List of Famous people born in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine

Ivan Yakovych Franko was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, interpreter, economist, political activist, doctor of philosophy, ethnographer, and the author of the first detective novels and modern poetry in the Ukrainian language.

Simon Abramovich Osiashvili is a Russian poet, singer, Honoured Artist of Russia (2002).

Oleh Hornykiewicz was an Austrian biochemist.

Waléra Kanischtscheff is a Russian-Ukrainian actor currently residing in Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany; Father of two young Actresses Antonia Putiloff and JoJo Putiloff. He is known for providing the German voice overs for English films.

Emanuel "Manny" Ax is a Grammy-winning American classical pianist. He is a teacher on the faculty of the Juilliard School.

Ruslan Koshulynskyi is a Ukrainian politician, soldier and former Member of Parliament who served as the 9th Deputy Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada (2012-2014). He is also the Deputy Leader of Svoboda party.

Pavlo Mykhaylovych Sheremeta is a Ukrainian economist and a former Minister of Economical Development and Trade of his country.

Taras Kacharaba is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Slavia Prague, on loan from Slovan Liberec.

Oleh Yaroslavovych Tyahnybok is a Ukrainian politician who is a former member of the Verkhovna Rada and the leader of the nationalist far-right Svoboda political party. Previously he was elected councilman of the Lviv Oblast Council for the second session.

Stanislaw Pawel Stefan Jan Sebastian Skrowaczewski was a Polish-American classical conductor and composer.