Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Lists of famous or notable people from Ukraine Table of contents 1 Artists 1.1 Painters and Composers 1.2 Performing artists 1.3 Writers 2 Scientists 2.4 Religious Thinkers and Philosophers 3 Criminals 4 Politicians 5 Sportists 6 Parents born in the Ukraine Artists Painters and Composers Marie Bashkirtseff Borys Lyatoshynsky Mykola Lysenko Kazimir Malevich Sergei Prokofiev Levko Revutsky Valentyn Silvestrov Myroslav Skoryk Opanas Slastion, folklorist,inventor of modern type of bandura,painter and bandurist, first illustrator of Taras Shevchenko's "Kobzar" Yakov Smirnoff Performing artists Sviatoslav Richter Jack Palance, Oscar winning actor George Dzunza, actor David Oistrakh Edward Dmytryk Alexander Dovzhenko Irina Dvorovenko Maria Guleghina, opera soprano Jill Hennessy Vladimir Horowitz Milla Jovovich Alla Korot Mila Kunis Anatole Litvak Lewis Milestone Paul Muni Vaslav Nijinsky Isaac Stern Writers Taras Shevchenko, poet Anton Chekhov Anna Akhmatova , poet Sholom Aleichem Mikhail Bulgakov, author of The Master and Margarita Joseph Conrad Isaak Babel Nikolai Gogol Raya Dunayevskaya, Marxist humanist Scientists George Gamow Sergei Korolev Trofim Lysenko Igor Sikorsky Religious Thinkers and Philosophers Hrygori Skovoroda Israel ben Eliezer, (Baal Shem Tov) founder of Hasidism Nachman of Breslov Criminals Andrei Chikatilo Politicians Hayim Arlosoroff, Zionist Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the former Soviet Union Vladimir Jabotinsky, Zionist Leonid Kravchuk, president of Ukraine 1991-1994 Nestor Makhno (1888 - 1934), anarchist Golda Meir, Zionist Simon Petlyura Leon Trotsky Volodymyr Vynnychenko Aleksandra Lisowska (Khourrem) (~1510 - 1558), (wife of Suleiman the Magnificent) Sportists Oksana Baiul, figure skater Mike Ditka, American football player and coach 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 Andriy Shevchenko, footballerer Vladislav Tretiak, hockey player Parents born in the Ukraine Pierre Bérégovoy Paul Wellstone See also: List of Slavs, List of people by nationality, list of people This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.