List of Famous people born in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine

Maurycy Gottlieb (Polish pronunciation  ; February 21/28, 1856 – July 17, 1879) was a Polish-Jewish realist painter of the Romantic period. Considered one of the most talented students of Jan Matejko, Gottllieb died at the age of 23.

Jakob Rosanes was a German mathematician who worked on algebraic geometry and invariant theory. He was also a chess master.

Julius Edgar Lilienfeld was an Austro-Hungarian, and later American physicist and electrical engineer, who was credited with the first patent on the field-effect transistor (FET) (1925). Because of his failure to publish articles in learned journals and because high-purity semiconductor materials were not available yet, his FET patent never achieved fame, causing confusion for later inventors.

John Gottowt was an Austrian actor, stage director and film director for theatres and silent movies.

Eduard Steuermann was an Austrian pianist and composer.

Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski was a Roman Catholic prelate, who served as an Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv and a Titular Bishop of Telmessos from 14 September 1918 until 3 August 1923 and as the Metropolitan Archbishop of the same Archdiocese from 3 August 1923 until his death on 22 November 1944.

Wojciech Roman Ruszkowski was a Polish film actor. He appeared in ten films between 1933 and 1967.

Muhammad Asad, was an Austro-Hungarian-born Muslim journalist, traveler, writer, linguist, political theorist, diplomat and Islamic scholar. Asad was one of the most influential European Muslims of the 20th century. His translation of the Quran in English, "The Message of The Qur'an" is one of the most notable of his works. In Asad's words in "The Message of the Quran": "the work which I am now placing before the public is based on a lifetime of study and of many years spent in Arabia. It is an attempt - perhaps the first attempt - at a really idiomatic, explanatory rendition of the Qur'anic message into a European language."

Athanasius Szeptycki was a bishop of the Ruthenian Uniate Church, Metropolitan bishop of Kiev, Galicia and all Ruthenia.