List of Ukrainians
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Due to historical, geographical, and political reasons, many famous Ukrainians today are known to the world as Russians. This is a partial list of famous or notable people from Ukraine.
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Athletes
- Oksana Baiul, figure skater
- Igor Belanov, footballer
- Zhanna Pintusevych-Blok, sprinter
- Oleg Blokhin, footballer
- Valeri Borzov, track & field
- Sergey Bubka, pole vault legend
- Iryna Derygina, gymnast
- Maria Gorokhovskaya, gymnast
- Tatyana Gutsu, gymnast
- Vasyl Ivanchuk, chess grandmaster
- Volodymyr Klychko, boxer
- Vitaliy Klychko, boxer
- Yana Klochkova, swimmer
- Inessa Kravets, track & field
- Lenny Krayzelburg, swimmer (now U.S. citizen)
- Larisa Latynina, gymnast
- Valeriy Lobanovs'kyi, coach
- Andriy Medvedev, tennis player
- Slava Medvedenko, basketball player
- Viktor Petrenko, figure skater
- Lilia Podkopayeva, gymnast
- Ruslan Ponomariov, chess player
- Vitaly Potapenko, basketball player
- Serhiy Rebrov, football player
- Kateryna Serebrians'ka, gymnast
- Andriy Shevchenko, footballer
- Oxana Skaldina, gymnast
- Timur Taimazov, heavy athletics
- Olexandra Tymoshenko, gymnast
- Olena Vitrychenko, gymnast
- Roman Zozulya, gymnast
- Ruslan Fedotenko, ice hockey player
Artists
Painters
- Ivan Aivazovsky
- Marie Bashkirtseff
- Vladimir Borovikovsky
- Alexander Bogomazov
- Robert Brackman
- Mykola Burachek
- Louis Choris
- Mychajlo Dmytrenko
- Vasyl Krychevsky
- Fedir Krychevsky
- Dmitry Grigorovich
- Tatiana Holembievska
- Ilya Repin
- David Burliuk
- Wladimir Burliuk
- Dmitry Levitzky
- Jacques Hnizdovsky
- Heorhiy Narbut
- Ivan Marchuk
- Abram Manevich
- Pyotr Konchalovsky
- Alexander Khvostenko-Khvostov
- Victor Palmov
- Kazimir Malevich
- Solomon Nikritin
- Oleksandr Murashko
- Nykifor
- Opanas Slastion
- Andy Warhol
- Vladimir Sosnovsky
- Anton Solomoukha
- Vladimir Tatlin
- Sonia Terk
- Tetyana Yablonska
- Vasiliy Yermilov
- Ivan Yizhakevich
Performing artists
- Sergei Bondarchuk
- Leonid Bykov
- Grigori Chukhrai
- Stefania Dovhan
- George Dzundza
- Edward Dmytryk
- Alexander Dovzhenko
- Irina Dvorovenko
- Maria Guleghina
- Vladimir Horowitz
- Milla Jovovich
- Alla Korot
- Mila Kunis
- Ana Layevska
- Valentina Lisitsa
- Anatole Litvak
- Ruslana Lyzhichko
- Lewis Milestone
- Paul Muni
- Ivan Mykolaychuk
- Alla Nazimova
- Światosław Richter
- Isaac Stern
- Yakov Smirnoff
- Paul Stetsenko
- Bohdan Stupka
- Ada Rohovtseva
- Solomiya Krushelnytska
- Maria Zankovetska
- Emil Gilels
- Anthony Fedorov
Sculptors
- Alexander Archipenko
- Victor Konoval
- Anatoly Kushch
- Oleg Pinchuk
- Nikolai Syadristy
- Vladimir Tatlin
- Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine
Business personalities
- Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal.
- John Zubal, founder of Zubal Books
- Petro Jacyk, community benefactor
Composers
- Levko Revutsky
- Semen Hulak Artemovsky
- Maksym Berezovsky
- Dmytro Bortniansky
- Marusia Churai
- Mykola Diletsky
- Reinhold Gliere
- Dimitri Klebanov
- Oleksander Koshetz
- Mykola Leontovych
- Zara Levina
- Boris Lyatoshynsky
- Mykola Lysenko
- Igor Markevitch
- Nikolai Andreyevich Roslavets
- Kyrylo Stetsenko
- Myroslav Skoryk
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Artemy Vedel
- Yakiv Yatsynevych
- Yevhen Stankovych
- Levko Kolodub
- Valentin Silvestrov
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Lesia Dytchko
- Leonid Hrabovsky
- Vasyl' Barvinsky
- Mykola Ovsianiko-Kulikovsky
- Hryhoriy Skovoroda
- Virko Baley
- Yuriy Oliynyk
Cosmonauts
- Leonid Kadeniuk
- Yuri Ivanovich Onufrienko, Hero of The Russian Federation
- Yuri Petrovich Gidzenko, Hero of The Russian Federation
Cossack Hetmans
- Dem'ian Mnohohrishnyi
- Kryshtof Kosynsky
- Severyn Nalyvaiko
- Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny
- Taras Fedorovych
- Bohdan Khmelnytsky
- Ivan Vyhovsky
- Yurii Khmelnytsky
- Pavlo Teteria
- Ivan Samoylovych
- Petro Doroshenko
- Ivan Mazepa
- Ivan Skoropadsky
- Pavlo Polubotok
- Danylo Apostol
- Kyrylo Rozumovsky
Scientists
Biologists/Physicians
- Svitlana P. Sydorenko
- Nikolai Amosov
- Theodosius Dobzhansky
- Jaroslaw Nowicky
- Trofim Lysenko
- Danylo Zabolotny
- Dimitri Ivanovski
- Waldemar Haffkine
- Volodymyr Filatov
Chemists
Mathematicians
Main article Ukrainian mathematicians
- Nikolay Bogolyubov
- Oleksandr Bohomolets
- Nikolai Chebotaryov
- Boris Gnedenko
- Mikhail Kravchuk
- Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko
- Volodymyr Semenovych Korolyuk
- Yakov Kulik
- Vladimir Marchenko
- Yurii Mytropolshy
- Mark Naimark
- Olga Arsenievna Oleinik
- Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky
- Volodymyr Petryshyn
- Platon Poretsky
- Vladimir Potapov
- Anatoly Samoilenko
- Igor Shafarevich
- Oleksandr Sharkovsky
- Samuil Shatunovsky
- Anatoliy Skorokhod
- Josif Shtokalo
- Ivan Sleszynski
- Pavel Urysohn
- Mikhail Vashchenko-Zakharchenko
- Volodymyr Vernadsky
- Georgy Voronoy
Physicists/Engineers
- Oleg Antonov
- George Gamow
- Nikolai Pylchykov
- Edward Ginzton
- George Yuri Rainich
- Sergei Alekseyevich Lebedev
- Vladimir Chelomei
- Jacques Bogopolsky
- Igor Sikorsky
- Vladimir Mackiw
- Ivan Pulyui
- Leo Palatnik
- Alexander Samakula
- Nikolai Kibalchich
- Cyril Sinelnikov
- Sergey Korolev
- Nikolai Pilchikov
- Nicholas Holonyak
- Roman Kroitor
- Yuri Kondratyuk
- Stephen Timoshenko
- Mykhailo Kozlovskii
Other
- Pavel Petrovich Blonsky
- Fedir Vovk
- Mikhail Tugan Baranovsky
- Simon Kuznets
- Mykhaylo Drahomanov
- Olgerd Bochkovsky
- Mykhailo Hrushevsky
- Vikentiy Khvoyka
- Mykola Andrusov
- Viktor Hlushkov
- Dmytro Yavornytsky
- Viktor Yakovlevich Bunyakovskii
- Albert Bandura
- Mykhaylo Maksymovych
Unclassified
- Viktor Kyrpychov
- Georgii Pfeiffer
- Evgeny Slutzky
- Yuri Linnik
- Volodymyr Levytsky
- Isydore Hlynka
- Yevhen Paton
- Nikolai Kholodny
- Pavlo Tutkovsky
Politicians
- Chaim Arlosoroff
- Mykola Azarov
- Stepan Bandera
- Leonid Brezhnev
- Taras Chornovil
- Vyacheslav Chornovil
- Mykhaylo Hrushevsky
- Vladimir Jabotinsky
- Nikita Khruschev
- Leonid Kravchuk
- Leonid Kuchma
- Nestor Makhno
- Anastassia Lisowska
- Golda Meir
- Kirill S. Moskalenko
- Symon Petliura
- Moshe Sharett
- Leon Trotsky
- Volodymyr Vynnychenko
- Andrei Gromyko
- Grigori Ivanovich Kulik
- Andrei I. Eremenko
- Andrei A. Grechko
- Borys Tarasyuk
- S.K. Timoshenko
- Yuliya Tymoshenko
- Viktor Yushchenko
- Viktor Yanukovych
- Nikolai Podgorny
Parents born in Ukraine
- Izzy Asper
- Pierre Bérégovoy
- Sasha Cohen
- Mike Ditka
- Leonard Nimoy
- Jack Palance
- William S. Paley
- William Shatner
- Beverly Sills
- Paul Wellstone
- Larisa Oleynik
Theologists
- Helena Blavatsky
- Hryhoryi Skovoroda
- Israel ben Eliezer
- Nachman of Breslov
- John (Maximovitch) of Tobolsk
- Petro Mohyla
- Andryi Sheptytsky
- Iosef Slipyi
- Myroslav Liubachivsky
- Martin Buber
Writers
Authors
- Anna Akhmatova, writer
- Sholom Aleichem, writer
- Yuriy Andrukhovych, writer
- Isaac Babel, writer
- Mikhail Bulgakov, author of The Master and Margarita
- Raya Dunayevskaya, Marxist humanist
- Yevhen Hutsalo, writer
- Oles Honchar, author of "The Cathedral"
- Yevhen Hrebinka, writer
- Ivan Kotlyarevsky, playwright
- Andrey Kurkov, novelist
- Ambros Metlynsky, poet, writer
- Michael Staritsky, writer
- Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky, writer
- Sofia Parfanovych, writer
- Levko Borovykovsky, writer
- Marko Kropivnitsky, writer
- Chuck Palahniuk, writer (Ukrainian father)
- Valerian Pidmohylny, novelist
- Les Podervianskiy, satirist and playwrighter
- Juliusz Slowacki, author
- Panteleymon Kulish, writer
- Marko Vovchok, writer
- Natan Ilyich Zabara, writer
- Marya Zaturenska, writer
- Mykola Zerov, writer
- Mykola Khvyliovyi, writer
- Panteleimon Kulish, writer
- Markian Shashkevich, writer
- Aleksander Dukhnovych, writer
- Ivan Vahylevych, writer
- Yakiv Holovatskyi, writer
- Evhen Hrebinka, writer
- Nikolay Kostomarov, writer
- Vasyl Stefanyk, writer
- Gregory Kvitka, novelist
- Mykhailo Pavlyk, writer
- Marko Cheremshyna, writer
- Les Martovych, writer
- Vladimir Vinnichenko, novelist
- Gregory Skovoroda, poet, writer, philosopher
- Olha Kobylanska, novelist
- Ivan Tobilevich, writer
- Ostap Vyshnia, humorist
- Michael Stelmakh, novelist
- Oles Honchar, novelist
- Mikola Kulish, dramatist
- Aleksandr Korneichuk, dramatist
Poets
- Bohdan-Igor Antonych,poet
- Mikola Bazhan. poet
- Ivan Franko, poet
- Taras Shevchenko, poet
- Vasyl Symonenko,poet
- Olena Teliha, poet
- Pavlo Tychyna, poet
- Maksym Rylsky. poet, publicist
- Lesya Ukrainka, poet
- Vasyl Stus, poet
Other
- Elena Filatova
- Anatoly Onoprienko
- Georgiy Gongadze
- Filip Konowal
- Joseph Oleskiw
- Victoria Zdrok
- Volodymyr Kunko-Bohoslavetz, etymologist, Uk-Ra-ii-Na "Gift of Sun and Moon"
