List of Famous people born in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine

Anatoliy Ivanovych Polivoda is a retired Ukrainian basketball player who played for the Budivelnyk of Kiev and the Soviet Union. He trained at VSS Avanhard in Kiev.

Serhiy Herasymets is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays as a striker.

Dmitry Aleksandrovich Muserskiy is a Russian volleyball player of Ukrainian descent, member of the Russia men's national volleyball team and Japanese club Suntory Sunbirds, 2012 Olympic Champion, 2013 European Champion, gold medalist of the 2011 World Cup and multiple World League medalist. Muserskiy is among the world's tallest athletes.

Denis Alexandrovich Shaforostov, also known by his stage name Denis Stoff, is a Ukrainian musician best known for his work as a guitarist and vocalist of the Ukrainian metalcore group Make Me Famous and as the ex-lead vocalist of the British rock band Asking Alexandria during original singer Danny Worsnop's 18-month hiatus from the band.

Yevhen Oleksandrovich Seleznyov is a Ukrainian footballer who plays as a striker for Kolos Kovalivka.

Leonid Nikitovich Khrushchev was the son of Nikita Khrushchev, former leader of the Soviet Union, and served as a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Forces during the Second World War. He was shot down and killed in 1943, but the exact circumstances of his death remain unknown.

Oleg Stefan né Oleg Stepanovich Shtefanko is a Soviet and Russian actor who became popular in Russia after moving there to study acting. He later became an American film actor after immigrating to the United States.

Alexander Valentinovich Novak, is a Russian politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia since 2020.

Aleksandr Borisovich Lebziak is a Russian boxer, who won the Gold medal in the men's Light Heavyweight (81 kg) category at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He beat Rudolf Kraj in the final.

Eduard Aleksandrovich Basurin is the former Deputy Defense Minister and Defense Spokesman of the Donetsk People's Republic "people's militia" command. In 2014 he served as a political commissar of the Kalmius Battalion. On 1 October 2018, the DPR allegedly abolished the office of Defense Minister.