- Oleg Protasov
Oleh Valerievich Protasov - or Oleg Valerievich Protasov (born February 4, 1964, in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) is a former football striker. He was a key member of the USSR national team throughout the 1980s. Protasov's 29 goals for the Soviet Union are second in the team's history, behind Oleg Blokhin's 42. Protasov is currently coaching Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. He won the Soviet Championship twice and was named Soviet Footballer of the Year in 1987.
- Oksana Baiul
Oksana Baiul (born November 16, 1977) is a professional figure skater and Olympic gold medalist.
- Anatoliy Demyanenko
Anatoliy Vasilovič Demyanenko is a Ukrainian former football player, currently Dynamo Kyiv's football coach. He was a longtime Dynamo Kyiv captain and a prolific winger who could patrol the entire flank from defense to offense
- Kliment Voroshilov
Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov, popularly known as Klim Voroshilov (December 2, 1969) was a Soviet military commander and politician. Voroshilov was born in Verkhneye, near Yekaterinoslav (now Dnipropetrovsk), Ukraine, under the Russian Empire. He joined the Bolshevik party in 1903. Following the Russian Revolution of 1917 he was a member of the Ukrainian provisional government and Commissar for Internal Affairs.
- Ilya Kabakov
Ilya Kabakov, Russian Илья Иосифович Кабаков (September 30 1933) is an American conceptual artist of Russian-Jewish origin, born in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. He worked for thirty years in Moscow, from the 1950s until the late 1980s. He now lives and works on Long Island. He was named by ArtNews as one of the "ten greatest living artists" in 2000. Throughout his forty-year plus career, Kabakov has produced a wide range of paintings, drawings, …
- Vitaliy Reva
Vitaliy Reva (born November 19, 1974) is a Ukrainian professional football player. Born in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, Reva is former goalkeeper for FC Dynamo Kyiv and the Ukrainian national football team. Reva started his career for FC Polygraphtechnik in 1993-1995. He then transferred to FC CSKA Kyiv, where he played for 6 seasons until 2001 when he transferred to FC Dynamo Kyiv, where he plays to this very day.
- Igor Olshansky
Igor Olshansky (born May 3, 1982 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) is the first Soviet-born player in the National Football League. Igor moved from Ukraine to San Francisco when he was 9 years old. Currently Olshansky wears jersey #99 for the Chargers.
- Oleksandr Rykun
Oleksandr Rikun is a professional football player for FC Metalist Kharkiv and the Ukrainian national football team. Rikun was born on May 6, 1978 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. Rikun is a midfielder, and his squad number is 25.
- Kyrylo Fesenko
Kyrylo Fesenko (born December 24 1986, in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian professional basketball player. He was drafted 38th overall in the second round of the 2007 NBA Draft by the Philadelphia 76ers and then traded to the Utah Jazz. He is a 7'1" 270 lb center.
- Leonid Levin
Leonid Levin (born November 2, 1948, in Dnipropetrovsk USSR) is a computer scientist. He studied under Andrey Kolmogorov. He obtained his first Ph.D. in 1972 at Moscow University. Later, he emigrated to the USA in 1978 and earned another Ph.D at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979. He is well known for his work in randomness in computing, algorithmic complexity and intractability, foundations of mathematics and computer science, algorithmic probability, …
- Evgeny Kucherevsky
Evgeny Mefodyevich Kucherevsky (6 August 1941 - 26 August 2006) was a Ukrainian football coach. He is most famous for his spells managing Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, which, under his helm, won the Soviet Championship in 1988, took 2nd place twice in 1987 and 1989, as well as the USSR Cup in 1989. Dnipro's recent success in the first half of the 2000s is mostly attributed to his coaching as well.
- Moses Schönfinkel
Moses Schönfinkel, also known as Moisei Isai'evich Sheinfinkel' Шейнфинкель (September 4, 1889 Ekaterinoslav (now "Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine") - 1942, Moscow) was a Jewish/Soviet logician and mathematician. He attended the Novorossiysk University of Odessa, where he studied mathematics with Samuil Osipovich Shatunovskii (1859-1929), who worked in geometry and the foundations of mathematics.
- Mikhail Nekrich
Mikhail Nekrich is a Russian-born music producer, arranger, composer. <br> He was the founder of a popular, unique children's band Masterock in 1975. <br> He lives in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, and has written, arranged, recorded and produced music for theatre, film, TV, radio.<br>; Married to a musician Natalia Nekrich. His astrological sign is Capricorn.
- Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin
Prince (Reichsfürst) Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin-Tavricheski (September 131739 (NS: September 24)-October 5 1791 (NS: October 16)) was a Russian general-field marshal, statesman, and favourite of Catherine II the Great. He is primarily remembered for his efforts to colonize the sparsely populated wild steppes of Southern Ukraine, which passed to Russia under the Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji (1774). Among the towns founded by Potemkin are Kherson, Nikolaev (Mykolayiv), …
- Gregor Piatigorsky
Gregor Piatigorsky was a Ukrainian cellist well known in his time. Gregor Piatigorsky, or occasionally known as "Grisha," was born in Ekaterinoslav and studied violin and piano with his father as a child. After seeing and hearing the cello, he determined to become a cellist and constructed a play cello with two sticks. He was given a real cello when he was seven. He won a scholarship to the Moscow Conservatory, …
- Katherine Esau
Katherine Esau (3 April, 1898 - 4 June 1997) was a German-American botanist. She was born in Yekaterinoslav, Russian Empire ("now Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine") to a family of Mennonites of German descent. After the Revolution her family moved to Germany, and then to California, where she achieved her doctorate in 1931. Esau was a pioneering plant anatomist - perhaps the greatest plant anatomist of the 20th century.
- Yevgeny Vuchetich
Yevgeny Viktorovich Vuchetich (1974) was a prominent sculptor and artist of the Soviet Union, Hero of Socialist Labor (1967), People's Artist of the USSR (1959), known for his heroic monuments, often of allegoric style. Vuchetich was of Montenegrin descent, born in Yekaterinoslav (now Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine). He was a prominent representative of the Socialist Realism style and was awarded with the Lenin Prize (1970) and Stalin Prize (1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950), …
- Maria Sokil
Maria Sokil (Rudnytsky) (1902-1999) was a famous Ukrainian opera singer. Sokil was born in the village of Zherebets' (now Kirov) in the Zaporizhia Oblast on October 19, 1902. She studied at the conservatory in Dnipropetrovsk from 1920 to 1925. She made her opera debut in Kharkiv in 1927 in the role of Marguerite in Gounod's opera "Faust" and became the prima donna lyric soprano of that opera theater.
- Leonid Zhabotinsky
Leonid Ivanovych Zhaboynsky (Ukrainian: Леонiд Iванович Жаботинський; born January 28, 1938 in village Uspenka, Sumy Oblast, Ukrainian SSR) was an outstanding Soviet weightlifter who set 17 world records in the superheavyweight class, and won gold medals at the 1964 and 1968 Olympics. Zhabotynsky, spent his childhood years in Kharkiv.
- Ivan Starov
Ivan Yegorovich Starov (1745-1808) was a Russian architect from St. Petersburg who devised the master plans for Yaroslavl, Voronezh, Pskov, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, and many other towns in Russia and Ukraine. His radial urban master plan for Yaroslavl, cleverly highlighting dozens historic churches and towers, is recognized as one of the World Heritage Sites.
- Alexei Fyodorov
Alexei Fyodorovich Fyodorov, one of the leaders of Soviet partisan movement during the Great Patriotic War and twice Hero of the Soviet Union. Alexei Fyodorov was born near Dnipropetrovsk in a Ukrainian peasant family. In 1920 he joined the Red Army and fought in the Russian Civil War. In 1927 he joined Communist Party of the Soviet Union and by 1938 became a first secretary of the regional party organization in Chernihiv Oblast.
- Eduard Shifrin
Eduard Shifrin (born 1960) is a billionaire entrepreneur, born in Dnipropetrovsk in the Soviet Union and now resident in London. He graduated with a PhD in metallurgy from the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys and rose to prominence as a "business oligarch in newly-independent Ukraine, taking control of privatised steelmaker Zaporizhstal. He is the co-founder with Alexander Shnaider of Midland Group, …
- Olexiy Lukashevych
Olexiy Lukashevych (born 11 January 1977 in Dnipropetrovsk) is a Ukrainian long jumper, best known for his gold medal at the 2002 European Championships. His personal best is 8.27 metres, achieved in June 2000 in Tartu.
- Julia Obertas
Julia Obertas (born June 19, 1984 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) is a Russian pair skater who previously represented her native Ukraine in international competition. She and her partner Sergei Slavnov are the 2005 European silver medalists. They teamed up in 2003.
- Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov
Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov (b. 17 October 1919) is a leading Ukrainian physicist, well known for his role in developing the BKL conjecture in general relativity. Khalatnikov was born in Dnipropetrovsk and graduated from Dnipropetrovsk State University with a degree in Physics in 1941. He earned his doctorate in 1952. Much of Khalatnikov's research has been a collaboration with, or inspired by, Lev Landau, including the "Landau-Khalatnikov theory" of superfluidity.
- Oleg Tverdokhleb
Oleg Tverdokhleb (November 3, 1969, Dnipropetrovsk - September 1995) was a Ukrainian athlete. He was still an improving competitor at 400 metre hurdles when he was killed by electric shock while fixing wiring at his parental home in September 1995. At global level in athletics he had finished both sixth in the 1992 Summer Olympics and 1993 World Championships in Athletics finals at 400m hurdles. Previously he had taken the bronze medal at the 1991 Summer Universiade.
- Vadim Kolesnik
Vadim Kolesnik (born 29 April 1969) is a retired Ukrainian hammer thrower. His personal best throw is 79.62 metres, achieved in July 1994 in Dnipropetrovsk.
- Zelda Schneersohn Mishkovsky
Zelda Schneersohn Mishkovsky (1914-1984), commonly known simply as Zelda, is a 20th century Israeli poet. She was born in the city of Yekatrinoslav to Sholom Shlomo and Rachel Schneersohn. Her father was the great-great grandson of the third Lubavitcher Rebbe, the Tzemach Tzedek (Menachem Mendel Schneersohn) and she grew up in a household with a strong Chabad heritage. The family later moved to Jerusalem in 1925, …
- Alexander Shakalov
Alexander Shakalov (born March 26, 1982 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian ice dancer who currently competes internationally for Uzbekistan. He previously competed for Ukraine with Viktoria Polzykina and Julia Grigorenko. He began competing for Uzbekistan when he teamed up with Olga Akimova in 2003. The two are the 2004-2005 Uzbek national champions.
- Vitali Danilchenko
Vitali Danilchenko (born December 04, 1978 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian figure skater. He is a five time national champion. He is coached by Viacheslav Zagorodniuk.
- Irina Movchan
Irina Movchan (born June 26, 1990 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian figure skater. She is the 2007 Ukrainian national silver medalist.
- Anatoliy Matkevych
Anatoliy Matkevych, (born June 17, 1977 in Dnipropetrovsk) is an Ukrainian football player who is currently playing for Al-Ittihad.
- Vitali Sazonets
Vitali Sazonets (born March 08, 1988 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian figure skater. He is the 2006 national bronze medalist.
- Edgar Bastidas
Edgar Bastidas he is a Venezuelan tenor. His voice has been described as pure, versatile, clean and resonant. He Combining tone qualities with their exuberance and security in itself, he is a captivating figure in any phrase or in each performance. He studied in the musical institute Mikhaíl Glinka of the City of Dnipropetrovs'k in Ukraine, where he carries out song studies with the Teacher María E. Markina.
- Yulia Tymoshenko
Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko (born 27 November, 1960) is a Ukrainian politician and former Prime Minister of Ukraine (from 24 January to 8 September 2005). She is leader of the All-Ukrainian Union Fatherland party and the Yulia Tymoshenko Electoral Bloc. Before becoming Ukraine's first female Prime Minister, Tymoshenko was one of the key leaders of the Orange Revolution. In this period, some Western media publications dubbed her "Joan of Arc of the Revolution".
- Madame Blavatsky
Helena Petrovna Hahn (July 31, 1831 (O.S.) <small>(August 12, 1831 (N.S.))</small> - May 8, 1891 London), better known as Helena Blavatsky or Madame Blavatsky, born Helena von Hahn, was a founder of the Theosophical Society.
- Polina Astakhova
Polina Ghrighor'ievna Astakhova was a Soviet/Ukrainian gymnast who won ten medals (five gold medals, two silver medals and three bronze medals) at the Summer Olympics, where she participated as a member of the USSR team in 1956, 1960 and 1964. Astakhova became interested in artistic gymnastics at age 13, after she had watched the gymnastics championships in Donetsk, a city, where their family moved a short time before.
- Viktor Pinchuk
Victor Mykhaylovych Pinchuk, one of the "Business oligarchs" who control post-Communist Ukraine, is the son-in-law of the ex-President Leonid Kuchma. Poland's weekly "Wprost" ranked him Central and Eastern Europe's 12th richest man, with a fortune of $1.5 billion. The second richest Ukrainian businessman, Pinchuk is the founder and main owner of the Interpipe Group, one of Ukraine's leading steel industry groups also working in other fields of economy.
- Leonid Kuchma
Leonid Danylovych Kuchma (born August 9, 1938) was the second President of Ukraine from July 19, 1994, to January 23, 2005.
- Volodymyr Shcherbytsky
Volodymyr Vasylyovych Shcherbytsky (17 February 1918 - 17 February 1990) was a Ukrainian and Soviet politician. He was a leader of the Communist Party of Ukraine from 1972 to 1989. One of the most influential figures in the Soviet Union, a member of Soviet politburo since 1971, he was a close ally to the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. His rule of Ukraine was characterized by the expanded policies of Russification and fierce suppression of dissent.