List of Famous people born in Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine

Oleksandr Mykolaiovych Tkachenko is a Ukrainian politician, a senior member of the Ukrainian Parliament, currently elected by Communist Party list. Between July 7, 1998, and January 21, 2000, Tkachenko was the Chairman of the Parliament.

Volodymyr Dmytrovych Khandohiy is a Ukrainian diplomat and politician. Khandohiy was the acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine for six months in 2009.

Olga Arsenievna Oleinik HFRSE was a Soviet mathematician who conducted pioneering work on the theory of partial differential equations, the theory of strongly inhomogeneous elastic media, and the mathematical theory of boundary layers. She was a student of Ivan Petrovsky. She studied and worked at the Moscow State University.

Leonid Aleksandrovich Portenko was a Soviet ornithologist of Ukrainian origin who carried out extensive zoogeographic studies on the birds of the northern and north-eastern Palaearctic realm. He was born in Smila, Ukraine, though most of his career was spent working in, and conducting expeditions from, the ornithological department of the Zoological Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Leningrad.

Tadeusz Stefan Zieliński was a prominent Polish classical philologist, historian, translator of Sophocles, Euripides and other classical authors into Russian.

Marians Pahars is a Latvian professional football manager and a former player.

Andriy Volodymyrovych Khlyvnyuk is a Ukrainian musician, the vocalist and lyricist of the group BoomBox.