List of Famous people born in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine

Tatyana Mikhailovna Karpova was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Vasyutin was a Soviet cosmonaut.

Mykhailo (Mikhail) Markovych Dobkin is a Ukrainian politician, former governor of Kharkiv Oblast, former mayor of Kharkiv, and a former deputy of the Ukrainian parliament.

Iryna Valentynivna Venediktova – is a Ukrainian politician, lawyer, Doctor of Law, Professor. On 17 March 2020, Venediktova was appointed as the Prosecutor General. She became the first female prosecutor in the history of Ukraine to chair the Prosecutor General’s Office.

Tamara Natanovna Press is a retired Soviet athlete who dominated the shot put and discus throw in the early 1960s. She won three gold and one silver medals at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and three European titles in 1958–1962. Between 1959 and 1965 she set 11 world records: five in the shot put and six in the discus. Domestically, she held 16 national titles, nine in the shot put (1958–66) and seven in the discus (1960–66).

Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov was a Russian Imperial zoologist of Moldavian and Ukrainian Jewish origin best known for his pioneering research in immunology.

Igor Petrovich Volk was a Soviet cosmonaut and test pilot.

Andrey Ivanovich Denisov is a Russian diplomat, since April 22, 2013 he is the Russian Ambassador to China. He is fluent in Chinese, as well as English, apart from his native language.

Arkady Yakovlevich Inin, original surname Gurevich ; born May 3, 1938, Kharkov) is a Soviet and Russian writer, playwright and screenwriter, actor, publicist, teacher, professor.

Serhiy Vitaliiovych Kurchenko is a Ukrainian businessman and founder/owner of the group of companies "Gas Ukraine 2009" specializing in trading of liquefied natural gas. Kurchenko is also the former owner and president of FC Metalist Kharkiv and the Ukrainian Media Holding group. Kurchenko left Ukraine in February 2014 and his current whereabouts are unknown. Since the following month Kurchenko has been on the international wanted list. Since then his property and other assets have been arrested. Until the end of 2012 information about Kurchenko was scarce and it surfaced with a scandal around the sale of FC Metalist Kharkiv. In October 2017, a Ukrainian court confiscated Metalist Kharkiv from Kurchenko and placed it under state property.