List of Famous people born in Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine

Oleg Vasilyevich Koshevoy was a Soviet partisan and one of the founders of the clandestine organization Young Guard, which fought the Nazi forces in Krasnodon during World War II between 1941 and 1945.

Leonid Danylovych Kuchma is a Ukrainian politician who was the second President of independent Ukraine from 19 July 1994 to 23 January 2005. Kuchma's presidency was surrounded by numerous corruption scandals and the lessening of media freedoms.

Victoria Spartz is a Ukrainian American politician and businesswoman who is the U.S. Representative for Indiana's 5th congressional district, which stretches from northern Marion County up to the city of Marion and includes Hamilton County. Spartz is the first Ukrainian-born member of the U.S. Congress and the first member born in a then-Soviet Republic. Previously, she was a member of the Indiana Senate from the 20th District.

Oleh Valeriiovych Liashko is a Ukrainian politician and journalist who was a long time member of the Verkhovna Rada and leader of the Radical Party.

Volodymyr Zamana is a Ukrainian colonel general, Chief of the General Staff in 2012-2014. On 19 February 2014, at the height of the February 2014 Euromaidan riots, president Viktor Yanukovych dismissed Zamana from his position as Chief of the General Staff, replacing him with pro-russian Admiral Yuriy Ilyin. After Yanukovych fled the country for Russia, Zamana was installed as a parliamentary commissioner in control of defence minister by the Parliament of Ukraine on 22 February 2014.

Valerii Oleksandrovych Andriitsev is a male freestyle wrestler from Ukraine. He won the silver medal in the Men's freestyle 96 kg at 2012 Summer Olympics. He won the silver in the 2012 European Wrestling Championships. At the 2014 World Wrestling Championships he took the bronze medal after winning a rematch against American Jake Varner, who beat him in the gold medal match at the 2012 Olympics. In June 2015, he earned bronze at the inaugural European Games for Ukraine in wrestling, more specifically, in the men's freestyle in the - 97 kg division.

Anastasia Dmitruk is a Ukrainian poet who writes in the Russian and Ukrainian languages. She writes poetry and has worked as an information security specialist after graduating from Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. Never ever can we be brothers, written in Russian, has become her most widely cited poem.

Jacques Companeez was a Russian Jewish émigré screenwriter in Paris.