- Igor Sikorsky
Igor Ivanovich (or Ihor Ivanovych) Sikorsky (25 May, 1889 - 26 October, 1972) was a pioneer of aviation who designed the first four-engine fixed-wing aircraft and the first successful helicopter of the most common configuration (single main rotor tail rotor).
- Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev (1959-February 232007) was a Russian journalist whose grandfather and namesake, Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, held the top leadership post of First Secretary of the Soviet Union's Communist Party from 1953 to 1964. Five years after his birth in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, young Nikita's privileged position was drastically diminished as his grandfather was removed from power on October 141964 and died in retirement seven years later.
- Golda Meir
Golda Meir (born Golda Mabovitz on 3 May 1898, died December 8, 1978, also known as Golda Myerson from 1917-1956), was one of the founders of the State of Israel. Meir served as the Minister of Labour, Foreign Minister, and then as the fourth Prime Minister of Israel from March 17, 1969, to June 3, 1974. As the BBC put it, Golda Meir was the "Iron Lady" of Israeli politics years before the epithet was coined for Margaret Thatcher.
- Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Afanasievich Bulgakov (Russian: Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков;, Kiev - March 10, 1940, Moscow) was a Russian-language novelist and playwright of the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for the novel "The Master and Margarita".
- Vladimir Horowitz
Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz (1 October 1903 - 5 November 1989) was a Russian-American classical pianist. In his prime, he was considered one of the most distinguished pianists of any age. His technique, use of tone color and the excitement of his playing were legendary. Though sometimes criticized for being overly mannered and showy, he has a huge and passionate following and is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century.
- Mila Kunis
Milena Markovna Kunis (Милена Маркoвна Кунис, better known as Mila Kunis, is a Ukrainian-American actress. She is best known for playing Jackie Burkhart on "That '70s Show", and also performs the voice of the character Meg Griffin on the popular animated series "Family Guy".
- Vaslav Nijinsky
Vaslav Fomich Nijinsky (Вацлав Фомич Нижинский; transliterated: Vatslav Fomich Nizhinsky; Polish: Wacław Niżyński) (March 12, 1890 - April 8, 1950) was a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer of Polish origin. Nijinsky was one of the most gifted male dancers in history, and he became celebrated for his virtuosity and for the depth and intensity of his characterizations.
- Serge Lifar
Serge Lifar (April 2, 1905 - December 15, 1986) was a ballet dancer and choreographer of Ukrainian origin, famous as one of the greatest male ballet dancers of the 20th century. From rather unpromising beginnings, Serge Lifar rose to the ranks of leading international ballet dancers and choreographers of the twentieth century. Though often dismissed as a derivative choreographer and a less-than-stellar dancer by his many detractors, …
- Yevgeny Primakov
Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov is a Russian politician and a former Prime Minister of Russia. He was also the last Speaker of the Soviet of the Union of the Supreme Soviet, and the Russian Foreign Minister responsible for changing the foreign policy from largely unconditional support of the United States to a more nationalist defense of Russia's interests. Primakov was born in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR and grew up in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR.
- Dmitry Levitzky
Dmitry Levitzky (Dmitry Grigoryevich Levitsky was a Russian-Ukrainian portrait painter.
- Oleg Blokhin
Oleh Volodymyrovych Blokhin (born November 5, 1952 in Kiev, Soviet Union, now Ukraine), is a Ukrainian football(soccer) coach who was formerly a striker for the USSR national football team. He was named European Footballer of the Year in 1975.
- Iryna Zhylenko
Iryna Volodymyrivna Zhylenko (b. 28 April, 1941 in Kiev) is an Ukrainian poet. She is a wife of Volodimir Drozd. Zhylenko was an author of intimate and landscape poetry. She was also an author of reportages and poems for children. A laureate of Shevchenko Award for her collection of poetry "Verchirka u starij vynarnij" (An Evening in the Old Winery)
- Leonid Chernovetskyi
Leonid Chernovetskyi (b. November 25, 1951 in Kharkiv, Ukraine) is the Mayor of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. Before his political career, he was a successful businessman, founder and controlling stakeholder of the "Pravex Bank", one of the largest banks in Ukraine, and the Pravex Group. Chernovetskyi is also a longtime philanthropist of Kiev, concentrated on caring of the city homeless and poor.
- Ruslan Fedotenko
Ruslan Fedotenko ; born January 18, 1979 in Kiev, USSR, now Ukraine) is a professional ice hockey player for the New York Islanders.
- Max Levchin
Max Levchin (b. 1975) is a Russian-born American computer scientist and entrepreneur widely known as co-founder (with Peter Thiel) and former Chief technology officer of PayPal. Originally from Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union), he moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1991. He received his bachelor's degree in computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1997 and co-founded two companies that made Internet-tools, …
- Ilya Ehrenburg
Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg, (Kiev, Ukraine) - August 31, 1967 (Moscow, Soviet Union) was a Soviet Russian writer and journalist whose 1954 novel The Thaw gave name to the Khrushchev Thaw.
- Feofan Prokopovich
Feofan/Theophan Prokopovich (June 18, 1681, Kiev-September 19, 1736, St. Petersburg) was an archbishop and statesman in the Russian Empire, of Ukrainian descent. He elaborated and implemented Peter the Great's reform of the Russian Orthodox Church. One of the founding fathers of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Prokopovich wrote much religious verse and some of the most enduring sermons in the Russian language.
- Maya Deren
Maya Deren, born Eleanora Derenkowsky, was an American avant-garde filmmaker and film theorist of the 1940s and 1950s. Deren was also a choreographer, dancer, poet, writer and photographer.
- Alexander Archipenko
Alexander Porfiryevich Archipenko (also referred to as Olexandr, Oleksandr, or Aleksandr) (May 30, 1887 - February 25, 1964) was a Ukrainian avant-garde artist, sculptor and graphic artist.
- Anna Bessonova
Anna Bessonova "Ukrainian: "Ганна Володїмїріівна Безсонова "Ganna Volodymyriivna Bezsonova" / "Russian: "Анна Владимировна Бессонова" Anna Vladimirovna Biessonova" is an Individual Rhythmic Gymnast born July 29, 1984 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Her father is the famous "Dynamo Kiev" football player Vladimir Bessonov and her mother, Viktoria, was a two time world champion group rhythmic gymnast.
- Igor Moiseyev
Igor Alexandrovich Moiseyev (born Kiev,) has been widely acclaimed as the greatest 20th-century choreographer of folk dance. Moiseyev graduated from the Bolshoi Theatre ballet school in 1924 and danced in the theatre until 1939. His first choreography in the Bolshoi was "Footballer" in 1930 and the last was "Spartacus" in 1954.
- Irina Dvorovenko
Irina Dvorovenko is a classical ballet dancer. She was born in Kiev, Ukraine. She began her ballet training at the age of 10 at the Kiev Ballet School. She joined the National Opera and Ballet Theatre of Kiev in 1990 as a soloist, rising to the rank of Principal Dancer in 1992. Her repertoire with that company included Gamzatti in "La Bayadère", the title roles in "Cinderella" and Paquita, Kitri, the Queen of the Driads and Mercedes in "Don Quixote", …
- Eugene Volokh
Eugene Volokh (born Yevgeniy Volokh,, February 29, 1968) is an American legal commentator and law professor at the UCLA School of Law (located on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles). He publishes the widely-read weblog "The Volokh Conspiracy" and is commonly cited in the American media.
- Elena Baltacha
Elena Baltacha ; is a Ukrainian-born tennis player who has played for Great Britain and Scotland. Baltacha was born August 14, 1983 in Kiev, Ukraine. She comes from a sporting family: her father Sergei was a professional footballer, representing the USSR and playing in the United Kingdom with Ipswich Town and St Johnstone, and her mother Olga represented the USSR in both the pentathlon and heptathlon at the Olympic Games.
- Anatoly Kuznetsov
Anatoly Vasilievich Kuznetsov was a Russian language Soviet writer who described his experiences in German-occupied Kiev during WWII in his internationally acclaimed novel "Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel". The book was originally published in a censored form in 1966 in Russian language.
- Anton Babchuk
Anton Anatoliyevich Babchuk, born May 6 1984 in Kiev, Ukraine, is a Russian Professional Hockey defenceman in the National Hockey League who has played for the Chicago Blackhawks and Carolina Hurricanes.
- Nikolai Berdyaev
Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev was a Russian religious and political philosopher.
- Irina Deriugina
Irina Deriugina Russian: Ирина Дерюгина "Irina Deryugina" (born 11 January, 1958 in Kyiv, Ukraine) was an Individual Rhythmic Gymnast. She is the only Soviet rhythmic gymnast who possesses two all around world titles - 1977 & 1979. Her mother, Albina was her coach. Irina was an expressive and ballerina-esque gymnast. Her success influenced the further development of rhythmic gymnastics in Kyiv. At age 10 in 1968, Irina entered the National Ballet School, …
- Vitaly Potapenko
Vitaly Mykolayovych Potapenko (born March 21 1975 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian professional basketball player who currently plays for the Sacramento Kings of the NBA. He played college basketball at Wright State University and was selected 12th overall by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 1996 NBA Draft. Nicknamed "The Ukraine Train", he has played for the Cavaliers, the Boston Celtics and the Seattle SuperSonics in his NBA career.
- Lev Kopelev
Lev Zalmanovich Kopelev, German spelling Lew Kopelew: April 9, 1912 – June 18, 1997) was a Soviet Russian author and a dissident. Kopelev was born in Kiev, Ukraine, to a middle-class Jewish family. In 1926, his family moved to Kharkov. While a student at Kharkov State University in the philosophy faculty, Kopelev began writing in the Russian and Ukrainian languages; some of his articles were published in the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper.
- Alexei Ponikarovsky
Alexei Ponikarovsky (born April 9, 1980 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, SU, now Ukraine) is a professional ice hockey player in the NHL. Since 1998 he has played left wing for the Toronto Maple Leafs and their former AHL affiliate, the St. John's Maple Leafs. On June 7th, 2007 Ponikarovsky became a Canadian Citizen during a ceremony in Etobicoke, Ontario.
- Eugene Hütz
Eugene Hütz is a musician and actor. He moved from Ukraine to Burlington, Vermont with his parents following the Chernobyl nuclear accident, living as a refugee from the age 14. Later, he moved to New York, where he now fronts and plays acoustic guitar for his gypsy-punk band Gogol Bordello. Hütz also DJs regularly at Mehanata in New York City.
- Valeri Lobanovsky
Valery Vasilyevich Lobanovsky - or "Valeriy Vasylyovych Lobanovskyi" - (January 6 1939 - May 13 2002) was a Ukrainian football manager. He is most famous for his spells managing Dynamo Kyiv, the Ukraine national football team, and the USSR national football team. In 1975 his Dynamo Kyiv team became the first side from the Soviet Union to win a major European trophy when they beat Hungarian side Ferencváros in the final of the Cup Winners' Cup.
- Vitaly Korotich
Vitaly Korotich is a Ukrainian and Russian writer and journalist. Vitaly Korotich was born in 1936 in Kiev. In 1959 he graduated from Kiev Medical University. Vitaly Korotich was a doctor in 1959-66. In late 80-s - early 90-s years of 20th century Vitaly Korotich was editor-in-chief of Ogonyok Magazine in Moscow, which made, as some say, a substantial contribution in media freedom promotion in former USSR.
- Viktor Nekrasov
Viktor Platonovich Nekrasov (June 17, 1911, Kiev - September 3, 1987, Paris) was a Russian writer, journalist and editor. Nekrasov graduated with a degree in architecture in 1936. Between 1937 and 1941, he was an actor and set designer with the Kiev Russian Drama Theater. During World War II, he served in the Red Army (1941-1944) and fought in the Battle of Stalingrad.
- Alexei Zhitnik
Alexei Zhitnik (pronounced ZHIHT-nihk) (born October 10, 1972 in Kiev, U.S.S.R. (now Ukraine)), is a Ukrainian-born ice hockey defenceman who currently plays for the Atlanta Thrashers of the National Hockey League.
- Nikolai Zherdev
Nikolai Zherdev born November 5, 1984 in Kiev, U.S.S.R., (now Ukraine) is a professional ice hockey winger currently playing for the Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League.
- Natalia Godunko
Natalia Godunko Russian: Наталья Александровна Годунько Natal'ya Aleksandrovna Godunko Ukrainian: Наталія Годунко Nataliya Godunko (born December 5th, 1984 in Kyiv, Ukraine) is an Individual Rhythmic Gymnast. She started rhythmic gymnastics in 1990 at age 6. She trains in Kyiv under the mother/daughter coaching team of Albina and Irina Deriugina. Natalia has been on the Ukrainian National Team since 1998.
- Alina Kozich
Alina Kozich (born December 16, 1987 in Ukraine) is a Ukrainian gymnast. She is from Kiev and was a member of the 2004 Ukrainian Olympic team in Athens, Greece. She started Gymnastics at the age of 5 and her younger sister Olha is also a very talented gymnast. Alina first came to prominence at the tender age of 13 when she competed at the 2001 European Youth Olympics in Murcia, …
- Misha Mengelberg
Misha Mengelberg (born June 5, 1935) is a Dutch jazz pianist and composer. He won the Gaudeamus International Composers Award in 1961. Mengelberg was born in Kiev in Ukraine, the son of the conductor Karel Mengelberg, who was himself the nephew of the conductor Willem Mengelberg. He briefly studied architecture before entering the Royal Conservatory in The Hague where he studied music from 1958 to 1964.