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

Selig Brodetsky (1888–1954), British mathematician, President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Vladimir Drinfeld (1954 (age 71–72)), Fields medal laureate

Anatoly Fomenko (1945 (age 80–81))

Mark Kac (1914–1984), Jewish, Polish-American mathematician

Volodymyr Semenovych Korolyuk (1925–2020)

Mykhailo Krawtchouk

Yakiv Kulik

Volodymyr Marchenko (1922–2026)

Mikhail Ostrogradsky

Volodymyr Petryshyn

Platon Poretsky

Vladimir Potapov

Anatoly Samoilenko

Oleksandr Mikolaiovich Sharkovsky (1936–2022), known for developing Sharkovsky's theorem on the periods of discrete dynamical systems

Samuil Shatunovsky (1859–1929), Jewish mathematician

Anatoliy Skorokhod

Mykhailo Vashchenko-Zakharchenko (1825–1912), major areas of research included the history of geometry in antiquity and Lobachevskian geometry.

Ivan Śleszyński (1854–9 March 1931), ethnic Polish Ukrainian mathematician

Pavel Urysohn (1898–1924), Jewish mathematician

Josif Shtokalo (1897–1987)

Naum Z. Shor (1937–2006), Jewish Ukrainian mathematician

Maryna Viazovska (born 1984), Fields medal laureate, known for her work in sphere packing

Vadim G. Vizing

Georgy Voronoy

Physicists/Astronomers

Gersh Budker, nuclear physicist (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics)

Georges Charpak, French physicist (Nobel Prize), born in East Galicia

Abram Ioffe, prominent Soviet physicist (Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute)

Isaak Khalatnikov, BKL conjecture in general relativity

Leo Palatnik, thin film physics

Ivan Pulyui, scientist working with cathode radiation

George Yuri Rainich, mathematical physicist

Geographers/Geologists

Volodymyr Kubijovyč

Lubomyr Luciuk, political geographer, community activists

Vladimir Vernadsky, mineralogist, biochemist

Biologists

Aleksandr Bogomolets

Erwin Chargaff

Theodosius Dobzhansky

Katherine Esau

Dmitri Ivanovsky

Trofim Lysenko

Oleksandr Palladin

Kostiantyn Sytnyk

Vladimir Vernadsky, mineralogist, biochemist

Chemists

Anatoly Babko

Israel Dostrovsky (1918–2010), Russian (Ukraine)-born Israeli physical chemist, fifth president of the Weizmann Institute of Science

Ivan Horbachevsky

George Kistiakowsky

Lev Pisarzhevsky

Swiatoslaw Trofimenko

Volodymyr Vernadsky, mineralogist, biochemist

Selman Waksman (1888–1973), Jewish, Ukrainian-American, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1952)

Doctors and surgeons

Nikolai Amosov, heart surgeon

Vitalii Khmel, military thoracic surgeon

Nikolay Pirogov, inventor of a splint, sling, brace or cast

Alexander Shalimov, surgeon

Serdyuk Valentin, orthopedic surgeon

Nicolai L. Volodos, cardiovascular surgeon

Danylo Zabolotny

Yurii Voronyi, surgeon

Engineers

Volodymyr Chelomey, ballistic missile and Ukrainian spacecraft designer

Valentin Glushko, engineer, designer of Soviet rocket engines

Mykola Holonyak, first visible diode

Volodymyr Horbulin, developer of strategic rocket systems and space vehicles of "Kosmos" series

Sergei Korolev, the father of the Soviet space program, inventor of the first intercontinental ballistic missile and the first space rocket (R-7 Semyorka), creator of the first satellite (Sputnik), supervisor of the 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

Mykhailo Tuhan-Baranovsky (1865–1919)

Eugen Slutsky (1880–1948), born in Russian Empire in the territory of Ukraine, Slutsky equation

Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973), born in Austria-Hungary in the territory of present-day Lviv), founding father of the Ukrainian western-style economics

Bohdan Hawrylyshyn (1926–2016), noted economist, visionary and economic advisor to the Ukrainian government

Archeologists

Vikentiy Khvoyka, discovered Trypillia culture

Simhah Pinsker (1801–1864), Polish-Jewish archeologist and scholar

Yuriy Shumovskyi

Historians

Volodymyr Antonovych, historian and folklorist

Kateryna Antonovych-Melnyk (1859–1942), Ukrainian historian

Olena Apanovich

Volodymyr Barvinok

Dmytro Doroshenko

Mykhailo Drahomanov, historian, political emigre and folklorist

Mykhailo Hrushevsky, historian

Taras Hunczak

Myron Korduba

Mykola Kostomarov, literary historian, folklorist

Oleh Kozerod, political scientist

Peter Loboda, researcher of ancient Ukrainian numismatics

George S. N. Luckyj, literary historian

Mykhailo Maksymovych, literary historian, folklorist

Paul Robert Magocsi, chairman of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto

Oleksander Ohloblyn

Bohdan Osadchuk, journalist

Nataliia Polonska-Vasylenko

Omeljan Pritsak, orientalist

Mikołaj Siwicki, historian

Viktor Suvorov, spy and WWII researcher

Dmytro Yavornytsky, Cossack historian, archaeologist

Philosophers

Hryhorii Skovoroda, philosopher, poet and composer

Other academics

Mykola Andrusiv

Albert Bandura

Pavel Petrovich Blonsky

Olgerd Bochkovsky, sociologist

Isydore Hlynka

Robert Klymasz, Ukrainian Canadian folklorist

Yuriy Kovbasenko, Ukrainian philologist and educator

Volodymyr Kubiyovych, geographer and encyclopedist

Viktor Kyrpychov

Yuri Linnik

Lubomyr Luciuk, political geographer and community activist

Anton Makarenko, Ukrainian and Soviet educator

Joseph Oleskiw

Tetiana Podchasova, Ukrainian economist-cyberneticist, computer scientist

Wilhelm Reich, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, pro-Ukrainian freedom dissident

Otto Struve, Ukrainian-Russian-American astronomer

Evhen Tsybulenko, professor of international law

Sergiy Vilkomir, computer scientist

Fedir Vovk, anthropologist and ethnographer

Arts

Architects

Ivan Hryhorovych-Barskyi

Joseph Karakis

Musa Konsulova

Marian Peretyatkovich

Volodymyr Sichynskyi

Fashion designers

Natalia Fedner

Painters

Ivan Aivazovsky, painter, known for his seascapes

Nathan Altman (1889–1970), Ukrainian-Jewish painter and stage designer from Vinnytsia

Marie Bashkirtseff, artist

Svitlana Biedarieva, artist, art historian, curator

Mykhailo Boychuk

Robert Brackman

Mykola Burachek

David Burliuk, avant-garde painter, Ukrainian freedom thinker

Volodymyr Burliuk

Petro Choldny (1904–1990), Neo-Byzantine Iconographer

Louis Choris

Sonia Delaunay, avant-garde artist

Mychajlo Dmytrenko

Aleksandra Ekster, avant-garde artist

Nina Genke-Meller, avant-garde artist

Maurice Gottlieb (1856–1979), Polish-Jewish painter

Leopold Gottlieb (1883–1934), Polish-Jewish painter

Mykola Hlushchenko

Jacques Hnizdovsky

Alla Horska

Alexander Khvostenko-Khvostov, avant-garde stage designer

Pyotr Konchalovsky, painter

Fedir Krychevsky

Vasyl Krychevsky

Hanna Kryvolap

Arkhip Kuindzhi

Boris Lekar, Israeli painter

Ephraim Moses Lilien, German-Jewish painter

Anton Losenko

Kazimir Malevich, avant-garde artist

Ivan Marchuk, modern painter

Vadym Meller, avant-garde artist, stage designer

Mykola Murashko

Oleksandr Murashko

Heorhiy Narbut

Solomon Nikritin, painter, avant-garde artist

Nikifor, primitivist painter

Maria Prymachenko

Mykola Pymonenko

Vlada Ralko, collage artist

Kliment Red'ko, painter, avant-garde artist

Ilya Repin, painter

Bruno Schulz (1892–1942), Polish-Jewish painter and writer

Zinaida Serebriakova, painter

David Shterenberg, painter from Zhytomyr

Volodymyr Sichynskyi, architect, graphic artist

Opanas Slastion, folklorist, designer of modern type of bandura

Anton Solomoukha

Ivan Soshenko, painter

Avigdor Stematsky, Israeli painter from Odesa

Serhiy Svetoslavsky

Sergei Sviatchenko (born 1952)

Vladimir Tatlin, avant-garde artist

Sonia Terk, avant-garde artist

Mykhailo Turovsky

Roman Turovsky-Savchuk

Max Vityk

Mickola Vorokhta, painter

Tetyana Yablonska, modern painter

Yevhen Yehorov, 20th century artist

Vasiliy Yermilov, avant-garde artist

Ivan Yizhakevych

Photographers

Anatoliy Havrylov, Shevchenko National Prize laureate for cinematography

Nikolai Kozlovsky

Sculptors

Alexander Archipenko, Ukrainian-American sculptor and graphic artist

Lina Condes (born 1980), Ukrainian sculptor and multimedia artist

Mykhailo Kolodko (born 1978), Ukrainian-Hungarian sculptor

Chana Orloff (1888–1968), Ukrainian-Israeli

Vladimir Tatlin

Performing arts

Actors/Actresses

Nick Adams

Elisabeth Bergner, Austrian-English Jewish actress

Elina Bystritskaya

Olena Chekan

Taissa Farmiga

Vera Farmiga

Luba Goy

John Hodiak

Milla Jovovich

Vera Kholodnaya

Mariya Khomutova

Olga Krasko

Mila Kunis, Ukrainian/American-Jewish actress

Olga Kurylenko

Vasily Lanovoy

Ana Layevska

Mike Mazurki

Yaroslava Mosiychuk, actress

Ivan Mykolaichuk

Alla Nazimova, (born Adelaida Leventon, in Yalta), silent film star

Jack Palance (Volodymyr Palahnyuk)

Zhanna Prokhorenko

Ivanna Sakhno

Yakov Smirnoff

Anna Sten (Anel Sudakevich)

Lee Strasberg (1901–1982), Polish/American-Jewish actor

Stav Strashko, actress and model born in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine

Bohdan Stupka

Yuriy Tkach

Katheryn Winnick

Natasha Yarovenko

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, actor, comedian and President of Ukraine since 2019

Choreographers and dancers

Vasyl Avramenko

Sergei Polunin, ballet dancer

Roma Pryma-Bohachevsky, pro-Western

Oksana Skorik, ballet dancer

Vasyl Verkhovynets

Igor Youskevitch, ballet dancer

Film and theatre directors

Roman Balayan, Ukrainian-Armenian film director

Sergei Bondarchuk

Leonid Bykiv

Grigori Chukhrai

Volodymyr Dakhno, Shevchenko National Prize laureate and Cossacks (cartoon series) creator

Alexander Dovzhenko

Edward Dmytryk

Kateryna Gornostai, Ukrainian LGBTQ film director, screenwriter and film editor

Les Kurbas

Anatole Litvak (1902–1974), Ukrainian/American-Jewish film director

Danylo Lyder

Paul Mazursky (1930–2014), American-Jewish actor, screenwriter and film director

Kira Muratova

Larisa Shepitko

Bohdan Stupka

Peter Weibel

Sergei Loznitsa, Ukrainian documentary director

Tanu Muino

Models

Alina Baikova

Alexandra Kutas, Ukrainian model who has a disability

Snejana Onopka, Ukrainian model born in Sievierodonetsk

Daria Werbowy, Polish-born Canadian model of Ukrainian descent.

LGBT activists

Bogdan Globa, LGBT activist

Vitalina Koval, LGBT activist

Viktor Pylypenko, LGBT activist and service member

Anna Sharyhina, LGBT activist

Olena Shevchenko, Ukrainian women's and LGBT rights activist

Musicians

Bandurists

Hnat Khotkevych

Halyna Korin

Hryhory Kytasty

Julian Kytasty

Volodymyr Luciv

Victor Mishalow

Composers

Svitlana Azarova

Virko Baley

Vasyl Barvinsky

Maxim Berezovsky

Oleksandr Bilash, composer, Hero of Ukraine

Dmitry Bortniansky

Marusia Churai

Nikolay Diletsky

Isaak Dunayevsky, author of numerous popular Soviet songs

Lesia Dychko

Arkady Filippenko

Reinhold Glière

Leonid Hrabovsky

Semen Hulak-Artemovsky

Volodymyr Ivasiuk

Oleksander Koshetz

Mykola Leontovych, composed Shchedryk (song) also known as Carol of the Bells

Zara Levina

Borys Lyatoshynsky

Mykola Lysenko

Ruslana Lyzhichko

Igor Markevitch

Yuli Meitus

Yuriy Oliynyk

Mykola Ovsianiko-Kulikovsky

Sergei Prokofiev

Levko Revutsky

Nikolai Roslavets

Aleksandr Shymko

Valentin Silvestrov

Levko Dutkivskiy

Myroslav Skoryk

Yevhen Stankovych

Kyrylo Stetsenko

Dimitri Tiomkin, film composer

Roman Turovsky-Savchuk

Artemy Vedel

Mykhailo Verbytsky, composer of the National Anthem of Ukraine

Mykola Vilinsky

Yakiv Yatsynevych

Pianists

Simon Barere, pianist

Yevheniya Barvinska, pianist

Felix Blumenfeld, pianist

Shura Cherkassky, pianist

Emil Gilels, pianist

Vladimir Horowitz, pianist

Lubka Kolessa, pianist

Halyna Levytska

Valentina Lisitsa, pianist

Benno Moiseiwitsch, pianist

Heinrich Neuhaus, pianist

Sviatoslav Richter, pianist

Leo Sirota, pianist

Organists

Roman Krasnovsky, organist, composer

Paul Stetsenko, organist, choral conductor

Strings

Yuri Bashmet, viola soloist

Mischa Elman, violinist

Emanuel Feuermann (1902–1942), Ukrainian-Jewish cellist (born in Austrian Galicia)

Vadim Gluzman, violinist

Pawlo Humeniuk, violinist / fiddler

Leonid Kogan, violinist

Nathan Milstein, violinist

David Oistrakh, violinist

Igor Oistrakh, violinist

Steven Staryk, violinist

Isaac Stern (1920–2001), American-Jewish, born in Kremenets Poland (now Ukraine), violinist.

Siergiej Wowkotrub, (born 1964), violinist

Conductors

Jascha Horenstein (1898–1973), Ukrainian/American-Jewish conductor

Oleksander Horilyj (1863-1937), first conductor of the Ukrainian National Symphony Orchestra

Singers

Opera

Andrij Dobriansky, bass-baritone

Borys Hmyria, bass

Vasyl Slipak, baritone

Alexander Kipnis, bass

Ivan Kozlovsky, tenor

Solomiya Krushelnytska, soprano

Evgeniya Miroshnichenko, soprano

Vyacheslav Polozov, tenor

Maria Sokil, soprano

Anatoly Solovyanenko, tenor

Leonid Skirko, bass, baritone

Singers and artists of other genres

Iryna Bilyk, singer

Vera Brezhneva, singer and television presenter

Denis Stoff, singer

Dimal, award-winning artist, rapper, entertainer

Kvitka Cisyk, singer

Katya Chilly, singer

Taras Chubay, bard

Gaitana

Ganna Gryniva, jazz singer

Eugene Hutz, lead singer of the Gypsy Punk band Gogol Bordello

Jamala, singer, composer, winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016

Tina Karol, singer

Iosif Kobzon, iconic Soviet crooner

Ani Lorak, singer, runner-up of the 2008 Eurovision contest

Mélovin (Kostyantyn Mykolayovych Bocharov), Ukrainian singer, LGBT activist

Arsen Mirzoyan (born 1978), Ukrainian singer-songwriter

Alina Pash, singer and rapper, LGBT activist

Oleksandr Ponomaryov, singer

Anastasia Prikhodko, winner of Star Factory 2007, represented Russia in the 2009 Eurovision song contest

Artem Pyvovarov, new wave singer and composer

Sofia Rotaru, singer

Ruslana, pop singer-songwriter, composer, conductor, dancer, record producer, pro-Western, singer and winner of the 2004 Eurovision contest

Anna Sedokova, singer, actress and television presenter, LGBT activist

Verka Serduchka (Adriy Danylko), singer and runner-up of the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest

Yuri Shevchuk, bard, born of Ukrainian father

Klavdiya Shulzhenko, singer of the most inspiring WWII song that didn't mention Stalin

Theresa Sokyrka, Canadian Idol 2 runner-up

Super DJ Dmitri (Dmitry Brill), member of American club/dance group Deee-Lite

Nissan Spivak, Ukrainian cantor

Leonyd Utyosiv, jazz singer

Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, singer

Alexander Vertinsky, singer

Velvel Zbarjer, singer

Vitas, singer and actor

Zlata Ognevich, singer, represented Ukraine in the 2013 Eurovision song contest

Zi Faámelu, transgender Ukrainian singer-songwriter

Other

Volodymyr (Vlad) DeBriansky, guitarist, producer, composer, songwriter

Eugene Hütz (Gogol Bordello), singer, guitarist, composer, songwriter, actor

Olga Korolova (born 1988), music producer, DJ

Efim Jourist, composer, accordionist and bajan player

Ruslana Lyzhichko, pianist, singer, dancer, composer, producer, songwriter

Leo Ornstein (1895–2002), Ukrainian/American-Jewish composer and pianist.

Isabelle Rezazadeh, DJ

George Shakhnevich, accordionist

Estas Tonne, guitarist

Other performing artists

Juliya Chernetsky

Serge Lifar, one of the greatest male ballet dancers of the 20th century

Maria Guleghina

Alla Korot

Olga Khokhlova, ballet dancer, first wife of Pablo Picasso

Literary arts

Writers

Adrian Kashchenko

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer, had Ukrainian mother

Aleksei Bibik (1878–1976), working-class writer

Oleksandra Marynyna

Amvrosii Metlynsky, poet, writer

Andrey Kurkov, Ukrainian novelist

Bohdan Kutiepov, journalist and freelance musician

Bohdan Osadchuk

Chuck Palahniuk, American satirical novelist (Ukrainian father)

Clarice Lispector

Daniil Granin, author

David Bergelson, Ukrainian-Jewish writer in Yiddish language

Hryhorii Epik, writer, journalist

Hryhorii Kosynka

Hryhoriy Skovoroda, poet, writer, philosopher

Ilya Ehrenburg, Ukrainian-Jewish publicist and writer in Russian language, born in Kyiv

Ilya Ilf, Ukrainian humorist in Russian language, co-author of The Twelve Chairs

Irena Karpa, modern Ukrainian writer

Isaac Babel, Ukrainian-Jewish writer in Russian language, born in Odesa

Ivan Kotlyarevsky, playwright

Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky

Ivan Vahylevych

Jan Potocki, count, Polish writer in French language, born and died in Ukraine

Joseph Conrad, Polish writer in the English language, born in Berdychiv

Kristina Berdynskykh, political journalist

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer, author of Venus in Furs

Les Podervianskiy, satirist and playwright, pro-Western and pro-Ukrainian dissident

Levko Kopeliv, author and dissident

Markiyan Shashkevych, poet, writer, and interpreter

Marko Cheremshyna, writer

Marko Vovchok

Marya Zaturenska

Mikhail Bulgakov, novelist in Russian language

Mikhail Zhvanetsky, Russian humorist

Miriam Yalan-Shteklis, Israeli writer and poet

Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky

Mykhailo Stelmakh

Mykola Khvylovy

Mykola Kulish, dramatist

Mykola Voronyi

Mykola Zerov

Natalia Vlaschenko, Ukrainian journalist, theatrologist, screenwriter, television presenter, playwright, producer, columnist, publisher and contributing editor

Natan Ilyich Zabara (1908–1975), Ukrainian-Jewish writer in Yiddish

Nikolai Gogol, Ukrainian writer in Russian language, born in Velyki Sorochyntsi

Oksana Zabuzhko, modern Ukrainian novelist, poet, essayist

Oles Honchar, author of The Cathedral

Olha Kobylianska, modernist writer and feminist

Olha Kobylyanska

Ostap Ortwin (1876–1942), Polish-Jewish journalist and literary critic

Ostap Vyshnia

Panteleymon Kulish

Perepadia Anatol, literary translator

Pavlo Zahrebelnyi

Raya Dunayevskaya, Marxist philosopher

Sam Honigberg, correspondent for The Billboard and publicist

Serhiy Zhadan, poet, essayist and musician

Shmuel Agnon, Israeli Hebrew writer, winner of the Nobel Prize (1966), born in Buchach

Sholom Aleichem, Ukrainian writer in Yiddish language, born in Pereyaslav

Sofia Yablonska, travel writer, photographer, architect

Stanisław Lem, Polish science-fiction writer born in the present-day territory of Ukraine

Svitlana Yeremenko, journalist

Valentyn Kornienko, writer and journal publisher

Valentyn Rechmedin, writer, journalist

Valerian Pidmohylny, novelist

Valerian Polishchuk, poet

Vasily Grossman, Ukrainian-Jewish, born in Berdichev in 1905. Dedicated his lives' writing to the three most terrible pages of 20th-century 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.

Vasyl Stefanyk

Viktor Nekrasov, writer

Viktor Petrov

Volodymyr Vynnychenko

Yakiv Holovatsky

Yaroslav Halan, anti-fascist playwright and publicist, assassinated by nationalist insurgents

Yevgeny Grebyonka

Yevgeny Petrov, Ukrainian humorist in Russian language, co-author of The Twelve Chairs

Yevhen Hrebinka

Yevhen Hutsalo

Yuri Andrukhovych, born in Ivano-Frankivsk

Yuri Nikitin, Russian science fiction and fantasy writer

Yuri Nikitin, trampolinist

Yuri Pokalchuk

Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko, fantasy fiction writers and Shevchenko National Prize laureate

Poets

Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet

Bohdan-Ihor Antonych

Eduard Bagritsky

Mikola Bazhan

Hayyim Nahman Bialik, modern Hebrew Ukrainian poet, national poet of the State of Israel

Ivan Drach

Itzik Feffer, Soviet poet in Yiddish language

Moysey Fishbeyn, Ukrainian poet in Yiddish language

Ivan Franko

Alexander Galich, Soviet bard in Russian language, pro-Western dissident

Ihor Kalynets

Mykola Khvylovy

Lina Kostenko

Andriy Malyshko

Oleksandr Oles

Oleh Olzhych

Dmytro Pavlychko

Markiyan Shashkevych

Vasyl Stus

Vasyl Symonenko

Olena Teliha

Pavlo Tychyna

Maksym Rylsky

Taras Shevchenko, founder of modern Ukrainian Literature

Volodymyr Sosiura

Vasyl Stus

Vasyl Symonenko

Hryhoriy Tiutiunnyk

Lesya Ukrainka

Volodymyr Yaniv

Volodymyr Yavorivsky

Maik Yohansen

Natan Yonatan, Kyiv-born Israeli poet

Serhiy Zhadan, modern Ukrainian poet and novelist

Mykhailo Zharzhailo, Ukrainian poet, performer, and art event organizer

Business

Gennadiy Bogolyubov (born 1961/1962), Ukrainian-Israeli billionaire businessman

Zino Davidoff, founder of Davidoff brand

Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal

Boris Lohzkin (born 1971), President of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine and vice-president of the World Jewish Congress

Jay Pritzker, founder of Hyatt and LGBT philanthropist

Leonid Radvinsky (born 1982), Ukrainian-American serial entrepreneur and majority owner of OnlyFans

Harold Willens (1914–2003), Jewish American businessman, political donor and nuclear freeze activist

Astronauts

Georgy Beregovoy, Soviet cosmonaut No.12, Soviet MP in 1974–89 representing Donetsk region

Leonid Kizim, Soviet cosmonaut

Anatoly Levchenko, Soviet cosmonaut

Anatoly Filipchenko, Soviet cosmonaut

Anatoly Artsebarsky, Soviet cosmonaut

Igor Volk, Soviet cosmonaut

Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut No.4, Verkhovna Rada MP in 1964–88, head of Ukrainian diaspora in Moscow

Georgy Dobrovolsky, Soviet cosmonaut

Leonid Kadeniuk, earlier a Soviet cosmonaut, made the first crewed spaceflight of the National Space Agency of Ukraine

Yury Onufriyenko, Russian cosmonaut

Yuri Malenchenko, Russian cosmonaut

Yuri Gidzenko, Russian cosmonaut

Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, NASA

Bruce E. Melnick, NASA

Roberta Bondar, Canada's first female astronaut and the first neurologist in space

Joshua Kutryk, Canadian astronaut

Cossack Hetmans

Przecław Lanckoroński (1506–1512), one of the first Hetmans of Ukrainian Cossacks

Ostap Dashkevych (1514–1535)

Dmytro Vyshnevetsky (1550–1563)

Ivan Pidkova (1577–1578), Cossack Hetman and Hospodar of Moldavia

Kryshtof Kosynsky (1591–1593)

Hryhory Loboda (1593–1596)

Severyn Nalyvaiko (1596)

Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny (1614–1622), Hetman of Zaporozhian Cossacks

Mykhailo Doroshenko (1623–1628)

Hryhoriy Chorny (1628–1630), elected by Registered Cossacks

Taras Fedorovych (1629–1630), elected by unregistered Cossacks

Ivan Sulyma (1630–1635)

Dmytro Hunia (1638)

Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1648–1657), first Hetman of the Cossack Hetmanate

Ivan Vyhovsky (1657–1659), second Hetman of the Cossack Hetmanate

Yurii Khmelnytsky (1659–1663), third Hetman of the Cossack Hetmanate, and (1677–1681 and 1685) in the Right-bank Ukraine

Pavlo Teteria (1663–1665) in the Right-bank Ukraine

Ivan Briukhovetsky (1663–1668) in the Left-bank Ukraine

Petro Doroshenko (1665–1676) in the Right-bank Ukraine and (1668–1669) in the Left-bank Ukraine

Demian Mnohohrishny (1669–1672) in the Left-bank Ukraine

Mykhailo Khanenko (1669–1674) in the Right-bank Ukraine

Ivan Samoylovych (1672–1687) in the Left-bank Ukraine

Ivan Mazepa (1687–1708) in the Left-bank Ukraine, and (1708–1709) in the Right-bank Ukraine

Pylyp Orlyk (1710–1742) in exile

Ivan Skoropadsky (1708–1722) in the Left-bank Ukraine

Pavlo Polubotok (1722–1724), served as Acting Hetman of the Left-bank Ukraine

Danylo Apostol (1727–1734) in the Left-bank Ukraine

Kirill Razumovski (1750–1764) in the Left-bank Ukraine

Petro Kalnyshevsky (1765–1775), last Koshovyi Otaman of the Zaporozhian Cossacks

Military figures

Luka Basanets, general of the Red Army

Marko Bezruchko, general of the Ukrainian People's Army

Taras Bulba-Borovets, otaman of the Ukrainian People's Revolutionary Army aka Polissian Sich

Ivan Chernyakhovsky, general of the Red Army

Yakov Dashevsky, general of the Red Army

Kuzma Derevyanko, general of the Red Army

Yaakov Dori (1899–1973), Israeli first Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, President of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Petro Dyachenko, staff captain of the Russian Army (World War I), colonel of the Ukrainian People's Army (1918–1920), major of the Polish Army (1938–1939), colonel of the Ukrainian Liberation Army (1943–1945), and general of the Ukrainian National Army (1945)

Nikolay Dyatlenko, interrogator and translator at the Battle of Stalingrad

Oleksiy Fedorov, major general, partisan leader, subsequently minister of Welfare of Ukraine

Israel Fisanovich (1914–1944), Ukrainian-Jewish Navy submarine commander Soviet Navy

Petro Franko, captain of the Air Force of the Ukrainian Galician Army (UHA)

Andrei Grechko, marshal of the Soviet Union

Nykyfor Hryhoriv, otaman and leader of a Ukrainian insurgent "Green Army"

Vylhelm Habsburh (Vasyl Vyshyvanyi), Austrian archduke, colonel of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen

Yaroslav Hunka, a World War II veteran of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician), a military formation of Nazi Germany.

Oleksander Hrekov, commander-in-chief of the army of the West Ukrainian National Republic

Dmytro Hrytsai, general of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army

Karl Georg Graf Huyn, Austrian colonel general, last governor-general of Galicia (1917–18)

Alfred Jansa, Austrian major general

Mykola Kapustiansky, general of the Ukrainian People's Army

Dmytro Klyachkivsky, colonel and the commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army

Ivan Kozhedub, legendary fighter pilot of WWII, top USSR ace

Roman Kondratenko, lieutenant general of Russian Imperial Army, defender of Port Arthur during Russo-Japanese War

Yevhen Konovalets, leader of the Ukrainian Military Organization (UVO) (1920–29) and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) (1929–38), pro-Western, killed many Jews and Russians

Filip Konowal, Ukrainian Canadian war hero (Victoria Cross, 1917)

Petr Koshevoi, marshal of the Soviet Union

Zenon Kossak, deputy commander of the Carpathian Sich

Mykhailo Krat, general of the Ukrainian National Army

Sydir Kovpak, major general, partisan leader, subsequently deputy chairperson of Verkhovna Rada

Vasyl Kuk, commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army

Grigory Kulik, marshal of the Soviet Union

Yuriy Lopatynsky, colonel of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army

Nestor Makhno, commander of "Black Army"

Alexander Marinesko, legendary Sub Commander in WWII

Rodion Malinovsky, marshal of the Soviet Union

Kirill Moskalenko, marshal of the Soviet Union

Maria Nikiforova, only female commander of an anarchist cavalry detachment, the "Free Combat Druzhina".