List of Famous people born in Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine

Platon Volodyslav Kornyljak or Kornylyak was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch in Germany. He was the first Apostolic Exarch of the new created Apostolic Exarchate in Germany and Scandinavia for the Ukrainians as titular bishop of Castra Martis from 1959 to 1996.

Ninon Hesse was an art historian and Hermann Hesse's third wife.

Viorica Viscopoleanu is a retired Romanian long jumper. She competed at the 1964, 1968 and 1972 Olympics and won a gold medal in 1968, setting a new world record. At the European championships she won a silver medal outdoors in 1969 and two medals indoors, in 1970 and 1971. After retiring from competitions she worked as a coach at her club Steaua Bucureşti. Monica Iagăr was one of her trainees.

Viorica Ursuleac was a Romanian operatic soprano. Viorica Ursuleac was born the daughter of a Greek Orthodox archdeacon, in Chernivtsi, which is now in Ukraine. Following training in Vienna, she made her operatic debut in Zagreb (Agram), as Charlotte in Massenet's Werther, in 1922. The soprano then appeared at the Vienna Volksoper (1924–26), Frankfurt Opera (1926–30), Vienna State Opera (1930–35), Berlin State Opera (1935–37), and Bavarian State Opera (1937–44). She married the Austrian conductor Clemens Krauss in Frankfurt during her time there.

Ciprian Porumbescu was a Romanian composer born in Șipotele Sucevei in Bukovina. He was among the most celebrated Romanian composers of his time; his popular works include Crai nou, Trei culori, Song for 1 May, Ballad for violin and piano, and Serenada. In addition, he composed the music for the Romanian patriotic song "Pe-al nostru steag e scris Unire", which was Romania's anthem from 1975 to 1977 and is currently used for Albania's national anthem, "Himni i Flamurit". His work spreads over various forms and musical genres, but the majority of his work is choral and operetta.

Vitaly Popkov is a Ukrainian-born Russian racing cyclist, who last rode for Russian amateur team Crimea Region.

Ambrosiu Dimitrovici was a Romanian publisher. He was one of the founding members of the Romanian Academy.

Max Freiherr von Waldberg was a professor of modern literature at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. After World War I, one of his students was Joseph Goebbels, later the Nazi's propaganda minister. Nevertheless, because of his Jewish ancestry, von Waldberg was one of several Heidelberg professors forced to retire in April 1933, when the Third Reich passed a Civil Service Law to remove university faculty members of "non-Aryan" descent.