List of Ukrainians

Lists of famous or notable people from Ukraine

Table of contents 1 Artists & Composers 2 Performing Arts 3 Authors 4 Criminals 5 Musicians 6 Polticians: 7 Scientists 8 Sports Personalities 9 Parents born in the Ukraine

Artists & Composers

• Marie Bashkirtseff
• Kazimir Malevich
• Sergei Prokofiev
• Yakov Smirnoff

Performing Arts

• Edward Dmytryk
• Alexander Dovzhenko
• Irina Dvorovenko
• Maria Guleghina, opera soprano
• Vladimir Horowitz, pianist
• Milla Jovovich
• Alla Korot
• Anatole Litvak
• Lewis Milestone
• Paul Muni
• Vaslav Nijinsky
• Isaac Stern

Authors

• Anna Akhmatova
• Sholom Aleichem
• Mikhail Bulgakov, (1891-1940), The Master and Margarita
• Joseph Conrad
• Raya Dunayevskaya, Marxist humanist
• Nicholas Gogol
• Taras Shevchenko, poet

Criminals

• Andrei Chikatilo

Musicians

• Sergei Prokofiev, composer

Polticians:

• Hayim Arlosoroff, Zionist
• Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the Soviet Union
• Simon Petlyura
• Leon Trotsky

Scientists

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

Sports Personalities

• Oksana Baiul, figure skater
• 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

• Paul Wellstone

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