List of Famous people born in Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine
Ruslan Stefanchuk
Ruslan Oleksiyovych Stefanchuk is a Ukrainian politician and lawyer. He is the Representative of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskiy at the Verkhovna Rada since 2019. Stefanchuk is the ideologist of the Servant of the People party. For this party he was elected into parliament in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.
Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein
Princess Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein was a Polish noblewoman (szlachcianka) who is best known for her 40-year relationship with musician Franz Liszt. She was also an amateur journalist and essayist, and it is conjectured that she did much of the actual writing of several of Liszt's publications, especially his 1852 Life of Chopin. She maintained an enormous correspondence with Liszt and many others, which is of vital historical interest. She admired and encouraged Hector Berlioz, as is clear from their extensive correspondence, and Berlioz dedicated his Les Troyens to her.
Simon Wiesenthal
Simon Wiesenthal was a Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor, Nazi hunter, and writer. He studied architecture and was living in Lwów at the outbreak of World War II. He survived the Janowska concentration camp, the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, the Gross-Rosen concentration camp, a death march to Chemnitz, Buchenwald, and the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.
Vitaliy Markiv
Vitalii Mykhailovych Markiv is a former Ukrainian deputy commander of the General Serhiy Kulchytsky Battalion of the National Guard of Ukraine. He was wrongfully convicted by an Italian court to 24 years of imprisonment for allegedly directing a mortar fire that killed Russian dissident and journalist Andrei Mironov and Italian photojournalist Andrea Rocchelli near the city of Sloviansk. His conviction was eventually overturned, and he was exonerated on appeal on November 3, 2020.
Emanuel Ringelblum
Emanuel Ringelblum was a Polish-Jewish historian, politician and social worker, known for his Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto, Notes on the Refugees in Zbąszyn chronicling the deportation of Jews from the town of Zbąszyń, and the so-called Ringelblum's Archives of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Serhiy Prytula
Serhiy Prytula is a Ukrainian TV presenter, actor, author and co-producer of the folk sketch show "Faina Yukraina", host of the morning show "Pidyom" and the talent-show "Ukraine Does not Believe in Tears" on Novyi Kanal. Since 2019, he has been cooperating with the Voice party, running for the Parliament election in 2019 and for the post of Mayor of Kyiv in 2020.
Edward Rydz-Śmigły
Marshal Edward Rydz-Śmigły (listen), also called Edward Śmigły-Rydz, was a Polish politician, statesman, Marshal of Poland and Commander-in-Chief of Poland's armed forces, as well as painter and poet.
Ivan Zarutsky
Ivan Martynovich Zarutsky was a Cossack leader in Russia in the early 17th century.
Stepan Kubiv
Stepan Kubiv is a Ukrainian politician who was a former First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine and simultaneously Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine from April 2016 to August 2019. He is also a former acting chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine.
Ivan Puliui
Ivan Pului was a Ukrainian physicist and inventor, who has been championed as an early developer of the use of X-rays for medical imaging. His contributions were largely neglected until the end of the 20th century.