List of Famous people born in Ukraine

Artem Yuriyovych Besedin is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Dynamo Kyiv.

Viktor Antonovich Sadovnichiy is a Russian mathematician, winner of the 1989 USSR State Prize, and since 1992 he has been the rector of Moscow State University. One of the main opinion leaders in Russia, Sadovnichiy has significant political and social influence.

Igor Mironovich Guberman is a Russian writer and poet of Jewish ancestry; since 1988 lives in Israel. His poetry has received a great deal of acclaim primarily because of his signature aphoristic and satiric quatrains that he called "gariki" in Russian. . These short poems always feature an a-b-a-b rhyme scheme, employ various poetic meters, and cover a wide range of subjects including antisemitism, immigrant life, anti-religious sentiment, and the author's love-hate relationship with Russia.

Viktor Viktorovych Kovalenko is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Atalanta.

Valeriy Ivanovych Khoroshkovsky is a Ukrainian businessman, former head of the Security Service of Ukraine, former Minister of Finance, and former First Vice Prime Minister. According to Ukrainian and East European media Khoroshkovsky is one of Ukraine's richest people.

Liliia Mykhailivna Hrynevych is a Ukrainian educator, politician and civil servant, a Member of the Parliaments of the 7th and 8th Convocation from December 2012 to April 2016. From April 2016 to August 2019 —the Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine; the first woman-Minister of Education and Science in the period of the Ukrainian independence. She has a PHD in Education.

Oleg Dmitriyevich Baklanov is a former Soviet politician, and high functionary in government and industry. He is now a scientist and businessman. As Minister of General Machine Building, he was responsible for Soviet space industry during the 1980s.

Mariya Stadnik is a Ukrainian and Azerbaijani female wrestler. She is a three-time Olympic medalist.

Olena Anatoliivna Bondarenko is a Ukrainian journalist, a former People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, 1st Deputy Chairman of the Committee of Verkhovna Rada on freedom of speech and information; Head of Subcommittee of Television and Radio Broadcasting Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on freedom of speech and information. Member of the Party of Regions grouping between May 2006 and 2014. In 2012 she was re-elected into parliament on the party list of Party of Regions. Bondarenko did not participate in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election. And in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election she lost in Mykolayiv Oblast’s District 131, with 8% of the votes.

Alexander Sergeevich Khodakovsky is the commander of the pro-Russian Vostok Battalion formed in early May 2014 during the 2014 insurgency in Donbas. Khodakovsky is a former commander of the Alpha special unit of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). During the 2014 insurgency in Donbas, he left Ukrainian state service and became the leader of the pro-Russian "Patriotic Forces of Donbas" in Donetsk Oblast, and later the Security Minister of the Donetsk People's Republic. In May 2018 Khodakovsky relocated to Russia and in September 2018 he claimed that Russian border guards did not let him return to Donetsk.