List of Famous people born in Odessa Oblast, Ukraine

Dayana Oleksandrívna Yastremska is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. She has a career-high Women's Tennis Association (WTA) ranking of No. 21 in the world, and is the second-highest ranked player under 21 years old behind Bianca Andreescu. Yastremska has won three WTA titles in four finals appearances.

Sir Leonard Valentinovich Blavatnik is a British businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He made his fortune through business via diversified investments in myriad companies through his conglomerate company, Access Industries.

Alexander Ivanovich Marinesko was a Soviet naval officer and, during World War II, the captain of the submarine S-13 which sank the German military transport ship Wilhelm Gustloff. The most successful Soviet submarine commander in terms of gross register tonnage (GRT) sunk, with 42,000 GRT to his name, he was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union in 1990.

Olga Ivanova Melnick is a Russian dancer, TV presenter and actress who made most of her career in Brazil, Chile and Argentina.

Tatiana Gutsu, rarely Tetiana Hutsu, is a former artistic gymnast from the Soviet Union and the winner of the all-around title at the 1992 Summer Olympics. She was renowned for performing some of the most difficult routines in the sport.

Viktor Chaika ; real name Viktor Grigorievich Sigal ; is a Soviet and Russian pop composer, songwriter, singer and musician. Known for dozens of songs for Aleksey Glyzin, Tatyana Ovsiyenko, Irina Allegrova and many other pop stars. Some time singing solo. He worked as a music producer on the show Boris Moiseev, and the manager of tours of foreign performers. Pesnya Goda Multiple nominee and winner of the festival. He wrote the music for several films.

Oleksiy Honcharenko - Ukrainian politician, the chairman of the Odessa Regional Council, the leader of the public organization "Quality of Life". In 2014, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada on the party list of Petro Poroshenko Bloc. In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Hocharenko was reelected as an independent candidate in single-seat constituency 137 (Podilsk).

Gennadiy Leonidovich Trukhanov is the mayor of Odessa. He has been named as part of a Ukrainian crime syndicate who laundered money through London by buying multi-million pound properties in the city.

Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky was a Soviet military commander in World War II, Marshal of the Soviet Union, and Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union in the late 1950s and 1960s. He contributed to the major defeat of Nazi Germany at the Battle of Stalingrad and the Battle of Budapest. During the post-war era, he made a pivotal contribution to the strengthening of the Soviet Union as a military superpower.

Anatoly Lomachenko is a Ukrainian boxing trainer. He is the father of three-division boxing champion Vasyl Lomachenko. He was selected to receive the Futch–Condon Award for the 2017 Trainer of the Year by the Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA) and 2018 by the Ring magazine.