List of Famous people born in Dnipro, Ukraine
Yevhenia Tymoshenko
Eugenia (Yevhenia) Oleksandrivna Tymoshenko is a Ukrainian entrepreneur, philanthropist and activist who is the President of the Association of Public Organizations "Social Protection". She is the daughter of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
Gregor Piatigorsky
Gregor Piatigorsky was a Russian-born American cellist.
Leonid Kogan
Leonid Borisovich Kogan was a preeminent Soviet violinist during the 20th century. Many consider him to be among the greatest violinists of the 20th century. In particular, he is considered to have been one of the greatest representatives of the Soviet School of violin playing.
Vladimir Beklemishev
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Beklemishev was a Russian sculptor, a rector of the Imperial Academy of Arts.
Elena Nozdran
Elena Ivanivna Nozdran is a badminton player from Ukraine.
Igor Vladimirov
Igor Petrovich Vladimirov was a Soviet film and theater actor, theater and film director, and teacher. People's Artist of the USSR (1978). From 1960 until his death in 1999 he was the Chief Director of the Lensoviet Theatre in Leningrad.
Oleh Protasov
Oleh Valeriyovych Protasov is a Ukrainian and Soviet former footballer who played as a striker. He was a key member of the Soviet Union national team throughout the 1980s; his 28 goals for the Soviet Union are second in the team's history, behind Oleh Blokhin's 42. It should be considered that his first name is often spelled as Oleg on most of international rosters, particularly during his playing career.
Julia Obertas
Julia Nikolayevna Obertas, married name: Horak is a former pair skater who represented Ukraine until 2000 and then Russia until the end of her career. She is best known for her partnership with Sergei Slavnov, with whom she competed from 2003 to 2007. They are the 2005 European silver medalists. Earlier, she competed with Alexei Sokolov for Russia and Dmytro Palamarchuk for Ukraine. With Palamarchuk, she became a two-time (1998–1999) World Junior champion.
Bobbie Rosenfeld
Fanny "Bobbie" Rosenfeld was a Canadian athlete, who won a gold medal for the 100-metre relay and a silver medal for the 100-metre at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. She was named "Canadian woman athlete of the half-century" in 1949, and a star at basketball, hockey, softball, and tennis. She was named Canada's Female Athlete of the First Half-Century (1900–1950). She also was called Bobbie for her "bobbed" haircut. The Bobbie Rosenfeld Award is named in her honour. She was also inducted into the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 1996.
Pyotr Bark
Pyotr Lvovich Bark later Sir Peter Bark, was a Russian statesman.