List of Famous people born in Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine

Yuri Khmelnytsky (1641–1685), younger son of the famous Ukrainian Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky and brother of Tymofiy Khmelnytsky, was a Zaporozhian Cossack political and military leader. Although he spent half of his adult life as a monk, he also was Hetman of Ukraine on several occasions — in 1659-1660 and 1678–1681 and starost of Hadiach. For background see The Ruin.

Vitaliy Serhiyovych Mykolenko is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Premier League club Everton and the Ukraine national team.

Shmuel Dayan was a Zionist activist during the British Mandate of Palestine and an Israeli politician who served in the first three Knessets.

Oleksandr Hranovskyi, is a Ukrainian businessperson, shareholder at Vertex United.

Oleksandr Yevdokymovych Korniychuk was a Ukrainian playwright, literary critic and state official.

Karol Maciej Szymanowski was a Polish composer and pianist, the most celebrated Polish composer of the early 20th century. He is considered a member of the late 19th-/early 20th-century modernist movement Young Poland and widely viewed as one of the greatest Polish composers.

Tymofiy Bohdanovych Khmelnytsky or Tymish Khmelnytsky was the eldest son of Cossack hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky.

Yuriy Kosiuk is a Ukrainian billionaire, and CEO of the country's largest agricultural company MHP, and chairman of PJSC Myronivsky Hliboproduct.