List of Famous people born in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine
Hürrem Sultan
Hurrem Sultan, also known as Roxelana, was the chief consort and wife of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. She has become one of the most powerful and influential women in Ottoman history as well as a prominent and controversial figure during the era known as the Sultanate of Women.
Svetlana Aleksievich
Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich is a Belarusian investigative journalist, essayist and oral historian who writes in Russian. She was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time". She is the first writer from Belarus to receive the award.
Leo Reuss
Lionel Royce was an Austrian-American actor of stage and screen, also known during his European career as Leo Reuss. He began his career in theater in Vienna, Austria in 1919, before moving to Berlin in 1925. Being Jewish, his work began to be restricted in the 1930s in Nazi Germany. Fleeing the Nazis he returned to Austria in 1936, where to hide his heritage, he created the persona of Kaspar Brandhofer, a Tyrolian peasant, and became a sensation as a natural actor on the stage in Vienna. When he admitted his ruse, he became blacklisted in Austria, after which he emigrated to the United States in 1937. He had an active film career in the United States, appearing in almost 40 films between 1938 and 1946. While on tour with the USO, he died in Manila in 1946.
Anna Zayachkivska
Anna Zaiachkivska is a Ukrainian painter, actress, top model, and beauty pageant titleholder who represented her country in the Miss World 2013 which took place on September 28, 2013, in Bali, Indonesia.
Vasyl Virastyuk
Vasyl Virastyuk, is a Ukrainian former strongman competitor. He is a brother of Roman Virastyuk. Virastyuk was the winner of World's Strongest Man 2004. In a March 2021 parliamentary by-election, Virastyuk will be a candidate for Servant of the People.
Roman Virastyuk
Roman Yaroslavovych Virastyuk was a Ukrainian shot putter, best known for his bronze medal at the 1994 European Athletics Championships and the sixth place at the 1996 Olympic Games. His personal best was 21.34 metres, achieved in May 2000 in Ivano-Frankivsk. He was a brother of Vasyl Virastyuk.
Tania Malyarchuk
Tetiana "Tania" Volodymyrivna Maliarchuk is a Ukrainian-born author who writes in both Ukrainian and, more recently, German.
Mika Newton
Oksana Stefanivna Hrytsay,, professionally known as Mika Newton, is a Ukrainian singer and actress from the city of Burshtyn. Born and raised in Ukraine, the singer currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
Yevhen Nyshchuk
Yevhen Mykolayovych Nyshchuk is Ukrainian theater and cinema actor, Merited Artist of Ukraine and a former Minister of Culture of Ukraine.
Daniel of Galicia
Daniel of Galicia was a King of Ruthenia, Prince (Knyaz) of Galicia (Halych) (1205–1255), Peremyshl (1211), and Volodymyr (1212–1231). He was crowned by a papal archbishop in Dorohochyn 1253 as the first King of Ruthenia (1253–1264).