List of Famous people born in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine

Borys Yuriyovych Derkach was a Soviet and Ukrainian professional football player.

Yuriy Mikhaylovich Poyarkov was a Ukrainian volleyball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1964 Summer Olympics, in the 1968 Summer Olympics, and in the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Boris Lozhkin is a Ukrainian businessperson and philanthropist. He is the President of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine, Vice-President of the World Jewish Congress, First Vice-President of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress.

Valentina Stepanovna Grizodubova was one of the first female pilots in the Soviet Union awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union and the only female Hero of the Soviet Union to also be awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labour.

Evgeny Mikhailovich Lifshitz was a leading Soviet physicist and brother of the physicist Ilya Lifshitz.

Michel Vitold (1915–1994) was a Russian-born French stage and film actor.

Petro Yukhymovych Shelest was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR.

Gennady Sergeyevich Orlov is a Russian sports journalist and a former Soviet footballer. He has lived in Leningrad since 1966 and has been a commentator since 1974. Orlov is best known for being a football commentator on Leningrad Television and, subsequently, Petersburg – Channel 5 for many years.

Olexandr Borisovich Feldman is a Ukrainian politician and public figure of Jewish origin, People's Deputy of Ukraine, businessman, multi-millionaire. One of the most influential people in Kharkiv. In 2013 he entered the rating of the hundred richest Ukrainians of the Ukrainian magazine Forbes, finishing 35th. Since June 2015, the co-chairman of the political party Our Land.