List of Famous people born in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine

Pavel Fyodorovich Batitsky was a Soviet military leader awarded the highest honorary title of Hero of the Soviet Union in 1965 and promoted to Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1968. Batitsky served in the Red Army from 1924 and was commander-in-chief of the Air Defense Forces from 1966 to 1978. Following the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953, he was chosen to execute Lavrentiy Beria, the former head of the NKVD.

Col. Yuri Ivanovich Onufriyenko is a retired Russian cosmonaut. He is a veteran of two extended spaceflights, aboard the space station Mir in 1996 and aboard the International Space Station in 2001–2002.

Yuri Valentinovich Nesterenko is a Soviet and Russian mathematician who has written papers in algebraic independence theory and transcendental number theory.

Oleh Vasylovych Synyehubov, is a Ukrainian, lawyer, attorney, scientist and entrepreneur who is currently the Governor of Kharkiv Oblast after being Governor of Poltava Oblast.