List of Famous people born in Ukraine
Serhiy Stakhovsky
Sergiy Eduardovych Stakhovsky is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. Stakhovsky turned professional in 2003 and had been playing mostly at the Challenger level from 2005–2008. His career-high singles ranking is World No. 31 and he has reached as high as No. 33 in doubles the same month.
Anatoliy Zlenko
Anatoly Maksimovich Zlenko is a Ukrainian diplomat. He was formerly the foreign minister of Ukraine. from 1990 to 1994.
Pylyp Budkivskiy
Pylyp Vyacheslavovych Budkivskyi is a Ukrainian football striker who plays for Desna Chernihiv.
Alina Simone
Alina Simone is an American musician and writer. She is best known for her original songwriting, her album of cover songs by Russian punk poet Yanka Dyagileva, and her collection of autobiographical essays You Must Go And Win. She also blogs for The New York Times.
Ruslan Neshcheret
Ruslan Neshcheret is an Ukrainian professional footballer who plays for FC Dynamo Kyiv as a goalkeeper.
Oleg Bakhmatyuk
Oleg Bakhmatyuk is a Ukrainian entrepreneur, former billionaire, and politician. He is the owner of the agricultural vertical integrated company UkrLandFarming, and one of the largest egg producers in both Europe and Asia.
Vitrenko Yuriy Yuriyovytch
Vitrenko Yuriy Yuriyovytch is a Ukrainian economist, CEO of the investment company "AYA Capital", and Director for Business Development at the National joint-stock company "Naftogaz of Ukraine". On 21 December 2020 he was made acting Minister of Energy by the Shmyhal Government.
Viktoriya Kokhana
Victoria Kokhana Kushch is a Ukrainian composer, poet, sound producer, and social activist. Kokhana is also an organizer of music events in independent Ukraine. She is an Honored Art Worker and Cultural Figure of Ukraine.
Vladyslav Helzin
Vladyslav Helzin is a Ukrainian public figure, politician, footballer and football functionary, president of FC Olimpik Donetsk. In various media his last name also spells through Russian transliteration as Gelzin. On 10 May 2016, Helzin officially retired from professional sport.
Natalia Korolevska
Natalia Yuriivna Korolevska is a Ukrainian politician and ex-Minister of Social Policy of Ukraine. Since 23 December 2011 she has been the party-leader of the Ukrainian Social Democratic Party. On 22 March 2012 the Ukrainian Social Democratic Party was renamed Party of Natalia Korolevska "Ukraine – Forward!".