List of Famous people born in Ukraine
Andrei Kanchelskis
Andrei Antanasovich Kanchelskis is a Russian professional football manager and former player. He was most recently the manager of Navbahor Namangan in Uzbekistan.
Denis Pushilin
Denis Vladimirovich Pushilin is the former Chairman of the People's Council of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic (2015–2018), and therefore, under the draft Constitution adopted in May 2014, the self-declared republic's head of state. On 7 September 2018, Pushilin was appointed acting Head of the DPR; a position which he held until elections on 11 November 2018.
Maya Deren
Maya Deren, born Eleonora Derenkowska, was a Ukrainian-born American experimental filmmaker and important promoter of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. Deren was also a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer, writer, and photographer.
Jan Koum
Jan Koum is a Ukrainian American billionaire entrepreneur and computer programmer. He is the co-founder and was the CEO of WhatsApp, a mobile messaging application which was acquired by Facebook Inc. in February 2014 for US$19.3 billion.
Semion Mogilevich
Semion Yudkovich Mogilevich is a Russian organized crime boss. Described by agencies in the European Union and United States as the "boss of bosses" of most Russian Mafia syndicates in the world, he is believed to direct a vast criminal empire and is described by the FBI as "the most dangerous mobster in the world." He has been accused by the FBI of "weapons trafficking, contract murders, extortion, drug trafficking, and prostitution on an international scale."
Oleg Koshevoy
Oleg Vasilyevich Koshevoy was a Soviet partisan and one of the founders of the clandestine organization Young Guard, which fought the Nazi forces in Krasnodon during World War II between 1941 and 1945.
Yuri Kondratyuk
Yuri Vasilievich Kondratyuk was a Soviet engineer and mathematician. He was a pioneer of astronautics and spaceflight, a theoretician and a visionary who, in the early 20th century, developed the first known lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR), a key concept for landing and return spaceflight from Earth to the Moon. The LOR was later used for the plotting of the first actual human spaceflight to the Moon. Many other aspects of spaceflight and space exploration are covered in his works.
Katya Chilly
Kateryna Petrivna Kondratenko, known professionally as Katya Chilly, is a Ukrainian singer and songwriter. Her style is a fusion of world and new-age music.
Boris Spiegel
Boris Spiegel is a Russian politician and businessman. Haaretz describes him as an oligarch who is "closely tied to the Kremlin." From 2003 to 2013, he has represented Penza Oblast in the Russian Federation Council; in December 2011, he was appointed the First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Legislation, Legal and Judicial Affairs and Civil Society Development.
Gennady Vetrov
Gennady Anatolyevich Vetrov is a Soviet and Russian satirist and humorist, singer, Honored Artist of Russia.