Nobel and Fields prize winners
 Vladimir Drinfeld (mathematics)
 Simon Kuznets (economics)
 Lev Landau – (originally from Baku) head of the department of theoretical physics at the
Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute 1932-37, Nobel Prize for Physics 1962
 Ilya Mechnikov (biology)
Notable people
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 Nikolai P. Barabashov – Astronomer, co-
author of the first pictures of the far side
of the Moon
 Vladimir Bobri — Illustrator, author,
composer, educator and guitar historian
 Sergei Bortkiewicz — Russian Romantic
composer and pianist
 Maria Burmaka – Ukrainian singer,
musician and songwriter
 Leonid Bykov – Soviet actor, film
director, and script writer
 Adolphe Mouron Cassandre —
Ukrainian-French painter, commercial
poster artist, and typeface designer
 Valentina Chepiga – Female Bodybuilder
and 2000 Ms. Olympia Champion
 Juliya Chernetsky (Mistress Juliya) –
television host, actress, model, and music
promoter in the United States
 Andrey Denisov – former Russian
diplomat
 Vladimir Drinfeld — Mathematician, was
awarded Fields Medal in 1990
 Isaak Dunayevsky — Soviet composer
and conductor
 Konstanty Gorski — Polish composer,
violist, organist, and music teacher
 Valentina Grizodubova — One of the first
female pilots in the Soviet Union
 Lyudmila Gurchenko (Hurchenko) –
Soviet and Russian actress, singer and
entertainer
 Mikhail Gurevich – (originally from
Rubanshchina) Soviet aircraft designer, a
partner (with Artem Mikoyan) of the
famous MiG military aviation bureau
 Mikhail Gurevich— Ukrainian chess
player
 Leonid Haydamaka – bandurist,
conductor, founder of first orchestra of
Ukrainian folk instruments.
 Simon Kuznets – was a Russian American
economist
 Evgeny Lifshitz — Leading Soviet
physicist
 Eduard Limonov – Writer, poet and
controversial politician
 Gleb Lozino-Lozinskiy – lead developer
of the Soviet Shuttle Buran programme
 Aleksandr Lyapunov – Russian
mathematician, mechanician and
physicist. Inventor of motion stability
theory
 Boris Mikhailov — photographer / artist
 Mykola Mikhnovsky - Ukrainian political
leader and activist
 Justine Pasek - Miss Universe 2002
 Valerian Pidmohylny – Ukrainian poet
 Irina Press — Ukrainian athlete who won
two Olympic gold medals
 Tamara Press — Soviet shot putter and
discus thrower
 Eugen Schauman – Finnish nationalist
who killed Russian general Nikolay
Ivanovich Bobrikov in 1904
 Alexander Shchetynsky — Composer
 George Shevelov – Ukrainian and Slavic
linguist, philologist, essayist, literary
historian, and literary critic
 Klavdiya Shulzhenko — the most popular
female singer of the Soviet Union
 Alexander Siloti — Russian pianist,
conductor and composer
 Hryhorii Skovoroda – Ukrainian poet,
philosopher and composer
 Karina Smirnoff – Ukrainian professional
world champion dancer, starring on
Dancing with the Stars
 Jura Soyfer — Austrian political journalist
and cabaret writer
 Otto Struve — Russian-American
astronomer
 Maksym Kalynychenko – Ukrainian
football player
 Vasily Karazin – the founder of Kharkiv
University, which now bears his name.
 Hnat Khotkevych – Ukrainian writer,
ethnographer, composer, bandurist
 Mikhail Koshkin – (originally from
Brynchagi), chief designer of Soviet tank
T-34
 Olga Krasko – Russian actress
 Mykola Kulish – Ukrainian playwright
 Les Kurbas – Ukrainian dramatist
 Sergei Sviatchenko – Ukrainian artist
 Mark Taimanov — Leading Ukrainian
chess player and concert pianist
 Nikolai Tikhonov — Premier of the
Soviet Union
 Yevgeniy Timoshenko — professional
poker player.
 Anna Ushenina - Women's world chess
champion
 Galina Vale — Leading British concert
guitarist of Ukrainian origin
 Vladimir Vasyutin — Soviet cosmonaut
of Ukrainian descent
 Igor Vovchanchyn – Mixed martial artist
 Vasyl Yermylov – Painter and Designer
 Serhiy Zhadan – Ukrainian poet, novelist,
and translator.
 Irina Zhurina – opera singer, People's
Artist of Russia