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

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

Academics

Mathematicians

Main article:
Ukrainian mathematicians

Physicists/Astronomers

Geographers/Geologists

Biologists

Chemists

Doctors and surgeons

Engineers

Sergei Korolev
  • Volodymyr Chelomey
    , ballistic missile and Ukrainian spacecraft designer
  • Valentyn Hlushko
    , European engineer
  • Mykola Holonyak
    , first visible diode
  • Volodymyr Horbulin, developer of strategic rocket systems and space vehicles of "Kosmos" series
  • first human spaceflight
  • Mykola Kybalchich
    , rocket science pioneer
  • Yuri Kondratyuk, spaceflight pioneer
  • Roman Kroitor
  • Volodymyr Mackiw
    , mining engineer
  • Borys Paton
  • Yevhen Paton
    , welding engineer
  • Igor Sikorsky, aviation pioneer, creator of the first helicopter
  • Stepan Tymoshenko
    , father of modern Ukrainian engineering mechanics

Economists

Archeologists

Historians

Philosophers

Other academics

Arts

Architects

Fashion Designers

Painters

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

Photographers

Sculptors

Performing arts

Actors/Actresses

Mila Jovovich

Choreographers and dancers

Film and theatre directors

Kira Muratova

Models

LGBT activists

Musicians

Bandurists

Composers

Main article: List of Ukrainian composers
Mykola Leontovych

Pianists

Organists

Strings

Conductors

Singers

Opera

Solomiya Krushelnytska

Singers and artists of other genres

Other

Other performing artists

Literary arts

Writers

Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Joseph Conrad
Oksana Zabuzhko

Poets

Hayyim Nahman Bialik
Ivan Franko
Taras Shevchenko

Business

Astronauts

Cossack Hetmans

Military figures

Intelligence

Politicians

Ukrainian non-Soviet politicians

Main article: List of Ukrainian politicians
Nestor Makhno

Zionists and Israeli politicians

Golda Meir
Simon Wiesenthal

Bolsheviks and Soviet politicians

Soviet dissidents

Russian politicians

Polish politicians

Austrian politicians

Bulgarian politicians

Czechoslovak politicians

German politicians

  • Yevgenia Bosch, communist politician
  • Emanuel Kwiring
    , communist politician

Italian politicians

American politicians

Chinese politicians

Crimean Tatar politicians

Religious leaders and theologians

Orthodox Christian

Greek Catholic

Roman Catholic

Jewish

Others

Sport

See also: List of Ukrainian sportspeople

Archery

Basketball

Oleksiy Pecherov

Boxing

Chess

Fencing

Vadym Gutzeit
Grigory Kriss

Figure skating

Football (soccer)

Andriy Shevchenko

Gymnastics

  • Anna Bessonova, gymnast
  • Iryna Deriugina
    , gymnast
  • Artem Dolgopyat (born 1997), Israeli artistic gymnast (second in world championships)
  • Maria Gorokhovskaya, gymnast (2 Olympic golds; all-around individual exercises, team combined exercises), 5-time silver (vault, asymmetrical bars, balance beam, floor exercises, team exercises with portable apparatus)
  • Tatyana Gutsu
    , gymnast (Olympic gold)
  • Yuri Nikitin, gymnast
  • Lilia Podkopayeva, gymnast (Olympic gold)
  • Larisa Latynina, gymnast (9 Olympic golds)
  • Karina Lykhvar, Israeli Olympic rhythmic gymnast
  • Tatiana Lysenko, gymnast, 2-time Olympic champion (balance beam, team combined exercises), bronze (horse vault)
  • Kateryna Serebrians'ka
    , gymnast (Olympic gold)
  • Oxana Skaldina
    , gymnast (Olympic bronze)
  • Olexandra Tymoshenko
    , gymnast (Olympic gold)
  • Olena Vitrychenko, Individual Rhythmic Gymnast (Olympic bronze)
  • Roman Zozulya, gymnast

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
  • Aleksandr Bagach
    , shot putter
  • Valeriy Borzov, sprinter (2 Olympic golds)
  • Serhiy Bubka, pole vault legend (Olympic gold), numerous world records
  • Vasiliy Bubka, also a pole vaulter, older brother of Sergey/Serhiy
  • Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko (born 1989), Israeli triple jumper and long jumper
  • Inessa Kravets, jumper (world record in triple jump)
  • Volodymyr Kuts, long-distance runner (2 Olympic golds)
  • Serhiy Lebid, long-distance runner (8-time winner of European Cross Country championships)
  • Faina Melnik, discus thrower (Olympic gold)
  • Zhanna Pintusevych-Blok
    , sprinter (World Championship gold); world 100-m & 200-m champion
  • Olesya Povh, sprinter (Olympic bronze, world bronze)
  • Tamara & Irina Press, sister athletes (5 Olympic golds in total)
  • Viktoriya Styopina
    , high jumper
  • Viktor Tsybulenko, javelin (Olympic gold, Olympic bronze)

Weightlifting

Wrestling

Grigoriy Gamarnik
  • Alexander Davidovich, Israeli Olympic wrestler
  • Vasyl Fedoryshyn, Olympic silver (freestyle 60 kg); world championship silver & bronze
  • Grigory Gamarnik, world champion (Greco-Roman lightweight)
  • Samuel Gerson
    , Olympic silver (freestyle featherweight)
  • Boris Michail Gurevich
    (1937–2020), Olympic champion (freestyle middleweight)
  • Oleg Ladik (born 1971), Ukrainian-born Canadian Olympic wrestler
  • Yakov Punkin
    , Olympic champion (Greco-Roman featherweight)
  • Nik Zagranitchni, Israeli Olympic wrestler

Other athletes

Igor Olshansky

Oligarchs

  • Ihor Kolomoyskyi, Ukrainian businessman of Jewish descent
  • Gennadiy Korban
    , Ukrainian businessman of Jewish descent, collector of modern and contemporary art
  • Olena Pinchuk, daughter of Ukrainian second president Leonid Kuchma
  • Viktor Pinchuk
    , Jewish-Ukrainian businessman
  • Eduard Prutnik, Ukrainian businessman and politician
  • Rinat Akhmetov, Ukrainian businessman and oligarch
  • Dmytro Firtash, Ukrainian businessman and investor

Other

See also

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