List of Famous people born in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine
Larisa Bogoraz
Larisa Iosifovna Bogoraz was a dissident in the Soviet Union.
Michail Topalov
Gennady Karnovich-Valua
Akiva Yaglom
Akiva Moiseevich Yaglom was a Soviet and Russian physicist, mathematician, statistician, and meteorologist. He was known for his contributions to the statistical theory of turbulence and theory of random processes. Yaglom spent most of his career in Russia working in various institutions, including the Institute of Theoretical Geophysics.
Liudmyla Alfimova
Serhiy Katsuba
Serhii Katsuba is a Ukrainian politician, People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 7th convocation.
Yakov Malik
Yakov Alexandrovich Malik was a Soviet diplomat.
Pyotr Lidov
Ivan Deryugin
Ivan Deriuhin was a Soviet modern pentathlete and Olympic Champion. He competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, where he won a gold medal in the team competition (together with Aleksandr Tarasov and Igor Novikov, and placed ninth in the individual competition.