List of Famous people born in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine

Oleksiy Mykhaylovych Chernyshov is a Ukrainian entrepreneur and politician. As of March 2020 he serves as the Minister for Communities and Territories Development.

Aleksandr Vasil'evich Pomazun is a Russian-Ukrainian former goalkeeper and a Russian football coach. He is the goalkeepers coach with FC Khimik-Arsenal.

Kateryna Volodymyrivna Monzul is a Ukrainian football referee.

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Serdyuk, also known as Les Serdyuk ; October 14, 1940 in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR – May 26, 2010 in Kyiv, Ukraine) was a Soviet and Ukrainian theater and film actor. People's Artist of Ukraine (1996).

Tatiana Grindenko is a Russian violinist and Meritorious Artist who graduated from the Moscow Conservatory and then became an assistant to Yuri Yankelevich. She is a founder of Grindenko Ensemble and currently works as a soloist there. She has appeared on stage along such conductors as Frans Brüggen, Kurt Masur, Kurt Sanderling, M. Rostropovich, Gidon Kremer, G. Rozhdestvensky, K. Kondrashin and Yuri Temirkanov as well as various pianists and violinists such as A. Lubimov and A. Kniazev. Her CDs were published under such labels as Melodiya, Ondine, Deutsche Grammophon, Long Arms Records, and many others. She is also known for her performance in operas such as The Magic Flute which was directed by Katya Pospelova, Mozart and Salieri, and Go and Stop Progress of Anatoly Vasiliev and Yuri Lyubimov, and llya Applebaum's Orpheus.

Leonid Arkadievich Desyatnikov is a Russian composer who first made a reputation with a number of film scores, then achieving greater fame when his controversial opera The Children of Rosenthal was premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.

Sergey Aleksandrovich Volkov is a retired Russian cosmonaut and engineer. He was a member of three missions to the International Space Station, spending more than a year in total in space. During his missions he did four spacewalks lasting more than 23 hours in total. Volkov retired from the Cosmonaut group in February 2017.

Sergey Vadimovich Bocharnikov is a Belarusian biathlete who competes internationally.

Artem Putivtsev is a professional Ukrainian football defender who plays for Bruk-Bet Termalica Nieciecza.

Vadim Yusupovich Abdrashitov is one of Russian cinema's most independent directors. He is internationally renowned, with awards from the Berlin and Venice Film Festivals.