List of Famous people born in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine
Pavel Popovich
Pavel Romanovich Popovich was a Soviet cosmonaut.
Sholem Aleichem
Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem, was a leading Yiddish author and playwright. The 1964 musical Fiddler on the Roof, based on his stories about Tevye the Dairyman, was the first commercially successful English-language stage production about Jewish life in Eastern Europe. The Hebrew phrase שלום עליכם literally means "[May] peace [be] upon you!", and is a greeting in traditional Hebrew and Yiddish.
Mikhail Eisenstein
Mikhail Osipovich Eisenstein was a civil engineer and architect working in Riga, the present-day capital of Latvia, when the city was part of the Russian Empire. He was active as an architect in the city at a time of great economic expansion and consequent enlargement, which coincided with the flourishing of Art Nouveau architecture. During the years 1901–1906, Eisenstein designed many of the best-known Art Nouveau buildings of Riga. His son, Sergei Eisenstein, became a well-known Soviet film director.
Ihor Umansky
Ihor Ivanovych Umansky is a Ukrainian economist and civil servant. On 4 March 2020, he was appointed as the Minister of Finance of Ukraine. He was dismissed on 30 March 2020. Umansky claims he never received a formal reason for his dismissal and that he first heard of it through news reports.
Peter, 1st Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Ludwigsburg
Louis Adolph Peter, 1st Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Ludwigsburg-Berleburg, better known as Peter Wittgenstein in English, was a Prince of the German dynasty Sayn-Wittgenstein and Field Marshal in the Imperial Russian Army during the Napoleonic wars.
Oleg Velyky
Oleg Velyky was a Ukrainian and German handball player. He was a World champion 2007 with the German national team.
Bohdan Mykhaylychenko
Bohdan Vasylyovych Mykhaylichenko is a professional Ukrainian football midfielder who plays for Anderlecht.
Mikhail Kheraskov
Mikhail Matveyevich Kheraskov was Russian poet and playwright. A leading figure of the Russian Enlightenment, Kheraskov was regarded as the most important Russian poet by Catherine the Great and her contemporaries.
Anatoliy Zlenko
Anatoly Maksimovich Zlenko is a Ukrainian diplomat. He was formerly the foreign minister of Ukraine. from 1990 to 1994.
Iryna Koliadenko
Iryna Volodymyrivna Koliadenko is a Ukrainian freestyle wrestler. She won one of the bronze medals in the women's freestyle 62 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.