List of Ukrainians
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Lists of famous or notable people from Ukraine.
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Athletes
- Oksana Baiul, figure skater
- Igor Belanov, footballer
- Oleg Blokhin, footballer
- Valeri Borzov, track & field
- Sergey Bubka, pole vault legend
- Maria Gorokhovskaya, gymnast
- Tatyana Gutsu, gymnast
- Vassily 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
- Slava Medvedenko, basketball player
- Victor Petrenko, figure skater
- Lilia Podkopayeva, gymnast
- Vitaly Potapenko, basketball 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
Composers
- Levko Revutsky
- Maksym Berezovsky (ca.1745–1777)
- Dmytro Bortniansky (1751–1825)
- Mykola Diletsky
- Oleksander Koshetz
- Mykola Leontovych
- Borys Lyatoshynsky
- Mykola Lysenko
- Kyrylo Stetsenko
- Valentyn Silvestrov
- Myroslav Skoryk
- Artemy Vedel
- Yakiv Yatsynevych
- Yevhen Stankovych
- Levko Kolodub
Painters
- Marie Bashkirtseff
- Kazimir Malevich
- Opanas Slastion, folklorist, inventor of modern type of bandura, painter and bandurist, first illustrator of Taras Shevchenko's "Kobzar", architect
- Tetyana Yablonska
- Andy Warhol, whose parents were Ukrainian
Performing artists
- Grigori Chukhrai, film director
- Leonid Bykov, actor
- George Dzundza, actor
- Edward Dmytryk
- Alexander Dovzhenko, movie director, screenplay writer
- Irina Dvorovenko
- Maria Guleghina, opera soprano
- Jill Hennessy
- Vladimir Horowitz
- Milla Jovovich
- Alla Korot
- Mila Kunis
- Ana Layevska, Ukrainian-born, Mexican actress
- Valentina Lisitsa, Ukrainian-born concert pianist
- Anatole Litvak
- Ruslana Lyzhichko, winner of the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest
- Lewis Milestone
- Paul Muni
- Ivan Mykolaychuk
- David Oistrakh
- Jack Palance, Oscar winning actor
- Sviatoslav Richter
- Isaac Stern
- Yakov Smirnoff
- Paul Stetsenko, Ukrainian-born American organist and choral conductor
- Bohdan Stupka, actor
- Ada Rohovtseva, actress
- Solomiya Krushelnytska, opera singer
- Maria Zankovetska, actress
- Emil Gilels, pianist
Writers
- Anna Akhmatova, poet
- Sholom Aleichem
- Isaac Babel
- Mikhail Bulgakov, author of The Master and Margarita
- Raya Dunayevskaya, Marxist humanist
- Nikolai Gogol
- Ivan Franko, poet
- Joseph Conrad
- Taras Shevchenko, poet
- Lesya Ukrainka, poet
- Olena Teliha, poet
- Oles Honchar,author of "The Cathedral"
Business personalities
- Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal.
Criminals
Cosmonauts
- Leonid Kadeniuk
- Yuri Ivanovich Onufrienko, Hero of The Russian Federation
- Yuri Petrovich Gidzenko, Hero of The Russian Federation
Cossack Hetmans
- Kryshtof Kosynsky
- Severyn Nalivaiko
- Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny
- Taras Fedorovych
- Bohdan Khmelnytsky
- Ivan Vyhovsky (1657–1659)
- Yurii Khmelnytsky (1659–1663)
- Pavlo Teteria (1663–1665)
- Ivan Samoylovych
- Petro Doroshenko (1663–1676)
- Ivan Mazepa (1687–1709)
- Ivan Skoropadsky (1709–1722)
- Pavlo Polubotok
- Danylo Apostol (1727–1734)
- Kyrylo Rozumovsky
Politicians
- Chaim Arlosoroff, notable Zionist
- Mykola Azarov former Acting Prime Minister
- Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the Soviet Union, ethnically Russian, born in Ukraine
- Taras Chornovil, prominent Ukrainian nationalist and opposition leader
- Vyacheslav Chornovil, former leader of the People Movement of Ukraine(Rukh)
- Mykhaylo Hrushevsky (1866-1934), president of Ukrainian People Republic
- Vladimir Jabotinsky, Zionist
- Nikita Khruschev, leader of the Soviet Union
- Leonid Kravchuk, president of Ukraine 1991–1994
- Leonid Kuchma, prime minister of Ukraine 1992–1993, President of Ukraine 1994–2005,
- Nestor Makhno (1888–1934), anarchist
- Anastassia Lisowska (Khourrem) (c. 1510–1558), (wife of Suleiman the Magnificent)
- Golda Meir, Israeli Prime Minister, Zionist
- Kirill S. Moskalenko, Marshal of the Soviet Union
- Simon Petlyura (1879-1926), Ukrainian independence fighter.
- Moshe Sharett, Israeli Prime Minister, Zionist
- Leon Trotsky, Marxist thinker and a founder of the Soviet Union
- Volodymyr Vynnychenko
- Andrei Gromyko, foreign minister of the Soviet Union
- Grigori Ivanovich Kulik, Marshal of the Soviet Union, Hero of the Soviet Union
- Andrei I. Eremenko, Marshal of the Soviet Union
- Andrei A. Grechko, Marshal of the Soviet Union, Commander-in-Chief of the Warsaw Pact (1960–67), Defense Minister of The Soviet Union
- Borys Tarasyuk, current foreign minister of Ukraine.
- S.K. Timoshenko, Marshal of the Soviet Union, Twice Hero of the Soviet Union
- Yuliya Tymoshenko, current prime minister of Ukraine.
- Viktor Yushchenko, former Prime Minister of Ukraine, current President of Ukraine
- Viktor Yanukovych, former Prime Minister of Ukraine, unsuccessful candidate for President of Ukraine
- Nikolai Podgorny
- Stepan Bandera, the leader of Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists
Parents born in Ukraine
- Izzy Asper, founder of CanWest Global Communications, Canada's leading international media company.
- Pierre Bérégovoy, French politician
- Sasha Cohen
- Mike Ditka, American football player and coach
- Milton Friedman, Nobel laureate in economics
- William S. Paley, CBS executive who expanded the company into television.
- Paul Wellstone
- Andy Warhol
Religious Thinkers and Philosophers
- Helena Blavatsky (1831–1891), founder of the Theosophical Society
- Hryhori Skovoroda
- Israel ben Eliezer, (Baal Shem Tov) founder of Hasidism
- Nachman of Breslov
- St. John (Maximovitch) of Tobolsk
- St. Peter Moghila
- Andriy Sheptytsky, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church leader
Scientists
- Theodosius Dobzhansky
- Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky
- George Gamow
- Sergei Korolev
- Trofim Lysenko
- Igor Sikorsky
- Ivan Pulyui, who made the discovery of X-rays before Roentgen but failed to publish the results of his work.
- Mykola Kybalchych (nickname), the founder of missile engine theory, executed participant of 19th century anti-Tsar terrorist plot in Russia
- Nikolai Amosov
- Mykhaylo Drahomanov
- Volodymyr Vernadsky
Other
- Elena Filatova
- Georgiy Gongadze, journalist murdered in 2000 with alleged involvement of Ukraine's president Leonid Kuchma and other high-ranked statesmen
- Filip Konowal (1888–1959) Ukrainian-Canadian World War I hero, awarded the Victoria Cross
- Joseph Oleskiw, Ukrainian professor who encouraged Ukrainian Canadian immigration
- Victoria Zdrok, Playboy and Penthouse model
See also: List of Slavs, List of Ukrainian Jews, List of people by nationality, list of peopleid:Daftar Tokoh Ukraina ja:ウクライナ人の一覧