List of Ukrainians
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This is a list of individuals who were born and lived in territories currently in Ukraine
but who may not be ethnic Ukrainians
. Throughout Eastern European history, Ukrainian lands were ethnically and culturally diverse. Originally under the hegemony of the Kievan Rus'
, a schism took place after the Mongol invasion and Ukrainian/Belarusian lands were taken from the East Slavic civilization
and annexed into the growing Duchy of Lithuania
, where a Ruthenian language
distinct from Old East Slavic evolved, while Muscovy stayed under Mongol control for another century, absorbing much Mongol vocabulary, hence separating modern Russian from modern Belarussian and Ukrainian
. Lithuania's unification with Poland into the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
further added a Polonization
factor to Ruthenian
lands. In the 1930s, the Holodomor
reduced the Ukrainian population of eastern Ukraine and led to increased Russification in the east.
Although Ukrainians have always been a major ethnic group in Ukraine, ethnic Ruthenians were frequently a rural people and often formed minorities in their own cities and towns. For example, due to the imperialistic anti-Ukrainian policies of Moscow Communists, Kyiv in the 1920s was approximately 1/3 Jewish and 1/3 Russian, with the remaining third constituting ethnic Ukrainians, Poles
, and Germans
. In dictator-ruled Poland between the World Wars, similar anti-Ukrainian policies were implemented. For instance, a similar demographic history existed in Lviv
(then occupied by militaristic dictator-ruled Poland) with a majority Polish and Jewish population. However, during the Second World War, the Jewish population of Ukraine was virtually eliminated by the Holocaust
.
and modern Russia were ethnic Ukrainians or come from Ukraine. See :Category:Ukrainian cosmonauts for the full list.
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
but who may not be ethnic Ukrainians
Ukrainians
Ukrainians are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine, which is the sixth-largest nation in Europe. The Constitution of Ukraine applies the term 'Ukrainians' to all its citizens...
. Throughout Eastern European history, Ukrainian lands were ethnically and culturally diverse. Originally under the hegemony of the Kievan Rus'
Kievan Rus'
Kievan Rus was a medieval polity in Eastern Europe, from the late 9th to the mid 13th century, when it disintegrated under the pressure of the Mongol invasion of 1237–1240....
, a schism took place after the Mongol invasion and Ukrainian/Belarusian lands were taken from the East Slavic civilization
East Slavs
The East Slavs are Slavic peoples speaking East Slavic languages. Formerly the main population of the medieval state of Kievan Rus, by the seventeenth century they evolved into the Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian peoples.-Sources:...
and annexed into the growing Duchy of Lithuania
Duchy of Lithuania
Duchy of Lithuania was a state-territorial formation of ethnic Lithuanians, that existed from the 12th century until 1413. Most of the time it was a constituent part and a nucleus of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania...
, where a Ruthenian language
Ruthenian language
Ruthenian, or Old Ruthenian , is a term used for the varieties of Eastern Slavonic spoken in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and later in the East Slavic territories of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth....
distinct from Old East Slavic evolved, while Muscovy stayed under Mongol control for another century, absorbing much Mongol vocabulary, hence separating modern Russian from modern Belarussian and Ukrainian
Ukrainian language
Ukrainian is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. It is the official state language of Ukraine. Written Ukrainian uses a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet....
. Lithuania's unification with Poland into the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was a dualistic state of Poland and Lithuania ruled by a common monarch. It was the largest and one of the most populous countries of 16th- and 17th‑century Europe with some and a multi-ethnic population of 11 million at its peak in the early 17th century...
further added a Polonization
Polonization
Polonization was the acquisition or imposition of elements of Polish culture, in particular, Polish language, as experienced in some historic periods by non-Polish populations of territories controlled or substantially influenced by Poland...
factor to Ruthenian
Ruthenian
Ruthenian may refer to:*Ruthenia, a name applied to various parts of Eastern Europe*Ruthenians, a historic ethnic group*Ruthenian Catholic Church, the sui iuris particular church united to the Bishop of Rome and the Roman Catholic Church...
lands. In the 1930s, the Holodomor
Holodomor
The Holodomor was a man-made famine in the Ukrainian SSR between 1932 and 1933. During the famine, which is also known as the "terror-famine in Ukraine" and "famine-genocide in Ukraine", millions of Ukrainians died of starvation in a peacetime catastrophe unprecedented in the history of...
reduced the Ukrainian population of eastern Ukraine and led to increased Russification in the east.
Although Ukrainians have always been a major ethnic group in Ukraine, ethnic Ruthenians were frequently a rural people and often formed minorities in their own cities and towns. For example, due to the imperialistic anti-Ukrainian policies of Moscow Communists, Kyiv in the 1920s was approximately 1/3 Jewish and 1/3 Russian, with the remaining third constituting ethnic Ukrainians, Poles
Poles
thumb|right|180px|The state flag of [[Poland]] as used by Polish government and diplomatic authoritiesThe Polish people, or Poles , are a nation indigenous to Poland. They are united by the Polish language, which belongs to the historical Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages of Central Europe...
, and Germans
Germans
The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....
. In dictator-ruled Poland between the World Wars, similar anti-Ukrainian policies were implemented. For instance, a similar demographic history existed in Lviv
Lviv
Lviv is a city in western Ukraine. The city is regarded as one of the main cultural centres of today's Ukraine and historically has also been a major Polish and Jewish cultural center, as Poles and Jews were the two main ethnicities of the city until the outbreak of World War II and the following...
(then occupied by militaristic dictator-ruled Poland) with a majority Polish and Jewish population. However, during the Second World War, the Jewish population of Ukraine was virtually eliminated by the Holocaust
Holocaust in Ukraine
The Holocaust in Ukraine refers to the Nazi crimes during the Occupation of Ukraine by Nazi Germany. Between 1941 and 1945 the Holocaust in Ukraine killed approximately 3,000,000 Ukrainian victims as part of Nazi extermination policies, along with between 850,000 - 900,000 Jews who lived in the...
.
Archeologists
- Ivan Borkovsky
- Vikentiy Khvoika
- Yaroslav Pasternak
- Simhah PinskerSimhah PinskerSimhah Pinsker was a Polish-Jewish scholar and archeologist born at Tarnopol, Galicia...
- Yuriy ShumovskyiYuriy ShumovskyiYuriy Shumovskyi was a famous Ukrainian archaeologist and priest. He was born in 1908 in the village of Myrohoshcha, Dubno district, Volhynian Governorate, Russian Empire .-References:...
Biologists/physicians
- Mykola Amosiv
- Oleksandr BohomoletsOleksandr BohomoletsOleksandr Oleksandrovich Bogomoletz or Bogomolets was a famous Ukrainian physiologist. He was president of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and director of the Institute of Physiology in Kiev...
- Theodosius DobzhanskyTheodosius DobzhanskyTheodosius Grygorovych Dobzhansky ForMemRS was a prominent geneticist and evolutionary biologist, and a central figure in the field of evolutionary biology for his work in shaping the unifying modern evolutionary synthesis...
- Katherine EsauKatherine EsauKatherine Esau was a German-American botanist.She was born in Yekaterinoslav, Russian Empire to a family of Mennonites of German descent. After the Revolution her family moved to Germany, and then to California, where she achieved her doctorate in 1931...
- Vladimir Filatov
- Waldemar HaffkineWaldemar HaffkineWaldemar Mordecai Wolff Haffkine, CIE was a Russian Jewish bacteriologist, whose career was blighted in Russia because "he refused to convert to Russian Orthodoxy." He emigrated and worked at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, where he developed an anti-cholera vaccine that he tried out successfully...
- Dmytro Ivanovski
- Trofim LysenkoTrofim LysenkoTrofim Denisovich Lysenko was a Soviet agronomist of Ukrainian origin, who was director of Soviet biology under Joseph Stalin. Lysenko rejected Mendelian genetics in favor of the hybridization theories of Russian horticulturist Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, and adopted them into a powerful...
- Élie Metchnikoff, microbiologist
- Volodymyr Vernadsky, mineralogist, biochemist
- Danylo ZabolotnyDanylo ZabolotnyDanylo Kyrylovych Zabolotny was a Ukrainian epidemiologist and the founder of the world's first research department of epidemiology. In 1927, he published one of the first texts in his field, Fundamentals of Epidemiology....
Chemists
- Anatoly BabkoAnatoly BabkoAnatoly Babko was a famous Ukrainian chemist, specializing in analytical chemistry and in the chemistry of complex compounds. He published more than 450 scientific works and 9 books that were translated into several languages....
- George KistiakowskyGeorge KistiakowskyGeorge Bogdan Kistiakowsky was a Ukrainian-American chemistry professor at Harvard who participated in the Manhattan Project and later served as President Eisenhower's Science Advisor...
- Ivan HorbachevskyIvan HorbachevskyIvan Horbachevsky, also Jan Horbaczewski, Ivan Horbaczewski was an eminent Ukrainian chemist. He is particularly known for his contributions in organic chemistry and biochemistry. He was the first to synthesize glycine. He noticed that aminoacids were building blocks of proteins...
- Sviatoslaw Trofimenko
- Selman WaksmanSelman WaksmanSelman Abraham Waksman was an American biochemist and microbiologist whose research into organic substances—largely into organisms that live in soil—and their decomposition promoted the discovery of Streptomycin, and several other antibiotics...
, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1952)
Doctors & surgeons
- Vladimir Filatov, ophthalmologist
- Tadeusz Krwawicz (Tadey Krvavych), ophthalmologist (full biography on Polish Academy of Science website)
Economists
- Mikhail Tugan-BaranovskyMikhail Tugan-BaranovskyMikhail Ivanovich Tugan-Baranovsky or Myhaylo Tuhan-Baranovsky was the Ukrainian politician, statesman, and a noted Russian-Ukrainian economist, a tutor of Nikolai Kondratiev...
(1865–1919) - Simon KuznetsSimon KuznetsSimon Smith Kuznets was a Russian American economist at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania who won the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and deepened insight into the economic and...
, Nobel Prize (1971) - Eugen SlutskyEugen SlutskyEvgeny "Eugen" Evgenievich Slutsky was a Russian/Soviet mathematical statistician, economist and political economist.-Slutsky's work in economics:...
(1880–1948), Slutsky equationSlutsky equationThe Slutsky equation in economics, named after Eugen Slutsky , relates changes in Marshallian demand to changes in Hicksian demand...
(born in Russian EmpireRussian EmpireThe Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia and the predecessor of the Soviet Union...
, in the territory of Ukraine)
Engineers
- Oleg AntonovOleg AntonovOleg Konstantinovich Antonov was a Soviet aircraft designer, the founder of Antonov ASTC, a world-famous aircraft company in Ukraine, later named in his honour.-Early life:...
, aircraft designer - Jacques BogopolskyJacques BogopolskyJacques Bogopolsky was a Ukrainian, , engineer and camera designer who was a prolific inventor of revolutionary movie cameras. The brand name Bolex comes from Jacques Bogopolsky. He was also instrumental in the initial design of the Alpa make of 35mm single-lens reflex cameras.- External links :**...
, movie cameras - Vladimir Chelomey, ballistic missile and spacecraft designer
- Valentyn Hlushko, engineer
- Mykola Holonyak, first visible diode
- Mykola Kybalchich, rocket science pioneer
- Yuri KondratyukYuri KondratyukYuri Vasilievich Kondratyuk , was a follower, supporter and founder of cosmism, pioneer of astronautics and spaceflight. He was a theoretician and a visionary who, in the early twentieth century, foresaw ways of reaching the moon...
, spaceflight pioneer - Sergei Korolev, first Ukrainian spacecraft designer
- Roman KroitorRoman KroitorRoman Kroitor is a Canadian filmmaker who is known as an early practitioner of Cinéma vérité, as co-founder of IMAX, and as creator of the Sandde hand-drawn stereoscopic animation system...
- Volodymyr Mackiw, mining engineer
- Alexander Alexandrovich MorozovAlexander Alexandrovich MorozovOlexandr Oleksandrovych Morozov was a Soviet engineer and tank designer.A graduate from the Moscow Mechanical Institute, in 1928 Morozov started work at a new design bureau headed by I. Aleksiyenko, at the Kharkiv Locomotive Factory of Kharkiv, Ukraine. Here he contributed to the lacklustre T-12...
, tank designer, patron of the Moroziv Design Bureau - Yevhen Paton, welding engineer
- Igor SikorskyIgor SikorskyIgor Sikorsky , born Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky was a Russian American pioneer of aviation in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft...
, inventor of helicopter - Alexander TetelbaumAlexander TetelbaumAlexander Tetelbaum is an educator, inventor, scientist, academician, and entrepreneur. He has been a pioneer in the Electronic Design Automation industry since the 1960s. He has been selected and has held high level positions in academia and industry. He is a Fellow and Honorary Doctor of...
, computer engineer - Stepan Tymoshenko, father of modern Ukrainian engineering mechanics
- Volodymyr HorbulinVolodymyr HorbulinVolodymyr Horbulin Volodymyr Horbulin Volodymyr Horbulin (Ukrainian: Володимир Павлович Горбулін, (born 17 January 1939) is a Ukrainian statesman and politician, Head of the Council for Foreign and Security Policy, former secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, former...
, developer of strategic rocket systems and space vehicles of “Kosmos” series
Historians
- Volodymyr AntonovychVolodymyr AntonovychVolodymyr Antonovych , was a prominent Ukrainian historian and one of the leaders of the Ukrainian national awakening in the Russian Empire. As a historian, Antonovych, who was longtime Professor of History at the University of Kiev, represented a populist approach to Ukrainian history.This...
, pro-Western, also folklorist - Olena ApanovichOlena ApanovichOlena Apanovych was a Ukrainian historian, researcher of Zaporozhian Cossackdom.-Biography:Olena Apanovych was born in Melekes of Simbirsk Governorate , Russia, in the family of the railroad clerk. By the memories of her relatives her mother gave birth to Olena in the railroad car...
- Mykola Chubaty
- Dmytro DoroshenkoDmytro DoroshenkoDmytro Doroshenko was a prominent Ukrainian political figure during the revolution of 1917-1918 and a leading Ukrainian emigre historian during the inter-war period.-Political career:...
- Mykhailo Drahomaniv, also political emigre and folklorist
- Stephen Horak
- Mykhailo HrushevskyMykhailo HrushevskyMykhailo Serhiyovych Hrushevsky was a Ukrainian academician, politician, historian, and statesman, one of the most important figures of the Ukrainian national revival of the early 20th century...
, also pro-Western political leader - Taras HunczakTaras HunczakTaras Hunczak is a historian and professor emeritus at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. He lectures in Ukrainian, Russian, and East-European history.Dr. Hunczak has written extensively on Ukrainian history, the twentieth century in particular....
- Myron Korduba
- Mykola KostomarivNikolay KostomarovNikolay Ivanovich Kostomarov , of mixed Russian and Ukrainian origin, is one of the most distinguished Russian and Ukrainian historians, a Professor of History at the Kiev University and later at the St...
, also literary historian, folklorist - Borys Krupnytsky
- Peter LobodaPeter LobodaPeter G. Loboda is the Founder and Director of the Odessa Numismatics Museum.Loboda graduated from the Odessa Marine Academy and worked as a Naval officer. Since 1970 for more than twenty years he has worked on the sea-going ships of the Black Sea Shipping Company all over the world.Loboda is an...
, researcher of Ancient Ukrainian Numismatics - George S. N. LuckyjGeorge S. N. LuckyjGeorge Stephen Nestor Luckyj was a scholar of Ukrainian literature, who greatly contributed to the awareness of Ukrainian literature in the English-speaking world and to the continuation of legitimate scholarship on the subject during the post-war period.Luckyj was born in 1919 in the village...
, literary historian - Mykhailo Maksymovych, also literary historian, folklorist
- Paul Robert MagocsiPaul Robert MagocsiPaul Robert Magocsi is an American professor of history, political science, and Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto. He has been with the University since 1980, and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1996...
, Chairman of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto - Oleksander OhloblynOleksander OhloblynOleksander Ohloblyn, Ukr. Олександер Петрович Оглоблин was one of the most important Ukrainian emigre historians of the Cold War era.-Life and career:...
- Bohdan OsadchukBohdan OsadchukBohdan Osadchuk , was a Ukrainian historian and journalist.Dr. Bohdan Osadchuk was born in Kolomyia. He was a professor at the Free University of Berlin, one of the most senior members of the Ukrainian Free University of Munich, and a long-standing freelance writer for Kultura, a Polish emigre...
, also journalist - Nataliia Polonska-VasylenkoNataliia Polonska-VasylenkoNataliia Polonska-Vasylenko was one of the foremost Ukrainian historians of the 20th century...
- Omeljan PritsakOmeljan PritsakOmeljan Pritsak was the first Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University and the founder and first director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.-Career:Pritsak began his academic career at the University of Lvov in interwar Poland where he...
, orientalist - Serhii Shelukhyn
- Roman Shporluk
- Viktor SuvorovViktor SuvorovViktor Suvorov is the pen name for Vladimir Bogdanovich Rezun , a former Soviet and now British writer of Russian and Ukrainian descent who writes primarily in Russian, as well as a former Soviet military intelligence spy who defected to the UK...
, spy and WWII researcher - Stepan Tomashivsky
- Dmytro YavornytskyDmytro YavornytskyDmytro Yavornytsky , was a noted Ukrainian historian, archeologist, ethnographer, folklorist, and lexicographer. He was one of the most prominent researchers of the Ukrainian Cossacks, especially the Zaporozhian Cossacks , and the author of their first general history...
, Cossack historian, archeologist
Mathematicians
Main article Ukrainian mathematicians- Stypano BanakoStefan BanachStefan Banach was a Polish mathematician who worked in interwar Poland and in Soviet Ukraine. He is generally considered to have been one of the 20th century's most important and influential mathematicians....
- Anatoly Fomenko
- Myron Hlynka
- Marko KacMark KacMark Kac was a Polish mathematician. His main interest was probability theory. His question, "Can one hear the shape of a drum?" set off research into spectral theory, with the idea of understanding the extent to which the spectrum allows one to read back the geometry. Kac completed his Ph.D...
- Volodymyr Semenovych Korolyuk
- Mykhailo Krawtchouk
- Yakiv Kulik
- Mark Krein
- Volodymyr Marchenko
- Mark NaimarkMark NaimarkMark Aronovich Naimark was a Soviet mathematician.He was born in Odessa, Russian Empire into a Jewish family and died in Moscow, USSR...
- Volodymyr PetryshynVolodymyr PetryshynWalter Volodymyr Petryshyn is a famous Ukrainian mathematician.He had commenced his studies in Lviv during World War II, but he became a displaced person at the end of the war and continued his schooling in Germany...
- Platon PoretskyPlaton PoretskyPlaton Sergeevich Poretsky was a noted Russian astronomer, mathematician, and logician. Graduated from Kharkov University he worked in Astrakhan and Pulkovo. Later being an astronomer at Kazan University after an advice of his older colleague Professor of Mathematics A.V. Vasiliev at Kazan...
- Volodymyr Potapiv
- Anatoly SamoilenkoAnatoly SamoilenkoAnatoly Samoilenko is a Ukrainian mathematician. He graduated from the University of Kiev in 1960, and then taught there from 1967 to 1988. His most original contribution was the numeric-analytic method for the study of periodic solutions of differential equations with periodic right-hand...
- Oleksandr Mikolaiovich SharkovskyOleksandr Mikolaiovich SharkovskyOleksandr Mikolaiovich Sharkovsky is a prominent Ukrainian mathematician most famous for developing Sharkovsky's Theorem in 1964. In 2006 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.-External links:...
- Samuil ShatunovskySamuil ShatunovskySamuil Shatunovsky was a Russian mathematician. He was born in Velyka Znamianka, Ukraine in a poor Jewish family as the 9th child. He completed secondary education in Kherson, Ukraine; then studied for a year in Rostov, Russia and moved to Saint Petersburg seeking university degree. There he...
- Anatoliy SkorokhodAnatoliy SkorokhodAnatoliy Volodymyrovych Skorokhod was a Soviet and Ukrainian mathematician, and an academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine from 1985 to his death in 2011....
- Josif ShtokaloJosif ShtokaloJosif Shtokalo was a famous Ukrainian mathematician. Shtokalo worked mainly in the areas of differential equations, operational calculus and the history of mathematics.- External links :...
- Ivan ŚleszyńskiIvan SleszynskiIvan Śleszyński was a Ukrainian-born Polish mathematician. Śleszyński's main work was on continued fractions, least squares and axiomatic proof theory based on mathematical logic. He and Alfred Pringsheim, working separately, proved what is now called the Śleszyński–Pringsheim theorem.-External...
- Pavlo Urysohn
- Mykhailo Vashchenko-Zakharchenko
- Vladimir VekslerVladimir VekslerVladimir Iosifovich Veksler was a prominent Soviet experimental physicist....
- Naum Z. ShorNaum Z. ShorNaum Zuselevich Shor was a Soviet and Ukrainian Jewish mathematician specializing in optimization.He made significant contributions to nonlinear and stochastic programming, numerical techniques for non-smooth optimization, discrete optimization problems, matrix optimization, dual quadratic bounds...
Philosophers
- Nikolai BerdyaevNikolai BerdyaevNikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev was a Russian religious and political philosopher.-Early life and education:Berdyaev was born in Kiev into an aristocratic military family. He spent a solitary childhood at home, where his father's library allowed him to read widely...
, pro-Western religious philosopher - Martin BuberMartin BuberMartin Buber was an Austrian-born Jewish philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a form of religious existentialism centered on the distinction between the I-Thou relationship and the I-It relationship....
, Israeli philosopher - Mikhail LifshitzMikhail LifshitzMikhail Aleksandrovich Lifshitz – September 28, 1983, Moscow) was a Soviet Marxian literary critic and philosopher of art. As an academic philosopher, Lifshitz served as an executive member of Soviet Academy of Sciences from 1975...
, philosopher - Lev ShestovLev ShestovLev Isaakovich Shestov , born Yehuda Leyb Schwarzmann , was a Ukrainian/Russian existentialist philosopher. Born in Kiev on , he emigrated to France in 1921, fleeing from the aftermath of the October Revolution. He lived in Paris until his death on November 19, 1938.- Life :Shestov was born Lev...
, existentialist philosopher, pro-democracy freedom thinker - Hryhorii Skovoroda, philosopher, poet and composer
Physicists
- Mykola Boholyubov, theory of superconductivity, nonlinear mechanics
- Gersh BudkerGersh BudkerGersh Itskovich Budker , also named Alexander Mikhailovich Budker, was a Soviet nuclear physicist....
, nuclear physicist (Budker Institute of Nuclear PhysicsBudker Institute of Nuclear PhysicsThe Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics is one of the major centres of advanced study of nuclear physics in Russia. It is located in the Siberian town Akademgorodok, on Academician Lavrentiev Avenue. The institute was founded by Gersh Itskovich Budker in 1959...
) - Georges CharpakGeorges CharpakGeorges Charpak was a French physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992.-Life:Georges Charpak was born to Jewish family in the village of Dąbrowica in Poland . Charpak's family moved from Poland to Paris when he was seven years old...
, French physicist (Nobel Prize), born in East Galicia - George GamowGeorge GamowGeorge Gamow , born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov , was a Russian-born theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He discovered alpha decay via quantum tunneling and worked on radioactive decay of the atomic nucleus, star formation, stellar nucleosynthesis, Big Bang nucleosynthesis, cosmic microwave...
, liquid drop model of atom nucleus - Abram IoffeAbram IoffeAbram Fedorovich Ioffe was a prominent Russian/Soviet physicist. He received the Stalin Prize , the Lenin Prize , and the Hero of Socialist Labor . Ioffe was an expert in electromagnetism, radiology, crystals, high-impact physics, thermoelectricity and photoelectricity...
, prominent Soviet physicist (Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute) - Isaak Khalatnikiv, BKL conjecture in general relativity
- Leo PalatnikLeo PalatnikLeo Samoylovich Palatnik ; was an outstanding Ukrainian physicist known for his contributions in the field of thin film physics and film material.-External links:*...
, thin film physics - Nikolai PylchykovNikolai PylchykovNikolai Pylchykov was a Russian physicist, inventor, and geologist. He is known for the discovery of the photovoltaic effect, new properties of X-rays, and ways to control various mechanisms of the radio provided a basis of radio control.Pylchykov discovered the phenomenon of electronic...
, electronic photography - Ivan PulyuiIvan PulyuiIvan Pulyui was a Ukrainian-born physicist, inventor and patriot who has been championed as an early developer of the use of X-rays for medical imaging...
, discoverer of X-rays - George Yuri RainichGeorge Yuri RainichGeorge Yuri Rainich was a leading mathematical physicist in the early twentieth century.-Career:Rainich studied mathematics in Odessa and Munich, eventually obtaining his doctorate in 1913 from the University of Kazan...
, mathematical physicist - Cyril Sinelnikiv, nuclear physicist
Other academics
- Mykola Andrusiv
- Albert BanduraAlbert BanduraAlbert Bandura is a psychologist and the David Starr Jordan Professor Emeritus of Social Science in Psychology at Stanford University...
- Pavel Petrovich BlonskyPavel Petrovich BlonskyPavel Petrovich Blonsky was a Soviet psychologist who lived in the Ukraine until 1918. He introduced the behaviorist approach in Russian psychology...
- Olgerd BochkovskyOlgerd BochkovskyOlgerd Bochkovsky was a famous Czech and Ukrainian sociologist. He was the first scientist to undertake the effort to integrate numerous theories into a single science dealing with nations...
, sociologist - Vitaly Chernetsky, author and film scholar
- Isydore HlynkaIsydore HlynkaIsydore Hlynka was a Canadian biochemist, and Ukrainian Canadian community leader. He was born in the village of Denysiw, near Ternopil, Ukraine...
- Vikentiy KhvoykaVikentiy KhvoykaVikentiy Khvoyka was a famous Ukrainian archaeologist who discovered the Tripolian culture.- External links :...
- Robert KlymaszRobert KlymaszRobert Bohdan Klymasz is the premier Ukrainian-Canadian folklorist. Educated at the University of Toronto , the University of Manitoba , Harvard University , and Indiana University , he was a long-time Curator of the Slavic and East European...
, Ukrainian Canadian folklorist - Volodymyr KubiyovychVolodymyr KubiyovychVolodymyr Mykhailovych Kubiyovych, also spelled Kubiiovych or Kubijovyč , Austria-Hungary - 2 November 1985, Paris, France) was a Ukrainian geographer with a specialty in demography, a cartographer, an encyclopedist, politician, and statesman...
, geographer and encyclopedist - Viktor KyrpychovViktor KyrpychovViktor Kyrpychov was a prominent Russian and Ukrainian engineer, physicist, and educational organizer, known especially for his work on applied and structural mechanics as well as for establishing the foundations for technical education in the Russian Empire....
- Yuri LinnikYuri LinnikYuri Vladimirovich Linnik was a Soviet mathematician active in number theory, probability theory and mathematical statistics.Linnik was born in Bila Tserkva, in present-day Ukraine. He went to St Petersburg University where his supervisor was Vladimir Tartakovski, and later worked at that...
- Lubomyr LuciukLubomyr LuciukLubomyr Luciuk was born and raised in Kingston, Ontario. His education began at St. Joseph's School, Cathedral School and Regiopolis-Notre Dame. He earned two degrees from Queen's University, an Honours BSc and MA . He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Alberta...
, political geographer and community activist - Anton MakarenkoAnton MakarenkoAnton Semenovych Makarenko was a Ukrainian and Soviet educator and writer, who promoted democratic ideas and principles in educational theory and practice. As one of the founders of Soviet pedagogy, he elaborated the theory and methodology of upbringing in self-governing child collectives and...
, Ukrainian and Soviet educator - Joseph OleskiwJoseph OleskiwDr. Joseph Oleskiw or Jósef Olesków was a Ukrainian professor who promoted Ukrainian immigration to the Canadian prairies. His efforts helped encourage the initial wave of settlers which began the Ukrainian Canadian community....
- Wilhelm ReichWilhelm ReichWilhelm Reich was an Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, known as one of the most radical figures in the history of psychiatry...
, psychiatristPsychiatristA psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. All psychiatrists are trained in diagnostic evaluation and in psychotherapy...
and psychoanalyst, founding father of Ukrainian psychiatry, pro-Ukrainian freedom dissident - Otto StruveOtto StruveOtto Struve was a Russian astronomer. In Russian, his name is sometimes given as Otto Lyudvigovich Struve ; however, he spent most of his life and his entire scientific career in the United States...
, Ukrainian-Russian-American astronomer - Evhen TsybulenkoEvhen TsybulenkoEvhen Tsybulenko is an Estonian legal scholar of Ukrainian descent. He is a founder and director of the Tallinn Law School's Human Rights Centre at the Tallinn University of Technology . Tsybulenko had been elected professor of Law and had been appointed as a Chair of International and...
(b. 1972), professor of international law - Pavlo Tutkovsky see National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
- Fedir VovkFedir VovkFedir Kindratovych Vovk was a Ukrainian anthropologist-archaeologist, the curator of the Alexander III Museum in St. Petersburg....
, anthropologist and ethnographer
Architects
- Ivan Hryhorovych-BarskyiIvan Hryhorovych-BarskyiIvan Hryhorovych-Barskyi or Ivan Grigorovich-Barsky is a Ukrainian architect who worked in the Late Cossack Baroque style...
- Marian PeretyatkovichMarian PeretyatkovichMarian Marianovich Peretyatkovich was a Ukrainian-born Russian architect. His premature death at the age of 43 limited his career to only eight years of independent practice , however, he managed to excel in a rational variety of late Art Nouveau, Renaissance Revival and Russian Revival in Saint...
- Volodymyr SichynskyiVolodymyr SichynskyiVolodymyr Sichynskyi was a Ukrainian émigré architect, graphic artist, and art historian.Volodymyr Sichynskyi was born to the family of Ievtym Sitsinskyi in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Podolia guberniya,...
Painters
- Ivan AivazovskyIvan AivazovskyIvan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky July 29, 1817 – May 5, 1900) was a Russian world-renowned painter of Armenian descent living and working in Crimea, most famous for his seascapes, which constitute more than half of his paintings...
, painter, famous for his seascapes - Nathan AltmanNathan AltmanNathan Isaevich Altman was a Jewish, Russian and Soviet avant-garde artist, Cubist painter, stage designer and book illustrator who was born, grew up and began his art studies in Ukraine, Russian Empire.-Early life:He was born in Vinnytsia, Russian Empire to a family of Russian...
, painter and stage designer from Vynytsia - Marie BashkirtseffMarie BashkirtseffMarie Bashkirtseff was a Ukrainian-born diarist, painter and sculptor....
, artist - Robert BrackmanRobert BrackmanRobert Brackman was an artist and teacher of Russian origin, best known for large figural works, portraits, and still lifes.-Biography:Born in Odes'ka Oblast, Ukraine, he emigrated from the Russian Empire in 1908....
- Mykola BurachekMykola BurachekMykola Burachek was a Ukrainian Impressionist painter and pedagogue....
- David BurliukDavid BurliukDavid Davidovich Burliuk was a Russian avant-garde artist of Ukrainian origin , book illustrator, publicist, and author associated with Russian Futurism...
, Avante-garde painter, Ukrainian freedom thinker - Louis ChorisLouis ChorisLouis Choris was a famous German-Russian painter and explorer. He was one of the first sketch artists for expedition research. Louis Choris, who was a Russian of German stock, was born in Yekaterinoslav on March 22, 1795...
- Mychajlo DmytrenkoMychajlo DmytrenkoMychajlo Dmytrenko was a Ukrainian-American painter of world recognition.Dmytrenko settled in Detroit and examples of his work can be found there. Along with his other works Dmytrenko was responsible for the interior design of the St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church in New York between 1977 and...
- Oleksandra EksterAleksandra EksterAleksandra Aleksandrovna Ekster was a Russian-French painter and designer.-Biography:-Childhood:...
, Avant-garde artist - Nina Genke-MellerNina Genke-MellerNina Genke or Nina Genke-Meller, or Nina Henke-Meller, was a Ukrainian-Russian avant-garde artist, , designer, graphic artist and scenographer. -Biography:...
, Avant-garde artist - Maurice Gottlieb, Polish painter
- Leopold GottliebLeopold GottliebLeopold Gottlieb was a Jewish-Polish painter. His brother, painter Maurycy Gottlieb, died before Leopold was born.-Early Life & Education:...
- Mykola HlushchenkoMykola HlushchenkoMykola Hlushchenko was a Ukrainian artist. He was a winner of the Shevchenko National Prize in 1972.- Biography :A graduate of the Academy of Art in Berlin , from 1925 he worked in Paris where he immediately attracted the attention of French critics. From the Neue Sachlichkeit style of his Berlin...
- Jacques HnizdovskyJacques HnizdovskyJacques Hnizdovsky , was a Ukrainian-American painter, printmaker, sculptor, ex libris designer, book illustrator, and art historian.- Biography :...
- Alexander Khvostenko-KhvostovAlexander Khvostenko-KhvostovAlexander Khvostenko-Khvostov was a Ukrainian avant-garde artist , and stage designer.- Biography :...
, Avant-garde stage designer - Pyotr KonchalovskyPyotr KonchalovskyPyotr Konchalovsky , was a Russian painter, a member of Jack of Diamonds group.-Life and career:...
, painter - Yaroslav Krasnevych, painter
- Vasyl KrychevskyVasyl KrychevskyVasyl Hryhorovych Krychevsky was a Ukrainian painter, architect, art scholar, graphic artist, and master of applied art and decorative art. He was the brother of Ukrainian painter Fedir Krychevsky.-Life:...
- Fedir KrychevskyFedir KrychevskyFedir Krychevsky was an influential Ukrainian early modernist painter. He was the brother of graphic designer Vasyl Krychevsky.-Biography:Krychevsky was born in Lebedyn to the family of a Jewish country doctor who converted to Orthodox Chritianity and married a Ukrainian woman...
- Ephraim Moses Lilien, German-Jewish painter
- Anton LosenkoAnton LosenkoAnton Pavlovich Losenko was a Ukrainian Neoclassical painter who lived in Imperial Russia and who specialized in historical subjects and portraits.- Life :...
- Ivan MarchukIvan MarchukIvan Stepanovych Marchuk is a contemporary Ukrainian painter. He was recently listed among the 100 living geniuses. Marchuk invented a unique way of painting his pictures, which he calls "dabbing-on", thus creating an unusual effect of luminescence of his works.-Biography:Ivan Marchuk was born in...
, modern painter - Vadym MellerVadym MellerVadym Meller or Vadim Meller, was a Ukrainian-Russian Soviet painter, avant-garde Cubist and Constructivist artist, theatrical designer, book illustrator, and architect...
, avant-garde artist, stage designer - Oleksandr MurashkoOleksandr MurashkoOleksandr Murashko was a Ukrainian painter.-External links:*...
- Heorhiy NarbutHeorhiy NarbutHeorhiy Narbut was a Ukrainian painter. He is known for creating Ukrainian coats of arms, banknotes, postage stamps, charters, and his many illustrations in books and magazines. He is also known as Georgy Narbut and George Narbut...
- Solomon NikritinSolomon NikritinSolomon Nikritin was a Ukrainian painter, avant-garde artist , graphic artist, designer, and author.- Biography :Solomon Nikritin was born in Chernihiv, Ukraine.In 1909–1914 he attended Kiev Art School ....
, painter, Avant-garde artist - NykiforNykiforNikifor was a Polish folk and naïve painter of Lemko descent. Nikifor painted over 40,000 pictures - on sheets of paper, pages of notebooks, cigarette cartons, and even on scraps of paper glued together...
, primitivist painter - Maria PryimachenkoMaria PryimachenkoMaria Prymachenko was a renowned Ukrainian village folk art painter, representative of naïve art. The artist was involved with drawing, embroidery and painting оn ceramics.-Biography:Maria was a peasant woman...
- Kliment Red'koKliment Red'koKliment Red'ko or Redko , 15 October 1897 - 18 February 1956) was a Ukrainian-Russian painter-scientist, avant-garde artist , graphic artist.-Biography:Kliment Red'ko was born in Cholm, Russian Empire....
, painter, Avant-garde artist - Ilya Repin, painter
- Bruno SchulzBruno SchulzBruno Schulz was a Polish writer, fine artist, literary critic and art teacher born to Jewish parents, and regarded as one of the great Polish-language prose stylists of the 20th century. Schulz was born in Drohobycz, in the province of Galicia then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and spent...
, painter and writer - Zinaida SerebriakovaZinaida SerebriakovaZinaida Yevgenyevna Serebriakova was among the first female Russian painters of distinction.-Family:Zinaida Serebriakova was born on the estate of Neskuchnoye near Kharkov into one of Russia's most refined and artistic families.She belonged to the artistic Benois family...
, painter - Volodymyr SichynskyiVolodymyr SichynskyiVolodymyr Sichynskyi was a Ukrainian émigré architect, graphic artist, and art historian.Volodymyr Sichynskyi was born to the family of Ievtym Sitsinskyi in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Podolia guberniya,...
, architect, graphic artist - Opanas SlastionOpanas SlastionOpanas Georgievych Slastion was a Ukrainian graphic artist, painter and ethnographer.He was born in the Ukrainian port town of Berdyansk on the Berdyansk Gulf of the Sea of Azov...
, folklorist, designer of modern type of banduraBanduraBandura refers to a Ukrainian plucked string folk instrument. It combines elements of a box zither and lute, as well as its lute-like predecessor, the kobza... - Anton SolomoukhaAnton SolomoukhaAnton P. Solomoukha is a French artist and photographer of Ukrainian extraction, and a foreign member of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts. Since 1980, he has specialized in narrative figuration. Since 2000 he has developed photo projects. known as the inventor of a new form of expression in...
- Ivan SoshenkoIvan SoshenkoIvan Maksymovych Soshenko was a Ukrainian painter.Soshenko studied at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts from 1834–8, then taught painting in gymnasiums in Nizhyn from 1839–46, Nemyriv from 1846–56, and Kiev. His work included portraits, genre scenes, landscapes, and religious icons.In 1835 he...
, painter - David ShterenbergDavid ShterenbergDavid Petrovich Shterenberg was a Ukrainian-born Russian painter and graphic artist.Born to a Jewish family in Zhitomir, Ukraine, Shterenberg studied art in Odessa and then from 1906-1912 based himself in Paris where he studied with, amongst others, Kees van Dongen...
, painter from Zhitomir - Avigdor StematskyAvigdor StematskyAvigdor Stematsky was a Russian-born Israeli painter. He is considered one of the pioneers of Israeli abstract art.-Biography:Stematsky was born in 1908 in Odessa. In 1922, he immigrated to Palestine and attended the Bezalel School of Art in Jerusalem from 1926 to 1928. He joined the Massad group...
, Israeli painter from Odessa - Sergei SviatchenkoSergei SviatchenkoSergei Sviatchenko is a Ukrainian artist who lives in Denmark since 1990. Sviatchenko graduated from The Academy of Arts and Architecture in Kharkiv in 1975, and in 1986 he obtained a Ph. D. degree from the School of Architecture in Kiev....
, (1952–) - Vladimir TatlinVladimir TatlinVladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin was a Russian and Soviet painter and architect. With Kazimir Malevich he was one of the two most important figures in the Russian avant-garde art movement of the 1920s, and he later became the most important artist in the Constructivist movement...
, Avant-garde artist - Sonia Terk, Avant-garde artist
- Roman Turovsky-SavchukRoman Turovsky-SavchukRoman Turovsky-Savchuk is an American painter and lutenist-composer born in Ukraine.-Biography:Turovsky was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1961, when it was part of the Soviet Union. He studied art from an early age under his father, the painter Mikhail Turovsky and at the Shevchenko State Art School...
- Mykhailo Turovsky
- Andy WarholAndy WarholAndrew Warhola , known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art...
, major figure in the pop artPop artPop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine art...
movement, pro-Western Ukrainian freedom fighter - Mickola VorokhtaMickola VorokhtaMickola Vorokhta is a Ukrainian artist-painter.Mickola was educated at the Art Faculty of Odessa Pedagogical Institute under K.D. Ushinsky . From 1974 to 1998 he was a lecturer at the art department of Odessa State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture...
, painter - Tetyana YablonskaTetyana YablonskaTetyana Yablonska was a Ukrainian painter. Her early vital pictures are devoted to work and a life of Ukrainian people . She has passed to generalizing images of the nature, differing a subtlety of plastic and color rhythms .Yablonska was born in Smolensk, Russia...
, modern painter - Vasiliy YermilovVasiliy YermilovVasyl Yermylov was a Ukrainian painter, avant-garde artist and designer. His genres included cubism, constructivism, and neo-primitivism.-Biography:* Vasyl Yermylov was born 22 March 1894 in the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine....
, Avant-garde artist - Ivan YizhakevychIvan YizhakevychIvan Sydorovych Yizhakevych was a painter, writer, and People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR .- Life, Education and Work :Yizhakevych was born in the village of Vyshnopoli, Cherkasy Oblast. He was educated in the M. Murashko School of Art in Kiev , Ukraine from 1882 to 1884. Following this...
- Joseph ZaritskyJoseph Zaritsky-Biography:Zaritsky was born in 1891 in Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire. He lived in Amsterdam, Paris and Brussels, but mostly he lived in Jerusalem. He studied at the art academy in Kiev before emigrating to Mandate Palestine in 1923. In 1929, he relocated from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv,...
, Israeli painter
Sculptors
- Alexander ArchipenkoAlexander ArchipenkoAlexander Porfyrovych Archipenko was a Ukrainian avant-garde artist, sculptor, and graphic artist.-Biography:...
, U.S. sculptor and graphic artist - Dmytro P. Krvavych (in Ukrainian only:)
- Vladimir TatlinVladimir TatlinVladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin was a Russian and Soviet painter and architect. With Kazimir Malevich he was one of the two most important figures in the Russian avant-garde art movement of the 1920s, and he later became the most important artist in the Constructivist movement...
- Chana OrloffChana Orloff-Biography:Chana Orloff was born in Ukraine. She immigrated to Ottoman Palestine in 1905 and settled in Jaffa, where she found a job as a cutter and seamstress. Zvi Nishri , the pioneer in physical education in Israel, was her brother....
Actors/actresses
- Elisabeth BergnerElisabeth BergnerElisabeth Bergner was an actress.She was born Elisabeth Ettel in Drohobycz, Austro-Hungarian Empire ....
– Austrian-English actress - Elina BystritskayaElina BystritskayaElina Avraamovna Bystritskaya is a Soviet and Russian actress best known for her role of Axinia in Sergei Gerasimov's epic screening of Mikhail Sholokhov's novel And Quiet Flows the Don ....
- Vera FarmigaVera FarmigaVera Ann Farmiga is an American actress and director. Farmiga made her film debut in the 1998 drama thriller Return to Paradise. This was followed by supporting roles in the 2000 romantic film Autumn in New York and the 2001 television series UC: Undercover...
- Luba GoyLuba Goy-Life and career:Goy was born in Haltern, Germany to Ukrainian parents and raised in Ottawa. They emigrated to Canada in 1951. She is a graduate of the Glebe Collegiate Institute in Ottawa, Ontario, and later graduated from Canada's National Theatre School, before acting in theatre productions in...
- John HodiakJohn HodiakJohn Hodiak was an American actor who worked in radio and film.-Early life:He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Walter Hodiak and Anna Pogorzelec . He was of Ukrainian and Polish descent...
- Milla JovovichMilla JovovichMilla Jovovich December 17, 1975)is an American model, actress, musician, and fashion designer. Over her career, she has appeared in a number of science fiction and action-themed films, for which music channel VH1 has referred to her as the "reigning queen of kick-butt".Milla Jovovich began...
- Vera KholodnayaVera KholodnayaVera Vasilyevna Kholodnaya was the first star of Russian silent cinema...
- Olga KraskoOlga KraskoOlga Yuriyevna Krasko is a Russian actress, born 30 November 1981, Kharkiv, Soviet Union . She has starred in Russian theater productions, and is noted that as the heroine in The Turkish Gambit , she is the only female in a lead role in that film.-Filmography:* 2001 – Četnické humoresky * 2002 –...
- Olga KurylenkoOlga KurylenkoOlha Kostyantynivna Kurylenko , better known as Olga Kurylenko, is a French actress and model. She is perhaps best known as the Bond girl, Camille Montes, in the 22nd James Bond film, Quantum of Solace. She also portrayed Nika Boronina in the movie adaptation of the video game Hitman...
- Mila KunisMila KunisMilena "Mila" Kunis is an American actress. Her work includes the role of Jackie Burkhart on the TV series That '70s Show and the voice of Meg Griffin on the animated series Family Guy...
(That 70's Show) - Vasily LanovoyVasily LanovoyVasily Semyonovich Lanovoy is a Soviet and Russian actor who works in the Vakhtangov Theatre, Moscow. He is also known as the President of Artek Festival of Films for Children...
- Ana LayevskaAna LayevskaAnna Laevski Rastsvetaeva , better known as Ana Layevska, is a Russian-Mexican actress.-Early life:Born in Kiev, Ukraine, Ana is the only child of Russian parents, Sergei Laevski and Inna Rastsvetaeva. Ana and her family moved to Mexico when she was nine years old...
- Mike MazurkiMike MazurkiMike Mazurki was an Austrian-born American actor and professional wrestler who appeared in over 100 movies. His towering 6' 5" presence and intimidating face usually got him roles playing tough guys, thugs, strong men, and gangsters.Mazurki was born as Mikhail Mazurkevych in Tarnopol, Galicia,...
- Ivan MykolaychukIvan MykolaychukIvan Mykolaychuk was a Ukrainian actor, producer, and screen writer.He is best known for playing the Hutsul Ivan in Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors , based on Mykhailo Kotsyubynsky's book of the same name...
- Jack PalanceJack PalanceJack Palance , was an American actor. During half a century of film and television appearances, Palance was nominated for three Academy Awards, all as Best Actor in a Supporting Role, winning in 1991 for his role in City Slickers.-Early life:Palance, one of five children, was born Volodymyr...
(Volodymyr Palahnyuk) - Zhanna ProkhorenkoZhanna ProkhorenkoZhanneta "Zhanna" Trofymovna Prokhorenko was a Ukrainian-born Soviet-era actress, best known to European and North American audiences for her role in Grigori Chukhrai's 1959 film, Ballad of a Soldier.-Life/career:...
- Yakov SmirnoffYakov SmirnoffYakov Naumovich Pokhis , better known as Yakov Smirnoff, is a Ukrainian-born American comedian, painter and teacher. He was popular in the 1980s for comedy performances in which he used irony and word play to contrast life under the Communist regime in his native Soviet Union with life in the...
- Lee StrasbergLee StrasbergLee Strasberg was an American actor, director and acting teacher. He cofounded, with directors Harold Clurman and Cheryl Crawford, the Group Theatre in 1931, which was hailed as "America's first true theatrical collective"...
- Bohdan StupkaBohdan StupkaBohdan Stupka is a popular Ukrainian actor. He was born in Kulykiv, which is in Lviv oblast , Ukraine.Stupka is recognized as the most famous living Ukrainian actor. He has played more than hundred roles in films and over fifty in theaters. Stupka has been awarded the title Artist of Ukraine and...
Choreographers & Dancers
- Vasyl AvramenkoVasyl AvramenkoVasyl Kyrylovych Avramenko was a Ukrainian actor, dancer, choreographer, balletmaster, director, and film producer, credited with spreading Ukrainian folk dance across the world...
- Olga Lepeshinskaya
- Roma Pryma-BohachevskyRoma Pryma-BohachevskyRoma Pryma-Bohachevsky was an internationally recognized dancer and choreographer, who instructed thousands of students in the art of ballet and Ukrainian dance.-Education:...
- Vasyl VerkhovynetsVasyl VerkhovynetsVasyl' Mykolayovych Verkhovynets was an actor, conductor, voice teacher, amateur musicologist, balletmaster, choreographer and dance ethnographer He is credited for fundamentally altering the course of Ukrainian dance by devising a method of transcribing dance to paper, recording traditional...
- Pavlo VirskyPavlo VirskyPavlo Pavlovych Virsky was an innovative dancer, balletmaster, choreographer, and founder of the P. Virsky Ukrainian National Folk Dance Ensemble, whose work in Ukrainian dance was groundbreaking and influenced generations of dancers....
, Virsky Ukrainian danceUkrainian danceUkrainian dance refers to the traditional folk dances of the peoples of Ukraine.Today, Ukrainian dance is primarily represented by what ethnographers, folklorists and dance historians refer to as "Ukrainian Folk-Stage Dances" , which are stylized representations of traditional dances and their...
company - Maksim ChmerkovskiyMaksim ChmerkovskiyMaksim Aleksandrovich Chmerkovskiy is a Ukrainian-American Latin Ballroom dance champion, choreographer, and instructor. He is best known as one of the professional dancers on the American television series Dancing with the Stars, on which he first appeared in season two...
, professional dancer on the American Dancing With the StarsDancing with the StarsDancing with the Stars is the name of several international television series based on the format of the British TV series Strictly Come Dancing, which is distributed by BBC Worldwide – the commercial arm of the BBC. Currently the format has been licensed to over 35 countries... - Valentin ChmerkovskiyValentin ChmerkovskiyValentin Aleksandrovich Chmerkovskiy is a professional dancer, best known for his appearances in the American version of Dancing with the Stars...
, professional dancer on the American Dancing with the Stars - Karina SmirnoffKarina SmirnoffKarina Smirnoff is a Ukrainian professional ballroom dancer. She is best known for her appearances on Dancing with the Stars, where she held a runner-up title, a semi-final title, and several quarter-final titles...
, professional dancer on the American Dancing with the Stars - Adabel GuerreroAdabel GuerreroAdabel Anahí Guerrero Melachenco better known simple as Adabel Guerrero is an Argentine actress, dancer, vedette and cabaret star, who has also dabbled as a singer in several of her television appearances as well as in theatre capable of singing in acapella.Guerrero is known for her skills in pole...
, professional dancer, actress & cabaret star of Ukrainian descent
Film and theatre directors
- Sergei BondarchukSergei BondarchukSergei Fedorovich Bondarchuk was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, and actor.- Biography :Born in Belozerka, in the Kherson Governorate, Sergei Bondarchuk spent his childhood in the cities of Yeysk and Taganrog, graduating from the Taganrog School Number 4 in 1938. His first performance as an...
- Leonid BykivLeonid Fyodorovich BykovLeonid Bykov was a Soviet and Ukrainian actor, film director, and script writer. He was killed in a car accident in 1979 on the highway from Minsk to Kiev.-Actor:* Aty-baty, shli soldaty.....
- Grigori ChukhraiGrigori ChukhraiGrigori Naumovich Chukhrai was a prominent Soviet film director and screenwriter. He is the father of director Pavel Chukhrai.-Career:He was born in Melitopol in the Zaporizhia Oblast of Ukraine...
- Alexander DovzhenkoAlexander DovzhenkoAleksandr Petrovich Dovzhenko , was a Soviet screenwriter, film producer and director of Ukrainian descent. He is often cited as one of the most important early Soviet filmmakers, alongside Sergei Eisenstein and Vsevolod Pudovkin.- Biography :...
- Edward DmytrykEdward DmytrykEdward Dmytryk was an American film director who was amongst the Hollywood Ten, a group of blacklisted film industry professionals who served time in prison for being in contempt of Congress during the McCarthy-era 'red scare'.-Early life:Dmytryk was born in Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada,...
- Les KurbasLes KurbasOleksandr-Zenon Stepanovych Kurbas , a Ukrainian movie and theater director, is considered by many to be the most important Ukrainian theater director of the 20th century...
- Anatole LitvakAnatole LitvakAnatole Litvak was a Ukrainian-born filmmaker who wrote, directed, and produced films in a various countries and languages...
- Paul MazurskyPaul MazurskyPaul Mazursky is an American film director, screenwriter and actor.-Personal life:He was born Irwin Mazursky in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Jean , a piano player for dance classes, and David Mazursky, a laborer. Mazursky was born to a Jewish family; his grandfather was an immigrant from...
- Bohdan StupkaBohdan StupkaBohdan Stupka is a popular Ukrainian actor. He was born in Kulykiv, which is in Lviv oblast , Ukraine.Stupka is recognized as the most famous living Ukrainian actor. He has played more than hundred roles in films and over fifty in theaters. Stupka has been awarded the title Artist of Ukraine and...
- Roman BalayanRoman BalayanRoman Balayan is a Ukrainian-Armenian film director.-Career:Graduated by the Ivan Karpenko-Kary Institute of Theater Arts, he has lived and worked in Ukraine. Balayan calls himself a student of Sergei Parajanov. He was nominated and won several international prizes...
, Ukrainian-Armenian film director
Bandurists
- Hnat KhotkevychHnat KhotkevychHnat Martynovych Khotkevych December 31, 1877 in Kharkiv, Russian Empire – October 8, 1938 in Kharkiv, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union) was a Ukrainian writer, ethnographer, playwright, composer, musicologist, and bandurist....
, bandurist - Hryhory KytastyHryhory KytastyHryhoriy Trokhymovych Kytasty was a Ukrainian émigré composer and conductor. In 2008 he was honored with the Hero of Ukraine state decoration.- Early years :Hryhory Kytasty was born in the town of Kobeliaky, Poltava oblast...
, bandurist - Julian KytastyJulian KytastyJulian Kytasty is a Ukrainian-American composer, singer, kobzar, bandurist, flute player and conductor. He was born January 23 1958 in Detroit, Michigan, in the family of refugees....
, bandurist - Volodymyr LucivVolodymyr LucivVolodymyr Havrylovych Luciv is a Ukrainian bandurist and tenor. He learned to play the bandura from Hryhory Nazarenko in the Leontovych Bandurist Capella in Goslar, Germany...
, bandurist - Victor MishalowVictor MishalowVictor Mishalow is an Australian born Canadian bandurist, and educator. He is also known as a composer, conductor, and musicologist.-Biography:Born April 4, 1960, in Sydney, Australia, he graduated from the Sydney University B.A...
, bandurist
Composers
- Virko BaleyVirko BaleyVirko Baley is a renowned Ukrainian-American composer, conductor, and pianist. He was born in Radekhiv, Union of Soviet Socialist Republic , the only child of Petro and Lydia Baley. Before he had celebrated his first birthday, Hitler's army had invaded Poland and World War II had begun...
- Vasyl BarvinskyVasyl BarvinskyVasyl Oleksandrovich Barvinsky was Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor, teacher, musicologist, and music related social figure....
- Maksym BerezovskyMaksym BerezovskyMaksym Sozontovych Berezovsky was a Ukrainian composer, opera singer, and violinist.Berezovsky was the first Ukrainian composer to be recognized throughout Europe and the first to compose an opera, symphony, and violin sonata. His most popular works are his sacred choral pieces written for the...
- Oleksandr BilashOleksandr BilashOleksandr Bilash was a renowned Ukrainian composer, the author of popular liric songs, ballads, operas, operettas, oratorios and music for films...
, composer, Hero of Ukraine - Matvei Blanter, author of KatyushaKatyusha (song)Katyusha, Katusha or Katjusha is a Soviet wartime song about a girl longing for her beloved, who is away on military service. The music was composed in 1938 by Matvei Blanter and the lyrics were written by Mikhail Isakovsky. It was first performed by Valentina Batishcheva in the Column Hall of...
- Dmytro Bortnyansky
- Marusia ChuraiMarusia ChuraiMaria or Marusia Churai was a semi-mythical Ukrainian Baroque composer, poet, and singer. She has become a recurrent motif in Ukrainian literature and the songs ascribed to her are widely performed in Ukraine....
- Mykola Diletsky
- Isaak DunayevskyIsaak DunayevskyIsaak Osipovich Dunayevsky was the biggest Soviet film composer and conductor of the 1930s and 1940s, who achieved huge success in music for operetta and film comedies, frequently working with the film director Grigori Aleksandrov...
, author of numerous popular Soviet songs - Lesia Dytchko
- Arkady FilippenkoArkady FilippenkoArkady Dmitriyevich Filippenko was a Soviet Ukrainian composer.- Biography :He was born in the small village of Pushcha-Vodycia, now a suburb of Kyiv . As a pre-schooler, he spent a great deal of time outdoors with his grandfather, a shepherd who played and made pastoral pipes akin to those of...
- Reinhold GlièreReinhold GlièreReinhold Moritzevich Glière was a Russian and Soviet composer of German–Polish descent.- Biography :Glière was born in Kiev, Ukraine...
- Leonid Hrabovsky
- Semen Hulak-ArtemovskySemen Hulak-ArtemovskySemen Stepanovych Hulak-Artemovsky , was a Ukrainian opera composer, singer , actor, and dramatist who lived and worked in Imperial Russia....
- Volodymyr IvasyukVolodymyr IvasyukVolodymyr Mykhailovych Ivasyuk or Volodymyr Ivasiuk was a very popular Ukrainian songwriter, composer and poet from the Ukrainian SSR...
- Oleksander KoshetzOleksander KoshetzOleksander Koshetz was a Ukrainian choral conductor, arranger, composer, ethnographer, writer, musicologist, and lecturer. He helped popularize Ukrainian music around the world...
- Mykola LeontovychMykola LeontovychMykola Dmytrovych Leontovych was a Ukrainian composer, choral conductor, priest, and teacher of international renown. His music was inspired by Mykola Lysenko and the Ukrainian nationalist music school, along with Kyrylo Stetsenko, Alexander Koshetz, and Yakiv Stepovy...
- Zara LevinaZara LevinaZara Aleksandrovna Levina , February 5, 1906 – Moscow, June 27, 1976) was a pianist and composer. She was from a Jewish family. Zara Levina studied piano in the Odessa Conservatory, which she passed with a gold metal...
- Borys Lyatoshynsky
- Mykola LysenkoMykola LysenkoMykola Vitaliiovych Lysenko was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor and ethnomusicologist.- Biography :Lysenko was born in Hrynky, Kremenchuk Povit, Poltava Governorate, the son of Vitaliy Romanovich Lysenko . From childhood he became very interested in the folksongs of Ukrainian peasants and...
- Ruslana Lyzhichko
- Igor MarkevitchIgor MarkevitchIgor Markevitch was a Ukrainian, Italian, and French composer and conductor.- Origin :Igor Markevich was born in Kiev, to an old family of Ukrainian Cossack starshyna ennobled in the 18th century...
- Yuli MeitusYuli MeitusYuliy Sergeievitch Meitus was a distinguished Ukrainian composer, famous for his many operas.-External links:*...
- Yuriy Oliynyk
- Mykola Ovsianiko-Kulikovsky
- Sergei ProkofievSergei ProkofievSergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...
- Levko RevutskyLevko RevutskyLevko Mykolajovych Revutskyi was a Ukrainian composer, teacher, and activist. Amongst his students at the Lysenko Music Institute were the composers Arkady Filippenko and Valentin Silvestrov.-Early life and education:...
- Nikolai RoslavetsNikolai RoslavetsNikolai Andreevich Roslavets was a significant Soviet modernist composer. Roslavets was a convinced modernist and cosmopolitan thinker; his music was officially suppressed from 1930 onwards....
- Aleksandr ShymkoAleksandr ShymkoAleksandr Shymko , born August 4, 1977 in Borshchiw, Ukraine, is an award-winning Ukrainian composer and pianist.-Biography:Aleksandr Shymko graduated from Chernovtcy Music S. Vorobkevich College as pianist. In 1998 he was studying composition in the class of professor Y. Ischenko at the National...
- Valentin SilvestrovValentin SilvestrovValentyn Vasylyovych Sylvestrov is a Ukrainian pianist and composer of contemporary classical music.-Education:Sylvestrov began private music lessons at age 15...
- Myroslav SkorykMyroslav SkorykMyroslav Skoryk is a famous Ukrainian composer of diverse and impressive compositions. His music is contemporary in style and contains stylistic traits from two disparate folk traditions: Ukrainian and American.- Early life :...
- Yevhen StankovychYevhen StankovychYevhen Fedorovych Stankovych is a contemporary Ukrainian composer of stage, orchestral, chamber, and choral works. His works have been performed around the globe.- Biography :...
- Kyrylo StetsenkoKyrylo StetsenkoKyrylo Hryhorovych Stetsenko was a prolific Ukrainian composer, conductor, critic, and teacher. Late in his life he became an Ukrainian Orthodox Priest and head of the Music section of the Ministry of Education of the short-lived Ukrainian People's Republic.- Early life and Education :Kyrylo...
- Roman Turovsky-SavchukRoman Turovsky-SavchukRoman Turovsky-Savchuk is an American painter and lutenist-composer born in Ukraine.-Biography:Turovsky was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1961, when it was part of the Soviet Union. He studied art from an early age under his father, the painter Mikhail Turovsky and at the Shevchenko State Art School...
- Artemy VedelArtemy VedelArtem Vedel was one of the most prominent Ukrainian composers of the 18th century. Together with Maksym Berezovsky and Dmytro Bortniansky, Vedel is recognized as one of the big three composers of the period....
- Mykhailo Verbytsky, composer of the National Anthem of Ukraine
- Mykola VilinskyMykola VilinskyMykola Vilinsky was a Ukrainian composer and a professor at the Odessa and Kiev Conservatories.He was descended from a Ukrainian family of hereditary nobles...
- Yakiv YatsynevychYakiv YatsynevychYakiv Mikhailovych Yatsynevych was a prominent Ukrainian composer, conductor, and folklorist, known for his eclectic works....
Pianists
- Simon BarereSimon BarereSimon Barere was a renowned Russian pianist. His Russian surname Барер is transliterated Barer, however, as an adult he changed the spelling to Barere in order to reduce the frequency of mispronunciation.-Biography:...
, pianist - Felix BlumenfeldFelix BlumenfeldFelix Mikhailovich Blumenfeld was a Russian composer, conductor, pianist and teacher.He was born in Kovalevka, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire , the son of Austrian Mikhail Frantsevich Blumenfeld and the Polish Marie Szymanowska, and studied composition at the St...
, pianist - Shura CherkasskyShura CherkasskyShura Cherkassky was an American classical pianist known for his performances of the romantic repertoire. His playing was characterized by a virtuoso technique and singing piano tone...
, pianist - Emil GilelsEmil GilelsEmil Grigoryevich Gilels was a Soviet pianist, widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century.His last name is sometimes transliterated Hilels.-Biography:...
, pianist - Vladimir HorowitzVladimir HorowitzVladimir Samoylovich Horowitz was a Russian-American classical virtuoso pianist and minor composer. His technique and use of tone color and the excitement of his playing were legendary. He is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century.-Life and early...
, pianist - Lubka KolessaLubka KolessaLubka Kolessa was a classical pianist and professor of piano.- Education :...
, pianist - Valentina LisitsaValentina LisitsaValentina Lisitsa is a Ukrainian-born classical pianist. Lisitsa resides in North Carolina in the USA. Her husband, Alexei Kuznetsoff, is also a pianist and her partner in a number of piano duets.- Biography :Lisitsa was born in Kiev, Ukraine, in 1973...
, pianist - Benno MoiseiwitschBenno MoiseiwitschBenno Moiseiwitsch CBE was a Ukrainian-born British pianist.-Biography:Born in Odessa, Ukraine, Moiseiwitsch began his studies at age seven at the Odessa Music Academy. He won the Anton Rubinstein Prize when he was just nine years old. He later took lessons from Theodor Leschetizky in Vienna...
, pianist - Heinrich NeuhausHeinrich NeuhausHeinrich Gustavovich Neuhaus was a Soviet pianist and pedagogue of German extraction. He taught at the Moscow Conservatory from 1922 to 1964. He was made a People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1956...
, pianist - Leo SirotaLeo SirotaLeo Sirota was a Jewish pianist born in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Podolskaya Guberniya, Russian Empire, now Ukraine....
, pianist - Sviatoslav RichterSviatoslav RichterSviatoslav Teofilovich Richter was a Soviet pianist well known for the depth of his interpretations, virtuoso technique, and vast repertoire. He is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century.-Childhood:...
, pianist
Strings
- Yuri BashmetYuri BashmetYuri Abramovich Bashmet is a Russian conductor and violist.Direct patrilineal descendant of Besht.-Biography:Yuri Bashmet was born on 24 January 1953 in Rostov-on-Don in the family of Abram Borisovich Bashmet and Maya Zinovyeva Bashmet . "Father's mother, Tsilya Efimovna, studied singing at the...
, viola soloist - Mischa Elman, violinist
- Emanuel FeuermannEmanuel FeuermannEmanuel Feuermann was an internationally celebrated cellist in the first half of the 20th century.-Biography:...
, cellist (born in Austrian Galicia) - Pawlo HumeniukPawlo HumeniukPawlo Humeniuk was a Ukrainian-American fiddler from the early 20th century, one of the biggest stars of the era's ethnic music.-Biography:...
– violinist / fiddler - Leonid Kogan, violinist
- Nathan MilsteinNathan MilsteinNathan Mironovich Milstein was a Russian-born American virtuoso violinist.Widely considered one of the finest violinists of the 20th century, Milstein was known for his interpretations of Bach's solo violin works and for works from the Romantic period...
, violinist - David OistrakhDavid OistrakhDavid Fyodorovich Oistrakh , , David Fiodorović Ojstrakh, ; – October 24, 1974, was a Soviet violinist....
, violinist - Igor OistrakhIgor OistrakhIgor Oistrakh is a Russian violinist.He was born in Odessa, Ukraine and is the son of violinist David Oistrakh. He attended the Central Music School in Moscow and made his concert debut in 1948. From 1949 to 1955 he studied at the Moscow Conservatory, winning first prizes and international...
, violinist - Steven StarykSteven StarykSteven Sam Staryk, OC is a Canadian violin virtuoso.Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada of Ukrainian descent, he began his musical education as a child at the Harbord Collegiate Institute...
, violinist - Isaac SternIsaac SternIsaac Stern was a Ukrainian-born violinist. He was renowned for his recordings and for discovering new musical talent.-Biography:Isaac Stern was born into a Jewish family in Kremenets, Ukraine. He was fourteen months old when his family moved to San Francisco...
, violinist
Other
- Volodymyr (Vlad) DeBrianskyVlad (musician)Volodymyr Mykhailovich DeBriansky , better known by his stage names Jack Spade or Vlad, is a jazz, blues, rock and classical guitarist, producer as well as an actor....
, guitarist, producer, composer, songwriter - George DouglasGeorge DouglasGeorge Douglas may refer to:*George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus , Scottish magnate*George Douglas, 4th Earl of Angus , Scottish magnate*George Douglas, Master of Angus , Scottish nobleman*George Douglas of Pittendreich George Douglas may refer to:*George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus (1378–1402),...
- Eugene HützEugene HützEugene Hütz , September 6, 1972) is a Ukrainian-born singer and composer, most notable as the frontman of the critically acclaimed New York Gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello. Hütz is also a DJ and actor.-Early life:...
(Gogol Bordello), singer, guitarist - Ruslana Lyzhichko, pianist, singer, dancer, composer, producer, songwriter
- Leo OrnsteinLeo OrnsteinLeo Ornstein was a leading American experimental composer and pianist of the early twentieth century...
, composer - George ShakhnevichGeorge ShakhnevichGeorge Shakhnevich is a Ukrainian-American accordionist, songwriter, composer, musician and former television personality.-Early life:...
, accordionist
Opera
- Andrij DobrianskyAndrij DobrianskyAndrij Vsevolod Dobriansky is a Ukrainian bass-baritone opera and folk singer who performed with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City....
, bass-baritone - Ivan KozlovskyIvan KozlovskyIvan Semyonovitch Kozlovsky was a Soviet lyric tenor of Ukrainian ethnicity, one of the greatest stars of Soviet opera, as well a producer and director of his own opera company, and longtime teacher at the Moscow Conservatory.-Biography:...
, tenor - Solomiya Krushelnytska, mezzo-soprano
- Maria SokilMaria SokilMaria Sokil was a famous Ukrainian opera singer.Sokil was born in the village of Zherebets' in the Zaporizhia Oblast on October 19, 1902...
, soprano - Anatoly Solovyanenko, lyric tenor
Pop singers and artists
- VitasVitasVitaliy "Vitalik" Vladasovich Grachyov , better known by his stage name Vitas , is a Russian singer-songwriter.Known for his high falsetto voice, he has been given the nickname "Prince of the Dolphin Voice" in China...
, singer & actor - Kvitka CisykKvitka CisykKvitka "Kacey" Cisyk was an American soprano of Ukrainian ethnicity. Cisyk, a classically-trained opera singer, successfully pursued a career in four different musical genres: popular music, classical opera, Ukrainian folk music and commercial jingles for radio and TV advertisements.Cisyk...
, singer - Katya ChillyKatya ChillyKatya Chilly is a Ukrainian pop-jazz singer. Her style is a fusion of World and New Age Music.-Biography:...
, singer - Taras ChubayTaras ChubayTaras Hryhorovych Chubay , is a Ukrainian musician and poet. He is the son of the poet Hryhoriy Chubay.He studied at Lviv Conservatory....
, bard - Melanie SafkaMelanie SafkaMelanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk is an American singer-songwriter. Known professionally as simply Melanie, she is best known for her hits "Brand New Key", "Ruby Tuesday" and "Lay Down ".-Early career:...
, bard - Iosif KobzonJoseph KobzonIosif Davydovich Kobzon is a Soviet and Russian singer, known for his crooner style.-Early life:Kobzon was born to Jewish parents in the mining town of Chasiv Yar, in the Donbass region of Ukraine....
, iconic Soviet crooner, anti-Western - Ani LorakAni LorakKarolina Miroslavivna Kuiek, , popularly known as Ani Lorak , born 27 September 1978, Kitsman, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, is a famous Ukrainian pop singer, songwriter, actress, entrepreneur, and former UN Goodwill Ambassador...
, singer, runner-up of the 2008 Eurovision contest - Ruslana Lyzhichko, pop singer, composer, songwriter, conductor, dancer, record producer, pro-Western, singer and winner of the 2004 Eurovision contest.
- Anastasiya Prikhodko, winner of Star Factory 2007, and represented Russia in the 2009 Eurovision song contest
- Verka SerduchkaVerka SerduchkaAndriy Mykhailovych Danylko , better known as his drag character Verka Serduchka , is a Ukrainian comedian and pop and dance singer. In the role of Serduchka, he represented Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 and finished in second place...
(Adriy Danylko), singer and runner-up of the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest - Yuri ShevchukYuri ShevchukYuri Yulianovich Shevchuk , born 16 May 1957, is a Soviet and Russian singer/songwriter who leads the rock band DDT, which he founded with Vladimir Sigachev in 1980. Shevchuk was born in Yagodnoye in Magadan Oblast and raised in Ufa, Bashkir ASSR, though he now resides in St. Petersburg, Russia....
, bard, born of Ukrainian father - Theresa SokyrkaTheresa SokyrkaTheresa Sokyrka is a Canadian singer-songwriter. On the second season of Canadian Idol, she was the final runner-up to winner Kalan Porter.-Biography:...
, Canadian Idol 2 runner-up - Super DJ Dmitri (Dmitry Brill), member of American club/dance group Deee-LiteDeee-LiteDeee-Lite was an American house and club/dance group, formed in New York City, United States. The group's best-known single was "Groove Is in the Heart", from their 1990 debut album, World Clique. However, Deee-Lite achieved longer lasting success on the U.S...
- Nissan SpivakNissan SpivakNisn Spivak was a Jewish cantor and composer.He was cantor in Bălţi , Bessarabia, and was generally known as ‘Nisn Beltzer’...
, the world-famous Ukrainian cantor - StereolizaStereolizaStereolizza is a Ukrainian musical group founded by Katya Shalayeva and Alex "StereoZzilla" Ginchev .-Overview:...
(Katya Shalayeva), singer - Leonyd UtyosivLeonid UtyosovLeonid Osipovich Utyosov or Utesov ; real name Lazar Vaysbeyn or Weissbein , was a famous Soviet jazz singer and comic actor of jewish origin, who became the first pop singer to be awarded the prestigious title of People's Artist of the USSR .-Biography:Leonid Utyosov was brought up in Odessa...
, jazz singer - Svyatoslav VakarchukSvyatoslav VakarchukSvyatoslav Yvanovych Vakarchuk is the lead vocalist of Okean Elzy, the most successful post-Soviet rock band in Ukraine. He is the son of Ivan Vakarchuk, a professor of physics at Lviv University and the former Minister of Education and Science in Ukraine....
, singer, European-style democracy supporter, pro-Western - Alexander VertinskyAlexander VertinskyAlexander Nikolayevich Vertinsky was a Russian and Soviet artist, poet, singer, composer, cabaret artist and actor who exerted seminal influence on the Russian tradition of artistic singing.-Early years:...
, singer and composer - Velvel ZbarjerVelvel ZbarjerVelvel Zbarjer , birth name Benjamin Wolf Ehrenkrantz , a Galician Jew, was a Brody singer. Following in the footsteps of Berl Broder, his "mini-melodramas in song" were precursors of Yiddish theater.Born in Zbarazh, Galicia, he moved to Romania in 1845...
, singer - Tina KarolTina KarolTina Karol , born Tatiana Grigorievna Liberman , is a Ukrainian singer. Karol represented Ukraine at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2006.- Biography :...
, singer - Sofia RotaruSofia RotaruSofia Mykhailivna Yevdokymenko-Rotaru known as Sofia Rotaru is a Soviet and Ukrainian pop singer of Romanian/Moldavian heritage....
, singer - GaitanaHaytanaGaitana Essami , born on 29 September 1979 in Kiev), is a Ukrainian singer and songwriter, the only Afro-Ukrainian celebrity in the country. Her music combines elements of jazz, funk, soul, and folk music....
Other performing artists
- Juliya ChernetskyJuliya ChernetskyJuliya Chernetsky , is a television personality best known for her popularity on the music-themed network Fuse, formerly known as MuchMusicUSA. She is best known by her stage name Mistress Juliya. She hosted the heavy metal-themed program Uranium and a call-in and e-mail advice program called Slave...
- Serge LifarSerge LifarSerge Lifar ; 15 December 1986) was a French ballet dancer and choreographer of Ukrainian origin, famous as one of the greatest male ballet dancers of the 20th century.-Biography:Lifar was born in Kiev, Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire...
one of the greatest male ballet dancers of the 20th century - Maria GuleghinaMaria GuleghinaMaria Agasovna Guleghina is a Ukrainian-Russian soprano opera singer, particularly associated with the Italian repertory.-Biography:Maria Guleghina was born in Odessa, Ukraine , to an Armenian father and a Ukrainian mother, where she studied voice at the Music Conservatory with Evgeny Nikolaevich...
- Alla KorotAlla KorotAlla Korot is an American actress and dancer.Korot was born in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR to Elena and Alex Korot. Korot and her family immigrated to the United States in 1977, and she subsequently grew up in San Francisco. Before acting, she performed for Ballet Celeste International with her family...
- Alex TrebekAlex TrebekGeorge Alexander "Alex" Trebek is a Canadian American game show host who has been the host of the game show Jeopardy! since 1984, and prior to that, he hosted game shows such as Pitfall and High Rollers. He has appeared in numerous television series, usually as himself...
(Ukrainian father)
Writers
- Shmuel Agnon, a world-famous eminent Israeli Hebrew writer, winner of the Nobel Prize (1966), born in Buchach
- Sholom AleichemSholom AleichemSholem Aleichem was the pen name of Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, a leading Yiddish author and playwright...
, world-famous distinguished Ukrainian writer in Yiddish language, born in Pereyaslav - Yuri AndrukhovychYuri AndrukhovychYuri Andrukhovych is a Ukrainian prose writer, poet, essayist, and translator. With Oleksandr Irvanets and Viktor Neborak, he co-founded the Bu-Ba-Bu poetic group in 1985 .-Personal life:Yuri Andrukhovych is the father of Sofia...
, born in Ivano-Frankivsk - Isaac BabelIsaac BabelIsaak Emmanuilovich Babel was a Russian language journalist, playwright, literary translator, and short story writer. He is best known as the author of Red Cavalry, Story of My Dovecote, and Tales of Odessa, all of which are considered masterpieces of Russian literature...
, world-famous Ukrainian writer in Russian language, born in Odessa - David BergelsonDavid BergelsonDavid Bergelson was a Yiddish language writer. Ukrainian-born, he lived for a time in Berlin, Germany. He moved back to the Soviet Union when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany...
, Ukrainian writer in Yiddish language - Aleksei Bibik, working-class writer (1878–1976)
- Mikhail BulgakovMikhail BulgakovMikhaíl Afanásyevich Bulgákov was a Soviet Russian writer and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for his novel The Master and Margarita, which The Times of London has called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.-Biography:Mikhail Bulgakov was born on...
, novelist in Russian language - Marko CheremshynaMarko CheremshynaMarko Cheremshyna , was a Ukrainian writer of Hutsul background.- Biography :...
, writer - Joseph ConradJoseph ConradJoseph Conrad was a Polish-born English novelist.Conrad is regarded as one of the great novelists in English, although he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties...
, world-famous Polish writer in English language, born in Berdichiv - Raya DunayevskayaRaya DunayevskayaRaya Dunayevskaya was the founder of the philosophy of Marxist Humanism in the United States of America. At one time Leon Trotsky's secretary, she later split with him and ultimately founded the organization News and Letters Committees and was its leader until her death.-Biography:Of Jewish...
, Marxist humanist, anti-Western, mafia-connected - Ilya EhrenburgIlya EhrenburgIlya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg was a Soviet writer, journalist, translator, and cultural figure.Ehrenburg is among the most prolific and notable authors of the Soviet Union; he published around one hundred titles. He became known first and foremost as a novelist and a journalist - in particular, as a...
, Ukrainian publicist and writer in Russian language, born in Kiev - Hryhorii EpikHryhorii EpikHryhorii Danylovych Epik was a Ukrainian writer and journalist. He supported the Soviet Ukrainization during the 1920s which probably led to his arrest and execution during the Great Purge in the 1930s.-Early life:...
, writer, journalist - Nikolai GogolNikolai GogolNikolai Vasilievich Gogol was a Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist and novelist.Considered by his contemporaries one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism, later critics have found in Gogol's work a fundamentally romantic sensibility, with strains of Surrealism...
, Ukrainian writer in Russian language, born in Velyki Sorochyntsi - Daniil GraninDaniil GraninDaniil Alexandrovich Granin is an author born in the former Soviet Union. He started writing in the 1930s when he was still an engineering student at the Leningrad Polytechnical Institute...
, author - Vasily GrossmanVasily GrossmanVasily Semyonovich Grossman was a Soviet writer and journalist. Grossman trained as an engineer and worked in the Donets Basin, but changed career in the 1930s and published short stories and several novels...
, born in Berdichev in 1905. Dedicated his lives' writing to the 3 most terrible pages of 20th cent 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". - Yakiv HolovatskyYakiv HolovatskyYakiv Holovatsky was born October 17, 1814 in Chepeli, Zloczow powiat, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria - died on May 13, 1888 in Vilno, Russian Empire...
- Oles HoncharOles HoncharOleksandr Terentiyovych Honchar , was a Ukrainian and Soviet writer and public figure fighting for the reinstatement of the Ukrainian culture in the Soviet society after its abolition by the establishment.-Early years:According to several encyclopedias Honchar was born in the village of Sukhe in...
, author of The Cathedral - Yevhen HrebinkaYevhen HrebinkaYevhen Pavlovych Hrebinka was a Ukrainian romantic writer and poet. He wrote in both the Ukrainian and Russian languages.His works first started being published in 1831...
- Yevhen HutsaloYevhen HutsaloYevhen Hutsalo was a Ukrainian writer and journalist.Hutsalo was born in Staryi Zhyvotiv, Vinnytsia oblast. He graduated from the Nizhyn Pedagogical Institute in 1959, and was first published in 1960. During the 1960s, Hutsalo was considered one of the "shestydesyatnyky" , or those who were...
- Ilya IlfIlya IlfIlya Ilf was an extremely popular Soviet author of the 1920s and 1930s, who worked in collaboration with Yevgeni Petrov. See Ilf and Petrov for more info....
, world-famous Ukrainian humorist in Russian language, co-author of The Twelve Chairs - Adrian KashchenkoAdrian KashchenkoAdrian Kashchenko was a well-known Ukrainian writer, historian of Zaporozhian Cossacks.Adrian Kaschenko was born in the family of small landowner claiming its roots to the Zaporozhian Cossacks in Yekaterinoslav Governorate...
- Mykola KhvylovyMykola KhvylovyMykola Khvylovy was a Ukrainian writer and poet of the early Communist era Ukrainian Renaissance .Born as Mykola Fitilyov in Trostyanets, Kharkov Governorate to a Russian laborer father and Ukrainian schoolteacher mother, Khvylovy joined the Communist Party in 1919. In the same year he became the...
- Olha Kobylyanska
- Levko KopelivLev KopelevLev Zalmanovich Kopelev was a Soviet author and a dissident.- Biography :...
, author and dissident - Ivan KotlyarevskyIvan KotlyarevskyIvan Petrovych Kotlyarevsky , was a Ukrainian writer, poet and playwright, regarded as the pioneer of modern Ukrainian literature. Kotliarevsky was a veteran of the Russo-Turkish War.- Biography :...
, playwright - Mykhailo KotsiubynskyMykhailo KotsiubynskyMykhailo Mykhailovych Kotsiubynsky , was a Ukrainian author whose writings described typical Ukrainian life at the start of the 20th century...
- Mykola KulishMykola KulishMykola Kulish was a Ukrainian prosaic, drama writer, pedagogue, veteran of the World War I, Red Army veteran.-Brief biography:Kulish was born in a village of...
, dramatist - Panteleymon KulishPanteleymon KulishPanteleimon Kulish was a Ukrainian writer, critic, poet, folklorist, and translator.-Overview:...
- Andryi KurkivAndrey KurkovAndrey Yuryevich Kurkov is a Ukrainian novelist who writes in Russian. He is the author of 13 novels and 5 books for children. His work is currently translated into 25 languages, including English, Japanese, French, Chinese, Swedish and Hebrew...
- Clarice LispectorClarice LispectorClarice Lispector was a Brazilian writer. Acclaimed internationally for her innovative novels and short stories, she was also a journalist...
- Oleksandra MarynynaAlexandra MarininaAlexandra Marinina is a best-selling Russian writer of detective stories.-Biography:...
- Amvrosii MetlynskyAmvrosii MetlynskyAmvrosii Metlynsky was a Ukrainian poet, ethnographer, and professor, and publisher.Metlynsky was a professor of Russian Literature at Kharkiv University from 1843–49, and again from 1854–58. From 1849–54 he was a professor at Kiev University. During the 1830s, the city of Kharkiv became the...
, poet, writer - Ivan Nechuy-LevytskyIvan Nechuy-Levytsky-Bioghaphy:Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky was born on 25 November 1838 to a family of a peasant priest. In 1847 entered the Boguslav religious school. Upon graduating from the Kiev Theological Academy he taught Russian language, history, and geography in the Poltava Theological Seminary and, later, in the...
- Viktor NekrasovViktor NekrasovViktor Platonovich Nekrasov was a Russian writer, journalist and editor.-Biography:Nekrasov was born in Kiev and graduated with a degree in architecture in 1936. Between 1937 and 1941, he was an actor and set designer with the Kiev Russian Drama Theater...
, writer - Yuri Nikitin, Russian science fiction and fantasy writer
- Yuri NikitinYuri Nikitin (gymnast)Yuri Nikitin is a Ukrainian gymnast and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.-External links:...
, trampolinist - Ostap OrtwinOstap OrtwinOstap Ortwin was a Polish journalist and literary critic....
- Bohdan OsadchukBohdan OsadchukBohdan Osadchuk , was a Ukrainian historian and journalist.Dr. Bohdan Osadchuk was born in Kolomyia. He was a professor at the Free University of Berlin, one of the most senior members of the Ukrainian Free University of Munich, and a long-standing freelance writer for Kultura, a Polish emigre...
- Chuck PalahniukChuck PalahniukCharles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk is an American transgressional fiction novelist and freelance journalist. He is best known for the award-winning novel Fight Club, which was later made into a film directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter...
, American satirical novelist (Ukrainian father) - Viktor PetrovViktor PetrovViktor Petrov was a prominent Ukrainian existentialist writer. He signed his works with pen names Viktor Domontovych and Viktor Ber . Together with Valerian Pidmohylny Petrov is considered to be the founder of the Ukrainian intellectual novel. Although Petrov is remembered as a writer today,...
- Yevgeny Petrov, Ukrainian humorist in Russian language, co-author of The Twelve Chairs
- Valerian PidmohylnyValerian PidmohylnyValerian Pidmohylny was an important Ukrainian novelist, most famous for the realist novel Misto...
, novelist - Les Podervianskiy, satirist and playwright, pro-Western and pro-Ukrainian dissident
- Yuri PokalchukYuri PokalchukYuri Pokalchuk was a Ukrainian writer, translator, researcher, candidate of philological sciences, head of the international department of the Union of Writers of Ukraine.- Biography :...
- Anna PolitkovskayaAnna PolitkovskayaAnna Stepanovna Politkovskaya was a Russian journalist, author, and human rights activist known for her opposition to the Chechen conflict and then-President of Russia Vladimir Putin...
, writer and journalist, world-famous eminent pro-Western freedom and democracy defender and advocate - Jan PotockiJan PotockiCount Jan Nepomucen Potocki was a Polish nobleman, Polish Army Captain of Engineers, ethnologist, Egyptologist, linguist, traveler, adventurer and popular author of the Enlightenment period, whose life and exploits made him a legendary figure in his homeland...
, Count, a world-famous Polish writer in French language, born and died in Ukraine - Valentyn Rechmedin, writer, journalist
- Leopold von Sacher-MasochLeopold von Sacher-MasochLeopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch was an Austrian writer and journalist, who gained renown for his romantic stories of Galician life. The term masochism is derived from his name....
, Austrian writer, author of Venus in Furs - Markiyan ShashkevychMarkiyan ShashkevychMarkiyan Shashkevych was a priest of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, a poet, a translator, and the leader of the literary revival in Right Bank Ukraine.In 1832, they organized a group of students aimed at the rise of the Ukrainian...
, poet, writer, and interpreter - Miriam Yalan-ShteklisMiriam Yalan-ShteklisMiriam Yalan-Shteklis was an Israeli writer and poet famous for her children's books. Her surname, Yalan, was an acronym based on her father’s name, Yehuda Leib Nissan.-Biography:...
, Israeli writer and poet - Hryhoriy Skovoroda, poet, writer, philosopher
- Aleksandr SolzhenitsynAleksandr SolzhenitsynAleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was aRussian and Soviet novelist, dramatist, and historian. Through his often-suppressed writings, he helped to raise global awareness of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system – particularly in The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of...
, Russian writer, had Ukrainian mother - Vasyl StefanykVasyl StefanykVasyl' Semenovych Stefanyk was a classical Ukrainian prose writer and political activist. He was a member of the Austrian parliament 1908-1918....
- Olga TokarczukOlga TokarczukOlga Tokarczuk is one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful Polish writers of her generation, particularly noted for the hallmark mythical tone of her writing. She trained as a psychologist at the University of Warsaw. She has published a collection of poems, three novels,...
, Polish writer of Ukrainian origin - Ivan VahylevychIvan VahylevychIvan Vahylevych, b 2 September 1811 in the village of Yasen , Stanislawow powiat, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, d 10 May 1866 in Lemberg...
- Marko VovchokMarko VovchokMarko Vovchok , 22 December 1833 – 10 August 1907) was a famous Ukrainian and Russian writer of Ukrainian descent. Her pen name, Marko Vovchok, was invented by Panteleimon Kulish.-Biography:...
- Volodymyr VynnychenkoVolodymyr VynnychenkoVolodymyr Kyrylovych Vynnychenko - Biography :Vynnychenko was born in Yelisavetgrad , the Kherson Governorate of the Russian Empire in a family of peasants. His father Kyrylo Vasyliovych Vynnychenko earlier in his life was a peasant-serf has moved from a village to the city of Yelisavetgrad where...
- Ostap Vyshnia
- Natan Ilyich ZabaraNatan Ilyich ZabaraNatan Ilyich Zabara was a Jewish writer born in Rogachev, a shtetl located in the Zhytomyr area of Ukraine. He wrote in Yiddish and was a member of the Union of Ukrainian Writers ....
, writer in Yiddish - Pavlo ZahrebelnyiPavlo ZahrebelnyiPavlo Arhypovych Zahrebelnyi or Zagrebelnyi was a Ukrainian novelist....
- Marya ZaturenskaMarya ZaturenskaMarya Zaturenska was an American lyric poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1938.-Life:She was born in Kiev and her family emigrated to the United States, when she was eight and lived in New York. Like many immigrants, she worked in a clothing factory during the day, but was able to...
- Mykola ZerovMykola ZerovMykola Zerov was perhaps the most talented of the Neoclassicist movement of poets in 1920's Ukraine. Despite the populist and propagandistic impulses of Communism, the neoclassical movement stressed the production of 'high art' to an educated and highly literate audience...
- Mikhail ZhvanetskyMikhail ZhvanetskyMikhail Mikhaylovich Zhvanetsky is a famous Soviet and Russian satiric writer and stand-up comedian...
, Russian humorist
Poets
- Anna AkhmatovaAnna AkhmatovaAnna Andreyevna Gorenko , better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova , was a Russian and Soviet modernist poet, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Russian canon.Harrington p11...
, Russian poet - Bohdan-Ihor Antonych
- Eduard BagritskyEduard BagritskyEduard Bagritsky , real name Dzyubin , was an important Russian and Soviet poet of the Constructivist School.He was a Neo-Romantic early in his poetic career; he was also a part of the so-called Odessa School of Russian writers...
- Mikola Bazhan
- Hayyim Nahman BialikHayyim Nahman BialikHayim Nahman Bialik , also Chaim or Haim, was a Jewish poet who wrote in Hebrew. Bialik was one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew poets and came to be recognized as Israel's national poet.-Biography:...
, modern Hebrew Ukrainian poet, national poet of the State of Israel - Itzik FefferItzik FefferItzik Feffer , also Fefer was a Soviet Yiddish poet who fell victim to Joseph Stalin's purges.-Background:...
, Soviet poet in Yiddish language - Moysey Fishbeyn, Ukrainian poet in Yiddish language
- Ivan FrankoIvan FrankoIvan Yakovych Franko was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, interpreter, economist, political activist, doctor of philosophy, the author of the first detective novels and modern poetry in the Ukrainian language....
- Alexander Galich, Soviet bard in Russian language, pro-Western dissident
- Lina KostenkoLina KostenkoLina Kostenko is a Ukrainian poet and writer, recipient of the Shevchenko Award . Kostenko is a leading representative of Ukrainian poets of the sixties known as Shestydesiantnyky . This group started publishing during the 1950s and reached its apex during the early 1960s...
- Dmytro PavlychkoDmytro PavlychkoDmytro Pavlychko - well-known Ukrainian poet, translator, scriptwriter, culturologist, political and public figure, dissident.- Biography :...
- Markiyan ShashkevychMarkiyan ShashkevychMarkiyan Shashkevych was a priest of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, a poet, a translator, and the leader of the literary revival in Right Bank Ukraine.In 1832, they organized a group of students aimed at the rise of the Ukrainian...
- Taras ShevchenkoTaras ShevchenkoTaras Hryhorovych Shevchenko -Life:Born into a serf family of Hryhoriy Ivanovych Shevchenko and Kateryna Yakymivna Shevchenko in the village of Moryntsi, of Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire Shevchenko was orphaned at the age of eleven...
, - Vasyl StusVasyl StusVasyl Semenovych Stus was a Ukrainian poet and publicist, one of the most active members of Ukrainian dissident movement. For his political convictions, his works were banned by the Soviet regime and he spent 23 years in detention...
- Vasyl SymonenkoVasyl SymonenkoVasyl Symonenko a well-known Ukrainian poet, journalist, activist of dissident movement. He is considered one of the most important figures in Ukrainian literature of the early 1960s...
- Olena TelihaOlena TelihaOlena Ivanivna Teliha was a Ukrainian poet and Ukrainian activist of Ukrainian and Belarusian ethnicity.-Biography:Olena Teliha was born Elena Ivanovna Shovgeneva in the village of Ilyinskoe, near Moscow in Russia where her parents spent summer vacations. There are a several villages by this name...
- Pavlo TychynaPavlo TychynaPavlo Tychyna was a major Ukrainian poet, interpreter, publicist, public activist, academician, and statesman.-Life:Born in Pisky in 1891, he was baptized on January 27 that mistakenly was considered his birth date until recently. His father, Hryhoriy Timofiyovych Tychyna, was a village deacon and...
- Maksym RylskyMaksym RylskyMaksym Tadeyovych Rylsky was a Ukrainian poet.He began writing as a representative of 'pure art' doctrine, during the Stalinist years adopted the official doctrine of 'socialist realism' . In 1937 he was involved in rewriting the libretto of Mykola Lysenko's opera, Taras Bulba...
- Lesya UkrainkaLesya UkrainkaLarysa Petrivna Kosach-Kvitka better known under her literary pseudonym Lesya Ukrainka , was one of Ukraine's best-known poets and writers and the foremost woman writer in Ukrainian literature. She also was a political, civil, and female activist....
- Volodymyr YanivVolodymyr YanivVolodymyr Yaniv was a community and scouting leader in the 1930's, an activist in the OUN and the Ukrainian Military Organization UVO, editor of numerous student and community publications, a professional psychologist and sociologist, and a Ukrainian poet...
- Volodymyr YavorivskyVolodymyr YavorivskyVolodymyr Oleksandrovych Yavorivsky is a Ukrainian poet, writer, journalist and politician.-Biography:Born in 1942 in Crijopol raion of Jugastru county Yavorivsky graduated from the Odessa State University as a specialist on "Ukrainian language and literature"...
- Natan YonatanNatan YonatanNatan Yonatan was an Israeli poet.His poems have been translated from Hebrew and published in more than a dozen languages, among them: Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese, and Yiddish....
, Kiev-born Israeli poet - Ihor KalynetsIhor KalynetsIhor Mironovych Kalynets was a Ukrainian poet and Soviet dissident.- Background :Kalynets was born in Khodoriv. He was the son of an agronomist. his parents upheld Ukrainian cultural traditions...
Models
- Viktoria FoxxViktoria FoxxViktoria Foxx is an Ukrainian-American celebutante, media personality, businesswoman, model, politician and former beauty queen. Foxx was the first woman to win Miss Myspace USA.-Career:...
- Snejana OnopkaSnejana OnopkaSnejana Onopka is a Ukrainian model.At the height of her career, she was known to be extremely thin, with a body mass index of just 14.6. She has somewhat gained weight since this period, which spanned from 2005-2008.-Modeling career:...
– Ukrainian model born in Sievierodonetsk - Daria WerbowyDaria WerbowyDaria Werbowy is a Ukrainian Canadian model. She is perhaps best known as a spokesperson for the French beauty brand Lancôme.-Personal life:...
– Polish-born Canadian model of Ukrainian descent. - Victoria ZdrokVictoria ZdrokVictoria Nika Zdrok is a pornographic actress, author, and model of Ukrainian origin. She was chosen as a Playboy Playmate in October 1994. In June 2002 she became Penthouse magazine's Pet of the Month, later being chosen as their 2004 Penthouse Pet of the Year...
Business
- Rynat AkhmetovRinat AkhmetovRinat Leonidovych Akhmetov is a Ukrainian businessman. He is the founder and President of System Capital Management, and is ranked among the wealthiest men in the nation. Akhmetov is also the owner and President of the Ukrainian football club Shakhtar Donetsk...
, Ukraine's richest man (Ukrainian mother) - Martin ChaseMartin ChaseCecil Martin Chase is a former American football defensive tackle in the National Football League. With the New Orleans Saints he was part of a defensive line nicknamed "The Heavy Lunch Bunch", along with fellow 325-pounders Norman Hand and Grady Jackson. He played college football at the...
, founder of Ann & Hope Department StoresAnn & Hope Department StoresAnn & Hope is a Rhode Island-based retailer that pioneered practices now common in modern big box stores. Named after the ship Ann and Hope, which was lost at sea off Block Island, Rhode Island in 1806, the store operated from 1953 to 2001 in the Northeastern United States... - Mikhail FridmanMikhail FridmanMikhail Maratovich Fridman is a Jewish Russian businessman. Mr. Fridman graduated from Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys in 1986. In 1988 Fridman started his career in trading and financial services before founding Alfa Group Consortium in 1989...
, Ukrainian oligarch, billionaire, pro-Western - Max LevchinMax LevchinMax Rafael Levchin is a Ukrainian-born American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur widely known as one of the co-founders and for his role as the former chief technology officer of PayPal....
, co-founder of PayPalPayPalPayPal is an American-based global e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet. Online money transfers serve as electronic alternatives to paying with traditional paper methods, such as checks and money orders....
, pro-Western dissident - Viktor PinchukViktor PinchukVictor Pinchuk is a Jewish-Ukrainian businessman and philanthropist. Forbes ranked him # 336 on the list of the wealthiest people in the world, with a fortune of $3.3 billion...
, Ukraine's second-richest man, son-in-law of Leonid KuchmaLeonid KuchmaLeonid Danylovych Kuchma was the second President of independent Ukraine from 19 July 1994, to 23 January 2005. Kuchma took office after winning the 1994 presidential election against his rival, incumbent Leonid Kravchuk... - Petro Poroshenko, confectionery baron, close confidant of Viktor YushchenkoViktor YushchenkoViktor Andriyovych Yushchenko is a former President of Ukraine. He took office on January 23, 2005, following a period of popular unrest known as the Orange Revolution...
- Jay PritzkerJay PritzkerJay Arthur Pritzker was an American entrepreneur and conglomerate organizer.-Biography:Pritzker was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Fanny and A. N. Pritzker. His brother was Robert Pritzker...
, founder of HyattHyattHyatt Hotels Corporation , is an international operator of hotels.Hyatt Center is the headquarters for Hyatt corporation...
and philanthropist - Alexandre StaviskyAlexandre StaviskySerge Alexandre Stavisky was a French financier and embezzler whose actions created a political scandal that became known as the Stavisky Affair....
, French financier - Viktor VekselbergViktor VekselbergViktor Felixovich Vekselberg is the owner and president of Renova Group, a large Russian conglomerate.-Business empire:Victor Vekselberg was born in 1957 in Western Ukraine. He graduated from the Moscow Transportation Engineering Institute in 1979...
, Ukrainian oligarch, billionaire (Ukrainian father) - Viktor MedvedchukViktor MedvedchukViktor Volodymyrovich Medvedchuk is a Ukrainian politician, lawyer, and business oligarch.-Brief overview:In 1998–2001, Medvedchuk was the First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada . In 2002–04, Medvedchuk served as head of Leonid Kuchma's presidential administration...
, businessman - Serhii Tihipko, oligarch
Cosmonauts
Many cosmonauts of the Soviet UnionSoviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
and modern Russia were ethnic Ukrainians or come from Ukraine. See :Category:Ukrainian cosmonauts for the full list.
- Georgi BeregovoiGeorgi BeregovoiGeorgy Timofeyevich Beregovoy was a Soviet cosmonaut who commanded the space mission Soyuz 3 in 1968. At the time of his flight, Beregovoy was 47 years of age: he was the oldest human to go into space , three months and three days older than the second earliest-born astronaut, American John...
- Leonid KadeniukLeonid KadeniukLeonid Kostyantynovych Kadenyuk , born 28 January 1951 in Klishkivtsi, Chernivtsi Oblast of the Ukrainian SSR) is the only astronaut of independent Ukraine. He made his flight on NASA's Columbia in 1997 as part of the international mission STS-87. Kadeniuk holds the rank of Ukrainian Air Force...
, earlier a Soviet cosmonaut, made the first manned spaceflight of the National Space Agency of UkraineNational Space Agency of UkraineThe State Space Agency of Ukraine is the Ukrainian government agency responsible for space policy and programs....
. - Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper for NASANASAThe National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
Cossack Hetmans
- Przecław Lanckoroński (1506–1512) one of the first Hetmans of Ukrainian CossacksHetmans of Ukrainian CossacksHetman of Ukrainian Cossacks as a title was not officially recognized internationally until the creation of the Ukrainian Hetmanate. With the creation of Registered Cossacks units their leaders were unofficially referred to as hetmans, however officially the title was known as the "Senior of His...
- Ostap DashkevychOstap DashkevychEustachy or Ostap Dashkevych was a commander of a Cossack defense force, approved by the Sejm. He held the position of starosta of Cherkasy in the early stages of the development of the cossacks, and is sometimes mistakenly referred to as a hetman...
(1514–1535) - Dmytro VyshnevetskyDmytro VyshnevetskyDmytro Ivanovych Vyshnevetsky was a Hetman of the Ukrainian Cossacks. He was also known as Baida in the Ukrainian folk songs.-Biography:...
(1550–1563) - Ivan Pidkova (1577–1578), Cossack hetman and HospodarHospodarHospodar or gospodar is a term of Slavonic origin, meaning "lord" or "master".The rulers of Wallachia and Moldavia were styled hospodars in Slavic writings from the 15th century to 1866. Hospodar was used in addition to the title voivod...
of MoldaviaMoldaviaMoldavia is a geographic and historical region and former principality in Eastern Europe, corresponding to the territory between the Eastern Carpathians and the Dniester river... - Kryshtof Kosynsky (1591–1593)
- Hryhory LobodaHryhory LobodaHryhory Loboda , was a Kosh Otaman of the Zaporizhian Host of Romanian descent. In 1594 and 1595 he and Severyn Nalyvaiko took part in the anti-Turkish campaign in Moldavia as allies of Rudolf II...
(1593–1596) - Severyn NalyvaikoSeveryn NalyvaikoSeveryn Nalyvaiko was a leader of the Ukrainian Cossacks who became a hero of Ukrainian folklore. He led the Nalyvaiko Uprising. The Decembrist poet Kondraty Ryleyev wrote a poem about him.-Biography:...
(1596) - Petro Konashevych-SahaidachnyPetro KonashevychPetro Konashevych-Sahaidachnyi, , was a Hetman of Registered Cossacks and the Kosh Otaman of Zaporozhian Host from 1601–1618, a brilliant military leader both on land and sea. While being a Cossack Hetman, he transformed the Cossack Host into a regular military formation and imparted a statist...
(1614–1622) Hetman of Zaporozhian Cossacks - Mykhailo DoroshenkoMykhailo DoroshenkoMykhailo Doroshenko was the Hetman of the registered Ukrainian Cossacks from 1623–1628.He was elevated to the rank of Cossack colonel in 1616, and he was active in Petro Konashevych's wars against Muscovy. He personally participated in the Battle of Khotyn in 1621...
(1623–1628) - Hryhoriy Chorny (1628–1630), elected by Registered CossacksRegistered CossacksRegistered Cossacks is the term used for Cossacks formations of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth armies.-Establishing:The registered cossacks were created on the King's edict of Sigismund II Augustus on June 5, 1572 confirming the orders of the Crown Hetman Jerzy Jazłowiecki. The first senior ...
- Taras FedorovychTaras FedorovychTaras Fedorovych was a prominent leader of the Dnieper Cossacks, a popular Hetman elected by unregistered Cossacks....
(1629–1630), elected by unregistered Cossacks - Ivan SulymaIvan SulymaIvan Sulyma was a Senior of Registered Cossacks in 1628-29 and a Kosh Otaman in 1630-35.-Life and Death:Son of Mykhailo Sulyma, Ivan came from a petty noble family. He was born in Rogoszcze...
(1630–1635) - Dmytro HuniaDmytro HuniaDmytro Hunia was elected hetman of the Zaporozhian Host in 1638. He was one of the leaders of the Ostrzanin Uprising, a 1638 Cossack uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The rebellion was sparked by the Sejm act of the same year that declared that non-Registered Cossacks are equal...
(1638) - Bohdan KhmelnytskyBohdan KhmelnytskyBohdan Zynoviy Mykhailovych Khmelnytsky was a hetman of the Zaporozhian Cossack Hetmanate of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth . He led an uprising against the Commonwealth and its magnates which resulted in the creation of a Cossack state...
(1648–1657) the first Hetman of the Cossack HetmanateCossack HetmanateThe Hetmanate or Zaporizhian Host was the Ruthenian Cossack state in the Central Ukraine between 1649 and 1782.The Hetmanate was founded by first Ukrainian hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky during the Khmelnytsky Uprising . In 1654 it pledged its allegiance to Muscovy during the Council of Pereyaslav,... - Ivan VyhovskyIvan VyhovskyIvan Vyhovsky was a hetman of the Ukrainian Cossacks during three years of the Russo-Polish War . He was the successor to the famous hetman and rebel leader Bohdan Khmelnytsky...
(1657–1659) second Hetman of the Cossack Hetmanate - Yurii KhmelnytskyYurii KhmelnytskyYurii Khmelnytsky , younger son of the famous Ukrainian Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky and brother of Tymofiy Khmelnytsky, was a Zaporozhian Cossack political and military leader...
(1659–1663) third Hetman of the Cossack Hetmanate, and (1677–1681 and 1685) in the Right-bank Ukraine - Pavlo TeteriaPavlo TeteriaPavlo Teteria was Hetman of Right-Bank Ukraine .Before his hetmancy he served in a number of high positions under Bohdan Khmelnytsky, and Ivan Vyhovsky....
(1663–1665) in the Right-bank UkraineRight-bank UkraineRight-bank Ukraine , a historical name of a part of Ukraine on the right bank of the Dnieper River, corresponding with modern-day oblasts of Volyn, Rivne, Vinnitsa, Zhytomyr, Kirovohrad and Kiev, as well as part of Cherkasy and Ternopil... - Ivan BriukhovetskyIvan BriukhovetskyIvan Briukhovetsky was a pro-Russian hetman of Left-Bank Ukraine from 1663 to 1668. For background see The Ruin...
(1663–1668) in the Left-bank UkraineLeft-bank UkraineLeft-bank Ukraine is a historic name of the part of Ukraine on the left bank of the Dnieper River, comprising the modern-day oblasts of Chernihiv, Poltava and Sumy as well as the eastern parts of the Kiev and Cherkasy.... - Petro DoroshenkoPetro DoroshenkoPetro Dorofeyevych Doroshenko was a Cossack political and military leader, Hetman of Right-bank Ukraine and a Russian voyevoda.-Earlier life:...
(1665–1676) in the Right-bank Ukraine and (1668–1669) in the Left-bank Ukraine - Demian MnohohrishnyDemian MnohohrishnyDemian Mnohohrishny was the Hetman of Left-bank Ukraine from 1669 to 1672. See The Ruin His surname literally means "of many sins"....
(1669–1672) in the Left-bank Ukraine - Mykhailo KhanenkoMykhailo KhanenkoMykhailo Stepanovych Khanenko was a Ukrainian Cossack military leader, and nominal hetman of Right-bank Ukraine from 1669-74 in rivalry with Petro Doroshenko during The Ruin ....
(1669–1674) in the Right-bank Ukraine - Ivan SamoylovychIvan SamoylovychIvan Samoylovych was the Hetman of Left-bank Ukraine from 1672 to 1687. His term in office was marked by further incorporation of the Cossack Hetmanate into the nascent Russian Empire and by attempts to win the Right-bank Ukraine from Poland-Lithuania....
(1672–1687) in the Left-bank Ukraine - Ivan MazepaIvan MazepaIvan Stepanovych Mazepa , Cossack Hetman of the Hetmanate in Left-bank Ukraine, from 1687–1708. He was famous as a patron of the arts, and also played an important role in the Battle of Poltava where after learning of Peter I's intent to relieve him as acting Hetman of Ukraine and replace him...
(1687–1708) in the Left-bank Ukraine, and (1708–1709) in the Right-bank Ukraine - Pylyp OrlykPylyp OrlykPylyp Stepanovych Orlyk Pylyp Stepanovych Orlyk Pylyp Stepanovych Orlyk (born on October 11, 1672 in Kosuta, Ashmyany county, Grand Duchy of Lithuania (today in Vileyka Raion, Belarus), died on May 26, 1742 in Jassy, Principality of Moldavia (today Iaşi, Romania) was a Zaporozhian Cossack...
(1710–1742) in exile - Ivan SkoropadskyIvan SkoropadskyIvan Skoropadsky was a Hetman of the Ukrainian Cossacks, and the successor to the famous Hetman Ivan Mazepa.- Biography:...
(1708–1722) in the Left-bank Ukraine - Pavlo PolubotokPavlo PolubotokPavlo Polubotok , was a Cossack political and military leader and Acting Hetman of the Left-bank Ukraine between 1722 and 1724.- Biography :...
(1722–1724) served as Acting HetmanActing HetmanActing Hetman was a title during the 17th, and 18th centuries, in the Cossack Hetmanate. The acting hetman was the governing authority in the Hetmanate temporarily substituted for the hetman. The acting hetman was appointed by the hetman himself, to perform the duties of the hetman when absent...
of the Left-bank Ukraine - Danylo ApostolDanylo ApostolDanylo Apostol , was a Hetman of the Left-bank Ukraine and Ukrainian Cossack starshina.Born in a noble Cossack family of Moldavian boyar origin, Danylo Apostol was a prominent military leader, polkovnyk of the Myrhorod Regiment, and a participant in the Russian campaigns against the Ottoman...
(1727–1734) in the Left-bank Ukraine - Kyrylo Rozumovsky (1750–1764) in the Left-bank Ukraine
- Petro KalnyshevskyPetro KalnyshevskyKalnyshevsky Petro was the last Koshovyi Otaman of the Zaporozhian Host, serving in 1762 and from 1765 to 1775. Kalnyshevsky was the Hero in the Russo-Turkish war of 1768-1774 and was honoured with a gold medal with brilliants for courage.Being the leader of the Zaporozhian Host, Kalnyshevsky...
(1765–1775) the last Koshovyi OtamanKoshovyi OtamanKosh Otaman was the highest military rank of the Zaporizhian Cossacks in the 16-18th centuries.-Overview:The otaman was elected by elders of the Zaporozhian Host. The position contained the highest military, administrative, and judicial powers. Until the establishment of the Cossack Hetmanate the...
of the Zaporozhian Cossacks
Military figures
- Roman AbrahamRoman AbrahamRoman Abraham was a Polish cavalry general, commander of Wielkopolska Cavalry Brigade during German and Soviet Invasion of Poland in September 1939, in Battle of Bzura commander of Polish cavalry ....
, general of the Polish Army - Marko Bezruchko, general of the Ukrainian People's ArmyUkrainian People's ArmyThe Ukrainian People's Army , also known as the Ukrainian National Army were often quickly reorganized units of the former Russian Imperial Army or newly formed volunteer detachments that later joined the national armed forces. The army for a long period lacked a certain degree of uniformity,...
- Taras Bulba-BorovetsTaras Bulba-BorovetsTaras Dmytrovych Borovets’ , pseudonym Taras Bulba was a Ukrainian nationalist political activist.-Biography:...
, otaman of the Ukrainian People's Revolutionary ArmyUkrainian People's Revolutionary ArmyUkrainian People's Revolutionary Army was a paramilitary formation of Ukrainian nationalists, nominally proclaimed in Olevsk region in December 1941 by Taras Bulba-Borovets by renaming an existing military unit known from July 1941 as the UPA-Polissian Sich...
aka Polissian Sich - Ivan ChernyakhovskyIvan ChernyakhovskyIvan Danilovich Chernyakhovsky, also Cherniakhovsky, ; Oksanina, Uman, Russian Empire , - Mehlsack, today Pieniężno, Poland, 18 February 1945) was a Soviet General of the Army , twice Hero of the Soviet Union, commander of the 3rd Belorussian Front, who died from wounds received outside...
, general of the Soviet Army - Petro DyachenkoPetro DyachenkoPetro Dyachenko – April 23, 1965 in Philadelphia, USA) was a Ukrainian military commander who served as a staff captain in the Russian Army , colonel in the Ukrainian People's Army , major in the Polish Army , colonel in the Ukrainian Liberation Army , the 104th Panzergrenadier brigade Vilna...
, staff captain ot the Russian Army (World War IWorld War IWorld War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
), colonel of the Ukrainian People's Army (1918–1920), major of the Polish Army (1938–1939), colonel of the Ukrainian Liberation ArmyUkrainian Liberation ArmyThe Ukrainian Liberation Army was formed by the German Army in 1943 to collect the Ukrainian volunteer units that came into being during World War II...
(1943–1945), and general of the Ukrainian National ArmyUkrainian National ArmyUkrainian National Army was a World War II Ukrainian military group, created on March 17, 1945 in Weimar, Germany, and subordinate to Ukrainian National Committee....
(1945) - Nikolay DyatlenkoNikolay DyatlenkoCaptain Nikolay Dmitrevich Dyatlenko was a Ukrainian officer, interrogator and translator who was part of a team that attempted to deliver a message of truce to the German Sixth Army at the Battle of Stalingrad in January 1943...
, interrogator and translator at the Battle of StalingradBattle of StalingradThe Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in southwestern Russia. The battle took place between 23 August 1942 and 2 February 1943... - Israel FisanovichIsrael FisanovichIsrael Ilyich Fisanovich born 1914, died 1944, was a Soviet Navy submarine commander and Hero of the Soviet Union. He died when his submarine, the former was sunk in a friendly fire incident....
, captain of the Soviet NavySoviet NavyThe Soviet Navy was the naval arm of the Soviet Armed Forces. Often referred to as the Red Fleet, the Soviet Navy would have played an instrumental role in a Warsaw Pact war with NATO, where it would have attempted to prevent naval convoys from bringing reinforcements across the Atlantic Ocean... - Petro FrankoPetro FrankoPetro Ivanovych Franko son of the Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko. Petro was a Ukrainian educator, pedagogue, writer, ethnographer, scientist, military leader, and politician...
, captain of the Air Force of the Ukrainian Galician Army (UHA) - Nikifor GrigorievNikifor GrigorievNikifor Grigoriev was born Nychypir Servetnyk in a small village of Zastavlia was a paramilitary leader noted for numerous switching of sides and anti-Semitism...
, otaman and leader of a Ukrainian insurgent "Green Army" - Vylhelm Habsburh (Vasyl Vyshyvanyi), Austrian archduke, colonel of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen
- Andrei GrechkoAndrei GrechkoAndrei Antonovich Grechko was a Soviet general, Marshal of the Soviet Union and Minister of Defense.-Biography:Born in a small town near Rostov-on-Don, the son of Ukrainian peasants, he joined the Red Army in 1919, where he was a part of the legendary “Budyonny Cavalry”...
, Marshal of the Soviet Union - Oleksander HrekovOleksander HrekovOleksander Petrovych Hrekov was a general of the Imperial Russian Army, Ukrainian People's Army, military professor and one of the most prominent personalities in the History of Ukraine...
, commander-in-chief of the army of the West Ukrainian National RepublicWest Ukrainian National RepublicThe West Ukrainian People's Republic was a short-lived republic that existed in late 1918 and early 1919 in eastern Galicia, that claimed parts of Bukovina and Carpathian Ruthenia and included the cities of Lviv , Przemyśl , Kolomyia , and Stanislaviv... - Dmytro HrytsaiDmytro HrytsaiDmytro Hrytsai was a leader in the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and a general in the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.-Life:...
, general of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army - Karl Georg Graf Huyn, Austrian Colonel General, last Governor-General of Galicia (1917–18)
- Alfred JansaAlfred JansaFeldmarschalleutnant Alfred Johann Theophil Jansa von Tannenau, was an Austrian Army Officer....
, Austrian Major General - Mykola KapustianskyMykola KapustianskyMykola Kapustiansky was a General in the army of the Ukrainian National Republic and one of the founders of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.-Biography:...
, general of the Ukrainian People's Army - Dmytro Klyachkivsky, colonel and the commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army
- Ivan KozhedubIvan Nikitovich KozhedubMarshal of Aviation Ivan Mykytovych Kozhedub was a Soviet Ukrainian military aviator and a World War II fighter ace. Arguably Kozhedub, as he revealed in his memoires, took a part in the Korean War as fighter pilot, whilst being a commander of Soviet aviation Corps. in Korea. He is credited with...
, legendary fighter pilot of WWII, top USSR ace - Roman KondratenkoRoman KondratenkoRoman Isidorovich Kondratenko was a general in the Imperial Russian Army famous for his devout defense of Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905.- Biography :...
, Lieutenant General of Russian Imperial Army, defender of Port ArthurLüshunkouLüshunkou is a district in the municipality of Dalian, Liaoning province, China. Also called Lüshun City or Lüshun Port, it was formerly known as both Port Arthur and Ryojun....
during Russo-Japanese warRusso-Japanese WarThe Russo-Japanese War was "the first great war of the 20th century." It grew out of rival imperial ambitions of the Russian Empire and Japanese Empire over Manchuria and Korea... - Yevhen KonovaletsYevhen KonovaletsYevhen Konovalets was a military commander of the UNR army and political leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement...
, leader of the Ukrainian Military OrganizationUkrainian Military OrganizationThe Ukrainian Military Organization was a Ukrainian resistance and sabotage movement active in Poland's Eastern Lesser Poland during the years between the world wars...
(UVO) (1920–29) and the Organization of Ukrainian NationalistsOrganization of Ukrainian NationalistsThe Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists is a Ukrainian political organization which as a movement originally was created in 1929 in Western Ukraine . The OUN accepted violence as an acceptable tool in the fight against foreign and domestic enemies particularly Poland and Russia...
(OUN) (1929–38) - Filip KonowalFilip KonowalFilip Konowal VC was a highly decorated Ukrainian Canadian soldier. He is the only Ukrainian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy given to British and Commonwealth forces...
, Ukrainian Canadian war hero (Victoria Cross, 1917) - Petr Koshevoi, Marshal of the Soviet Union
- Zenon KossakZenon KossakZenon Kossak was an activist in the Ukrainian militant nationalist movement for independence from interwar Poland.Kossak was born in Drohobych in Galicia...
, deputy commander of the Carpathian Sich - Mykhailo Krat, general of the Ukrainian National Army
- Vasyl KukVasyl KukVasyl Stepanovich Kuk ) was a Ukrainian nationalist who was the last leader of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, following the death of Roman Shukhevych.-Biography:...
, commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army - Grigory KulikGrigory KulikGrigory Ivanovich Kulik was a Soviet military commander and was born into a peasant family near Poltava in Ukraine. A soldier in the army of the Russian Empire in World War I, he joined the Bolshevik Party in 1917 and the Red Army in 1918...
, Marshal of the Soviet Union - Yuriy LopatynskyYuriy LopatynskyJurij Lopatynsky nom de guerre Szejk and Kalyna was a Ukrainian activist, soldier and a colonel in the Ukrainian Insurgent Army....
, colonel of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army - Nestor MakhnoNestor MakhnoNestor Ivanovych Makhno or simply Daddy Makhno was a Ukrainian anarcho-communist guerrilla leader turned army commander who led an independent anarchist army in Ukraine during the Russian Civil War....
, commander of "Black ArmyRevolutionary Insurrectionary Army of UkraineThe Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine , popularly called Makhnovshchina, less correctly Makhnovchina, and also known as the Black Army, was an anarchist army formed largely of Ukrainian and Crimean peasants and workers under the command of the famous anarchist Nestor Makhno during the...
" - Alexander MarineskoAlexander MarineskoAlexander Ivanovich Marinesko was a Soviet sailor and, during World War II, the captain of the S-13 submarine, which sank the German ship Wilhelm Gustloff, with recent research showing that over 9,000 died when the ship sank.Born in Odessa, Marinesko was the son of a Romanian sailor and a...
, Legendary Sub Commander in WWII - Rodion MalinovskyRodion MalinovskyRodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky was a Soviet military commander in World War II and Defense Minister of the Soviet Union in the late 1950s and 1960s. He contributed to the major defeat of Nazi Germany at the Battle of Stalingrad and the Battle of Budapest...
, Marshal of the Soviet Union - Kirill MoskalenkoKirill MoskalenkoKirill Semyonovich Moskalenko was a Marshal of the Soviet Union. A member of the Soviet Army who fought in both the Russian Civil War and World War II, he later served as Commander in Chief of Strategic Missile Forces and Inspector General for the Ministry of Defense.-Biography:Moskalenko was born...
, Marshal of the Soviet Union - Maria NikiforovaMaria NikiforovaMaria Grigor'evna Nikiforova , was an anarchist partisan leader. A self-described terrorist from the age of 16, she was known widely by her nickname, Marusya...
, only female commander of an anarchist cavalry detachment, the "Free Combat Druzhina". - Mykhailo Omelianovych-PavlenkoMykhailo Omelianovych-PavlenkoMykhailo Omelianovych-Pavlenko , December 8, 1878 - May 29, 1952, was the Supreme Commander of the Ukrainian Galician Army and of the Army of the Ukrainian National Republic...
, general of the Ukrainian Liberation Army, commader of the Ukrainian Galician ArmyUkrainian Galician ArmyUkrainian Galician Army , was the Ukrainian military of the West Ukrainian National Republic during and after the Polish-Ukrainian War. -Military equipment:...
and Ukrainian People's Army - Ivan PaskevichIvan PaskevichIvan Fyodorovich Paskevich was a Ukrainian-born military leader. For his victories, he was made Count of Erivan in 1828 and Namestnik of the Kingdom of Poland in 1831...
, field marshal of the Russian imperial army - Alexander PecherskyAlexander PecherskyAlexander Aronovich Pechersky was the chief organizer and leader of the most successful uprising and mass-escape of Jews from a Nazi extermination camp during World War II; this occurred at the Sobibor extermination camp on 14 October 1943.-Early life:...
, Soviet officer, leader of the Uprising in Sobibor extermination campSobibór extermination campSobibor was a Nazi German extermination camp located on the outskirts of the town of Sobibór, Lublin Voivodeship of occupied Poland as part of Operation Reinhard; the official German name was SS-Sonderkommando Sobibor...
(1943) - Alfred RedlAlfred RedlAlfred Redl was an Austrian officer who rose to head the counter-intelligence efforts of Austria-Hungary. He was one of the leading figures of pre-World War I espionage. His term in office was marked by innovation, and he used very high technology for the time to ensnare foreign intelligence...
, Austrian counter-intelligence officer - Jakob RosenfeldJakob RosenfeldJakob Rosenfeld , more commonly known as General Luo, served as the Minister of Health in the 1947 Provisional Communist Military Government of China under Mao Zedong....
, general of the Chinese People's Liberation ArmyPeople's Liberation ArmyThe People's Liberation Army is the unified military organization of all land, sea, strategic missile and air forces of the People's Republic of China. The PLA was established on August 1, 1927 — celebrated annually as "PLA Day" — as the military arm of the Communist Party of China... - Pavlo ShandrukPavlo ShandrukPavlo Shandruk was a general in the army of the Ukrainian National Republic, a colonel of the Polish Army, and a prominent general of the Ukrainian National Army, a military force that fought against the Soviets under German command at the close of World War II.-Biography:Shandruk was born on...
, general of the Ukrainian National Army - Stanislav Sheptytsky, general of the Polish Army
- Grigori ShternGrigori ShternGrigori Mihailovich Shtern 1900, Smila, Kiev Governorate – 28 October 1941) was a Soviet officer in the Red Army and military advisor during the Spanish Civil War. He also served with distinction during the Soviet-Japanese Border Wars and the Winter War....
, general of the Red ArmyRed ArmyThe Workers' and Peasants' Red Army started out as the Soviet Union's revolutionary communist combat groups during the Russian Civil War of 1918-1922. It grew into the national army of the Soviet Union. By the 1930s the Red Army was among the largest armies in history.The "Red Army" name refers to... - Roman ShukhevychRoman ShukhevychRoman Taras Yosypovych Shukhevych was a Ukrainian politician and military leader, the general of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.-Childhood:Roman Taras Yosypovych Shukhevych was born in the city of Krakovets, Jaworow powiat, in Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria which is located today between Lviv and...
, general and the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army - Stepan ShukhevychStepan ShukhevychStepan Shukhevych was a Ukrainian lawyer and military figure....
, otaman of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen and the Ukrainian Galician Army - Volodymyr Sinclair, general of the Ukrainian People's Army
- Maksym SkorupskyMaksym SkorupskyMaksym Skorupsky was a Ukrainian military leader of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.-Biography:Born in the village of Antonivets, Kremenets region, now Ternopil oblast, Ukraine...
, commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army - Hnat StefanivHnat StefanivHnat Stefaniv was a colonel of the Ukrainian Galician Army and the army of the UNR. Born in the village of Topoivtsi near Horodenka Stefaniv rose to the rank of major in the Austro-Hungarian army. In the November retreat of 1918 he was the organizor and commendant of the Zolochiv area in the...
, colonel of the Ukrainian Galician Army - Roman Sushko, colonel of the Ukrainian Legion
- Semyon TimoshenkoSemyon TimoshenkoSemyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko was a Soviet military commander and senior professional officer of the Red Army at the beginning of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.-Early life:...
, Marshal of the Soviet Union - Yurii TiutiunnykYurii TiutiunnykYuri Yosypovych Tiutiunnyk was a Ukrainian military commander of the Ukrainian People's Army of the Ukrainian People's Republic during the Ukrainian-Soviet War.-Early...
, general of the Ukrainian People's Army - Mykola TsybulenkoMykola TsybulenkoMykola V. Tsybulenko was a Ukrainian major general.Gen. Tsybulenko was born in the village of Veprik, Fastivskyi Raion, Kiev Oblast. He graduated from Caucasian Suvorov military school with a silver medal, the Leningrad higher military-command school, Frunze Military academy, Academy of Armed...
, Major General - Dmytro VitovskyDmytro VitovskyDmytro Vitovsky was a Ukrainian politician and military leader....
, colonel of the Ukrainian Galician Army - Kliment VoroshilovKliment VoroshilovKliment Yefremovich Voroshilov , popularly known as Klim Voroshilov was a Soviet military officer, politician, and statesman...
, Marshal of the Soviet Union - Andrei YeremenkoAndrei YeremenkoAndrey Ivanovich Yeryomenko or Yeremenko or Eremenko was a Soviet general during World War II, Marshal of the Soviet Union.-Draft and early service:...
, Marshal of the Soviet Union
Intelligence
- Yakov BlumkinYakov BlumkinYakov Grigoryevich Blumkin was a Left Socialist-Revolutionary, assassin, Bolshevik, Cheka agent, State Political Directorate spy, and adventurer, executed as Trotskyist.-Early life :...
- Jack ChildsJack ChildsMorris Childs was an American political activist and American Communist Party functionary who became a secret operative on behalf of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the summer of 1952...
- Morris Childs
- Jacob GolosJacob GolosJacob Golos, , was a Ukrainian-born Bolshevik revolutionary of ethnic Jewish heritage who became a secret police operative on behalf of the USSR in the United States...
- Walter KrivitskyWalter KrivitskyWalter Germanovich Krivitsky was a Soviet intelligence officer who revealed plans of signing Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact before defecting weeks before the outbreak of World War II....
- Genrikh LyushkovGenrikh LyushkovGenrikh Samoilovich Lyushkov was an officer in the Soviet secret police and its highest-ranking defector....
- Jakob RudnikJakob RudnikJakob Rudnik was a Ukrainian-born agent for the Otdel Mezhdunarodny Sviasy , the Communist International's clandestine International Liaison Department...
- Nathan Gregory Silvermaster
- Abram SlutskyAbram SlutskyAbram Aronovich Slutsky headed the Soviet foreign intelligence service , then part of the NKVD, from May 1935 to February 1938.-Biography:...
- Bohdan StashynskyBohdan StashynskyBohdan Stashynsky is the KGB assassin of Ukrainian nationalist leaders Lev Rebet and Stepan Bandera who were killed in the late 1950s.-Early biography :...
- Manfred SternManfred SternManfred Stern was a member of the GRU, Soviet military intelligence. He served as a spy in the United States, as a military advisor in China, and gained fame under his nom de guerre as General Kléber, leader of the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War.- Early life :He was born into...
- Pavel SudoplatovPavel SudoplatovLieutenant General Pavel Anatolyevich Sudoplatov was a member of the intelligence services of the Soviet Union who rose to the rank of lieutenant general...
- Viktor SuvorovViktor SuvorovViktor Suvorov is the pen name for Vladimir Bogdanovich Rezun , a former Soviet and now British writer of Russian and Ukrainian descent who writes primarily in Russian, as well as a former Soviet military intelligence spy who defected to the UK...
- Richard YaryRichard YaryRichard Franz Marian Yary was a Ukrainian nationalist journalist, politician and military figure....
- Mark ZborowskiMark ZborowskiMark Zborowski was an anthropologist and an NKVD agent...
Ukrainian politicians
- Dmytro AntonovychDmytro AntonovychDmytro Antonovych was a Ukrainian politician and art historian.Professor Dmytro Antonovych was the son of a Ukrainian historian Volodymyr Antonovych, the husband of Kateryna Antonovych, the father of Marko Antonovych and Mykhailo Antonovych.In 1900–1905, he was one of the founders and leaders of...
, Minister of naval affairs, and of arts of the Ukrainian People's RepublicUkrainian People's RepublicThe Ukrainian People's Republic or Ukrainian National Republic was a republic that was declared in part of the territory of modern Ukraine after the Russian Revolution, eventually headed by Symon Petliura.-Revolutionary Wave:...
(1917–1918 and 1918/19) - Volodymyr BahaziyVolodymyr BahaziyVolodymyr Panteleimonovych Bahasiy , was a Ukrainian nationalist affiliated with the Andriy Melnyk's faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and head of Kiev City Administration under German occupation in October 1941 - January 1942.He was a professional...
, the head of Kiev City Administration under German occupation (October 1941 – January 1942) - Ivan BahrianyiIvan BahrianyiIvan Bahrianyi was a Ukrainian writer and politician. The writer's real name was Ivan Pavlovych Lozoviaha.-Biography:Ivan Bahrianyi was born in the village of Kuzemyn, Okhtyrskyi Raion, Sumy Oblast, in eastern Ukraine...
, President (acting) of the UNR in exile (1965–1967) - Stepan BanderaStepan BanderaStepan Andriyovych Bandera was a Ukrainian politician and one of the leaders of Ukrainian national movement in Western Ukraine , who headed the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists...
, leader of the Organization of Ukrainian NationalistsOrganization of Ukrainian NationalistsThe Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists is a Ukrainian political organization which as a movement originally was created in 1929 in Western Ukraine . The OUN accepted violence as an acceptable tool in the fight against foreign and domestic enemies particularly Poland and Russia...
(OUN-B) - Oleksander BarvinskyOleksander BarvinskyOleksander Barvinsky was an important western Ukrainian cultural figure and politician, a founder of the Christian Social Party in western Ukraine. He also was a member of the Austrian parliament, chaired the Shevchenko Scientific Society and held the post of secretary of education and religious...
, leader of the Christian Social Movement in UkraineChristian Social Movement in UkraineThe Christian Social Movement in Ukraine was a political movement that existed in Western Ukraine from the end of the 19th century until the 1930s.-Ideals:... - Vyacheslav ChornovilVyacheslav ChornovilViacheslav Chornovil was a Ukrainian politician. A prominent Ukrainian dissident to the Soviet policies, he was arrested multiple times in the 1960s and 1970s for his political views...
, leader of the People's Movement of UkrainePeople's Movement of UkraineThe People's Movement of Ukraine is a Ukrainian center-right political party... - Dmytro DontsovDmytro DontsovDmytro Ivanovych Dontsov was a Ukrainian nationalist writer, publisher, journalist and political thinker whose radical ideas were a major influence on the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.-Biography:...
, Ukrainian nationalist writer, publisher, journalist and political thinker - Dmytro DoroshenkoDmytro DoroshenkoDmytro Doroshenko was a prominent Ukrainian political figure during the revolution of 1917-1918 and a leading Ukrainian emigre historian during the inter-war period.-Political career:...
, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Hetmanate (1918) - Sydir HolubovychSydir HolubovychSydir Holubovych was a Ukrainian politician.Born in Tovstenke , he studied law at Lviv University. He became a member of Austrian parliament from 1911 to 1918, and the Diet of Galicia since 1913...
, Prime Minister of the West Ukrainian National RepublicWest Ukrainian National RepublicThe West Ukrainian People's Republic was a short-lived republic that existed in late 1918 and early 1919 in eastern Galicia, that claimed parts of Bukovina and Carpathian Ruthenia and included the cities of Lviv , Przemyśl , Kolomyia , and Stanislaviv...
(1919) - Vsevolod HolubovychVsevolod HolubovychVsevolod Oleksandrovych Holubovych was born in the village of Poltavka, Balta uyezd, Podolie Governorate. Holubovych was the Prime Minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic from January to March.-Early period:...
, Prime Minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1918) - Volodymyr HorbulinVolodymyr HorbulinVolodymyr Horbulin Volodymyr Horbulin Volodymyr Horbulin (Ukrainian: Володимир Павлович Горбулін, (born 17 January 1939) is a Ukrainian statesman and politician, Head of the Council for Foreign and Security Policy, former secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, former...
, Secretary of National Security and Defense Council (1994–1999, 2006) - Mykhaylo Hrushevsky, President of the Ukrainian People's Republic
- Ivan HrynokhIvan HrynokhIvan Hrynokh Other spellings Pseudonyms - Professor Danyliv, Professor Prister, Herasymovsky, Vsevolod, Kovalenko, Kostetsky, Orlov.Father Dr...
, Vice President of the Ukrainian Supreme Liberation CouncilUkrainian Supreme Liberation CouncilUkrainian Supreme Liberation Council was a Ukrainian political organisation formed in July 1944.UHVR united Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and Ukrainian Insurgent Army . After the end of the Second World War, the council co-ordinated resistance efforts in Soviet-occupied Ukraine... - Stepan KlochurakStepan KlochurakStepan Klochurak was the Prime Minister of the short lived Hutsul Republic in 1919. In 1939, in the same general area, he was the Minister of Defense of Carpatho-Ukraine.-Memoirs:-References:...
, Prime Minister of the Hutsul RepublicHutsul RepublicThe Hutsul Republic was a short-lived state, formed in the aftermath of World War I. The republic was declared on January 8, 1919, claiming Ukrainian-speaking areas of Hungary, when original plans to unite this area with the Western Ukrainian National Republic failed.General Stepan Klochurak was...
(1919) - Yevhen KonovaletsYevhen KonovaletsYevhen Konovalets was a military commander of the UNR army and political leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement...
, leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (1929–1938) - Leonid KravchukLeonid KravchukLeonid Makarovych Kravchuk is a Ukrainian politician, the first President of Ukraine serving from December 5, 1991 until his resignation on July 19, 1994, a former Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada and People's Deputy of Ukraine serving in the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine faction.After a...
, President of UkrainePresident of UkrainePrior to the formation of the modern Ukrainian presidency, the previous Ukrainian head of state office was officially established in exile by Andriy Livytskyi. At first the de facto leader of nation was the president of the Central Rada at early years of the Ukrainian People's Republic, while the...
(1991–1994) - Jarek Kubicki, US-American Polish-Ukrainian politician, supporter of pro-Western Ukraine and the Orange Revolution
- Volodymyr KubiyovychVolodymyr KubiyovychVolodymyr Mykhailovych Kubiyovych, also spelled Kubiiovych or Kubijovyč , Austria-Hungary - 2 November 1985, Paris, France) was a Ukrainian geographer with a specialty in demography, a cartographer, an encyclopedist, politician, and statesman...
, geographer and politician (Ukrainian Central Committee) - Leonid KuchmaLeonid KuchmaLeonid Danylovych Kuchma was the second President of independent Ukraine from 19 July 1994, to 23 January 2005. Kuchma took office after winning the 1994 presidential election against his rival, incumbent Leonid Kravchuk...
, President of Ukraine (1994–2005) - Mykola LebedMykola LebedMykola Lebed , also known as Maksym Ruban, Marko or Yevhen Skyrba, was a Ukrainian political activist, Ukrainian nationalist and guerrilla fighter. He was among those tried, convicted, and imprisoned for the murder, in 1936, of Polish Interior Minister Bronislaw Pieracki. The court sentenced him to...
, the head of the Security Service for the UPA - Dmytro LevytskyDmytro LevytskyDmytro Levytsky was a lawyer and major political figure in western Ukraine between the two world wars. Between 1925 and 1935 he headed the Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance, the largest Ukrainian political party in western Ukraine, and served as the chief of the Ukrainian delegation within...
, the head of the Ukrainian National Democratic AllianceUkrainian National Democratic AllianceThe Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance, was the largest Ukrainian political party in the Second Polish Republic, active in territory that is currently Western Ukraine. It dominated the mainstream political life of the Ukrainian minority in Poland, which with almost 14% of Poland's population...
(UNDO) (1925–1935) - Kost LevytskyKost LevytskyKost Levytsky was a Ukrainian politician. He was a founder of the Ukrainian National Democratic movement and the leader of the State Representative Body of the Ukrainian government declared on June 30, 1941-Biography:...
, Prime Minister of the West Ukrainian National Republic (1918/19) - Andriy LivytskyiAndriy LivytskyiAndriy Mykolaiovych Livytskyi — died January 17, 1954) was a Ukrainian politician, diplomat, statesman, and lawyer.He was president of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile and the Chairman of the Directory prior to reforming that office into the presidential.-Biography:Andriy Livytskyi was...
, President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1926–1954). - Mykola LivytskyiMykola LivytskyiMykola Andriyovych Livytskyi was a Ukrainian politician and journalist. He was the Prime Minister and the President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile .-References:...
, President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1967–1989). - Vyacheslav LypynskyVyacheslav LypynskyVyacheslav Kazymyrovych Lypynsky was a Ukrainian historian, social and political activist, an ideologue of Ukrainian conservatism. He was also the founder of the Ukrainian Democratic-Agrarian Party...
, leader of the Ukrainian Democratic-Agrarian Party - Nestor MakhnoNestor MakhnoNestor Ivanovych Makhno or simply Daddy Makhno was a Ukrainian anarcho-communist guerrilla leader turned army commander who led an independent anarchist army in Ukraine during the Russian Civil War....
, leader of anarchists - Isaak MazepaIsaak MazepaIsaak Prokhorovych Mazepa was a Ukrainian politician.-References:...
, Prime Minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1919–1920 and 1948–1952) - Andriy MelnykAndriy MelnykAndriy Melnyk , Ukrainian military and political leader.-Life:Born near Drohobych, Galicia into a peasant family. Between 1912 and 1914 he studied at the Higher School of Agriculture in Vienna...
, leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-M) - Volodymyr Ohryzko, Minister for Foreign Affairs (2007–2009)
- Symon PetluraSymon PetluraSymon Vasylyovych Petliura was a publicist, writer, journalist, Ukrainian politician, statesman, and national leader who led Ukraine's struggle for independence following the Russian Revolution of 1917....
, President of the Ukrainian People's RepublicUkrainian People's RepublicThe Ukrainian People's Republic or Ukrainian National Republic was a republic that was declared in part of the territory of modern Ukraine after the Russian Revolution, eventually headed by Symon Petliura.-Revolutionary Wave:... - Yevhen PetrushevychYevhen PetrushevychYevhen Petrushevych was a Ukrainian lawyer, politician, and president of the Western Ukrainian National Republic formed after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian empire in 1918.-Biography:He was born on June 3, 1863, in the town of Busk, of Galicia in the clerical...
, President of the West Ukrainian National Republic - Mykola PlaviukMykola PlaviukMykola Vasyliovych Plaviuk is a Ukrainian social and political activist in emigration, who had served as the last President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile...
, President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1989–1992) - Vyacheslav ProkopovychVyacheslav ProkopovychVyacheslav Prokopovych was a Ukrainian politician and historian.Since 1905, he was a politician of the Ukrainian Democratic-Radical Party , established in Kiev. At the end of World War I, he was a member of the Ukrainian Party of Socialists-Federalists and Central Rada...
, Prime Minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1920, 1921, 1926–1939) - Lev RebetLev RebetLev Rebet was a Ukrainian political writer and anti-communist during World War II. He was a key cabinet member in the Ukrainian government which proclaimed independence on June 30, 1941...
, Acting Prime Minister of the Independent Ukrainian Republic (1941) - Pavlo ShandrukPavlo ShandrukPavlo Shandruk was a general in the army of the Ukrainian National Republic, a colonel of the Polish Army, and a prominent general of the Ukrainian National Army, a military force that fought against the Soviets under German command at the close of World War II.-Biography:Shandruk was born on...
, the head of the Ukrainian National CommitteeUkrainian National CommitteeUkrainian National Committee was a Ukrainian political structure, created on March 17, 1945 in Weimar with the intention to release Ukrainian Nazi-sponsored military units from German command...
in Weimar (1945) - Pavlo SkoropadskyPavlo SkoropadskyPavlo Petrovych Skoropadskyi 3 May 1873, Wiesbaden, Germany – 26 April 1945, Metten monastery clinic, Bavaria, Germany) was a Ukrainian politician, earlier an aristocrat and decorated Imperial Russian Army general...
, Hetman of Ukraine or head of the Hetmanate (1918) - Yaroslav StetskoYaroslav StetskoYaroslav Stetsko was the leader of the Bandera's Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists , from 1968 until death. In 1941, during Nazi Germany invasion into the Soviet Union he was self-proclaimed temporary head of the self-proclaimed Ukrainian statehood...
, Prime Minister of the Independent Ukrainian Republic (1941) - Slava StetskoSlava StetskoSlava Stetsko was a Ukrainian politician and a World War II veteran.Born Anna Yevhenia Muzyka, she became a member of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists in 1938. When a schism occurred within the OUN in 1940, she went with the wing of the OUN led by Stepan Bandera...
, leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement - Kyryl StudynskyKyryl StudynskyKyryl Studynsky , was a western Ukrainian political and cultural figure from the late-19th to the mid-20th century. One of the principal figures within the Christian Social Movement in Ukraine, in 1939 Studynsky became head of the People's Assembly of Western Ukraine following the Soviet...
, the head of the People's Assembly of Western Ukraine (1939) - Borys TarasyukBorys TarasyukBorys Ivanovych Tarasyuk is a Ukrainian politician. He has twice served as the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. He is from Zhytomyr Oblast. Tarasyuk studied international relations and international law at National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, and graduated in 1975...
, Minister for Foreign Affairs (1998–2000 and 2005–2007) - Serhiy TihipkoSerhiy TihipkoSerhiy Leonidovych Tihipko , or Sergey Leonidovich Tigipko in the Russian transliteration is a Ukrainian politician and finance specialist who has been Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine since 2010. Tihipko was Minister of Economics in 2000 and subsequently served as Chairman of the National Bank of...
, Minister of Economics (2000) - Yulia TymoshenkoYulia TymoshenkoYulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko , née Grigyan , born 27 November 1960, is a Ukrainian politician. She was the Prime Minister of Ukraine from 24 January to 8 September 2005, and again from 18 December 2007 to 4 March 2010. She placed third in Forbes Magazine's List of The World's 100 Most Powerful...
, Prime Minister of UkrainePrime Minister of UkraineThe Prime Minister of Ukraine is Ukraine's head of government presiding over the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, which is the highest body of the executive branch of the Ukrainian government....
(2007–present) - Anatole VakhnianynAnatole VakhnianynAnatole Vakhnianyn , was a Ukrainian political and cultural figure, composer, teacher and journalist.-Biography:Vakhnianyn was born in Sieniawa, Przeworsk County, today a part of Poland but at that time a part of the Austrian Empire. He came from a clerical family; his father, Klym Vakhnianyn, and...
, leader of the Christian Social Movement in Ukraine - Avhustyn VoloshynAvhustyn VoloshynAvgustyn Ivanovych Voloshyn was a Ukrainian politician, teacher, and essayist. He was president of the independent Carpatho-Ukraine, which existed for one day on March 15, 1939....
, President of Carpatho-UkraineCarpatho-UkraineCarpatho-Ukraine was an autonomous region within Czechoslovakia from late 1938 to March 15, 1939. It declared itself an independent republic on March 15, 1939, but was occupied by Hungary between March 15 and March 18, 1939, remaining under Hungarian control until the Nazi occupation of Hungary in...
(1939) - Volodymyr VynnychenkoVolodymyr VynnychenkoVolodymyr Kyrylovych Vynnychenko - Biography :Vynnychenko was born in Yelisavetgrad , the Kherson Governorate of the Russian Empire in a family of peasants. His father Kyrylo Vasyliovych Vynnychenko earlier in his life was a peasant-serf has moved from a village to the city of Yelisavetgrad where...
, Prime Minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic, writer - Stepan VytvytskyiStepan VytvytskyiStepan Vytvytskyi was a Ukrainian politician, diplomat, and journalist...
, President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1954–1965) - Volodymyr YanivVolodymyr YanivVolodymyr Yaniv was a community and scouting leader in the 1930's, an activist in the OUN and the Ukrainian Military Organization UVO, editor of numerous student and community publications, a professional psychologist and sociologist, and a Ukrainian poet...
, a member of the Ukrainian National Committee in Kraków (1941) - Arseniy YatsenyukArseniy YatsenyukArseniy Petrovych Yatsenyuk is a Ukrainian politician, economist and lawyer. Yatsenyuk served in the government of Ukraine as Minister of Economy from 2005 to 2006; subsequently he was Foreign Minister of Ukraine in 2007 and Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada from 2007 to 2008.-Early life:Arseniy...
, Minister for Foreign Affairs (2007) - Serhiy YefremovSerhiy YefremovSerhiy Yefremov was a Ukrainian literary journalist, historian, critic, political activist, statesman, and academician. He was a member of the Ukrainian Academy of Science and Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lviv...
, the deputy head of the Central Rada (1917) - Viktor YushchenkoViktor YushchenkoViktor Andriyovych Yushchenko is a former President of Ukraine. He took office on January 23, 2005, following a period of popular unrest known as the Orange Revolution...
, President of Ukraine (2005–2010) - Viktor YanukovychViktor YanukovychViktor Fedorovych Yanukovych is a Ukrainian politician who has been the President of Ukraine since February 2010.Yanukovych served as the Governor of Donetsk Oblast from 1997 to 2002...
, Prime Minister of Ukraine (2002–2004, 2006–2007) and President of Ukraine (2010–present)
Zionists and Israeli politicians
- Chaim Arlosoroff, Zionist activist, leader of MapaiMapaiMapai was a left-wing political party in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger into the Israeli Labor Party in 1968...
- Daniel AusterDaniel Austerright|thumb|Daniel AusterDaniel Auster was Mayor of Jerusalem in the final years of the British Mandate of Palestine, the first Jewish mayor of the city, and the first mayor of Jerusalem after Israeli independence.-Biography:...
, first Hebrew mayor of Jerusalem - Yitzhak Ben-ZviYitzhak Ben-ZviYitzhak Ben-Zvi was a historian, Labor Zionist leader, the second and longest-serving President of Israel.-Biography:...
, historian, Labor Zionist leader, and President of Israel - Ber BorochovBer BorochovDov Ber Borochov was a Marxist Zionist and one of the founders of the Labor Zionist movement as well as a pioneer in the study of Yiddish as a language....
, Zionist activist - Levi EshkolLevi Eshkol' served as the third Prime Minister of Israel from 1963 until his death from a heart attack in 1969. He was the first Israeli Prime Minister to die in office.-Biography:...
, prime minister of Israel - Ahad Ha'am, Zionist activist
- Abba HushiAbba HushiAbba Hushi was an Israeli politician who served as mayor of Haifa for eighteen years between 1951 to 1969. Hushi was one of the founders and activists of Hashomer Hatzair movement in Poland. In July 1920, he immigrated to Palestine with a group of 130 Jewish pioneers. In Palestine, he took the...
, mayor of Haifa - Volodymyr Jabotynsky, Zionist leader, founder of Revisionist ZionismRevisionist ZionismRevisionist Zionism is a nationalist faction within the Zionist movement. It is the founding ideology of the non-religious right in Israel, and was the chief ideological competitor to the dominant socialist Labor Zionism...
, writer and journalist in Hebrew and Russian language - Ephraim KatzirEphraim KatzirEphraim Katzir was an Israeli biophysicist and former Israeli Labor Party politician. He was the fourth President of Israel from 1973 until 1978.-Biography:...
, Israeli biophysicist, president of Israel - Abraham KaufmanAbraham KaufmanDr. Abraham Josevich Kaufman was a Russian-born medical doctor, community organizer and Zionist who helped protect some tens of thousands of Jews seeking safe-haven in East Asia from Nazi atrocities during World War II.As a consequence of his contacts with Japanese authorities during World War II...
, leader of Jewish community in China - Golda MeirGolda MeirGolda Meir ; May 3, 1898 – December 8, 1978) was a teacher, kibbutznik and politician who became the fourth Prime Minister of the State of Israel....
, prime minister of Israel - Leo MotzkinLeo MotzkinLeo Motzkin was a Russian Zionist leader. A leader of the World Zionist Congress and numerous Jewish and Zionist organizations, Motzkin was a key organizer of the Jewish delegation to the 1919 Paris Peace Conference and one of the first Jewish leaders to organize opposition to the Nazi Party in...
, Zionist activist - Leon Pinsker, Zionist activist, leader of the Hovevei ZionHovevei ZionHovevei Zion , also known as Hibbat Zion , refers to organizations that are now considered the forerunners and foundation-builders of modern Zionism....
- Natan SharanskyNatan SharanskyNatan Sharansky was born in Stalino, Soviet Union on 20 January 1948 to a Jewish family. He graduated with a degree in applied mathematics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. As a child, he was a chess prodigy. He performed in simultaneous and blindfold displays, usually against...
, Soviet human rights activist and Israeli politician - Moshe SharettMoshe SharettMoshe Sharett on 15 October 1894, died 7 July 1965) was the second Prime Minister of Israel , serving for a little under two years between David Ben-Gurion's two terms.-Early life:...
, prime minister of Israel - Shevah WeissShevah WeissShevah Weiss , is an Israeli political scientist and former politician.Weiss was born on July 5, 1935 in Borysław, Poland in Polish Jewish family to Gienia and Meir Wolf Weiss. As a Holocaust survivor, he migrated to Palestine in 1947...
, Israeli lawman and Labor party politician, speaker of the Kneset - Simon WiesenthalSimon WiesenthalSimon Wiesenthal KBE was an Austrian Holocaust survivor who became famous after World War II for his work as a Nazi hunter....
, hunter of Nazis
Bolsheviks and Soviet politicians
- Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko, Bolshevik politian
- Yevgenia Bosch, Bolshevik politician, People's Secretary of Internal Affairs (1917/18)
- Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader, General SecretaryGeneral SecretaryThe office of general secretary is staffed by the chief officer of:*The General Secretariat for Macedonia and Thrace, a government agency for the Greek regions of Macedonia and Thrace...
(1964–1982) - Konstantin ChernenkoKonstantin ChernenkoKonstantin Ustinovich Chernenko was a Soviet politician and the fifth General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He led the Soviet Union from 13 February 1984 until his death thirteen months later, on 10 March 1985...
, Soviet leader, General Secretary (1984–1985) - Vlas ChubarVlas ChubarVlas Yakovlevich Chubar was a Ukrainian Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician.-Early career:Chubar was born in Fedorovka, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire . He became a Marxist revolutionary early in life and joined the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labor...
, Soviet politician - Vitold FokinVitold FokinVitold Pavlovych Fokin , the son of a teacher, was appointed first deputy prime minister of Ukraine in November 1991....
, Soviet politician - Yakov GamarnikYakov GamarnikJankel Borysovych Pukhdykovych , better known as Jan Gamarnik or Yakov Gamarnik was a Soviet politician of Jewish ethnicity.-Biography:...
, Soviet politician - Serafima HopnerSerafima HopnerSerafima Hopner was a Bolshevik politician.Since 1905, she was a member, and then a secretary of Bolshevik party in Yekaterinoslav. In 1910-1917, she lived in emigration....
, Bolshevik politician - Semyon IgnatyevSemyon IgnatyevSemyon Denisovich Ignatiev, also spelled Ignatyev was a Soviet politician.Ignatiev, the son of a peasant,an engineer, joined the Communist Party in 1926. For most of his career, he was a discreet regional apparatchik, serving as Party Secretary in Buryat ASSR, Bashkir ASSR, Byelorussian SSR and...
, Soviet politician - Adolph JoffeAdolph JoffeAdolph Abramovich Joffe was a Communist revolutionary, a Bolshevik politician and a Soviet diplomat of Karaim descent.-Revolutionary career:...
, Soviet diplomat - Lazar KaganovichLazar KaganovichLazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich was a Soviet politician and administrator and one of the main associates of Joseph Stalin.-Early life:Kaganovich was born in 1893 to Jewish parents in the village of Kabany, Radomyshl uyezd, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire...
, Soviet politician - Nikita KhrushchevNikita KhrushchevNikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War. He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964...
, Soviet leader, General Secretary (1953–1964) - Yuriy KotsiubynskyYuriy KotsiubynskyYuriy Kotsiubynsky was a Bolshevik politician, activist, member of the Soviet government in Ukraine.-Until the Revolution:...
, Bolshevik politician - Emanuel KviringEmanuel KviringEmanuel Kwiring was a Soviet politician.Born into a German family in Friesenthal Emanuel Kwiring (Kviring) (13 September 1888, Friesenthal, Russian Empire - 26 November 1937, Moscow, Soviet Union) was a Soviet politician.Born into a German family in Friesenthal Emanuel Kwiring (Kviring) (13...
, Bolshevik politician - Solomon LozovskySolomon LozovskySolomon Lozovsky was a prominent Bolshevik revolutionary, a high official in various parts of the Soviet government, including as a Presidium member of the All-Union Central Council of Soviet Trade Unions, a Central Committee member of the Communist Party, a member of the Supreme Soviet, a deputy...
, Bolshevik politician - Dmitry ManuilskyDmitry ManuilskyDmitriy Manuilsky, or Dmytro Zakharovych Manuilsky was an important Bolshevik. He was the son of an Orthodox priest from a Ukrainian village. After secondary school he enrolled in the University of St...
, Bolshevik politician - Lev MekhlisLev MekhlisLev Zakharovich Mekhlis was a Jewish-Soviet statesman and party figure.-Career:He however served incompetently as a party commissar at the front during World War II, among his mistakes being failures, in conjunction with General Dmitri Kozlov, which meant the Crimean Front was defeated and had to...
, Soviet politician - Grigory PetrovskyGrigory PetrovskyGrigory Ivanovich Petrovsky was one of the most prominent Russian revolutionaries of Ukrainian origin, who was the Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR from December 30, 1922, to January 12, 1938....
, Bolshevik politician - Nikolai PodgornyNikolai PodgornyNikolai Viktorovich Podgorny was a Soviet Ukrainian statesman during the Cold War. He served as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, or leader of the Ukrainian SSR, from 1957 to 1963 and as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1965 to 1977...
, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (1965–1977) - Georgy PyatakovGeorgy PyatakovGeorgy Leonidovich Pyatakov was a Bolshevik revolutionary leader during the Russian Revolution, and member of the Left Opposition.Pyatakov was born August 6, 1890 in the settlement of the Mariinsky sugar factory which was owned by his father, an ethnic Russian, Leonid Timofeyevich Pyatakov.He...
, Bolshevik revolutionary, Trotskyist - Karl RadekKarl RadekKarl Bernhardovic Radek was a socialist active in the Polish and German movements before World War I and an international Communist leader after the Russian Revolution....
, Bolshevik politician - Christian RakovskyChristian RakovskyChristian Rakovsky was a Bulgarian socialist revolutionary, a Bolshevik politician and Soviet diplomat; he was also noted as a journalist, physician, and essayist...
, Bolshevik politician - Vladimir SemichastnyVladimir SemichastnyVladimir Yefimovich Semichastny was the head of the KGB from November 1961 to April 1967....
, Soviet politician - Petro ShelestPetro ShelestPetro Yukhymovych Shelest was the First Secretary of the Communist party in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Petro Yukhymovych Shelest (February 14, 1908 - January 22, 1996) was the First Secretary of the Communist party in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Petro Yukhymovych Shelest...
, leader of the Communist Party of Ukraine (1963–1972) - Mykola SkrypnykMykola SkrypnykMykola Oleksiyovych Skrypnyk was a Ukrainian Bolshevik leader who was a proponent of the Ukrainian Republic's independence, and led the cultural Ukrainization effort in Soviet Ukraine. When the policy was reversed and he was removed from his position, he committed suicide rather than be forced to...
, Bolshevik leader - Volodymyr ShcherbytskyVolodymyr ShcherbytskyVolodymyr Vasylyovych Shcherbytsky was a Ukrainian and Soviet politician. He was a leader of the Communist Party of Ukraine from 1972 to 1989....
, leader of the Communist Party of Ukraine (1972–1989) - Leon TrotskyLeon TrotskyLeon Trotsky , born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army....
, leading BolshevikBolshevikThe Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists , derived from bol'shinstvo, "majority") were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903....
revolutionary, founder of the Red ArmyRed ArmyThe Workers' and Peasants' Red Army started out as the Soviet Union's revolutionary communist combat groups during the Russian Civil War of 1918-1922. It grew into the national army of the Soviet Union. By the 1930s the Red Army was among the largest armies in history.The "Red Army" name refers to... - Moisei UritskyMoisei UritskyMoisei Solomonovich Uritsky was a Bolshevik revolutionary leader in Russia.He was born in the city of Cherkasy, Kiev Governorate, to a Jewish family. His father, a merchant, died when Moisei was little and his mother raised her son by herself.Moisei studied law at the University of Kiev...
, Bolshevik revolutionary - Volodymyr ZatonskyVolodymyr ZatonskyVolodymyr Zatonsky was a Soviet politician, Communist Party activist, member of the Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences ....
, Bolshevik politician - Grigory ZinovievGrigory ZinovievGrigory Yevseevich Zinoviev , born Ovsei-Gershon Aronovich Radomyslsky Apfelbaum , was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet Communist politician...
, Bolshevik revolutionary
Soviet dissidents
- Vyacheslav ChornovilVyacheslav ChornovilViacheslav Chornovil was a Ukrainian politician. A prominent Ukrainian dissident to the Soviet policies, he was arrested multiple times in the 1960s and 1970s for his political views...
- Vasily GrossmanVasily GrossmanVasily Semyonovich Grossman was a Soviet writer and journalist. Grossman trained as an engineer and worked in the Donets Basin, but changed career in the 1930s and published short stories and several novels...
- Mykola HorbalMykola HorbalMykola Andriyovych Horbal is a well-known Ukrainian dissident, human right activists, member of parliament of Ukraine, poet, and member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group-Early life:...
- Petro Hryhorenko
- Vitaliy KalynychenkoVitaliy KalynychenkoVitaliy Kalynychenko was a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group.Kalnychenko's first transgresssion of Soviet law was his nonagreement to work for the KGB. He was approached in 1964 to act as an informant, but his unwillingness to do so caused him to be arrested by a fellow student in 1965...
- Ivan KandybaIvan KandybaIvan Kandyba , was a Ukrainian lawyer, who achieved most fame by being a founding member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group.-Early life:...
- Lev KopelevLev KopelevLev Zalmanovich Kopelev was a Soviet author and a dissident.- Biography :...
- Sergei KovalevSergei KovalevSergei Kovalev is a Russian human rights activist and politician and a former Soviet dissident and political prisoner.- Early career and arrest :...
- Yaroslav LesivYaroslav LesivYaroslav Lesiv was a Ukrainian poet, priest, and member of the Ukrainian Helsinki GroupYaroslav Lesiv was born in the village of Luzhkiv, , in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast of Western Ukraine....
- Eduard LimonovEduard LimonovEduard Limonov is Russian writer and political dissident, and is the founder and leader of radical National Bolshevik Party. An opponent of Vladimir Putin, Limonov is one of leaders of Other Russia political bloc.-Early life:...
- Levko LukyanenkoLevko LukyanenkoLevko Lukyanenko ; is a Ukrainian politician, and Soviet dissident and Hero of Ukraine.-Biography:Lukyanenko was born on 24 August 1928 in the Khrypivka village of Chernihiv Oblast, in the USSR...
- Valeriy MarchenkoValeriy MarchenkoValeriy Marchenko was a poet, journalist, translator, and member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group.Marchenko was born into an educated family. His grandfather, Mykhaylo Marchenko, was the first Soviet dean of the University of Lviv....
- Myroslav MarynovychMyroslav MarynovychMyroslav Frankovych Marynovych , b. January 4, 1949, is the vice-rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, founder of Amnesty International Ukraine, and a founding member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group-Biography:...
- Natan SharanskyNatan SharanskyNatan Sharansky was born in Stalino, Soviet Union on 20 January 1948 to a Jewish family. He graduated with a degree in applied mathematics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. As a child, he was a chess prodigy. He performed in simultaneous and blindfold displays, usually against...
- Danylo ShumukDanylo ShumukDanylo Lavrentiyovych Shumuk was a Ukrainian political activist who served a total of 42 years imprisoned by three different states, Second Polish Republic, Nazi Germany and Soviet Union.- Living in the Second Polish Republic:...
- Vasyl StusVasyl StusVasyl Semenovych Stus was a Ukrainian poet and publicist, one of the most active members of Ukrainian dissident movement. For his political convictions, his works were banned by the Soviet regime and he spent 23 years in detention...
- Nadiya SvitlychnaNadiya SvitlychnaNadiya Oleksiyivna Svitlychna was a Ukrainian dissident and human rights activist, and an active member of the Ukrainian Helsinki group. She was a writer and editor and for a time was a political prisoner of the Soviet regime....
- Yosyf ZiselsYosyf ZiselsYosyf Zisels was a human rights activist and Ukrainian dissident.He was a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki group , involved in the samizdat movement, human rights activist, prominent activist in the Jewish movement in Ukraine, and a political prisoner.-References:...
Russian politicians
- Sergei KiriyenkoSergei KiriyenkoSergey Vladilenovich Kiriyenko is a Russian politician. He served as the Prime Minister of Russia from 23 March to 23 August 1998 under President Boris Yeltsin...
, prime minister of Russian Federation - Dmitry KozakDmitry KozakDmitry Nikolayevich Kozak , is a Russian politician, serving since October 2008 as deputy Prime minister of the Russian Federation....
, minister of regional development of Russia - Valentina MatviyenkoValentina MatviyenkoValentina Ivanovna Matviyenko , born 7 April 1949 in the Ukrainian SSR), is currently the highest-ranking female politician in Russia, the former governor of Saint Petersburg and the current Chairman of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation...
, governor of St Petersburg - Yevgeny PrimakovYevgeny PrimakovYevgeny Maksimovich Primakov is a Russian politician and diplomat. During his long career, he served as the Russian Foreign Minister, Prime Minister of Russia, Speaker of the Soviet of the Union of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, and chief of intelligence service...
, prime minister of Russian Federation - Alexey RazumovskyAlexey RazumovskyCount Alexei Grigorievich Razumovsky , was a Ukrainian Cossack who rose to become lover and, the morganatic spouse of the Russian Empress Elizaveta Petrovna.- Early life :...
, count of Imperial Russia - Sergei StorchakSergei StorchakSergei Anatolievich Storchak is a Deputy Finance Minister of Russia. Storchak became one of Russia's three deputy finance ministers in November 2005. He specialized in international financial relations, and was a prominent figure in negotiations over paying off Soviet-era debt...
, deputy finance minister of Russia - Yevgeny YasinYevgeny YasinYevgeny Grigoryevich Yasin is a Russian economist. He was the Russian Minister for the Economy between 1994 and 1997. He is currently a research director at the National Research University Higher School of Economics...
, minister of economy of Russian Federation - Grigory YavlinskyGrigory Alexeyevich YavlinskyGrigory Alexeyevich Yavlinsky is a Russian economist and politician of Ukrainian origin. He is best known as the author of the 500 Days Programme, a plan for the transition of the USSR to a free-market economy, and for his leadership of the liberal Yabloko party...
, liberal economist
Polish politicians
- Henryk JózewskiHenryk JózewskiHenryk Józewski was a Polish visual artist, politician, a member of government of the Ukrainian People's Republic, later an administrator during the Second Polish Republic....
, a deputy minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1920) - Jan Karaszewicz-TokarzewskiJan Karaszewicz-TokarzewskiJan Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski was a Ukrainian diplomat and heraldry historian.Born into a noble family in a village of Chabanivka near Kamianets-Podilskyi, he was educated at a gymnasium in Zhitomir, and graduated from the University of Fribourg before World War I.In 1918-1924, he served as a...
, diplomat (1918–1924) - Feliks KonFeliks KonFeliks Yakovlevich Kon was a Polish communist activist.-Career:Born in Warsaw, Kon's mother was Georgian and was brought up in Russia. He was trained as a historian and a journalist, but was involved in politics...
, Bolshevik politician - Stanislav KosiorStanislav KosiorStanislav Vikentyevich Kosior, sometimes spelled Kossior was one of three Kosior brothers, Polish-born Soviet politicians. He was General Secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party, deputy prime minister of the USSR, and a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union...
, Bolshevik politician - Herman LiebermanHerman LiebermanHerman Lieberman was a Polish lawyer and socialist politician.-Life:Lieberman was born into a Jewish family in Galicia, then part of Austro-Hungary. In 1907–14 and 1917–18, he was a member of parliament in Vienna.He was a Legionnnaire in World War I, and a leader of the Polish Socialist Party...
, socialist politician - Dmitry ManuilskyDmitry ManuilskyDmitriy Manuilsky, or Dmytro Zakharovych Manuilsky was an important Bolshevik. He was the son of an Orthodox priest from a Ukrainian village. After secondary school he enrolled in the University of St...
, Bolshevik politician - Mieczysław MickiewiczMieczysław MickiewiczMieczysław Mickiewicz was a Polish-Ukrainian politician.Mieczysław Mickiewicz served as the Deputy-Secretary of Polish Affairs in several cabinets of the Ukrainian People's Republic, also translated as the Ukrainian National Republic , headed by Volodymyr Vynnychenko .Then he served as voivode of...
, a minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1917–1918) - Mieczysław Moczar, communist politician
- Karl RadekKarl RadekKarl Bernhardovic Radek was a socialist active in the Polish and German movements before World War I and an international Communist leader after the Russian Revolution....
, Bolshevik politician - Adam Daniel RotfeldAdam Daniel RotfeldAdam Daniel Rotfeld is a Polish researcher, diplomat, and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland from 5 January 2005 until 31 October 2005 when a change of government took place. He served earlier as the deputy foreign minister...
, the foreign minister of Poland (2005) - Stanisław StempowskiStanisław StempowskiStanisław Stempowski was a Polish-Ukrainian politician and Grand Master of the National Grand Lodge of Poland.Born in Huta Czernielewiecka, Podolia , he was educated in Krzemieniec and studied in Dorpat ....
, a minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1920–1922) - Michał Tyszkiewicz, count, Ukrainian diplomat (1919)
- Andrey VyshinskyAndrey VyshinskyAndrey Januaryevich Vyshinsky – 22 November 1954) was a Soviet politician, jurist and diplomat.He is known as a state prosecutor of Joseph Stalin's Moscow trials and in the Nuremberg trials. He was the Soviet Foreign Minister from 1949 to 1953, after having served as Deputy Foreign...
, the foreign minister of the Soviet Union (1949–1953) - Wanda WasilewskaWanda WasilewskaWanda Wasilewska was a Polish and Soviet novelist and communist political activist who played an important role in the creation of a Polish division of the Soviet Red Army during World War II and the formation of the Polish People's Republic....
, communist politician
Austrian politicians
- Archduke Wilhelm of Austria, known as "Prince Vasyl"
- Franz Stadion, Count von WarthausenFranz Stadion, Count von WarthausenFranz Stadion, Graf von Warthausen , son of the Austrian diplomat Johann Philipp von Stadion. Born in Vienna, he was a statesman who served the Austrian Empire during the 1840s...
, Governor of Galicia (1847–1848)
German politicians
- Yevgenia Bosch, communist politician
- Emanuel Kwiring, communist politician
Canadian politicians
- Ramon John Hnatyshyn
- Stephen JubaStephen JubaStephen Juba, OC was a Canadian politician. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1953 to 1959, and served as the 37th Mayor of Winnipeg from 1957 to 1977. He was the first Ukrainian Canadian to hold high political office in the city.Juba left school at age fifteen, when...
- Yuri ShymkoYuri ShymkoYuri Shymko is a former politician, human rights advocate, social activist, and community leader in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Canadian House of Commons from 1978 to 1979, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1981 to 1987...
- Andrew WiterAndrew WiterAndrew Witer is a Canadian politician. He served in the Canadian House of Commons from 1984 to 1988, as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party....
Crimean Tatar politicians
- Noman ÇelebicihanNoman ÇelebicihanNoman Çelebicihan was one of the most popular Crimean Tatar leaders of all time. He was the first President of the short-lived independent Crimean People's Republic, established on November 26 , 1917.In January 1918, just barely two months after he was elected to lead his nation at the historic...
- Ismail Gasprinski
- Mustafa Abdülcemil QırımoğluMustafa Abdülcemil QirimogluMustafa Abdülcemil Qırımoğlu , also known as Mustafa Jemilev , is Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People and a member of the Ukrainian Parliament since 1998...
Orthodox Christian
- DymytriyPatriarch Dymytriy (Yarema)Patriarch Dymytriy was the second patriarch of Kiev and all Ukraine, and of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church...
(Yarema), Patriarch of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox ChurchUkrainian Autocephalous Orthodox ChurchThe Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church is one of the three major Orthodox Churches in Ukraine. Close to ten percent of the Christian population claim to be members of the UAOC. The other Churches are the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kiev Patriarchate and the Ukrainian Russophile Orthodox...
(1993–2000) - Hilarion of KievHilarion of KievHilarion or Ilarion was the first non-Greek Metropolitan of Kiev. While there is not much verifiable information regarding Ilarion's biography, there are several aspects of his life which have come to be generally accepted....
, the first native Rus metropolitan of Kiev (ca.1051-ca.1054) - Saint John of TobolskJohn of TobolskSaint John of Tobolsk was born in Uman, in the Kiev Oblast of Ukraine. He was the only one of the seven sons of Maxim Vasilkovsky Maximovitch to choose a career in the Eastern Orthodox Church, in which service he was appointed Ekonom of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra by 1678...
, Orthodox metropolitan of Tobolsk (1711–1715) - Saint Mother MariaMother MariaMaria Skobtsova , known as Mother Maria , Saint Mary of Paris, born Elizaveta Yurievna Pilenko , Kuzmina-Karavayeva by her first marriage, Skobtsova by her second marriage, was a Russian noblewoman, poet, nun, and member of the French Resistance during World War II...
(Skobtsova), Eastern Orthodox nun, martyr - Saint Petro MohylaPetro MohylaMetropolitan Peter was a Metropolitan of Kiev, Halych and All-Rus' from 1633 until his death. He was born into a Moldavian boyar family — the Movileşti — one that gave Moldavia and Wallachia several rulers, including his father, Ieremia Movilă. His mother, Margareta, was a Hungarian noble lady...
, Orthodox metropolitan of Kiev (1632–1647) - MefodiyMetropolitan Mefodiy (Kudryakov)Metropolitan Mefodiy in the city of Kopychentsi, Husyatyn region in the district of the Ternopol region.A graduate of the Moscow Theological Academy in Zagorsk....
(Kudryakov), metropolitan of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox ChurchUkrainian Autocephalous Orthodox ChurchThe Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church is one of the three major Orthodox Churches in Ukraine. Close to ten percent of the Christian population claim to be members of the UAOC. The other Churches are the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kiev Patriarchate and the Ukrainian Russophile Orthodox...
(2000–present) - Mstyslav (Stepan Skrypnyk), Patriarch of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox ChurchUkrainian Autocephalous Orthodox ChurchThe Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church is one of the three major Orthodox Churches in Ukraine. Close to ten percent of the Christian population claim to be members of the UAOC. The other Churches are the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kiev Patriarchate and the Ukrainian Russophile Orthodox...
(1990–1993) - Theophan ProkopovichFeofan Prokopovichthumb|Theophan ProkopovichFeofan/Theophan Prokopovich was an archbishop and statesman in the Russian Empire, of Ukrainian descent. He elaborated and implemented Peter the Great's reform of the Russian Orthodox Church...
, vice-president of the Orthodox Holy SynodHoly SynodIn several of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox churches and Eastern Catholic Churches, the patriarch or head bishop is elected by a group of bishops called the Holy Synod... - Patriarch Volodomyr (Romaniuk)Patriarch Volodomyr (Romaniuk)Patriarch Volodymyr was the Patriarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kiev Patriarchy....
, the Patriarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate. - Saint Dmytrij (Danylo Tuptalo) of RostovDimitry of RostovSaint Dimitry of Rostov was a leading opponent of the Caesaropapist reform of the Russian Orthodox church promoted by Feofan Prokopovich. He is representative of the strong Ukrainian influence upon the Russian Orthodox Church at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries...
, Orthodox Saint - VasylMetropolitan Vasyl (Lypkivsky)Vasyl Kostantynovytch Lypkivsky was founder of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church and the first "Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine" .- Education and early ministry :...
(Lypkivsky), first metropolitan of Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox ChurchUkrainian Autocephalous Orthodox ChurchThe Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church is one of the three major Orthodox Churches in Ukraine. Close to ten percent of the Christian population claim to be members of the UAOC. The other Churches are the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kiev Patriarchate and the Ukrainian Russophile Orthodox...
(1921–1937) - Stephen Yavorsky, first president of the Orthodox Holy SynodHoly SynodIn several of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox churches and Eastern Catholic Churches, the patriarch or head bishop is elected by a group of bishops called the Holy Synod...
(1721) - Paisius VelichkovskyPaisius VelichkovskySaint Paisius Velichkovsky or Wieliczkowski is the person who transmitted Eastern Orthodox staretsdom or the concept of spiritual guidance to the Slavic world.A Ukrainian by birth, Pyotr Velichkovsky was born in Poltava, where his father, Ivan, was a priest...
, monk, spiritual writer, the founder of modern Eastern Orthodox staretsdom.
Greek Catholic
- Antin AngelovychAntin AngelovychAntin Angelovych was the first Metropolitan Archbishop of the re-built Metropolitan of Lviv from 1808 until his death in 1814.-Life:...
, the first Greek Catholic metropolitan of Lviv (1808–1814) - Blessed Nykyta BudkaNykyta BudkaBlessed Nykyta Budka was a clergyman of the of Ukrainian Catholic Church who lived and worked in Austria-Hungary, Canada, Poland, and the Soviet Union. In Canada he is noted as the first bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Canada...
, the first Ukrainian Canadian Greek-Catholic bishop (1912–1927) - Maxim HermaniukMaxim HermaniukMaxim Hermaniuk, OC, STD, c.ss.r. was the Ukrainian Catholic Archbishop of Winnipeg.Born in Nove Selo near Horodok in western Ukraine, he was ordained a Priest of Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer in 1938. In 1956, he was appointed Ukrainian Catholic Archbishop of Winnipeg by Pope Pius XII...
, the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Archbishop of Winnipeg (1956–1992) - Josaphata HordashevskaJosaphata HordashevskaBlessed Josaphata Hordashevska, S.S.M.I., born Michaelina Hordashevska, a Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Religious Sister, was the first member of the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate....
, Greek Catholic nun (d. 1919) - Ivan HrynokhIvan HrynokhIvan Hrynokh Other spellings Pseudonyms - Professor Danyliv, Professor Prister, Herasymovsky, Vsevolod, Kovalenko, Kostetsky, Orlov.Father Dr...
, Greek Catholic priest, professor of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Rome - Lubomyr Husar, cardinal, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic ChurchUkrainian Greek Catholic ChurchThe Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church , Ukrainska Hreko-Katolytska Tserkva), is the largest Eastern Rite Catholic sui juris particular church in full communion with the Holy See, and is directly subject to the Pope...
(2001–present), Major Archbishop of Kiev and HalychMajor Archbishopright|200 px|thumb|Archbishop [[Sviatoslav Shevchuk]], Major Archbishop of Kyiv-HalychIn the Eastern Catholic Churches, major archbishop is a title for an hierarch to whose archiepiscopal see is granted the same jurisdiction in his autonomous particular Church that an Eastern patriarch has in...
(2005–present) - Blessed Gregory Khomyshyn, Greek Catholic bishop of Stanislav, martyr (1947)
- Blessed Josafat Kotsylovsky, Greek Catholic bishop of Peremyshl, martyr (1947)
- Blessed Omelyan KovchOmelyan KovchBlessed Оmelyan Kovch was a Ukrainian Greek-Catholic priest murdered in Majdanek concentration camp....
, 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 ChurchUkrainian Greek Catholic ChurchThe Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church , Ukrainska Hreko-Katolytska Tserkva), is the largest Eastern Rite Catholic sui juris particular church in full communion with the Holy See, and is directly subject to the Pope...
(1984–2000) - Blessed Roman LyskoRoman LyskoBlessed Roman Lysko was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest and martyr.Lysko was born on 14 August 1914 in Horodok, Lviv Oblast. He studied theology and graduated from the Lviv Theological Academy. On August 28, 1941 he was ordained a priest by Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky. He was Pastor of the...
, Greek Catholic priest, martyr (1949) - Josyf Veliamyn Rutsky, Greek Catholic metropolitan of Kiev (1613–1637)
- Blessed Yakym SenkivskyiYakym SenkivskyiBlessed Yakym Senkivskyi was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest and martyr.Senkivskyi was born in the village of Hayi Velykyi in Ternopil Oblast. He studied theology in Lviv, and was ordained a priest on 4 December 1921. He received a doctorate in theology from Innsbruck. In 1923 he went to...
, Greek Catholic priest, martyr (1941) - Andriy Sheptytsky, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic ChurchUkrainian Greek Catholic ChurchThe Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church , Ukrainska Hreko-Katolytska Tserkva), is the largest Eastern Rite Catholic sui juris particular church in full communion with the Holy See, and is directly subject to the Pope...
, Metropolitan Archbishop of Lviv (1900–1944), political victim of the Soviet UnionSoviet UnionThe Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
and was proclaimed as the enemy of the state. - Blessed Klymentiy Sheptytsky, Greek Catholic Exarch of Russia and Siberia (1939), Archimandrite of the Studites (1944), martyr (1951), died in GULAGGulagThe Gulag was the government agency that administered the main Soviet forced labor camp systems. While the camps housed a wide range of convicts, from petty criminals to political prisoners, large numbers were convicted by simplified procedures, such as NKVD troikas and other instruments of...
, victimized by Soviets for being UkrainianUkrainiansUkrainians are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine, which is the sixth-largest nation in Europe. The Constitution of Ukraine applies the term 'Ukrainians' to all its citizens... - Josyf Slipyj, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic ChurchUkrainian Greek Catholic ChurchThe Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church , Ukrainska Hreko-Katolytska Tserkva), is the largest Eastern Rite Catholic sui juris particular church in full communion with the Holy See, and is directly subject to the Pope...
(1944–1984), exited to Siberia and released in xxxx, - Meletius SmotrytskyMeletius SmotrytskyMeletius Smotrytsky , né Maksym Herasymovytch was a Ruthenian linguist from Galicia, author and religious activist. Son of the famous Ukrainian religious and political activist Herasym Smotrytsky. He was educated in Ostroh and Vilnius, as well as Leipzig, Wittenberg and Nuremberg...
, Ruthenian religious activist and author (d. 1633) - Stefan SorokaStefan SorokaStephen Soroka is a Canadian prelate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, currently serving as Archbishop of Philadelphia in the United States....
, Ukrainian Greek Catholic archbishop of Philadelphia (2000–present) - Blessed Vasyl VelychkovskyVasyl VelychkovskyBlessed Martyr Vasyl Velychkovsky was a priest, and later bishop, of Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church .In 1920 he entered the seminary in Lviv...
, Greek Catholic bishop (1963–1973) - Innocent VinnitzkiInnocent VinnitzkiInnocent Vinnitzki was the first Orthodox bishop who united the diocese of Przemysl to the Catholic Church. While still an Orthodox bishop, Vinnitzki wished to resolve the schism with Catholic Church; and in 1691 he renounced the schism, effectively uniting his diocese to Rome. Bishop Vinnitzki was...
, the first Greek Catholic bishop of Przemyśl (1691–1700)
Roman Catholic
- Andrzej Alojzy AnkwiczAndrzej Alojzy AnkwiczAndrzej Alojzy Ankwicz was the Roman Catholic archbishop of Prague from 1833 to 1838.-Biography:Ankwicz was born in Kraków, Poland in 1777. He was ordained a priest on 2 September 1810. In 1815, he was appointed and ordained archbishop of Lviv in Ukraine...
, Count, Archbishop of Lviv (1815–33), and Archbishop of Prague (1833–38) - Eugeniusz BaziakEugeniusz BaziakEugeniusz Baziak was Archbishop of Lwów and Apostolic Administrator of Kraków. Baziak was rector of the Clerical Seminarium in Lwów. Since 1933 he was an auxiliary bishop and, since 1944, Archbishop of Lwów...
, Archbishop of Lviv and Apostolic Administrator of Cracow (1944–1962) - Saint Józef BilczewskiJózef BilczewskiSt. Jozef Bilczewski was a Catholic archbishop of the city of Lviv, Ukraine, a professor of theology at the Lviv University and a rector of that school...
, Archbishop of Lviv (1900–1923) - Marian Jaworski, Cardinal, Archbishop of Lviv (1991–2008)
- Adam Stanisław Krasiński, Bishop of Kamianets-PodilskyiKamianets-PodilskyiKamyanets-Podilsky or Kamienets-Podolsky is a city located on the Smotrych River in western Ukraine, to the north-east of Chernivtsi...
(1757–1798) - Władysław Aleksander Łubieński, Archbishop of Lviv (1758–1759), Primate of Poland (1759–1767), and InterrexInterrexThe Interrex was literally a ruler "between kings" during the Roman Kingdom and the Roman Republic. He was in effect a short-term regent....
(1763–1764) - Mieczysław Mokrzycki, Archbishop of Lviv (2008–present)
- Adam NaruszewiczAdam NaruszewiczAdam Stanisław Naruszewicz was a Polish nobleman from an impoverished aristocratic family, poet, historian, dramatist, translator, publicist, Jesuit and titular Bishop of Smolensk and bishop of Łuck .His family had a small estate in Polesie and he was educated at Pinsk.As a senator he...
, Titular BishopTitular bishopA titular bishop in various churches is a bishop who is not in charge of a diocese.By definition a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop the tradition of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches is that he be ordained for a specific place...
of SmolenskSmolenskSmolensk is a city and the administrative center of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Dnieper River. Situated west-southwest of Moscow, this walled city was destroyed several times throughout its long history since it was on the invasion routes of both Napoleon and Hitler. Today, Smolensk...
(1775–1788), Suffragan BishopSuffragan bishopA suffragan bishop is a bishop subordinate to a metropolitan bishop or diocesan bishop. He or she may be assigned to an area which does not have a cathedral of its own.-Anglican Communion:...
of Lutsk (1788–1790) and Diocesan BishopDiocesan bishopA diocesan bishop — in general — is a bishop in charge of a diocese. These are to be distinguished from suffragan bishops, assistant bishops, coadjutor bishops, auxiliary bishops, metropolitans, and primates....
of LutskLutskLutsk is a city located by the Styr River in northwestern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Volyn Oblast and the administrative center of the surrounding Lutskyi Raion within the oblast...
(1790–1796) - Bogusław Radoszewski, Bishop of Kiev (Latin rite, 1618–1633), Bishop of Lutsk (1633–1638)
- Kajetan Sołtyk, Bishop of Kiev (1756–1759), then Bishop of Cracow (1759–1788)
- Józef Andrzej Załuski, Bishop of Kiev (1759–1774)
Jewish
- Jacob AvigdorJacob AvigdorYaakov Avigdor was a Polish rabbi, author and Holocaust survivor, who served as Chief Rabbi of the Ashkenazi Jewish community in Mexico.-Life:...
, last Chief Rabbi of Drohobych - Moshe Reuven AzmanMoshe Reuven AzmanRabbi Moshe Reuven Azman is the Chabad chief Rabbi of Ukraine, one of three rabbis with a claim on the title, and one of two Chabad rabbis with a claim...
, the ChabadChabadChabad or Chabad-Lubavitch is a major branch of Hasidic Judaism.Chabad may also refer to:*Chabad-Strashelye, a defunct branch of the Chabad school of Hasidic Judaism*Chabad-Kapust or Kapust, a defunct branch of the Chabad school of Hasidic Judaism...
chief Rabbi of Ukraine - Yaakov Dov BleichYaakov BleichYaakov Dov Bleich is an American-born rabbi and member of the Karlin-Stoliner Chassidic group. He has been widely recognized as Chief Rabbi of Kiev and all of Ukraine since 1990....
, Chief Rabbi of Ukraine and Kiev (1992–present) - Solomon BuberSolomon BuberSolomon Buber was a Jewish Galician scholar and editor of Hebrew works. He is especially remembered for his editions of Midrash and other medieval Jewish manuscripts, and for the pioneering research surrounding those texts....
, talmudic scholar - Jacob FrankJacob FrankJacob Frank was an 18th century Jewish religious leader who claimed to be the reincarnation of the self-proclaimed messiah Sabbatai Zevi and also of the biblical patriarch Jacob...
, Jewish religious reformer who combined Judaism and Christianity - Zvi Hirsch ChajesZvi Hirsch ChajesZvi Hirsch Chajes was one of the foremost Galician talmudic scholars. He is best known for his work Mevo Hatalmud , which serves both as commentary and introduction...
, talmudic scholar - Tzvi Hirsh of ZidichovTzvi Hirsh of ZidichovTzvi Hirsh Eichenstein also known as Hirsh Zydaczower, , was famous Hasidic Rebbe, a noted Talmudist, Kabbalist and author of novellae on Torah and Responsa...
, Hasidic rabbi - Israel ben Eliezer, founder of Hasidism
- MalbimMalbimMeïr Leibush ben Jehiel Michel Weiser , better known by the acronym Malbim , was a rabbi, Hebrew grammar master, and Bible commentator....
, rabbi and preacher - Nachman of BreslovNachman of BreslovNachman of Breslov , also known as Reb Nachman of Bratslav, Reb Nachman Breslover , Nachman from Uman , was the founder of the Breslov Hasidic movement....
, Hasidic leader - Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport (Shir), rabbi of Ternopil (1837–40) and Prague (1840–67)
- Shalom RokeachShalom RokeachSholom Rokeach , also known as the Sar Sholom , was the first Belzer Rebbe.To Belzer Hasidim, he is known as "Der Ershter Rov" , but in the city of Belz itself he was called "Der Alter Rov" in deference to the Bach, who presided as rabbi of Belz in the sixteenth century.-Biography:His father was...
, the first RebbeRebbeRebbe , which means master, teacher, or mentor, is a Yiddish word derived from the Hebrew word Rabbi. It often refers to the leader of a Hasidic Jewish movement...
of Belz (Hasidic dynasty)Belz (Hasidic dynasty)Belz is a Hasidic dynasty named for the town of Belz in Western Ukraine, near the Polish border. The town has existed since at least the 10th century, with the Jewish community being established during the 14th century. The town became home to Hasidic Judaism in the early 19th century...
(1817–55) - Yehoshua RokeachYehoshua RokeachYehoshua Rokeach was the second rebbe of the Belz Hasidic dynasty. He combined Torah scholarship with practical common sense to guide thousands of Hasidim and to fight the Haskalah movement that was making inroads in Jewish communities in Poland during the nineteenth century...
, the second rebbe of Belz (1857–1894) - Yissachar Dov Rokeach (I)Yissachar Dov Rokeach (I)Yissachar Dov Rokeach , , was the third Rebbe of the Belz Hasidic dynasty. He was the second son of Rabbi Yehoshua Rokeach , and served as the third Belzer Rebbe from his father's death in 1894 until his own death in 1926.-Personal life:Yissachar Dov was born in the town of Belz, Poland...
, the third rebbe of Belz (1894–1926) - Aharon RokeachAharon RokeachAharon Rokeach was the fourth Rebbe of the Belz Hasidic dynasty. He led the movement from 1926 until his death in 1957....
, the fourth rebbe of Belz (1926–57) - Mordechai RokeachMordechai RokeachMordechai Rokeach , also known as Mordechai of Bilgoray, was a scion of the Belzer Hasidic dynasty and the right hand man to his half-brother, Rebbe Aharon of Belz, the fourth Belzer Rebbe. He was the son of the third Belzer Rebbe, Rebbe Yissachar Dov Rokeach...
, rabbi, father of the fifth rebbe of Belz - Sholom Mordechai SchwadronSholom Mordechai SchwadronRabbi Sholom Mordechai Schwadron was known by his acronym Maharsham. He was a foremost halachic authority and his main works "Shailos Uteshuvos Maharsham" and "Daas Torah" are widely studied sources of practical Jewish law.He also authored Techeiles Mordechai, a three-volume commentary of the...
, rabbi - Yoel SirkisYoel SirkisJoel ben Samuel Sirkis also known as the Bach - an abbreviation of his magnum opus, Bayit Chadash - was a prominent Jewish posek and halakhist. He lived in central Europe and held rabbinical positions in Belz, Brest-Litovsk and Kraków from 1561-1640.-Biography:Sirkis was born in Lublin in 1561...
, great rabbi, one of Achronim - Naftali Herz Tur-SinaiNaftali Herz Tur-SinaiNaftali Herz Tur-Sinai was a Bible scholar, author, and linguist instrumental in the revival of the Hebrew language as a modern, spoken language...
, Hebrew scholar - Levi Yitzchok of BerditchevLevi Yitzchok of BerditchevLevi Yitzchok of Berditchev , also known as the Berdichever, was a rabbi and Hasidic leader. He was the rabbi of Ryczywół, Żelechów, Pinsk and Berdychiv, for which he is best known...
, Hasidic leader - Israel ZolliIsrael ZolliIsrael Zolli was from 1939 to 1945 Chief Rabbi of Rome. After the war, he converted to Roman Catholicism, taking the name Eugenio in honor of Pope Pius XII.-Early years/rabbinate:...
, Chief Rabbi of Rome who converted to Roman Catholicism, born in Brody
Others
- Muhammad AsadMuhammad AsadMuhammad Asad , was an Austrian Polish Jew who converted to Islam, and a 20th century journalist, traveler, writer, social critic, linguist, thinker, reformer, diplomat, political theorist, translator and scholar...
, Jewish religious writer who converted to IslamIslamIslam . The most common are and . : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...
, Pakistani diplomat - Sima BabovichSima BabovichSima ben Salomon Babovich was a Hakham of the Crimean Karaites, one of the early figures in the Karaim movement....
, HakhamHakhamHakham is a term from Judaism, meaning a wise or skillful man; it often refers to someone who is a great Torah scholar. The word is generally used to designate a cultured and learned person: "He who says a wise thing is called a wise man ["hakham"], even if he be not a Jew"...
of the Crimean Karaite - Helena Blavatsky, founder of TheosophyTheosophyTheosophy, in its modern presentation, is a spiritual philosophy developed since the late 19th century. Its major themes were originally described mainly by Helena Blavatsky , co-founder of the Theosophical Society...
- Abraham FirkovichAbraham FirkovichAbraham ben Samuel Firkovich was a famous leader of the Qarays . He was born in Lutsk, Volhynia, then lived in Lithuania, and finally settled in Çufut Qale, Crimea. Firkovich was a communal leader and hakham...
, leader of the Crimean Karaites - Abraham KefeliAbraham KefeliAbraham Kefeli is distinguished in several fields, including Qaray cultural scholarship, Karaite theology, piano, voice and musical composition....
, leader of the Crimean Karaites - Seraya ShapshalSeraya ShapshalSeraya Shapshal or Haji Seraya Hachan Shapshal was a hakham and leader of the Crimean and then Lithuanian Karaim community....
, chief HakhamHakhamHakham is a term from Judaism, meaning a wise or skillful man; it often refers to someone who is a great Torah scholar. The word is generally used to designate a cultured and learned person: "He who says a wise thing is called a wise man ["hakham"], even if he be not a Jew"...
of the Crimean Karaite and Lithuanian Karaite communities - Józef TeodorowiczJózef TeodorowiczJózef Teodorowicz Հովսէպ Թեոֆիլ Թեոդորովիչ was the last Armenian Catholic Archbishop of Lviv. Most of his family were of Armenian origin and had lived centuries in Poland....
, Archbishop of Lviv (Armenian rite, 1901–1938)
Archery
- Tetyana BerezhnaTetyana BerezhnaTetyana Berezhna is an archer from Ukraine.Berezhna represented Ukraine at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She placed 14th in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 640. In the first round of elimination, she faced 51st-ranked Fotini Vavatsi of Greece...
, archer - Nataliya BurdeynaNataliya BurdeynaNataliya Burdeyna is a Ukrainian archer.She was born in Odessa.Burdeyna was part of the Ukrainian team at the 2000 Summer Olympics, where they won the silver medal. In the individual competition she finished 17th after losing the round of 32....
, archer - Dmytro HrachovDmytro HrachovDmytro Hrachov is an athlete from Ukraine. He competes in archery.Hrachov competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's individual archery. He won his first match, advancing to the round of 32. In the second round of elimination, he was defeated...
, archer (Olympic bronze – team) - Kateryna PalekhaKateryna PalekhaKateryna Palekha is an athlete from Ukraine. She competes in archery.Palekha represented Ukraine at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She placed 59th in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 595. In the first round of elimination, she faced 6th-ranked Yuan Shu Chi of Chinese...
, archer - Viktor RubanViktor RubanViktor Ruban is an athlete from Ukraine, who competes in archery.-2004 Summer Olympics:Ruban competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's individual archery. He won his first match, advancing to the round of 32; he also won his second match, advancing to the round of 16...
, archer (Olympic bronze – team) - Oleksandr SerdyukOleksandr SerdyukOleksandr Serdyuk is an athlete from Ukraine. He competes in archery.-2004 Summer Olympics:Serdyuk competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's individual archery. He won his first match, advancing to the round of 32. In the second round of elimination, he was again victorious and advanced to...
, archer (Olympic bronze – team)
Basketball
- Viktor KhryapaViktor KhryapaViktor Vladimirovich Khryapa is a Russian professional basketball player.-Pro career:Khryapa played for Khimik Engels in 1999-00, and for Avtodor Saratov in 2000-02...
, basketball player - Slava MedvedenkoSlava MedvedenkoStanislav "Slava" Medvedenko is a Ukrainian former professional basketball player, who last played with the Atlanta Hawks in the National Basketball Association. His position was power forward....
, basketball player - Oleksiy PecherovOleksiy PecherovOleksiy Pecherov is a Ukrainian basketball player. He stands at 7'0".The NBA's Washington Wizards selected him with the 18th pick in the 2006 NBA Draft; Pecherov signed a contract with the Wizards on July 5, 2007. Pecherov had previously played with Paris Basket Racing internationally...
, basketball player - Vitaly PotapenkoVitaly PotapenkoVitaly Nikolaevich Potapenko is a Ukrainian former professional basketball player. He played college basketball at Wright State University and was selected 12th overall by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 1996 NBA Draft...
, basketball player - Alexander Volkov, basketball player
Boxing
- Taras BidenkoTaras BidenkoTaras Bidenko is a German based professional boxer who fights in the heavyweight division.-Professional career:...
, boxer - Louis Kaplan ("Kid Kaplan"), boxer, featherweight world champion
- Wladimir KlitschkoWladimir KlitschkoWladimir Klitschko is a Ukrainian heavyweight boxer. Klitschko is the WBA , IBF, WBO Super, IBO & Ring Magazine Champion. His older brother Vitali Klitschko is the current WBC champion...
, boxer champion - Vitali KlitschkoVitali KlitschkoVitaliy Volodymyrovych Klychko is a Ukrainian professional heavyweight boxer and the current WBC heavyweight champion. He is a leader of the political party Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform and a member of the Ukrainian delegation to the Congress of the Council of Europe. He previously...
, boxer champion - Yuriy NuzhnenkoYuriy NuzhnenkoYuriy Nuzhnenko is a Ukrainian boxer who captured the vacant WBA Interim Welterweight belt on December 8, 2007 in Le Cannet, France against Frédéric Klose of France by twelve-round unanimous decision.-Amateur career:*Amateur record: 190-67...
, boxer champion - Volodymyr Sydorenko, boxer champion
- Volodymyr Virchis, boxer
Chess
- Lev AlburtLev AlburtLev Osipovich Alburt is a chess Grandmaster and a well-respected chess writer. He was three-time Ukrainian Champion, and after defecting to the United States in 1979, became three-time U.S. Champion.-Career:...
, Ukrainian Champion (1972, 1973, 1974) - Izak AloniIzak AloniIzak Aloni was an Israeli chess master.-Biography:Aloni, born Schächter in Buchach, Galicia , was twice Lvov champion , and four-times Lvov sub-champion . He played twice in Polish championships. In 1935, he tied for 12-14th in Warsaw...
, Lviv Champion (1936, 1939) - Boris AltermanBoris AltermanBoris Alterman is an Israeli chess Grandmaster, FIDE Senior Trainer , advisor of the Junior chess program....
- Lev AptekarLev AptekarLev Isaakovich Aptekar is a Jewish Soviet–New Zealand chess master, coach and writer.He took 15th in the Kiev championship of 1963. In the middle of 1970s, he left the Soviet Union for New Zealand. In 1975/76, he shared first with Murray Chandler and Ortvin Sarapu in the 83rd New Zealand...
- Vladimir BaklanVladimir BaklanVladimir Baklan is a Ukrainian chess Grandmaster. In 2000 he won with the Ukrainian team a gold medal in the 34th Chess Olympiad in Istanbul. He was a member of the gold medal-winning Ukrainian team at the 2001 World Team Chess Championship....
, Ukrainian Champion (1997, 1998) - Anatoly BannikAnatoly BannikAnatoly Bannik is a Ukrainian Chess Master, who was of Grandmaster strength during his peak years. He is a five-time Ukrainian champion, and qualified for the Soviet Chess Championship final seven times. He was among the top half-dozen Ukrainian players from 1944 to 1966...
, Ukrainian Champion (1945, 1946, 1951, 1955, 1964) - Alexander BeliavskyAlexander Beliavsky-External links:...
, Champion of the USSR (1987, and thrice jointly – 1974, 1980, 1990) - Ossip BernsteinOssip BernsteinOssip Samoilovich Bernstein was a Russian chess grandmaster and a financial lawyer.-Biography:...
, All-Russian Sub-Champion (1903) - Efim BogoljubowEfim BogoljubowEfim Dmitriyevich Bogolyubov was a Russo-German chess grandmaster who won numerous events and played two matches with Alexander Alekhine for the world championship.-Early career:...
, 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 BoleslavskyIsaac BoleslavskyIsaac Yefremovich Boleslavsky was a Soviet–Jewish chess Grandmaster.-Early career:Boleslavsky taught himself chess at age 9...
, Ukrainian Champion (1938, 1939, 1940) - David BronsteinDavid BronsteinDavid Ionovich Bronstein was a Soviet chess grandmaster, who narrowly missed becoming World Chess Champion in 1951. Bronstein was described by his peers as a creative genius and master of tactics...
, Ukrainian Sub-Champion (1940), Champion of the USSR (1948, 1949 – both jointly), Challenger for World Championship (1951), - Oscar ChajesOscar ChajesOscar Chajes was an Austrian, then American chess player.-Biography:Chajes was Jewish and was born in Brody, Galicia, in what is now Ukraine. In 1909, he won in Excelsior, Minnesota . In 1910, he took 2nd in Chicago. In January/February 1911, he tied for 3rd-4th in New York...
- Alexander CherninAlexander CherninAlexander Mikhailovich Chernin is a prominent chess master and a former Soviet Champion now living in Hungary.-Tournaments and championships:...
, Champion of the USSR (1985 – jointly) - Josif DorfmanJosif DorfmanJosif Davidovich Dorfman is a Soviet-French chess Grandmaster, coach, and chess writer.-Tournament results:...
, Champion of the USSR (1977 – jointly) - Fyodor Duz-KhotimirskyFyodor Duz-KhotimirskyFedor Ivanovich Duz–Khotimirsky was a Ukrainian chess master....
, Kiev Champion (1900, 1902, 1903, 1906) - Louis EisenbergLouis EisenbergLouis R. Eisenberg was a Ukrainian-American chess master.He was born in Odessa in 1876. After graduating from Nicholas College, he pursued journalism until, in 1901-1902, he won a chess tournament at Odessa 1901, and journeyed to Monte Carlo to participate in the international masters’ tournament...
- Alexander EvensohnAlexander EvensohnAlexandr Moyseyevich Evensohn was a Russian chess master.-Biography:In 1909, Evensohn took 7th at Kiev. The event was won by Nikolaev. In 1911, he took 3rd, behind Efim Bogoljubow and Izbinsky, at Kiev. In 1911, he took 4th at Kiev. The event was won by Fedor Bohatirchuk...
, Kiev Champion (1914) - Salo FlohrSalo FlohrSalomon Mikhailovich Flohr was a leading Czech and later Soviet chess grandmaster of the mid-20th century, who became a national hero in Czechoslovakia during the 1930s. His name was used to sell many of the luxury products of the time, including Salo Flohr cigarettes, slippers and eau-de-cologne...
, winner of the 1957 Ukrainian Championship (off contest) - Maurice FoxMaurice FoxMaurice Fox was a Canadian chess master. He won the Canadian Chess Championship eight times; this is tied for the most Canadian titles with Daniel Yanofsky.-Biography:...
- Henryk FriedmanHenryk FriedmanHenryk Friedman was a Polish chess master.He lived in Lvov . In 1926–1934, Friedman won seven times in succession the Championship of Lvov but 1930, when he took 2nd place behind Stepan Popel. Friedman played in four Polish championships. In 1926, he took 14th in Warsaw . The event was won by...
, seven-times Lviv Champion (1926–1934) - Efim GellerEfim GellerEfim Petrovich Geller was a Soviet chess player and world-class grandmaster at his peak. He won the Soviet Championship twice and was a Candidate for the World Championship on six occasions...
, Ukrainian Champion (1950, 1957, 1958, 1959), Champion of the USSR (1955, 1979) - Edward GerstenfeldEdward GerstenfeldEdward Issakovich Gerstenfeld was a Polish chess master.Born into a Jewish family in Lviv, Galicia , he took 3rd, behind Henryk Friedman and Izaak Schächter, in the Lvov City championships in 1933, took 3rd at Lvov 1933 , took 7th in the Lvov City-ch, and won...
- Vitali GolodVitali GolodVitali Golod is a Soviet–Israeli chess grandmaster.As of April 2007, his Elo rating was 2597, making him the # 7 player in Israel and the 152nd-highest rated player in the world. It is his peak rating so far.-Chess career:...
, Ukrainian Champion (1991) - Vladimir GrabinskyVladimir GrabinskyVladimir Grabinsky is a Ukrainian chess player and International master of Chess, coach of the Ukrainian youth team. Enrolled in the Lviv Institute of Physical Culture in 1990 and graduated in 1994...
- Eduard GufeldEduard GufeldEduard Yefimovich Gufeld was a Soviet International Grandmaster of chess, and a chess author.By the late 1950s he established himself as one of the strongest players in the world...
- Ilya GurevichIlya GurevichIlya Gurevich is a Soviet-born American chess grandmaster.He became a chess master at 12 years, 3 months. He was a student at Yeshiva Academy in Worcester, Massachusetts.In 1983, he won the U.S...
- Mykhailo GurevichMikhail Gurevich (chess player)Mikhail Naumovich Gurevich is a Soviet chess player. He lived in Belgium from 1991 to 2005 and since then resides in Turkey....
, Ukrainian Champion (1984), Champion of the USSR (1985 – jointly) - Alexander HuzmanAlexander HuzmanAlexander Huzman is an Israeli Chess Grandmaster and trainer., his Elo rating was 2596, making him the # 9 player in Israel and the 188th-highest rated player in the world...
- Vasyl IvanchukVasyl IvanchukVasyl Mykhaylovych Ivanchuk, also transliterated as Vasyliy or Vasyl , is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster....
, Champion of Europe (2004) - Stefan IzbinskyStefan IzbinskyStefan Konstantinovich Izbinsky was a Ukrainian chess master.He tied for 9-10th in the Kiev 1903 chess tournament , tied for 8-10th at St. Petersburg 1905/06 , took 13th at St...
- Nicolai JasnogrodskyNicolai JasnogrodskyNicolai Jasnogrodsky was a Russian–born American chess master.Jasnogrodsky started to play competitive chess around 1885 in Vienna, and moved to England in the 1880s. He tied for 4-5th at Amsterdam 1889 Nicolai Jasnogrodsky (6 August 1859, Lubny – 23 April 1914, New York) was a Russian–born...
- Abram KhavinAbram KhavinAbram Leonidovich Khavin was a Ukrainian chess master.In 1937, he took 6th in Kiev .In 1938, he tied for 4-6th in Kiev ....
, Champion of Western Ukraine (1940), Ukrainian Champion (1954) - Artur KoganArtur KoganArtur Kogan is a Ukrainian–born Israeli chess grandmaster.Kogan immigrated from Ukraine to Israel when he was 2 years old and spent more than 20 years in Israel. He currently resides in Tarragona, Spain...
- Alexander KonstantinopolskyAlexander KonstantinopolskyAlexander Markovich Konstantinopolsky was a Soviet International Master of chess, chess coach and trainer, and a chess author. He was a five-time Kiev champion, and trained the world title challenger David Bronstein from a young age...
, Kiev Champion five consecutive times (1932–1936) - Irina KrushIrina KrushIrina Krush is an American chess player who won the U.S. Women's Chess Championship in 1998, 2007, and 2010. Born in Odessa, USSR , she is widely known for her series of chess training videos, the "Krushing Attacks" series.Krush learned to play chess at age five, emigrating with her parents to...
- Gennady KuzminGennady KuzminGennady Pavlovich Kuzmin is a Soviet - Ukrainian chess master and trainer. He should not be confused with Russian Grandmaster, Alexey Kuzmin.As a player, he reached his peak strength in the early to mid 1970s and in 1973, was awarded the International Grandmaster title by FIDE, the governing...
, Ukrainian Champion (1969, 1989, 1999 – all jointly), Sub-Champion of the USSR (1973) - Kateryna Lahno
- Konstantin LernerKonstantin LernerKonstantin Zaivelevich Lerner was a Ukrainian chess grandmaster...
, Ukrainian Champion (1978, 1982) - Naum LevinNaum LevinNaum L. Levin a Ukrainian–Australian chess master and trainer.N.L. Levin was a Champion of the Kiev Avant-garde Club in 1963...
- Paul ListPaul ListPaul M. List was a Ukrainian–German–British chess player.He was born in Odessa, Ukraine . He had a separate chess career in each of the 3 countries he lived in – Russia, Germany and the United Kingdom....
, Odessa Champion (1908) - Marta Litinskaya-ShulMarta Litinskaya-ShulMarta Litynska is a Ukrainian chess master.Born Marta Shul, she was Soviet Women’s Champion in 1972, and Sub-Champion in 1971, 1973, and 1974. She played in 2nd Interzonal Tournament at Menorca 1973 where tied for 2nd–5th places...
, World Senior Women Chess Champion (2002) - Isaac LipnitskyIsaac LipnitskyIsaac Oskarovich Lipnitsky was a Ukrainian-Soviet chess player of close to Grandmaster strength. He was a two-time Ukrainian champion , and was among Ukraine's top half-dozen players from 1948 to 1956...
, Ukrainian Champion (1949, 1956) - Moishe LowtzkyMoishe Lowtzky-Biography:He was born into a Jewish family in Ukraine. In 1903, Lowtzky tied for 6-7th with Eugene Znosko-Borovsky in Kiev . The event was won by Mikhail Chigorin. In 1903, he took 4th in Dresden . In 1904, he tied for 2nd-3rd in Coburg . In 1910, he tied for 1st with Thoenes in Hamburg...
- Vladimir MalaniukVladimir MalaniukVladimir Pavlovich Malaniuk is a Ukrainian chess Grandmaster....
, Ukrainian Champion (1980, 1981, 1986) - Adrian MikhalchishinAdrian MikhalchishinAdrian Bogdanovich Mikhalchishin is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster now playing for Slovenia....
- Anna MuzychukAnna MuzychukAnna Olegivna Muzychuk is a chess player with a FIDE rating of 2528 . She earned the title of Woman Grandmaster in 2004 and the title of International Master in 2007. In 2004 she became a member of the Slovenian chess federation, where she is the strongest female chess player...
- Illya NyzhnykIllya NyzhnykIllya Nyzhnyk is a Ukrainian chess player.He was born September 27, 1996 in Vinnytsia and gained worldwide attention when he won Group B of the 2007 Moscow Open at the age of 10. He attained a nearly flawless score of 8½/9 and his performance rating was 2633, that of a Grandmaster...
- Alexander OnischukAlexander OnischukAlexander Onischuk is an American chess grandmaster. Originally from Ukraine, he immigrated to the US in 2001 and currently lives in Northern Virginia. He was the 2006 U.S. Chess Champion...
- Sam PalatnikSam PalatnikSemon Alexandrovich Palatnik is a Ukrainian-American chess Grandmaster, born in Odessa.He won four team and individual gold medals at the 20th World Student Team Chess Championship at Teesside 1974, and 21st World Student Team Championship at Caracas 1976.Some of his tournament results include...
- Ruslan PonomariovRuslan PonomariovRuslan Olegovich Ponomariov is a Ukrainian chess player and former FIDE World Champion.-Early career:Ponomariov was born in Horlivka in Ukraine. In 1994 he placed third in the World Under-12 Championship at the age of ten. In 1996 he won the European Under-18 Championship at the age of just...
, FIDE World Champion (2002) - Stepan PopelStepan PopelStepan Popel was a multiple chess champion of Lviv, Paris and eventually, of the Ukrainians in North America .-Biography:Stepan Popel was the nephew of an early master, Ignatz von Popiel , and took...
, 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 PopielIgnatz von PopielIgnatz von Popiel was a Polish-Ukrainian chess player.-Biography:...
, Lviv Sub-Champion (1925) - Vsevolod RauzerVsevolod RauzerVsevolod Rauzer is probably best known for his extensive chess opening theory. The Richter–Rauzer Variation of the Sicilian Defence , was named in honor of him and the German master Kurt Richter....
, Ukrainian Champion (1927, 1933 – jointly) - Oleg RomanishinOleg RomanishinOleg Mikhailovich Romanishin is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster and former European junior champion.Many honours and awards were bestowed on him as a young man. After winning the European Junior Championship in 1973, he became an International Master the same year...
, European Junior Champion (1973) - Jakob RosanesJakob RosanesJakob Rosanes was a German mathematician who worked on algebraic geometry and invariant theory. He was also a chess master....
- Nicolas RossolimoNicolas RossolimoNicolas Rossolimo was an American-French-Russian-Greek chess Grandmaster. He was many times champion of Paris, France, and after relocating to the United States won the 1955 U.S. Open Championship...
- Iosif RudakovskyIosif RudakovskyIosif Iosifovich Rudakovsky was a Ukrainian chess master.He took 8th at Moscow 1936, won at Rostov-on-Don 1939, shared 3rd at Kiev 1940 , tied for 4-7th at Kiev 1940 , took 20th at Moscow 1940 , and...
- Ludmila Rudenko, Women's World Champion (1950–1953)
- Nikoly RudnevNikoly RudnevNikoly Nikolaevich Rudnev was a Ukrainian–Uzbekistani chess master.Born in Kharkov, he won in the Mannheim 1914 chess tournament . After World War I and Bolshevik Revolution, he was sent to Uzbekistan...
- Yuri SakharovYuri SakharovYuri Nikolaevich Sakharov was a Soviet chess master.Sakharov was twice Ukrainian Champion in 1966 and 1968...
, Ukrainian Champion (1966, 1968) - Vladimir SavonVladimir SavonVladimir Andreyevich Savon was a Ukrainian chess player.He learned how to play late, at the age of 13....
, Ukrainian Champion (1969 – jointly), Champion of the USSR (1971) - Lidia SemenovaLidia SemenovaLidia K Semenova is a Ukrainian chess Woman Grandmaster.In 1978, she won Women's Soviet Chess Championship. In 1981, she tied for 1st-4th in Leningrad . In 1982, she took 2nd in Bad Kissingen...
- Alexey SokolskyAlexey SokolskyAlexey Pavlovich Sokolsky was a Ukrainian-Belarusian chess player of International Master strength in over-the board chess, a noted correspondence chess player, and an opening theoretician....
, Ukrainian Champion (1947, 1948) - Victor SoultanbeieffVictor SoultanbeieffVictor Ivanovich Soultanbéieff was a Belgian chess master.-Life:...
- Leonid SteinLeonid SteinLeonid Zakharovich Stein was a Soviet chess Grandmaster from Ukraine. He won three USSR Chess Championships in the 1960s , and was among the world's top ten players during that era.- Early life :...
, Ukrainian Champion (1960, 1962), Champion of the USSR (1963, 1965, 1966) - Mark TaimanovMark TaimanovMark Evgenievich Taimanov is a leading Soviet and Russian chess player and concert pianist.-Chess:He was awarded the International Grandmaster title in 1952 and played in the Candidates Tournament in Zurich in 1953, where he tied for eighth place. From 1946 to 1956, he was among the world's top...
, Champion of the USSR (1956) - Vladimir TukmakovVladimir TukmakovVladimir Borisovich Tukmakov is a Jewish-Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He gained the Grandmaster title in 1972.His career first blossomed when he helped and then led the USSR to consecutive wins of the World Student Team Championship from 1966 to 1972, bagging nine gold medals along the way.In the...
, Ukrainian Champion (1970) - Myroslav TurianskyMyroslav TurianskyMyroslav Turiansky was a Ukrainian chess master.He won the championship of the Shakhovyi Konyk Club in Lviv in 1928, and tied for 1st-2nd with Stepan Popel in the Championship of Western Ukraine at Lviv 1943.Joining the westward exodus in 1944, Turiansky wound up in Vienna, where in the years...
, Champion of Western Ukraine (1943 – jointly) - Boris VerlinskyBoris VerlinskyBoris Markovich Verlinsky was a Ukrainian-Russian International Master of chess. He was one of the top Soviet players of the 1920s, and was in the top 20 in the world in 1926, clearly of Grandmaster strength at that time...
, Ukrainian Champion (1926), Champion of the USSR (1929) - Yakov VilnerYakov VilnerYakov Vilner was a Ukrainian chess master.-Biography:Vilner won the Odessa chess championships four times . He won the Ukrainian championships three times; at Kiev 1924 , at Kharkov 1925 , and at Odessa 1928...
, Ukrainian Champion (1924, 1925, 1928) - Daniel YanofskyDaniel YanofskyDaniel Abraham Yanofsky, OC, QC was Canada's first chess grandmaster, an eight-time Canadian Chess Champion, a chess writer, a chess arbiter, and a lawyer.-Life in chess:...
- Abram ZamikhovskyAbram ZamikhovskyAbram Davidovich Zamikhovsky was a Ukrainian chess master and former national champion.In 1931 he won the 6th Ukrainian Championship in Kharkov ahead of Vsevolod Rauzer...
, Ukrainian Champion (1931) - Anna ZatonskihAnna ZatonskihAnna Zatonskih is a chess player from the United States. She is a Woman Grandmaster, as well as an International Master. She is a chess professional, who coaches players and competes in tournaments. Zatonskih is the 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2011 U.S. Women's Chess Champion.Zatonskih learned chess at...
Fencing
- Vadim GutzeitVadim GutzeitVadim Gutzeit is an Ukrainian Olympic sabre fencer.-World Championships:...
, saber fencer, Olympic champion - Grigory KrissGrigory KrissGrigori Yakovlevich Kriss was a Soviet Russian world champion epee fencer.-Fencing career:He trained at the Armed Forces sports society in Kiev...
, épée fencer, Olympic champion, 2-time silver - David TyshlerDavid TyshlerDavid Abramovich Tyshler is a former competitive sabreur, part of the first generation of internationally successful Soviet fencers . He is best known as an extremely successful and innovative fencing coach...
, saber fencer, Olympic bronze - Iosif VitebskiyIosif VitebskiyIosif Davidovich Vitebskiy is a former Soviet Ukrainian fencer, and current US fencing coach.-Early life and fencing career:A graduate of the Kiev State University with a degree in physical culture and sport, Vitebskiy was a member of both the Soviet Union and Ukrainian national teams.A 19-time...
, épée fencer, Olympic silver, 10-time national champion - Olga Zhovnir, saber fencer
Figure skating
- Oksana BaiulOksana BaiulOksana Serhiyivna Baiul is a Ukrainian professional figure skater. She is the 1994 Olympic Champion in Ladies' Singles and 1993 World Champion.-Early and personal life:...
, figure skater (Olympic gold) - Alexei BeletskiAlexei BeletskiAlexei Beletski is an Israeli ice dancer.He competes alongside his wife Natalia Gudina. They competed together for the Ukraine until the end of 1998/1999 season, after which they switched to competing for Israel. Gudina and Beletski the 2000–05 Israeli national silver medalists...
, ice dancer, Olympian - Natalia GudinaNatalia GudinaNatalia Gudina is an Israeli ice dancer. She competes with husband Alexei Beletski. They competed together for the Ukraine until the end of 1998/1999 season, after which they switched to competing for Israel. Gudina and Beletski the 2000–2005 Israeli national silver medalists...
, figure skater, Olympian - Viktor PetrenkoViktor PetrenkoViktor Vasylovych Petrenko is a Ukrainian former competitive figure skater who represented the Soviet Union, the Unified Team, and Ukraine during his career. He is the 1992 Olympic Champion for the Unified Team...
, figure skater (Olympic gold, World Championship gold) - Aliona Savchenko, figure skater
- Michael ShmerkinMichael ShmerkinMichael "Misha" Shmerkin is an Israeli figure skater.-Biography:Shmerkin was born and raised in the Soviet Union and competed for them internationally, most notably at the 1990 Junior Worlds....
, figure skater
Football (soccer)
- Oleksandr Aliev, footballer
- Igor BelanovIgor BelanovIhor Ivanovych Belanov is a retired Ukrainian footballer who played as a striker.He made a name for himself at Dynamo Kyiv, winning five major titles and being named European Footballer of the Year in 1986...
, footballer, Ballon d'or (1986) - Oleg BlokhinOleg BlokhinOleh Volodymyrovych "Oleg" Blokhin is a Ukrainian football coach and current head coach of the Ukrainian national team. Blokhin was formerly a standout striker for Dynamo Kyiv and the Soviet national team...
, footballer, Ballon d'or (1975) - Leonid BuryakLeonid BuryakLeonid Yosipovich Buryak is a Ukrainian football coach and former Olympic bronze-medal-winning player.Buryak, who is Jewish, was a midfielder for the USSR national football team, and competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics, at which he won a bronze medal.Buryak played for a number of teams in the...
, footballer, midfielder, Olympic bronze - Walter ChyzowychWalter ChyzowychWalter Chyzowych was a Ukrainian born soccer player who played for Philadelphia Ukrainian Nationals and Newark Sitch of the American Soccer League and was later a coach for theUnited States national soccer team....
, footballer, football coach - Ivan Getsko,footballer
- Oleksandr Horshkov, footballer
- Oleksandr ShovkovskyOleksandr ShovkovskyOleksandr Volodymyrovych Shovkovskiy is a Ukrainian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper. He has played for Dynamo Kyiv in the Vyscha Liha the top level of Ukrainian football, since 1993.-Club career:...
, footballer - Timerlan HuseinovTimerlan HuseinovTymerlan Rustamovych Huseynov is a former Ukrainian footballer now sporting director. Huseinov was Ukrainian Premier League's top goalscorer in 1993–94 and 1995–96 seasons scoring 18 and 20 goals respectively.- Playing career :...
,footballer - Oleg IachtchoukOleg IachtchoukOleg Iachtchouk , Lanivtsi Raion, Ternopil Oblast then Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian professional footballer. He plays as a striker for Cercle Brugge and also holds the Belgian nationality. His last name is sometimes transliterated as Yaschuk or Jachtsjoek.-Club career:Iachtchouk first made a name...
, footballer - Yuri KalitvintsevYuri KalitvintsevYuriy Mykolayovych Kalitvintsev is a former footballer and Ukraine international and current caretaker coach of the Ukrainian national football team. Kalitvintsev coached Ukraine U-19 to victory during the 2009 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship...
, footballer - Vitaliy KosovskyVitaliy KosovskyVitaliy Kosovskyi is a former football midfielder for Dynamo Kyiv and a Ukraine international. He is works in the football agency "Soccerworld". He now resides Kyiv.-Dynamo Kyiv:...
, footballer - Dema Kovalenko, footballer
- Serhiy Kandaurov, footballer
- Viktor LeonenkoViktor LeonenkoViktor Yevhenovych Leonenko is a former footballer and Ukraine international. At least since 2006 he is a football commentator and analyst for the televised football forum "3 time" at the Ukrainian TV-network ICTV...
, footballer - Yevgeny Levchenko, footballer
- Valeriy Lobanovs'kyi, football coach
- Yevhen LutsenkoYevhen LutsenkoYevhen Valentinovich Lutsenko is a professional Ukrainian football midfielder who plays for SC Tavriya Simferopol in the Ukrainian Premier League....
, footballer - Oleh LuzhnyOleh LuzhnyOleh Romanovych Luzhny is a retired Ukrainian footballer and former interim manager of FC Dynamo Kyiv. His name is alternatively Romanised as Oleg Luzhny.-Dynamo Kyiv:...
, footballer - Yuri MaximovYuri MaximovYuriy Vilyovych Maksymov is a Ukrainian football coach, in charge of FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih, and a former midfielder.- Playing career :Maksymov played for Valery Lobanovsky's Dynamo Kyiv in his native Ukraine, before transferring to SV Werder Bremen and SV Waldhof Mannheim in Germany. Ukraine...
,footballer - Artem MilevskiyArtem MilevskiyArtem Volodymyrovych Milevskiy is a Belarusian-Ukrainian professional football second striker who currently plays for FC Dynamo Kyiv in the Ukrainian Premiere League. He is also a Ukrainian international.- Club career :...
, footballer - Volodymyr MykytynVolodymyr MykytynVolodymyr Bohdanovych Mykytyn is a Ukrainian professional football coach and a former player. As of 2009, he manages FC Zarya-2 Luhansk. He made his professional debut in the Soviet Second League in 1989 for SKA Odessa.-References:...
, footballer - Serhiy NazarenkoSerhiy NazarenkoSerhiy Yuriyovych Nazarenko is a Ukrainian football midfielder for SC Tavriya Simferopol and the Ukrainian national football team.- Club career :...
, footballer - Andriy OberemkoAndriy OberemkoAndriy Oberemko is a Ukrainian professional football player who currently plays for FC Illychivets Mariupol.-Playing career:In 2006, Oberemko had attracted interest from Israeli club, Beitar Jerusalem. Being Jewish, Oberemko would not count against the clubs foreign player cap. Kiev demanded...
, footballer, midfielder (Illichivets & U21 national team) - Dmytro ParfenovDmytro ParfenovDmytro Volodymyrovych Parfenov is a Ukrainian footballer who last played for Saturn Moscow Oblast.Parfenov is best known as a player of Chornomorets Odesa and Spartak Moscow...
, footballer - Yevhen Pokhlebayev, footballer
- Andriy PoluninAndriy PoluninAndriy Viktorovych Polunin is a retired Ukrainian professional footballer.From 2007 he works as a director of sports with FC Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka...
,footballer - Serhiy PopovSerhiy PopovSerhiy Oleksandrovych Popov is a former footballer from Ukraine. A former Zenit St. Petersburg defender, Popov made a name under Ukrainian soccer giants, Shakhtar Donetsk, helping them in many of their successful finishes in the Ukrainian Premier League...
, footballer - Serhiy RebrovSerhiy RebrovSerhiy Stanislavovych Rebrov is a retired Ukrainian football forward turned midfielder, currently assistant coach at Dynamo Kyiv reserves team. Rebrov gained international fame as an attacking partner of Andriy Shevchenko at Dynamo Kyiv throughout the 1990s and remains top all-time scorer of the...
, footballer - Andriy ShevchenkoAndriy ShevchenkoAndriy Mykolayovych Shevchenko is a Ukrainian footballer who plays for Dynamo Kyiv and the Ukraine national team as a striker. He is the third-highest scorer in the history of European club competition with 67 goals as of 2011-03-10, behind Filippo Inzaghi and Raúl. With 175 goals scored with A.C...
, footballer, Ballon d'or (2004) - Viktor SkrypnykViktor Skrypnyk-Honours:* Bundesliga champion: 2004.* DFB-Pokal winner: 1999, 2004.* DFB-Pokal finalist: 2000.* DFB-Ligapokal finalist: 1999.-External links:...
, footballer - Serhiy SerebrennikovSerhiy SerebrennikovSerhiy Serebrennikov is a Russian-born Ukrainian professional football player. He is a central midfielder....
, footballer - Sergey Shcherbakov, footballer
- Oleh SuslovOleh SuslovOleh Anatoliovych Suslov is a former professional Ukrainian football player. He for several years played in Austria where ended his playing career. Before that for over 10 years he stayed in Odessa where he played for couple of teams...
, footballer - Serhiy Skachenko, footballer
- Oleksandr HolovkoOleksandr HolovkoOleksandr Holovko is a footballer from Ukraine who played for SC Tavriya Simferopol and Dynamo Kyiv.- Career :Holovko has played for three clubs, SC Tavriya Simferopol, Dynamo Kyiv, Qingdao Beilaite,and...
, footballer - Andriy HusinAndriy HusinAndriy Husin is professional Ukrainian football player and an current head coach of Dynamo-2 Kyiv in Ukrainian First League. He frequently appeared as a member of the Ukraine national football team, and is one of Ukraine's most capped players ever...
, footballer - Maksym KalynychenkoMaksym KalynychenkoMaksym Serhiyovych Kalynychenko is a professional Ukrainian football midfielder for Tavriya Simferopol, sometimes playing in central midfield or as a winger. Observers have noted his pace, creativity, and accuracy in free kicks / penalties...
, footballer - Ruslan RotanRuslan RotanRuslan Petrovych Rotan is a Ukrainian footballer. He plays in midfield for FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk and is an international for the Ukrainian national football team.-Career:...
, footballer - Oleg Salenko, footballer
- Hryhoriy SurkisHryhoriy SurkisHryhoriy Surkis is a Ukrainian businessman and politician. Surkis is the president of Football Federation of Ukraine....
, President of the Football Federation of UkraineFootball Federation of UkraineThe Football Federation of Ukraine is the governing body of football in Ukraine. It governs the football competitions for the Ukrainian Professional League, including the Ukrainian Cup, the Amatory, the competitions among the youth , and also the Ukraine national football team. It also sets the... - Anatoliy TymoschukAnatoliy TymoschukAnatoliy Oleksandrovych Tymoshchuk is a Ukrainian football midfielder who plays for German Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and the Ukrainian national team.Tymoshchuk began his professional career with his local Volyn Lutsk...
, footballer - Vladyslav Vashchuk, footballer
- Andriy VoroninAndriy VoroninAndriy Viktorovych Voronin is a Ukrainian professional footballer who currently plays as a striker for Dynamo Moscow. His previous clubs include Chornomorets Odessa, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Mainz, Köln, Bayer Leverkusen, and Liverpool. In the 2002–03 season, Voronin became top goalscorer in the...
, footballer - Artem YashkinArtem YashkinArtem Olexandrovich Yashkin is a Ukrainian footballer, who last played for Dinaburg FC. He was born in Vologda, now in Russia. After coming to play for FC Dynamo Kyiv, he was offered to accept the Ukrainian citizenship and play for the Ukrainian national football team...
,footballer
Gymnastics
- Anna BessonovaAnna BessonovaAnna Bessonova is an Individual Rhythmic Gymnast who was born in Kiev, Ukraine. Her father is the Dynamo Kiev football player Vladimir Bessonov and her mother, Viktoria, was a two time world champion group rhythmic gymnast....
, gymnast - Iryna Deriugina, gymnast
- Maria GorokhovskayaMaria GorokhovskayaMaria Kondratyevna Gorokhovskaya was a Ukrainian gymnast. At the 1952 Summer Olympics, she won seven medals, the most medals won by any woman in a single Olympics....
, 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 NikitinYuri Nikitin (gymnast)Yuri Nikitin is a Ukrainian gymnast and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.-External links:...
, gymnast - Lilia PodkopayevaLilia PodkopayevaLilia Alexandrivna Podkopayeva ; born August 15, 1978 in Donetsk) is a retired Ukrainian gymnast who became the 1996 Olympic all-around champion, the 1995 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships all-around champion and the 1996 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships all-around champion...
, gymnast (Olympic gold) - Larisa Latynina, gymnast (9 Olympic golds)
- Tatiana LysenkoTatiana LysenkoTatiana Felixivna Lysenko is a Soviet and Ukrainian gymnast, who had her senior competitive career from 1990 to 1994.She is Jewish. Tatiana was known for her exceptional difficulty level and haughty style on the floor...
, gymnast, 2-time Olympic champion (balance beam, team combined exercises), bronze (horse vault) - Kateryna Serebrians'ka, gymnast (Olympic gold)
- Oxana SkaldinaOxana SkaldinaOxana Skaldina is a former Individual Rhythmic Gymnast. She started training in gymnastics at the age of 5 with Liudmilla Koval...
, gymnast (Olympic bronze) - Olexandra Tymoshenko, gymnast (Olympic gold)
- Olena Vitrychenko, Individual Rhythmic Gymnast (Olympic bronze)
- Roman Zozulya, gymnast
Ice hockey
- Dave AndreychukDave AndreychukDavid John Andreychuk is a former professional ice hockey left winger who played in the NHL with the Buffalo Sabres, Toronto Maple Leafs, New Jersey Devils, Boston Bruins, Colorado Avalanche and Tampa Bay Lightning...
, ice hockey player - Ruslan FedotenkoRuslan FedotenkoRuslan Viktorovych Fedotenko is a Ukrainian American professional ice hockey winger who is currently playing for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League . A two-time Stanley Cup champion, in his NHL career he has played for the Philadelphia Flyers, Tampa Bay Lightning, New York...
, ice hockey player - Orest KindrachukOrest KindrachukOrest Michael Kindrachuk is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre who played ten seasons in the National Hockey League for the Philadelphia Flyers, Pittsburgh Penguins and Washington Capitals...
, ice hockey player - Alexei PonikarovskyAlexei PonikarovskyOleksiy Volodymyrovych "Alexei" Ponikarovsky is a Ukrainian Canadian professional ice hockey player currently playing for the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League .-RSL:...
, hockey player - Terry SawchukTerry SawchukTerrance Gordon Sawchuk was a Ukrainian-Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played 21 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Los Angeles Kings and New York Rangers.-Early life and playing career:Sawchuk was born and raised...
, hockey player - Denis ShvidkiDenis ShvidkiDenis Aleksandrovich Shvidki is a Ukrainian professional ice hockey right wing currently playing for Krefeld Pinguine of the German Hockey League.- Draft :...
, hockey player - Kostiantyn SimchukKostiantyn SimchukKostiantyn Mykolaiovych "Konstantin" Simchuk is a Ukrainian professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for Sokil Kyiv of the Professional Hockey League.- External links :...
, ice hockey player - Vitaly Vishnevsky, ice hockey player
- Mikhail Zakharov, Ukrainian coach
- Nikolai ZherdevNikolai ZherdevMykola Olehovych "Nikolay" Zherdev is a Ukrainian-Russian professional ice hockey right winger who currently plays for Atlant Moscow Oblast of the Russian Kontinental Hockey League...
, ice hockey player - Alexei ZhitnikAlexei ZhitnikOleksiy Mykolaiovych "Alexei" Zhitnik is a retired Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey defenceman. Zhitnik has played more games in the National Hockey League than any other Soviet-born defenceman. He has represented the Soviet Union, CIS, and Russia internationally, and Ukraine during two NHL All-Star...
, ice hockey player - Vicky SunoharaVicky SunoharaVicky Sunohara is a three-time Olympian and is known as one of Canada's all-time most popular female ice hockey players. She was once considered to be the best female ice hockey player in the world and was described as the "Wayne Gretzky of women's hockey"...
, ice hockey player
Swimming
- Yana KlochkovaYana KlochkovaYana Oleksandrivna Klochkova is a Ukrainian swimmer, who has won five Olympic medals in her career, with four of them being gold.Her gold medals came in the 200 meter individual medley and the 400 meter individual medley at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics; her silver medal came in the 800 meter...
, swimmer (4 Olympic golds) - Lenny KrayzelburgLenny KrayzelburgLenny Krayzelburg is an American backstroke swimmer, and Olympic gold medalist and former world record holder. He swam in the 2000 and 2004 Olympics. He won a total of 4 Olympic gold medals....
, 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) - Maxim PodoprigoraMaxim PodoprigoraMaxim Podoprigora is an Austrian Olympic swimmer.He is Jewish, and was born in Kyiv, Ukraine.He studied at the University of Vienna in Vienna, Austria...
, Olympic swimmer
Tennis
- Yulia BeygelzimerYulia BeygelzimerYulia Beygelzimer is a professional female tennis player from Ukraine.Beygelzimer has competed for Ukraine both at the Olympics and the Fed Cup, finally reaching the Top 100, at number 83 in September 2006....
, tennis player - Alona Bondarenko, tennis player
- Kateryna BondarenkoKateryna BondarenkoKateryna Volodymyrivna Bondarenko is a professional female tennis player from Ukraine and a doubles champion at Australian Open 2008.The younger sister of professional tennis players Valeria and Alona Bondarenko, she was born in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. She was...
, tennis player - Mariya KoryttsevaMariya KoryttsevaMariya Koryttseva is a Ukrainian female tennis player. Her career high ranking is No. 50 in the world, which she achieved on August 18, 2008....
, tennis player - Viktoriya KutuzovaViktoriya KutuzovaViktoriya Kutuzova is a female tennis player from Ukraine.On November 28, 2005, Kutuzova reached her highest singles ranking, World No. 76.Kutuzova remains most notable for her results as a 14 year old...
, tennis player - Andriy Medvedev, tennis player
- Tatiana PerebiynisTatiana PerebiynisTetyana Yurevna Perebiynis , born on December 15, 1982 is a Top 100 female professional tennis player born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, where she lives. She is an only child. She reached the Wimbledon junior girls' singles final in 2000, and won the Wimbledon juniors doubles final that year...
, tennis player - Olga SavchukOlga SavchukOlga Savchuk is a female tennis player. Her best accomplishment to date was reaching the third round of the 2006 Australian Open. Her career high ranking was #79, achieved on May 19, 2008....
, tennis player - Julia VakulenkoJulia VakulenkoJulia Olegovna Vakulenko is a professional Ukraine-born female tennis player. She achieved her career high ranking of No...
, tennis player - Maryna ZanevskaMaryna ZanevskaMaryna Zanevska is a Ukrainian tennis player and winner of the 2009 US Open - Girls' Doubles with her Russian double partner Valeria Solovieva...
, tennis player (winner of the 2009 US Open - Girls' Doubles2009 US Open - Girls' DoublesNoppawan Lertcheewakarn and Sandra Roma were the defending champions, but Roma chose not to participate in the Juniors that year.Lertcheewakarn partnered with Elena Bogdan, but Valeria Solovieva and Maryna Zanevska defeated them in the final 1–6, 6–3 [10–7]....
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Track & field
- Aleksandr Bagach, shot putter
- Valeriy Borzov, sprinter (2 Olympic golds)
- Serhiy Bubka, pole vault legend (Olympic gold), numerous world records
- Vasiliy BubkaVasiliy BubkaVasyliy Bubka is a retired pole vaulter who represented the USSR and later Ukraine...
, also a Pole Vaulter, older brother of Sergey/Serhiy - Inessa KravetsInessa KravetsInessa Mykolajivna Kravets is an Ukrainian triple jumper and long jumper.She jumped the world record at the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg with 15.50m after studying a picture of Jonathan Edwards....
, jumper (world record in triple jump) - Volodymyr KutsVladimir KutsVladimir Petrovich Kuts was a Soviet long distance runner. He is alternatively known as Volodymyr Kuts, the Ukrainian spelling, as Kuts was born in Aleksino, which is in present-day Ukraine....
, long distance runner (2 Olympic golds) - Serhiy Lebid, long distance runner (8-time winner of European Cross Country championships)
- Faina Melnyk, discus thrower (Olympic gold)
- Zhanna Pintusevych-Blok, sprinter (World Championship gold); world 100-m & 200-m champion
- TamaraTamara PressTamara Natanovna Press is a former Soviet shot putter and discus thrower in the 1960s.-Career:Press is Jewish. She competed for VSS Trud...
& Irina PressIrina PressIrina Natanovna Press was a Ukrainian athlete.-Career:Press was Jewish. She won two Olympic gold medals for the USSR team, in 80 m hurdles and pentathlon...
, sister athletes (5 Olympic golds in total) - Viktoriya StyopinaViktoriya StyopinaVita Styopina is a Ukrainian high jumper. She won the bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics, setting a new personal best of 2.02 in the process.She jumped an indoor personal best of 1.94 m to win the 2000 edition of the Hochsprung mit Musik....
, high jumper - Viktor TsybulenkoViktor TsybulenkoViktor Sergeevich Tsybulenko was a Soviet athlete of Ukrainian descent who competed mainly in the javelin throw, training at the Armed Forces sports society in Kiev....
, javelin (Olympic gold, Olympic bronze)
Weightlifting
- Moisei Kas’ianik
- Grigory NovakGrigory NovakGrigory Irmovich Novak is a former Ukrainian weightlifter, world champion, and Olympic medalist, who competed for the Soviet Union.He was Jewish, and was born in Chernobyl, Ukrainian SSR....
, Olympic silver (middle-heavyweight); world champion - Igor Rybak, Olympic champion (lightweight)
- Timur Taimazov, world and Olympic records
Wrestling
- Samuel GersonSamuel GersonSamuel Norton "Sam" Gerson was a Ukrainian-born American wrestler.He was born in Tymky, Poltava Oblast, Russian Empire, and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.-Career:...
, Olympic silver (freestyle featherweight) - Boris Michail Gurevich (born 1937), Olympic champion (freestyle middleweight)
- Vasyl FedoryshynVasyl FedoryshynVasyl Fedoryshyn is a male wrestler from Ukraine. He finished fourth in the Men's Lightweight Freestyle event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He won a silver medal in the Men's freestyle 60 kg event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.-References:...
, Olympic silver (freestyle 60 kg); world championship silver & bronze - Yakov PunkinYakov PunkinYakov Grigoryevich Punkin was a Soviet wrestler who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.He was Jewish, and was born and died in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.Punkin won the gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in wrestling.-External links:*...
, Olympic champion (Greco-Roman featherweight)
Other athletes
- Fedor EmelianenkoFedor EmelianenkoFedor Vladimirovich Emelianenko) is a Russian heavyweight mixed martial artist. He has won numerous tournaments and accolades in multiple sports, most notably the Pride 2004 Grand Prix and the World Combat Sambo championship on four occasions, as well as medaling in the Russian national Judo...
, Mixed Martial Arts fighter - Leonid KolumbetLeonid KolumbetLeonid Kolumbet is a former Soviet cyclist.He is Jewish, and was born in Horenychi, Kiev, Ukraine. His brother is fellow Olympian Mykola Kolumbet...
, Olympic cycling medalist - Marina KravchenkoMarina KravchenkoMarina Kravchenko is a champion Israeli table tennis player. She is Jewish. She participated in the Olympics in 2004.-External links:**...
, Soviet and Israel national table tennis teams - Artur KyshenkoArtur KyshenkoArtur Kyshenko is a Ukrainian middleweight Muay Thai kickboxer, fighting out of Mike's Gym in Amsterdam, Netherlands...
, K-1 kickboxing champion - Yevhen LapinskyYevhen LapinskyYevhen Valentinovich Lapinsky, also Yevgeny Lapinsky, was an Ukrainian former volleyball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1968 Summer Olympics and in the 1972 Summer Olympics....
, 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 OlshanskyIgor OlshanskyIgor Olshansky is a Ukrainian-born American football defensive end free agent in National Football League. He last played for the Miami Dolphins....
, American football player, DL (Miami DolphinsMiami DolphinsThe Miami Dolphins are a Professional football team based in the Miami metropolitan area in Florida. The team is part of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
) - Olyeg Olyeksandrovich Prudius aka Vladimir Kozlov, pro wrestler
- Sergy RikhterSergy RikhterSergy Rikhter is an Israeli Olympic sport shooter.He shares the junior world record in the 10 metre air rifle, and was the 2009 ISSF World Cup champion. He will compete on behalf of Israel at the 2012 Summer Olympics.-Early life:...
(born 1989), Israeli Olympic sport shooter - Ian RubinIan RubinIan Rubin is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1990s. He played the majority of his professional career for both the Sydney clubs in the National Rugby League the Sydney Roosters and the South Sydney Rabbitohs...
, Russia national rugby league team - Vasyl VirastyukVasyl VirastyukVasyl Virastyuk , is a strongman competitor from Ukraine.Vasyl Virastyuk competed in the finals of the World's Strongest Man contest in 2003 and 2004. He finished third in 2003 behind then-defending champion Mariusz Pudzianowski and runner-up Zydrunas Savickas...
, world's strongest man competition (1st place 2004) - Igor VovchanchynIgor VovchanchynIgor Yaroslavovich "Ice Cold" Vovchanchyn is a retired Ukrainian mixed martial artist and kickboxer. He won seven mixed martial arts tournaments, as well as acquiring a 37 fight unbeaten streak, and reaching the final of the Pride Grand Prix 2000....
, Mixed Martial Arts fighter - Yaroslav VynokurYaroslav VynokurYaroslav Vynokur is a professional Russian billiards player from Ukraine. He is a two-time Ukraine and World Champion. Besides Russian billiards, he also plays American pool....
, billiards player (World Champion)
Other
- Georgiy Gongadze, journalist, civil activist
- Stefan KiszkoStefan KiszkoLesley Susan Molseed was an eleven-year old girl from Turf Hill, Rochdale, Greater Manchester, who was murdered on Rishworth Moor in West Yorkshire....
, man wrongly convicted of murder in England - Hryhoriy NestorHryhoriy NestorHryhoriy Nestor claimed to be the oldest man in the world. As the time of his death, he would have been 116 years old, if his age were verified, an age that has never been scientifically proven to be reached by a male .Nestor claimed to have been born on 15 March 1891 in Western Ukraine,...
, claimed to be the oldest man in Ukraine (116 years-old, born in 1891 in Galicia, then Austria-Hungary, died in 2007) - Joseph OleskiwJoseph OleskiwDr. Joseph Oleskiw or Jósef Olesków was a Ukrainian professor who promoted Ukrainian immigration to the Canadian prairies. His efforts helped encourage the initial wave of settlers which began the Ukrainian Canadian community....
, early promoter of immigration to Canada - Anatoly OnoprienkoAnatoly OnoprienkoAnatoly Yuriyovych Onoprienko is a Ukrainian serial killer. He is also known by the nicknames "The Beast of Ukraine", "The Terminator" and "Citizen O"...
, serial killer - RoxelanaRoxelanaHaseki Hürrem Sultan was the wife of Süleyman the Magnificent of the Ottoman Empire.-Names:Sixteenth-century sources are silent as to her maiden name, but much later traditions, for example Ukrainian folk traditions first recorded in the 19th century, give it as "Anastasia" , and Polish...
(born Anastassia Lisowska), or Khourrem (Hürrem), Sultan wife of Suleyman the Magnificent - Leonid Stadnik, unofficially the world's tallest man
See also
- List 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
- Lists of people