List of people from Ukraine

This is a list of individuals who were born and lived in territories located in present-day Ukraine, including ethnic Ukrainians and those of other ethnicities.

Academics

Mathematicians

Physicists/Astronomers

Geographers/Geologists

Biologists

Chemists

Doctors and surgeons

Engineers

Sergei Korolev

Economists

Archeologists

Historians

Philosophers

Other academics

Arts

Architects

Fashion Designers

Painters

Kazimir Malevich

Photographers

Sculptors

Performing arts

Actors/Actresses

Mila Jovovich

Choreographers and dancers

Film and theatre directors

Kira Muratova

Models

LGBT activists

Musicians

Bandurists

Composers

Mykola Leontovych

Pianists

Organists

Strings

Conductors

Singers

Opera

Solomiya Krushelnytska

Singers and artists of other genres

Other

Other performing artists

Literary arts

Writers

Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Joseph Conrad
Oksana Zabuzhko

Poets

Hayyim Nahman Bialik
Ivan Franko
Taras Shevchenko

Business

Astronauts

Cossack Hetmans

Military figures

Intelligence

Politicians

Ukrainian non-Soviet politicians

Nestor Makhno

Zionists and Israeli politicians

Golda Meir
Simon Wiesenthal

Bolsheviks and Soviet politicians

Soviet dissidents

Russian politicians

Polish politicians

Austrian politicians

Bulgarian politicians

Czechoslovak politicians

German politicians

Italian politicians

American politicians

Chinese politicians

Crimean Tatar politicians

Religious leaders and theologians

Orthodox Christian

Greek Catholic

Roman Catholic

Jewish

Others

Sport

Archery

Basketball

Oleksiy Pecherov

Boxing

Chess

Fencing

Vadym Gutzeit
Grigory Kriss

Figure skating

Football (soccer)

Andriy Shevchenko

Gymnastics

Ice hockey

Swimming

  • Yana Klochkova, swimmer (4 Olympic golds)
  • Lenny Krayzelburg, swimmer (now U.S. citizen); 4-time Olympic champion (100 m backstroke, 200-m backstroke, twice 4x100-m medley relay); 3-time world champion (100 m and 200-m backstroke, 4×100-m medley) and 2-time silver (4×100-m medley, 50-m backstroke); 3 world records (50-, 100-, and 200-m backstroke)
  • Maryna Piddubna, Paralympic swimmer[18]
  • Maxim Podoprigora, Olympic swimmer

Tennis

Julia Glushko

Track & field

Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko
Olesya Povh

Weightlifting

Wrestling

Grigoriy Gamarnik

Other athletes

Igor Olshansky

Oligarchs

Other

See also

References