List of Famous people born in Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine

Oleg Nikolayevich Ostapenko is the former director of Roscosmos, the federal space agency, retired Colonel General in the Russian Military, former Deputy Minister of Defence, and former commander of the Aerospace Defence Forces, a position he held from their foundation on 1 December 2011 until his promotion in November 2012. Prior to this he was commander of the Russian Space Forces from 2008, replacing Vladimir Popovkin.

Anton Polyakov was a Ukrainian politician. A member of the party Servant of the People, he served in the Verkhovna Rada from 2019 to 2021. He died from coronary heart disease on 8 October 2021, at the age of 33. Alcohol and methadone were found in Anton's blood. Verkhovna Rada deputy Anna Skorokhod said that Anton Polyakov was murdered.