Famous Ukrainian People

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

• George Gamow
• Sergei Korolev
• Trofim Lysenko
• Igor Sikorsky

Religious Thinkers and Philosophers

• Hrygori Skovoroda
• Israel ben Eliezer, (Baal Shem Tov) founder of Hasidism
• Nachman of Breslov

Criminals

• Andrei Chikatilo

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, American football player and coach
• Valeri Borzov, track & field
• Sergei Bubka, pole vault legend
• Maria Gorokhovskaya, gymnast
• Tatyana Gutsu, gymnast
• Kateryna Serebrians'ka, gymnast
• Olena Vitrychenko, gymnast
• Olexandra Tymoshenko, gymnast
• Oxana Skaldina, 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
• Volodymyr Klychko, boxer
• Vitaliy Klychko, boxer
• Timur Taimazov, heavy athletics
• Andriy Shevchenko, footballer

Parents born in the Ukraine

• Pierre Bérégovoy
• Paul Wellstone

See also: List of Slavs, List of people by nationality, list of people