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Contents 1 Academics 1.1 Biologists/Physicians 1.2 Chemists 1.3 Computer scientists 1.4 Doctors & Surgeons 1.5 Economists 1.6 Engineers 1.7 Historians 1.8 Mathematicians 1.9 Philosophers 1.10 Physicists 1.11 Other academics 2 Artists 2.1 Architects 2.2 Actors 2.3 Choreographers 2.4 Composers 2.5 Film and theater directors 2.6 Musicians 2.7 Painters 2.8 Sculptors 2.9 Writers 2.10 Poets 2.11 Singers 2.12 Other performing artists 3 Business 4 Cosmonauts 5 Cossack Hetmans 6 Military Figures 7 Politicians 7.1 Ukrainian politicians 7.2 Zionists and Israeli politicians 7.3 Bolsheviks and Soviet politicians 7.4 Soviet dissidents 7.5 Russian politicians 7.6 Polish politicians 8 Religious leaders and theologians 8.1 Orthodox Christian and Greek Catholic 8.2 Jewish 8.3 Other 9 Sport 9.1 Archery 9.2 Basketball 9.3 Boxing 9.4 Chess 9.5 Football (soccer) 9.6 Gymnastics 9.7 Ice Hockey 9.8 Track & Field 9.9 Other Sportsmen 10 Other 11 See also

Academics

Biologists/Physicians

• Mykola Amosov
• Oleksandr Bohomolets
• Georges Charpak, physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (1992)
• Tatiana Davydova
• Theodosius Dobzhansky
• Katherine Esau
• Volodymyr Filatov
• Waldemar Haffkine
• Dimitri Ivanovski
• Trofim Lysenko
• Ilya Mechnikov, microbiologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine (1908)
• Jaroslaw Nowicky
• Svitlana P. Sydorenko
• Vladimir Vernadsky, mineralogist, biochemist
• Danylo Zabolotny

Chemists

• Anatoly Babko
• George Kistiakowsky
• Ivan Horbachevsky
• Alexander Shchukarev, chemist, computer scientist
• Sviatoslaw Trofimenko
• Boris Tyutyunnikov
• Selman Waksman, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1952)

Computer scientists

• Viktor Hlushkov
• Sergei Lebedev, first programmable computer in Continental Europe

Doctors & Surgeons

• Volodymyr Filatov, ophthalmologist

Economists

• Mikhail Tugan Baranovsky
• Simon Kuznets, Nobel Prize (1971)
• Eugen Slutsky (1880-1948), Slutsky equation (born in Russian Empire, in the territory of Ukraine)

Engineers

• Oleg Antonov, aircraft designer
• Jacques Bogopolsky, movie cameras
• Vladimir Chelomei, ballistic missile and spacecraft designer
• Valentin Glushko, rocket engineer
• Nicholas Holonyak, first visible light-emitting diode
• Mykola Kibalchich, rocket science pioneer
• Yuri Kondratyuk, spaceflight pioneer
• Sergey Korolev, first spacecraft designer
• Roman Kroitor
• Vladimir Mackiw, mining engineer
• Aleksandr A. Morozov, tank designer, patron of the Morozov Design Bureau
• Yevhen Paton, welding engineer
• Alexander Samakula, anti-reflective coating for optical lenses
• Igor Sikorsky, inventor of helicopter
• Stepan Timoshenko, father of modern engineering mechanics

Historians

• Volodymyr Antonovych, also folklorist
• Dmytro Horbachov historian of art
• Dmytro Doroshenko
• Mykhaylo Drahomanov also political emigre and folklorist
• Michael Hetman historian of mines
• Mykhailo Hrushevsky, also political leader
• Taras Hunczak
• Mykola Kostomarov, also literary historian, folklorist
• George S. N. Luckyj, literary historian
• Mykhaylo Maksymovych, also literary historian, folklorist
• Oleksander Ohloblyn
• Nataliia Polonska-Vasylenko
• Omeljan Pritsak, orientalist
• Wolodymyr Stojko
• Viktor Suvorov, WWII researcher (Ukrainian father)
• Dmytro Yavornytsky, Cossack historian, archeologist
• Peter Loboda, Researcher of Ancient Ukrainian Numismatics

Mathematicians

Main article Ukrainian mathematicians

• André-Louis Cholesky
• Boris Hnedenko
• Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko
• Volodymyr Semenovych Korolyuk
• Mykhailo Krawtchouk
• Yakiv Kulik
• Volodymyr Marchenko
• Marko Naimark
• Olha Arsenievna Oleinik
• Volodymyr Petryshyn
• Alexei Pogorelov
• Platon Poretsky
• Volodymyr Potapov
• Anatoly Samoilenko
• Oleksandr Sharkovsky
• Samuil Shatunovsky
• Anatoliy Skorokhod
• Josif Shtokalo
• Ivan Sleszynski
• Pavlo Urysohn
• Mykhailo Vashchenko-Zakharchenko
• Volodymyr Veksler

Philosophers

• Nikolai Berdyaev, Russian religious philosopher
• Lev Shestov, Russian existentialist philosopher
• Hryhori Skovoroda

Physicists

• Nikolay Bogolyubov, theory of superconductivity, nonlinear mechanics
• Gersh Budker, nuclear physicist (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics)
• Georges Charpak, French physicist (Nobel Prize), born in East Galicia
• George Gamow, liquid drop model of atom nucleus
• Abram Ioffe, prominent Soviet physicist (Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute)
• Isaak Khalatnikov, BKL conjecture in general relativity
• Leo Palatnik, thin film physics
• Nikolai Pilchikov, electronic photography
• Ivan Pulyui, discoverer of X-rays (disputed)
• George Yuri Rainich, mathematical physicist
• Cyril Sinelnikov, nuclear physicist

Other academics

• Mykola Andrusov
• Albert Bandura
• Pavel Petrovich Blonsky
• Olgerd Bochkovsky, sociologist
• Isydore Hlynka
• Nikolai Kholodny
• Vikentiy Khvoyka
• Robert Klymasz, Ukrainian Canadian folklorist
• Volodymyr Kubiyovych, geographer and encyclopedist
• Volodymyr Kunko-Bohoslavetz, linguist/etymologist/philologist [Uk-Ra-ii-Na (Gift of-Sun-and-Moon)], designer, educator
• Viktor Kyrpychov
• Volodymyr Levytsky
• Yuri Linnik
• Anton Makarenko, Ukrainian and Soviet educator
• Georgii Pfeiffer
• Evhen Tsybulenko (b. 1972), professor of international law
• Pavlo Tutkovsky
• Fedir Vovk, anthropologist and ethnographer
• Robert Kravchuk, Professor of Public Finance at Indiana University.

Artists

Architects

• Ivan Hryhorovych-Barskyi
• Vladislav Gorodetsky
• Marian Peretyatkovich
• Volodymyr Sichynskyi

Actors

• Elina Bystritskaya
• Lyudmila Gurchenko
• Milla Jovovich
• Roman Kartsev
• Mila Kunis
• Vasily Lanovoy
• Ana Layevska
• Ivan Mykolaychuk
• Alla Nazimova
• Zhanna Prokhorenko
• Ada Rohovtseva
• Yakov Smirnoff
• Bohdan Stupka
• Maria Zankovetska

Choreographers

• Vasyl Avramenko
• Yaroslav Chuperchuk
• Olexandr Dmytrenko
• Leonid Kalinin
• Anatoliy Krivokhyzha
• Roma Pryma-Bohachevsky
• Anatoly Shekera, National Opera House of Ukraine
• Mykola Vantukh
• Kim Vasylenko
• Vasyl Verkhovynets
• Pavlo Virsky, Virsky Ukrainian dance company

Composers

• Virko Baley
• Vasyl Barvinsky
• Maksym Berezovsky
• Matvei Blanter, Soviet composer, author of Katyusha
• Dmytro Bortniansky
• Marusia Churai
• Konstantin Dankevich
• Stepan Degtiarev
• Mykola Diletsky
• Isaak Dunayevsky, author of numerous popular Soviet songs
• Lesia Dytchko
• Arkady Filippenko
• Reinhold Glière
• Leonid Hrabovsky
• Semen Hulak-Artemovsky
• Volodymyr Ivasyuk
• Dimitri Klebanov
• Levko Kolodub
• Oleksander Koshetz
• Evgeni Kostitsyn, composer after whom the Ukrainian Composers' Competition is named
• Mykola Leontovych
• Zara Levina
• Boris Lyatoshynsky
• Mykola Lysenko
• Igor Markevitch
• Yuli Meitus
• Yuriy Oliynyk
• Mykola Ovsianiko-Kulikovsky
• Sergei Prokofiev, one of the greatest composers of the 20th century
• Levko Revutsky
• Nikolai Andreyevich Roslavets
• Valentin Silvestrov
• Myroslav Skoryk
• Yevhen Stankovych
• Kyrylo Stetsenko
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer, author of Swan Lake and The Nutcracker ballets
• Roman Turovsky-Savchuk
• Artemy Vedel
• Yakiv Yatsynevych
• Ruslana Lyzhichko

Film and theater directors

• Sergei Bondarchuk
• Leonid Bykov
• Grigori Chukhrai
• Olexandr Dovzhenko, the most famous Ukrainian film maker
• Yuri Klimenko, cinematographer
• Les Kurbas
• Anatole Litvak
• Roman Viktyuk

Musicians

• Simon Barere, pianist
• Yuri Bashmet, viola soloist
• Felix Blumenfeld, pianist
• Shura Cherkassky, pianist
• George Douglas
• Mischa Elman, violinist
• Emanuel Feuermann, cellist (born in Austrian Galicia)
• Michael Frimenko, American bass player
• Emil Gilels, pianist
• Jascha Horenstein, conductor
• Vladimir Horowitz, pianist
• Pawlo Humeniuk
• Eugene Hütz (Gogol Bordello), singer, guitarist, banger of buckets
• Leonid Kogan, violinist
• Lubka Kolessa, pianist
• Theodore Kuchar, Conductor, National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine
• Valentina Lisitsa, pianist
• Ruslana Lyzhichko , pianist , singer , dancer , composer , producer , sonwriter , conductor
• Nathan Milstein, violinist
• Benno Moiseiwitsch, pianist
• David Oistrakh, violinist
• Igor Oistrakh, violinist
• Leo Ornstein, composer
• Pawlo Humeniuk
• Evgeni Kostitsyn, pianist and composer
• Leo Sirota, pianist
• Sviatoslav Richter, pianist
• George Shakhnevich, accordionist
• Steven Staryk, violinist
• Isaac Stern, violinist
• Paul Stetsenko, organist
• Alexander Vynograd
• Rostislaw Wygranienko

Painters

• Ivan Aivazovsky, Armenian painter, famous for his seascapes
• Nathan Altman, painter and stage designer from Vinnytsia
• Marie Bashkirtseff, artist
• Alexander Bogomazov, Avant-garde artist
• Vladimir Borovikovsky, painter
• Mykhaylo Boychuk
• Robert Brackman
• Mykola Burachek
• David Burliuk, Avante-garde painter
• Wladimir Burliuk, Avant-garde artist
• Louis Choris
• Mychajlo Dmytrenko
• Aleksandra Ekster, Avant-garde artist
• Nina Genke-Meller, Avant-garde artist
• Dmitry Grigorovich
• Mykola Hlushchenko
• Jacques Hnizdovsky
• Tatiana Holembievska
• Anatole Jakovsky
• Alexander Khvostenko-Khvostov Avant-garde stage designer
• Pyotr Konchalovsky, painter
• Vasyl Krychevsky
• Fedir Krychevsky
• Dmitry Levitzky, painter
• Akym Levych
• Anton Losenko
• Kazimir Malevich, Avant-garde artist, pioneer of geometric abstract art, author of Black Square
• Abram Manevich, painter
• Ivan Marchuk, modern painter
• Vadym Meller, avant-garde artist, stage designer
• Ludimilla Morozova
• Oleksandr Murashko
• Heorhiy Narbut
• Solomon Nikritin painter, Avant-garde artist
• Nykifor primitivist painter
• Victor Palmov, painter, Avant-garde artist
• Kliment Red'ko, painter, Avant-garde artist
• Ilya Repin, Russian painter
• Issachar Rybak, painter ^[1]
• Bruno Schulz, painter and writer
• Zinaida Serebriakova,painter
• Volodymyr Sichynskyi, architect, graphic artist
• Opanas Slastion, folklorist, designer of modern type of bandura
• Anton Solomoukha
• Vladimir Sosnovsky
• David Shterenberg, painter from Zhitomir
• Vladimir Tatlin, Avant-garde artist
• Sonia Terk, Avant-garde artist
• Roman Turovsky-Savchuk
• Mykhailo Turovsky
• Andy Warhol, major figure in the pop art movement
• Tetyana Yablonska, modern painter
• Vasiliy Yermilov, Avant-garde artist
• Ivan Yizhakevych

Sculptors

• Alexander Archipenko, U.S. sculptor and graphic artist
• Victor Konoval
• Anatoly Kushch
• Oleh Pinchuk
• Nikolai Syadristy
• Vladimir Tatlin
• Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine
• Valentyn Znoba

Writers

• Shmuel Agnon, Israeli writer, Nobel Prize (1966)
• Sholom Aleichem, Jewish writer
• Yuri Andrukhovych
• Isaac Babel, Russian writer
• Aleksei Bibik, working-class writer(1878-1976)
• Eduard Bagritsky
• Levko Borovykovsky
• Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian writer, author of The Master and Margarita
• Marko Cheremshyna
• Raya Dunayevskaya, Marxist humanist
• Ilya Ehrenburg, publicist and writer
• Jan Galka
• Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer
• Daniil Granin
• Vasily Grossman
• Yakiv Holovatskyi
• Oles Honchar, author of The Cathedral
• Yevhen Hrebinka
• Yevhen Hutsalo
• Ilya Ilf, Russian humorist, co-author of The Twelve Chairs
• Valentin Kataev, Russian novelist and dissident
• Mykola Khvylovy
• Olha Kobylyanska
• Lev Kopelev, author and dissident
• Oleksandr Korniychuk, dramatist
• Nikolay Kostomarov, writer, historian
• Ivan Kotlyarevsky, playwright
• Marko Kropyvnytsky, actor, stage director, playwright, and composer
• Mykola Kulish, dramatist
• Panteleymon Kulish
• Andrey Kurkov
• Hryhori Kvitka
• Alexandra Marinina, Russian writer of detective stories
• Les Martovych
• Ambros Metlynsky, poet, writer
• Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky
• Viktor Nekrasov, Russian writer and dissident
• Yuri Nikitin, Russian science fiction and fantasy writer
• Bohdan Osadchy
• Chuck Palahniuk, American satirical novelist (Ukrainian father)
• Sofia Parfanovych
• Mykhailo Pavlyk
• Viktor Petrov
• Yevgeny Petrov, Russian humorist, co-author of The Twelve Chairs
• Valerian Pidmohylny, novelist
• Les Podervianskiy, satirist and playwrighter
• Yuri Pokalchuk
• Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, writer, author of Venus in Furs
• Markiyan Shashkevych
• Hryhoriy Skovoroda, poet, writer, philosopher
• Mykhaylo Starytsky
• Vasyl Stefanyk
• Mykhaylo Stelmakh
• Ivan Tobilevich
• Ivan Vahylevych
• Marko Vovchok
• Volodymyr Vynnychenko
• Ostap Vyshnia
• Natan Ilyich Zabara
• Pavlo Zahrebelnyi
• Marya Zaturenska
• Mykola Zerov
• Mikhail Zhvanetskiy, Russian humorist

Poets

• Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet
• Bohdan-Ihor Antonych
• Mikola Bazhan
• Hayyim Nahman Bialik, modern Hebrew poet
• Moysey Fishbeyn
• Ivan Franko, poet, writer
• Alexander Galich, dissident Soviet bard
• Lina Kostenko, Ukrainian poet.
• Taras Shevchenko, the most famous Ukrainian poet
• Vasyl Stus
• Vasyl Symonenko
• Olena Teliha
• Pavlo Tychyna
• Maksym Rylsky, poet, publicist
• Lesya Ukrainka

Singers

• Kvitka Cisyk, singer
• Katya Chilly, singer
• Andrij Dobriansky, bass-baritone
• Anthony Fedorov, American pop singer
• Pavlo Hunka, bass-baritone
• Iosif Kobzon, iconic Soviet crooner
• Oksana Krovytska, soprano
• Solomiya Krushelnytska, opera singer
• Ani Lorak, singer
• Ruslana Lyzhichko, pop singer , composer , songwriter , conductor , dancer , record producer
• Ivan Patorzhynsky, bass
• Maria Sokil, soprano
• Theresa Sokyrka, Canadian Idol 2 runner-up
• Anatoly Solovyanenko
• Nissan Spivak, cantor
• Stereoliza (Katya Shalayeva), singer
• Leonid Utyosov, jazz singer
• Alexander Vertinsky, Russian singer and composer
• Velvel Zbarjer, singer

Other performing artists

• Juliya Chernetsky
• Stefania Dovhan
• Iryna Dvorovenko
• Maria Guleghina
• Alla Korot
• Alex Magic (Ukrainian Magician)
• Ian Pikula
• Alex Trebek (Ukrainian father)
• William Tytla

Business

• Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine's richest man
• Mikhail Fridman, Russian oligarch, billionaire
• Petro Jacyk, community benefactor
• Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal
• Viktor Pinchuk, Ukraine's second-richest man, son-in-law of Leonid Kuchma
• Petro Poroshenko, confectionery baron, close confidant of Viktor Yushchenko
• Jay Pritzker, founder of Hyatt and philanthropist
• Viktor Vekselberg, Russian oligarch, billionaire
• John Zubal, founder of Zubal Books

Cosmonauts

Many cosmonauts of the Soviet Union and modern Russia were ethnic Ukrainians or come from Ukraine. See Category:Ukrainian cosmonauts for the full list.

Ukrainian Leonid Kadeniuk, earlier a Soviet cosmonaut, made the first manned spaceflight of the Ukrainian space program.

Cossack Hetmans

• Predslav Lanckoronsky
• Ostap Dashkevych
• Dmytro Vyshnevetsky
• Ivan Svirgovsky
• Ivan Pidkova
• Kryshtof Kosynsky
• Hryhoryj Loboda
• Severyn Nalyvaiko
• Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny
• Mykhailo Doroshenko
• Taras Fedorovych
• Ivan Sulyma
• Dmytro Hunia
• Bohdan Khmelnytsky
• Ivan Vyhovsky
• Yurii Khmelnytsky
• Pavlo Teteria
• Petro Doroshenko
• Ivan Briukhovetsky
• Demian Mnohohrishny
• Mykhailo Khanenko
• Ivan Samoylovych
• Ivan Mazepa
• Pylyp Orlyk
• Ivan Skoropadsky
• Pavlo Polubotok
• Danylo Apostol
• Kyrylo Rozumovsky

Military Figures

• Roman Abraham, general of the Polish Army
• Ivan Chernyakhovsky, general of the Soviet Army
• Andrei Grechko, Marshal of the Soviet Union
• Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski, general of the Polish Army
• Ivan Kozhedub, legendary fighter pilot of WWII, top USSR ace.
• Yevhen Konovalets, OUN Military Leader
• Filip Konowal, Ukrainian Canadian war hero
• Petr Koshevoi, Marshal of the Soviet Union
• Zenon Kossak, OUN Military Leader
• Grigory Kulik, Marshal of the Soviet Union
• Rodion Malinovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union
• Kirill Moskalenko, Marshal of the Soviet Union
• Ivan Paskevich, field marshal of the Russian imperial army
• Stanislav Sheptytsky, general of the Polish Army
• Roman Shukhevych, the leader of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army
• Semyon Timoshenko, Marshal of the Soviet Union
• Mykola Tsybulenko, Major General
• Kliment Voroshilov, Marshal of the Soviet Union
• Andrei Yeremenko, Marshal of the Soviet Union

Politicians

Ukrainian politicians

• Stepan Bandera, leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement
• Vyacheslav Chornovil, leader of thr Rukh Party
• Dmytro Dontsov, political thinker (nationalist movement)
• Mykhaylo Hrushevsky, president of Ukrainian People's Republic
• Yevhen Konovalets, leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement
• Leonid Kravchuk, president
• Volodymyr Kubiyovych, geographer and politician (Ukrainian Central Committee)
• Leonid Kuchma, president
• Ruslana Lyzhichko, politician
• Nestor Makhno, leader of anarchists
• Andriy Melnyk, leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement
• Symon Petlura, president of the Ukrainian People's Republic
• Yevhen Petrushevych, president of the West Ukrainian People's Republic
• Mykola Plaviuk, president of Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1989–1992)
• Pavlo Skoropadsky, hetman of the Hetmanate (1918)
• Borys Tarasyuk, foreign affairs minister
• Yulia Tymoshenko, prime minister
• Avhustyn Voloshyn, president of Carpatho-Ukraine (1939)
• Volodymyr Vynnychenko, prime minister of Ukrainian People's Republic, writer
• Stepan Vytvytskyi, president of Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1954–1965)
• Viktor Yushchenko, president
• Viktor Yanukovych, prime minister, presidential candidate in 2004 elections

Zionists and Israeli politicians

• Chaim Arlosoroff, Zionist leader, leader of Mapai
• Levi Eshkol, prime minister of Israel
• Abba Hushi, mayor of Haifa
• Vladimir Jabotinsky, Zionist leader, founder of Revisionist Zionism
• Ephraim Katzir, Labor Party politician, president of Israel
• Golda Meir, prime minister of Israel
• Natan Sharansky, Soviet human rights activist and Israeli politician
• Moshe Sharett, prime minister of Israel
• Shevah Weiss, speaker of the Kneset
• Simon Wiesenthal, hunter of Nazis

Bolsheviks and Soviet politicians

• Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader
• Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet leader
• Adolph Joffe, Soviet diplomat
• Lazar Kaganovich, Soviet politician
• Nikita Khruschev, Soviet leader
• Nikolai Podgorny, member of Politburo
• Georgy Pyatakov, Bolshevik revolutionary, Trotskyist
• Karl Radek, Bolshevik politician
• Mykola Skrypnyk, Ukrainian Bolshevik leader
• Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, leader of the Communist Party of Ukraine (1972-1989)
• Leon Trotsky, leading Bolshevik revolutionary, founder of the Red Army
• Moisei Uritsky, Bolshevik revolutionary
• Volodymyr Zatonsky, Bolshevik politician
• Grigory Zinoviev, Bolshevik revolutionary

Soviet dissidents

• Vasily Grossman
• Petro Hryhorenko
• Lev Kopelev
• Sergei Kovalev
• Natan Sharansky
• Eduard Limonov

Russian politicians

• Sergei Kiriyenko, prime minister of Russian Federation
• Yevgeny Primakov, prime minister of Russian Federation
• Alexey Razumovsky, count of Imperial Russia
• Yevgeniy Yasin, minister of economy of Russian Federation
• Grigory Yavlinsky, liberal economist

Polish politicians

• Kazimierz Bartel, prime minister of Poland (II RP)
• Jacek Kuroń, opposition leader with the Solidarity movement
• Herman Lieberman, socialist politician
• Karl Radek, Bolshevik politician
• Wanda Wasilewska, communist politician

Religious leaders and theologians

Orthodox Christian and Greek Catholic

• Antin Angelovich, Greek Catholic Archbishop of Lviv (1808-1814)
• Hiob Boretsky, Orthodox metropolitan of Kiev (1620-1631)
• Josafat Bulhak, head of the Greek Catholic Church in Russia (1817-1838)
• Gregory Bulgar, metropolitan of Kiev (1458-1472)
• Gregory Camblak, metropolitan of Kiev (1415-1419)
• Dymytriy (Yarema), Patriarch of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (1993-2000)
• Hilarion of Kiev, the first native Rus metropolitan of Kiev (ca.1051-ca.1054)
• Lubomyr Cardinal Husar, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (2001-present), Major Archbishop of Kiev and Halych (2005-present)
• Saint John of Tobolsk, Orthodox metropolitan of Tobolsk (1711-1715)
• Lev Kishka, Greek Catholic metropolitan of Kiev (1714-1728)
• Blessed Gregory Khomyshyn, Greek Catholic bishop of Stanislav, martyr (1947)
• Blessed Josafat Kotsylovsky, Greek Catholic bishop of Peremyshl, martyr (1947)
• Sylvester Kossov, Orthodox metropolitan of Kiev (1647-1657)
• Mykhailo Levitsky, cardinal (1856), Greek Catholic Archbishop of Lviv, Primate of Galicia and Lodomeria (1848-1858)
• Myroslav Ivan Cardinal Lubachivsky, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (1984-2000)
• Saint Maxim-Gorlitsky, Orthodox priest, martyr
• Saint Petro Mohyla, Orthodox metropolitan of Kiev (1632-1647)
• Mefodiy (Kudryakov), metropolitan of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (2000-present)
• Mstyslav (Stepan Skrypnyk), Patriarch of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (1990-1993)
• Ipatij Potyj, Greek Catholic metropolitan of Kiev (1600-1613)
• Theophan Prokopovich, vice-president of the Orthodox Holy Synod
• Mykhailo Rahoza, Greek Catholic metropolitan of Kiev (1596-1599)
• Teodor Rostotsky, Greek Catholic metropolitan of Kiev (1788-1805)
• Josyf Veliamyn Rutsky, Greek Catholic metropolitan of Kiev (1613-1637)
• Josyf Sembratovich, Greek Catholic Archbishop of Lviv (1870-1882)
• Sylvester Sembratovich, cardinal (1894), Greek Catholic Archbishop of Lviv (1882-1898)
• Andriy Sheptytsky, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Metropolitan Archbishop of Lviv (1900-1944)
• Atanazy Sheptytsky, Greek Catholic bishop of Lviv (1715-1746), and metropolitan of Kiev (1728-1746)
• Bazyl Sheptytsky, Greek Catholic bishop of Lviv (1708-1715)
• Blessed Kliment Sheptytsky, Greek Catholic Exarch of Russia and Siberia (1939), Archimandrite of the Studites (1944), martyr (1951)
• Lev Sheptytsky, Greek Catholic bishop of Lviv (1748-1779) and metropolitan of Kiev (1778-1779)
• Josyf Shumlansky, Greek Catholic bishop of Lviv (1700-1708)
• Josyf Cardinal Slipyj, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (1944-1984)
• Jazon Smogozhevsky, Greek Catholic metropolitan of Kiev (1780-1788)
• Kliment Smolatych, metropolitan of Kiev (1147-1155)
• Meletius Smotrytsky, Ruthenian religious activist and author
• Filip Volodkovich, Greek Catholic metropolitan of Kiev (1762-1778)
• Saint Dmytrij (Danylo Tuptalo) of Rostov, Orthodox Saint
• Vasyl (Lypkivsky), first metropolitan of Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (1921-1937)
• Ihor Voznak, Greek Catholic Archbishop of Lviv (2005-present)
• Stephen Yavorsky, first president of the Orthodox Holy Synod (1721)

Jewish

• Jacob Avigdor, last Chief Rabbi of Drohobych
• Solomon Buber, talmudic scholar
• Jacob Frank, Jewish religious reformer who combined Judaism and Christianity
• Zvi Hirsch Chajes, talmudic scholar
• Tzvi Hirsh of Zidichov, Hasidic rabbi
• Israel ben Eliezer, founder of Hasidism
• Malbim, rabbi and preacher
• Nachman of Breslov, Hasidic leader
• Shalom Rokeach, first Rebbe of Belz (Hasidic dynasty) (1817-1855)
• Yehoshua Rokeach, second rebbe of Belz (1857-1894)
• Yissachar Dov Rokeach (I), third rebbe of Belz (1894-1926)
• Aharon Rokeach, fourth rebbe of Belz (1926-1957)
• Yoel Sirkis, great rabbi, one of Achronim
• Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai, Hebrew scholar
• Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev, Hasidic leader
• Israel Zolli, Chief Rabbi of Rome who converted to Roman Catholicism, born in Brody

Other

• Muhammad Asad, Jewish religious writer who converted to Islam, Pakistani diplomat
• Helena Blavatsky, founder of Theosophy
• Marian Jaworski, Cardinal, Archbishop of Lviv (Latin rite)
• Kajetan Sołtyk, Bishop of Kiev (Latin rite), then Bishop of Cracow
• Józef Teodorowicz, Archbishop of Lviv (Armenian rite)

Sport

Archery

• Tetyana Berezhna, archer
• Nataliya Burdeyna, archer
• Dmytro Hrachov, archer (Olympic bronze - team)
• Kateryna Palekha, archer
• Viktor Ruban, archer (Olympic bronze - team)
• Oleksandr Serdyuk, archer (Olympic bronze - team)
• Christopher Ondusky, archer
• Megan Ondusky, archer

Basketball

• Viktor Khryapa, basketball player
• Slava Medvedenko, basketball player
• Oleksiy Pecherov, basketball player
• Vitaly Potapenko, basketball player

Boxing

• Oleksandr Dimitrenko, boxer
• Volodymyr Klychko, boxer
• Vitaliy Klychko, boxer
• Vladimir Virchis, boxer

Chess

• Lev Alburt, Ukrainian Champion (1972, 1973, 1974)
• Izak Aloni, Lviv Champion (1936, 1939)
• Alexander Beliavsky, Champion of the USSR (1987, and thrice jointly - 1974, 1980, 1990)
• Ossip Bernstein, All-Russian Sub-Champion (1903)
• Efim Bogoljubow, Champion of the USSR (1924, 1925), FIDE World Champion (1928/29), Challenger for World Championship (1929, 1934)
• Fedor Bohatirchuk, Champion of the USSR (1927 - jointly), Ukrainian Sub-Champion (1924) and Champion (1937), Canadian Sub-Champion (1949)
• Isaac Boleslavsky, Ukrainian Champion (1938, 1939, 1940)
• David Bronstein, Ukrainian Sub-Champion (1940), Champion of the USSR (1948, 1949 - both jointly), Challenger for World Championship (1951),
• Oscar Chajes
• Josif Dorfman, Champion of the USSR (1977 - jointly)
• Fyodor Duz-Khotimirsky, Kiev Champion (1900, 1902, 1903, 1906)
• Alexander Evensohn, Kiev Champion (1914)
• Salo Flohr, winner of the 1957 Ukrainian Championship (off contest)
• Maurice Fox
• Henryk Friedman, seven-times Lviv Champion (1926-1934)
• Efim Geller, Ukrainian Champion (1950, 1957, 1958, 1959), Champion of the USSR (1955, 1979)
• Edward Gerstenfeld
• Vitali Golod, Ukrainian Champion (1991)
• Eduard Gufeld
• Mikhail Gurevich, Ukrainian Champion (1984), Champion of the USSR (1985 - jointly)
• Alexander Huzman
• Vasyl Ivanchuk, Champion of Europe (2004)
• Artur Kogan
• Alexander Konstantinopolsky, Kiev Champion five consecutive times (1932-1936)
• Irina Krush
• Kateryna Lahno
• Paul List, Odessa Champion (1908)
• Marta Litinskaya-Shul
• Moishe Lowtzky
• Adrian Mikhalchishin
• Alexander Onischuk
• Ruslan Ponomariov, FIDE World Champion (2002)
• Stepan Popel, Champion of Lviv (1930), Paris (1951, 1953, 1954) and eventually, of the Ukrainians in North America (USA and Canada)
• Ignatz von Popiel, Lviv Sub-Champion (1925)
• Vsevolod Rauzer, Ukrainian Champion (1927, 1933 - jointly)
• Oleg Romanishin, European Junior Champion (1973)
• Nicolas Rossolimo
• Ludmila Rudenko, Women's World Champion (1950-1953)
• Vladimir Savon, Ukrainian Champion (1969 - jointly), Champion of the USSR (1971)
• Lidia Semenova
• Leonid Stein, Ukrainian Champion (1960, 1962), Champion of the USSR (1963, 1965, 1966)
• Mark Taimanov, Champion of the USSR (1956)
• Vladimir Tukmakov, Ukrainian Champion (1970)
• Boris Verlinsky, Ukrainian Champion (1926), Champion of the USSR (1929)
• Yakov Vilner, Ukrainian Champion (1924, 1925, 1928)
• Daniel Yanofsky

Football (soccer)

• Oleksandr Aliev, footballer
• Igor Belanov, footballer, Ballon d'or (1986)
• Oleg Blokhin, footballer, Ballon d'or (1975)
• Walter Chyzowych, footballer, football coach
• Valeriy Lobanovs'kyi, football coach
• Oleh Luzhny, footballer
• Serhiy Rebrov, footballer
• Andriy Shevchenko, footballer, Ballon d'or (2004)
• Oleksandr Shovkovsky, footballer
• Anatoliy Tymoschuk, footballer

Gymnastics

• Iryna Deriugina, gymnast
• Maria Gorokhovskaya, gymnast (2 Olympic golds)
• Tatyana Gutsu, gymnast (Olympic gold)
• Lilia Podkopayeva, gymnast (Olympic gold)
• Larissa Latynina, gymnast (9 Olympic golds)
• Kateryna Serebrians'ka, gymnast (Olympic gold)
• Oxana Skaldina, gymnast (Olympic bronze)
• Olexandra Tymoshenko, gymnast (Olympic gold)
• Olena Vitrychenko, gymnast (Olympic bronze)
• Roman Zozulya, gymnast

Ice Hockey

• Ruslan Fedotenko, ice hockey player
• Orest Kindrachuk, ice hockey player
• Alexei Ponikarovsky, hockey player
• Terry Sawchuk, hockey player
• Denis Shvidki, hockey player
• Vitaly Vishnevsky, ice hockey player
• Alexei Zhitnik, ice hockey player
• Nikolai Zherdev, ice hockey player

Track & Field

• Valeri Borzov, sprinter (2 Olympic golds)
• Sergey Bubka, pole vault legend (Olympic gold), numerous world records
• Inessa Kravets, jumper (world record in triple jump)
• Vladimir Kuts, long distance runner (2 Olympic golds)
• Zhanna Pintusevych-Blok, sprinter (World Championship gold)
• Tamara & Irina Press, sister athletes (5 Olympic golds in total)

Other Sportsmen

• Oksana Baiul, figure skater (Olympic gold)
• Yana Klochkova, swimmer (4 Olympic golds)
• Lenny Krayzelburg, swimmer (now U.S. citizen) (3 Olympic golds)
• Valentin Mankin, sailor (3 Olympic golds)
• Andriy Medvedev, tennis player
• Fania Melnik, discus thrower (Olympic gold)
• Igor Olshansky, American football player
• Viktor Petrenko, figure skater (Olympic gold)
• Timur Taimazov, wieghtlifting (world and Olympic records)
• Viktor Tsybulenko, javelin (Olympic gold, Olympic bronze)
• Yaroslav Vynokur, billiards player (World Champion)
• Vassyl Virastyuk, worlds strongest man competition (1st place 2004)

Other

• Elena Filatova, Internet diarist
• Georgiy Gongadze, journalist whose murder was linked to government officials
• Hryhory Nestor, the oldest alive Ukrainian (116 years-old, born in 1891 in Galicia, then Austria-Hungary)
• Joseph Oleskiw, early promoter of immigration to Canada
• Snejana Onopka, supermodel
• Anatoly Onoprienko, serial killer
• Roxelana, or Khourrem (Hürrem), Sultan wife of Suleyman the Magnificent, (Anastassia Lisowska)
• Volodymyr Shayan
• Leonid Stadnik, world's tallest man
• Sergey Vovk, book reviewer, beginning writer
• Victoria Zdrok, erotic model
• Dave Humeniuk, famous Alliston resident.

See also

• List of Ukrainian Jews
• List of Galician Jews
• List of people by nationality
• list of people
• List of Ukrainian Americans
• Ukrainian Canadian
• Galicia (Central Europe)