List of Famous people born in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine

Artur Valeryevich Dmitriev is a Russian former pair skater who competed internationally for the Soviet Union, the Unified Team, and Russia. He is a two-time Olympic champion, having won gold with Natalia Mishkutionok in 1992 and with Oksana Kazakova in 1998. He and Mishkutionok also won Olympic silver in 1994. Dmitriev is the only male pair skater to win the Olympics with two different partners.

Aleksandr Vasiliyevich Medved is a retired Soviet freestyle wrestler and was named "one of the greatest wrestlers in history" by FILA, the sport's governing body. Between 1962 and 1972 he won three Olympic gold medals, seven world and three European titles. He served as the Olympic flag bearer for the Soviet Union in 1972 and recited the Judge's Oath at the Opening Ceremony of the 1980 Olympics.

Rustam Makhmudkulovych Khudzhamov is a Ukrainian retired football goalkeeper.

Svetlana Ivanovna Gerasimenko is a Soviet and Tajikistani astronomer of Ukrainian origin and discoverer of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.

Valery Ilyich Khodemchuk was a Soviet engineer who was the night shift circulating pump operator at the Chernobyl power plant and was the first victim of the Chernobyl disaster.

Yelena Andreyevna Hahn was a Russian writer known for her contributions to the literary journals Biblioteka Dlya Chteniya and Otechestvennye Zapiski. In addition to her literary works, she is known as the mother of Helena Blavatsky, founder of Theosophy.

Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich was a Soviet politician and administrator and one of the main associates of Joseph Stalin. He is known for helping Stalin come to power and for his harsh treatment and execution of those deemed threats to Stalin's regime.

Mordechai Tverskyy (1770–1837), known as the Maggid of Chornobyl, was a Ukrainian rabbi. He was the son of Rabbi Menachem Nachum Tverskyy of Chornobyl and the second rebbe of the Chornobyl Hasidic dynasty.. All of his sons served as rebbes, from whom several branches of Hasidism emerged today, including thousands of Chasidim, including Skver, Chornobyl and Rakhmastrivka.