List of Famous people born in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine

Lyudmila Markovna Gurchenko, was a popular Soviet and Russian actress, singer and entertainer. People's Artist of the USSR (1983).

Alexey Alexeyevich Oleynik is a Ukrainian-born Russian mixed martial artist and combat sambo fighter currently signed with the Ultimate Fighting Championship, competing in their heavyweight division. He began his professional fighting career in 1997, and is a veteran of M-1 Global, ProFC and IAFC and has competed for Bellator, KSW and YAMMA Pit Fighting. He is the only fighter to win a UFC fight via Ezekiel choke, and has done so twice. Oleynik also holds the record for most Ezekiel choke wins in MMA competition, with twelve. As of December 24, 2020, he is #10 in the UFC heavyweight rankings.

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Alov was a Soviet film director and screenwriter, he was granted the honorary title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1983. His 1981 film Teheran 43 won the Golden Prize at the 12th Moscow International Film Festival.

Ihor Terekhov is a Ukrainian politician who serves as the acting mayor of Kharkiv. He ascended to the mayoralty following Hennadiy Kernes' death due to COVID-19 complications.

Vadim Garbuzov is a Canadian and Austrian ballroom dancer, showman and choreographer of Ukrainian descent. He was the ten-dance world semi-finalist 2006 in amateurs, the winner of the Austrian TV program Dancing Stars in 2012, 2014 and 2020, and professional world champion in Latin and Standard show dance 2015-2017.

Natalya Nikolayevna Fateyeva is a Russian film actress. She has appeared in more than fifty films since 1956.

Evgeny Viktorovich Belousov, better known as Zhenya Belousov was a Soviet and Ukrainian pop singer, popular in the late 1980s — early 1990s. His best-known hits include My Blue-Eyed Girl, Night Taxi, Alyoshka, Girl girl, Evening-evening, Hair cloud, Golden domes, Short summer, Dunya-Dunyasha, In the evening on a bench.

Ilya Yefimovich Repin was a Russian and Ukrainian realist painter. He was the most renowned Ukrainian artist of the 19th century, when his position in the world of art was comparable to that of Leo Tolstoy in literature. He played a major role in bringing Russian art into the mainstream of European culture. His major works include Barge Haulers on the Volga (1873), Religious Procession in Kursk Province (1883) and Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks (1880–1891).

Zinaida Yevgenyevna Serebriakova was a Russian painter.

Hennadiy Adolfovych Kernes was a Ukrainian politician who was the Mayor of Kharkiv from 2010 until his death in 2020.