List of Famous people born in Poltava Oblast, Ukraine

Adolf Edgar Licho (1876–1944) was a Russian-German actor, screenwriter, and film director. He was born of Jewish parentage in Kremenchug which was then part of the Russian Empire, but emigrated to Germany to work in the theatre and then later in silent films. Following the Nazi Party's takeover in 1933 he went into exile, first in Austria and France and later in the United States. In Hollywood he played minor roles until his death in 1944.

Yevhen Pavlovych Hrebinka was a Ukrainian romantic prose writer, poet, and philanthropist. He wrote in both the Ukrainian and Russian languages. He was an older brother of the architect Mykola Hrebinka.

Boris Petrovich Gerasimovich was a Russian and Soviet astronomer and astrophysicist.

Patriarch Mstyslav, secular name Stepan Ivanovych Skrypnyk, was a Ukrainian Orthodox Church hierarch. He was a nephew of Symon Petlyura.

Nico Turoff was a Ukrainian boxer and actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1926 to 1979.