rite 1901 1938 SportSee also List of Ukrainian sportspeople 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 PecherovAlexander 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 Zalgiris player Alexander Volkov basketball player selected 134th by the Atlanta Hawks in 1986Boxing 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 boxerChess 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 ZatonskihFencing Vadym Gutzeit Grigory KrissYury Gelman born 1955 Ukrainian born American Olympic fencing coach Vadim Gutzeit saber fencer Olympic champion Ukraine s Youth and Sport Minister 15 Serhiy Kravchuk epee fencer Olympic bronze Grigory Kriss epee 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 epee fencer Olympic silver 10 time national champion world champion Olga Zhovnir saber fencerFigure 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 skaterFootball 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 amp 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 strikerGymnastics 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 gymnastIce 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 playerSwimming 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 swimmerTennis Julia GlushkoYulia 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 amp field Hanna Knyazyeva Minenko Olesya PovhAleksandr 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 amp 200 m champion Olesya Povh sprinter Olympic bronze world bronze Tamara amp 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 weightlifterWrestling Grigoriy GamarnikAlexander Davidovich Israeli Olympic wrestler Vasyl Fedoryshyn Olympic silver freestyle 60 kg world championship silver amp 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 wrestlerOther athletes Igor OlshanskyVladislav 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 OligarchsIhor 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 investorOtherPeter 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 Hurrem 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 activistSee alsoList of Ukrainian rulers List of Ukrainian Jews List of Galician Jews List of Ukrainian Americans List of Ukrainian Canadians Galicia Eastern Europe List of people from Galicia modern period List of people by nationality Seven Wonders of UkraineReferences Normanist theory Encyclopediaofukraine com October 24 1975 Retrieved January 28 2011 Myron Korduba Open Library Retrieved January 28 2011 The Odessa Numismatics Museum Museum com ua Retrieved January 28 2011 Yaroslava Mosijchuk 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