List of Ukrainians
Lists of famous or notable people from Ukraine
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2 Scientists 3 Criminals 4 Politicians 5 Sportists 6 Parents born in the Ukraine |
Artists
Painters and Composers
- Marie Bashkirtseff
- Borys Lyatoshynsky
- Mykola Lysenko
- Kazimir Malevich
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Levko Revutsky
- Valentyn Silvestrov
- Myroslav Skoryk
- Opanas Slastion, folklorist,inventor of modern type of bandura,painter and bandurist, first illustrator of Taras Shevchenko's "Kobzar"
- Yakov Smirnoff
Performing artists
- Sviatoslav Richter
- Jack Palance, Oscar winning actor
- George Dzunza, actor
- David Oistrakh
- Edward Dmytryk
- Alexander Dovzhenko
- Irina Dvorovenko
- Maria Guleghina, opera soprano
- Jill Hennessy
- Vladimir Horowitz
- Milla Jovovich
- Alla Korot
- Mila Kunis
- Anatole Litvak
- Lewis Milestone
- Paul Muni
- Vaslav Nijinsky
- Isaac Stern
Writers
- Taras Shevchenko, poet
- Anton Chekhov
- Anna Akhmatova , poet
- Sholom Aleichem
- Mikhail Bulgakov, author of The Master and Margarita
- Joseph Conrad
- Isaak Babel
- Nikolai Gogol
- Raya Dunayevskaya, Marxist humanist
Scientists
Religious Thinkers and Philosophers
- Hrygori Skovoroda
- Israel ben Eliezer, (Baal Shem Tov) founder of Hasidism
- Nachman of Breslov
Criminals
Politicians
- Hayim Arlosoroff, Zionist
- Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the former Soviet Union
- Vladimir Jabotinsky, Zionist
- Leonid Kravchuk, president of Ukraine 1991-1994
- Nestor Makhno (1888 - 1934), anarchist
- Golda Meir, Zionist
- Simon Petlyura
- Leon Trotsky
- Volodymyr Vynnychenko
- Aleksandra Lisowska (Khourrem) (~1510 - 1558), (wife of Suleiman the Magnificent)
Sportists
- Oksana Baiul, figure skater
- Mike Ditka, Football coach
- Valeri Borzov, track & field
- Sergei Bubka, pole vault legend
- Maria Gorokhovskaya, gymnast
- Tatyana Gutsu, gymnast
- Yana Klochkova, swimmer
- Inessa Kravets, track & field
- Lenny Krayzelburg, swimmer
- Larisa Latynina, gymnast
- Slava Medvedenko, basketball player
- Victor Petrenko, figure skater
- Lilia Podkopayeva, gymnast
- Vitaly Potapenko, basketball player
- Vladislav Tretiak, hockey player
Parents born in the Ukraine
- Pierre Bérégovoy
- Paul Wellstone