List of Famous people born in Ukraine

Alec Utgoff is a Soviet-born British actor. Born in Kyiv, modern day Ukraine. Alec moved to UK at the age of 10 and studied at Dover College boarding school before moving to Portsmouth and eventually London. He pursued acting and graduated from the prestigious Drama Centre London. He is known for playing the role of Aleksandr Borovsky in ‘’Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit’’ and Alexei in the third season of Stranger Things. His other notable roles include Alexi in San Andreas (2015), Dmitri in Mortdecai (2015) and Yuri/Dimitri in The Wrong Mans (2015).

Wilhelm Reich was an Austrian doctor of medicine and psychoanalyst, a member of the second generation of analysts after Sigmund Freud. The author of several influential books, most notably Character Analysis (1933), The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933), and The Sexual Revolution (1936), Reich became known as one of the most radical figures in the history of psychiatry.

Arseniy Petrovych Yatsenyuk is a Ukrainian politician, economist and lawyer who served as Prime Minister of Ukraine from 27 February 2014 to 14 April 2016.

Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko is a Ukrainian politician who was the third President of Ukraine from 23 January 2005 to 25 February 2010.

Dimitrij Ovtcharov or Dmytro Ovtcharov is a Ukrainian-born German table tennis player. His father Mikhail, a Soviet table tennis champion in 1982, moved his family to Germany shortly after Dimitrij was born.

Olena Oleksiivna Shuliak is a Ukrainian politician and entrepreneur. She heads of the Servant of the People political party. Shuliak was elected to the Verkhovna Rada in 2019.

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.

Hennadiy Adolfovych Kernes was a Ukrainian politician who was the Mayor of Kharkiv from 2010 until his death in 2020.

Ruslana Stepanivna Lyzhychko, known mononymously as Ruslana, is a World Music Award and Eurovision Song Contest winning recording artist, holding the title of People's Artist of Ukraine. She is also a former MP serving as deputy in the Ukrainian parliament for the Our Ukraine Party. Ruslana was the UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in Ukraine in 2004-2005. She is recognized as the most successful Ukrainian female solo artist internationally and was included in the top 10 most influential women of 2013 by the Forbes magazine. The U.S. Secretary of State honored her with the International Women of Courage Award in March 2014. She has been named an honorary citizen of her hometown L'viv and was nominated to receive the title Hero of Ukraine.

Yuri Nikolaevich Stoyanov is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, musician. People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2001). Most famous comedian duo with Ilya Oleynikov.