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 69–70)), Fields medal laureate
Anatoly Fomenko (1945 (age 78–79))
Mark Kac (1914–1984), Jewish, Polish-American mathematician
Volodymyr Semenovych Korolyuk (1925 - 2020)
Mykhailo Krawtchouk
Yakiv Kulik
Volodymyr Marchenko
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
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
Alexander Shalimov, surgeon
Danylo Zabolotny
Serdyuk Valentin, orthopedic surgeon
Nicolai L. Volodos, cardiovascular surgeon
Nikolay Pirogov, inventor of a splint, sling, brace or cast
Engineers
Volodymyr Chelomey, ballistic missile and Ukrainian spacecraft designer
Valentyn Hlushko, European engineer
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), Slutsky equation (born in Russian Empire in the territory of Ukraine)
Ludwig von Mises, founding father of the Ukrainian western-style economics (1881–1973. Born in Austria-Hungary, on the territory of present-day Lviv)
Bohdan Hawrylyshyn (1926–2016), noted economist, visionary and an 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
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
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 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
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
Pavlo Zahrebelnyi
Raya Dunayevskaya, Marxist philosopher
Sam Honigberg, correspondent for The Billboard and publicist
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
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
Roman Abraham, general of the Polish Army
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".
Mykhailo Omelianovych-Pavlenko, general of the Ukrainian Liberation Army, commander of the Ukrainian Galician Army and Ukrainian People's Army
Ivan Paskevich, field marshal of the Russian imperial army
Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Lieutenant of Red Army female sniper
Alexander Pechersky, Soviet officer, leader of the Uprising in Sobibor extermination camp (1943)
Alfred Redl, Austrian counter-intelligence officer
Jakob Rosenfeld, general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army
Semyon Rudniev, major general, partisan leader, committed suicide to avoid capture by the Nazi
Pavel Rybalko, Marshal of Armored Forces
Pavlo Shandruk, general of the Ukrainian National Army
Mykola Shchors, colonel, the Shchors City named after him
Stanislav Sheptytsky, general of the Polish Army
Grigori Shtern, general of the Red Army
Roman Shukhevych, general and the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army
Stepan Shukhevych, otaman of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen and the Ukrainian Galician Army
Volodymyr Sinclair, general of the Ukrainian People's Army
Maksym Skorupsky, commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, pro-Western, killed many Jews and Russians
Hnat Stefaniv, colonel of the Ukrainian Galician Army
Roman Sushko, colonel of the Ukrainian Legion
Semyon Timoshenko, marshal of the Soviet Union, added his native village Furmanivka and other western territories in 1939
Yurii Tiutiunnyk, general of the Ukrainian People's Army
Yulia Tolopa - Russian-born volunteer who fought for Ukraine in the Russo-Ukrainian War
Mykola Tsybulenko, major general
Pyotr Vershigora, major general, partisan leader, WWII photographer
Dmytro Vitovsky, colonel of the Ukrainian Galician Army
Kliment Voroshilov, marshal of the Soviet Union
Andrei Yeremenko, marshal of the Soviet Union
Intelligence
Yakov Blumkin
Jack Childs
Morris Childs
Jacob Golos
Walter Krivitsky
Genrikh Lyushkov
Jakob Rudnik
Nathan Gregory Silvermaster
Abram Slutsky
Bohdan Stashynsky
Manfred Stern
Pavel Sudoplatov
Viktor Suvorov
Richard Yary
Mark Zborowski
Politicians
Ukrainian non-Soviet politicians
Dmytro Antonovych, minister of naval affairs, and of arts of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1917–1918 and 1918–1919)
Volodymyr Bahaziy, head of Kyiv City Administration under German occupation (October 1941–January 1942)
Ivan Bahrianyi, president (acting) of the UNR in exile (1965–1967)
Stepan Bandera, leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B)
Oleksander Barvinsky, leader of the Christian Social Movement in Ukraine
Vyacheslav Chornovil, leader of the People's Movement of Ukraine
Dmytro Dontsov, Ukrainian nationalist writer, publisher, journalist and political thinker
Dmytro Doroshenko, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Hetmanate (1918)
Sydir Holubovych, Prime Minister of the West Ukrainian National Republic (1919)
Vsevolod Holubovych, Prime Minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1918)
Volodymyr Horbulin, Secretary of National Security and Defense Council (1994–1999, 2006)
Oleksandr Horin, Ambassador to the Netherlands 2011-17
Mykhaylo Hrushevsky, President of the Ukrainian People's Republic
Ivan Hrynokh, Vice President of the Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council
Stepan Klochurak, Prime Minister of the Hutsul Republic (1919)
Yevhen Konovalets, leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (1929–1938)
Leonid Kravchuk, President of Ukraine (1991–1994)
Volodymyr Kubiyovych, geographer and politician (Ukrainian Central Committee)
Leonid Kuchma, President of Ukraine (1994–2005)
Mykola Lebed, head of the Security Service for the UPA
Serhiy Leshchenko - Ukrainian journalist, politician and public figure
Dmytro Levytsky, head of the Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance (UNDO) (1925–1935)
Kost Levytsky, Prime Minister of the West Ukrainian National Republic (1918–1919)
Andriy Livytskyi, President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1926–1954).
Mykola Livytskyi, President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1967–1989).
Vyacheslav Lypynsky, leader of the Ukrainian Democratic-Agrarian Party
Nestor Makhno, leader of anarchists
Isaak Mazepa, Prime Minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1919–1920 and 1948–1952)
Andriy Melnyk, leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-M)
Volodymyr Ohryzko, Minister for Foreign Affairs (2007–2009)
Symon Petlura, President of the Ukrainian People's Republic
Yevhen Petrushevych, President of the West Ukrainian National Republic
Mykola Plaviuk, President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1989–1992)
Petro Poroshenko, President of Ukraine (2014–2019)
Vyacheslav Prokopovych, Prime Minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1920, 1921, 1926–1939)
Lev Rebet, Acting Prime Minister of the Independent Ukrainian Republic (1941)
Pavlo Shandruk, head of the Ukrainian National Committee in Weimar (1945)
Pavlo Skoropadsky, Hetman of Ukraine or head of the Hetmanate (1918)
Yaroslav Stetsko, Prime Minister of the Independent Ukrainian Republic (1941)
Slava Stetsko, leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement
Kyryl Studynsky, head of the People's Assembly of Western Ukraine (1939)
Borys Tarasyuk, Minister for Foreign Affairs (1998–2000 and 2005–2007)
Serhiy Tihipko, Minister of Economics (2000)
Yulia Tymoshenko, Prime Minister of Ukraine (2007–present)
Anatole Vakhnianyn, leader of the Christian Social Movement in Ukraine
Avhustyn Voloshyn, President of Carpatho-Ukraine (1939)
Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Prime Minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic, writer
Stepan Vytvytskyi, President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1954–1965)
Nikolaus (Mykola) Wassilko, Ritter von, member of the delegation in Brest-Litowsk, deputy with the rank of a minister at the ZUNR in Vienna (1918–1919), ambassador of Germany and Switzerland (1919–1924)
Volodymyr Yaniv, member of the Ukrainian National Committee in Kraków (1941)
Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Minister for Foreign Affairs (2007), Prime Minister of Ukraine (2014)
Serhiy Yefremov, deputy head of the Central Rada (1917)
Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine (2005–2010)
Viktor Yanukovych, Prime Minister of Ukraine (2002–2004, 2006–2007) and President of Ukraine (2010–2015)
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine (2019–present)
Zionists and Israeli politicians
Chaim Arlosoroff, Zionist activist, leader of Mapai
Daniel Auster, first Hebrew mayor of Jerusalem
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, historian, Labor Zionist leader, and President of Israel
Ber Borochov, Zionist activist
Levi Eshkol, Prime Minister of Israel
Ahad Ha'am, Zionist activist
Abba Hushi, mayor of Haifa
Volodymyr Jabotynsky, Zionist leader, founder of Revisionist Zionism, writer and journalist in Hebrew and Russian language
Ephraim Katzir, Israeli biophysicist, President of Israel
Abraham Kaufman, leader of Jewish community in China
Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel
Leo Motzkin, Zionist activist
Leon Pinsker, Zionist activist, leader of the Hovevei Zion
Natan Sharansky, Soviet human rights activist and Israeli politician
Moshe Sharett, Prime Minister of Israel
Shevah Weiss, Israeli lawman and Labor Party politician, speaker of the Knesset
Simon Wiesenthal, hunter of Nazis
Svitlana Zalishchuk - politician, public leader, journalist, and human rights LGBT campaigner and former member of Ukrainian Parliament
Bolsheviks and Soviet politicians
Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko, Bolshevik leader and diplomat, one of the leaders of the October Revolution
Yevgenia Bosch, Bolshevik politician, People's Secretary of Internal Affairs (1917–1918)
Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader (1964–1982)
Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet leader (1984–1985), Brezhnev's chief of staff
Boris Shcherbina, a Soviet politician who served as a vice-chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1984 to 1989. Supervisor of Soviet crisis management during 1986 Chernobyl disaster and the 1988 Armenian earthquake.
Grigory Petrovsky- Old Bolshevik, participated in signing the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR, one of the officials responsible for implementing Stalin's policies such as collectivization.
Hryhoriy Hrynko – finance minister of the Soviet Union (1930-1937)
Vlas Chubar – finance minister of the Soviet Union (1937-1938)
Yakov Malik, the head of the Africa department of the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Soviet ambassador to the United Kingdom,
Vitold Fokin, Soviet politician, Central Planning Commission head, first PM after the Independence
Yakov Gamarnik, Soviet politician
Serafima Hopner, Bolshevik politician
Semyon Ignatyev, Soviet politician
Adolph Joffe, Soviet diplomat
Lazar Kaganovich, Soviet politician
Yuriy Kotsiubynsky, Bolshevik politician
Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet leader (1953–1964), returned Crimea to Ukraine
Emanuel Kviring, Bolshevik politician
Anatoly Lunacharsky, first Soviet education minister, Latin alphabet advocate (similar to Atatürk), was sidelined by Stalin
Solomon Lozovsky, Bolshevik politician
Dmitry Manuilsky, Bolshevik politician
Vitaliy Masol, Central Planning Commission head, third PM after the Independence
Lev Mekhlis, Soviet politician
Nikolai Podgorny, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (1965–1977), betrayed Khrushchev and later regretted
Andriy Sheptytsky, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Metropolitan Archbishop of Lviv (1900–1944), political victim of the Soviet Union and was proclaimed as the enemy of the state.
Klymentiy Sheptytsky, Greek Catholic Exarch of Russia and Siberia (1939), Archimandrite of the Studites (1944), martyr (1951), died in GULAG, victimized by Soviets for being Ukrainian
Josyf Slipyj, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (1944–1984), exited to Siberia and released in xxxx,
Meletius Smotrytsky, Ruthenian religious activist and author (d. 1633)
Stefan Soroka, Ukrainian Greek Catholic archbishop of Philadelphia (2000–2018)
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)
Vladimir Grabinsky
Eduard Gufeld
Ilya Gurevich
Mykhailo Gurevich, Ukrainian Champion (1984), Champion of the USSR (1985 – jointly)
Alexander Huzman
Vasyl Ivanchuk, Champion of Europe (2004)
Stefan Izbinsky
Nicolai Jasnogrodsky
Abram Khavin, Champion of Western Ukraine (1940), Ukrainian Champion (1954)
Artur Kogan
Alexander Konstantinopolsky, Kyiv Champion five consecutive times (1932–1936)
Irina Krush
Gennady Kuzmin, Ukrainian Champion (1969, 1989, 1999 – all jointly), Sub-Champion of the USSR (1973)
Kateryna Lahno
Konstantin Lerner, Ukrainian Champion (1978, 1982)
Naum Levin
Paul List, Odesa Champion (1908)
Marta Litinskaya-Shul, World Senior Women Chess Champion (2002)
Isaac Lipnitsky, Ukrainian Champion (1949, 1956)
Moishe Lowtzky
Vladimir Malaniuk, Ukrainian Champion (1980, 1981, 1986)
Adrian Mikhalchishin
Anna Muzychuk
Illia Nyzhnyk
Alexander Onischuk
Sam Palatnik
Ruslan Ponomariov, FIDE World Champion (2002)
Stepan Popel, Champion of Lviv (1930), Western Ukraine (1943 – jointly), Paris (1951, 1953, 1954) and eventually, of the Ukrainians in North America (USA and Canada)
Mikhail Nemirovsky (born 1974), Canadian-German ice hockey player
Alexei Ponikarovsky, hockey player
Ivan Pravilov (1963–2012), ice hockey coach, arrested for sexual abuse of teenage student, committed suicide by hanging in prison
Denis Shvidki, ice hockey player
Kostiantyn Simchuk, ice hockey player
Vicky Sunohara, ice hockey player
Vitaly Vishnevsky, ice hockey player
Nikolai Zherdev, ice hockey player
Alexei Zhitnik, ice hockey player
Swimming
Yana Klochkova, swimmer (4 Olympic golds)
Lenny Krayzelburg, swimmer (now U.S. citizen); 4-time Olympic champion (100 m backstroke, 200-m backstroke, twice 4x100-m medley relay); 3-time world champion (100 m and 200-m backstroke, 4×100-m medley) and 2-time silver (4×100-m medley, 50-m backstroke); 3 world records (50-, 100-, and 200-m backstroke)
Maryna Piddubna, Paralympic swimmer
Maxim Podoprigora, Olympic swimmer
Tennis
Yulia Beygelzimer, tennis player
Alona Bondarenko, tennis player
Kateryna Bondarenko, tennis player
Gail Brodsky (born 1991), American tennis player
Olga Fridman (born 1998), Ukrainian-Israeli tennis player
Julia Glushko (born 1990), Ukrainian-born Israeli tennis player
Mariya Koryttseva, tennis player
Viktoriya Kutuzova, tennis player
Andriy Medvedev, tennis player
Tatiana Perebiynis, tennis player
Elina Svitolina, tennis player (winner of 2020 Olympic Bronze Medal Women's Singles)
Olga Savchuk, tennis player
Julia Vakulenko, tennis player
Dayana Yastremska, tennis player
Maryna Zanevska, tennis player (winner of the 2009 US Open - Girls' Doubles)
Track & field
Aleksandr Bagach, shot putter
Valeriy Borzov, sprinter (2 Olympic golds)
Serhiy Bubka, pole vault legend (Olympic gold), numerous world records
Vasiliy Bubka, also a pole vaulter, older brother of Sergey/Serhiy
Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko (born 1989), Israeli triple jumper and long jumper
Inessa Kravets, jumper (world record in triple jump)
Vladislav Bykanov (born 1989), Ukrainian-born Israeli Olympic short track speed skater
Valentina Chepiga (born 1962), IFBB professional bodybuilder
Olga Danilov (born 1973), Israeli Olympic speed skater
Fedor Emelianenko, mixed martial arts fighter
Charles Goldenberg (1911–1986), American All-Pro National Football League player
Leonid Kolumbet, Olympic cycling medalist
Marina Kravchenko, Soviet and Israel national table tennis teams
Artur Kyshenko, K-1 kickboxing champion
Yevhen Lapinsky, Olympic champion volleyball player
Valentin Mankin, sailor (3 Olympic golds); only sailor in Olympic history to win gold medals in three different classes (yachting: finn class, tempest class, and star class), silver (yachting, tempest class)
Igor Olshansky, American football player, DL (Miami Dolphins)
Olyeg Olyeksandrovich Prudius aka Vladimir Kozlov, pro wrestler
Sergy Richter (born 1989), Israeli Olympic sport shooter
Ian Rubin, Russia national rugby league team
Vasyl Virastyuk, world's strongest man competition (1st place 2004)
Igor Vovchanchyn, mixed martial arts fighter
Yaroslav Vynokur, billiards player (World Champion)
Oligarchs
Ihor Kolomoyskyi, Ukrainian businessman of Jewish descent
Gennadiy Korban, Ukrainian businessman of Jewish descent, collector of modern and contemporary art
Olena Pinchuk, daughter of Ukrainian second president Leonid Kuchma
Viktor Pinchuk, Jewish-Ukrainian businessman
Eduard Prutnik, Ukrainian businessman and politician
Rinat Akhmetov, Ukrainian businessman and oligarch
Dmytro Firtash, Ukrainian businessman and investor
Other
Peter Adamshock, father of Nick Adams
Catherine Kutz Adamshock, mother of Nick Adams
Volodymyr Butkevych, judge
Markiyan Dimidov, concentration camp survivor
Georgiy Gongadze, journalist, civil activist
Stefan Kiszko, man wrongly convicted of murder in England
Joseph Oleskiw, early promoter of immigration to Canada
Anatoly Onoprienko, serial killer
Roxelana (born Anastassia Lisowska), or Khourrem (Hürrem), Sultan wife of Suleyman the Magnificent
Leonid Stadnik, unofficially the world's tallest man
Taras Kulakov (born 1987), born to a Russian mother and Ukrainian father. He is now a citizen of the US. He rose to internet fame as a YouTube personality known for life hack and gadget reviewing videos.
Vladlen Tatarsky (pseudonym of Maxim Fomin), convicted criminal and war propagandist