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Athletes
- Oleksandr Aliev, footballer
- Oksana Baiul, figure skater (Olympic gold)
- Igor Belanov, footballer, Ballon d'or (1986)
- Tetyana Berezhna, archer
- Oleg Blokhin, footballer, Ballon d'or (1975)
- Valeri Borzov, track & field (2 Olympic golds)
- David Bronstein, chess player
- Sergey Bubka, pole vault legend (Olympic gold), numerous world records
- Nataliya Burdeyna, archer
- Iryna Deriugina, gymnast
- Oleksandr Dimitrenko, boxer
- Ruslan Fedotenko, ice hockey player
- Efim Geller, chess player
- Maria Gorokhovskaya, gymnast (2 Olympic golds)
- Tatyana Gutsu, gymnast (Olympic gold)
- Dmytro Hrachov, archer (Olympic bronze - team)
- Vasyl Ivanchuk, chess grandmaster
- Viktor Khryapa, basketball player
- Volodymyr Klychko, boxer
- Vitaliy Klychko, boxer
- Yana Klochkova, swimmer (4 Olympic golds)
- Inessa Kravets, track & field (world record in triple jump)
- Lenny Krayzelburg, swimmer (now U.S. citizen) (3 Olympic golds)
- Larisa Latynina, gymnast (9 Olympic golds)
- Valeriy Lobanovs'kyi, football coach
- Valentin Mankin, sailor (3 Olympic golds)
- Andriy Medvedev, tennis player
- Slava Medvedenko, basketball player
- Fania Melnik, discus thrower (Olympic gold)
- Igor Olshansky, american football player
- Kateryna Palekha, archer
- Viktor Petrenko, figure skater (Olympic gold)
- Zhanna Pintusevych-Blok, sprinter (World Championship gold)
- Lilia Podkopayeva, gymnast (Olympic gold)
- Ruslan Ponomariov, chess player (world champion)
- Vitaly Potapenko, basketball player
- Tamara & Irina Press, sister athletes (5 Olympic golds in total)
- Serhiy Rebrov, football player
- Viktor Ruban, archer (Olympic bronze - team)
- Oleksandr Serdyuk, archer (Olympic bronze - team)
- Kateryna Serebrians'ka, gymnast (Olympic gold)
- Andriy Shevchenko, footballer, Ballon d'or (2004)
- Oleksandr Shovkovsky, footballer
- Oxana Skaldina, gymnast (Olympic bronze)
- Leonid Stein, chess player
- Timur Taimazov, heavy athletics (world and Olympic records)
- Anatoliy Tymoschuk, footballer
- Olexandra Tymoshenko, gymnast (Olympic gold)
- Yaroslav Vynokur, billiards player (World Champion)
- Vassyl Virastyuk, worlds strongest man competition (1st place 2004)
- Vladimir Virchis, boxer
- Vitaly Vishnevsky, ice hockey player
- Olena Vitrychenko, gymnast (Olympic bronze)
- Alexei Zhitnik, ice hockey player
- Nikolai Zherdev, ice hockey player
- Roman Zozulya, gymnast
Artists
Actors
- Elina Bystritskaya
- George Dzundza
- Lyudmila Gurchenko
- Milla Jovovich
- Roman Kartsev
- Mila Kunis
- Vasily Lanovoy
- Ana Layevska
- Paul Muni
- Ivan Mykolaychuk
- Alla Nazimova
- Zhanna Prokhorenko
- Ada Rohovtseva
- Yakov Smirnoff
- John Spencer
- Bohdan Stupka
- Maria Zankovetska
Composers
- Semen Hulak Artemovsky
- Virko Baley
- Vasyl' Barvinsky
- Maksym Berezovsky
- Matvei Blanter, Soviet composer, author of Katyusha
- Dmytro Bortniansky
- Marusia Churai
- Mykola Diletsky
- Isaak Dunayevsky, author of numerous popular Soviet songs
- Lesia Dytchko
- Reinhold Gliere
- Leonid Hrabovsky
- Volodymyr Ivasyuk
- Dimitri Klebanov
- Levko Kolodub
- Oleksander Koshetz
- Mykola Leontovych
- Zara Levina
- Boris Lyatoshynsky
- Mykola Lysenko
- Igor Markevitch
- Yuriy Oliynyk
- Mykola Ovsianiko-Kulikovsky
- Sergei Prokofiev, one of the greatest composers of the 20th century
- Levko Revutsky
- Nikolai Andreyevich Roslavets
- Valentin Silvestrov
- Myroslav Skoryk
- Hryhoriy Skovoroda
- Yevhen Stankovych
- Kyrylo Stetsenko
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer, author of Swan Lake and The Nutcracker ballets
- Artemy Vedel
- Yakiv Yatsynevych
Film and theater directors
- Sergei Bondarchuk
- Leonid Bykov
- Grigori Chukhrai
- Alexander Dovzhenko, the most famous Ukrainian filmmaker
- Edward Dmytryk
- Les Kurbas
- Anatole Litvak
- Roman Viktyuk
Musicians
- Simon Barere, pianist
- Yuri Bashmet, viola soloist
- Felix Blumenfeld, pianist
- Shura Cherkassky, pianist
- Kvitka Cisyk, singer
- Mischa Elman, violinist
- Anthony Fedorov, American pop singer
- Emanuel Feuermann, cellist (born in Austrian Galicia)
- Michael Frimenko, American bass player
- Emil Gilels, pianist
- Jascha Horenstein, conductor
- Vladimir Horowitz, pianist
- Pawlo Humeniuk
- Iosif Kobzon, iconic Soviet crooner
- Leonid Kogan, violinist
- Solomiya Krushelnytska, opera singer
- Ani Lorak, singer
- Ruslana Lyzhichko, pop singer
- Nathan Milstein, violinist
- Benno Moiseiwitsch, pianist
- David Oistrakh, violinist
- Igor Oistrakh, violinist
- Leo Ornstein, composer
- Pawlo Humeniuk
- Ruslana, singer
- Leo Sirota, pianist
- Sviatoslav Richter, pianist
- Steven Staryk, violinist
- Isaac Stern, violinist
- Paul Stetsenko, organist
- Leonid Utyosov, jazz singer
- Alexander Vertinsky, Russian singer and composer
- Alexander Vynograd
- Rostislaw Wygranienko
Painters
- Ivan Aivazovsky, Russian painter, famous for his seascapes
- Marie Bashkirtseff
- Alexander Bogomazov
- Vladimir Borovikovsky
- Robert Brackman
- Mykola Burachek
- David Burliuk, Avante-gurde painter
- Wladimir Burliuk
- Louis Choris
- Mychajlo Dmytrenko
- Dmitry Grigorovich
- Jacques Hnizdovsky
- Tatiana Holembievska
- Alexander Khvostenko-Khvostov
- Pyotr Konchalovsky
- Vasyl Krychevsky
- Fedir Krychevsky
- Dmitry Levitzky
- Kazimir Malevich, pioneer of geometric abstract art, author of Black Square
- Abram Manevich
- Ivan Marchuk
- Oleksandr Murashko
- Heorhiy Narbut
- Solomon Nikritin
- Nykifor
- Victor Palmov
- Ilya Repin, leading Russian painter
- Zinaida Serebryakova
- Opanas Slastion, folklorist, designer of modern type of bandura
- Anton Solomoukha
- Vladimir Sosnovsky
- Vladimir Tatlin
- Sonia Terk
- Andy Warhol, major figure in the pop art movement
- Tetyana Yablonska
- Vasiliy Yermilov
- Ivan Yizhakevich
Poets
- Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet
- Bohdan-Igor Antonych
- Mikola Bazhan
- Hayyim Nahman Bialik, one of the most influential modern Hebrew poets
- Ivan Franko, poet, writer
- Alexander Galich, dissident Soviet bard
- Taras Shevchenko, the most famous Ukrainian poet
- Vasyl Symonenko
- Olena Teliha
- Pavlo Tychyna
- Maksym Rylsky, poet, publicist
- Lesya Ukrainka
- Vasyl Stus
Sculptors
- Alexander Archipenko, U.S. sculptor and graphic artist
- Victor Konoval
- Anatoly Kushch
- Oleg Pinchuk
- Nikolai Syadristy
- Vladimir Tatlin
- Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine
- Valentyn Znoba
Writers
- Shmuel Agnon, Israeli writer, Nobel Prize (1966)
- Sholom Aleichem, famous Jewish writer
- Yuriy Andrukhovych
- Isaac Babel, Russian writer
- Eduard Bagritsky
- Levko Borovykovsky
- Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian writer, author of The Master and Margarita
- Marko Cheremshyna
- Aleksander Dukhnovych
- Raya Dunayevskaya, Marxist humanist
- Ilya Ehrenburg, publicist
- Jan Galka
- Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer
- Daniil Granin
- Vasily Grossman
- Yakiv Holovatskyi
- Oles Honchar, author of The Cathedral
- Yevhen Hrebinka
- Yevhen Hutsalo
- Ilya Ilf, Russian humorist, co-author of The Twelve Chairs
- Valentin Kataev, Russian novelist and dissident
- Mykola Khvyliovyi
- Olha Kobylanska
- Lev Kopelev, author and dissident
- Aleksandr Korneichuk, dramatist
- Nikolay Kostomarov, writer, historian
- Ivan Kotlyarevsky, playwright
- Marko Kropivnitsky
- Mikola Kulish, dramatist
- Panteleymon Kulish
- Andrey Kurkov
- Gregory Kvitka
- Stanisław Lem, Polish science fiction writer, author of Solaris
- Alexandra Marinina, Russian writer of detective stories
- Les Martovych
- Ambros Metlynsky, poet, writer
- Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky
- Viktor Nekrasov, Russian writer and dissident
- Bohdan Osadchy
- Chuck Palahniuk, (Ukrainian father)
- Sofia Parfanovych
- Mykhailo Pavlyk
- Yevgeny Petrov, Russian humorist, co-author of The Twelve Chairs
- Valerian Pidmohylny, novelist
- Les Podervianskiy, satirist and playwrighter
- Yuri Pokalchuk
- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, writer, author of Venus in Furs
- Bruno Schulz, one of the greatest Polish prose stylists of the 20th century, painter
- Markian Shashkevich
- Gregory Skovoroda, poet, writer, philosopher
- Juliusz Słowacki, Polish poet
- Michael Staritsky
- Vasyl Stefanyk
- Michael Stelmakh
- Ivan Tobilevich
- Ivan Vahylevych
- Marko Vovchok
- Volodymyr Vynnychenko
- Ostap Vyshnia
- Natan Ilyich Zabara
- Pavlo Zahrebelnyi
- Marya Zaturenska
- Mykola Zerov
- Mikhail Zhvanetskiy, famous Russian humorist
Other performing artists
Business
- Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine's richest man
- Mikhail Fridman, Russian oligarch, billionaire
- Petro Jacyk, community benefactor
- Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal
- Viktor Pinchuk, Ukraine's second-richest man, son-in-law of Leonid Kuchma
- Petro Poroshenko, confectionary baron, close confidant of Viktor Yushchenko
- Jay Pritzker, founder of Hyatt and philanthropist
- Viktor Vekselberg, Russian oligarch, billionaire
- John Zubal, founder of Zubal Books
Cosmonauts
- Anatoly Artsebarsky
- Leonid Kadeniuk
- Yuri Ivanovich Onufrienko, Hero of The Russian Federation
- Yuri Petrovich Gidzenko, Hero of The Russian Federation
Cossack Hetmans
- Dem'ian Mnohohrishnyi
- Kryshtof Kosynsky
- Severyn Nalyvaiko
- Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny
- Taras Fedorovych
- Bohdan Khmelnytsky
- Ivan Vyhovsky
- Yurii Khmelnytsky
- Pavlo Teteria
- Ivan Samoylovych
- Petro Doroshenko
- Ivan Mazepa
- Ivan Skoropadsky
- Pavlo Polubotok
- Danylo Apostol
- Kyrylo Rozumovsky
Academics
Biologists/Physicians
- Nikolai Amosov
- Oleksandr Bohomolets
- Theodosius Dobzhansky
- Katherine Esau
- Volodymyr Filatov
- Waldemar Haffkine
- Dimitri Ivanovski
- Trofim Lysenko
- Ilya Mechnikov, microbilogist, Nobel Prize in Medicine (1908)
- Jaroslaw Nowicky
- Svitlana P. Sydorenko
- Vladimir Vernadsky, mineralogist, biochemist
- Danylo Zabolotny
Chemists
- Anatoly Babko
- George Kistiakowsky
- Ivan Horbachevsky
- Boris Tyutyunnikov
- Selman Waksman, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1952)
Computer scientists
- Viktor Hlushkov
- Sergei Lebedev, first programmable computer in Continental Europe
Economists
- Mikhail Tugan Baranovsky
- Simon Kuznets, Nobel Prize (1971)
- Eugen Slutsky, Slutsky equation
Engineers
- Oleg Antonov, aircraft designer
- Jacques Bogopolsky, movie cameras
- Vladimir Chelomei, ballistic missile and spacecraft designer
- Nicholas Holonyak, first visible light-emitting diode
- Nikolai Kibalchich, rocket science pioneer
- Yuri Kondratyuk, spaceflight pioneer
- Sergey Korolev, first spacecraft designer
- Roman Kroitor
- Vladimir Mackiw, mining engineer
- Aleksandr A. Morozov, tank designer, patron of the Morozov Design Bureau
- Yevhen Paton, welding engineer
- Alexander Samakula, anti-reflective coating for optical lenses
- Igor Sikorsky, inventor of helicopter
- Stephen Timoshenko, father of modern engineering mechanics
Historians
- Mykhaylo Drahomanov
- Mykhailo Hrushevsky
- Mykhaylo Maksymovych
- Viktor Suvorov, WWII researcher (Ukrainian father)
- Dmytro Yavornytsky
Mathematicians
Main article Ukrainian mathematicians
- Stefan Banach, Polish mathematician of Lwów School of Mathematics
- Nikolay Bogolyubov
- Viktor Yakovlevich Bunyakovskii
- Nikolai Chebotaryov
- Boris Gnedenko
- Mikhail Kravchuk
- Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko
- Volodymyr Semenovych Korolyuk
- Yakov Kulik
- Vladimir Marchenko
- Yurii Mytropolshy
- Mark Naimark
- Olga Arsenievna Oleinik
- Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky
- Volodymyr Petryshyn
- Platon Poretsky
- Vladimir Potapov
- Anatoly Samoilenko
- Juliusz Schauder, Polish mathematician of Lwów School of Mathematics
- Igor Shafarevich
- Oleksandr Sharkovsky
- Samuil Shatunovsky
- Anatoliy Skorokhod
- Josif Shtokalo
- Ivan Sleszynski
- Hugo Steinhaus, Polish mathematician of Lwów School of Mathematics
- Stanisław Marcin Ulam, Polish mathematician of Lwów School of Mathematics
- Pavel Urysohn
- Mikhail Vashchenko-Zakharchenko
- Vladimir Veksler
- Georgy Voronoy
Physicists
- Gersh Budker, nuclear physicist (Budker Institute for Nuclear Physics)
- George Gamow, liquid drop model of atom nucleus
- Edward Ginzton
- Abram Ioffe, prominent Soviet physicist (Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute)
- Isaak Khalatnikov, BKL conjecture in general relativity
- Mykhailo Kozlovskii
- Leo Palatnik, thin film physics
- Nikolai Pilchikov, electronic photography
- Ivan Pulyui, discoverer of X-rays (disputed)
- George Yuri Rainich, mathematical physicist
- Cyril Sinelnikov, nuclear physicist
Other academics
- Nikolai Berdyaev, Russian religious philosopher
- Pavel Petrovich Blonsky
- Fedir Vovk
- Olgerd Bochkovsky
- Vikentiy Khvoyka
- Mykola Andrusov
- Albert Bandura
- Volodymyr Kunko-Bohoslavetz
- Viktor Kyrpychov
- Georgii Pfeiffer
- Yuri Linnik
- Volodymyr Levytsky
- Isydore Hlynka
- Nikolai Kholodny
- Pavlo Tutkovsky
Politicians
Ukrainian politicians
- Mykola Azarov, minister of finance, vice premier
- Stepan Bandera, nationalist leader
- Taras Chornovil
- Vyacheslav Chornovil
- Mykhaylo Hrushevsky, president of Ukrainian People's Republic
- Leonid Kravchuk, president
- Leonid Kuchma, president
- Anastassia Lisowska
- Nestor Makhno
- Kirill S. Moskalenko
- Symon Petliura
- Borys Tarasyuk, foreign mnister
- Yuliya Tymoshenko, prime minister
- Volodymyr Vynnychenko, prime minister of Ukrainian People's Republic, writer
- Viktor Yushchenko, president
- Viktor Yanukovych, prime minister, presidential candidate in 2004 elections
Zionists and Israeli politicians
- Chaim Arlosoroff, notable Zionist, leader of Mapai
- Levi Eshkol, prime minister of Israel
- Vladimir Jabotinsky, notable Zionist, founder of Revisionist Zionism
- Ephraim Katzir, Labor Party politician, president of Israel
- Golda Meir, prime minister of Israel
- Natan Sharansky, Soviet human rights activist and Israeli politician
- Moshe Sharett, prime minister of Israel
Bolsheviks and Soviet politicians
- Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader
- Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet leader
- Andrei Gromyko, Soviet foreign minister
- Nikita Khruschev, Soviet leader
- Nikolai Podgorny, member of Politburo
- Georgy Pyatakov, Bolshevik revolutionary, Trotskyite
- Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, leader of the Communist Party of Ukraine (1972-1989)
- Leon Trotsky, leading Bolshevik revolutionary, founder of the Red Army
- Moisei Uritsky, Bolshevik revolutionary
- Grigory Zinoviev, Bolshevik revolutionary
Soviet dissidents
Russian politicians
- Sergei Kiriyenko, prime minister of Russian Federation
- Yevgeny Primakov, prime minister of Russian Federation
- Yevgeniy Yasin, minister of economy of Russian Federation
- Grigory Yavlinsky, liberal economist
Polish politicians
- Jacek Kuroń, opposition leader with the Solidarity movement
Military Figures
- Petr Koshevoi, Marshal of the Soviet Union
- Roman Abraham, general of the Polish army
- Andrei Grechko, Marshal of the Soviet Union
- Ivan Kozhedub, legendary fighter pilot of WWII, top USSR ace.
- Filip Konowal, Ukrainian Canadian war hero
- Grigory Kulik, Marshal of the Soviet Union
- Rodion Malinovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union
- Ivan Paskevich, field marshal of the Russian imperial army
- Semyon Timoshenko, Marshal of the Soviet Union
- Kliment Voroshilov, Marshal of the Soviet Union
- Andrei Yeremenko, Marshal of the Soviet Union
Religious leaders and theologists
Orthodox Christian and Greek Catholic
- Lyubomyr Huzar, Cardinal, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
- John (Maximovitch) of Tobolsk
- Petro Mohyla
- Andriy Sheptytsky, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church through both world wars
- Iosef Slipyi
- Myroslav Liubachivsky
Jewish
- Zvi Hirsch Chajes, talmudic scholar
- Israel ben Eliezer, founder of Hasidism
- Malbim, rabbi and preacher
- Nachman of Breslov, Hasidic leader
- Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev, Hasidic leader
Other
- Helena Blavatsky, founder of Theosophy
Other
- Elena Filatova, Internet diarist
- Georgiy Gongadze, journalist whose murder was linked to government officials
- Joseph Oleskiw, early promoter of immigration to Canada
- Anatoly Onoprienko, serial killer
- Leonid Stadnik, world's tallest man
- Victoria Zdrok, erotic model
Parents born in Ukraine
- Izzy Asper
- Pierre Bérégovoy
- Sasha Cohen
- Mike Ditka
- Leonard Nimoy
- Jack Palance
- William S. Paley
- William Shatner
- Beverly Sills
- Paul Wellstone
- Larisa Oleynik